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Release Date
1 January 1991
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Length
12 tracks
Accelerator is the debut album by British electronica group The Future Sound of London. It is widely regarded as their most "club friendly" album in that almost all the tracks have a sonic, dance friendly vibe and it doesn't contain much of their later, more off-beat, complex, ambient techniques.
It was released in Britain in 1991, and re-released a year later with two remixes after the commercial success of the Papua New Guinea single. Due to record label difficulties it could not be released in the United States until 1996, where it contained a further remix. It was re-released, enhanced, in 2001 worldwide, with a bonus CD entitled "Papua New Guinea Remix Anthology", which contained both old and new remixes of the band's most famous song. Half of the tracks from the album had already been released on previous singles by the pair, making it, in a sense, a sort of compilation album.
Accelerator includes the track that is one of the group's biggest commercial hits, Papua New Guinea this track became an instant club hit in Europe and the States and was featured in the soundtrack for the film Cool World.
Clash - "‘Accelerator'…pushed techno into new spheres of consciousness, one populated by pulsing rave waves, flickering ambient moods and giant dub squalls."
Q (11/01, p.138) - 4 out of 5 stars - "…Largely excellent…"
Option (7-8/96, p.104) - "…a weirdo futurist dreamland that's serene, exciting and even funny…"
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