Ωne - Bruce Stringer | Received 072215
Australian musician Bruce Stringer is described by
Music Street Journal (where he is a staff member) as:
"
... an Australian guitarist who has played internationally and worked on various independent soundtracks and theme-scores."
Bruce recently contacted us regarding his current CD,
Ωne, which features artwork based on photos taken at
Wanli and he even sent us a copy. Along with the CD Bruce also sent us a
promotional guitar pick for the CD and a set of other photos shot at Wanli which can be found
here. Many thanks Bruce.
For anyone who might be interested in obtaining the CD it is available as a digital download at
CDBaby and as a physical CD on
E-Bay.
High Mileage - T. Heislen | Purchased 092316
The cover of Plano, TX singer/songwriter
T. Heislen's CD
High Mileage features a photo of the
Royse City Futuro (prior to the 2014 exterior paint upgrade). The actual CD itself also features the same image.
Futuro Film Soundtrack - Ektroverde | Purchased 120112
"Futuro - Music From The Film Futuro: A New Stance For Tomorrow" by
Ektroverde is the soundtrack from the 1998
Mika Taanila short film of the same name. We have to confess that musically it is not really our "cup of tea" but hey - the CD has Futuro on the cover so it is not all bad!
Juno Specter - Juno Specter | Purchased 080212
Juno Specter the self titled third album by the band of the same name features the
Royse City Futuro on the cover. Judging by the photo is looks like it was taken at a time when the Futuro was in better condition that its current dilapidated state. Hopefully one day it will get some well deserved love!
Needle's Eye - The Cybermen | Purchased 110113
The Cybermen's CD "Needle's Eye" features the Futuro House on the inside artwork of the CD cover. The
video for the title track also features the Futuro House.
In the video we see the Futuro displayed at the Exposición Internacional del Confort Humano in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1969 along with some shots of scale models of Futuros from an event we term "
The Sandbox".
Travelling Ants Who Got ... | Purchased 031215
Produced in 2004 the somewhat bizarrely named album
Travelling Ants Who Got Eaten By Moskus is by Norwegian band
The Low Frequency In Stereo (founded in 2000 in
Haugesund,
Norway).
Their music has been described as "a mixture of the long solo elements in
The Doors set to the raptide of
Joy Division's "Transmission" with the surf guitar twang of
Dick Dale.
The cover art of the album features images of a Futuro House; it is not clear, to us at least, whether this is just "cool" art for the CD or whether in fact any of the tracks relate in some way to the Futuro.
Outlaws - Ludivine Issambourg | Received 020321
The artwork for Outlaws by French flautist
Ludivine Issambourg features Craig Barnes'
UK Futuro photoshopped into an imaginary location.
Nostalgia Machine - Soft Cell | Purchased 040423
Nostalgia Machine, a CD single by
Soft Cell (most famous of course for their 1981 version of "
Tainted Love") features an image of the
Royse City Futuro on its cover.
We have no idea what relationship if any the Futuro has to the music; it could be simply that they thought it made for a "cool" cover.
All Away - The Summer Suns | Purchased 021118
In 1989 Perth based band
The Summer Suns released the 7" single "
All Away". The back cover of the record featured a photo of the
Willeton Futuro (now disassembled and stored in a back yard in High Wycombe)
Astronaut - The Feelers | Purchased 010417
The CD Astronaut by New Zealand band
The Feelers features a photo of the
Thames Futuro on both the cover and the actual CD.
Elektro GT - Mikko Hassinen | Purchased 082215
The cover art for the CD
Elektro GT by Mikko Hassinen features an iconic Futuro photo that shows a Futuro slung under a Swedish Air Force helicopter flying over a train travelling through a forest like landscape. More information on this photograph can be found
here,
here and
here.
Future House - Various Artists | Purchased 110213
Future House is a February 2004 release on the label
Rambling Japan. The CD, by various artists, is characterized as being of the genre "Funky/Club House"; being not much of a music type that means nothing to us though this
Wikipedia Page attempts to explain. The front and back covers and the insert feature the Futuro House.
As delivered the CD had a small cardboard advert around the spine. This advert was for the DVD "
Dreaming Future House"; not sure if the music on the CD is from the DVD or not; we have not listened to it. The advert can be seen in the two shots below.
In 4 The Evening - Nights On Venus | Purchased 061414
In 4 The Evening, released in 2012, was the second album by band
Nights On Venus. A very cool photo of the
Royse City Futuro is on the cover of the CD (and also on the interior art).
The photo is by Dallas based singer
Noel Kerns who also creates amazing art using a technique called "
Painting With Light."
Slightly Odway - Jebediah | Purchased 080212
Slightly Odway by Jebediah features cover art that includes a shot of the Futuro currently in storage somewhere in
High Wycombe, Perth and formerly located at Leach Highway/Karel Avenue.
At them time of writing this Futuro is the focus of a Facebook Group "
Bring Back The Leach Hwy/Karel Ave Spaceship" (Dead link - archived pdf
here).
Split 7" - FOD/The Dead Milkmen | Purchased 092919
This
"split" 7" vinyl record is by
The Dead Milkmen and
FOD (Flag Of Democracy). According to a
2015 article on the website Punknews.org the record was pressed in 1985 but was then left abandoned in a basement only to be "rediscovered" in 2015.
The sleeve graphics feature a photo hailing from the series of Futuro models that were set up in a "sandbox" environment and photographed in 1969. An extensive set of photographs of this event is held as a part of the digital collections of the
Espoo City Museum (the Espoo City Museum organization includes several museums among them being the
WeeGee Exhibition Center which is the home of the fully restored
Futuro #001 previously located in
Hirvensalmi). The photographs, displayed on this site under
CC BY-ND 4.0 license, can be found
here.
Record - Unknown Track & Artist | Purchased 092919
This 4 ¾" square record features an image of the
Dombai Futuro. It is stamped on very thin plastic or vinyl; far thinner than a standard vinyl record.
According to Google Translate the description of the item on the Russian Auction site we purchased it from read "1970 photography flexi plate Dombai camp site singing hearts clouds in the river musical souvenir". With no means of playing it and, even if we had, no way to understand Russian we have no idea what the track actually is.
The 1970 date is incorrect (perhaps it was meant to be 1970's?) because this Futuro was not installed in Dombai until much later in the 1970's.