Intelligent Communication was one of the numerous alias used by The Future Sound of London, many of which predate the FSOL name. Principles of Motion was released in 1990 on the British label Jumpin’ & Pumpin’, which was also the home to many other FSOL-related releases. It is an early style acid techno / breakbeat E.P., and I think it’s one of the lesser known releases in the FSOL catalog. In recent years, they have released several retrospective compilations of older pre-FSOL material (such as By Any Other Name, but there was also an older compilation from 1992 called Earthbeat), and none of these ever featured any of the Intelligent Communication material. Which seems odd, because I feel that this E.P. is one of their better non-FSOL releases and definitely deserves to be re-released to a wider audience on CD. With their frequent operations at fsoldigital, perhaps we’ll see something soon.

Tracklisting:
A1 Drive (5:07)
A2 Open Loop (4:10)
B1 Flight (4:35)
B2 Critical Ebb (4:56)

Intelligent Communication – Drive

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Intelligent Communication – Flight

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While the first Noise Unit album was solely a venture between Front Line Assembly’s Bill Leeb and Klinik’s Marc Verhaeghen, Response Frequency was the first to feature input from Rhys Fulber. Fulber had just joined FLA for the Caustic Grip album, and would be a fixture for all output throughout the mid 90s. While both of the first Noise Unit albums were released by Belgian label Antler-Subway, for some odd reason, Response Frequency is the rarer of the two. Grinding into Emptiness can be found occasionally, but Response Freqency simply doesn’t come around for sale that often, and when it does, expect it to fetch high prices. When I bought a copy of this CD on Discogs, I managed to talk the seller down to about $35 dollars including shipping, while copies on Ebay were going for $100 or more! Unfortunately, even though I had been hunting down my own copy of this CD for 10 years, within a couple months, unemployment forced me to sell it again. This was the last of the unique Noise Unit releases that appeared, afterwards, it became solely a project between Leeb and Fulber. While all the albums were good, several of them sounded as if they were just sort of thrown together from FLA outtakes.

Tracklisting:

1 Agitate (12″ Version) (6:08)
2 In Vain (12″ Version) (5:02)
3 Disease (5:33)
4 Paranoid Mass (5:00)
5 Forgotten Realm (5:00)
6 Feel The Anguish (4:50)
7 In Vain (Album Version) (5:02)
8 Homage (4:03)
9 Agitate (Album Version) (6:03)
10 Beneath The Surface (4:10)

Noise Unit – Agitate (12″ Version)

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