De:Tuned start their 15th anniversary celebrations with a selection of tracks from the archival DATs of Gary Cobain and Brian Dougans aka The Future Sound Of London. The eight tracks on offer date from sessions around the duo’s debut album, Accelerator, released back in 1992. They’re pulled together under the header Pulse 5.

The pair produced Pulse 1, 2, and 3, in 1991, with Pulse 4 hitting stores, and dance floors, the following year. These E.P.s introduced a range of aliases, Indo Tribe, Mental Cube, Smart Systems, and Yage, all of which are present here. The two tunes from Yage contrast Man Shall Be Conditioned’s Kraftwerk-sampling downtempo industrial go-go with Sun Risen’s stripped back, bass heavy house. The latter boasting the booming bottom-end of a bleep track, such as Ability II’s Pressure, which, warm and womb-like, bends you to its will. High pitched sine waves and pretty piano cascades providing pinpoints of light.

Mental Cube’s Big Lie is tumbling drummed rave. A bit poppy, with faux S’express brass fanfares, and a relic, perhaps, of Dougans’ past life as the chart-topping Humanoid. Smart Systems’ Nu Generation, on the other hand, is a moody breakbeat track. Clanking, and sepulchral, with spectres and sirens sucking you into its shadows. A tad tribal, pagan, like a Psychic TV rite, and banging like Meat Beat Manifesto’s Radio Babylon. Indo Tribe`s Obstinta, similarily, dances in the dark. Spinning, with its snares scratched in, and cartoon gunshots and ricochets whizzing about.

The trio of tunes recorded as FSOL are headed by the haunting, hypnotic Honesty, whose mix of panpipe, rock b-line, rolling beats, and shamanic shrieks, single it out as a definite sibling of their seminal smash, Papua New Guinea. Dialectics is a crunchy, crashing, abstract funk groove. Its computers and congas countered by a melody that has touch of the early Aphex Twins to it. Midway through it falls into fractured pianos, and then a sort of broken skank. Reasonable Aquiries is much more straight forward. Seemingly simple, minimal, it’s atmospheric, introspective and deep. Stuffed with subliminal detail, such as glimpses of classical keys off in its distance, and further coloured by chimes, rather than bleeps. An almost 10-minute trip, it amounts to a soothing soundtrack for “re-entry” the morning-after-the-night-before. Classic, classy, somewhere between the output of Baby Ford’s IFACH  imprint and relaxing Retroactive moments, like Carl Craig’s As Time Goes By (Sitting Under A Tree).

The Future Sound Of London’s Pulse 5 is out now on De:Tuned.