"We Have Explosive" is a song by The Future Sound of London

The Future Sound of London

The Future Sound of London is a prolific British electronic music band composed of Garry Cobain and Brian Dougans. The duo are often credited with pushing the boundaries of electronic music experimentation and of pioneering a new era of dance music...

, released in 1997. It is a digitised mix of big beat drums, mono-tone basslines, aggressive guitar stabs, robotic voices and clinical electric beeps. So far it is the bands most successful single, getting to number 12 in the UK Singles Chart in 1997. It features prominent sampling of the Run DMC album "Tougher Than Leather".

The single

The successful standout single from FSOL's Dead Cities

Dead Cities (album)

Dead Cities is a 1996 album by electronic music group The Future Sound of London.-Overview:Though almost without lyrics to speak of, most of the first half of the album is dark and full of well structured malevolence in that its songs combine synthetic sounds with samples to create an apocalyptic,...

LP

LP album

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 was, as with other FSOL singles, released with a plethora of remixed versions of it. It is a harder, more techno-oriented song, which is rare for the band; the track became well known to many after being featured in the 1996 hit video game wipE'out" 2097

Wipeout 2097

Track listing Saturn/Windows versions * CoLD SToRAGE: "Canada"* CoLD SToRAGE: "Body in Motion"* CoLD SToRAGE: "Kinkong"* CoLD SToRAGE: "Plasticity"* CoLD SToRAGE: "Messij Xtnd"* CoLD SToRAGE: "Tenation"* CoLD SToRAGE: "Surgeon"...

. The song is the first track on the soundtrack, remixes of it were also featured on the other versions of the soundtrack; the "Herd Killing" mix was used in the intro sequence.

Track listing

The track listing below is the "CD-Maxi

Maxi single

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" listing.

1. "We Have Explosive (Pt. 1)" (7:19)
2. "We Have Explosive (Pt. 2) (Remixed by Leon Mar)" (2:48)
3. "We Have Explosive (Pt. 3)" (5:04)
4. "We Have Explosive (Pt. 4)" (6:17)
5. "We Have Explosive (Pt. 5)" (7:53)
6. "We Have Explosive (Oil Funk Remix)" (3:36)
7. "We Have Explosive (Mantronik Plastic Formula #1)" (5:38)
8. "We Have Explosive (Oil Dub)" (6:23)
9. "We Have Explosive (Radio Cut)" (3:27)

Audio

Like other FSOL singles the sound of the song differs greatly from track to track, below are a few examples of this.

Chart Position

Year	Chart	Position
1997	UK Singles Chart UK Singles Chart The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ...	#12

Crew/Credit

• Artwork By [Additional Design] - Ian Kay
• Artwork By [Layout And Typography] - FSOL
• Artwork By [Oil Texture] - Buggy & Riphead
• Artwork By [Sleeve Image] - Run Wrake from the film Juke Box
• Engineer - Yage
• Producer, Written-By - Future Sound Of London, The
• Samples of Guitar stab, wah guitar and vocal yell from, among other things, Run DMC LP "Tougher Than Leather
  Tougher Than Leather
  Tougher Than Leather is a 1988 studio album for American rap group Run–D.M.C. and a follow-up to their hit Raising Hell. While the new record did not maintain the same popularity as its predecessor, it obtained platinum status and spawned the favorites "Run's House" and "Mary, Mary" .Tougher Than...
  
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