Future Sound Of London - My Kingdom

What this video is

Released in August 1996 as the lead single from Dead Cities (Virgin Records, October 1996), My Kingdom emerged at the apex of British electronic music's mainstream crossover moment. Peaking at No. 13 on the UK Singles Chart, it demonstrated that profoundly uncommercial, textural IDM — built from layered samples of Vangelis's Blade Runner soundtrack, Ennio Morricone's Once Upon a Time in America, and Ozric Tentacles…

Why it matters

A canonical artefact of British IDM and post-rave electronica at its most ambitious. My Kingdom's video established a template for the self-directed, conceptually dense electronic music video — blending early 3D CGI with dystopian urban realism in a mode that anticipated later visual strategies of…

The director

Electronic Brain Violence (EBV) is the in-house creative label and artistic vehicle of The Future Sound of London (Garry Cobain and Brian Dougans), through which they directed and produced the majority of their own visual output. Buggy G. Riphead is their…