“Papua New Guinea” by Future Sound Of London

"Papua New Guinea" came out on Jumpin' & Pumpin' in November 1991 from British electronic group the Future Sound of London, and it turned up again on their debut album, Accelerator, the following year. Garry Cobain and Brian Dougans wrote it. It entered the CIN dance singles chart at No. 42 that December, and when it was reissued in mid-1992 it climbed to 22 on the UK Singles Chart.

The partnership started in Manchester. Cobain had been an indie kid in the mid-'80s, a Factory Records fan who loved Joy Division and admits he was never much of a guitarist. At the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology he met Dougans, a sound-recording student a couple of years older who shared his taste for Factory bands like A Certain Ratio; Cobain looked up to him as a charismatic guiding force.

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