British duo Futurecop! consists of Manzur Iqbal and Peter Carrol (both aged 26). The pair met at University and remained friends ever since, sharing a passion for 80s pop culture which has evolved into Futurecop!
Growing up in Manchester in England, Manzur developed a taste for a wide range of music, going through various stages of metal, indie, rock and punk. As his musical tastes evolved, one thing remained constant throughout his life; a secret love affair and obsession with 80s pop culture. He joined a punk band in college (‘We were crap’), but the experience did consolidate a wide, eclectic range of influences which continued into University. Taking a subsidiary course in Politics, he met Peter and a friendship was formed. Manzur adds; ‘We were just into the same things, music, films, and most importantly 80s culture; the whole thing started there really’.

Spending his formative years on the suburbs of London, Peter took a much less varied path in terns of his musical tastes. “Where I lived, there were only a couple of really popular musical genres” he explains. "Everyone was listening to hip-hop or garage when I was growing up, so that was all I was into until I was about eighteen. Then I came to University, started going to serious clubs and I haven’t stopped listening to electronic music since’
After University, the pair remained friends but moved back to London and Manchester respectively. After two years passed, Peter was busy burning himself out with heavy partying and djing, while Manzur decided to spend most of this time locked in his room! With the aim of creating electronic music which emulated the 80s sounds of his childhood – Futurecop! was born. Using just a laptop and a midi keyboard, some free programs off the net and with absolutely no knowledge of making electronic music, he admits that ‘At the beginning it was frustrating, trying to understand and program music; I didn’t know anything. But through it all I had the strong motivation to create a sound and style which echoed the soft pop electro synths of the eighties and just basically capture my childhood experience of 80s movies and TV shows and make music out of it , I just wanted to create my feelings through music and the MySpace of 80s pop culture. I think I achieved that in the end’.