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  1. purlieu
    That's the wonderful thing about FSOL, for all their imagery, their music was always open-ended. It's something I've tried to get across with these posts, no matter what my own views, there's no literal, objective way to take what they do, hence the titles all being weird phrases and self-deprecating insults they came up with in the studio. The only real message is: life is weird, here's our weird take on it, make of it what you will. They're an incredible group to discover at a young age, though, because their music is so visceral. The properly IDM end of stuff, the Aphex/Ae strand of electronic music, is quite cerebral at times, but stuff like FSOL can really appeal to the overactive imaginations of youth and lead on to the more overtly complex IDM stuff later. It's all squelching sounds and field recordings and trippy weirdness, everything a young mind can get carried away with. I always consider myself blessed to have discovered them when I was 12!
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    Lifeforms VHS And a wrap-up of various 3D Headspace Tour bootlegs that have done the rounds.
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    Excite!
  4. purlieu
    The two sound the same from listening on Bandcamp, but I'll do a proper side-by-side comparison when I can afford to buy the CD hah.
  5. purlieu
    Aaaand it's done. Disc 2 Domain Spineless Jelly Interstat Vertical Pig Cerebral Life Form Ends Vit Omnipresence Room 208 Elaborate Burn Little Brother Next up: more Lifeforms with the VHS release, the final shows of the 3D Headspace Tour and the single.
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    On Bandcamp no- Beat me to it.
  7. purlieu
    Brian informs me the CD will be available from FSOLDigital in the next couple of days. That blue vinyl looks lovely!
  8. purlieu
    Onto the track-by-tracks finally! Disc 1 Cascade Ill Flower Flak Bird Wings Dead Skin Cells Lifeforms Eggshell Among Myselves One thing that I think has slowed me down is doing all the Kiss FM shows and ISDN transmissions which have so much Lifeforms material that I'm slowly feeling worn out by this stuff! Not much to go now though and it's onto the ISDN era and then Dead Cities.
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    What have you been doing today? I've been mostly writing about Lifeforms. This took forever. The Future Sound of London - Lifeforms
  10. purlieu
    Anyone know anything about this? Just saw it on Twitter... https://lazarusrising1994.bandcamp.com/
  11. purlieu
    That's up to 808 State I suppose. Great track though, would love to get a proper copy of it.
  12. purlieu
    CD version with seven bonus tracks coming out on FSOLDigital on 19th November. Bonus tracks look to include compilation tracks 'Far Point' and 'Tower' as well as 'Co-Pilot' from the Built by Humanoid bonus EP, plus four new tracks.
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    Woah. That's a hell of a haul.
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    I wish I'd been around then, I didn't get into them until My Kingdom, would have been amazing to wait for Lifeforms on its release. Although the way they kept putting it back and back must have been a pain. Wait, they're still doing that to this day. That new Amorphous album was originally due before Christmas 2016 and it's not even finished.
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    Not sure when the next entry is coming. Honestly, writing an article about Lifeforms is actually intimidating. It's been my favourite work of art of any kind for as long as I can remember, I don't know where to start.
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    ISDN Rome 16/05/94
  17. purlieu
    Essential Mix '94 feat. Robert Fripp Astonishingly prescient quote from Garry Cobain in 1994: “These things are going to rule in the future, though. They’ll completely blank out record companies. We can just advertise our music on the Internet, which has a million subscribers and send it straight to them.”
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    Yup, the ISDN transmissions are still for sale, it's just the mixes that they took down, largely because I think the cost of licensing everything on them was nightmarish.
  19. purlieu
    I love all those early hand-drawn metal ones, totally fits in with the DIY feel of most of the music. Amazing how the modern equivalents look fucking terrible, though.
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    ISDN Transmission The Kitchen New York, 11/05/94
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    Bootleg time to start the 3D Headspace Tour. BBC Radio 3 'Mixing It' 09/05/94
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    Essential Mix '93 And, finally, rounding out 1993 with some remixes. Bryan Ferry - I Put a Spell on You (Yage Mix) Bryan Ferry - I Put a Spell on You (Yage Mix Long Version) Curve - Rising (Headspace Mix) David Sylvian and Robert Fripp - Darshana (Re-constructed by The Future Sound of London) The Shamen - Re:Iteration (FSOL Mix) 1994 is on its way, and with it, possibly the band's finest run of releases.
  23. purlieu
    And, finally, Kiss Transmission 6.
  24. purlieu
    Kiss Transmission 5
  25. purlieu
    Kiss Transmission 4 [aka Kiss Tranmission 2]
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