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Unnecessarily detailed lists of FSOL trivia are my forte. Shame there's not much work in this area.

I doubt Semtex will be on it, as that's owned by Virgin (similarly the Oil remix of Yage, which looks set to remain officially unreleased at this rate). I think one of the ideas behind these re-recordings is that by doing new versions, the band retain the phonographic copyright so can use these for licensing and such if required (a tactic most famously used by Taylor Swift at the moment). In terms of Dead Cities outtakes, most of them ended up on the Archives and earlier Environments, I think. The majority of tracks on the re-recordings are newly done. These are Dead Cities era, to the best of my knowledge: A Corner Dream One Exploded Funk Abandoned Housing Blocks of Prypiat Blue Green The Empty Land Insides Switzerland Absent With Concept / Swarm War Machines Mango Tree Protractor I Turn to Face the Sun Yashica Tif Feetal Yage Rhodesia - Insulin Hallucination / Ayahuasca Colour-Blind Environment Thunder 100 Baby Spiders La Tronik 1 LA 7 Futura Is This Real Mouth Muse Hazey Day Girl Arrived Slow of Motion Dark Matter mas x-xx-xx 2 The Exhibition Accompaniment for Melodious Expression Yage Sunset Strip Glacier (pt 1 & 2) There are still a handful of tracks from the 1996/1997 tour that haven't been released, including Carlos (from the ISDN Show promo CD) and an amazing one with a male vocal sample in it that's in the LA show. There's also the 1995 Peel Session version of My Kingdom. And Landmass, from the Wipeout soundtrack.

Copypasting this from my FSOL news page... This year, Record Store Day partially follows the pattern of last year's staggered format, with two drops. The first is on 12th June, and this will include a record three releases by Dougans and Cobain. The first, and most interesting, is the latest in the series of re-imaginings of the band's '90s tracks. This time, We Have Explosive is in the chair, with a set of new re-interpretations of the track. Given that the last two releases have featured archival works among the new tracks, it's possible that tracks like 'Exploded Funk', 'Abandoned Housing Blocks of Prypiat' and 'Blue Green' may be among the tracks here, but in general expect a series of new tracks based around the band's second-most-famous piece. An expanded CD version a couple of weeks later is, at this point, a near certainty. Interestingly, the cover and given title lists no 'Re-Imagined' or '2021', as with previous releases. Secondly, The Amorphous Androgynous tease a forthcoming reissue of Alice in Ultraland with a 10" EP, with The World is Full of Plankton as the title track. The b-side will feature two as yet unknown tracks, apparently from the album too. This is clearly more for the collector, although taken on its own, it's really nice to see 'Plankton' get its dues as one of the finest compositions in the Dougans / Cobain ouvre. The album itself, of course, passed back into the band's posession last year at the end of their contract with Harvest; a reissue is overdue, and one hopes a bonus disc in the style of The Otherness will accompany it. No release details have been revealed for the reissue yet. The third and final release is the most curious: Accelerator is coming out again, this time on its 30th anniversary (the minor issue of J&P delayed the 1991 release until the start of 1992 notwithstanding). There are no details on the Record Store Day page (linking, annoyingly, to the WHE page), but the full listings have it down as a double LP, suggesting there'll be some extra material here (a 12-minutes-per-side 2020s style release seeming unlikely, given it being mixed to play as two gapless sides). One assumes it's likely to be a set of 'Papua New Guinea' remixes on the second disc - possibly the same set as the 2001 reissue, given a vinyl release at last - although given the amount of archived material being regularly uncovered over at 9LW, it's not impossible that we're getting a whole album of Accelerator-era outtakes. The cover provided is the same 'remixed' version from the 2016 RSD release, so it's not totally impossible that it's actually a 12" + 7" pack as we had then, simply mislabelled by the people at RSD. We're going to do some digging, but either way we'll find out in the next few weeks...

I do ask about the 2" Tape Reels album from time to time, Brian says it's still in the pipeline. There's so much still 'in the pipeline', though, that I wouldn't hold your breath. There's always a chance that that particular track could appear elsewhere, though...

Six of my suggestions were included. Full tracklist: Frozen Air Surrounding The Garden Is A Fog Artificial Placement Of Emotion Blacked Out Windows Commensalism Near Field Alertions Riverbed Obscured By Dark Intervals Propagate Memories Of Yesterday Seems it'll be coming out on CD as well as LP too. It's beginning to get into the distribution chain now (international release 14th May) so I'd imagine copies bought from Bandcamp will be shipping some point this month. Covid-related manufacturing delays, unsurprisingly. No idea when a CD pre-order will be up on FSOLDigital. Slightly updated artwork for the physical versions:

lol I forgot about this. Weirdest release schedule ever. Currently due 21st May.

Thank you! This Friday coming is the next one I think.

Cheers! The material is culled from six different scrapped albums, so yes, it's ludicrously varied... I never got on with one-sound albums, though, so that helps.

Been out for a couple of weeks, tapes are sold out at the label but I have a few left own my own Bandcamp. Thought this might be up WATMM's street a bit more than my usual stuff...

They have a certain hypnotic quality that I'm happy to come back to once in a while, and I love the whole idea of chance music, so I'm all for the albums themselves. The narrative around them, if anything, takes away from the music itself. Even if it's true, the coincidence between working on them and 9/11 shouldn't really have gone beyond an intriguing aspect of the press release. Don't use the deaths of thousands of people and a generation-defining event that led to an illegal war as a way to market your music when it has an inherently marketable gimmick.

Get yourself some Shuttle358, especially Frame and Understanding Wildlife: Understanding Wildlife by Shuttle358 Frame by Shuttle358

Really impressed with these. Can you just make a ton of new tracks in this style now please? I'll buy it.

Wasn't so taken with Volume Massimo, but this track is an immediate win for me. Looking forward to the full thing.

2LP version out 16th April!

ECM put out an album by the Danish String Quartet today, including their performance of this Beethoven work - it's really weird hearing all the snippets in their original context after becoming so used to this album.

Eh, it's only 12 and a half years since he toured the early version of Oceano and he's only done another eight albums in the meantime.

I appreciate Christgau's importance, but every time I see a negative review he's written it really, really feels like he's totally missed the point of the album. It feels like he knows a lot about music, but still uses that knowledge to try and justify his own taste. Which means he's not actually any better than anyone else. I mean fucking hate music reviews anyway. But people who become minor celebrities because of it can fuck right off.

Yeah, think the band and Universal are a bit miffed it's got out ahead of any official announcement. Me too! I'm not sure how likely one is at this point, given how much stuff has come out on the From the Archives series. I have a Dead Cities II playlist from those tracks: The Empty Land A Corner Exploded Funk Dream One Abandoned Housing Blocks of Prypiat Insides Mango Tree War Machines Switzerland Yashica Tif Feetal Unassumed Hallucination Insulin Colour-Blind La Tronik Lizzard Crawl Blue Green Is This Real Arrived Accompaniment for Melodious Expression Absent With Concept Slow of Motion Mas X-XX-XX 2 Mains Interrupt Futura 100 Baby Spiders Landmass

Cheers, that's not a bad interpretation. It's basically me, five years old, skipping through the four TV channels of the time, and being obsessed with trains.

Yeah I'll be grabbing the CD version v. soon.

Anyway, here's Intercity 225. https://intercity125.bandcamp.com/album/intercity-225 More British Rail themed vaporwave.

Which has been blocked in the UK because there's a bit of old BBC footage in there. Sigh.

I made a little film for Intercity 125.

There's going to be a CD version including the remixes somewhere down the line, I'll be holding out for that.