Fractional Difference - Exploring FSOL song-by-song

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Pulse State sounds as good today as it did 30 years' ago. It also sounds like it was by a different group to the other tracks in the E.P.
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Definitely. You can always hear an Accelerator track on these EPs as they stand out a mile in terms of maturity.

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A brief post about the first Q 12", which I just realised should have been much later in the year, but it's done now, so we'll have to have it now.
Mental Cube - Q
-Q (Original)
-Q (Santa Monica Mix)
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Pulse Two
-Stolen Documents
-Stress Ball
-1 in 8
-I've Become What You Were

I've Become What You Were is a really bloody weird track, isn't it?
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It's been a while since a bit of weird obscure FSOL knowledge appeared, and today I've just discovered this.
There are three different versions of Calcium.
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This image shows the waveforms of the mixes from Pulse Three, The Pulse EPs and Accelerator, with the 1991/2016 version of Accelerator with the different indexing at the bottom for comparison.

It's not all just different edits, either, they're different arrangements, with the piano appearing in different sections, and a subtly different bassline on the version on The Pulse EPs.

Ok, on with today's blog, and I've done two EPs today!
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Intelligent Communication - Principles of Motion
-Drive
-Open Loop
-Flight
-Critical Ebb

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Yage / Indo Tribe / Smart Systems - Pulse Three
-Tingler (Four by Four Mix)
-Owl (I Can See You Mix)
-Bite the Bullet Baby (Jaques Reynoix Mix)
-Calcium (Elemental Mix)
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Spent the last week or so working through every interview, article and story I could find to get all the facts down and hopefully be able to fill these with quotes from the band. Anyway, it's all back now.

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Candese - You Took My Love
-You Took My Love (Earth Mix)
-You Took My Love (New Yorker Mix)
-You Took My Love (Instrumental)
-It's Takin' Me Over
-I Need Somebody

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Aircut - Visual Attack (1991)
-Visual Attack (From the Home of the Humanoid)
-Let it Take You
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A quick write-up about a short Smart Systems PA in somewhere in Cornwall, 1991.

“Pinn had decided that one track was what they got for £100
Pure Pinn economics. The promoters rushed backstage ‘great the crowd love it but go and play more’
‘No we’ve only brought one song’
Things turned nasty, bouncers were called.”
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It's Gaz in five years time. He's already got the beard.
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Papua New What Now? It's only taken a month to get to the first standalone FSOL release. Turns out the Qube Mix is a very early version of the track, a mixdown from shortly after Brian took over duties reworking Gaz's ideas.
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Papua New Guinea
-Dali Mix
-Dumb Child of Q Mix
-Qube Mix

Couple of remixes to cover tomorrow, and then it's off to 1992, a year of huge change which starts with a couple of alias releases and ends with their debut release on Virgin and their first radio transmissions.
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This original single of PNG is the one I knew the least about. Especially the Qube remix. Fascinating stuff.
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Rounding off 1991 with three remixes:
Loleatta Holloway - Do That to Me (Set Me Free) (Future Sound of London Remix)
100Hz - Progress (People Living on Mars Mix)
100Hz - Progress (Jx3p Mix)

I'd forgotten how good the People Living on Mars Mix was, real Pulse EP vibes to that. The other two... less so.
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Accelerator (1991)
Will cover the tracks in the next update.
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