Wed May 03, 2017 2:31 pm
Thank you for the warm welcome. It's awesome to see others even discussing these epic FSOL albums nowadays. I agree, ISDN is a truly amazing album. After falling in love with Papua New Guinea from the soundtrack, I purchased Lifeforms as soon as it was released. I had many other ambient albums but nothing even came close to it. The amount of intricacy and layers to the music was purely masterful. I was absolutely blown away by it, and was hooked. I ended up getting the ISDN album but at first I wasn't as blown away as I was when first listening to Lifeforms. My friends and I spent many LSD sessions over the years listening to Lifeforms, Expander, and ISDN. FSOL became my goto comedown music to listen to with headphones after the insanity of countless rave, club, and festival nights. So much so that it became a sort of "mental security blanket" to me. If ever things were getting out of control I could always put throw my headphones on, pop on FSOL and all of the negative energy of a bad trip would flow away in an almost shamanistic way. As time passed I found myself listening to ISDN more and more, and realized it is just as much a masterpiece as Lifeforms ever was. I still habitually listen to FSOL to this day and always will.
P.S. - On a side note, I grew up in Bedford UK in the 80's. In 1991, at the airport before the flight over to the US where I live now, I grabbed a music magazine to read on the plane. The magazine had a question in it asking if you were to die and be in heaven and you could only have one album to listen to for eternity, which would you choose? I spent many years thinking about the answer to this question. What could I possibly spend eternity listening to as my single source of music? I tried to think of albums that would cover the various styles of sound to suit whichever mood I may be in. Some days I'd like to hear a song with a beat, others something a bit more chill. Finally after many years of thought, I had come to a definite conclusion... ISDN.
P.S. - On a side note, I grew up in Bedford UK in the 80's. In 1991, at the airport before the flight over to the US where I live now, I grabbed a music magazine to read on the plane. The magazine had a question in it asking if you were to die and be in heaven and you could only have one album to listen to for eternity, which would you choose? I spent many years thinking about the answer to this question. What could I possibly spend eternity listening to as my single source of music? I tried to think of albums that would cover the various styles of sound to suit whichever mood I may be in. Some days I'd like to hear a song with a beat, others something a bit more chill. Finally after many years of thought, I had come to a definite conclusion... ISDN.
