Someone posted this at the Kiss FM YouTube comments, interesting piece of info:
Ken James:
Hi, in 1990 Pirate radio stations had to shut down for about 1 or 2 years otherwise they wouldnt be allowed to get onto the ballot for a licence to broadcast on the air in London..and there were lots of local Pirate stations doing Reggae or Soul, some were good, some were awful...In the late 1980's till it shut down Kiss FM was the top Pirate station in London and had a strong following ...I remember speaking to a Kiss DJ in 1988 who said they use 2 high rise blocks of flats to transmit...in one block they would play the vinyl and in an adjacent block of flats with a link in between where they would transmit..this was because if the Police locked on to where the transmitter was and raided the location they only got the transmitter because the turntables and valuable vinyl tracks were in another location in the other block .They then had to get out quick otherwise all their vinyl music was seized as was the Law at that time....In my eyes(or to my ears) they were heroes who just wanted to share their music....(Thanks guys if you read this) ..Somewhere i have a 90 minute cassette tape (don't laugh) of part of the test transmission that was played on air 24 hours a day.. but with no talking. So no one knew who the tracks were by... .But i do remember the American rapper Red Head Kingpin was popular at that time...and the track "Ghetto Heaven" by "Family Stand" was a new track that was played....Apart from that i cant really help.
Now that you mention it, it's weird how old the Kaaawa track is.
They planned to release it on the Archive 6, but didn't.
Now I don't know how to define it at the Edinburgh session...
Kaaawa by FSOL or Little Star by Stina Nordenstam or Kaaawa by FSOL (contains sample from Little Star by Stina Nordenstam)
I'll work something out...
East Pacifica is still unreleased.
The one I have is identical with Tangled Walker, a track by a band called This Is The Kit. Confusing...
Kaaawa is probably unreleased because it's essentially a remix/rework of the Little Star track, an unauthorized one... and in 2010 they had those copyright infringements stuff that brought down half of the Pod Room... so... you get what I say.
Pandemonium wrote:East Pacifica is still unreleased.
The one I have is identical with Tangled Walker, a track by a band called This Is The Kit. Confusing...
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East Pacifica is still unreleased, yes, but it's the piece that turns up directly after the Kaaawa vocal sample, which leads me to think that the sample and track are the same thing and were labelled Kaaawa on EBS1 - they've renamed stuff enough times not to trust EBS tracklistings!
That live version has almost nothing to do with the album version...
But since I can't find the album version, all I have left is my memory, which is good but not that good
Also, I don't remember who gave me East Pacifica, but either it's the same track and East Pacifica does not exist, or there has been a chain of misunderstandings...
I just listened to the studio version on Amazon and it's very much like the live one. You might be mistaken because it's listed in the EBS tracklist, but doesn't actually appear.
Well then, hearing the track on the French Live bootleg in 1997 changes a lot,
because Tangled Walker first appeared in 2007 (a minor difference of 10 years )
So Yes, the string opening track is definitely East Pacifica.
PS - Ross, sorry if I seem a doubtful person and re-check everything, my OCD just really needs to resolve these tracks once and for all
You had a fair number of mistakes on the early 90s releases but your mid-to-late 90s knowledge is perfect But your mid-to-late tracklists are not fully updated, so... I hope you don't mind re-checking everything
Ah no problems, it's always good to check stuff over - especially when it comes to FSOL transmission tracklists, which are baffling at the best of times.
And yeah, the group's early era is less lodged in my mind - I've just listened to it all a lot less! So mistakes are likely to occur.
FSOL - ISDN Transmission 8, Los Angeles (Groove Radio) [live mix] (22.01.1997)
- bootleg / first official release 01.02.2010
This show is essentially identical to the first 80 minutes of the FSOL - Live ISDN Transmission 11, Berlin (Fritz Radio) (06.12.1996) (reviewed here: viewtopic.php?f=2&t=162&p=5463#p5463) with the exception of the track Hallucination, which replaces the track Yage (Oil Remix) for the first 5 minutes. It remains unknown which was made first, probably this one, being the longer one. A lot of the 1996 shows were similar in structure, the ISDN Show Promo CD being some kind of master mix, as you can see in the next two reviews of this post.
Also, with the end of 1996 the Fuck Rock'n'Roll tour (probably) ended, so here in 1997 we still have heavy usage of the Dead Cities tracks, but also about 15 pieces from the unreleased sessions, b-sides & mixed environments (most of them released on the Archives & Environments series), few of them unreleased to date, and this is a first mix in years where they go back a little and use samples / environments from ISDN and Lifeforms. A mindblowing mix indeed.
Again, no need for track by track analysis, most of them being heard a few times in the 1996 shows, so here's the tracklist:
00:00 Transmission intro
00:49 Yage (Oil Remix) - (from Teachings From The Electronic Brain VHS, 1996)
05:30 Slow of Motion - (from The Archives Vol.2, 2007)
06:10 We Have Explosive / Accompaniment For Melodious Expression Environment - (from Environments 3, 2010)
07:25 My Kingdom - (from Dead Cities, 1996)
11:52 We Have Explosive Part 2 - (from We Have Explosive, 1997)
14:46 Max - (from Dead Cities, 1996)
18:10 La Tronik 1 - (from The Archives Vol.3, 2007)
21:15 ????? - breaks/IDM piece...
23:32 LA4 - (from ???, I think this is unreleased...)
25:56 Her Face Forms in Summertime - (from Dead Cities, 1996)
31:30 Is This Real? - (from The Archives Vol.1, 2007)
32:05 Oil - Slight Of Hand - (from the Slight of Hand EP, 1997)
37:44 We Have Explosive Part 4 - (from We Have Explosive, 1997)
41:41 Quagmire - (from Dead Cities, 1996)
- the opening contains sample from the Shawshank Redemption movie (the best movie in the world according to IMDb) by Morgan Freeman as Red.
46:33 Environments Part 1 - (from Environments 1, 2007)
46:43 Dark Matter - (from The Archives Vol.2, 2007)
50:44 Insides - (from The Archives Vol.3, 2007)
54:45 Headstone Lane - Dead Cities Reprise - (from Dead Cities, 1996)
55:46 Oil - Psycho Crab - (from the Slight of Hand EP, 1997)
59:40 Carlos - (from the ISDN Show promo, 1997)
1:06:09 LA7 - (from The Archives Vol.3, 2007)
1:09:50 Tired / Live in New York (Unknown Remix) - (unreleased)
1:11:40 Mango Tree - (from The Archives Vol.3, 2007)
1:15:56 Tingler '96 - (from the ISDN Show promo, 1997)
1:20:16 Glass - (from Dead Cities, 1996)
1:25:36 Yashica - (from The Archives Vol.5, 2008)
1:29:00 Mains Interrupt - (from The Archives Vol.2, 2007)
1:31:16 We Have Explosive (Oil Funk Remix) - (from We Have Explosive Remixes, 1997)
1:34:55 Lifeforms (Unreleased remix)
1:35:54 ????? - unknown synth piece, reminds me of Vangelis...
1:37:00 The Empty Land - (from Environments 3, 2010) - premiere use of this one, a true beauty.
1:42:25 Headstone Lane - Back in The Day - (from the Knuckleduster EP, 1997) - another premiere of a track / EP that will be released by FSOL.
1:45:54 Environments Birds - (from The Archives Vol.1, 2007)
1:47:04 Environments Gong - (from The Archives Vol.1, 2007)
1:48:15 ????? - I feel like I know this one, either heard it on previous 1996 shows or somewhere on the Archives...
1:49:18 The Exhibition - (from The Archives Vol.5, 2008) - another premiere, this one actually sounds very little like FSOL...
1:54:10 Slider Environment - (from ISDN, 1994)
1:55:09 We Have Explosive (Oil Dub) - (from We Have Explosive Remixes, 1997)
FSOL - ISDN Transmission 16, France (Fun Radio) [live mix] (27.02.1997)
- bootleg / first official release 07.03.2010
This show is almost identical to the ISDN Show Promo CD (reviewed below this one).
The date listed (17.05.1997) is incorrect as it suggests this show happened after the initial Isness sessions shows on Mixing It and John Peel. There were two more transmissions to Fun Radio in May/June containing new material, but this one was before that, the date written in the title (27.02.1997) is an estimate (some French fan gave me that date some time ago).
00:00 Transmission intro
00:35 Hallucination - (from The Archives Vol.1, 2007)
FSOL - ISDN Show (Promo CD) (xx.02.1997) Virgin - ISDNSHOW1 / Delabel - DE 3948
"ISDN Show" is a very limited edition promo CD of a live ISDN recording. It was released in early 1997 in a clear slipcase only.
This was never officially released, yet it has two promo versions (same audio / different packing) the UK promo and the French promo (as pictured above). The French version also has a different cut of the tracks, it's even more messier than the UK version - they got the first two tracks right but after that it's a real mess.
This release serves as a B-sides version of Dead Cities and it still contains a few unique pieces exclusive to this release (to date).
01. Hallucination (Part 1) (2:26)
02. Hallucination (Part 2) (4:08)
03. My Kingdom (5:39)
04a. Environments: Kaaawa (Little Star) / Is This Real? / We Have Explosive Part 1] (1:58)
04b. Womb (aka Accompaniment for Melodious Expression) (Part 1) (3:59)
05a. Womb (aka Accompaniment for Melodious Expression) (Part 2) (1:11)
05b. Psycho-Crab (4:17)
06. Her Face Forms In Summertime (4:28)
07. G Electro (aka Yashica) (4:39)
08. Tingler '96 (aka War Machines) (4:37)
09. Glass (4:26)
10. Herd Killing (4:39)
11. Max (Original) (4:21)
12. Carlos (6:26)
13. Everyone In The World (3:11)
14. Sitting Around (aka Arrived) (1:51)
The first two tracks are obviously Hallucination (an early demo version of Yage) as it was played in many times live since the Peel session from 1995. Hallucination was later released on The Archives Vol.1 in 2007.
track 4: the first two minutes are full of environments containing Kaaawa (Little Star), Is This Real?, WHE Part 1 and then Womb begins and continues into track 5.
(Is it possible that Womb could be the first two minutes of this track? or is it confirmed that it is the same track as Accompaniment for Melodious Expression from Environments 3 (in 2010). If the first 2 minutes could be Womb, then it's possible the first 50 seconds of track 10 to be Womb 2, but I doubt Womb 2 even exists...)
track 5: from 1:11 onwards it is clearly Psycho-Crab by Oil. The last 25-ish seconds are intro for track 6.
track 7: is G Electro, later released as Yashica on The Archives Vol.5 in 2008.
track 8: is Tingler '96 - a different version of this track, named War Machines was released on The Archives Vol.7 in 2012.
track 13: Everyone In The World has almost nothing to do with the album version Everyone In The World Is Doing Something Without Me. Also unique to this release.
track 14: Sitting Around served as some kind of outro for this promo. It was released in it's full version named Arrived, on The Archives Vol.1 in 2007.
FSOL - Carlos
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