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Re: A few questions/comments

Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2016 9:54 pm
by Ross
The journey from Dead Cities to Amorphous in easy steps:

Essential Mix 1995*
We Have Explosive EP (particularly Part 3)
From the Archives tracks from the '1997 sessions' (probably mostly recorded in '96 ha) - Sendero Luminoso, A Sweltering Heat, Private Psyche and Inner Life, Exploded Funk, Popadom, Gyrated, Exchanged, plus the Glacier tracks from Environments 2
The last 15 minutes of this 1997 ISDN performance
Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble 1997
Papua New Guinea Translations
The Isness (ideally the Abbey Road / mispress version, which is slightly more electronic)
Alice in Ultraland


By Alice the transformation was complete.




*this Essential Mix was done around the time they started work on Dead Cities, and it's like a continuation of the percussive/jazzy/funky elements of ISDN - Gaz has mentioned since that this show was actually their first interest in psychedelia (The Beatles, The Doors etc. are featured on it) - in a slightly skewed way, Dead Cities can actually be seen as a side-step on the journey from ISDN to Amorphous. :lol: Either way, it provides context for their expansion on these influences.


Welcome to the board, anyway!

Re: A few questions/comments

Posted: Sun Aug 14, 2016 5:12 pm
by mcbpete
Also the John Peel mix from '97 was a hint of things to come -

Re: A few questions/comments

Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2016 1:45 pm
by natchie
Guess I need to review them again...I bought of few of their AA's and Environment series...thanks for the positive view.

Re: A few questions/comments

Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2016 6:13 pm
by Ross
There are certainly parts of the fanbase who don't get on with the recent Amorphous stuff at all, particularly some of the guitarry stuff. There are some definite FSOL-like tracks in there - The Wicker Doll, Her Tongue is Like a Jellyfish, High Tide On the Sea of Flesh...

Re: A few questions/comments

Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2016 7:08 pm
by natchie
Are you guys also involved with sharing music ? I just recently joined up with the Sound Cloud and added FSOL and related shows there.

Hi Ross, I remember your name from the FSOL LIST...good to see you and others here.

Re: A few questions/comments

Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2016 8:54 pm
by seedy
sharing the stuff that's legal/reasonable to share yes ;)

Re: A few questions/comments

Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2016 10:05 pm
by Ross
I think there's only myself and Pete from the FSOLLIST these days.
In terms of sharing FSOL stuff, it's probably best to double check before posting anything - the band & management read the forum so anything that's legally available is a no-no.

Re: A few questions/comments

Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2016 10:49 pm
by OffLand
Ross wrote:I think there's only myself and Pete from the FSOLLIST these days.
I was also on the FSOLLIST back in the day!

Re: A few questions/comments

Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2016 8:42 am
by Ross
Haha how the hell did I forget that?!

Re: A few questions/comments

Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2016 1:54 pm
by ronniedobbs
who else pulled a lot of stuff off the ftp back in the day? that was my introduction to the MPB.

Re: A few questions/comments

Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2016 3:56 pm
by seedy
oh yes i grabbed everything but the videos
those were good times :)

Re: A few questions/comments

Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2016 4:44 pm
by mcbpete
Was still on dialup back then - a live set would take me several days on and off before I finally burnt it to CD. It was like the thing had actually arrived by post with how long it took !

Re: A few questions/comments

Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2016 12:00 am
by Pandemonium
Yeah, the Disenchanted FTP was my intro to the FSOL mixes too :)
I was also on dial-up, but the faculty internet was super fast (well, for 2002) so I was lucky :)

Re: A few questions/comments

Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2016 12:32 am
by seedy
haha nice i'm pretty sure i had cable internet at that point
i don't even know how long i've been here i think i'll go take a looksy :P

Re: A few questions/comments

Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2016 11:41 am
by mcbpete
Pandemonium wrote:Yeah, the Disenchanted FTP was my intro to the FSOL mixes too :)
I was also on dial-up, but the faculty internet was super fast (well, for 2002) so I was lucky :)
In 2003 I seem to remember there being a web front end (or mirror maybe) of the video section of the FTP, had just arrived at uni and remember being a very happy bunny at the speeds I got: Got the whole Teachings From The Electronic Brain at top quality whilst out attending a lecture as opposed to waiting days for an hour long mp3 ...