The Most Important Moments in a Life - A History of FSOL

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The Dead Cities thing is a photo of a page from a diary with a load of notes about the track listing and potential names of tracks, what looks like levels and settings for Dead Cities etc. I'll see if I can remember to take a photo of it. I assumed it would be in each one as it was sealed inside the package wrapping.
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Ah no, mine had a different set of bonuses. Would love to see that. (edit - just found it in the book I think! Three pages of notes, right?)
On a similar note, from one page in the book, an early draft of the DC tracklist without the title track and Quagmire, instead containing Dream One and Landmass (of all things!). This is fucking fascinating.

Whole double page spread of DATs, way too much to even start going into detail, but I'd love to know what track 'Orb Ripoff' eventually became :lol:
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The photo I haven't found in the book yet, but that isn't saying anything, it could be in there somewhere. The DATs and floppies pages are crazy, so much going on there.

Wasn't there an Orb-like track on the end of the 93 Essential Mix or something like that? I was going to check that again Mr. Panda's analysis of all things FSOL related, but it seems to have gone, or at least been moved somewhere. What happened there? Did I miss some announcement?
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You mean this?

Ah, this book wouldn't be a FSOL project without some teasers. A page of album covers includes a video - complete with BBFC 'PG' rating - called 'Moving Without Shape', 'a film by Binn Dogg. Music by Amorphous Androgynous, Park, Gary Lucas, Vangelis, Zee Boxx'; and a CD: 'Yage - Soundtrack from the Motion Picture: "With the Cows We Travelled Again"' produced by FSOL, published by Dog the Mole Music. Disc One. Frog Dog Records 2003.

Now we know different, but for a while there was definitely a strong rumour that all the new FSOL material was Brian and all the new Amorphous was Gaz. There's a photo of a disc with a hand-written cover: "Gaz nu (FSOL?!) trax: 1. A Glitch in Cellular Memory / 2. Hollow Earth / 3. Nostradamus"
Hollow Earth is on the credits of a Light Without Sound video on YouTube, I wonder what Nostradamus became or if it's still unreleased.

So much to add to the discography now!
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Still haven't looked through the book properly yet - will do that this weekend (hopefully).

Among my extras in the package there's a Headstone Lane beer mat :)
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'Beers'
I've got one of those around somewhere, haven't seen it in ages.
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Been looking through the book today - some really cool stuff in there. I don't know whether it's more interesting to me because I'm a new fan, or whether it'd be even more interesting if I'd listened to FSOL in the 90s. Well worth the money for a great book and a great CD.
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The first interesting thing I noticed in the book:
- Papua New Guinea - the very first 12" only limited print was released in October 1991 (first time confirmation about October) - and very soon when it became a hit in 1992, the original first pressing copies were sold for 60 quid.
- I guess Accelerator came out in November or December, still not sure about this one...
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There are dates for all the early 12"s in there, need to update the discography.
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Please post the updates here too :)
- I hope I'll find time these next few days to read more...
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It's amazing how this CD flows...
- Blasting on the speakers third time in a row!

Looks like there are NO weak links here...

I've forgotten how brilliant Prypiat is... and merged here with the Falling Upwards Aria... aahhh... bliss... pure bliss...

...and this is mostly NEW material... hmm... the waters have been tested...
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Stakker - August 1988
Global - November 1988
Slam - April 1989
Tonight - August 1989
The Deep - April 1990
AST - July 1990
Chile - October 1990
Principles of Motion - Feb 1991
Tingler - May 1991
So This is Love - June 1991
Papua - October 1991
Fuzzy Logic - February 1992
Accelerator - February 1992
Papua Remixes - May 1992
Semi Real - October 1992
Metropolis - November 1992


Annoyingly no Pulse EPs dates, but a pretty nice update nevertheless.
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Damn, still waiting for delivery, wtf is this.
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Still don't have mine either - wondering if it's got lost in the post :(
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Some of those dates Ross posted are most definitely wrong... Few are probably correct, and few more are... well... I'll investigate further and let you know :)
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