Fractional Difference - Exploring FSOL song-by-song

[Ross]

Lifeforms Video


3D Headspace Tour bootlegs

[Ross]

Lifeforms Paths
-Path 1
-Path 2
-Path 3
-Path 4
-Path 5
-Path 6
-Path 7
-Radio Edit
-Alternative Radio Edit
-Radio Edit 3

And, to round out the Lifeforms era before moving on, two compilation tracks from June 1994:
-Bring Me Home
-Deep Into Your Subconscious I Slide


And with that, Lifeforms is done. A run which started with the first Kiss Test Transmission back in September 1992, three and a half months ago my time. I'm actually really looking forward to the change of pace coming with ISDN.

[Ross]

Expander
-Expander (Radio Remix)
-Expander (Remix)
-Moscow (Remix)


Accelerator (1994 Reissue)


ISDN VPRO Radio (09/09/94)

[Ross]

Kiss FM '94
Also made changes to New York to reflect the realisation that it was broadcast in November, not May.

[Ross]

Far-out Son of Lung - Ramblings of a Madman (Smokin' Japanese Babe)


Promo 500


ISDN (Black)

Started work on the tracks:
-Zeebox
-Herd Killing
-Live in New York
-Just a Fucking Idiot
-The Far-out Son of Lung and the Ramblings of a Madman
-Appendage
-Slider

[Dennis]

Oh wow, you had quite a run these last couple of days quite something to read for me now:)

[Ross]

Yeah, I go through spells of inspiration, and other days when I can't face it!

-Smokin Japanese Babe
-You're Creeping Me Out
-Eyes Pop - Skin Explodes - Everybody Dead
-It's My Mind That Works
-Dirty Shadows
-Tired
-Egypt
-Are They Fightin Us
-Hot Knives
-A Study of Six Guitars
-An End of Sorts

And to round out 1994:
-Apollo 440 - Liquid Cool (Future Sound of London Remix)


1995 up next, which should take considerably less time, with only 9 new tracks, two releases, three transmissions, a video and a soundtrack to cover.

[Ross]

Far-out Son of Lung and the Ramblings of a Madman
-Snake Hips Parts 1 & 2
-VHS release


Essential Mix '95

[mcbpete]

-An End of Sorts

Have the guys ever mentioned where that sample right at the end came from, or whether it was a recording they'd made? Somehow is both completely out of place and yet closes the album perfectly !

[Ross]

Nah, you can hear a longer version of it on VPRO, it sounds like a live recording, but who knows what of. Shazam can't find it.

[Ross]

ISDN (White)
-Kai
-Amoeba
-Snake Hips

And, rounding out the ISDN era, the 1995 remixes & compilation tracks (& some overall thoughts on the Virgin-era remixes, given as these are the last)

-Far-Out Son of Lung - Cow
-Jon Anderson - FSOL Deseo Reconstruction
-Jon Anderson - FSOL Deseo Reconstruction #2
-Jon Anderson - FSOL Deseo Reconstruction #2 (Radio Edit)
-Osamu Sato - Face-Savers On Line (F.S.O.L. Remix)

That marks the end of the ISDN era and, pretty much, the end of a run of transmissions and releases that started three years earlier. Dead Cities begins next.

[Ross]

Peel Session '95

[Ross]

Art Futura Festival, Barcelona, October 1995.


And that's it for 1995, a very quiet year.

[Ross]

Just tidying up a couple of small reissues before I get properly into Dead Cities.

Papua New Guinea 1996 US release

Accelerator 1996 US release

And now for the worst FSOL-related release of all time.

Aircut - Visual Attack 1996
-Jon the Dentist Remix
-Humanoid Mix
-Billabong Mix

[Ross]

Semtex - We Have Explosive
-Semtex (Part 2) [aka We Have Explosive (Herd Killing)]
-We Have Explosive

I'll get around to the album version when I get to Dead Cities in a few days.