questions from a FSOL newbie
Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2015 2:54 pm
Hello everyone. I'm from Italy and I started listening to FSOL last years, after many years of "I love Papua New Guinea - should I listen to anything else from them?". I have three questions for you, I hope you can answer.
1) can you tell me the story of the relationship between Gaz and Brian? As far as I've read, FSOL was an "electronic project" in the nineties (from Accelerator to Dead Cities), then, because of Gaz's intossication, became to see the world in a more spiritual way (I've read in the famous very long interview quoted on Wikipedia). Since then Amorphous Androgynous became an "indian-psych band", they published the "issness-ultraland-peppermint" trilogy, very different from the 90's FSOL. My question is this? Was this some kind of split? It seems that Gaz worked on AA, also live, while Brian worked on different projects (like Hand-made devices, The San Monta Tapes, Four Forests) and they reunited only for the Archives-environments retrieving of old material, and, of course, for the Environments five new album. So, do you see this as a split? In the live videos from youtube of AA it seems that there is only Gaz, is it my mistake or there Brian isn't there?
2) can you tell me how the ISDN transmission worked? I mean, I understand when you are on the radio, but if you are going to be "live", on an actual stage, what is the point of not being there and transmitting all from the studio? (if I can recall correctly, they did so)
3) I'm very "anal" for my records collection (even now, for my mp3 collection). I am trying to have all the FSOL/AA material, as long as it has been released on full lenght albums. No singles (except, of course, for those collected on the Earthbeat-by any other name-the pulse EPs compilations). So, this is the list of everything I have, in chronological order. Am I missing something?
FSOL: Accelerator - Lifeforms - ISDN - Dead Cities - From The Archives 1, 2, 3 - Environments - Archives 4, 5 - Environments II, 3 - Archives 6 - Environments 4 - Archives 7 - Environments Five
AA: Tales Of Ephidrina - The Issness - Alice In Ultraland - The Pepperment Tree And The Seeds Of Superconsciousness - The Cartel Vol. 1, 2
Various names compilations: Earthbeat - By Any Other Name - The Pulse EPs
Brian other projects (are those all by brian?) - Hand-made Devices (by Polemical) - Four Forests (by Part-Sub-Merged) - The San Monta Tapes (by Heads Of Agreement) - The Woodlands Of Old (by Yage)
Then, according to Wikipedia, I miss the three Humanoid records (Global - Session 84-88 - Your Body Sub Atomic), the Stakker Record (Eurotechno) and the three Zeebox (1983-1987). Are all by Brian? What's the difference between Stakker and Humanoid? (of course I have the "stakker humanoid" song).
So, lots of questions by an Italian fan. I apologize for the long post, but I'd like to know the answers. Thank you and see you around on the board!
Gabo
1) can you tell me the story of the relationship between Gaz and Brian? As far as I've read, FSOL was an "electronic project" in the nineties (from Accelerator to Dead Cities), then, because of Gaz's intossication, became to see the world in a more spiritual way (I've read in the famous very long interview quoted on Wikipedia). Since then Amorphous Androgynous became an "indian-psych band", they published the "issness-ultraland-peppermint" trilogy, very different from the 90's FSOL. My question is this? Was this some kind of split? It seems that Gaz worked on AA, also live, while Brian worked on different projects (like Hand-made devices, The San Monta Tapes, Four Forests) and they reunited only for the Archives-environments retrieving of old material, and, of course, for the Environments five new album. So, do you see this as a split? In the live videos from youtube of AA it seems that there is only Gaz, is it my mistake or there Brian isn't there?
2) can you tell me how the ISDN transmission worked? I mean, I understand when you are on the radio, but if you are going to be "live", on an actual stage, what is the point of not being there and transmitting all from the studio? (if I can recall correctly, they did so)
3) I'm very "anal" for my records collection (even now, for my mp3 collection). I am trying to have all the FSOL/AA material, as long as it has been released on full lenght albums. No singles (except, of course, for those collected on the Earthbeat-by any other name-the pulse EPs compilations). So, this is the list of everything I have, in chronological order. Am I missing something?
FSOL: Accelerator - Lifeforms - ISDN - Dead Cities - From The Archives 1, 2, 3 - Environments - Archives 4, 5 - Environments II, 3 - Archives 6 - Environments 4 - Archives 7 - Environments Five
AA: Tales Of Ephidrina - The Issness - Alice In Ultraland - The Pepperment Tree And The Seeds Of Superconsciousness - The Cartel Vol. 1, 2
Various names compilations: Earthbeat - By Any Other Name - The Pulse EPs
Brian other projects (are those all by brian?) - Hand-made Devices (by Polemical) - Four Forests (by Part-Sub-Merged) - The San Monta Tapes (by Heads Of Agreement) - The Woodlands Of Old (by Yage)
Then, according to Wikipedia, I miss the three Humanoid records (Global - Session 84-88 - Your Body Sub Atomic), the Stakker Record (Eurotechno) and the three Zeebox (1983-1987). Are all by Brian? What's the difference between Stakker and Humanoid? (of course I have the "stakker humanoid" song).
So, lots of questions by an Italian fan. I apologize for the long post, but I'd like to know the answers. Thank you and see you around on the board!
Gabo