I remember the peel session when it first broadcast - I used to listen to peel regularly as he often played interesting dance/electronic tunes that id never heard - I knew papua but hadn't heard any other fsol and I remember thinking they were really different - especially space hippy with all the voicemails
great memories
Ross wrote: ↑Mon Jul 19, 2021 12:44 pm
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What an ending this track is. The final environment (Cactus) still gives me goosebumps when I hear it .... and nothing gives me goosebumps any more - it's like the weird combination of the pretty synths, the vocal snippets that sound like I'm being cursed, and the feedback followed by that quiet ambience/field recording breaks my brain and have experienced hours worth of sounds in just those few seconds !
Hi Ross,
congratulation for your work (but I told you so in another board of another band, you know).
I have just a question: as far as I know (source: Pande thread), the first two Zeebox have been released 5 days earlier than the first three Archives, but in your Discography they follow them. I know that it's just a matter of days, but I wanted to know if there is something I don't know (also, Discogs references to those dates).
Thank you in advance, your work is amazing and I'm enjoying it so much.
Everything was released on the same day, when FSOLDigital launched: Archives 1-3, Zeebox 1 & 2, The San Monta Tapes, Hand Made Devices, Four Forests and A Tiny Point of Light. March 17th, if my memory serves me correctly. No idea where the Discogs error came from.
Very interesting reads! Keep up the good work, really looking forward to any new piece!
Interesting that you describe "Cascade 3"/"elaborate burn" as dark and unsettling - don't really feel it that way, the only Lifeforms-related track I would describe as dark and downright disturbing is "vertical pig" and maybe the one that preceeds it, forgot its name:) the rest is to me really rather on the bright side of things:) other than some stuff from ISDN or DC.
Ah. I've always found there's a darker undercurrent beneath most FSOL stuff, although there are obvious exceptions - Flak, Dead Skin Cells, etc. - and I find Elaborate Burn a very sinister piece of music. I think it's the repetition of so many really weird sounds.
