Future Sound Of London fans?

And re: The Isness, what Ned said. That's really lame and, I think, injured their name as a group. Although, if they do proper FSOL material again, it might make an achievement artificially higher.

"Papua New Guinea" is their ultimate classic
Accelerator
Humaniod - "Stakker Humanoid"
and lots of the stuff on the Earthbeat comp:
Candese - "You Took My Love"
Indo Tribe - "Bite the Bullet Baby"
Mental Cube
Semi REal
Smart Systems - "Tingler"

I never really got into the later stuff, especially when their covers got scary.

Simple but right. James Brown + DCD = yowsa.

To criticise it as derivative is a disservice, it wasn't trying to be anything else.

And to me the best thing they ever did was the Cascade EP/single
so fucking beautiful, as was the followup Lifeforms EP/single

I like just about everything they released as FSOL and nothing they did as AA.

That new Archives series is pretty yummy too, IMHO.

There's a funny scene in the documentary film Modulations, where FSOL say they refuse to be interviewed live - so they're seen through a webcam - and continue with all sorts of pretentious techno-hippie babble. But after they've finished talking the director doesn't cut to another scene, so you can see them standing silent in front of the webcam, and then one of them starts to pick his nose. After that Mixmaster Morris (who, despite his hippie image, comes across as a common-sense type of a bloke) cracks a joke about them not being the easiest people to reach or something.

That new Archives series is pretty yummy too, IMHO.

man, this stuff is doing the trick today

something new coming via the Bandcamp, which has also added a whole fuckton of stuff -- I've always been fond of them and I'm gonna dig through a bunch of this

https://fsol.bandcamp.com/album/multiple-angled-distortions

their Environments series are really good!

This guy has been making exhaustive video essays about the history of FSOL, he's up to chapter 45 now, quite something...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ds4ISayHM6I

they are https://theaa.bandcamp.com/ as well

which I don't hate as much anymore as upthread

slowly working my way through those videos, had never gotten around to Eurotechno ... please, my 21-track album created by cutting up bits of tape and then splicing them together at random ... it's very sickk

I've just found some fsol music i've been looking for for 30 years - well on and off. mostly off. anyway it was 'specially composed' for a bbc tv show called WSH about urban myths in 1994, turns out it was uploaded to youtube about ten years ago. it's at 7:40 here, does it sound like anything that was officially released? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zp13DgaoipY

yep, that's Vertical Pig from Lifeforms!

huh! damnit i thought it was a deep or even never released cut, so much for 'specially composed'! well that shows me up for the fsol ignoramus that i am. i will listen to it now i promise, thanks!

well, Lifeforms was recorded in early 1994 so it's possible that track WAS composed for that TV movie

only wo tracks in but I'm enjoying this a lot

https://fsol.bandcamp.com/album/multiple-angled-distortions

Hauqil is v cool tuned drums and atmospherics

Still listening to that album ^^ and enjoying it more than ever. Tons of detail to unravel.