FSOL ISDN

they did stuff under loads of aliases, like mental cube, stakker, yage, amorphous androgynous etc, not sure which one that'd be though....prob either mental cube or yage i'd say - a lot of the stuff they (and others) put out on jumpin' & pumpin' was released around the hardcore era.

ps simply typing this has guaranteed the constant repeat of 'we have explosive' here tonight

ISDN essential mix (1995) was amazing. I shall dig it out and share it.

Essential Mix (1995-06-04)
400 Blows - A Declaration of Intent [Castle Comms Ltd]
Fats Comet - Dont Forget That Beat [Rough Trade]
A Certain Ratio - Kether Hot Knives [Factory]
Small Fish with Spine - Stickleback [Oxygen]
Patrick Pulsinger - Citylights [Disko]
Ape - Snake Pass [Dorado]
Beverly De Fries DAlbert - ARP 2500 [Coronet]
The Beatles - Tomorrow Never Knows [EMI]
The Doors - Riders on the Storm [Elektra]
Biting Tongues - Feverhouse [Factory]
Mekon - Phattys Lunchbox [Wall of Sound]
Future Sound of London - Snake Hips [Virgin]
Scorn - Night Tide [Ear-Ache]
Jon Hassell - Personals [Warner]
Stockhausen - Bird of Passage [Chrysalis]
Barbara Striesand - Theme From a Star [CBS]
Andreas Vollenweider - La Paix Verde [CBS]
Morganistic - Life [Irdial]
Blackstar - Liner-anna-orone [Soundclash]
Quentin Crisp - Naked Civil Servant [Cherry Red]
Orang - On the Samaohi Trail [Echo Label]
Cocteau Twins - Lazy Calm [4AD]
Tontos Expanding Headband - Jetsex [Atlantic]
Fleetwood Mac - Albatross [CBS]
Hypnophebia - Spectral EP [Boy]
Talk Talk - April 5th [EMI]
Laurie Anderson - O-Superman [Warner]
Beatles - Revolution 9 [EMI]
Cabaret Voltaire - Eddys Out [Roughtrade]
Michael Legrand - Theme From Summer 42 [Warner]
Future Sound of London - Ameoba [Virgin]
Woob - Amoeba [t-me Recordings]
Yages Noise Collection - London Underground [ERV]

some of their work off ISDN, Lifeforms and Dead Cities is crying out for quality dnb and dubstep remixes.

i think the only dnb remix of them was by Leon Mar on We Have Explosive.

Smoking Japanese Babe is outstanding in every way.

I loved this album when it came out, I still got the black carboard velcro release CD, always loved the track "Egypt" - minimal vibes

ps simply typing this has guaranteed the constant repeat of 'we have explosive' here tonight

apparently they slapped that track together just to please the record label who wanted something resembling a hit single.

[Statto]

statto, if you wanna make lifeforms less 'bland' (???), try listening on acid - my best mate actually ended up having recurring flashbacks of armageddon - in inverted black and white, no less, nice touch - after listening to 'vertical pig' far too much whilst err, dabbling... (prob the last thing in the world i'd consider doing these days, but was a laugh back then :d)

they did stuff under loads of aliases, like Mental Cube, Stakker, Yage, Amorphous Androgynous etc, not sure which one that'd be though....prob either Mental Cube or Yage i'd say - a lot of the stuff they (and others) put out on Jumpin' & Pumpin' was released around the hardcore era.

yeah - it was 'the tingler' under the mental cube alias.

The tingler is a baaad tune. as is the mental project Q tune, lovely stuff. The smart systems remix of humanoid, in fact all mixes of humanoid. Remember watching that on the chart show with all the 80s graphics, so futuristic sounding. The Papua remixes were nice too from the reissued accelerator. loads of great tunes on that too IMO.

ISDN is about the only one ive not got, except the really rare stuff.

Humanoid boo boo booooo!

I "saw" them play "live" via ISDN in the 90s. Kinda weird really, live from their studio to us in a field...

They have done some amazing stuff though.... humanoid blew my mind at the time and tbh it still kinda does now, it's that awesome. Q is another one, i love that track.

Didn't know they'd got into psychedelic / space rock of late. That's brilliant.

ps simply typing this has guaranteed the constant repeat of 'we have explosive' here tonight

apparently they slapped that track together just to please the record label who wanted something resembling a hit single.

yeah, it always had 'top ten' written all over it haha still a favourite at weddings, too

anyone heard their archives and Experiments releases? They're available on FSOLdigital.com.

I heard the first archive and it was quality. Pure ISDN/Dead Cities vibe.

They also came out with an album last year under their YAGE guise that appears to be more electronic than their Amorphous psyche stuff.

btw, if you haven't heard TALES OF EPHIDRENA from the early 90s then do yourself a favour and check it. Maybe their best album.

bombaclaat

I tried listening to the 2019 FSOL "Yage" lp last night.

I got bored 9 mins in.  I'll get around to listen to the whole thing, but I don't do drugs nor smoke weed anymore, so typical, ambientronica is no longer trippy, novel, nor enticing anymore for that fact maaaaaaaaaaan.  Meh, been there done that. 

If i want to trip out sober, I'll geek out to doom metal  - atmos & ambient effect is more direct there. 

Still..  I like the art work.




Tracklist:

[00:00]  01.  Yage 2019
[07:22]  02.  Floating Into Focus And Then Moving Away
[10:36]  03.  Purged
[15:31]  04.  We Flew Together
[18:13]  05.  Yage (Rhodesia) / Insulin
[23:19]  06.  Voodoo Doll
[27:01]  07.  Earth Spirit
[28:36]  08.  Ayahuasca
[34:50]  09.  Slowly Stumbled
[36:09]  10.  The People Of Yage (Humanoid Rebuild)
    Remix – Humanoid
[39:40]  11.  Yage Sunset Strip
[43:15]  12.  A Sensation Of Vagueness
[48:57]  13.  The Images Were Simple And Few