The Future Sound of London thread / song-by-song blog

Better late than never, here's the Cascade track-by-track...

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Kiss Transmission 3 (04/11/93)

Dude, this series is brilliant.  It must be very hard work, but it is very much appreciated!

Cheers! Yeah, some of them are more fun to write than the others (some of the early 12"s were a bit grim to listen to on repeat, and these three hour shows can be a slog!) but on the whole I'm quite enjoying it. It's also going to be a chance for me to put the recent stuff in some context when I get to it, because I've been so overwhelmed by their material for the past few years that there are some releases I've barely listened to.

 
Kiss Transmission 4 [aka Kiss Tranmission 2]

Kiss Transmission 5

And, finally, Kiss Transmission 6.

Essential Mix '93

And, finally, rounding out 1993 with some remixes.
Bryan Ferry - I Put a Spell on You (Yage Mix)
Bryan Ferry - I Put a Spell on You (Yage Mix Long Version)
Curve - Rising (Headspace Mix)
David Sylvian and Robert Fripp - Darshana (Re-constructed by The Future Sound of London)
The Shamen - Re:Iteration (FSOL Mix)

1994 is on its way, and with it, possibly the band's finest run of releases.

Bootleg time to start the 3D Headspace Tour.

BBC Radio 3 'Mixing It' 09/05/94

  On 8/13/2021 at 8:56 PM, NewSchoolScience said:

Dude, this series is brilliant.  It must be very hard work, but it is very much appreciated!

ISDN Transmission The Kitchen New York, 11/05/94

It sure would be great if you could still buy these ISDN transmissions

Edit: overlooked the link to FSOLdigital in the article -- you can still buy it!

Yup, the ISDN transmissions are still for sale, it's just the mixes that they took down, largely because I think the cost of licensing everything on them was nightmarish.

Essential Mix '94 feat. Robert Fripp

Astonishingly prescient quote from Garry Cobain in 1994: “These things are going to rule in the future, though. They’ll completely blank out record companies. We can just advertise our music on the Internet, which has a million subscribers and send it straight to them.”

ISDN Rome 16/05/94

Not sure when the next entry is coming. Honestly, writing an article about Lifeforms is actually intimidating. It's been my favourite work of art of any kind for as long as I can remember, I don't know where to start.

  On 8/12/2021 at 12:43 PM, purlieu said:

Better late than never, here's the Cascade track-by-track...

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5
Shortform

 

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I’m steadily making my way through these when I can and am reading every piece. I’m definitely learning some great trivia and have enjoyed going back and listening to tracks again after reading about them. 

Cascade was utterly amazing when it came out, I’d never heard anything like it. I remember chatting with a couple of friends about how excited we were for Lifeforms, it seemed like a huge wait for that. I’m still blown away by the CD single even now, it swaps places as my favourite with My Kingdom on a regular basis

I wish I'd been around then, I didn't get into them until My Kingdom, would have been amazing to wait for Lifeforms on its release. Although the way they kept putting it back and back must have been a pain.

Wait, they're still doing that to this day. That new Amorphous album was originally due before Christmas 2016 and it's not even finished.

One of the best days of my life (back in ‘94): I bought CD copies of Incunabula, Lifeforms and 76:14 in Glasgow HMV

Woah. That's a hell of a haul.

What have you been doing today? I've been mostly writing about Lifeforms. This took forever.

The Future Sound of London - Lifeforms

Bravo @purlieu, bravo son!

Onto the track-by-tracks finally!

Disc 1
Cascade
Ill Flower
Flak
Bird Wings
Dead Skin Cells
Lifeforms
Eggshell
Among Myselves

One thing that I think has slowed me down is doing all the Kiss FM shows and ISDN transmissions which have so much Lifeforms material that I'm slowly feeling worn out by this stuff! Not much to go now though and it's onto the ISDN era and then Dead Cities.

Aaaand it's done.

Disc 2
Domain
Spineless Jelly
Interstat
Vertical Pig
Cerebral
Life Form Ends
Vit
Omnipresence
Room 208
Elaborate Burn
Little Brother

Next up: more Lifeforms with the VHS release, the final shows of the 3D Headspace Tour and the single.

Lifeforms VHS

And a wrap-up of various 3D Headspace Tour bootlegs that have done the rounds.