The Future Sound of London - Environment 7.003

  On 12/14/2023 at 12:22 AM, kuniklo said:

I’ve played all three of these quite a bit. It’s great to have FSOL still going and making some of the best music of their his career. 

FSOL is only one person now?

  On 12/13/2023 at 12:05 PM, mcbpete said:

It's just Parts 1-3 combined

But The Tracklist of E7 Trilogy is 49 tracks.  The tracklist of E7.1+E7.2+37.3 is 48 tracks.

So have they added a bonus track or just re-sequenced where the breaks are between tracks and an intro/outro got a title on what would be E7.001?

bandcamp shows 49 tracks but says "44? tracks" at the bottom of the page

and there's a track

"6 Cone-Seq9 0:47" that isn't on the individual E7.001 release

but elsewhere, that track isn't listed,

but there's a track

"18 ext tx 2:02" that also isn't listed on the individual E7.001 release

and the track lengths of a few of the songs are different for each version as listed

so, for the completest in me, are there 3 different versions of E7.001 out there, or are we just being fucked with?

@purlieu to the rescue:

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The runtime from 'Time Cone' to 'ext tx' is exactly the same as the runtime from 'Time Cone' to 'Only in Memories' on the earlier release, so it's the same material just indexed differently. The synth environment at the end of 'Time Cone' has been given its own index, which basically means every track after it has the wrong title. 'ext tx' is just 'Only in Memories' renamed, so there's no bonus track.

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The outro to Time Cone has been renamed Cone-Seq9, making everything else line up correctly again.

  On 12/19/2023 at 12:33 PM, mcbpete said:

@purlieu to the rescue:

 

oh is this being discussed elsewhere?

^^^

LOL was just editing the metadata of the trilogy to change it to the individuals albums. First part of the trilogy had an extra track. Just went along with it, because at first sight I couldn't find any other changes to the other ones. Even the order was unchanged. But this helps!

So what is the correct complete tracklist? with the correct titles on the songs?

the one with ext ex as track 18 and all the tracks were incorrectly titled previously

or the one with cone-seq9 as an outro to time cone and ext ex isn't actually a song/title?

sorry to be all nitpicky/adhd about it...

  On 12/19/2023 at 12:39 PM, hayhook said:

oh is this being discussed elsewhere?

Over on 'my' place - http://fsolboard.co.uk/

When it comes to track naming/conventions over the years FSOL's style is amorphous (andogynous)

I *think* if you re-download it from bandcamp now the whole track naming should be sorted, it looks like everything was off by 1 when it was first uploaded that was then fixed with the new name for track 6 (on the original 7.001 track 6 was just an end ambient-y bit of track 5)

When it was released, it seems like Rituals was recut from the full 60 minute album, and for some reason that outro to Time Cone got its own index and everything else was knocked out of place by one track with 'ext tx' given as the additional one at the end. I had a brief chat with Brian about it and it all got corrected so that the Time Cone outro now gets its own title and all the other titles are now correct as per the original release. The exact indexing is a few seconds out from the earlier version in a few places, but the actual material is identical.