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Really enjoying these write-ups. Especially looking forward to Lifeforms + first Amorphous album.

Cheers! And me too, much as I like some of the early material, 1993 is really the year they become a band I want to write about in depth.

Yep, the posts are a good read. Accelerator had a massive impact on me when I first heard it in late 92, so I find reading about the background quite fascinating all these years later. Also really looking forward to the Amorphous and Lifeforms releases, and more nuggets of info I never knew. Thanks for putting this info together.

Really glad people are enjoying reading! It's a lot of fun to put together, albeit a nightmare when it comes to certain things, especially credits on these early releases when tracks have numerous credited producers and engineers over different reissues.

Here are the tracks on Accelerator not previously covered:
-Expander
-While Others Cry
-It's Not My Problem
-Papua New Guinea
-Moscow
-Central Industrial

Just working through my list of plans for how I'm going to be writing this and I've counted up the number of tracks they've released every year... originals, remixes, but not from ISDN transmissions etc.

1988 - 4
1989 - 36
1990 - 14
1991 - 35
1992 - 51
1993 - 19
1994 - 53
1995 - 9
1996 - 23
1997 - 12
2001 - 22
2002 - 37
2003 - 24
2004 - 8
2005 - 15
2006 - 5
2007 - 217
2008 - 87
2009 - 31
2010 - 41
2011 - 0
2012 - 44
2013 - 38
2014 - 65
2015 - 41
2016 - 79
2017 - 83
2018 - 54
2019 - 53
2020 - 90
2021 - 36+

Pretty funny that in 2007 they released more material than the whole of the 1990s.

A brief write-up on this one. There's contradictory information about the track on side A, which is always fun.
Mental Cube - Q (1992).

Just to echo others - i'm also really enjoying reading these. In an age of near limitless access to information, it still feels i'm going to discover loads of new nuggets of info about FSOL songs and albums through this project, and i'm really looking forward to what's to come.

Also agree about looking forward to first AA album - really don't know much about Tales, but it holds a special place for me.

Well as you've all been so kind, here's a bonus entry for today:


Yage - Fuzzy Logic
-Quazi
-Coda Coma
-Livin' for the Love
-Fuzzy Logic

Papua New Guinea (1992)
Going to write-up the tracks tomorrow as this took long enough!

My first introduction to FSOL, as I imagine is the case for a lot of FSOL fans. I remember hearing it on Mark Goodier's Radio 1 Evening Session and being blown away by it. I also remember that questionable TOTPs appearance and the Future Shock video tape. I think the Apex Twin's Ageispolis video is also from the same VHS but the music was better suited to the images.

This is some great stuff Ross, I wasn't aware that this release was not the initial release of PNG and I didn't know too much about the pre-PNG FSOL era.

808Spense wrote: ↑Fri May 28, 2021 8:07 pmI also remember that questionable TOTPs appearance and the Future Shock video tape. I think the Apex Twin's Ageispolis video is also from the same VHS but the music was better suited to the images.

Aye, that's the Stakker - Westworld tape:

Nah, it's the 1993 Future Shock video with the "sacred stones and video mixing" Papua video, Ageispolis, UFOrb and a few other early '90s things.

am idiot ... apologies !

It's alright, we'll chalk it down to you still being distracted by how good the new We Have Explosive is.