I've been listening to a few of these sets over this bank holiday weekend and totally forgot how amazing they are. Seamlessly blending their own tracks with others from a complete range of decades, into this grandiose soup of sound. FSOL have always proclaimed themselves as more of samplists than traditional musicians and this almost seems to be an extension of that ethic. To steal an extract from an interview copied from Ross' site (taken from GLR back in 2002):
So in my eyes (well, ears !) these Electronic Brain Storms are less mixes and more entire new FSOL albums if copyright as a concept didn't exist at all.Interviewer: You are thieves of sound!
Garry Cobain: Well we are the best pick-pockets in town, yeah! [laughs] In a way, I like taking things of colour, things that have different sort of feelings, and just piecing them together. In order to do that, I take things from the present - the streets - and I sit there like a couch potato some nights, and rather than just taking the stuff that I'm bombarded with, I say "Ok I'm going to make useful out of this, I'm going to make it creative, I'm not going to sit here."
I can't possibly comment on the whole project as there's just so much of it (just over 12 hours so far) but all I can say as these really haven't got the attention (outside these forum walls anyway) that they really do deserve. Currently listening to Volume 2 (the 3 hour one) and the tracklisting of the thing is just insane (both in terms of length and range of artists), but the beauty is that is flows just so seamlessly - If I was a stoner or acid head this would be ideal sountrack for a trip, but as I'm not I can just say that it's bloody ace !
So any favourites (or favourite moments) from guys here - I know Volume 7 is quite popular (by far one of my most played anyway)
Pete.