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The Globular in lossless was totally under the radar--it sounds great

I'm liking it so far--only listened to it once, but about to go in for a second round....

For me personally, ISDN, Lifeforms, and Dead Cities are all up there at the top



I think many would agree that Lifeforms and Dead Cities, at least, would like to have a word with those people...


I wonder why ISDN is always left out of top FSOL records. This album is insane and has influenced ...

I think many would agree that Lifeforms and Dead Cities, at least, would like to have a word with those people...


Album has been described as the best thing the creators of The Future Sound of London and The Amorphous Androgynous have ever done. By who ... people that have only heard this one ...

This was just announced--2LP set...

https://www.recordstoreday.co.uk/record ... Ultraland

It's listed as Future Sound of London, which is interesting

I had been hoping for Environments 3, but this is certainly a nice alternative

Listened to it once so far today on my commute to work--an excellent little collection. Glad I decided to take the leap and buy the vinyl version. I figured it would be a one track from the album deal, given how the classic EPs worked back in the day...

FOMO, and the fact that my FSOL LP collection is pretty near complete at this point, made me grab the vinyl. I'm sure it'll be totally worth it though, as I've really loved what they've been up to in the last 10 years.

I'm guessing that the decision to add new/different material, or else putting it together differently, is what is impacting the decision to remaster or not.

With both Tales and ISDN, there have been changes made (Tales adding the additional material, ISDN putting the material together differently ...

For vinyl collectors, the represses have been great money savers. I've been quite happy with the copies of Dead Cities, Lifeforms, Earthbeat, Accelerator, and Tales that have come out in recent years. Given that all of those have now been repressed, ISDN's the remaining missing piece.

The 2CD definitely is of interest to me. I agree that this could become the go to. I was hoping we'd also at least get the Promo 500 stuff also spliced in, but oh well...

On the LP version--I have an original 2LP white cover vinyl copy, and besides the fact that I sunk a pretty penny top get it, I ...

I get the ordering has been changed to best fit the sides, but the "you stubborn bastard" spoken sample that links two tracks is cut in two for absolutely no reason, which is honestly kind of baffling.


I'm guessing to keep the pattern of having a Yage track close all 4 sides of LPs 2 and 3 ...

Got this from Juno today--came surprisingly fast considering I live in the US.

The packaging is pretty basic--just the cover (not a gatefold) with the 3 discs tucked inside. LPs are housed in generic black paper sleeves. It does have the number stamped on the back cover.

Vinyl is well pressed ...

You don't save much buying the new tracks individually to add them to the Detuned version if you already bought it. Oh well, price of being a collector and completionist if you are trying to get everything digitally I guess.

The added tracks are interesting, but definitely the bonus tracks to the ...

I had forgotten about this repressing, but ISDN did get a repress on colored vinyl (green) in 2006. Based on the picture posted on the Rough Trade site currently, I have to wonder if that version is the one being used as a model for this 2024 repressing (albeit as a legit version, not a boot like ...

Ross wrote: Thu Feb 15, 2024 8:32 pm The FSOLDigital release is a repress of the 2007 From the Archives 2LP compilation.

I'm still holding out hope that we'll eventually see Environments 3 on LP...