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Well, I've bought a couple of albums from the mid-90s. Just waiting for them to show up now


Listened to EBS 7 last night. Fantastic! Been tempted to check Seafar out more - anyone else listen to his stuff?

Seafar is an excellent artist who should be promoted more to the world!

Yeah, Seafar's stuff is great. That reminds me - he hasn't been on the board in ages. Where you got to?

Cool, I will check out his stuff on FSOLDigital soon, I think.

Listened to my first Ozric Tentacles album last night: Arborescence

Wasn't there supposed to be more Seafar stuff coming out at some point? Indeed there was a collaboration with Mr. Dougans and Cobain at some point. He could be waiting for a cosmically significant date of course! For all we know it could have been the (excellent) Blackhill Transmitter Stuff, other one of the other recent mystery releases on fsoldigital.com.

I'll third the recommendation anyway, I do like his stuff a great deal. Which reminds me, I've yet to update myself with Mr Baker's stuff, kind of lost track somewhere along the way...

As for the Ozrics, I was always quite fond of Arborescence, though my favourites were Pungent Effulgent through to Jurrasic Shift. Laterly I've been enjoying the CD releases of their rough and tumble early cassette releases which I think are being upgraded in a rerelease of Vitamin Enhanced. The thing that surprised me was a lot of these early albums had earlier versions of relatively famous stuff like Kick Muck.

I was going to get the additional demo releases from their website but that stuff disappeared around about the time their studio burnt down. They've since been plagued by flooding as well, it's all got a bit revelationsy for them.

it's all brandi's fault =P

do you have the 5 disc rare and unreleased bootleg that circulates widely?
that is all pretty much prior to the first album i believe so it's more of that same raw early analog bubble beauty.

also.....i must say that i have a recording of 2 demo sessions that perhaps nobody really has. it was sent to me by Rad....their drummer of the late 90s. one of these days i'll likely get to sharing that with the world

There was meant to be a Seafar record on 12.12.12 that didn't appear. A long wait now until January 2101...

In terms of my stuff, check my Bandcamp, if it's not on there it's enough of a side project/experiment to ignore. I think you might be up to date. Got a split in a few weeks and a new album next year.

Now playing Diane Cluck - Oh Vanille/Ova Nil

FSOL - The Wheel of Life

Beautiful opening song to a great album. It sets the mood nicely, although that takes a sharp turn quickly when the quite eerie No Man's Land starts. I personally can not stand the high frequency sweeps during the next two songs and as such often find myself skipping right on to Sediment after the opener. From here on it's downright FSOL goodness right until the last track fades out!

FSOL - We Have EXPLOSIVE - all the possible versions

Oil - Slight of Hand EP

Headstone Lane too

I discovered "The Yellow Moon Band" through one of the MBP mixes, nowadays I listen to the first three tracks from their debut or regular basis. Pure positive vibes. Also been listening to some Sigur Rós lately, although it's sometimes a bit whiney and melancholic for my taste, pretty much lost interest after "( )".

RazorJack wrote:I personally can not stand the high frequency sweeps during the next two songs

Does not compute. Care to elaborate?

Haha, perhaps you can not hear them anymore

Play "Supercontinents" in a player that also shows an amplitude spectrum (Winamp has one), and see what happens from 0:04 to about 0:12. Huge continuous spike in the higher frequency range. That sounds really unnatural, it almost literally hurts my ears. And I do believe I have pretty neutral sounding audio equipment.

As you get older, the hearing range decreases.

np:
FSOL - Environments (part 1)

I can hear high frequencies in Clear Light of Reality, but not there. Interesting.

Sigur Rós, I love up to ( ), after that they kind of lost it for me. Valtari and Kveikur keep threatening to grow on me, but to be honest I just return to the first three whenever I want to listen to them.

np David Bowie - The Next Day. Wonderful album.

I just played Supercontinents in WinAmp and yes the spike is there, but it's not huge at all, I think it's there on purpose (not a production flaw) - it is a little unpleasant but nothing unbearable, I'm used to these kinds of spikes listening Autechre and similar IDM stuff...

I can actually "hear" ~35-18 kHz (I've tested), but for some reason this doesn't bother me at all. There definitely is a spike that lasts about ten seconds at around 16kHz. Interesting. RazorJack has super sensitive ears i guess

BTW, be protective about your hearing, you'll certainly miss that when it's gone *daddyspeak fingershake*

I don't personally play music at high volumes at all, especially with headphones, except when drunk I just find it disturbing.

Inspired by the few last posts, listened to E4 while falling asleep. Last stuff I downloaded was some Lustmord remasters and Woob: "The Six Hundred" which is some old stuff ran into a very old R2R tape. It's ok, actually has some pretty good tracks.

Seedy, you mean the Rare and Unreleased thing? I wasn't aware of it actually until you mentioned it! I'll have a look around to see if I can "acquire" it, the more obvious places online seem to have dud links. I'd love to hear the demo you're talking about, if you were willing to share it at some point!

In the meantime, it seems the Ozrics download shop is back up and running in the last few days. I'll have to get in there before the hoards of locusts hit them, or cats and dogs or whatever other catastrophe next strikes.

It seems Brandi gets a fair amount of criticism, though I'm not sure why. Presumably because she runs the who shebang now, and things don't seem quite so memorable as they were in the 90s