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I recently found my FSOL - Dead Cities cassette (!!!) at my mom's house along with an old walkman that still worked. I got home, popped in the tape, hooked up my Sennheiser, and proceeded to listen. Originally I just wanted some sort of background music while I started re-reading The Silmarillion, but I could not continue reading. I had forgotten how incredible this record was. I mean I knew this record was incredible, but I'd stopped listening to it maybe 9 or 10 years ago. This is truly one of those records you have to listen from beginning to end, and as cliche as it may sound, it is a journey, dark, lush, exciting, insane, wow! It's the perfect balance between tribal ambient, techno, break beats, prog rock, with some weird chant and vocal samples and hints of classical.
Anyway, I'm in awe with this record and I just wanted to share it with u... | |
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09/27/07
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RRine
that is a great album. full of good memories.
09/27/07
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quip
their best of has just come out. its totally mind blowing. all the stuff sounds so fresh, like people are just catching up now. big big influence and no mistake.
01/16/08
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jaysan
that album is a total winner, i had the cassette version too! used to listen to there stuff tripping my tits off with my mates back in the day. i heard papa new guinea on tv about a year ago and had a wicked flash back!
so nearly 20 years on from when fsol decided to call themselves the 'future' sound of london, what would you guys say the actual future sound of london turned out to be?
01/18/08
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license
jaysan said: "so nearly 20 years on from when fsol decided to call themselves the 'future' sound of london, what would you guys say the actual future sound of london turned out to be?"
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01/18/08
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ricemutt
fsol STILL is the future sound of london... wtf...
02/11/08
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thenapking
That's funny 'cos i know I have a tape of Dead Cities somewhere. I never bought the CD. I remember being really disappointed by it when it came out, I think probably because I loved ISDN so much that i had very high expectations. You won't hear me say this often, but the pan flutes on this are good - Ennio Morricone I think, Once Upon A Time in America? I never really bothered with their stuff after this much, even though I hold them in the highest regard. I should get round to listening to their new stuff some time.
I think my favourite thing of theirs was those Essential Mixes on Radio 1.
03/21/08
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molasar
thanks sweettrip for the reminder about FSOL - i will have to break out my early coloured vinyls of mine that they did from my attic for a swinging good time around memory lane 
03/22/08
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KidQuaalude
i killed a man...
...a man who looked like me
04/12/08
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jkn
I still play it semi-frequently. It's a great album that jumps around in style without ever jumping too far. Inspiring. Yeah - the samples grate on my nerves a bit now and then if I let them. I have a love hate relationship with samples....
04/12/08
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tylth
i love what this is abaiut
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