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monkfish
02-10-2008, 10:38 AM
Anyone heard these?
Ive just orderd Lifeforms which is a double cd,and its awesome to say the least.
Cant really call it music,its more of a collection of sounds,incredible.
Im guessing that these guys are in the know,dont know why i think that,but i reckon they are.
pleasuredome
02-10-2008, 10:49 AM
yeah, 'papua new guinea' has always been a fave of mine. brian dougans also did a techno/house track called 'humanoid' in 1988 which i loved straight away. they've definately got something special in an artistic sense.
monkfish
02-10-2008, 10:51 AM
You should get Lifeforms,turn the lights off and chill. Its an amazing experience.
pleasuredome
02-10-2008, 10:59 AM
yeah i'll try and dowload it today. i much prefer music to chill out with these days
supertzar
02-10-2008, 02:50 PM
I have a CD by them called Far Out Son of Lung, which is interesting because the Lung were the Chinese Dragon Kings. The music is pretty psychedelic. One time when I ate a dose of shroomies I laid in bed in the dark with headphones on and listened to it. It was incredible. I couldn't stop cracking up at how wild it sounded. It was quite a soundscape in the mind.
I read that their method is to rent or borrow synthesizers and sample them. Their music is entirely constructed of these instrument samples.
monkfish
02-10-2008, 04:06 PM
I have a CD by them called Far Out Son of Lung, which is interesting because the Lung were the Chinese Dragon Kings. The music is pretty psychedelic. One time when I ate a dose of shroomies I laid in bed in the dark with headphones on and listened to it. It was incredible. I couldn't stop cracking up at how wild it sounded. It was quite a soundscape in the mind.
I read that their method is to rent or borrow synthesizers and sample them. Their music is entirely constructed of these instrument samples.
Very true.
Not heard the one you mentioned but you should really get Lifeforms,it will completly destroy your senses;)
jahzel
02-10-2008, 07:35 PM
Yes I have heard of them. In fact, when I'm not acting like an anarchic punk bastard, I like to slip into deep, mellow relaxation listening to the likes of FSOL.
Great musaic to get 'out of it' to.
moondancer
02-10-2008, 07:36 PM
they are ace and ive chatted to one of the guys via myspace :D
Ay up monkster! from what ive heard they are fab! really trippy and other worldly! will have to get a copy off you! :D
jahzel
02-10-2008, 07:43 PM
Smokin Japanese Babe - I recommend it to you.
monkfish
02-10-2008, 09:30 PM
Ay up monkster! from what ive heard they are fab! really trippy and other worldly! will have to get a copy off you! :D
Will of course do you a copy chuck:)
stealth
02-10-2008, 10:42 PM
yeah, 'papua new guinea' has always been a fave of mine. brian dougans also did a techno/house track called 'humanoid' in 1988 which i loved straight away. they've definately got something special in an artistic sense.
I remember papua new guinea track getting rinsed in the clubs in the early 90's http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCoCTkC0oL0
drael
03-10-2008, 02:10 AM
Yeah they have a band called amorpheous androgenous (sp?) or something, which is part played instruments like drums and stuff and keyboards/samples.
Lifeforms is beautiful. I have it on LP, and its sweet to candle light.
r3sonator
09-10-2008, 10:49 PM
Yeah they have a band called amorpheous androgenous (sp?) or something, which is part played instruments like drums and stuff and keyboards/samples.
Lifeforms is beautiful. I have it on LP, and its sweet to candle light.
Amorphous androgynous is mind blowing organic psychedelica, in contrast to the robotic electronica fsol was. Here's an interesting story behind the change:
The story of this album started when Gaz Cobain grew a mysterious illness that took him to a long trip around the world to visit healers and ended up in an Indian village to practise yoga meditation and fasting. He discovered in Mexico that his immuned system suffered a serious degeneration due to poisoning from mercury fillings in his teeth.
Now where did we hear this mercury stuff before...
Go to their site and read the message, seriously, view the vids and pics, i guess they have awakened.
http://www.amorphousandrogynous.com/
some live clips: http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.Channel&ChannelID=81687075
interview http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJOALPKDCGg
krakhead
09-10-2008, 10:58 PM
I remember papua new guinea track getting rinsed in the clubs in the early 90's http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCoCTkC0oL0
I consider that track at being pretty close to perfect! :)
I've been a fan of FSOL for quite a few years, I remember they used to put out singles that were 40 odd minutes long! 'Lifeforms' itself was released like this - it was like a whole new album! :D
That was before the ridiculous rulings disallowing EP's etc from chart placement - bastards! :mad:
dmt head
09-10-2008, 10:58 PM
Love future sound of london, Ill have to check that album out only remember small bits and pieces when I was younger and then the album dead cities, which we all listened to constantly for a few years great album! the 5th song is one of the most beautiful tracks ive ever heard in my life, seriously! Forget what its called
krakhead
09-10-2008, 11:03 PM
Love future sound of london, Ill have to check that album out only remember small bits and pieces when I was younger and then the album dead cities, which we all listened to constantly for a few years great album! the 5th song is one of the most beautiful tracks ive ever heard in my life, seriously! Forget what its called
On Dead Cities? - 'Everyone In The World Is Doing Something Without Me'
On Lifeforms it's - 'Dead Skin Cells'
r3sonator
09-10-2008, 11:05 PM
5 th one is called: everyone in theworld is doing something without me, my personal fave is on lifeforms > vertical pig
dmt head
09-10-2008, 11:05 PM
Is that right, like a female choir singing yes? Totally amazing that track gives me goosbumps everytime I hear it, also makes me want to cry sometimes, why I dont know lol Ill have to lifeforms then ! :)
krakhead
09-10-2008, 11:08 PM
Is that right, like a female choir singing yes?
Yes Chef! :D
I always loved this one -
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=UEPGLQAoNFc
r3sonator
09-10-2008, 11:15 PM
Is that right, like a female choir singing yes? Totally amazing that track gives me goosbumps everytime I hear it, also makes me want to cry sometimes, why I dont know lol Ill have to lifeforms then ! :)
The one with the female choir is on dead cities.
dmt head
09-10-2008, 11:32 PM
Thought someone was saying it was also on lifeforms, amazing track its like classical music amazing amazign amazing ! :D
krakhead
09-10-2008, 11:37 PM
Thought someone was saying it was also on lifeforms, amazing track its like classical music amazing amazign amazing ! :D
No sorry, my bad, I wasn't sure which cd your were asking about so I brought up track 5 on both for you! :o
r3sonator
10-10-2008, 08:27 PM
No sorry, my bad, I wasn't sure which cd your were asking about so I brought up track 5 on both for you! :o
Nevermind, coincidence wants that track 5 on lifeforms is a classic too (dead skin cells, cd1), remembers me to the chill out zone on mtv fourteen years ago, was a revelation to me at those times, def worth a listening...
Petty thing is the electronic music from that time like fsol, the orb, orbital,aphex twin etc... was about telling a story with sounds, while now most electronic music seem like a quick adrenaline/ endorphin fix
That's where my respect for the turning, amorphous androgynous comes from, not psychedelic as a genre/ style, but as a freedom to combine different styles/ ideas in one, as in freedom of speech, freedom of music making.
There is so much great innovating music out there that one nevers hears in the media/radio/commercial music stations.