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...the Limited Edition. Actually FOUND IT, practically mint condition for $15. It's a helluva of an item; so huge, I'm gonna review the book AND the album. The book: Is 196 pages chock - a - block FULL of first - rate [mid 90's 3-D] distorto imagery, full of recurring cityscapes, movie freezeframes, flash - negatived (and sometimes, positived) photography, all tied tangentially together by a stream - of - conciousness, ranting narrative against privacy invasion & our society's assimilation of technology. I am sorry if I have spoiled the 'story', but you still have some incredible artwork to enjoy. Besides, this doesn't even account for... |
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That cd is genius. |
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Hell this album blows me away! |
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Lucky Bastard. That things slipped outta my fingers. The guy working at the shop decided to hide it after I took a look at it. |
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...THE MUSIC. Quite simply, it stands as their greatest single album. NOTHING I have ever heard screams "unlicensed film score" more loudly. However, what sets FSOL apart from the fields of film music composers is their INCREDIBLE sense of sampling juxtaposition, and spot - on pacing. Beefs ? WWWEEEELLLLLL, Her Face Forms In Summertime is a bit long, the seguing (sp?) could have been a little bit more sorted (and shorter), but this still stands as an exceptional album. Final Score: 8.8 / 10 [+1 for the amazing booklet] 9.8 / 10 OK, the price affects my judgement somewhat, but it's incredible. |
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Wow, thanks for turning out ! |
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It's the Tardis of albums, bigger on the inside than on the outside. Every time I listen to a track I hear something new. |
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Holy shit, that book sounds amazing... ultra-drool. Is there a picture of it somewhere, I've never saw it before. And on topic, yeah, that's a fantastic album, really engrossing. Gee-nee-yus. |
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I'd like to own this. Dead Cities is still one of my favorites, right next to ISDN. |
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Dammit ! My book's falling apart now ! Oh well, it's still class... |
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... IT'S SO CLASS, I keep it on my bookshelf besides my thesaurus. |
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Yeah i really wanted the version with the book, but i never got it. I will get it one day. |
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Hope you have $$. Heard it goes for more than $50 at times... |
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I'm thinking of selling my copy soon....with a MINT version of the book... I'll let you know, ok....if anyone is interested, E me & when I do decide to sell I'll contact you all... |
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oh fuck yeah I was going to buy that off you,. I completely forgot... E-mail me |
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I've been after a copy of Dead Cities for years... It's a hard CD to find here in Perth. But I finally got it last week. Honestly, this album has a really hypnotic effect on me....there's nothing really else like it... Still have to find ISDN though *sigghh* :) |
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I've also got that EARTHBEAT compilation on CD; all the early FSOL stuff before they became FSOL (YAGE, SMART CUBE etc..)...I heard that's pretty rare as well... Anyone know if it is?...or how much it's worth.... |
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No but what are the tracks like? I have the humanoid thing for 84-88, are they anything like that? |
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Not as Aciddy as the Humanoid stuff...difficult to describe really, but imagine a simplified, dancified version of FSOL, all aimed at the dancefloor rather than the sofa; I guess kinda close to Papua New Genine (ouch, My spelling has gone to HELLLLL :)))... |
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after the death of the stakker supremo humanoid period we regrouped licked our wounds and took stock of our first taste of the music industry - it had been exciting but everyone had seemed so unreal like cartoon fictions playing roles that were just so stereotypical as to be laughable - it was amazing to see that there were people who actually lived their lives in this fashion - at this point jumpin and pumpin surfaced - and we spent a glorious period of about a year re-inventing ourselves working under a whole batch of new names - Smart Systems with their intense industrial rave machine, Mental Cubes euro technoid, Intelligent Communications, Indo Tribe, Yage-partly this was artistic (we didn't know who we were anymore) and partly financial - (we were paid about a grand each release) seeing as I had lost my thursday and friday proof reading job at nine to five magazine and Brian was strapped for cash trying to take Streetsounds to court over the Humanoid fiasco - we had to keep up a steady stream of releases to survive - ultimately all we wanted was to be a lazy fat album concept band ( joke ) but at this time there was neither the market nor the inclination to do so - so in the meantime we had to jostle for position in a structure that wasn't exactly to our liking - we had to try and write singles - gradually realizing this wasn't easy enough and was also resulting in a certain lack of depth in the music - we introduced the notion of eps which had different band creations of ours on them - the pulse eps immediately took off and was the first home to fsol tracks - Pulse State and Stolen Documents On Pulse 1 - thus the stage had now been set for fsol - Earthbeat the album is a convenient synopsis of this formative period before the fat lazy concept years took hold ... From the horses mouth at .... |
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More on the industrial techno side of things, but with epic, swooshing ambient in between the harshness... |
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Oh, I'm sorry. That was Dead Cities... *whack* Yeah, jand's info is law... |
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Thanks muchly for that info. |
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"Yage" is one of the best pieces of music I've ever heard. hehe... "Some weird greek instrument that no-one can remember the name of except for the greeks in greece" |
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Factoid for ya: Yage is the name of a drug used by the Shamans of South America & Africa... I believe, but not 100% sure, it's also known as IBOGAINE - a real wonder drug expect to hear more of...Not a fun drug but I'm hearing many great stories from smackheads about it being an INSTANT cure for opiate addiction...(something like a 80% success rate..)... .... |
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Heh! That's interesting, thanks Jand! gracias for the link, too :-) |
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The Dead Cities book is one of the most superb things ever created. I got the normal edition album when I first got into them, and always wanted a bigger booklet. My only problem with it is it does re-use some artwork from past releases that doesn't seem to fit in it. Oh, and yeah, mine's falling apart too. I was lucky enough to get one for about £20. They are quite expensive at times, but they turn up on Ebay on a fairly regularish basis. As for the album... I have no words. Ambient IDM at its very best. Even beats Amber in that area. Yes. |
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