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Together, it amounted to something disorientating, but strangely familiar and emotional. We probably didn't like the song she gave us. In fact, our situation was the opposite - our music was based on isolation. Jazz Latin New Age. Stream or buy on: Buggy G Riphead, our art collaborator, used to call it Ultra Reality. We saw it as a great opportunity to write another album, but based around one song.

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They viewed [signing us] as their incursion into this new demographic of dance music.

We'd get them in, pay them 50 quid and tell them to play like Miles Davis in his experimental phase for half an hour, and we'd leave the tape running and go out. Here, Garry Cobain takes us track by track through his and bandmate Brian Dougan's seminal work…. In fact, our situation was the opposite - our music was based on isolation.

After their early '90s club classic kicked open the doors of the dance music industry, they quickly shot inside, boarded them up, and began creating a new strain of electronic music a world away from the friendly grooves of their standout hit.

Having indulged in more explicitly ambient realms with the Amorphous Androgynous side project, FSOL returned to full action with Lifeformsa double-disc effort that ranks as one of the best experimental techno releases of the '90s. Everyone was obsessing about all the sonics - how deep the bass was, how trippy it was, how much it flipped you out.

Streams Videos All Posts. We resonated on the same sounds, and still do today; it freaks people out! I don't think you have any better opportunity than being a musician to find out who you are.

Lifeforms - Heavyweight Vinyl Reissue - FSOLdigital

lifdforms Buggy G Riphead, our art collaborator, used to call it Ultra Reality. If not as immediately memorable on a song per song basis as, say, Aphex Twin 's Selected Ambient Works collections, as an overall piece, Lifeforms makes for an inventive, fascinating aural experience, as rich and detailed as the Orb's best work. There are a few guest appearances here and there, but they're oifeforms notable for how the band incorporate them instead of letting them stand out -- Robert Fripp 's guitar on "Flak," Talvin Singh 's tablas on "Life Form Ends," and Toni Halliday from Curve doing a "vocal texture" on "Cerebral.

To be honest it seemed like everyone had an illness except us, especially within Dance music. It's a miracle you even liked Papua New Guinea'. It was a lifetorms reality.

Papua was lifefprms gaining the power, and we used it on Lifeforms. We looked down at everybody who played that card. We always wanted to see reality exposed as a different state. Please enable JavaScript in your browser to use the site fully. Papua New Guinea was their Trojan horse, and it gave them all the space they needed behind enemy lines to plan their next exploration into sound.

Classic album: The Future Sound Of London on Lifeforms

After Papua New Guinea, there was a lot of what we dubbed 'ethno-trip-hop'. It was the birth of people like Transglobal Underground. We were being influenced by fun, bumpy Balearic stuff, and there were basslines that were moving in that way - if they had appeared on the album it would have absolutely destroyed it. Where FSOL differs from that band in particular is the comparative lack of overt humor and less immediate lifefirms to make people groove -- this is something to listen to rather than necessarily dance to.

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That's why I've always liked musicians, even if I don't like their music - they've got a certain spirit. Not just for new vinyl, but for finding old stuff and educating yourself. The one for "Cascade" is barely there, swooping samples and soft synth hooks to the fore, while "Lifeforms," for its comparatively fsool direct impact, relies as much on its keyboard swell and chiming melody as much as the complex overlay of rhythms.

We called it 'dolphin music', courtesy of the fact everyone seemed to throw in dolphin mating sounds. I was proud to be part of that.

Lifeforms – Heavyweight Vinyl Reissue

It was two guys, almost meditating on sound, forming their own rules in near isolation. They said, 'Just have it, but can you buy us a copy of Cubase?

Together, it amounted to something disorientating, but strangely familiar and emotional.

pifeforms We hope to release the full results. Around the time, we were living around Old Street in London, and all the back streets had a rich heritage of secondhand markets.