Tuesday, May 22, 2007
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FSOL dominated my electronica CDs ten years ago... good stuff.
ReplyDeleteAWSOME!
ReplyDeletei love them so much. very innovative..
Bollocks is what I say.
ReplyDeleteYou make music, but don't want to call yourself a musician.
Further proof that most musicians should keep their traps shut.
That didn't stop me from buying everything that they did. And it still didn't stop me from loving their music.
That dude is camp, paranoid, psychotic and has his head so far up his own arse. Poor little rich boy took too many drugs. When they were Stakker they were good (and to a lesser extent Smart Systems and Yage), when they turned into FSOL they got pretentious and thought they were something else, with their ISDN broadcasts and shitty 3d renderering.
ReplyDeleteThey were a large part of the "intelligent techno" scene in the early 90s, a totally up its own arse genre that is best forgotten, all wavestation pads, "found sounds" and chin stroking.
"all wavestation pads, "found sounds" and chin stroking."
ReplyDelete.... if they throw in a nice cup of tea I'm in :)
Mhm. FSOL. Still not quite too pleased with them. Granted, they did some great stuff, but at the same time they were some of the worst of the worst at biting other peoples' music and calling it their own. And you could never be quite sure if you were going to get a bite of genius or a bite of...well, someone else's bite. For those wondering what this all means, have a listen to "Bird Wings" off of "Lifeforms"...then go and slap on the venerable Mr. Morton Subotnick's "Silver Apples of the Moon".
ReplyDeleteSampling is one thing. Lifting wholesale chunks is wholly another. Not quite so 'innovative' when you know the real score.
Thats like watching Lawnmower Man. I hope those graphics are from the early 90s!
ReplyDeleteHUMANOID DA DA DAAAAAAA
ReplyDeleteI havent watched the interview yet , will in a few hours, but I have no doubt he will be a wanker has been in every interview I have ever seen....
ReplyDeleteI liked them when they were named "LFO" before LFO....see Warehouse Raves CD
most music of daft punk was ripped from 70s soul(complete 4 or even 8 bars), funk and disco artists, and most people think they did original tracks, it is the same here with FSOL, but well, at the end ripped with just few beats and synths the result is interesting,
ReplyDeletei like both, daftpunk and fsol.
what a tool..
ReplyDeleteYeh he does seem like a rich boy knob stuck up his own arse about being something different.
ReplyDeleteStill - Lifeforms and ISDN are still 2 of my favourite albums, some of biggest early influences.
Sometimes its best not to see or meet the artists you love for their art. Cos quite often they turn out to be total pricks, and it kinda spoils it!
We should seperate the artist from their art - after all, the artist is just the medium no?
He makes PERFECT sense to me. Y'all don't understand the guy because he's from the Future.
ReplyDeleteAlso, from London.
From my perspective on the horizon of beyond, FSOL is what we play in the elevators.
well to the rest of us living here in reality he's a pretentious bore..i'm glad he's relavent in your world of make believe.
ReplyDeleteWheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeEEEEEEEEEEEE!
ReplyDeletePretentious, yes, but that won't stop me from loving Dead Cities. :)
ReplyDeleteEnough with the mudslinging: look, that's a Roland Space Echo in the background!