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These Far Out SOns of Lung are nihilists and punks and protesters and seekers for something and most of the time they haven't got a clue what they're looking for and most of the time they don't fit in to any cosy brackets.Rather one gets the distinct impression they saw the entire history of sound as being their sonic playground and technology was their chosen microscope under which to filter and process this universe of sound.Yes. at points they do fit in- and all those moments are included here- you can see the dancefloors moving at points' we have explosive' and yes you can feel uncomplicated bliss and warmth at points but always there is a sense that FSOL begrudge you these moments of comfort- it's as if they are urging you on to new and more challenging terrain.So if you're looking to follow them or to sit too easy it might be a bumpy ride. Having said that listening through this collection 'these teachings... it is apparent how textured and coherent and how good FSOL were- unique most definitely and if there was a genre that suited them it would be- electronically collaged classical organic epic-space music .Sort of !! Definitely If you sit with them a while it will be instructive and multidimensional .The thing is you are free to come and go as you please-and some of the teachings gain resonance- believe me I have left and returned many times !




That's the thing with prophets they sit on a higher branch of the tree and that's why they can see what's a comin'-If they climb too high they seem a little mad and that's FSOL for you- mad and difficult and not what they seem.At points you can use them in the way we like to use music- the only album I've ever been able to fall asleep to is Lifeforms- it mirrors something that happens deep within life and nature itself - the body likes it- this is important because the head has set itself up to be the spokesperson for the body- we filter based on ego and our library of taste and accumulation and FSOL know this and they want to trick us into seeing beyond this self deception.Some of course think this pretentious nonsense- and of course it is just like everything hidden underneath or beyond our range of everyday experience - But great music has to tap into these areas otherwise it can only be functional and mundane.



This is the point REALLY-FSOL were never
and will never be functional or mundane- and that's why unlike so much of the electronic music from the 90s it survives and continues to ripple and flourish. Of course it's only explanation that is pretentious which is where I come in and the band at one point conducted interviews via ISDN digital phone links to try and avoid over explaining themselves.
I ask you are atoms pretentious too ? Probably ! But FSOL don't think so- they embrace this realm- why else call a track Dead Skin Cells based on the observation that they hadn't cleaned the studio for over a year and that it was full of a new emergent being formed from their own dead skin cells.Then there were the bizarre stories accompanying the album Dead Cities ( they claimed the music came free with the '196 page book' ) -yes we're jumping in time now to 1996 but it's essential if we are to capture at all this livin' thing called FSOL!! Dead Cities appeared on its outer layers to be an urban doomscape prophecising some sort of armageddon or essential mass exodus from the cities but later revealed itself to be beautiful on the inside.Cobain later claimed this was a metaphor for his own spiritual growth- to discover the inner beauty .Thus inside it revealed Max and My Kingdom- beautiful startling and epic.Indie bands desperate to escape the limitations of the rock and indie sound came running for their production talents but somehow they started and never finished such collaborations.Listen to Dead Cities now and you realise the huge legacy they laid open for the Indie band turns sonic revolution that is happening at present.



Ah sorry I have not mentioned the people involved in FSOL- well there's Garry Cobain- a slim and erratic flourish of a hundred and one
illuminating contradictions-the 'thought rebel' and then there's Brian Dougans- a more measured and taciturn all-knowing brooding presence 'the technology and thought rebel' - and somewhere between the two there is the magic 'the bubbling synergy' that sometimes (you get the impression) they have no idea of how ? or Why ? creates FSOL.They met in Manchester magnetised by something untangible they felt in the air that materialised into Madchester right before their eyes .
Given the opportunity to shoot the first video footage of a Stone Roses gig they walked away when one of their 2 cameras malfunctioned.Cobain had been drawn by the Smiths/the Chameleons/Joy Division/Factory records and Brian by a one of its kind sound recording course and A Certain Ratio a white funk/electronic band housed in the city- somewhere the reflection and the electronic industrial funk met and materialized into the melodies of technologically enhanced nostalgia to create the FSOL sound that we know and love so well. Obstrepouress and obtuse FSOL worked their magic continually in the nineties releasing four albums with Virgin - with a fully fledged ISDN tour set up developing the ISDN radio concept playing live from the studio in Dollis Hill to now encompass venues round the world they suffered a breakdown of sorts claiming they weren't able to realise the full vision of what they were attempting.Of course one must remember they never experienced their own performance since they were in the studio broadcasting the performance-.Thus FSOL collapsed it down,the tour was cancelled and India and meditation and yoga and Ayurvedic medicine alongside madness were rumoured in what became a seven year journey of reconfiguration that resulted in the resurrection of the Amorphous Androgynous name which gave the necessary freedom to explore a new psychedelic paradigm and vision.



Will they release material under the FSOL name again - who knows??? As far as I can see this music is both the past the present and the future sound and therefore is omnipresent and timeless instructing our future- so enjoy the ride and absorb these teachings let's ' see what we can see- everyone on line -looking good '!

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colab | 8 months ago

Haha. Too funny to find this profile here, given then number of people who (obviously) have been inspired by FSOL.

These are great tracks. "Archive" is the "cascade" that never was, and amazing to trace the evolution from that to "Mello Hippo Disco Show". :)

Superlemonade | about 1 year ago

Nice to meet you. I've been a fan for years! :-)

Herties | about 1 year ago

I love your music ! That's it !

JamJax | about 1 year ago

a dedicated follower,
many thanks for inspiring work.

JamJax