Worth mentioning.. The first chill out room I remember setting up was for a valentines day party, 93. The Orb was headlining that particular room. Had all their equipment spread out on the floor. We blew a lot of fuses setting up.... Eventually the electrician found more power on another floor of the warehouse and made it all work. -edit, might have been 94.. Both of those years, the party had the same name, in the same warehouse, on the same floor, and I forget which it was. (and I'm too lazy to go dig through my flyer box) (It was so good the first year, we just did it all again, heh...)(Other floors of the warehouse were used as storage for old store displays from JC Penny's or some old department store.. Like all the old 70's or early 80's era decorations were stored away in it.. I loved wandering through the old warehouses while setting up for parties...)

And, crazy to think , us bunch of college age kids were bringing in the Orb, Square Pusher, Aphex Twin, sasha/digweed, carl cox, later the Chemical Brothers, Moby, later Daft punk... and sooo many more... Amazing Chicago house and Detroit Techno acts every weekend.. (we were in the mid-west US) man.... I didn't know how good things were.. Never paid to go out. People paid to have us go to their events in other cities. (Flights and transport and hotels were covered... Drinks and other erm... care packages... It was nuts!!) Then people died. People grew up. People grew tired of it all.. And it all kind of ended.

Totally with you on Turn Around - one of my favourite FSOL tracks, still can't get my head around the fact it wasn't put out at the time!

To me, the repeated percussion echoes in Turnaround could have been lifted directly from Sparkling Oasis by Ozric Tentacles, and the free airy guitar reminds me of Ozric stuff a bit. I started trying to combine Turnaround with Among Myselves, but they seemed too different in how they were mixed. The cuts and layering between them would have been obvious as a hack job. But I could be wrong as I never actually tried. On the other hand, perhaps I just shouldn't. 🙂 I remember back in the mid 2000s, there was a fan web site that had downloads of FSOL's early material under their aliases, live transmissions, music videos and fan remixes. The disclaimer on the main page said it was only material that wasn't commercially available. When I tried my hand at reworking PNG, I explored FSOL's site for inspiration and saw their early stuff and music videos were now available there. I went back to the fan library, and true to their word, they only had fan remixes to play or download. I know that's for legal reasons, but it gave me a warm glow. I wish I had a better copy of We Have Explosive (Smirkoff mix). But I haven't looked in about 15 years.

Cheers! As for Autechre... that'd be a hell of an undertaking. I still haven't got my head around NTS Sessions at all yet... No idea what'll follow FSOL yet, that's still quite a long way away.

@@StevenHarran indeed - although a lot of bootlegs were around online by around 2000. I know tapes were traded in the 90s, but as you say, most people will have been unaware. To this day I still come across fans who aren’t aware this is how they played in the 90s (they must have missed the ISDN liner notes…)

@@doktorwer there’s a forum at fsolboard.co.uk and a private Facebook group, no Discord that I know of sadly!

@@absentwithconceptDang, no facebook for me. Thanks for the message board link!

@@rogeranderson1744 technically yes, as absentwithconcept, but I need to actually use it haha. Definitely need to up my socials game.

@@hoppy303 as I mention in the video, if it included the Liz Fraser vocals a reimagining would need to be released on Universal - unless they got her in to re-record them too, which I can’t see happening sadly. I believe there are further reworkings in the pipeline though.

@@absentwithconcept that's great news about further reworkings!

I'm trying to figure out who this Thomas feldman guy is. Some jazz guy? Don't worry about it. Shit happens. Pleaeaease don't lose sleep for weeks wondering if you should change it. No problem. Just leave it. A note below or at end only maybe. Its around 8 min mark.

@@communication001 different Schizophrenia. The one on this comp is Thomas Fehlmann, member of The Orb, co-producer of Sun Electric and Moritz von Oswald from Basic Channel.

​@@absentwithconceptHi yes I've just discovered this! Omg scews my blasphemy - what a f***er of a name cross over.

Interesting - a couple of years before so probably just a coincidence. It was the Designers Republic who did the game art there, wasn't it?

@@absentwithconcept yes it was the design republic.. dunno if you can find it, but i saw a verry cool docu here on yt about psygnosis' history.. i guess i was confused becouse wipeout3 had a track called expander.. but its a dj sasha track..

Wipeout 2097: The Making of an Iconic PlayStation Soundtrack - Noclip Documentary (this one, worth the watch)

@@pantovXpander is a superb prog house tune. Sasha at his best.

@@pantov cheers, I’ll definitely take a look at this, looks interesting!

Ah, fascinating! There's still so much mystery about the broadcasts - if you do find anything out I'd love to see it!

Ah well, this is as good a place as any! Tricky question though... I might have to go for 76 14 by Global Communication, partially because it's my second favourite, but in many ways it sums up the era perfectly, a good mix of melodies and beats, samples and synths, and accessible enough to find love and acclaim outside of the scene. Although over time, Another Fine Day's Life Before Land and Syzygy's Morphic Resonance have come very close to topping it.

aways loved that track, though it always felt too short. Someone did a nice rearrangent of it to fix that proble :) kzbin.info/www/bejne/iZfNpmB7g8dqhKs

@@quentinr5 short playtime was perfect as a first dance selection, we had our moment to open the reception but then got on to the rest of the playlist and everyone had a great time dancing that night.

Haha yes, I say something very similar to this in my ambient house series when covering that exact album.

Not the Oh-Bonic mixes, I have nice stuff to say about the original in episode 4 though.

I suppose I have to draw the line somewhere, and to me it just feels like it's only tangentially related to ambient stuff - I never get much of a sense of atmosphere or worldbuilding or... well, any of the other stuff I get from most of the music I cover here. Still close enough to talk about, but in the same way I discussed albums like Accelerator - with a caveat.

I taped my copy of the series after borrowing them from our local library!

Absolutely not, duly changed. No idea how I missed that! Thank you!

@@absentwithconcept Very much enjoyed the new visual style by the way! I have never read a single sentence of any Who novels, so this series is my introduction to it.

@@ianiansymes Cheers! Yeah, I was trying to make the handwritten stuff a 'thing' but I don't think it was working at all. And you're in for quite a ride then, should be some surprises coming up. If I ever get around to actually reading the bloody things... was originally planning on doing a video a week at first!

Interesting interpretation, I can see where you're coming from. I think I always just want a big emotional epic as a last track, weirdly set in my ways like that!