Am I a pleb for not liking this?

>>74218797
yes

Seldom has a group's "we're cutting edge and you're not" arrogance been so groundless and unwarranted. Typical middlebrow pseudo-progressives, they have merely transferred the prog-rock notion of ostentatious virtuosity to sample-based music; their great bugbear is "obviousness" in sampling. And so every last drop of "vibe" and "aura" is addled out of their sources by their onanistic knob-twiddling; their music sounds as disgustingly denatured and plasma-morphic as those godawful videos and Buggy G. Riphead cover images. As sampladelic auteurs, 4 Hero (whose studio, funnily enough, is next door to FSOL's in Dollis Hill) piss on Cobain & Dougans from extreme height. It blows my mind that back in '93, darkcore EP's like "Journey From the Light" and "Golden Age"/"Golden Age Remixes" were universally ignored, while dreck like "Lifeforms" was hailed to the heavens. Amazinglyly, FSOL are still getting rave reviews.

>>74218797
Yep, even though Lifeforms is better

>>74219198
Nice copypasta desu

Also check out Accelerator OP, it's less new age hippy sampling and more techno.

>>74219237
don't respond to turny the schizophrenic please

Not a good thing talking sht about people with brain disorders there...


I came across FSOL stuff in the 90s.

Their music made it onto Wipeout XL.

>>74219198
Who wrote this, Simon Reynolds?

What an absolutely hideous cover.

There are plenty of artists out there, particularly in experimental that are never known. Sad how pop culture glamorizes things. That was my post previously.

-fbfounderNativeone

>>74218797
Fuck I forgot about FSOL. They were epic. I liked "ISDN" more than this but as an Amerifag who downloaded most of their stuff 15 years ago I forget what was actually an album and what was a BBC stream rip / club bootleg. ...back in the Dial-Up age I was 12 years old near Lake Ontario and only wanted to be on Ibiza.

>>74220709
It's a dystopian subversion of 90s rave imagery, it looks ugly now but it makes sense in the context of the album's release