{"id":820,"date":"2008-01-19T00:00:10","date_gmt":"2008-01-18T23:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=820"},"modified":"2008-01-19T00:00:10","modified_gmt":"2008-01-18T23:00:10","slug":"deadly-avenger-day-one-fsol-cosmic-jukebox-mix-v2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=820","title":{"rendered":"deadly avenger &#8211; day one (fsol cosmic jukebox mix v2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>       <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">having virtually overdosed on the hammer and tongs  grooves of various techno productions for the last few weeks,&nbsp;i decided to  take it down a level for while @ <EM>ireallylovemusic<\/EM> hq.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">don&#8217;t ask me why, but in the middle of the night, I  suddenly had a massive urge to become reacquainted with the ever mind boggling  <STRONG>future sound of london.&nbsp;<\/STRONG>i lived in the double ambient epic  <EM>lifeforms <\/EM>for far far too long, bought the nasty cardboard limited  edition of <EM>isdn <\/EM>only to leave the album unloved due to the packaging  becoming increasingly destroyed with each exposure to the outside world, and  then became scared off by the frightening noise of <STRONG>dead cities,  <\/STRONG>and like many other was totally baffled as to the mess that was the  release of <EM>the isness <\/EM>so never bothered, much to my own personal regret  later.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">thankfully though, today the excessive instrumental  depth that the guys excel at fit the jigsaw perfectly.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">i&nbsp;even listened, sorry, experienced the 70s  prog rock opus, <EM>alice in ultraworld <\/EM>by the pseudo <STRONG>amorphous  androgynous<\/STRONG>, from start to finish (as reviewed : <A href=\"http:\/\/www.ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/ambient\/aa.htm\">here<\/A>) and didn&#8217;t  laugh once, but instead just let the beauty and analogue calm wash over me.  <\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">glorious.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">the band truly have a way with their love for sonic  detail like no other, which even to this day,&nbsp;i still find incredibly  wonderful.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">yes, it may not be cutting edge and laptop  glitchey, nor are their fat synthetic soundscapes cool in this age of sharp and  tinnitus inducing crisp productions, but sometimes it&#8217;s good to get a&nbsp;hug  from the music that emits from your soundsystem, and there are large sections of  the incredibly varied&nbsp;<STRONG>fsol <\/STRONG>catalogue that do just  that.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">so, with all the love flowing&nbsp;i recalled  hidden away in the archive a remix of theirs.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">hidden away on a <STRONG>deadly avenger<\/STRONG>  12&#8243;, <EM>we took pelham,<\/EM>&nbsp;the track takes a fairly typical beats and  samples track that was released during the glut of <EM>imaginary soundtracks to  a film yet to be made <\/EM>and adds a very up to date electro feel to it making  it sound totally out of character for a <STRONG>fsol  <\/STRONG>production.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">being totally honest, it&#8217;s not all that, but I  suspect that its not that well known either.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">the thin synth line draped over the top is squiggly  and rather annoying making you wonder if the tracklisting is wrong (quite  possible as the sleeve credits and the details on the actual cd label are  different), but then you remember that like the glorious <STRONG>klf,  <\/STRONG>the listener should always expect the unexpected from the media savvy  duo. <\/FONT><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">then just as the patience begins to wear,  suddenly the track changes direction, and everything clicks into place as a  fairly rich ambience and orchestration permeates the mood bringing the track to  a very different conclusion.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">making this one definitely for the research  archives.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">oh, and should you be interested, apparently the  <EM>band <\/EM>have dusted down their own expansive archives and released a chunk  of new\/old\/unreleased sounds both digitally and on proper cds, including the oft  rumoured, but never heard before, <EM>expansions <\/EM>album.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><EM>mp3<\/EM> : <A href=\"http:\/\/www.ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/music\/day_one_fsol_remix.mp3\">deadly  avenger &#8211; day one (f.s.o.l cosmic jukebox mix v2)<\/A><\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><EM>more detail<\/EM> : <A href=\"http:\/\/www.futuresoundoflondon.com\/\">official<\/A> &#8211; &#8211; <A href=\"http:\/\/www.secondthought.co.uk\/fsol\/\">excellent  fansite<\/A><\/FONT><\/DIV><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>having virtually overdosed on the hammer and tongs grooves of various techno productions for the last few weeks,&nbsp;i decided to take it down a level for while @ ireallylovemusic hq. don&#8217;t ask me why, but in the middle of the night, I suddenly had a massive urge to become reacquainted with the ever mind boggling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mp3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}