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quoted 13 lines From: DOG <dog@neoneo.demon.co.uk>

> From: DOG <dog@neoneo.demon.co.uk> > > > AMORPHOUS - ENVIROMENTS WILL NOT BE RELEASED UNTIL NEXT YEAR > > FSOL - ISDN limited release december 3rd december 94 > > far out son of lung - smokin japanese babe released oct 94 > > far out son of lung is the new hidden name by fsol look out > > Can anyone confirm this? I would also like any info on where I can get these > if anyone knows. I have also heard about a self titled 2 CD single from FSOL. > Does this exist? If so, where can I get it? I am also looking for the Cascade > single and the Various Artists Earthbeat CD (Jumpin' and Pumpin' label). Any > info appreciated. Thanks. >

Please reply to the list, as I'm very interested in all info about any of the above. -- ------------------------- Interested in music? Enjoy snazzy graphics? ccastge@prism.gatech.edu | Want to hear some original songs by me? a.k.a., Guy Elden Jr. | Then visit the Digital Analogue World! ------------------------- http://wc62.residence.gatech.edu/guyjr/guyjr.html

quoted 15 lines From: DOG <dog@neoneo.demon.co.uk>

>> From: DOG <dog@neoneo.demon.co.uk> >> >>> AMORPHOUS A. - ENVIRONMENTS WILL NOT BE RELEASED UNTIL NEXT YEAR >>> FSOL - ISDN limited release December 3rd December 94 >>> Far out Son Of Lung - Smokin' Japanese Babe released Oct. 94 >>> Far out Son Of Lung is the new hidden name by FSOL; look out >> >> Can anyone confirm this? I would also like any info on where I can get these >> if anyone knows. I have also heard about a self titled 2 CD single from >> FSOL. Does this exist? If so, where can I get it? I am also looking for >> the Cascade single and the Various Artists Earthbeat CD (Jumpin' and Pumpin' >> label). Any info appreciated. Thanks. > > Please reply to the list, as I'm very interested in all info about any of the > above.

Well, I can confirm some of it. Last weekend I (and a few other SoCal IDM'ers) saw the latest FSoL ISDN performance. They were transmitting graphics done by Buggy G. Whatshisname to New York City and from there they were relayed to Santa Monica (California; near Los Angeles) over several dedicated Switched 56 links that The Electronic Cafe has set up between itself and its brethren location inside New York's The Kitchen. At several times during the "performance" a graphic appeared with "Far out Son Of Lung" written in "spooky" font. That's "confirmation" enough for me :-) (Besides, if you've heard the Far out Son Of Lung material, it sounds just like it came from the minds of FSoL.) BTW, the actual performance was great! The Electronic Cafe has a PictureTel (I'm sure that's (TM) somebody) system, which allows them to bundle 4 Switched 56 lines together for video & audio transmissions, which gives them 224 Kb/sec aggregate throughput rates. They also use real-time MPEG-2 compression on the video part of the link (there's some unknown audio compression; they have an audio Codec box that does several types of compression). The net result was that the video could do somewhere around 10-15 fps (I'm guessing; it wasn't completely smooth, but it wasn't herky-jerky either) and the audio quality was reasonably good. FSoL must be in tune with the ISDN bandwidth issues, as they smartly had the video imagery change sufficiently slowly enough such that the bandwidth wasn't a problem (no quick-edit MTV stuff, this!). I'd really like to get my hands on the various videos that were shown ("Cascade", "Lifeforms", etc.), as they were quite good. And the music, though not exactly 48 KHz 16-bit quality in terms of reproduction, was more than reasonable in terms of sound; and it sounded much like an extension of the types of music used to great effectiveness on "Lifeforms". All in all, a wonderful experience. Hats off to FSoL for doing it at 4 AM their time (they must have been knackered!) and for being on top of this technology such that these types of things are possible. Trust me, that "ISDN" release isn't named that for nothin' ... Just one quick word about The Electronic Cafe; the original Santa Monica location is getting in ISDN lines (the first GTE ISDN installation in Los Angeles, they claim) and they are getting hooked up to Earthlink (an Internet service provider). I told them a little about the MBONE (the Internet Multicast Backbone), which they'd already heard about. Perhaps we'll see some IDM video & audio broadcasts over the MBONE from The Electronic Cafe in the near future! (Too bad that FSoL wasn't the first "known" band to have an audio & video feed of a performance broadcast over the MBONE; would you believe that honor goes to those futuristic pioneers, The Rolling Stones? Next week.) BTW (SoCal listeners take note), IDM pioneer Morton Subotnick ("Silver Apples Of The Moon", etc.) will be performing at The Electronic Cafe tonight (11/12) at 7 PM ... - Greg