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Originally Posted by 1blankmind
What is that you bought? What's the CD of?
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Future Sound of London's avant-garde ambient classic, Lifeforms. Featuring contributions from Klaus Schulze and Robert Fripp, and spanning two discs of cerebrally-engaging experimental atmospheric textures, it is an album I hope to one day own on vinyl. Just ordered the original double-CD to hold me over.
There were two pressings issued in 1994 on Virgin, on in the UK and the other in all of Europe. The median sale price is $75 but the only copy currently listed for sale online is $130. FSOL's work is a bit of a niche interest and fairly hard to come by, (796 Discogs users have marked the pressing of this album as "wanted"), so it's a bit of a grail.
Fripp provided guitar textures on "Flak" (as well as abstract sounds by Ozric Tentacles) and "Omnipresence" was co-written by Schulze. The album certainly isn't for everyone, but for leftfield/illbient/dark ambient/avant-garde electronic enthusiasts it's a bit of a milestone.
Also just scored a wonderful piece of hacker culture history! (x-posted from a pending submission to my member journal).
As many of you may recall, this famous whistle was packaged in boxes of Cap'n Crunch cereal in 1971. The whistle emitted a tone at precisely 2600 hertz and could be used to make free long distance phone calls. (Remember, this was back when long distance calls were expensive.)
The whistles have at times commanded over a hundred dollars on eBay but I picked this one up for a very reasonable price. It will make a wild necklace to sport my maker-culture pride!
