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12 on The 250 Best Electronic Albums of the 20th Century

A double album of weather and organs; sampling as ecosystem

Lifeforms is a double album of weather, organs and dread, with sampling treated not as a shortcut but as an entire ecosystem. FSOL build a self-contained world from found sound, digital texture and fragments that seem to arrive from some private network. The sprawl is the method and occasionally the cost. The cost is what keeps it outside the ten.

11 on The 10 Best Progressive House and Rave Albums

A double album built from rave materials with almost no rave left in it, which is why it is here rather than higher. The furthest this tradition travelled from the room it started in, and still made of the same parts.

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Tracklist

  1. A1Cascade
  2. A2Ill Flower
  3. A3Flak
  4. A4Bird Wings
  5. A5Dead Skin Cells
  6. B1Lifeforms
  7. B2Eggshell
  8. B3Among Myselves
  9. C1Domain
  10. C2Spineless Jelly
  11. C3Interstat
  12. C4Vertical Pig
  13. C5Cerebral
  14. C6Life Form Ends
  15. D1Vit
  16. D2Omnipresence
  17. D3Room 208
  18. D4Elaborate Burn
  19. D5Little Brother