Tracks
(1)CASCADE
(2)ILL FLOWER
(3)FLAK
(4)BIRD WINGS
(5)DEAD SKIN CELLS
(6)LIFEFORMS
(7)EGGSHELLS
(8)AMONG MYSELVES
(9)DOMAIN
(10)SPIELESS JELLY
(11)INTERSTAT
(12)VERTICAL PIG
(13)CEREBRAL
(14)LIFE FORM ENDS
(15)VIT
(16)OMNIPRESENCE
(17)ROOM 208
"spineless jelly"-weak willed person- term used for Pinn periodically
"vit"-local thai restaurateur providing finest noodles in north london
"dead skin cells"-the old studio was so small before the rebuild-it could never be cleaned
without taking the studio apart- two years of personal flaking and the room
became known as the room of dead skin cells-Pinn used to say 'I'm getting up my nose'
Yage would say 'chop me out a line of you'
"elaborate burn"-not as suggested some reference to wartime burn mutilation-quite simply
being burnt or ripped off in business -only persons on the inside can acheive an
elaborate burn however
"vertical pig"-initially a book started in the mid eighties by Pinn this refers to experiments
conducted with transplanting pigs hearts into humans' bodies -a man sustained
life with full faculty for twelve days and three hours he became known as the
vertical pig
"little brother"-all the studio work and fast food resulted in yage's little brother being born
"eggshell"- ''i'm sick of tip-toeing on the eggshells that surround you' pinn spluttered to yage
referring to his increasingly eggshell ego -'inside the fragile eggshell mind'
"bird wings"-the mikes were set up under the pigeon's nest outside the studio door-the pigeons were inert in the cosy heat -josh with the dreads threw a fag packet at them and suddenly they sprang into life-yage immediately fed it through the machines -pitching it into an awesome swooosh of flapping wings
"among myselves"-another failed explanation by yage -he wasn't unduly concerned-he looked up 'i'll keep it among myselves '
WRITTEN AND PRODUCED BY THE FUTURE SOUND OF LONDON engineered by YAGE
recorded at EARTHBEAT STUDIOS 1994
LIFEFORMS redefining electronic/ambient/modern classical
reached no.6 in the UK album top forty |