28/10/10 - FSOLDigital revamp

28th October 2010 will forever go down as the day when I should have just waited and done one big news update in the evening.

FSOLDigital.com has been updated with what we're hoping will be a stable format. Looking shiny and lovely and new, and with a new login system for the shopping cart, it really makes me want to buy stuff I can't afford. Some of the records have lost their descriptions and A Tiny Point Of Light has disappeared for good now, but otherwise it's all there. The Pod Room isn't complete yet and the mixes will be up soon, but it's been put online now so people can take advantage of the MPB3: Third Ear pre-order, rather than putting all your hard-earned cash into the pockets of HMV or Amazon.

And because I'm not writing another entry today, here's an edit. Look! New Amorphous Androgynous official site. Not that there's much there...

28/10/10 - Amorphous Twitter

The Amorphous Androgynous seem to have all but abandoned the Murdoch Machine for good, not only providing updates via Facebook (see two entries below), but now Twitter, too.

28/10/10 - Brian's Clockwork Keyboard

Sounds fun, eh? Yes. Yes it does.

27/10/10 - The Amorphous Androgynous on Facebook

The Amorphous Androgynous on Facebook - click Like to keep up with news.

18/10/10 - Want an original picture of Gaz? Only $23,000!

That picture you've probably seen on various studio shots and websites over the last ten years, called 'Gary Popstar' (yes, really) is up for auction for the cheap, cheap estimate of $23,700-$31,600.



Read more here if you're really bored.

09/10/10 - MPB 3: The Third Ear, November 1st

A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble Exploding In Your Mind Volume 3: The Third Ear is released on... I dunno, Monstrous Bubble Records, History Records, nothing at all, it depends where you read. On the 1st November 2010. The cover looks something like this -> and, inevitably, it's mixed by The Amorphous Androgynous. Most excitingly for us is the presence of an exclusive Amorphous track, In Fear - no idea what that is yet - plus there are some tracks that date back right to MPB radio show vol 1 from 1997 in there, so it'll be a continuation from the previous volumes and no doubt a smash hit with the critics once more. Timothy Leary pops his head in, which is odd given Gaz's tee-total organic food no drugs or other naughty things existence, but when did anything ever make sense in the world of the Amorphous Androgynous. Whatever. This will surely be another excellently mixed disc of safe sounding groovy psych and bafflingly terrifying oddities from the history of music (just please nothing like that Lightning Tree track again. That is still the soundtrack to many of my nightmares). This is getting rather personal. Here's the tracklist, courtesy of Play.com

Disc 1 - Introduction by Timothy Leary taken from 'Live And Let Live'

1. Chasse à l'homme - Pierre Cavalli
2. Its All In The Mind - Nektar
3. Coma Pony - Omar Rodriguez Lopez Quintet
4. Witches Wand - Luv Machine
5. Hi Lo - Golden Animals
6. The Psychedelic Movement - The Ravelles
7. Here Comes The Sun - James Last
8. Uzun Ince Bir Yoldayim - Ozdemir Erdogan Ve Orkestrasi
9. In Fear - The Amorphous Andorynous
10. Waltz With Lumbumba - Spencer Davis Band
11. Watch The Women - I.D Company
12. The Minotaur - Dick Hyman
13. Electric To Me Turn - Bruce Haack
14. Gli Scatenati - Ennio Morricone
15. The Beast - Aphrodites Child
16. Turn Me On - Rotary Connection
17. Journey To The East - Bill Plummer
18. Exploding In Your Mind - Sun Dial
19. Kuljen Halki Kuutarhan - Lau Nau
20. E Verra L'uomo - Corte Dei Miracoli
21. Cosmic Sea - Mystic Moods
22. Thinking Is The Best Way To Travel - The Moody Blues
23. Master Builder (Eye Remix) - Gong
24. Now It Hurts You - Drum Circus
25. Sock It My Way - The Animated Egg
26. Parallelograms - Linda Perhacs

Disc 2 - Introduction by Timothy Leary taken from 'Live And Let Live'

1. The Ballad Of Hollis Brown - Leon Russel
2. White Bird - It's A Beautiful Day
3. Get Thy Bearings - Donovan
4. Nautilus - Bob James
5. Soma - Brave New World
6. Like Water Needs A Flower ( Part 4 Amorphous Androgynous Remix ) - Paul Weller
7. Toxicological Whispering - Amon Duul II
8. Run - Supergrass
9. Hard Time - The Tremolos
10. Bird Of Space - Bonnie Dobson
11. Laila Part 2 - Agitation Free
12. Livin' in the Sunlight, Lovin' in the Moonlight - Tiny Tim
13. Tokoloshe Man - John Kongos
14. Guru Song - The Amorphous Androgynous
15. Find Shelter - Noah Georgeson
16. Soul Vibrations - Dorothy Ashby
17. Spooky - The Dave Pike Set
18. Now That I Found It - Cosmic Michael
19. Albion Sunrise/Morris Medley - Albion Country Band
20. All The Seats Were Occupied - Aphrodites Child

07/10/10 - Archive 6 CD available from FSOLDigital

Thanks to Dell the amazing FSOL-fact-finder for finding this fact. From The Archives vol. 6 has been snuck out on CD through FSOLDigital! There's a 'buy' link which suggests it's available now or will be very, very soon. It costs £9.99 and is really good. Yes sir.

06/10/10 - That Pop Levi Remix

Can be purchased from Beatport and iTunes as part of the Ninja Tune XX compilation ('Volume 2', in this case), but not as an individual track. It's right down on page 4 there on Beatport in 'album only' mode, probably because they don't want to sell a 16 minute track for £1.30. Tight gits.

Talking of tight, it's nigh on £16 on there and a tenner on iTunes.

You can hear a sample of it there too. It sounds really fucking weird. And surprisingly funky. Imagine Chile Of The Bass Generation stuck through a blender.