25/11/11 - Environments 5

We're saying nothing.

15/11/11 - Seafar Drift out now!

The second Seafar release, the Drift EP, is out now from FSOLDigital and can be purchased for £3.50 by clicking here.

26/10/11 - FSOLdigital present Park

As featured on EBS7, a new release comes in the form of lo-fi guitar and vocal-based act Park, who we know nothing of, but an album is coming soon on FSOLDigital. A video has been uploaded to the STAKKERHUMANOID Youtube Page - have a look.

18/10/11 - EBS7 tracklist, more Noel clips

You can check out two clips from the Amorphous versions of Noel Gallagher's "The Death of You and Me" here - due out next year on their collaborative album. Apparently they're quite good.

In other news, Mr. Dougans has furnished us with a partial tracklist for Electric Brain Storms vol. 7 - the stars mark missing tracks from the list. As suspected, there's a LOT of Environments 4 material in there, which is exciting.


INTRO
.........
YAGE - SLUGS TRAIL
SEAFAR - DRIFT
EMS + PIANO - UNTITLED 5
FSOL - FROM ENVIRONMENTS 4 UNTITLED
PARK - PLAUSIBLE PLAN
****************
BROADCAST OF VARIANTS - CAROUSEL
FSOL - FROM ENVIRONMENTS 4
*************
THE TREES - EXTRACT FROM " VIEWS "
FSOL - VAST LANDSCAPE
SEAFAR - SMALL PIECES

FSOL - ARCHIVED 77.7.5.77
.............
FSOL - SUNSETS - ENVIRONMENTS 4
FSOL - FROM ARCHIVE 1 ( ENHANCED EDITION )

YAGE - ENEMY 9
POLEMICAL - 6 FRAMES - ( TIME DISTORTIONS )
..
THE SAND SOUND FOLLY- A SILENT MOON -THE SALIENT MOONS LP
THE BAINBRIDGE BROTHERS - HEADS UP

RIZ MASLEN - DEPARTURES / WOODS
...
FSOL - THE LONG DAY
...
SECOND THOUGHT- MIP AND BELLA .FOR MUM
1973 ELECTRONICS GROUP - ILLUSTRATED AND APPLIED ELECTRONICS
YAGE - EMBODIMENTS

DANIEL PEMBERTON - (this track was recorded on 11-SEPT-2001 while watching the events unfold - the voice in the background is live from the TV on that day)


END

15/10/11 - Some mysterious video footage

More footage from EBS7 has appeared on YouTube this time with the enigmatic title of The Trees - An extract from "VIEWS". No idea what this means, although an educated guess would perhaps suggest The Trees is simply the video title, and Views is the track name, perhaps a new FSOL piece, (or if we want to be really silly, maybe the new FSOL album). It's a nice droney ambient piece with birdsong set to some beautiful woodland footage.

The video can be found on the STAKKERHUMANOID channel.

14/10/11 - EBS 7 appears

I just wrote a long post about Electric Brain Storms volume 7 appearing on FSOLDigital, and blogger removed it all when I changed the font to Verdana. Thanks blogger, you utter bastard. So I'm going to write a shorter version, because I want to get away to listen to this and not type this thing all day.
Cover:


Tracklist + notes:
Featuring FSOL, EMS+Piano, Park, Seafar, Bainbridge Brothers, 1973 Electronics Group, Yage, Daniel Pemberton, Polemical, Riz Maslen, Broadcast of Variants, Second Thought.


"I'm on my way out
for something to see
to remember for the rest of my days"

Running Time - 65:46


Price: £2.50

Purchase link: http://www.yage.co.uk/newtesting/index.php?main_page=product_music_info&cPath=70&products_id=260

New futuresoundoflondon.com splash page (very nice): http://www.futuresoundoflondon.com

YouTube video promoting EBS7: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0Qkic9PXmU

Chances of identifying potential Dougans/Cobain material, particularly in light of the forthcoming Environments 4, without a full tracklist: slim.

Enjoy!

24/09/11 - Amorphous and Noel: hear the first clip!

It seems the Noel Gallagher and Amorphous Androgynous collaboration due next year will feature ten original songs, and three reworkings of tracks from Noel's first solo record, High Flying Birds. The first snippet can now be heard in the form of a 30 second sample of the Amorphous version of new single If I Had a Gun here.

It sounds... like Amorphous with Noel Gallagher, really. No surprises there.

03/09/11 - Cranium Pie on FSOLDigital

Cranium Pie's debut album, Mechanisms Part 1, is available to purchase as a download through FSOLDigital now. As featured at Amorphous shows and on Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble mixes, Cranium Pie provide some psych-prog-craziness, described as "a conceptual debut album [...] set in the radioactive dust of a post apocalyptic mecha-tyranny, involving the fight between simple organisms and machines to keep consciousness from extinction, as well as a sideways study of the insanity of the present day......part 2 due early 2012."
All that for £4.49. Madness.

18/08/11 - FSOL/Seafar collaboration

Some more snippets of news from Seafar - a new album, Drift, should be out on FSOLdigital in November, followed by a collaborative record between the musician and FSOL themselves.

EBS7 on its way

Inside man, FSOL friend and all round musician type Seafar has revealed news that Electric Brain Storms 7 is on its way to FSOLDigital (and will feature a new Seafar track) on his Soundcloud page. We're thinking this might contain some Environments 4 preview material too... More info soon.

04/08/11 - New forum has appeared

Hello all. Check the Forum link or navigate yourself to http://www.fsolboard.co.uk to have a look at our sparkly new board. Old members will have to re-register as it's all very new, but the place is spam-free at least!

We'll be having a FSOL @ 20 season on the FSOL discussion section to mark the 20th anniversary of the name. Come and join in!

02/08/11 - Forum moving

Just a head's up to those who follow the FSOLBoard forum, the site will be moving to a new spam-free server in the next few days (fingers crossed). We'll keep you updated!

22/07/11 - Mojo cover CD

"Noel [Gallagher] has guest edited this month's Mojo Magazine, which is on the shelves now. The magazine also comes with a personally compiled covermount CD titled 'Well... All Right!' which features artists as diverse as Nina Simone, Black Mountain, Yage and Buffy Sainte-Marie.

The magazine has the first in-depth interview with Noel in which he talks about the writing and recording of his debut album 'Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds'. He also discusses several tracks which have helped shape his life.

The magazine features articles about poet John Cooper Clarke, Miles Kane, the roots of punk and James Brown which have all received Noel's seal of approval"

We'll let you know if it's an exclusive track or... not.

06/07/11 - Noel Gallagher album confirmation

From the official Noel Gallagher Twitter page:

"Noel's first solo album will be released on 17th October. The second, done with Amorphous Androgynous, will be next year"

Titles and tracks remain to be seen, but this is almost certainly set to be the most high profile release Brian and Gaz have worked on in some time, of not ever. News on this next year when it comes in, we imagine.

18/05/11 - FSOL score Russian computer game

Now the news page is working properly again, we're able to mention the computer game FSOL are scoring. FSOL have teamed up with Russian composer Vladislav Isaev to compose the soundtrack for forthcoming computer game Prime World. Press releases and such have been translated and posted on the forum, here. Meantime, you can check out some sample music and stills from the game at the official site, and watch a trailer for what looks like a film about the composition of the soundtrack here.

The music on the game site is nice, fitting into a mixture of electronic and acoustic sounds that seem fitting after tracks like Heart Sick Chord. We'll keep you updated on any news regarding the game and its soundtrack.

11/05/11 - Herd on FSOLDigital

The second release of the year in the 'Other' section of FSOLDigital, electronic experimenter Herd brings seven more of his 'Tangents', exploring more nightmarish soundscapes, creeping organic sounds and avant-garde textures. The EP is available from FSOLDigital for the cheap and cheerful price of £3.00.

12/04/11 - Forum II: Return of the Killer Forum

The forum appears to be working again! Hopefully for good.

08/04/11 - More Noel Gallagher stuff

From stopcryingyourheartout.com:

Noel Gallagher has reportedly collaborated with Amorphous Androgynous on his upcoming solo material.

However, online blogger Peter Cornish-Barlow of Sourmash Music has claimed that the ex-Oasis guitarist disagrees with his management over the tracks.

Writing about the recording sessions on Twitter, Cornish-Barlow said: "He left LA to get away from his management because they don't like the work he is doing with Amorphous Androgynous

"No-one, apart from Noel likes the reworked material AA have done! Its causing problems in camp, so I am told. (sic)"

He added: "Also the feeling is that he won't get his way, and he will most likely [release] the album that did the rounds last year!

"The one [Ex-Creation boss Alan] McGee has heard. He has two albums worth of material too apparently."

It seems hiring Brian and Gaz isn't a sensible idea if your management want to push you as a sensible singer-songwriter type. Maybe there's a Her Tongue is Like a Jellyfish-esque piece on there. Here's hoping...

05/04/11 - Forum

Just so you know, the forum is still alive, just operating on a different time stream to the rest of reality. We've been informed it should be back up to normal speed in the next day or two, so keep your eye on it and I'll post a reminder here once it works fine (if I remember. Which I probably won't).

Ta!

04/04/11 - Amorphous/Noel Gallager rumours again

"Noel Gallagher’s solo album is done since last year. He’s in Los Angeles just to make improvements on the sessions with Amorphous Androgynous."

Does this mean improvements on the AA sessions, or are he and AA making improvements on existing recordings? Is it all bullshit?

04/01/11 - newconc's Lightning Tree

Maybe it forms the slowed down grind of a soundtrack, but there's no obvious connection with that song from the second Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble CD (thankfully) - instead, some strange sounds, and black and white footage of a creepy looking dead tree, with a lot of digital interference. It's the latest video from Brian's 80s archive on YouTube, newconc.

View it here!

06/03/11 - Mental Cube gets the remix treatment

It's 2011, and Q is being re-released again. With a whole new batch of remixes. Now the Papua and Stakker remixes in the past few years have turned up a few gems, and the Tingler 12" was a nostalgic trip to promote the Pulse EPs collection, but we're not entirely sure why this is happening - especially as, not on Jumpin' & Pumpin', it does seem a bit out of place. Is there such a dearth of decent music in the modern dance scene that we're having to revisit old classics such as Q?

Actually, the sound of the remixes suggests probably so, we're struggling to tell the difference between most of the fairly dull versions on display on this promotional video. Sadly that video misses off the Will White and Lex Shellard version, which threatens to be the customary dubstep mix before heading off into some 90s house piano and samples of The Orb's Blue Room among other things. A sample of that can be heard here.

05/03/12 - Another YouTube channel to follow

More interesting stuff on YouTube, the filming and experiments suggesting it's another channel by Brian. Some very interesting and quite spooky videos in the first three, and some old footage from the Green Man festival.

Thanks to Dell for generally keeping this site alive.

03/03/11 - New FSOL MySpace background

FSOL's MySpace has had a minor makeover, with what looks like meteorites falling from the sky on the background. What this means is anybody's guess. Is it something to do with Environments 4? Is it somehow related to the terrifying Lego Man? Is it just Brian messing about in his spare time? Time will - or won't - tell!

10/02/11 - Second Thought album available on FSOLDigital

I've been umming and aahing about the exact tone to write this entry in, and have decided to steer away from "OMG" and be quite factual. The latest release on FSOLDigital is 'Safernoc', by Second Thought, your humble site administrator and bringer of news.

Representing a year of recording between Leeds and Manchester, and less heavily conceptual than the previous two Second Thought albums, Safernoc explores stories and myths of a lost age through piano and string textures, electronic pulses and slow moving melancholia.

01 - Send More Bees (03:55)

02 - Night Train (04:57)

03 - Barghest (02:41)

04 - Marown Dhoo (05:41)

05 - Savernake (05:09)

06 - Kelpie (03:31)

07 - Cwn Annwn (07:10)

08 - Moss (07:25)

09 - Vantage Point (03:54)

10 - Timber Wolf (05:51)

11 - Aqueduct (05:26)

12 - Beddgelert (02:34)

The album can be purchased for a mere £5.00 from FSOLDigital by clicking the £5.00 just there.

And I would like to thank both the band and their management for allowing me this opportunity.

There, that wasn't too gushing now, was it?

02/02/11 - Rumour watch

With a lack of actual news, it's time for February 2011's Rumour watch, in which we report absolute bollocks which probably has no grounding in reality.

Oasis board Live4ever reports:

"From an article in a Japanese magazine.

According to Virgil Howe, during his visit to Japan as a member of Little Barrie, the members of Amorphous Androgynous are in the midst of making Noel Gallagher's album.

Incidentally they came to Japan in early Dec last year."

Doesn't state which magazine, which members of Amorphous Androgynous, or anything else, but it's something.

Meanwhile - and this is a slightly NSFW site here - FSOL are to feature on a porn soundtrack. Did we say porn? Sorry, "adult entertainment film". It's called Sultrina. It'll probably just be Papua New Guinea. Who knows.

"Thanks" to Dell for these.

See you next month for another pointless issue of Rumour watch.

09/01/11 - New Amorphous demo on YouTube

All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace, "a new Amorphous song improvised and demoed for the VERY first time in rehearsals 2010 LIVE by the band".

This sees Amorphous moving further away from musicians curated by Brian and Gaz and into full band territory. A nice song that reminds a little of Osho from The Isness - lyrics seem unfinished, but it'll be interesting to hear how the song progresses if it appears on an album in the future...

01/01/11 - Happy birthday FSOL!

2011 marks twenty years of The Future Sound of London. The name first appeared back in 1991 as a production credit and tracks on the first two Pulse EPs, plus releases later in the year of Papua New Guinea and Accelerator. We'll hopefully be doing a few bits and bobs on the site throughout the year to celebrate the anniversary (and probably updating with Archive 6 and MPB3 soon...).