28/04/12 - Environments 4 clips online now

FSOLDigital and Juno now have clips of all 14 tracks from Environments 4. Some of the clips take in different parts of the songs, so they give a good overall idea of how the album sounds.

25/04/12 - Murmurations 12" on FSOLDigital

And just to tidy things up, the Murmurations 12" is now available from FSOLDigital - or at least a few copies are. This is very limited and is bound to sell out quickly (the DJ Food one was gone within a day!), so grab yours now. Linky dinky.

25/04/12 - Old(ish) library music uncovered

It's usually at this point - with new music coming in from all sides - that somebody comes up with an old, hidden release we weren't aware of.  And this is no exception.  Coming again from the mysterious bringer of news frodekommode, we have two more discs of library music, seemingly connected to the Monsterism Island project of Pete Fowler, entitled Monsterism Day and Monsterism Night, released on the Lo Editions label.  Monsterism Day features 'Good Morning Islands', credited to Dougans, Cobain and Mikey Rowe, whilst Monsterism Night boasts three Dougans/Cobain tracks: Rituals and You, Where in the Hedges, and Locals Only, the latter recorded with ex-Propellerhead Will White (as also featured on Environments 2 and The Woodlands of Old).

You can read more about these on Discogs: Day and Night. As these are promotional only, there's no news on exactly where and how to hear these tracks. One can only hope they've either appeared on other releases, a la some of the Extreme Music tracks, or will see wider release one day.

edit: most of this seems to have appeared elsewhere in other names, but the track 'Where in the Hedges' is exclusive.  Listen here.

23/04/12 - Environments 4 on YouTube, 12" on FSOLDigital

Hello.  As I am currently using an internet connection which blocks YouTube, things will be most simple if I point you all in the direction of this part of the Environments 4 thread to see videos for Murmurations, Clear Light of Reality, Fibrilation and Stand a Little Less Between Me and the Sun, or at least clips of said tracks. It's mostly acoustic tinged ambience of the very ambient variety, except Murmurations which sounds like... well, the Amorphous Androgynous, bizarrely. The video comments state that the album is available 'Now', which is possibly slightly misleading as it's still available for pre-order on FSOLDigital. Mind you, Gaz advertised the availablity of The Peppermint Tree on CD quite a while before it was released, so maybe that's less of a surprise in perspective.

Speaking of Gaz, the Amorphousy Murmurations appeared on both his theelectronicbrain and GazCobain YouTube accounts, which is just a nice confirmation that FSOL is a going concern of his these days, rather than a Brian-based project.

All in all, these tracks mean the album is shaping up to be very interesting indeed, and has got everyone wondering what other surprises it will contain.

While you ponder over that and wait for your CD copy to arrive in the post, you can also order the DJ Food remix 12" from FSOLDigital. Hurrah and all that.  Hurry though, it's proven incredibly popular so far...

20/04/12 - Oh yeah, that MPB mix was on last night

Forgot all about this one. The new 30 minute Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble Exploding in Your Mind mix by The Amorphous Androgynous was on Solid Steel last night and can be streamed here. The tracklist runs as so:

Link Wray – Switchblade (Passport)

Amorphous Androgynous/Gil Scott Heron – Ripped Off (What About Now) (White Label)

Black Sun Ensemble – Dove Of The Desert (Slowburn)

Pink Floyd – Obscured By The Sun (Harvest)

Mike Oldfield – On Horseback (Virgin)

Yoko Ono/The Plastic Band – Touch Me (Apple)

Noel Gallagher – Shoot A Hole Into The Sun (Sour Mash)

Ian Kneel – Kingdom Of Birds (White Label)

Dj Food & Amorphous Androgynous – The Electric Images (In my Mind Never Die) (Ninja Tune)

A new Amorphous reworking in there along with some familiar stuff.

07/04/12 - 30 minute MPB mix for Solid Steel

DJ Food reports an Amorphous MPB mix for Solid Steel on 19th April. "In the in-box today: a 30 minute ‘Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble’ mix for Solid Steel by The Amorphous Androgynous including a reworking of a Gil Scott Heron track. This will be broadcast live on Solid Steel on April 19th via Strongroom Alive and then out on the web the day after via the usual Solid Steel channels." There are links to the streaming channels on his blog as linked at the top. At only 30 minutes, this is by far the shortest MPB mix to date. It is not known whether this will appear in the Pod Room as MPB9 or not, although given the lack of DJ mixes on there at the moment, it is unlikely.