28/12/17 - Lifeforms LP pre-order on Amazon

The Lifeforms LP repress is now available to pre-order on Amazon UK here. It's been a while in coming, but it's finally just around the corner.

20/12/17 - 2017 Calendar Album now complete

2017's Calendar Album is now complete, with the track 'The Listening Room' arriving in everybody's inboxes this morning (note that the first email had an incorrect link, which was fixed by a second email shortly afterwards). The full tracklist of the album is:

01. FSOL - Shorelines
02. FSOL - Dox 2
03. Blackhill Transmitter 17th
04. Indo Tribe - Kwase
05. Humanoid - Propagate
06. FSOL - Shrinking World
07. FSOL - Riverbed
08. FSOL - Rainy Third Street
09. FSOL - Commensalism
10. FSOL - Sol7 (Mx 107)
11. Yage - AP.BAC
12. FSOL - The Listening Room

The album's running time is 56:48.

14/12/17 - SX-One preview album now available

An album of pieces showing the versatility of the FSOL/Digitana synth the SX-One is now available to download from FSOLDigital, as mp3 or FLAC, with six bonus videos. The site describes the album as:

4 tracks – 45 mins in total – live improvisations using the FSOL:DIGITANA sx-1
Also includes 4 videos – filmed at the time of recording – showing the SX-1 in the recording chain
In addition a further 2 videos as a bonus
A pitch and tempo is decided, a timeline is peppered with hits and noises
These act as que markers to move the synth settings and sequences forward
A set of sequences were created and stored for random access
The main time generator is started and the result is recorded to 1/4” 15ips tape on a Nagra IVs

TRACKS
01 – Xertz (12:19)
02 – Opotograms (11:58)
03 – Origin Flows (5:12)
04 – Minimally Conscious (15:05)


The videos - one for each track, plus the Stochastic Process and SX-1 in Berlin come as separate files to download on the FSOLDigital account page, probably to keep down the size (up to 150MB per video).