29/12/19 - December calendar track

The closing track to this year's calendar album is 'Musell' by FSOL, meaning the band's main project gets ten of the twelve tracks for the year. It's a piece of pounding electronica recorded in 2018.

And that about rounds up this decade in FSOL news. It's been a very surprising ten years: at the close of 2009, the only newly recorded material we'd had in years was The Woodlands of Old and the three side-project experiments from 2007; the second half of this decade has had them averaging 40-50 new tracks released every year. Here's to an equally productive 2020s.

26/12/19 - Rave Atlas mix: 'Planet Earth'.

FSOL's mix for Rave Atlas, entitled Planet Earth, is now available to stream. Streaming options are available on the website, along with a rough tracklist. As ever, the tracklisting is somewhat incomplete, have a gander over at the forum where we'll be attempting to complete it.

21/12/19 - We Persuade Ourselves We Are Immortal - Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble Remix Album

The 'album length single', following the traditional FSOL/AA multiple paths approach, of 'We Persuade Ourselves We Are Immortal' has been given a provisional release date of March 2020. A touch later than initially hinted (unexpectedly - and it'll most likely end up later than March knowing them) but mostly unsurprising. What is surprising, and very much news, is the announcement by Gaz - as usual, buried in a Facebook comment thread - that it'll be followed in April by A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble (Exploding in Your Mind) Presents: 'We Persuade Ourselves We Are Immortal' Remixed, featuring remixes from, and collaborations with: Stoned Freshwaters, Peter Hammill, The Amorphous Androgynous, Paul Weller, Atomic Simao, Cobalt Chapel, Regal Worm, Higher Peaks, Las Trompas De Falopian, Future Children, Sweet Jesus, The Flying White Dots and Richard E Further Out. Some of those names are rather pun-ish, so we'll do some research to find out just who's who (follow the album thread on the board for any findings. This suggests that Listening Beyond the Head Chakra will probably not be out until mid-to-late summer at the earliest. It's going to be a long - and expensive - year for Amorphous fans!

14/12/19 - A Controlled Vista coming to FSOLDigital

As predicted, the 100 copies of Touched by Silence sold out fast: 22 minutes, to be precise. And, as predicted, the digital version of FSOLDigital presents A Controlled Vista, unavailable with the full purchase, will be coming to FSOLDigital in the future. We'll keep you informed with more info when it comes in.

12/12/19 - Forthcoming FSOL mix on Rave Atlas

Online electronic music portal Rave Atlas have been running their mix series for some time now, with a number of notable guest artists and producers providing mixes. On Boxing Day, FSOL will provide a new mix to the series. As reported on the Rave Atlas Facebook page...

F.S.O.L EXCLUSIVE MIX ALERT
26/12/2019 AVAILABLE THROUGH ALL RAVE ATLAS SOCIAL MEDIA.
We are thrilled to announce that The Future Sound Of London contributed an exclusive mix for the Rave Atlas Mix Series.
Out on Boxing Day.
Keep an eye on the Rave Atlas social media brothers & sisters

FSOL were the first band to sidestep traditional methods of touring, instead broadcasting studio performances via ISDN lines.
The ISDN l.p, containing material previously broadcast live to radio stations via ISDN, was released as a limited edition (with a black cover) in late 1994, followed by a more widespread edition (this time with a white cover and an altered track list) in 1995.

The site seems to focus more heavily on electronica styles - particularly with a dance direction - so it's likely this mix will be less based around '70s and '80s experimental sounds than the EBS mixes... although FSOL aren't always known for playing by the rules, so who knows what it will be. In the meantime, you can check the Rave Atlas website here.

08/12/19 - A Controlled Vista tracklisting

Thanks to Rob who's unearthed the tracklist for the FSOL disc on Touched by Silence...

FSOL Digital presents A Controlled Vista:

1. FSOL - I Can't Find You
2. FSOL/Daniel Pemberton - Offers on the Table
3. FSOL - Closure
4. FSOL - You Will Forget About Me
5. FSOL - Organic Weapon
6. Yage - Subtle Cause
7. Yage - Across 82
8. Humanoid - Tiny Machine Birth
9. FSOL - Optical Overspill
10. FSOL - A Type of Thought
11. Synthi A - Rivers Over Roads
12. Yage - Tower City North
13. FSOL - Slope/5/a
14. FSOL - Control Vista
15. Humanoid - Mass Made
16. FSOL - The Old Coastal Path

Needless to say we're all excited about that tracklist. 16 new tracks from four projects.

07/12/19 - A Controlled Vista and Apertures on 11CD box

A Controlled Vista is the title of the FSOL album featuring on Touched by Silence, the 11CD boxset coming out through charity label Touched on 13th December 2019. The set also features full albums by Scanner, Drøn, Mick Chillage, Locust, Anders Ilar, Joel Tammik, Autumn of Communion and Eric 'the' Taylor, as well as a 2CD various artists compilation featuring the likes of The Orb, David Morley, Higher Intelligence Agency, Richard H Kirk and, notably, the debut track from Apertures, a new project by FSOL's Brian Dougans and Ross Baker (that'll be me). The box set is limited to a hundred copies and will be available to purchase from Bandcamp next week.

02/12/19 - Plaid remix Humanoid

The final volume of Detuned's DE:10 series of 12" EPs arrives with yet another Humanoid track: this time, DE:08's Stakker re-recording, 'sT8818r', has been remixed by Plaid. Listen to a clip on Bleep. It's out everywhere now on slices of toxic silver plastic, limited to 300 copies.

01/12/19 - November calendar track

November's calendar track arrived just in the nick of time, during the evening of the 30th. It's a surprisingly noisy piece from August of this year, called 'Obscured by Dark Intervals'. Possibly a hint at the sound of Environment Seven? A few people are reporting the link takes them to a download of last month's track, 'The Shed' - these people are advised to email info@fsoldigital.com with the problem which should hopefully be resolved!