Saturday 26 June 2021
26/06/21 - Mind Maps on FSOLDigital
Last night's Touched Music release of Mind Maps sold out in a few hours. The good news for anyone who missed it is the CD is now available on FSOL's Bandcamp. There's still no digital edition - given the number of remixes on it, we're guessing licensing reasons behind that - but plenty of copies seem to be left.
Friday 25 June 2021
25/06/21 - Mind Maps CD now on sale
The Mind Maps CD is now available from Touched Music. Copies are limited so grab yours now. There are no current plans for a digital release of this album.
Wednesday 23 June 2021
23/06/21 - Mind Maps Mixlr Mix
To celebrate the release of Mind Maps on CD, Touched Music will be hosting a stream of the full album, followed by another new hour-long mix, on Friday evening at 7:30PM. Most Touched releases come out straight after Mixlr shows, so expect the album to drop around 9:30 on the Touched Music Bandcamp.
Sunday 20 June 2021
21/06/21 - Mind Maps out on Friday
Last November's Touched Music Mixlr exclusive Mind Maps is getting its long-rumoured release this Friday, 25th June. A CD edition of the 60 minute mix will be released on Touched Music. Given the record's Controlled Vista-like 'mix' nature, it's likely to be released as a single track. To mark the occasion, as is usual with Touched releases, there will be a new Mixlr show previewing unreleased FSOLDigital material.
20/06/21 - Record Store Day releases on Bandcamp
As expected, a week after RSD the three releases are now for sale on the Amorphous and FSOL Bandcamps: The World is Full of Plankton, We Have Explosive, Accelerator.
20/06/21 - FSOL NFTs
FSOL at Foundation.
So the official FSOL Twitter seems to have pushed this, even though it's not on Facebook, Instagram or FSOLDigital yet. As FSOLBoard admin mcbpete spotted the other day, there's a FSOL page on Foundation, the Etherium-based blockchain art site. The profile describes FSOL as: Avant-garde Visionaries
Electronic Sound Pioneers
Creators of the first internet music download
..Digital Artworks 88..
Future Sound of London
Stakker Humanoid
The Amorphous Androgynous
There are 12 digital artworks available as non-fungible tokens (NFTS), each of which features a loop of animation and audio. All the audio appears to be exclusive, although some of the tracks are radical reworkings of known pieces (the strangely atmospheric version of 'In Solitude We Are Least Alone' is rather nice). There are also two with morphing faces of Vit and Shauneen.
The page looks to have been up for a while, with the oldest five artworks given an auction reserve price (some of them quite high), while later works seem to have no reserve. All of the pieces can of course be viewed for free, but the winning bidder will have official ownership and resale rights, as per the NFT format.
So the official FSOL Twitter seems to have pushed this, even though it's not on Facebook, Instagram or FSOLDigital yet. As FSOLBoard admin mcbpete spotted the other day, there's a FSOL page on Foundation, the Etherium-based blockchain art site. The profile describes FSOL as: Avant-garde Visionaries
Electronic Sound Pioneers
Creators of the first internet music download
..Digital Artworks 88..
Future Sound of London
Stakker Humanoid
The Amorphous Androgynous
There are 12 digital artworks available as non-fungible tokens (NFTS), each of which features a loop of animation and audio. All the audio appears to be exclusive, although some of the tracks are radical reworkings of known pieces (the strangely atmospheric version of 'In Solitude We Are Least Alone' is rather nice). There are also two with morphing faces of Vit and Shauneen.
The page looks to have been up for a while, with the oldest five artworks given an auction reserve price (some of them quite high), while later works seem to have no reserve. All of the pieces can of course be viewed for free, but the winning bidder will have official ownership and resale rights, as per the NFT format.
Wednesday 2 June 2021
02/06/21 - News blog update
In response to an issue that arose earlier today, I have removed the comments feature from the blog. I'd like to make it clear that the issue - if true - is something I take very seriously, and if the person who made the comment wishes to discuss it further with me, I can be contacted through the Discussion Forum (linked on the right). However, this particular blog isn't the place for such a discussion.
A combination of international crises and increasingly negative, polarising use of social media has made using the internet a difficult and often unpleasant place in recent years, especially the past twelve months. For my own personal reasons, I've recently been drastically cutting back my use of the internet and simplifying that which I do use. I'll still be updating this blog to keep everyone informed about everything FSOL, Humanoid, Yage and all their friends, but I may be somewhat quieter in other areas of FSOL discussion online. Don't worry, I'll probably just be here listening to Lifeforms and pretending it's still the mid '90s.
A combination of international crises and increasingly negative, polarising use of social media has made using the internet a difficult and often unpleasant place in recent years, especially the past twelve months. For my own personal reasons, I've recently been drastically cutting back my use of the internet and simplifying that which I do use. I'll still be updating this blog to keep everyone informed about everything FSOL, Humanoid, Yage and all their friends, but I may be somewhat quieter in other areas of FSOL discussion online. Don't worry, I'll probably just be here listening to Lifeforms and pretending it's still the mid '90s.
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