The Amorphous Androgynous write on their MySpace blog...
hey hey . .
finally made a limited run of cds of the new album ' the Peppermint Tree & the Seeds Of Superconsciousness' and tis available from fsoldigital.com NOW !!
stay locked in an incredibly loose way
love the AA
There's no change on the official site, but perhaps the CD is available now for those who choose the preorder option. We'll keep you posted...
Saturday 31 May 2008
31/05/08 - The New Consciousness, Amorphous live again, samplebank, snippets of other stuff.
And so we end the most active month in memory with a huge bundle of news for you, courtesy of a certain Mr. AS Cob (those of you around on the FSOLLIST and official forum back in 2002 may remember the name). Have a look at this for some more old work (revelation of this possibly inspired by the Baboons Stomach mention lately). The New Consciousness in five parts, which Cob describes as "Brian's first band" and YouTube describes as "an art music group based in Glasgow, Scotland 1983-1984". There are also Kinetica clips on the account, interestingly. The music is in the Zeebox vein of analogue noise, badly played pianos, strange effects and a general dark sound, and the videos feature whoever it is in the band wandering about a bunch of other bizarre images. At one point Brian is seen messing with some equipment supposedly making the music.
Also confirmed are upcoming Russian live shows for The Amorphous Androgynous. Cob suggests "the coming weeks", although little else - Brian has said there are four shows coming up, so keep your eyes peeled. Nothing appears to be on Google yet. Also, we'll keep you posted on a possible UK show later in the year. No confirmation yet, but we can dream, no? More live news to be revealed at some point.
We're creating a Samplebank for the site over on the forums. The number of samples the band have used is immense, so why not waste some time trying to list them all? A few interesting and obscure ones have been uncovered already! Join up and give us a hand if you know of any more. Current list here.
And considering we're getting all the scoops, we mayaswell share a couple of snippets from the band. A possibilty of a boxset of all 5 Archives is in the pipeline (let's hope 5 gets its own release too, of course), and the band are now adding the final details to the first Psych Bubble compilation, meaning it's definitely due soon (hopefully the August deadline will be met). Ralph from Jumpin' & Pumpin' has also held back expectations on imminent CD releases, with both Environments and The Peppermint Tree currently 'work in progress'. The June date is looking a little optimistic now, but they're definitely on their way.
Oh, and the site's looking all new, if you hadn't noticed. We liked the Archive 4 artwork so much we decided it would wrap very nicely around WTTGP. Like it? Dislike it? Leave comments below!
See you in June!
Also confirmed are upcoming Russian live shows for The Amorphous Androgynous. Cob suggests "the coming weeks", although little else - Brian has said there are four shows coming up, so keep your eyes peeled. Nothing appears to be on Google yet. Also, we'll keep you posted on a possible UK show later in the year. No confirmation yet, but we can dream, no? More live news to be revealed at some point.
We're creating a Samplebank for the site over on the forums. The number of samples the band have used is immense, so why not waste some time trying to list them all? A few interesting and obscure ones have been uncovered already! Join up and give us a hand if you know of any more. Current list here.
And considering we're getting all the scoops, we mayaswell share a couple of snippets from the band. A possibilty of a boxset of all 5 Archives is in the pipeline (let's hope 5 gets its own release too, of course), and the band are now adding the final details to the first Psych Bubble compilation, meaning it's definitely due soon (hopefully the August deadline will be met). Ralph from Jumpin' & Pumpin' has also held back expectations on imminent CD releases, with both Environments and The Peppermint Tree currently 'work in progress'. The June date is looking a little optimistic now, but they're definitely on their way.
Oh, and the site's looking all new, if you hadn't noticed. We liked the Archive 4 artwork so much we decided it would wrap very nicely around WTTGP. Like it? Dislike it? Leave comments below!
See you in June!
Saturday 24 May 2008
24/05/08 - Another new/old remix and an even older cassette for your research
Who's heard of Osamu Sato? If the answer is 'me!', you'd better have a darn good reason for not telling us about FSOL's Face Savers On-Line remix from 1996. Frodekommode told us about this months ago and I've only just remembered. Have a look at it here. Another previously unknown remix, eh? How many more are coming out of the woodwork.
Well, none we know of, but Mr. Dougans has left us this teaser: "why has no-one come across " bacteria from a baboons stomach " - twitch/floor products - released on cassette via western bloc manchester 1986/7 - we sold a few"
This is likely to be ultra-obscure but let's get looking. Cassette release on Twitch/Floor Products (something Google doesn't seem to know anything about) from the late '80s called Bacteria From A Baboon's Stomach. I know someone out there will be able to help! Oh, and the picture you're seeing is what the guys looked like at the time.
That's about it until tomorrow when we'll uncover that Yage is actually Bryan Adams and FSOL don't actually exist. Roll on real news!
Well, none we know of, but Mr. Dougans has left us this teaser: "why has no-one come across " bacteria from a baboons stomach " - twitch/floor products - released on cassette via western bloc manchester 1986/7 - we sold a few"
This is likely to be ultra-obscure but let's get looking. Cassette release on Twitch/Floor Products (something Google doesn't seem to know anything about) from the late '80s called Bacteria From A Baboon's Stomach. I know someone out there will be able to help! Oh, and the picture you're seeing is what the guys looked like at the time.
That's about it until tomorrow when we'll uncover that Yage is actually Bryan Adams and FSOL don't actually exist. Roll on real news!
24/05/08 - Environments past & present/Archive 5
Don't worry, you'll get bored of these constant updates soon.
A little one courtesy of our message board's Ceeg, who gives us these snippets from a conversation with Brian. First up, "the Environments series will be past and then present". This is FSOL we're talking about so let's take nothing literally, but this certainly suggests that maybe Environments II will be older material (perhaps from those recent ISDN tracklists?) and Environments III will be much newer - maybe even newly recorded - material. Exciting times.
Also, further to my post last night, there is definitely a From The Archives Volume 5 on its way.
In continuation of the band's more candid nature, Decasia managed to get the following snippet from Brian:
"hold tight for the new FSOL album
shaping up to be a killer"
Let the hype begin.
A little one courtesy of our message board's Ceeg, who gives us these snippets from a conversation with Brian. First up, "the Environments series will be past and then present". This is FSOL we're talking about so let's take nothing literally, but this certainly suggests that maybe Environments II will be older material (perhaps from those recent ISDN tracklists?) and Environments III will be much newer - maybe even newly recorded - material. Exciting times.
Also, further to my post last night, there is definitely a From The Archives Volume 5 on its way.
In continuation of the band's more candid nature, Decasia managed to get the following snippet from Brian:
"hold tight for the new FSOL album
shaping up to be a killer"
Let the hype begin.
Friday 23 May 2008
23/05/08 - another oldy, Stereo MCs
Yes, even that bloody awful pseudo-hip-hop track Connected by the Stereo MC's has been remixed by FSOL. This promo 12" released in France on Gee Street in 1992 has recently been uncovered by our forum regular and bringer of obscure news frodekommode. Apparently the band aren't especially proud of the track, and given its date it's probably more in line with their early work, but it's an interesting curio nonetheless. Nobody else seems to have heard it, so if you have a copy - it's long deleted, so don't let mine and Pete's anti-piracy worries on the forum worry you - please let us know!
23/05/08 - Headstone Lane album and FSOL's future
This one snuck past us - there's a full 13 track Headstone Lane album for download on FSOLdigital. It features the 6 track mini album and 7 unreleased pieces.
01. Powder Of Sympathy
02. Fing
03. 252
04. Back In The Day
05. Knuckleduster
06. Vortexian
07. Crashed
08. The Germ
09. Neasden
10. Mole
11. Beers
12. H's Old Room
13. Garage
It's available to download for a bargain price of £5.99.
What else have we got for you? The band are "cool" and "really locked in on the FSOL sound at the moment" - yes, there really is a new record on its way at some point. Honestly. To prove there's life outside of old material on FSOLdigital, the band should be appearing on your radio sets at some point in the not-too-distant future. Just don't go commenting me asking exactly when - wait for it!
Oh, and The Woodlands Of Old will be making a CD appearance in the second half of 2008 and we've got some more archive material on its way for those who can't wait for new stuff.
01. Powder Of Sympathy
02. Fing
03. 252
04. Back In The Day
05. Knuckleduster
06. Vortexian
07. Crashed
08. The Germ
09. Neasden
10. Mole
11. Beers
12. H's Old Room
13. Garage
It's available to download for a bargain price of £5.99.
What else have we got for you? The band are "cool" and "really locked in on the FSOL sound at the moment" - yes, there really is a new record on its way at some point. Honestly. To prove there's life outside of old material on FSOLdigital, the band should be appearing on your radio sets at some point in the not-too-distant future. Just don't go commenting me asking exactly when - wait for it!
Oh, and The Woodlands Of Old will be making a CD appearance in the second half of 2008 and we've got some more archive material on its way for those who can't wait for new stuff.
Thursday 22 May 2008
22/05/08 - Brian designs Milburn artwork?
Ok, so there's technically nothing that's said Brian is the sole member of Pinhole.TV, but there's nothing that's said anyone else is involved. The contact email links to 'b', and the site's hosted by yage.co.uk, the same as all other FSOL online projects (glitch.tv, Part-Sub-Merged and of course FSOLdigital). With this in mind, could it have been Brian who created the artwork for British indie band Milburn's album These Are The Facts and assocated single What Will You Do When The Money Goes? Quite possibly.
22/05/08 - Radio 1 show tracklist
We've been lucky enough to receive this little gem from the band - a handwritten tracklist for one of the band's shows in 1994. Unfortunately the show doesn't seem to match up exactly to any of the available shows, but it could well be a 3D Headspace Tour show, or perhaps the Essential Mix, which has been cut up in bootleg versions. We're going to get around to comparing the setlist to 3D available Headspace Tour and Essential Mix recordings, as some segments certainly match up to these, and try and work out just what the tracks are. A typically FSOL sentence accompanying the files, however, is "a lot of the track titles bear no resemblance to what they've called them now". With this in mind, it seems very likely that Live In New York, Tired and FSOL/Dead Can Dance Sound Samples were originally Environments-era tracks. One thing it does confirm is that a lot of the between-track ambience on the ISDN shows was penned for Environments, and as it didn't turn up on the album there's every chance it could be present on volumes II & III. It also confirms that Deep Into Your Subconscious I Slide (then an Amorphous track) and Subliminal Aura (now a FSOL track) were once slated for use on the album too. Anyway, without further ado, here's a bunch of titles you've never heard of for music you've probably heard, hand-scrawled in what looks like Brian's writing...
Monday 12 May 2008
12/05/08 - a billion new releases for you to get your head around.
There's a lot to take in, so here's a condensed summary of this morning's utterly insane FSOLdigital update. Get ready...
Main page
The site has a new look, a lot of things have gone and a lot of things have been added. Downloads are on the front page, with links to other sections below.
The Future Sound of London - Environments
This has a nice fancy new cover (at last). Personally I'd love it to be released with the black square seen in the Lifeforms tray, but there's every chance that was only there as no artwork had been created at the time. CD release June 2008, whi
ch can be preordered for £9.99 on the site.
The Future Sound of London - Environments II
Coming soon.
The Future Sound of London - Environments III
Yup, there's a third in the series. Again no information on whether this is new or old material. Very nice looking cover on the site.
The Future Sound of London - Environments IV
Only joking!
The Amorphous Androgynous - The Peppermint Tree
& The Seeds Of Superconsciousness
A nice new cover for the CD release June 2008, available for pre-order on the site for £9.99.
Yage - The Woodlands of Old
Available to download for £7.99 today! "From the deserts of the
middle east to the rain forests of Brazil - odd rhythms eerie melodies".
01. The Woodlands of Old
02. An Odd Question From A Forest Bird
03. From Thunder That Shakes
04. The Yage Letters
05. The Hunters Moon
06. Mountain Cloud Descending
07. Procession
08. Crow Hushing The Floating Woods
09. The Mahogany Tree (Shelter'd)
10. He Laughed Himself To The Centre
11. Unsettling Sky
12. Humbled Before Your Presence
13. Who Had Such Foolish Care
14. Circle The Corn
15. Centipede
16. Dry Wind Blown
17. Haxaal's Dream
18. Heavily He Flies
19. The Dark Pines
20. The Sun Lends Warmth And Comfort
21. A Welcome Beneath Night's Darkness
The cover features at the bottom of the CDs page too, although there is no page.
6 Oscillators In Remittance - Cloudscraper
"6 oscillators triggered by light sensors reacting to the movement of the clouds across the sun. Recorded 26th February 2008. 6.30 soundscape where each of the 6 oscillators are fed through echoes and reverbs. Taken from the album Light Senses Dark Edges". Another Brian experiment? A 
forthcoming album. There's a video of a clip on YouTube. Available as a 99p download.
The Future Sound of London - 2" Tape Reels
"Vari
ous sessions - demos and outtakes from the 2" multitrack recordings & RAM studio". Coming Soon. A bizarre mix of We Have Explosive is available from this on the band's MySpace page.
Humanoid - The Original Eurotechno Soundtrack
This has a different cover to the Stakker release on Rephlex and is 'coming soon'. Probably no new material but
an interesting aside.
The Amorphous Androgynous - A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble
"Forthcoming compilation curated by The Amorphous Androgynous. Tracing the sound of psychedelia from past to present. Double CD". This will be the first in their mix CD series on Platypus, available August/September 2008.
The Future Sound of London - FSOLdigital mix (freeze magazine)
This is the mix CD, along with digital files of the interview and photographs, from Freeze magazine earlier in the year. £1.99 download.
Vinyl
A few more vinyls have been added to the site, including the Archived EP (re-release, I believe) and the new Tingler remixes.
Video/film
"Coming soon". Perhaps old videos, Part-Sub-Merged, the Alice In Ultraland movie. Who knows. "Short films, music videos, tutorials".
Merchandise
"Coming soon". This is an interesting one, the main page promises: "T-shirts - clothing - books - posters - art - hardware". T-shirts is a new one (there was an ISDN tour one from 1994, otherwise none we're aware of). Clothing: Dead Cities thong anybody? Books: no idea. Posters and art should be nice, and hardware will probably be a public announcement of Brian's Glitch.tv circuit bent stuff.
Right, with that, I'm off to spend four hours updating the actual site. URGH. Have fun taking it all in.
Main page
The site has a new look, a lot of things have gone and a lot of things have been added. Downloads are on the front page, with links to other sections below.
The Future Sound of London - Environments
This has a nice fancy new cover (at last). Personally I'd love it to be released with the black square seen in the Lifeforms tray, but there's every chance that was only there as no artwork had been created at the time. CD release June 2008, whi
ch can be preordered for £9.99 on the site.The Future Sound of London - Environments II
Coming soon.
The Future Sound of London - Environments III
Yup, there's a third in the series. Again no information on whether this is new or old material. Very nice looking cover on the site.
The Future Sound of London - Environments IV
Only joking!
The Amorphous Androgynous - The Peppermint Tree
& The Seeds Of SuperconsciousnessA nice new cover for the CD release June 2008, available for pre-order on the site for £9.99.
Yage - The Woodlands of Old
Available to download for £7.99 today! "From the deserts of the
middle east to the rain forests of Brazil - odd rhythms eerie melodies".01. The Woodlands of Old
02. An Odd Question From A Forest Bird
03. From Thunder That Shakes
04. The Yage Letters
05. The Hunters Moon
06. Mountain Cloud Descending
07. Procession
08. Crow Hushing The Floating Woods
09. The Mahogany Tree (Shelter'd)
10. He Laughed Himself To The Centre
11. Unsettling Sky
12. Humbled Before Your Presence
13. Who Had Such Foolish Care
14. Circle The Corn
15. Centipede
16. Dry Wind Blown
17. Haxaal's Dream
18. Heavily He Flies
19. The Dark Pines
20. The Sun Lends Warmth And Comfort
21. A Welcome Beneath Night's Darkness
The cover features at the bottom of the CDs page too, although there is no page.
6 Oscillators In Remittance - Cloudscraper
"6 oscillators triggered by light sensors reacting to the movement of the clouds across the sun. Recorded 26th February 2008. 6.30 soundscape where each of the 6 oscillators are fed through echoes and reverbs. Taken from the album Light Senses Dark Edges". Another Brian experiment? A 
forthcoming album. There's a video of a clip on YouTube. Available as a 99p download.The Future Sound of London - 2" Tape Reels
"Vari
ous sessions - demos and outtakes from the 2" multitrack recordings & RAM studio". Coming Soon. A bizarre mix of We Have Explosive is available from this on the band's MySpace page.Humanoid - The Original Eurotechno Soundtrack
This has a different cover to the Stakker release on Rephlex and is 'coming soon'. Probably no new material but
an interesting aside.The Amorphous Androgynous - A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble
"Forthcoming compilation curated by The Amorphous Androgynous. Tracing the sound of psychedelia from past to present. Double CD". This will be the first in their mix CD series on Platypus, available August/September 2008.
The Future Sound of London - FSOLdigital mix (freeze magazine)
This is the mix CD, along with digital files of the interview and photographs, from Freeze magazine earlier in the year. £1.99 download.
Vinyl
A few more vinyls have been added to the site, including the Archived EP (re-release, I believe) and the new Tingler remixes.
Video/film
"Coming soon". Perhaps old videos, Part-Sub-Merged, the Alice In Ultraland movie. Who knows. "Short films, music videos, tutorials".
Merchandise
"Coming soon". This is an interesting one, the main page promises: "T-shirts - clothing - books - posters - art - hardware". T-shirts is a new one (there was an ISDN tour one from 1994, otherwise none we're aware of). Clothing: Dead Cities thong anybody? Books: no idea. Posters and art should be nice, and hardware will probably be a public announcement of Brian's Glitch.tv circuit bent stuff.
Right, with that, I'm off to spend four hours updating the actual site. URGH. Have fun taking it all in.
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