So rumour has it that FSOL have provided a track for Touched Music's Covert album of anonymously produced tracks. Can you guess which is by them? Have a listen here.
Gaz reports on Facebook: "Our co-written track with Paul Weller and Noel Gallagher ' Crossing Over ' surfacing on Paul's new ep 'Saturn's Peak ' .... Remixed somewhat by Paul's right hand 'Stan' ( particularly in the drum department ) ... news to follow on our renditions of this ......"
And a quick reminder that the Amorphous remix of that Kooks track is now out, for those of you who actually want to own a Kooks record.
Friday 4 December 2015
Wednesday 25 November 2015
Monday 9 November 2015
09/11/15 - FSOLDigital overhaul, merch and collectables, Life in Moments tracklist
So, to accompany the release of the The Most Important Moments in a Life book, a handful of other bits and bobs have appeared on FSOLDigital. A quick run through of today's releases follows...
The book itself is available signed and not signed. The tracklist for the bonus CD is:
01 – Taken Leave of all Senses
02 – Viewed from Across the Room
03 – I Turn To Face The Sun
04 – Bring
05 – Triospheres
06 – Sea + LSD
07 – Grindatone
08 – A Somnambulant Drift
09 – Talisman
10 – Abandoned Housing Blocks of Prypiat
11 – Falling Upwards Aria
A chance to get six of the bonus tracks from recent FSOLDigital releases in a physical format - particularly exciting as it gives the tremendous 'I Turn to Face the Sun' a proper home at last - plus five completely unheard pieces. Whilst those digital EPs have been nice bonuses, we're happy to be getting some of the best of those tracks together as what looks like it'll be a proper album in its own right. How many other bands sneak out an 11 track album like this as a bonus CD with a book?!
Here's a link to that, anyway.
White label editions - most likely test pressings - of Archive 8 & Environments 1 are now available. These collectors edition vinyls are limited to ten copies, signed by both Gaz and Brian, and come with a standard vinyl edition plus 320kbps mp3 download. Pricey but a fantastic treat for collectors...
The run of cryptic symbols found on Archive 8 and various FSOLDigital videos has now found its way onto a t-shirt, and so has the Herd Killing logo. Only medium and large are currently available, so skinny wretches like myself will have to go without.
There's also a new background on the site, which makes some parts of it unreadable in a slightly different way to before, which is nice.
The book itself is available signed and not signed. The tracklist for the bonus CD is:
01 – Taken Leave of all Senses
02 – Viewed from Across the Room
03 – I Turn To Face The Sun
04 – Bring
05 – Triospheres
06 – Sea + LSD
07 – Grindatone
08 – A Somnambulant Drift
09 – Talisman
10 – Abandoned Housing Blocks of Prypiat
11 – Falling Upwards Aria
A chance to get six of the bonus tracks from recent FSOLDigital releases in a physical format - particularly exciting as it gives the tremendous 'I Turn to Face the Sun' a proper home at last - plus five completely unheard pieces. Whilst those digital EPs have been nice bonuses, we're happy to be getting some of the best of those tracks together as what looks like it'll be a proper album in its own right. How many other bands sneak out an 11 track album like this as a bonus CD with a book?!
Here's a link to that, anyway.
White label editions - most likely test pressings - of Archive 8 & Environments 1 are now available. These collectors edition vinyls are limited to ten copies, signed by both Gaz and Brian, and come with a standard vinyl edition plus 320kbps mp3 download. Pricey but a fantastic treat for collectors...
The run of cryptic symbols found on Archive 8 and various FSOLDigital videos has now found its way onto a t-shirt, and so has the Herd Killing logo. Only medium and large are currently available, so skinny wretches like myself will have to go without.
There's also a new background on the site, which makes some parts of it unreadable in a slightly different way to before, which is nice.
Friday 6 November 2015
06/11/15 - Nick McCabe working with Gaz
Gaz today posted a video on his Facebook of ex-Verve guitarist Nick McCabe working on a new FSOL track - with the promise of future work on Amorphous material. You can watch the video here.
06/11/15 - A History of FSOL, Kooks remix, Mushroom 11 new tracks
Or 'News roundup because I'm crap and didn't get around to it before'
Newest, and possibly of most interest, is a forthcoming book entitled The Most Important Moments in a Life - A History of The Future Sound of London. This book, available from FSOLDigital this coming Monday, 9th November 2015, has been described by Gaz as "' a rather sumptuous FSOL scrapbook of sorts ' The Most Important Moments Of A Life ' compiled and collaged from the vaults of old pics , personal notebooks & cuttings of interesting curios and memorabilia filling its 80 ish full colour gloss colour pages ... a feast for the eyes and a very interesting read to boot!"
. The book is coupled with an eleven track CD featuring a range of tracks from well known to alternate mixes and previously unreleased. It all looks like this:
Talking of unreleased FSOL material, the previously announced soundtrack for independent game Mushroom 11 has been expanded, to include four new tracks: 'Wave Stat', 'TX 81z Another Brother', 'The Equevalents' and a string-only version of 'End of the World'. The soundtrack comes as a download with purchases of the game. Try here and here.
Also in indie gaming, our forum resident Pandemonium will be releasing a mobile game in the near future, featuring FSOL's Lizzard Crawl on the soundtrack. Read more about that over on the forum.
Meanwhile, in Amorphous world, the group have a track on the forthcoming remix album by The Kooks. Their fourteen minute Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble remix of 'Murderer' (entitled 'Murdered & Downer') will be on Hello, What's Your Name?, available from 4th December.
. The book is coupled with an eleven track CD featuring a range of tracks from well known to alternate mixes and previously unreleased. It all looks like this:
Talking of unreleased FSOL material, the previously announced soundtrack for independent game Mushroom 11 has been expanded, to include four new tracks: 'Wave Stat', 'TX 81z Another Brother', 'The Equevalents' and a string-only version of 'End of the World'. The soundtrack comes as a download with purchases of the game. Try here and here.
Also in indie gaming, our forum resident Pandemonium will be releasing a mobile game in the near future, featuring FSOL's Lizzard Crawl on the soundtrack. Read more about that over on the forum.
Meanwhile, in Amorphous world, the group have a track on the forthcoming remix album by The Kooks. Their fourteen minute Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble remix of 'Murderer' (entitled 'Murdered & Downer') will be on Hello, What's Your Name?, available from 4th December.
Tuesday 8 September 2015
08/09/15 - Archived 8 videos
A couple of Archived 8 preview videos, courtesy of Brian's YouTube...
While we're here, I thought this was too nice not to share. From Gaz's Facebook:
' I've unearthed a beauty' Brian exclaimed down the phone one afternoon in May. I'd become accustomed to hearing such things over the years of course, Brian had taken on the custodianship of all the DATs and master recordings of FSOL's 90s period , ' the janitor' as he was known , and thus ' the janitor' was always searching for FSOL bounty for the ARCHIVE releases that had ensued so yes, it was a common occurrence.. Nonetheless ,It was, , always IS a pleasure to hear such an exaltation. Maybe i could finally retire with this latest find , hopefully it would be real treasure .. the excitement was palpable, Brian knew it, making me hold on before playing it . The idea that there is magic in the vaults is an enticing one. This afternoon was no different. I was struggling with a new track, perplexed by it, feeling like giving up, so to hear that there was something magic that i had been involved with at some point in my life was soothing : ). Would i remember it, would i be disappointed, would i be the person to burst the bubble by realizing it actually wasn't our track at all but actually someone elses that had slipped erroneously onto the DAT ( it has happened, believe me : ). I sat back to listen as the first bars of music began to play down the phone line.
What i love about the ARCHIVE series is its like being reconnected with oneself..This track was no different, i couldn't remember anything about it, i strained to penetrate the fog of memory, I supplanted memory of two guys in their twenties into THAT room, EARTHBEAT, an imaginary argument about the direction of the song, a pivotal breakthrough when one of us took over from the other. But no....i was merely projecting into a void, there was nothing .
Most tracks i retain a very keen knowing of who did what and when and how, but tracks we saw no future in we moved on from tirelessly, and there were literally hundreds of such tracks, Having a major label deal meant that tracks really had to have something really special beyond fast food and we worked bloody hard to arrive at such fruits in an attempt to make great albums. Tracks done in an hour here or a day there twenty years ago, meant that memory really had no chance to consolidate itself unlike the tracks that actually made it onto the albums , they acquire instant prevailing mythology.. Yet this one was familiar , no i didn't know it at all but the essence , the melodies, the directive of what it was trying to say is such a familiar part of Brian and I from that time that it returns home, returns me to home and its a lovely feeling. Brian found it on a DAT dedicated to the WE HAVE EXPLOSIVE single...part 4 of that had been the ambient foray so it was probably deemed that this wasn't suitable ( and i can see why ) but I'm glad to hear it today, and the nostalgia isn't nostalgia at all, its just a part of me that doesn't die and these ARCHIVES give me an opportunity to step outside, lose memory and then re-acquaint momentarily & quite poignantly with myself as if for the first time & I'm an old , dear friend ( or those men in black have zapped my memory meaning I can enjoy the music I make without actually experiencing the agonizing pain of making it )
So dear friend, bring me home and if anyone knows who actually wrote it then kindly get in touch and we'll sort you out ha ha.
Gaz Cobain xx
While we're here, I thought this was too nice not to share. From Gaz's Facebook:
' I've unearthed a beauty' Brian exclaimed down the phone one afternoon in May. I'd become accustomed to hearing such things over the years of course, Brian had taken on the custodianship of all the DATs and master recordings of FSOL's 90s period , ' the janitor' as he was known , and thus ' the janitor' was always searching for FSOL bounty for the ARCHIVE releases that had ensued so yes, it was a common occurrence.. Nonetheless ,It was, , always IS a pleasure to hear such an exaltation. Maybe i could finally retire with this latest find , hopefully it would be real treasure .. the excitement was palpable, Brian knew it, making me hold on before playing it . The idea that there is magic in the vaults is an enticing one. This afternoon was no different. I was struggling with a new track, perplexed by it, feeling like giving up, so to hear that there was something magic that i had been involved with at some point in my life was soothing : ). Would i remember it, would i be disappointed, would i be the person to burst the bubble by realizing it actually wasn't our track at all but actually someone elses that had slipped erroneously onto the DAT ( it has happened, believe me : ). I sat back to listen as the first bars of music began to play down the phone line.
What i love about the ARCHIVE series is its like being reconnected with oneself..This track was no different, i couldn't remember anything about it, i strained to penetrate the fog of memory, I supplanted memory of two guys in their twenties into THAT room, EARTHBEAT, an imaginary argument about the direction of the song, a pivotal breakthrough when one of us took over from the other. But no....i was merely projecting into a void, there was nothing .
Most tracks i retain a very keen knowing of who did what and when and how, but tracks we saw no future in we moved on from tirelessly, and there were literally hundreds of such tracks, Having a major label deal meant that tracks really had to have something really special beyond fast food and we worked bloody hard to arrive at such fruits in an attempt to make great albums. Tracks done in an hour here or a day there twenty years ago, meant that memory really had no chance to consolidate itself unlike the tracks that actually made it onto the albums , they acquire instant prevailing mythology.. Yet this one was familiar , no i didn't know it at all but the essence , the melodies, the directive of what it was trying to say is such a familiar part of Brian and I from that time that it returns home, returns me to home and its a lovely feeling. Brian found it on a DAT dedicated to the WE HAVE EXPLOSIVE single...part 4 of that had been the ambient foray so it was probably deemed that this wasn't suitable ( and i can see why ) but I'm glad to hear it today, and the nostalgia isn't nostalgia at all, its just a part of me that doesn't die and these ARCHIVES give me an opportunity to step outside, lose memory and then re-acquaint momentarily & quite poignantly with myself as if for the first time & I'm an old , dear friend ( or those men in black have zapped my memory meaning I can enjoy the music I make without actually experiencing the agonizing pain of making it )
So dear friend, bring me home and if anyone knows who actually wrote it then kindly get in touch and we'll sort you out ha ha.
Gaz Cobain xx
Friday 4 September 2015
04/09/15 - Better late than never: Remixes, records, rumours.
Well, this is all very late, but hey. Brian has been on remixing duties a lot for Touched, the charity label giving to Macmillan Cancer Support, giving B12's Orbita Tolv a Humanoid rebuild and Funckarma's Emplixian Ambient a Yage workover for Touched Two Remixes, and providing a Humanoid remix for 2ndMouse's album.
In other release news, the eighth archive release, titled Archived 8 as opposed to From the Archives Vol. 8 for reasons we cannot fathom, is out next week, with a FSOLDigital release of 11th September (followed by wider distribution two weeks later on the 25th). Some tracks have been updated, Environments style, and the album features twelve pieces all together:
01 – Sorrow (3:53)
02 – Acturum Esse (4:06)
03 – Blue Green (2:53)
04 – Crawler (3:56)
05 – Forlorn (4:34)
06 – Haloi Slope (4:22)
07 – Unfurl (1:40)
08 – Still Motion (5:05)
09 – Plazmatical (3:48)
10 – Spacial Freak (4:59)
11 – Long Exposure (3:50)
12 – Standing Room (6:13)
Ordering direct from FSOLDigital also gives you a free three track EP. You can pre-order the album on 320kbps mp3, FLAC, CD and vinyl+mp3. While you're there you can grab an A3 poster of the artwork, and the long-overdue vinyl release of the first Environments.
As for rumour...
In other release news, the eighth archive release, titled Archived 8 as opposed to From the Archives Vol. 8 for reasons we cannot fathom, is out next week, with a FSOLDigital release of 11th September (followed by wider distribution two weeks later on the 25th). Some tracks have been updated, Environments style, and the album features twelve pieces all together:
01 – Sorrow (3:53)
02 – Acturum Esse (4:06)
03 – Blue Green (2:53)
04 – Crawler (3:56)
05 – Forlorn (4:34)
06 – Haloi Slope (4:22)
07 – Unfurl (1:40)
08 – Still Motion (5:05)
09 – Plazmatical (3:48)
10 – Spacial Freak (4:59)
11 – Long Exposure (3:50)
12 – Standing Room (6:13)
Ordering direct from FSOLDigital also gives you a free three track EP. You can pre-order the album on 320kbps mp3, FLAC, CD and vinyl+mp3. While you're there you can grab an A3 poster of the artwork, and the long-overdue vinyl release of the first Environments.
As for rumour...
Saturday 13 June 2015
13/06/15 - Eyebrow: Garden City on FSOLDigital.
The latest title to be distributed by FSOLDigital is Garden City by Eyebrow. The store is selling the CD, which is released by Ninety & Nine Records.
AVAILABLE ON CD ONLY
Paul Wigens (drums, percussion, electronics) / Pete Judge (trumpet, electronics)
Eyebrow is a trumpet and drums duo based in Bristol, UK, formed in 2009, and featuring members of cult bands Blurt and Get The Blessing. Its music evolves out of improvisations which are reassembled into structured pieces with an unexpectedly cinematic sweep, like journeys through slowly-changing landscapes. New album “Garden City”, recorded at Invada Studios in Bristol by TJ Allen, with special guest Jim Barr on baritone guitar and bass pedals, is now available on New York’s Ninety & Nine Records.
“One of the most beguiling records I’ve heard in ages: music of quiet imagination and intimate beauty. I hope a lot of people get to enjoy it” (Richard Williams, thebluemoment.com)
““Sepulchral, dappled trumpet and real live meaty drums; Eyebrow have been doing this kind of thing for a long time and have become very good at it. ‘Thaw’ – an insistent rhythmic ear-worm – is a belter” (Independent on Sunday)
“Atmospheric, haunting, fascinating. Four stars” (AllAboutJazz)
TRACKS:
1 – Blind Summit (7:08)
2 – The Golden Road (5:08)
3 – Lustre (2:41)
4 – Mr Choppy (4:49)
5 – Thaw (13:44)
6 – Scrim (5:45)
7 – Pinch Point (9:33)
Sound clips and purchase info on FSOLdigital.
AVAILABLE ON CD ONLY
Paul Wigens (drums, percussion, electronics) / Pete Judge (trumpet, electronics)
Eyebrow is a trumpet and drums duo based in Bristol, UK, formed in 2009, and featuring members of cult bands Blurt and Get The Blessing. Its music evolves out of improvisations which are reassembled into structured pieces with an unexpectedly cinematic sweep, like journeys through slowly-changing landscapes. New album “Garden City”, recorded at Invada Studios in Bristol by TJ Allen, with special guest Jim Barr on baritone guitar and bass pedals, is now available on New York’s Ninety & Nine Records.
“One of the most beguiling records I’ve heard in ages: music of quiet imagination and intimate beauty. I hope a lot of people get to enjoy it” (Richard Williams, thebluemoment.com)
““Sepulchral, dappled trumpet and real live meaty drums; Eyebrow have been doing this kind of thing for a long time and have become very good at it. ‘Thaw’ – an insistent rhythmic ear-worm – is a belter” (Independent on Sunday)
“Atmospheric, haunting, fascinating. Four stars” (AllAboutJazz)
TRACKS:
1 – Blind Summit (7:08)
2 – The Golden Road (5:08)
3 – Lustre (2:41)
4 – Mr Choppy (4:49)
5 – Thaw (13:44)
6 – Scrim (5:45)
7 – Pinch Point (9:33)
Sound clips and purchase info on FSOLdigital.
Thursday 14 May 2015
14/05/15 - From the Touched FSOL Night chatroom
The Touched Music Radio Future Sound of London Night is well underway (check the forum for tracklist) and we've been informed that later in the year, Touched Two Remixed will be out, featuring two remixes of note: Humanoid remixing B12, and FSOL remixing Funckarma.
14/05/15 - The Noel vs. Amorphous thing continues
After complaining that even The Guardian couldn't be bothered to provide an honest interview, chopping up his words and focusing on turning the situation into a clickbait argument in the press, Gaz has finally spoken in full to The Quietus. Even though he still says it's nowhere near the full story. Read that here. Meanwhile, Noel's latest counterstrike is in Youtube format, speaking to John Doran for Noisey's 'The British Masters' series, in which he reveals he's destroyed the masters of the Amorphous album and has never played them to anybody ever. Watch that here. Meanwhile, highly reputable broadsheet newspaper, The Daily Star, have suggested that Gaz is the reason Oasis split in this article. Who's bored yet?
Sunday 10 May 2015
10/05/15 - Touched presents Future Sound of London Night - 14th May
Online radio station Touched Music will be hosting a Future Sound of London Night on 14th May, which has been described as "I’ll Be Playing Tracks From The Future Sound of London’s Back Catalogue And Many Unreleased Gems." It's as yet unknown if these "unreleased" tracks will be simply From the Archives, or genuinely unreleased music, but it's worth tuning into to find out! Three hours of music, 14th May between 20:00 and 23:00 BST. Here's the Facebook event, and a direct link to the Mixlr page the broadcast will be streaming from.
Thursday 7 May 2015
07/05/15 - Gaz in The Guardian: Noel 'was too afraid to be weird'
Gaz has spoken, once again, on the topic of the scrapped Noel Gallagher album for The Guardian. This particular piece is the most revealing to date, and can be read on the Guardian website.
Thursday 30 April 2015
30/04/15 - Monstrous Psychedelic Stuff
Yeah, it's pretty late in being reported. Am I allowed to cite 'personal stuff'? Anyway, Gaz indulged us with a three-part story of how the Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble series came together as a guest columnist for Q, which can be read online: one two three. Elsewhere, with this year's Extortionate Limited Edition Vinyl Fetishist Day over and done with, you can now pick up a copy of the 16 track, unmixed double LP edition of The Wizards of Oz direct from FSOLDigital, should you so wish. Or you could grab one from eBay for anything from £30 to £75...
Friday 20 March 2015
20/03/15 - Amorphous take over theQuietus
Today, The Amorphous Androgynous take over the reins of online music and arts publication theQuietus. So far we've had Gaz's post-pub YouTube playlist (we won't be going to that one...) and an interview with Gaz and, apparently, Brian, who doesn't seem to say much. More will unfold throughout the day, so keep your eye on the site!
Wednesday 18 March 2015
18/03/15 - Monstrous Psychedelic Updates
A few updates regarding the release and promotion of A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble Exploding In Your Mind, vol. 4: The Wizards of Oz. Copies should be shipping out at some point this week. A second release, featuring sixteen tracks, unmixed, will be released on vinyl for Record Store Day in April. Copies will be available in UK and Australian stores, followed by a limited number for sale on FSOLDigital.
To promote the album, Gaz has been doing the usual round of interviews. You can hear him chatting to Australian radio station Double J here, and read an interview with Australian musician (in which he reveals there are around 30 tracks recorded for the new Amorphous album) here.
To promote the album, Gaz has been doing the usual round of interviews. You can hear him chatting to Australian radio station Double J here, and read an interview with Australian musician (in which he reveals there are around 30 tracks recorded for the new Amorphous album) here.
Monday 2 March 2015
02/03/15 - Intelligent Communication digital releases
The oft-forgotten one-off alias Intelligent Communication, responsible for the fantastic Principles of Motion EP in 1991, has finally re-appeared for a re-release and a new release. The EP is now available in digital format on FSOLDigital, alongside a new EP of alternate mixes of the opening track, Drive.
01 – Drive (2007 Live Rehearsal Desk Mix) (10:32)
02 – Drive (2015) (7:13)
03 – Drive (IC7471) (4:06)
04 – Drive (Radio Edit) (3:16)
Hear a clip of the new version here:
And purchase the EPs in MP3 or FLAC here:
Drive
Principles of Motion
01 – Drive (2007 Live Rehearsal Desk Mix) (10:32)
02 – Drive (2015) (7:13)
03 – Drive (IC7471) (4:06)
04 – Drive (Radio Edit) (3:16)
Hear a clip of the new version here:
And purchase the EPs in MP3 or FLAC here:
Drive
Principles of Motion
Wednesday 11 February 2015
11/02/15 - Amorphous, Noel and Paul
So, the Noel Gallagher saga continues. Gaz has spoken to the NME about the whole escapade. The front cover of the issue dated 14th February 2015 includes the headline "Noel: Amorphous Androgynous hit back". The article itself is a little more sparse, sadly. A teaser for the interview was made available earlier on NME.com, but that's all you really need to read, as the full content in the magazine merely expands the word count without adding anything new (nevertheless, you can see a scan here if you wish). On the matter of the full interview being stripped down to a few soundbites, Gaz wrote on the Amorphous Facebook: "Omitted all heart , guts of the actual interview but hey what did we expect in a world of millionaire faux rock n roll fist a puffs?" and "Hmmm the NME clearly know which way their bread is buttered - good job we filmed it - wow! Anti inflammatory sedatives and faux rock n roll seems to be order of the day". So now we're all waiting for the filming of the interview to appear online to find out just what Gaz did say, and just why the NME weren't willing to print it (probably don't want to upset Noel too much, given how much time he gives to the increasingly unpopular publication).
In more collaborative news, Brian shared a YouTube video on Facebook a few minutes ago, stating "Heres one me and gaz wrote with Paul Weller - turned out pretty good me thinks......"
Check it out below and judge for yourself. We're guessing it's the lead single from Weller's next record:
In more collaborative news, Brian shared a YouTube video on Facebook a few minutes ago, stating "Heres one me and gaz wrote with Paul Weller - turned out pretty good me thinks......"
Check it out below and judge for yourself. We're guessing it's the lead single from Weller's next record:
Wednesday 28 January 2015
28/01/15 - Blackhill Transmitter 3 out now.
As teased yesterday, the third Blackhill Transmitter is now available.
As stated on FSOLDigital:
The third outing from Blackhill Transmitter with there usual blend of Kruat and Granular synthesis.
“Rain struck the tower but we persistted – the broadcast was scheduled, it had to go ahead. Suddenly we were plunged into darkness – silence – nothing – then the noises started – slowly building – the transmission had begun…”
TRACKLISTING:
01 – Cease to Function (5:19)
02 – Battery Room (3:07)
03 – Returning (3:04)
04 – Recovery (3:54)
You can read more about Brian's connection with the transmitter over on the forum, watch a promotional video on YouTube here, and buy the EP in mp3 or FLAC format here.
As stated on FSOLDigital:
The third outing from Blackhill Transmitter with there usual blend of Kruat and Granular synthesis.
“Rain struck the tower but we persistted – the broadcast was scheduled, it had to go ahead. Suddenly we were plunged into darkness – silence – nothing – then the noises started – slowly building – the transmission had begun…”
TRACKLISTING:
01 – Cease to Function (5:19)
02 – Battery Room (3:07)
03 – Returning (3:04)
04 – Recovery (3:54)
You can read more about Brian's connection with the transmitter over on the forum, watch a promotional video on YouTube here, and buy the EP in mp3 or FLAC format here.
Tuesday 27 January 2015
27/01/15 - Blackhill Transmitter 3 on its way
The third Blackhill Transmitter EP will be available from FSOLDigital tomorrow... watch this space.
Wednesday 14 January 2015
14/01/15 - Another new Humanoid compilation track.
Brian has provided a track for a new chiptune compilation on Bandcamp entitled chipspeech AUTOMATE SONGS .01. The Humanoid piece is called Words of the Elders, and is the album opener. Download the compilation for free here!
Wednesday 7 January 2015
07/01/14 - MPB4: Wizards of Oz due in March
The fourth volume in the Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble series, the previously mentioned Australian-focused release, has finally been given a release date of 16th March.
FSOLDigital gives the following blurb:
‘The Wizards Of Oz’ is devoted exclusively to the rich heritage of cosmic space music of our Antipodean brothers and sisters and in common with previous volumes traces the lineage from the sixties to the present day with sonic delights from every decade in between.
Across the double CD there is a 2 hour DJ mix of 34 tracks where we are treated to everything from Kiwi Krautrock to Aboriginal space jazz to OZ dream pop to cOZmic funkrok: CYBOTRON / TAME IMPALA / KANGURU / RUSSELL MORRIS / GEOFF KROZIER & THE GENERATOR / HIROSHI & CLAUDIA / MADDER LAKE / ROB THOMSETT / MANDU / DOUG JEREBINE / POND / SONS OF THE VEGETAL MOTHER / RAILROAD GIN & AIR are just a few of the delights contained therein.
Meanwhile, in a short feature on the Mojo website, Gaz adds:
'While previous editions of A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble… saw Future Sound Of London alumni Gaz Cobain and Brian Dougans (pictured) champion a host of their psychedelic favourites, for this mix the duo found themselves stumbling across artists who were completely new to them.
“As the collection evolved the question that arose with increasing regularity was, ‘How and why have we not heard this before?!’” they explain. “And then, ‘If this band had been from the UK or the USA would they have been unheard and unknown?’ The answer to this was a resounding No!”'
You can check the full article, featuring two tracks featured on the mix, here, and you can pre-order the double CD at FSOLDigital.
FSOLDigital gives the following blurb:
‘The Wizards Of Oz’ is devoted exclusively to the rich heritage of cosmic space music of our Antipodean brothers and sisters and in common with previous volumes traces the lineage from the sixties to the present day with sonic delights from every decade in between.
Across the double CD there is a 2 hour DJ mix of 34 tracks where we are treated to everything from Kiwi Krautrock to Aboriginal space jazz to OZ dream pop to cOZmic funkrok: CYBOTRON / TAME IMPALA / KANGURU / RUSSELL MORRIS / GEOFF KROZIER & THE GENERATOR / HIROSHI & CLAUDIA / MADDER LAKE / ROB THOMSETT / MANDU / DOUG JEREBINE / POND / SONS OF THE VEGETAL MOTHER / RAILROAD GIN & AIR are just a few of the delights contained therein.
Meanwhile, in a short feature on the Mojo website, Gaz adds:
'While previous editions of A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble… saw Future Sound Of London alumni Gaz Cobain and Brian Dougans (pictured) champion a host of their psychedelic favourites, for this mix the duo found themselves stumbling across artists who were completely new to them.
“As the collection evolved the question that arose with increasing regularity was, ‘How and why have we not heard this before?!’” they explain. “And then, ‘If this band had been from the UK or the USA would they have been unheard and unknown?’ The answer to this was a resounding No!”'
You can check the full article, featuring two tracks featured on the mix, here, and you can pre-order the double CD at FSOLDigital.
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