08/12/12 - FSOL on Touched Mixlr again

This December 14th, Touched Music will be holding their third FSOL-themed night, with a night of unreleased tracks, FSOL classics, and the premier of Electric Brain Storm 12.

06/12/18 - New Humanoid tracks on Solid Steel

A couple of days ago, Brian provided a 15 minute mix of new Humanoid material for Solid Steel Radio. You can now hear the full show, including the Humanoid mix (running roughly 30-45 minutes through) on Soundcloud. The tracks are believed to be material recorded for the new Humanoid album. Tracklist below:

01 Acid Ho
02 Spore
03 Point Cloud
04 Co-Pilot
05 Koma Flow (808 State)
06 Far-Point

29/11/18 - November calendar track

A new track from a new alias this month on the calendar, 'Glockenspiel Snare Kitchen Tray' by Analogue Controlled Solenoids. Check your inboxes...

01/11/18 - 30303 EP out now!

Humanoid's 30303 EP, featuring the new breakbeat version of 'Stakker Humanoid', as well as new tracks 'Skatter' and 'Blunt', is available from FSOLDigital now as a 12" and digital download, alongside a new Humanoid poster.

23/10/18 - Stakker 30th anniversary remake and October calendar track

Coming in November, to celebrate the 30th anniversary of 'Stakker Humanoid', is a new 12":
30 years ago this month (Nov 1988), Humanoid - 'Stakker Humanoid was the UK's no. 1 song in the dance charts - it would stay no. 1 for five weeks, also charting in the UK top 20 at no. 17. Now regarded as an acid house classic anthem and hailed as the first real UK acid house track to break the top 20. Humanoid music from 1988 was also used in Stakker - Eurotechno, now housed in the museum of modern art (New York) and cited as a major influence on early Aphex Twin music / Rephlex.

To celebrate, Humanoid (Brian Dougans - FSOL) has reworked the original into a 2018 breaks monster with two equally killer tracks on the b-side: 'Skatter' and 'Blunt'.

The 12" is due out on 30th November, with copies likely shipping earlier from FSOLDigital.

In other news, this month's calendar track is yet another '90s piece which almost made it to Archived 9, 'Transmission Edit 6'.

27/09/18 - Archived 9 now available to order

Archived 9 is now available to order from FSOLDigital.com. The album is available in CD, LP, FLAC and 320kbps mp3 format. Physical copies will ship from the 29th September, aiming to arrive on the 'official' release date of 1st October. Purchases of the CD and digital come bundled with a download of the vinyl-exclusive tracks. Archived 9-themed hoodies and t-shirts are also available from the site!

25/09/18 - September's calendar track and Archived 9 trailer.

This month's calendar track, 'Memories of a Yesterday', has been sent and should be in subscriber's inboxes now. It was an Archived 9 candidate that didn't end up selected, and if this is the quality of a track that didn't make it, then we're in for an incredible album next month.

Speaking of Archived 9, the first trailer for the album, featuring the first look at an animated version of the new Spike model, is now on the FSOL Instagram.

14/09/18 - FSOLDigital Mixcloud now open

To complement the Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble Mixcloud page that opened earlier in the week, the FSOLDigital page is now active, opening with Electric Brain Storm 3.

10/09/18 - The Pod Room comes to Mixcloud & Archived 9 pre-order

Fans have been asking after the various Essential Mix, Electric Brain Storm and Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble radio shows, mixes and podcasts since they were taken down from The Pod Room due to complex rights issues, and now the band have responded by starting to upload the various shows to Mixcloud. So far there is an MPB page, containing the first upload, 2009's A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble Exploding in Your Mind Vol. 8. Have a listen here

Hopefully more should follow in the not-too-distant future.

In other news, Archived 9 pre-orders should be appearing on FSOLDigital later this week.

10/09/18 - Archived 9 information and misinformation

Some Archived 9 news then.

CD tracklist:
1. Ocea
2. Semi Conscious Participant
3. Silent Midnight
4. Halfer
5. Embodied
6. Super Tide
7. Without You It's Meaningless
8. Oska Traveller
9. Slow Moving World
10. Propagate
11. Photographs Of An Object
12. A Constantly Changing Mind
13. Confirmation Bias
14. These Days
15. Riverbed
16. Extruded
17. Views Of A Empty Sky

LP tracklist:
A1: Ocea (6.38)
A2: Semi Conscious Participant (2.27)
A3: Silent Midnight (4.12)
A4: Halfer (4.34)
A5: Embodied (3.47)
A6: Super Tide (3.22)
B1: These Days (4.31)
B2: Slow Moving World (1.53)
B3: Propagate (3.41)
B4: Without You Its Meaningless (5.15)
B5: Light (3.05)
B6: Extruded (3.29)
B7: Views Of An Empty Sky (3.32)
B8: Plenary (1.24)


This means we have five CD exclusives:
'Oska Traveller'
'Photographs of an Object'
'A Constantly Changing Mind'
'Confirmation Bias'
'Riverbed'

And two LP exclusives:
'Light'
'Plenary'

So that's a double purchase for collectors. 'Riverbed' and 'Propagate' are from the 2017 Calendar album - bizarrely, 'Propagate' started life as a Humanoid track.

Various sites have release date listed as 29th September, 5th October and 19th October so far. It'll be on FSOLDigital before most of them no doubt, but then a certain German store was shipping My Kingdom Re-Imagined before FSOLDigital release earlier in the year, so who knows. Still, it's not a FSOL release without some confusion...

05/09/18 - Archived 9 out in October

Pre-orders for Archived 9 have begun appearing online. Juno have it down as coming soon, while an eBay listing provides a date of 5th October. The cover seemingly features no album title, the band name rendered as FSOL, and a warped Dead Cities cover complete with the new version of the Electronic Brain 'Spike' model. Does the Dead Cities cover mean we'll end up with 'My Kingdom Path 6' and other DC-era material? Probably not.

20/08/18 - August's calendar track

The eighth track of the 2018 calendar will be in subscriber's inboxes now, an Environment Six-era piece called 'Blacked Out Window' that sounds quite unlike any FSOL track we've heard before. There's also a new EBV logo on the track's accompanying image.

03/07/18 - SX-1 on FSOLDigital

There's now a page for people to pay their £350 deposits for a FSOL : Digitana SX-1 on FSOLDigital, which includes ten samples of the kind of sounds it can make.

Those with a slightly more modest income may be happy to know that FSOL : Digitana are currently hard at work finalising the HALia, which will come bearing a considerably more modest price tag in the not-too-distant future.

21/06/18 - New alias on June's calendar track

This month's calendar track comes in the form of the track 'Control Vista' from the forthcoming EP by new alias Filter & Pulses. It's a very minimal, abstract track, unusually so for the band.

17/06/18 - We Persuade Ourselves We Are Immortal strings & single

Gaz has been posting live videos throughout the day on Facebook, charting the rehearsals and recording of the string section for the new Amorphous track 'We Persuade Ourselves We Are Immortal'. Links to all ten videos can be found on our new album updates thread over on the forum. He also revealed this snippet of information about the forthcoming longform single:

"This track will be an album length single this year with full album mid 2019"

20/05/18 - Library Music on wider digital distribution

In an unusual move - and one we seemingly missed for some time - it seems two of the band's library music collections can now be easily purchased by general listeners. Some tension exists in the fanbase at the existence of a huge bulk of Dougans / Cobain tracks that are unable for fans to purchase, existing only in library music collections available to industry professionals licensing them for use in TV, film, radio etc. However, two recent collections - The Research Remixed and Jazzstep are on Spotify, Deezer, Apple Music, iTunes, Amazon and, undoubtedly, all the other major digital distributors. The former is listed under the name Tripletone (the alias of Cranium Pie's Robin Appleton, whose tracks were remixed by Brian, Gaz and Will White under the name Bugbeats for this release), and the latter is simply listed as Brian Dougans, Garry Cobain, Will White. The two sets are around half an hour each and quite enjoyable, particularly The Research Remixed, which was the first Dougans / Cobain / Appleton / White project, a lineup that has since gone on to record last year's Paradigmension album under the name Ai.

13/05/18 - Roel Funcken remixes Humanoid

Roel Funcken remix album Dear of the Yog is now available on Touched Music, with all proceeds to the Soi Dog charity. Pre-orders include a bonus track Humanoid - Posthuman (Roel Funcken rmx)

The website also states: **HUMANOID REMIX IS ONLY FOR THE TIME OF THE PRE ORDER
AFTER RELEASE IT WILL BE TAKEN DOWN**

11/05/18 - SX-1 prices and dates go live

Email news today for those with large wallets

FSOL - DIGITANA  SX-1 UPDATE

Having spent considerable time and investment in designing, building and testing 3 prototype SX1 units, and having gained, in the process, a better understanding of the total costs involved, we are in a position to announce the price of the SX-1 as £3500+V.A.T.

We will start to take advanced orders in June. Information on the procedure for placing an order will be given in due course, directly to those people already signed up to the email list and also via the FSOL and Digitana Electronics websites.

Please note the initial production run of the SX1 is for 25 units.

06/05/18 - Abbey Road Isness features alternate, unreleased versions

In a move we probably should have predicted, knowing the album's history, it seems Brian and Gaz haven't actually offered an official release of the 2002 mispress version in their Abbey Road Version of The Isness, but a new unheard mix of the album. It's all uses versions from the mispress edition - six of the tracks are identical - but 'Osho' and 'Divinity' are alternate, extended mixes, 'Meadows' features an entirely new outro including elements of 'The Seasons Turn', 'Her Tongue is Like a Jellyfish' and 'Mello Hippo' lack their orchestral outro and intro respectively, and 'Galaxial' cuts off the 'I love you' outro section. 'Egghead' is also in a different place on the tracklist, and 'Yes My Brother' is missing. So there you go kids, yet another version of The Isness to collect.

04/05/18 - Minor news

The next Synthi A album will be called Octagon Trees.
We should hopefully have access to all the Kiss / BBC / MPB mixes again in the not-too-distant future.
Brian is currently working through newly discovered boxes of DATs from 1990 - 1993. There is a lot of music.
Possible Peppermint Tree 2LP to coincide with next year's new Amorphous album.
Potentially some new Part-Sub-Merged on the way.
New library collection coming to Extreme later in the year: Beat-Bug-Breaks.
Seltrac is back in stock.
The final The Isness and My Kingdom Record Store Day 12"s are available from FSOLDigital. My Kingdom CDs and digitals are now available.

03/05/18 - RSD stock coming tomorrow

Good news for those holding out for Record Store Day stock - along with the My Kingdom Re-Imagined CD, copies of both RSD LPs will be available from FSOLDigital tomorrow. Stock will be limited, so get in quick!

22/04/18 - My Kingdom Re-Imagined CDs available early from FSOLDigital

The CD edition of 'My Kingdom Re-Imagined', featuring two bonus tracks, will be available from FSOLDigital on 4th May, three weeks ahead of the international release date.

19/04/18 - April's Calendar track

Yesterday saw the release of April's calendar track, an archived piece called 'Near Field'. Check your inboxes and/or spam folders if you've not grabbed it already!

13/04/17 - Ramblings Book 2 released

The second Ramblings of a Madman mini-book/zine is released today on FSOLDigital. Released with the same set of options as volume one, the book can be purchased alongside an art print and a hoodie, with the print and hoodie also available separately. The book comes with a download of a 6 track EP of the following tracks:
01 – Magnify Within the Thought
02 – Replace I with You
03 – Viewed from Trains
04 – External Limits
05 – To Become Silent
06 – Skylines

Pick up yours from FSOLDigital.

07/04/17 - My Kingdom Reimagined - CD tracklist

The promised CD edition of My Kingdom Reimagined will follow a month after Record Store Day's 12" edition, and feature two extra tracks. Available from 24th May, the tracklisting runs as so:

1. My Kingdom - Path 7
2. Transient Empires
3. Collapsed Structures
4. Sound Shadow
5. My Kingdom - Path 8
6. Implanted Memores
7. My Kingdom - Path 9
8. Populate
9. Water Garden
10. Old Empire

04/04/17 - FSOL on Instagram

FSOL can now be found on Instagram with the @futuresoundoflondon account - or click here!

29/03/17 - SX-1 close to sale

Brian has revealed in a Facebook comment that they are hoping to begin taking deposits for the SX-1 in May. Interested buyers are directed to the mailing list for updates.
With the SX-1s rolling out this year, it seems hopeful that the HALias will be following not too far after.

29/03/17 - Brian mixes Dan Pemberton TV soundtrack

From Brian's Facebook page: Just finished mixing the soundtrack album of " ONE STRANGE ROCK "
a NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC documentary series
music by DANIEL PEMBERTON
also very proud to say our FSOL:DIGITANA sx-1 synth has been used to create an amazing composition
available to pre order now ........

The pre-order is currently just for digital versions on the usual outlets, although a vinyl edition is believed to be on the way - FSOLDigital should be acquiring a few of those when they're about.

27/03/18 - Free art print with FSOLDigital purchases

FSOL are offering a free art print with all purchases from their official store - the prints appear to be numbered out of 150, so that would seem like the number of purchases that will be receiving a freebie.

19/03/18 - March Calendar Track

Check your inboxes for March's calendar track, the stunning 'Surrounding the Garden is a Fog' from Synthi-A.

17/03/18 - new SickOnes Yage remix

Having remixed their earlier Volition EP, Brian has now produced a new Yage remix of 'Exile' from hardcore punk band SickOnes. You can grab it for free as a b-side to their new single 'Bad Way' from the band's Bandcamp.

09/03/17 - Ramblings vol 2 later this month.

Pretty much what the title says - look out for the second Ramblings of a Madman book at the end of March.

07/03/18 - My Kingdom Reimagined tracklist & CD issue

The tracklist for the Record Store Day edition of My Kingdom Reissued runs as so:
Side A
My Kingdom - Path 7
Transient Empires
Collapsed Structures
Sound Shadow

Side B
My Kingdom - Path 8
Implanted Memories
My Kingdom - Path 9
Populate

And for those who don't have a turntable, the good news is, much like last year's RSD release, a CD & digital version of the album (likely with a slightly altered tracklist) will follow later in the year.

06/02/17 - My Kingdom & The Isness for Record Store Day

Two releases this RSD: the reasonably-long-awaited vinyl release of the Abbey Road Cut of The Isness will be a 180g vinyl release, and a new version of My Kingdom - 're-imagined in 2017' - by FSOL, as a 40 minute EP. More news soon!

20/01/18 - January Calendar track

The first track from the 2018 Calendar Album should now be in subscribers' inboxes, a FSOL track entitled 'Destination'.

17/1/18 - Abbey Road cut of The Isness coming on vinyl

Brian has briefly mentioned, buried deep in a nest of comments in a FSOL group on Facebook, that the Abbey Road cut (the infamous 'mispress' version) of The Isness is due to be released on 180g vinyl in the future. That is all.

13/01/18 - New FSOL and Humanoid on Touched Music

Touched Music continue their series of charity compilations with a 2CD set entitled Found Sound. Included among the 31 tracks are 'Infrablack-080101-215' by Humanoid, and 'Origin Flow', credited to FSOL-Digitana-SX1 (likely to be another live jam incorporating the SX1). The Humanoid track is streamable, and comes as a download with the pre-order. The full version is likely to be up very soon, with all tracks streamable. Humanoid's track is also on YouTube:

Check out the album on Bandcamp here.