09/10/10 - MPB 3: The Third Ear, November 1st

A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble Exploding In Your Mind Volume 3: The Third Ear is released on... I dunno, Monstrous Bubble Records, History Records, nothing at all, it depends where you read. On the 1st November 2010. The cover looks something like this -> and, inevitably, it's mixed by The Amorphous Androgynous. Most excitingly for us is the presence of an exclusive Amorphous track, In Fear - no idea what that is yet - plus there are some tracks that date back right to MPB radio show vol 1 from 1997 in there, so it'll be a continuation from the previous volumes and no doubt a smash hit with the critics once more. Timothy Leary pops his head in, which is odd given Gaz's tee-total organic food no drugs or other naughty things existence, but when did anything ever make sense in the world of the Amorphous Androgynous. Whatever. This will surely be another excellently mixed disc of safe sounding groovy psych and bafflingly terrifying oddities from the history of music (just please nothing like that Lightning Tree track again. That is still the soundtrack to many of my nightmares). This is getting rather personal. Here's the tracklist, courtesy of Play.com

Disc 1 - Introduction by Timothy Leary taken from 'Live And Let Live'

1. Chasse à l'homme - Pierre Cavalli
2. Its All In The Mind - Nektar
3. Coma Pony - Omar Rodriguez Lopez Quintet
4. Witches Wand - Luv Machine
5. Hi Lo - Golden Animals
6. The Psychedelic Movement - The Ravelles
7. Here Comes The Sun - James Last
8. Uzun Ince Bir Yoldayim - Ozdemir Erdogan Ve Orkestrasi
9. In Fear - The Amorphous Andorynous
10. Waltz With Lumbumba - Spencer Davis Band
11. Watch The Women - I.D Company
12. The Minotaur - Dick Hyman
13. Electric To Me Turn - Bruce Haack
14. Gli Scatenati - Ennio Morricone
15. The Beast - Aphrodites Child
16. Turn Me On - Rotary Connection
17. Journey To The East - Bill Plummer
18. Exploding In Your Mind - Sun Dial
19. Kuljen Halki Kuutarhan - Lau Nau
20. E Verra L'uomo - Corte Dei Miracoli
21. Cosmic Sea - Mystic Moods
22. Thinking Is The Best Way To Travel - The Moody Blues
23. Master Builder (Eye Remix) - Gong
24. Now It Hurts You - Drum Circus
25. Sock It My Way - The Animated Egg
26. Parallelograms - Linda Perhacs

Disc 2 - Introduction by Timothy Leary taken from 'Live And Let Live'

1. The Ballad Of Hollis Brown - Leon Russel
2. White Bird - It's A Beautiful Day
3. Get Thy Bearings - Donovan
4. Nautilus - Bob James
5. Soma - Brave New World
6. Like Water Needs A Flower ( Part 4 Amorphous Androgynous Remix ) - Paul Weller
7. Toxicological Whispering - Amon Duul II
8. Run - Supergrass
9. Hard Time - The Tremolos
10. Bird Of Space - Bonnie Dobson
11. Laila Part 2 - Agitation Free
12. Livin' in the Sunlight, Lovin' in the Moonlight - Tiny Tim
13. Tokoloshe Man - John Kongos
14. Guru Song - The Amorphous Androgynous
15. Find Shelter - Noah Georgeson
16. Soul Vibrations - Dorothy Ashby
17. Spooky - The Dave Pike Set
18. Now That I Found It - Cosmic Michael
19. Albion Sunrise/Morris Medley - Albion Country Band
20. All The Seats Were Occupied - Aphrodites Child

07/10/10 - Archive 6 CD available from FSOLDigital

Thanks to Dell the amazing FSOL-fact-finder for finding this fact. From The Archives vol. 6 has been snuck out on CD through FSOLDigital! There's a 'buy' link which suggests it's available now or will be very, very soon. It costs £9.99 and is really good. Yes sir.

06/10/10 - That Pop Levi Remix

Can be purchased from Beatport and iTunes as part of the Ninja Tune XX compilation ('Volume 2', in this case), but not as an individual track. It's right down on page 4 there on Beatport in 'album only' mode, probably because they don't want to sell a 16 minute track for £1.30. Tight gits.

Talking of tight, it's nigh on £16 on there and a tenner on iTunes.

You can hear a sample of it there too. It sounds really fucking weird. And surprisingly funky. Imagine Chile Of The Bass Generation stuck through a blender.

16-09-10 - From The Archives vol. 6 on CD

Click our super-short link to see confirmation of a CD release date of 25th October http://amzn.to/cvTPBC

02/09/10 - Archive 6 available from FSOLDigital right abouuuuuuuut... now

As of some time yesterday evening, From The Archives Vol. 6 has been available to download from FSOLDigital and can be picked up here. It all looks a bit like this:

01 - March Of the Money Men

02 - Light Forming

03 - Coast Line

04 - Cross Winds

05 - Gyrated

06 - She Fell Backwards

07 - Jelly Legs

08 - Departed

09 - Protractor

10 - Camel

11 - Abandoned Incoming

12 - Induced Coma

13 - Swarm

14 - Linear Block 5

15 - Unassumed

16 - Elation

As it's just been excitedly downloaded this end, we can't say too much about it yet except Light Formed is a Lifeforms/Environments 1 era outtake. More words on this soon.

24/08/10 - The Amorphous Androgynous cover The Beatles

Well it's about the only thing they haven't done. I'll leave it for the ever-reliable Dell1972 to explain while I attempt to get a few hours sleep between two several hundred mile train journeys...

Brian and Gaz have been keeping quiet for a reason...
Just stumbled across this:

http://newsblog.thecmuwebsite.com/post/MOJO-announces-vinyl-covermount.aspx

http://cover.mojo4music.com/Item.aspx?pageNo=1816&year=2010

MOJO has announced that the first 10,000 copies of its next issue, which is due to go on sale on 31 Aug, will come with a free twelve-inch vinyl compilation entitled 'Let It Be Revisited'. The artists featured on the freebie, including Pete Molinari, Phosphorescent, The Jim Jones Revue, Beth Orton, Amorphous Androgynous, Besnard Lakes and Dr Feelgood guitarist Wilko Johnson, have recorded their own versions of tracks from The Beatles' 1970 (and final) album, 'Let It Be'.

MOJO Editor In Chief Phil Alexander said of the special edition: "The MOJO Vinyl Edition is our way of celebrating the rebirth of vinyl which we've seen in recent years. Essentially, we created an incarnation of the magazine that we wanted to buy ourselves so it was something of a labour of love. In terms of the album itself, we hand-picked the acts and they all paid tribute to the enduring power of The Beatles by providing new perspectives on a set of classic tunes".

Here's the tracklist for the compilation:

John Grant - Two Of Us
Dennis Locorriere - Dig A Pony
Phosphorescent - Across The Universe
Beth Orton - I Me Mine/Dig It
The Amorphous Androgynous - Let It Be (Part 1)
The Amorphous Androgynous - Let It Be (Part 2) incorporating Across The Universe (Reprised)
CW Stoneking - Maggie Mae
Besnard Lakes - I've Got A Feeling
Wilko Johnson - One After 909
Judy Collins - The Long And Winding Road
Pete Molinari - For You Blue
The Jim Jones Revue - Get Back

11/08/10 - 13 year old Neotropic remix "discovered"

For discovered, read: just noticed. Longtime FSOL collaborator Riz Maslen - Neotropic - released the Ultra Freaky Orange EP in 1997. On it featured the track Ultra Freakyalarm Clock (Bin Dogs Remix). It shouldn't take too long to work out who Bin Dogs is in a FSOL context.

It sounds like this.

Something else to line the discography while we await a barrage of those releases which are backing up at the moment. No news on Archive 6 or MPB3 yet...