08/04/16 - Touched FSOL night report

I think it's fair to say last night's show on Touched Radio was a success. We had well over a hundred listeners and the chat room was very busy. A lot of exclusive and rare material was played, along with some lesser known pieces and a few 'hits'. A great selection of tracks from 1992 - 2016 were played. It's likely many hangovers were nursed today.

Here's the final total for completely unheard tracks:
Four untitled tracks + lots of answerphone environments from the FSOL Mix at the start
Two tracks of unknown title - one not given, the other Martin lost
Peirch
Algae Floats the Water in Super Technicolor
Night Scape
Morning Mist
Ever Really Happened
Oboliss
Ocea
Supergrass - The Sky (FSOL Remix)

Alternate versions of the Bryan Ferry and Stereo MCs remixes

Tracks heard in the previous FSOL Night:
Arc City
Santana (formerly Carlos)
The JAMS - It's Grim Up North (FSOL Remix)

Plus 'official' confirmation that Cold Dark Field from the Covert album is FSOL.

Oboliss will be on a compilation called Detuned out later this year.
Night Scape will be on Touched 3, out this July.
The rest are 'in the holding pile' according to Brian. Chances are there's at least one here we'll never hear again.

07/04/16 - Touched Radio FSOL Night tonight

As mentioned in the previous update, Touched Radio are holding their second FSOL Night this evening. Here's the Mixlr event. It has been revealed that the show will be opening with an exclusive mix made by FSOL - we're guessing it'll be Electric Brainstorm 11. Tune in later and join the chat. We'll also have a commentary and updated tracklist over on the forum.

02/04/16 - next FSOL Night on Touched Radio this coming Thursday

Following the popularity of last year's FSOL Night on Touched Radio, Martin Boulton of Touched will be hosting another evening of FSOL classics, remixes and exclusives. The exclusives, given by the band, include the first play of the new FSOL track to be released on the Touched 3 compilation this summer.

The show will be streaming from http://mixlr.com/touched-music/ this coming Thursday, 7th April, from 8PM BST. You can join the Facebook event for the show here.

21/03/16 - Blackhill Transmitter album now available

The Blackhill Transmitter album, featuring exclusive edits of EP tracks and new material, is now available from FSOLDigital. Info as follows:

Available on Heavyweight (180g) Vinyl + MP3, 320kbps MP3 and FLAC

Blackhill Transmitter comes from the FSOLdigital stable of projects. Credited to Dougans / Cobain it was produced and engineered by Yage.

Blackhill Transmitter has been compared to a Four Tet from the 1970’s, combining Krautrock with granular synthesis. It is a journey through 15 tracks which blend in and out, interspersed with hauntingly distorted sounds of old lost transmissions that still circle the Earth.

FSOLdigital purchases also come with a free 3 track digital ep entitled “Contained by Silence”.

TRACKLISTING:
01 – Warmth of Heart (5:50)
02 – Impasse (3:56)
03 – Book of Revelations (4:23)
04 – Hac (3:09)
05 – Karmin Line (2:22)
06 – Desolate (2:47)
07 – Landslide (1:34)
08 – Cease to Function (5:21)
09 – Battery Room (3:04)
10 – Returning (3:07)
11 – Recovery (3:46)
12 – 405 Lines (1:45)
13 – Loko Motive (4:16)
14 – Five Twenty Seven (1:44)
15 – Interception (1:14)

04/03/16 - Blackhill Transmitter album tracklist?

There have been rumours circulating for quite a while about a potential physical release of Blackhill Transmitter material, particularly given how well it has been received in the fanbase; the number of releases, plus the t-shirt, have suggested that the project is a notable one among the FSOLDigital aliases. Brian has all but confirmed it in the past, but now we have what may be a tracklist. A postcard received with the Synthi-A CD this morning reads:

Warmth of Heart
Impasse
Book of Revelations*
Hac
Karmin Line
Desolate
Landslide
Cease to Function
Battery Room
Returning
Recovery
405 Lines
Loko Motive
Five Twenty Seven
Interception

Hopefully we'll have further news on this soon!

27/02/16 - Synthi-A album and Paul Weller on new Amorphous record

The long-awaited EMS-based album has been given a title - Ignition of the Sun - and will be released under the artist name Synthi-A on 4th March 2016. The release will come on a variety of digital formats - FLAC, wav, mp3 - and CD, and will be available exclusively through FSOLDigital and Bleep.com. Look! Bleep even have an artist page for Synthi A, even if there's no content yet. Still, you can hear a teasure track, 'Oblique Towers', on Vimeo.

Meanwhile, in a distinctly more rock-based world, Paul Weller has been adding contributions to the new Amorphous Androgynous album. Clips of 'Money to Burn' and 'Mantra' are on Gaz's Facebook - check out our all-purpose new AA album thread on the forum for links and info.

27/01/16 - Blackhill Transmitter Four & Amorphous Warriors remix

The fourth in the series of Blackhill Transmitter EPs was released this afternoon on FSOLDigital. As usual, it is available as mp3 and FLAC. The details run as so:

The fourth EP from Blackhill Transmitter. Recorded in the first week of 2016 – Produced by Yage.
Music Concrete / Gothic Granular Kraut

TRACKLISTING:

01 – Warmth of Heart (5:53)
02 – Impasse (3:54)
03 – Book of Revelations* (4:12)
04 – Projected Sound (2:26)
05 – Desolate (2:56)
* choir recorded East Kilbride 1972 by Bill Dougans
Blackhill Transmitter use EMS Musical Instruments
Recorded 3 – 11 January 2016 at 9LW. Produced by YAGE for EBV



In other news, a film entitled Warriors was released on 25th January in digital and DVD formats. Featured on the soundtrack, scored by Ali Gavan and Barney Douglas, is a remix of the track 'Butterfly King' by none other than The Amorphous Androgynous. The soundtrack is available on iTunes. You can read the press release for the film here and listen to the AA remix below.