01/12/19 - November calendar track

November's calendar track arrived just in the nick of time, during the evening of the 30th. It's a surprisingly noisy piece from August of this year, called 'Obscured by Dark Intervals'. Possibly a hint at the sound of Environment Seven? A few people are reporting the link takes them to a download of last month's track, 'The Shed' - these people are advised to email info@fsoldigital.com with the problem which should hopefully be resolved!

28/11/19 - Black Friday sale

This year's Black Friday sale at FSOLDigital is now on. 44 items are listed on the sale page, covering the full range of the catalogue. An additional 10% off all items in the store can be achieved with by applying code fsol10 at the checkout. The sale runs through to the end of Sunday.

14/11/19 - New items on FSOLDigital.

Well this all went out rather quietly. Reminds us of ten years ago when things would randomly appear on the site without warning.

First up, the second batch of 25 SX-1s are being made, and deposits are now being taken at £150 each, from the £3500 (ex. VAT) total. They make great Christmas presents for your kids, so grab one grab one here!. Please note that build on this run is currently unlikely to commence before late 2020, so your kids might be somewhat older by the time your synth arrives.

Secondly, and the only new music in this round of releases, is the staggeringly overdue third release by Seafar. Totem was originally due for release on 12th December 2012, completing a trilogy of numerically repeating releases. Only seven years late, the album can now be bought as MP3 or FLAC, with prices at £6.99 and £8.50 respectively. The blurb states:
Melbourne based electronic artist SEAFAR delivers his new album Totem. 16 tracks of dope grade electronic weirdness – classic Seafar.
Fun Fact – Seafar takes its name from a youth hostel in glasgow Brian (FSOL) lived in while training as an electrician pre FSOL years.
Fun Fact 2 – The youth hostel also features in Gregory’s girl a film from 1981

Bad news if you don't wear 'small' sized clothes: the other sizes of this very limited hand-printed Lifeforms hoodie have already sold out. Smaller fans take note, this size is likely to sell through very quickly too. Even at £38.

Even worse luck if you fancied one of seven test pressings of From the Archives Vol. 9 (or, indeed, Archived 9, as it's labelled here), as they've already sold out. Here's the page to have a look at anyway.

We're only a few weeks away from the Touched 10CD boxset, which will feature an array of new FSOL material alongside that of other artists, so look out for updates on that soon.

01/11/19 - Listening Beyond the Head Chakra confirmed for 2020.

The Amorphous Androgynous have confirmed the title and year of release for their new album on Facebook:

Since 2020 is the year of our re-emergence with new album ‘ Listening Beyond The Head Chakra ‘ ( our first since 2005’s ‘ Alice In Ultraland ‘ ) we’ve designed a calendar ( available NOW at fsoldigital.com ) as an oracular spectacular into the year ahead ! It comes with 2 previously unreleased tracks . The calendar is a collection of some of the art ( a multidisciplinary mix of collage and traditional oil on canvas ) created in collaboration with artist Gavin Penn for our album length single ‘ We Persuade Ourselves We Are Immortal ‘ featuring Peter Hammill ( vocals ) & Paul Weller ( piano and guitar ) to be released at the beginning of 2020 plus the album ‘ Listening Beyond The Head Chakra ‘ to follow later in the year .

So, we can expect the 'Immortal' single in the not-too-distant future, with the full album to follow probably around the middle of the year. This will make it either seven, twelve or fifteen years since the previous AA album (depending on how strictly you define the word), which is a ludicrously long time either way, so we're extremely glad the wait is almost over! The question now: how will Environment Seven fit in with all this? It's hard to imagine both of the main projects releasing new albums within a few months of each other...

31/10/19 - Possibly Amorphous album title and tracklist.

The Amorphous calendar is out in the wild, and contains several references to the phrase Listening Beyond the Head Chakra. Is this the title? It's a bit of a mouthful, and not in an epic way, so maybe not, but you never know. More promising is a page containing what looks like a final tracklist:

She Listens to the Sun
Mother Told Me (What She Told Me)
Mantra (Crossing Over)
We Persuade Ourselves We are Immortal
The Hippie Trail
Listening Beyond the Head Chakra
The Machines of Loving Grace
A Teardrop in the Fabric of Reality
Money to Burn

Certainly six of these we've heard of, and knowing that most of the pieces recorded are very long, nine tracks does make sense. We'll get confirmation in the new year, no doubt, but this is something to get excited about in the meantime.

22/10/19 - New calendars available to order

2020 can once again be checked off with two new FSOLDigital calendars. The first is an Amorphous Androgynous calendar, designed by artist Gavin Penn alongside Amorphic Arts, using "oil on canvas to mixed media collage and paints". Calendar purchases come with an immediate mp3 download of two tracks: 'IMMORTAL Suite no. 1 HAARP' (likely to be an outtake from the We Persuade Ourselves We Are Immortal suite) and 'Yer Peyote Blues'. These are the first full tracks to be heard from the new album sessions.

Secondly, the now traditional FSOL calendar returns to the physical domain with twelve new (or, indeed, old) artwork images, accompanied each month by a track download, which will create the fourth Calendar Album by the end of the year. Click the above links for purchases.

03/10/19 - Humanoid tracks now available

'Uling', on Secret Rave 05, and 'St8818r' on DE:10.08 are now both available. Will there be any more Humanoid material coming this year?!