06/03/11 - Mental Cube gets the remix treatment

It's 2011, and Q is being re-released again. With a whole new batch of remixes. Now the Papua and Stakker remixes in the past few years have turned up a few gems, and the Tingler 12" was a nostalgic trip to promote the Pulse EPs collection, but we're not entirely sure why this is happening - especially as, not on Jumpin' & Pumpin', it does seem a bit out of place. Is there such a dearth of decent music in the modern dance scene that we're having to revisit old classics such as Q?

Actually, the sound of the remixes suggests probably so, we're struggling to tell the difference between most of the fairly dull versions on display on this promotional video. Sadly that video misses off the Will White and Lex Shellard version, which threatens to be the customary dubstep mix before heading off into some 90s house piano and samples of The Orb's Blue Room among other things. A sample of that can be heard here.

05/03/12 - Another YouTube channel to follow

More interesting stuff on YouTube, the filming and experiments suggesting it's another channel by Brian. Some very interesting and quite spooky videos in the first three, and some old footage from the Green Man festival.

Thanks to Dell for generally keeping this site alive.

03/03/11 - New FSOL MySpace background

FSOL's MySpace has had a minor makeover, with what looks like meteorites falling from the sky on the background. What this means is anybody's guess. Is it something to do with Environments 4? Is it somehow related to the terrifying Lego Man? Is it just Brian messing about in his spare time? Time will - or won't - tell!

10/02/11 - Second Thought album available on FSOLDigital

I've been umming and aahing about the exact tone to write this entry in, and have decided to steer away from "OMG" and be quite factual. The latest release on FSOLDigital is 'Safernoc', by Second Thought, your humble site administrator and bringer of news.

Representing a year of recording between Leeds and Manchester, and less heavily conceptual than the previous two Second Thought albums, Safernoc explores stories and myths of a lost age through piano and string textures, electronic pulses and slow moving melancholia.

01 - Send More Bees (03:55)

02 - Night Train (04:57)

03 - Barghest (02:41)

04 - Marown Dhoo (05:41)

05 - Savernake (05:09)

06 - Kelpie (03:31)

07 - Cwn Annwn (07:10)

08 - Moss (07:25)

09 - Vantage Point (03:54)

10 - Timber Wolf (05:51)

11 - Aqueduct (05:26)

12 - Beddgelert (02:34)

The album can be purchased for a mere £5.00 from FSOLDigital by clicking the £5.00 just there.

And I would like to thank both the band and their management for allowing me this opportunity.

There, that wasn't too gushing now, was it?

02/02/11 - Rumour watch

With a lack of actual news, it's time for February 2011's Rumour watch, in which we report absolute bollocks which probably has no grounding in reality.

Oasis board Live4ever reports:

"From an article in a Japanese magazine.

According to Virgil Howe, during his visit to Japan as a member of Little Barrie, the members of Amorphous Androgynous are in the midst of making Noel Gallagher's album.

Incidentally they came to Japan in early Dec last year."

Doesn't state which magazine, which members of Amorphous Androgynous, or anything else, but it's something.

Meanwhile - and this is a slightly NSFW site here - FSOL are to feature on a porn soundtrack. Did we say porn? Sorry, "adult entertainment film". It's called Sultrina. It'll probably just be Papua New Guinea. Who knows.

"Thanks" to Dell for these.

See you next month for another pointless issue of Rumour watch.

09/01/11 - New Amorphous demo on YouTube

All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace, "a new Amorphous song improvised and demoed for the VERY first time in rehearsals 2010 LIVE by the band".

This sees Amorphous moving further away from musicians curated by Brian and Gaz and into full band territory. A nice song that reminds a little of Osho from The Isness - lyrics seem unfinished, but it'll be interesting to hear how the song progresses if it appears on an album in the future...

01/01/11 - Happy birthday FSOL!

2011 marks twenty years of The Future Sound of London. The name first appeared back in 1991 as a production credit and tracks on the first two Pulse EPs, plus releases later in the year of Papua New Guinea and Accelerator. We'll hopefully be doing a few bits and bobs on the site throughout the year to celebrate the anniversary (and probably updating with Archive 6 and MPB3 soon...).