24/07/19 - More Humanoid compilation material on the way

If Built by Humanoid was a surprisingly short album for its gestation period, Brian is more than making up for that by bringing out a large amount of material from the same sessions on EPs, calendar tracks and compilations. The latest announcement is for the track 'st8818r', which is due to appear on DE:10.08 - part of the same series of 12"s that just gave home to FSOL's 'Skinny Xam' - in October of this year. The track is a dramatic reworking of 'Stakker Humanoid' - little remains of the original other than the main vocal sample - and is one of four tracks on the 12", alongside new works from Mike Dred, Luke Vibert and Air Liquide. Clips can be heard here.

05/07/19 - New Humanoid track on Secret Rave 05 this September / 'Skinny Xam' out now.

The Humanoid revival continues with a new track, 'Uling', coming on the 3x12" compilation Secret Rave 05, to be released by Art-Aud in September. More news soon.

And speaking of compilations, the DE:10.06 12" on Detuned, featuring the new FSOL track 'Skinny Xam', is out now.

25/06/19 - Humanoid Interview in next month's Electronic Sound magazine

There's not too much else to add at the minute other than the title. Looks like it'll probably be Issue 55.

25/06/19 - Zip File Fu*k Up

Some people are having trouble unzipping the full version of the Humanoid album. This appears to be because of the asterisk in the title of track five 'Fu*k It', which is not a valid file name character on PCs. The band are aware and will be updating the file ASAP.

24/06/19 - Built by Humanoid now available!

Built by Humanoid is now officially available from FSOLDigital. Copies will be shipping this week, and downloads are available. All copies bought direct from the site will receive a four track bonus EP to download, featuring the tracks 'Spore', 'Quantel', 'Co-Pilot' and 'Hull'. It's very good.

29/05/19 - Built by Humanoid album & t-shirts now available to order

With an official release date of 7th July - but likely earlier shipping, as per usual with FSOLDigital - the new Humanoid album Built by Humanoid is available to pre-order now from FSOLDigital. The order page offers CD, LP+MP3, MP3 and FLAC versions. A colour design of the cover on black is the first of two related t-shirts, while a text version on black or white is the second. From the runtimes given, it appears the album is 43 minutes long.

29/05/19 - Change.org petition for deluxe Lifeforms

Regular news finder and contributor Rob Cagni has started a petition to hopefully let Universal know there is a demand for deluxe editions of FSOL's albums, starting with Lifeforms. You can sign the petition here. While the request for Universal to revert the rights to Gaz and Brian is unlikely, the label are reportedly interested in re-purposing the band's '90s catalogue, so this kind of attention will hopefully re-enforce that.