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  1. FSOL Bandcamp also has copies as well as the Mind Maps 1 reprint, some spare copies of MM3, and a MM4 t-shirt.
  2. How many volumes? No idea. There were only meant to be five Archives, so... time will tell! This is out now. There's a second CD also to be released called Trip Maps (Psychedelic Worlds), which is psych stuff, like the more electronic/breaks end of Amorphous but with a Yage workover.
  3. He was a last minute replacement for Gareth Pendulu Hv Moda.
  4. Some stuff by m'colleague Mr. D. Bougans That last one really reminds me of PLUS for some reason.
  5. So I've been lying in bed with a completely fucked body thanks to covid for the past 18 months and I've spent the time listening through to the many, many hundreds of Doctor Who audio adventures created by Big Finish Productions. Lots of them are good. A lot more are mediocre. Some are terrible. But the real thing I've gathered is how interesting many of them are, especially the nerdy creative decisions that went into them. Anyway, there's a fairly dark and violent Seventh Doctor story called Red, written by Stewart Sheargold and starring, among others, Sandi Toksvig. Why am I writing this here? Well, I will just post the cast list below as way of an explanation. The Doctor - Sylvester McCoy Melanie Bush - Bonnie Langford Nuane - Denise Hoey Leterel - Ann Jenkins Chief Blue - Sean Oliver Draun - Peter Rae Celia Fortunaté - Kellie Ryan Whitenoise - John Stahl Vi Yulquen - Sandi Toksvig Uviol - Steven Wickham Apparently the liner notes include this sentence: "I should probably also thank Autechre, whose ‘music for architecture’ stylings were the first inspiration for this script." I admire the bravery of the script, but I can't say it's a story I particularly enjoyed. But the continual reference to Ae titles in every other sentence kept me bizarrely entertained throughout the full two hours. I suppose their track titles do make fairly good alien names, and I'm sure any non-fans who listened would never have considered them anything other than your usual Doctor Who names. But it certainly amused me.
  6. Can confirm that it's that track, although I think it's a Yage remix rather than Humanoid.
  7. The fourth volume in the FSOLDigital mix CD Mind Maps series is out this Friday on Touched Music. There's a preview and exclusive mix on the Touched Music Mixlr at 7:30 UK time, and the CD will be appearing on Bandcamp roughly an hour later. As ever it's mostly Yage / Humanoid remixes of various artists, including... AUTECHRE, Scanner, Karsten Pflum, Drøn, Isan, Enofa (oh that's me) and a bunch of others, as well as new tracks from FSOL and Humanoid. It also appears that the long out of print first volume in the series will be reissued on the same day. Worth keeping an eye on Bandcamp for exciting release stuff. Promo video suggests that one track is a remix of Autechre's JNSN CODE GL16.
  8. It's the bottom middle. "Look at me riding the desk!" Nothing worse than a 'mixing desk as musical instrument' photo. My girlfriend is a Uriah Heep fan, I need to have a word with her about this. If this was a cover from a DIY cassette release in 2011 nobody would bat an eyelid. That is all.
  9. Can only assume that the listen went so well that you drank enough to forget you actually listened to it. Tried to listen again the other week when an Orb fan friend visited, we got as far as 'Ghetto Love Story' before turning it off. Fucking hell Alex, what the shit were you thinking?
  10. On the EP, a couple of notable things: Will White (ex-Propellerheads) has a couple of co-writes. He lives in Frome, near Brian, and has quite a few collab credits with him over the past 15 years. Interestingly he doesn't seem to have anything else to his name over that time. Meanwhile, Humanoid is openly a Brian solo project once more, without the bizarre Dougans / Cobain credit of 7 Songs. The other is the vocal sample in the title track really reminds me of the vocals in 'Rock the Block' by Sash!, and I really need to clarify that this isn't actually a sample.
  11. I love the way this starts off in a very polished house style and gradually moves through to more obvious acid, then slightly murkier lo-fi acid and into more mangled IDM by the end. It's a wonderfully structured album and remarkable that it's effectively an expanded EP. There are a couple of later tracks which I could imagine being on one of the Environment 7 FSOL albums, which is pretty bizarre given how four-to-the-floor it all starts.
  12. Will sat at home thinking "I've released way too much music recently. Just the one track this year."
  13. I just wanted to bump this because there aren't enough people talking about how fucking terrible this album is. Last track's lovely, but my God this is by far the worst Orb record to date. No idea how this happened, given that Abolition is my favourite non-Thrash, non-Fehlmann Orb album, but this is so utterly horrible. It's like those few middling tracks at the start of of Abolition mixed with the worst bits of The Dream and then somehow made even worse. One thing about '90s Orb albums is the huge teams of people working on them. Alex would get various friends, musicians and producers together and jam, guiding them, finding samples, coming up with thematic ideas and stuff, and the final thing would be a mad, dense patchwork. If he still did that rather than spread everything thin on a collab-by-collab basis over The Orb, OSS, Sedibus, Chocolate Hills, Roland & Albert, etc., I reckon there could be a fairly decent album somewhere. Instead we just get... this.
  14. Substrata, yup. Although the run from Substrata through to Dropsonde is pretty great. That said, the only album of his I'm not fond of is N-Plants. Anyone after more recent releases like his first couple, I'd definitely recommend last year's Shortwave Memories. And of course Fires of Ork I, his first collab with Pete Namlook, is very Microgravity-esque. The second volume is closer to the jazzier bits of Substrata / Cirque.
  15. Mountain Path is, of course, a completely different track to the FSOL one on E6. It's also much better, a really gorgeous ambient piece based around the Mountain Goat guitar chopped and rearranged.
  16. Tales is owned by Universal / Virgin so FSOL won't be able to sell it digitally. The Bandcamp is just for FSOLDigital releases.
  17. They reckoned they'd do a Drift 2, different to the last but still not a conventional album, which I'm hoping for. While Oblivion With Bells will always be my ambient-lover favourite UW album, everything else since Darren left has had a patchiness to it, a mix of them not quite knowing whether to experiment or try and go for the big poppy club bangers, and feeling slightly compromised by that. When they've just gone "fuck it, here's a bunch of stuff" (Riverrun, Drift Series 1), it's been so much better because there are all-time greats mixed in with weird warts-and-all experiments that make for an exciting listen, even if they're not consistent in the way the 90s albums were. I loved Barbara on first listen, but in hindsight that might be considerably down to the relief that it didn't sound like Barking. These days the only tracks on there that get a regular listen are the first two, which are them pushing themselves out of their comfort zone. Oh yes, this new track, it's alright. Would be fine on one of those collections, but as a single and a potential album track, it's pretty dull. It might also just be standalone, as it seems to be part of their 12" 'drop' series of one-off tracks. Who knows. Also, £25 for a single sided 12" is fucking stupid.
  18. I think that's sadly just an error - it's released on Debut, which was actually the label some early Mental Cube and similar came out on. More importantly, it was a sister label to Jumpin' & Pumpin', which is long gone, but the cat numbers are still used for FSOLDigital releases. So it probably just got lumped in with that as it's effectively the same label for distribution. The expanded Life in Moments, with four bonus tracks, is now available on Bandcamp as download and CD. The remaining LP copies sold out pretty swiftly: LIFE IN MOMENTS ( rsd 2023 ) by THE FUTURE SOUND OF LONDON The four bonuses can be picked up as individual tracks too. Tales CD & vinyl will be available on Bandcamp next week.
  19. Ah I love that. Still hoping for another Zeebox release (or maybe a New Consciousness one). Brian has tons of unreleased 80s stuff lying around. CD version of Life in Moments with four bonus tracks is lovely! On Bandcamp now.
  20. Didn't see another thread so here we are. Record Store Day will see reissues of the super-limited 2015 FSOL album Life in Moments (only available with purchases of the Most Important Moments in a Life book - 250 copies) and the 1993 Amorphous Androgynous album Tales of Ephidrina. Life in Moments will be expanded for its limited vinyl reissue, with the addition of an adaptation of Schubert's Violin Sonata (originally rumoured to be part of the Environment Seven trilogy) at the end of side A; as far as I know, there's a further expanded CD edition due to follow a couple of weeks later, as per previous RSD releases. Tales of Ephidrina follows recent vinyl reissues of Lifeforms and Dead Cities and will come with a bonus 12" featuring four extra tracks: 'Mountain Path', 'Static Field', 'Sky-Scraper (Extended)' and 'Swab (Alt)'. In an uncommon move, the RSD release will also be available on CD, which will feature the four bonuses as tracks 9-12. This is the first time an FSOL album has received the deluxe reissue treatment, and bodes well for potential further reissues by Universal. After the past six years have given us entire new FSOL albums for RSD this could be seen as a touch disappointing, but as we have Environment 7.003, Mind Maps 4 and a new Humanoid 12" all lined up for spring/summer, I'm welcoming the break!
  21. Sad that Jimmy hasn't got some wider distribution for his more recent stuff. At one point it seemed like he was on the cusp of real wider awareness, but the past few records have been self-released. Guy deserves more attention. Grabbed the last copy of this from Bandcamp today.
  22. Seems that Brian is generally pushing the IDM stuff towards FSOL and leaving Humanoid for straight up four-to-the-floor acid now. Eagerly awaiting this 12" of course.
  23. Spring. I think the original plan was Before Record Store Day, but I think RSD itself has put paid to that with pressing plant delays. For RSD itself we have a Tales of Ephidrina reissue with four bonus tracks at the end of the CD and as a bonus 12" with the LP, and a first vinyl release of Life in Moments with a bonus track, and a further expanded CD reissue to follow. So lots to come. New Humanoid 12" and Mind Maps 4 also in the first half of the year.
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