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Future Sound of London released ISDN in December 1994, Originally with a black cover as a limited release. June 1995 saw an alternative white-covered version released, this had a different track listing on the 4th side of the LP set with new tracks. The music on the album is edited together from various live broadcasts that the duo had transmitted to radio stations all over the world using ISDN networking. At the time ISDN was a relatively new technology that had the bandwidth to carry high-quality digital audio. 2024 Marks the 30th anniversary of this fan-favorite album, to celebrate this the audio from both versions has been amalgamated and sequenced by Brian Dougans. Pressed on clear vinyl with a brand-new front cover, this will also be pressed on CD as an RSD exclusive. https://www.recordstoreday.co.uk/record/ISDN https://www.roughtrade.com/en-gb/product/the-future-sound-of-london-2/isdn-rsd-2024
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Belgian independent label De:tuned celebrates 15 years with an expansive series of new releases throughout 2024. Founded in 2009 by Ruben Boons and Bert Hermans, De:tuned and British influential electronic music pioneers The Future Sound Of London team up to mark the beginning of its 15th anniversary. Pre-order: ‘The Future Sound Of London Presents Pulse Five’ We Are The Music Makers | Volume One by Various Black vinyl Juno: http://tinyurl.com/rwjz4duc Bleep: http://tinyurl.com/3e4un4h9 Phonica: http://tinyurl.com/yc6ebcjr Red Eye: http://tinyurl.com/mrxfzwfa Norman: http://tinyurl.com/hz7h2xxz Horizons: http://tinyurl.com/46yttnsb Deejay: http://tinyurl.com/puuwr48s Decks: http://tinyurl.com/5x9csfye HHV: http://tinyurl.com/2p8yemwv Clone: http://tinyurl.com/5n6tcmxm Colored vinyl (Limited Edition) Juno: http://tinyurl.com/bdcmaadp Bleep: http://tinyurl.com/3e4un4h9 Red Eye: http://tinyurl.com/ej3nnk3c Norman: http://tinyurl.com/hz7h2xxz Horizons: http://tinyurl.com/4fef2wcf Deejay: http://tinyurl.com/y46c3vfm Decks: http://tinyurl.com/b9bw6ce9 HHV: http://tinyurl.com/2nz5dx5w Clone: http://tinyurl.com/3red5rs9 + 2×LP (includes digital download) + 15 Years De:tuned T-shirt (includes digital download) + Artwork by Openmind (aka Strictly Kev, DJ Food) + Mastered by Matt Colton @ Metropolis Mastering 15 Years De:tuned T-shirt https://detunedrecords.bandcamp.com/merch/15-years-de-tuned-t-shirt-3 • Includes 'Pulse Five' digital download with purchase • Artwork by Openmind (aka Strictly Kev, DJ Food) • Screen-printed on 'Russell Classic T' Black T-shirt • Regular Fit - 100% Ringspun Cotton - 180 g/m² De:tuned X Bleep Advent: Day 4 https://bleep.com/advent-2023-day-4 + Bleep exclusive orange vinyl De:tuned offers an exclusive B2 print designed by Kevin Foakes (DJ Food) for the new Future Sound Of London album Presents Pulse Five. Print limited to 50 copies worldwide. -
Every time there's a new release there's normally a fair bit of discussion in the relevant thread, so I thought it was about time to start a general FSOL thread. Also, I just started a new blog called Fractional Difference, in which I'll be going through every release and song, in order, and looking at various things... all the facts, connections with other tracks, and my own personal feelings about them. It's going to take forever (they released 180 tracks on the launch of FSOLDigital alone), but I'm quite looking forward to revisiting the whole catalogue over the next however long it takes. So far I've done an About page which explains my discovery of the band and running the various fan sites I have over the years, a discography page which I'll fill in with links as the project goes along, and I've done a couple of entries, for Bacteria From a Baboon's Stomach and the original release of Stakker Humanoid. Hopefully will be getting a few stories, bits of trivia and pics from Brian over the course of it to spice it all up. Anyway, the blog is here if anybody fancies following: https://fractionaldifference.wordpress.com/ And, in terms of general discussion, this is still my all-time favourite piece of music: Weird that it hasn't changed for nearly 25 years.
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Out 11th February, triple vinyl reissue of this 2007 compilation featuring various unreleased tracks from FSOL's Jumpin' & Pumpin' era - Smart Systems, Yage, Mental Cube, Indo Tribe, Dope Module, plus an early FSOL jam - previously only available on CD / digital. https://wemerecords.com/shop/fsol-by-any-other-name-3lp-orange-vinyl-pre-order/- 5 replies
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https://fsol.bandcamp.com/album/fsoldigital-presents-2023-calendar
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Environment 7.003 by THE FUTURE SOUND OF LONDON
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We Are The Music Makers | Volume One by Various MENTAL CUBE - So This is Love 12" vinyl Re-pressed after 30 years - highly regarded classic from the early days (that's 1991).
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Released in 1991, The Pulse EP was Brian Dougans and Gaz Cobain’s first release for Jumpin’ & Pumpin’, a label they would become synonymous with. Showcasing their multi-alias approach, the A side features two slices of epic, rave-friendly techno from Indo Tribe. Meanwhile, the B side includes the first tracks they ever released as The Future Sound of London, including the melodic acid classic ‘Pulse State’. The EP spawned three sequels, and is now reissued for the first time in over 30 years. https://fsol.bandcamp.com/album/pulse-ep-vol-1 This follows recent reissues of Accelerator, Papua New Guinea, Earthbeat and Principles of Motion - I believe there are more on their way. It's nice to have this early material all back in print once more.
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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.
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A Space of Partial Illumination E7.002 by THE FUTURE SOUND OF LONDON Second part of the Environment Seven trilogy is due out in July, Juno and Amazon listings report. Copies from FSOLDigital/Bandcamp will no doubt ship a week or two earlier. No cover yet. Only tracklist so far seems to be an incomplete one on Amazon, probably for the first side of the vinyl: 1 A Space of Partial Illumination 2 If That Were To Occur 3 Intents And Purpose 4 Embodied Cognition 5 All This Has Happened Before 6 How Forests Think CD and digital will almost certainly contain more tracks than the LP as usual. Volume three is currently hoped to be out at the end of the year, vinyl manufacturing permitting.
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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!
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Third volume of the mix CD series of FSOL / Humanoid / Yage remixes and obscurities released on Touched Music this coming Friday. Pre-release play of the CD will be at 7:30 on Friday evening on the Touched Mixlr page.
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Brian Dougans' legendary acid moniker returns! Built By Humanoid by Humanoid
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https://www.fsoldigital.com/product/humanoid-kaage-ep/ 01 – KAAGE (05:15) 02 – Static Objective (04:07) 03 – Aennuiosk (04:44) 04 – Event Null (04:29) 05 – Void Over (03:10) 06 – LoadedMethod (03:44) It's a lot less acid than other Humanoid stuff, much more IDM. Really good stuff. Digital is 50% off as part of the FSOLDigital sale. Rumours of a 12" to follow at some point.
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LP coming for Record Store Day. CD, digital and further LP copies will ship from FSOLDigital the week after. This is the first 'proper' new FSOL album since the Environmental disc of Archived : Environmental : Views which was initially a RSD release five years ago. What's really interesting here is that the cover and blurb seem to just be calling it Rituals, as part of the Environments series, which basically makes it the first FSOL album with its own standalone title since Dead Cities. No tracklist yet, but a few tracks known to be coming from the Environment Seven trilogy: Northern Point An unnamed track that opens this mix by Brian's brother A piano & string interpretation of Schubert’s Piano Sonata in A, featuring Morven Bryce on violin A breaksy track called 'Rituals', played on the Touched Music FSOL Night show last July.
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Pretty much a guaranteed thing these days. Available on Bandcamp and FSOLDigital, making it the first to be available as lossless from the off, finally. Last year's Calendar Album is also available on Bandcamp, making that available as lossless for the first time too. The art on both of those looks really different to their usual style.
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Copypasting this from my FSOL news page... This year, Record Store Day partially follows the pattern of last year's staggered format, with two drops. The first is on 12th June, and this will include a record three releases by Dougans and Cobain. The first, and most interesting, is the latest in the series of re-imaginings of the band's '90s tracks. This time, We Have Explosive is in the chair, with a set of new re-interpretations of the track. Given that the last two releases have featured archival works among the new tracks, it's possible that tracks like 'Exploded Funk', 'Abandoned Housing Blocks of Prypiat' and 'Blue Green' may be among the tracks here, but in general expect a series of new tracks based around the band's second-most-famous piece. An expanded CD version a couple of weeks later is, at this point, a near certainty. Interestingly, the cover and given title lists no 'Re-Imagined' or '2021', as with previous releases. Secondly, The Amorphous Androgynous tease a forthcoming reissue of Alice in Ultraland with a 10" EP, with The World is Full of Plankton as the title track. The b-side will feature two as yet unknown tracks, apparently from the album too. This is clearly more for the collector, although taken on its own, it's really nice to see 'Plankton' get its dues as one of the finest compositions in the Dougans / Cobain ouvre. The album itself, of course, passed back into the band's posession last year at the end of their contract with Harvest; a reissue is overdue, and one hopes a bonus disc in the style of The Otherness will accompany it. No release details have been revealed for the reissue yet. The third and final release is the most curious: Accelerator is coming out again, this time on its 30th anniversary (the minor issue of J&P delayed the 1991 release until the start of 1992 notwithstanding). There are no details on the Record Store Day page (linking, annoyingly, to the WHE page), but the full listings have it down as a double LP, suggesting there'll be some extra material here (a 12-minutes-per-side 2020s style release seeming unlikely, given it being mixed to play as two gapless sides). One assumes it's likely to be a set of 'Papua New Guinea' remixes on the second disc - possibly the same set as the 2001 reissue, given a vinyl release at last - although given the amount of archived material being regularly uncovered over at 9LW, it's not impossible that we're getting a whole album of Accelerator-era outtakes. The cover provided is the same 'remixed' version from the 2016 RSD release, so it's not totally impossible that it's actually a 12" + 7" pack as we had then, simply mislabelled by the people at RSD. We're going to do some digging, but either way we'll find out in the next few weeks...
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Digital only. Currently only Orfan Atmosphere txk available, but it's rather different from the album version - better, I think.
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CD1 - Dead Cities Remastered CD2 - We Have Explosive Remastered / expanded single + remixes / with bonus tracks CD3 - My Kingdom Remastered / expanded single / with bonus tracks CD4 - The Lost '95 Sessions CD5 - The Expanded '97 Sessions
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