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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!- 18 replies
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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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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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They've been working on the new AA album for like 4 years now, and preparing an EP length single by the end of 2019, full length album to (hopefully) follow next year.
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Vinyl release for RSD, good to see dual releases from them again this time. Great to see Rabbit in the Moon listed, they're also Tampa/Clearwater guys like me, who are massive FSOL fans since the 90s. I've seen them do some live remixes of FSOL at shows before.
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Surprised this hasn't been mentioned. An absolute classic from FSOL. First released 30 years ago, 1990 – Written and produced by FSOL before they became The Future Sound of London. This EP brings together the original recordings of the 3 main tracks released by Mental Cube, while the fourth was released under a different name, it was intended to be a Mental Cube track. Q – Quickly became a dance floor favourite funky 909 drums and speak n spell top line and big warm strings. Chile of the Bass Generation – Clanking Breakbeat wig-out. So This Is Love – a masterclass in classic UK House music that sounds so good even 30yrs on. In The Mind Of A Child – Originally released as Indo Tribe but in fact was intended as a Mental Cube Release – Bouncy heavy bass 909 drums beautifully constructed top melodies. TRACKLISTING: A1 – Q A2 – Chile of the Bass Generation B1 – So This Is Love B2 – In the Mind of a Child https://www.fsoldigital.com/product/mental-cube-ep/ Samples https://www.juno.co.uk/products/mental-cube/763846-01/
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Final title revealed, coming "early 2020". Possible tracklist:
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https://www.fsoldigital.com/product/the-amorphous-androgynous-2020-calendar/ "Two previously unreleased tracks ‘IMMORTAL suite no 1 HAARP’ and ‘Yer Peyote Blues’ accompany the visual treat."
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October 5, 2018
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https://thevinylfactory.com/news/official-list-record-store-day-2018-releases/
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FSOL's contribution to Record Storey Day 2017 is a triple-LP set called Archived : Environmental : Views One can guess that the first LP will be tracks from the archives, the second LP will be pieces recorded as part of the Environments series, and third will be 'Viewed from' tracks. I've been given the tracklist for the third so far: A1. Viewed from Pushkinova 7 A2. A Place in the Wilderness A3. Viewed from Below the Surface (2017 Version) A4. Viewed from Little Boats A5. Late October A6. The Oldest Lady B1. Viewed Through Apertures B2. Viewed from an Obscure Angle B3. Viewed from Fer Hills B4. Viewed from Across the Room B5. Viewed from Rosey's Perspective B6. Viewed from Under Leaves B7. Source of Uncertainty (Original Long Mix) B8. The House in the Woods B9. Viewed from Above (The 'Rosey' in B5 is named after my dog, which is pretty exciting).
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The 12th installment of my Single Source Publishing series rampaging through my 24 piece FSOL record collection. Enjoy the drift through time and mind-state.
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More news forthcoming.
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Another in the continuing mix series, focusing on the psych hotspot of the moment, Australia. http://www.fsoldigital.com/?product=a-monstrous-psychedelic-bubble-the-wizards-of-oz-double-cd samples: http://www.mojo4music.com/18383/amorphous-androgynous-remix-aussie-psych-nuggets/
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https://www.extrememusic.com/#album/2293
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Amorphous Androgynous - Peppermint Tree & Seeds
Rubin Farr posted a topic in New & Upcoming Releases
https://www.fsoldigital.com/product/the-peppermint-tree-the-seeds-of-superconsciousness/
