The Future Sound of London thread / song-by-song blog

[purlieu]

Right, closing up 2001 with some increasingly samey mixes...
Gaz Cobain - Winter Chill 2001, Hackney, 08/12/01

A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble Exploding in Your Mind Vol. 2 Part 2: Annie Nightingale 23/12/01
A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble Exploding in Your Mind Vol. 2 Part 1: One World 28/12/01

The Mello Hippo Disco Show TV Pilot

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Practically a book in itself, here's the most confusing album release of all time...


Amorphous Androgynous - The Isness
-The Lovers
-The Isness
-The Mello Hippo Disco Show
-Goodbye Sky (Reprise)
-Elysian Feels
-Go Tell it to the Trees Egghead
-Divinity
-Guru Song
-Osho
-Her Tongue is Like a Jellyfish
-Meadows
-High Tide on the Sea of Flesh
-The Galaxial Pharmaceutical
-Chawawah
-Elysian Feels (Abbey Road Version)
-The Mello Hippo Disco Show (Abbey Road Version)
-Yes My Brother
-Goodbye Sky

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Tying up the original Isness promotional campaign into early 2003...


Isness Mix on XFM, Radio Magnetic and Radio Nova


Amorphous Androgynous - The Mello Hippo Disco Show
-Yo-Yo
-She Sells Electric Ego
-The Mello Hippo Disco Show (Jacknife Lee Mix)
-Slo-Mo
-Hippo-Drone
-Trying to Make Impermanent Things Permanent
-The World's in Transience
-The Mello Hippo Disco Show (Jacknife Lee Remix Radio Edit)
-Yo-Yo (Radio Edit)
-The Mello Hippo Disco Show (Radio Edit)


A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble Exploding in Your Mind Vol. 3 XFM 27/12/02


Stakker - Eurotechno


A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble Exploding in Your Mind Vol. 4 Resonance FM 28/01/03

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Humanoid - Sessions 84-88
There are 23 tracks so y'know, just click on them on the page for track-by-tracks, not listing them all here!


Future Sound of London Present Amorphous Androgynous: A Psychedelic DJ Experience, Stereoleto Festival, 05/07/03


Amorphous Androgynous - The Isness & The Otherness
Amorphous Androgynous - The Otherness
-The Lovers (Love is the Lover)
-Maharishi Raga
-The Band (Divinity)
-Rural Green
-Chinese Whispers
-The Conga Run
-Theram
-Toy Piano

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Amorphous Androgynous - Arvika Festival 15/07/04

The Amorphous Androgynous - Alice in Ultraland

Track-by-track coming later...

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Here are the Alice tracks...
-The Emptiness of Nothingness
-The Witchfinder
-The Witch Hunt
-All is Harvest
-The Prophet
-Indian Swing
-The Seasons Turn
-High and Dry
-Yes My Brother - You've Gotta Turn Yourself Around
-In the Summertime of Consciousness
-Billy the Onion
-Another Fairy Tale Ending
-The World is Full of Plankton
-The Wicker Doll



The Witchfinder
-The Witchfinder (Radio Edit)

 

[purlieu]

Rounding up 2005 with more Amorphous stuff:

Gaz Cobain - BBC 6Music Psychedelic Mini Mixes

A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble Vol. 5

A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble Vol. 6

A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble Exploding in Your Mind Vol. 7, 30/10/05
Earthcore Global Carnival, Melbourne, 26/11/05
Earthcore The Peak Crossing, Jimna, 03/12/05
Earthcore Hits Queensland, Brisbane, 05/12/05
Prince Bandroom, Melbourne, ??/12/05

Good news for Amorphousophobes, that's about it for a long time now. There are a handful of mixes and releases spread out over the next 16 years, but they're very much in the minority. Back to electronics once more...

Edited November 13, 2021 by purlieu

[NewSchoolScience]

I love FSOL as much as anyone but this was a tough period. Great write ups as always though @purlieu!

Edited November 14, 2021 by NewSchoolScience

[purlieu]

Hah yes. I do love the Abbey Road version of The Isness, and some of the other stuff, but there was an undeniable feeling of "cool, but when's the new FSOL coming along?" especially after the umpteenth Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble. I think some of that might be expressed in how I've written the 2006 stuff...

The Amorphous Androgynous - Parallel Universes (??/??/06)


FSOL - Teachings from the Electronic Brain (The Best of FSOL)
exclusive edits from the compilation:
-Everyone in the World is Doing Something Without Me
-My Kingdom
-Lifeforms (Radio Edit)
-Yage
-We Have Explosive (7" Edit)


FSOL - Lifeforms / We Have Explosive
-Lifeforms (Wighnomy Brothers & Robah Wruhmes Simetikon 001-06 Re-Edit)
-Lifeforms (Wighnomy Brothers & Robah Wruhmes Simetikon 002-06 Re-Edit)
-We Have Explosive (Remixed by King Roc)

The Amorphous Androgynous - Bestival 10/09/06


FSOL - Electric Brain Storms 0.5 BBC 6Music 10/10/06


FSOL - Stereo Sucks

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Humanoid - Stakker Humanoid (2007)


FSOL - Teachings from the Electronic Brain (The Best of FSOL): Rare Tracks Edition


FSOL - A Gigantic Globular Burst of Anti-Static
-Globular
-Globules
-Glob
-Globular (Shortform)

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From the Archives Vol. 1
-Lizzard Crawl
-Hallucination
-Field of Flowers
-Environments - Birds
-Still Flowers
-Environments - Gong
-Woodland
-UU
-Turn Around
-Is This Real
-Mouth Muse
-Hazey Day Girl
-Wt Pavement
-Head Hunter
-Arrived
-Pale Moon
-Nuru Device Send

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From the Archives Vol. 2
Track-by-track is in the entry, can't be arsed posting 22 links here!

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From the Archives Vol. 3
Tracks linked from the entry!


FSOL / AA / Diane Harris - A Tiny Point of Light

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Time for some startlingly ahead of its time electronics from Brian's mid-'80s Zeebox project, finally released in 2007.

Zeebox - 1984-1987 (Vol. 1)

 

 

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Aaaand volume two

 

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Three oft-overlooked albums from the launch of FSOLDigital. Difficult to do track-by-tracks for these as many either follow a formula or are very abstract, but I gave it a go!

Part-Sub-Merged - Four Forests South of Frome


Polemical - Hand-Made Devices


Heads of Agreement - The San Monta Tapes

 

 

 

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A handful of fairly inconsequential releases, followed by an important entry to the From the Archives series. All track-by-tracks linked from entry pages.


The Future Sound of London - Papua New Guinea (2007)


Metropolis - Metropolis (2007)


The Future Sound of London - Archived


The Future Sound of London - From the Archives


The Future Sound of London - From the Archives Vol. 4

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Humanoid - Stakker Humanoid 2007


The Future Sound of London - Environments


The Future Sound of London - By Any Other Name

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Bringing the band's busiest year to a close with a lot of Stakker Humanoid remixes.


Humanoid - Your Body Robotic


Humanoid - Your Body Sub-Atomic

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Hello 2008! My favourite year being a FSOL fan.

The Future Sound of London - FSOL Digital Mix


The Amorphous Androgynous - The Peppermint Tree and the Seeds of Superconsciousness
...on which I'm a little less positive than normal.


Smart Systems - Tingler (2008)


The Future Sound of London present The Pulse EPs.

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Yage - The Woodlands of Old


FSOL - The Electric Brain Storm 1


FSOL - Environments II

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Today, on Fractional Difference...

The From the Archives series steps up a level...

FSOL - From the Archives Vol. 5

...30 minutes of Gaz Cobain dancing...
The Amorphous Androgynous - Kazan, Russia, 30/08/08

... an Amorphous Androgynous gig that was actually advertised...
The Amorphous Androgynous - Hermitage Garden, Moscow, 31/08/08

...Gaz does some DJing...
Gaz Cobain - Reworks Festival, Thessaloniki, 20/09/08

...and I finally found the source of the superb "you've been waiting a long time for this" sample in EBS3, and it's really, really not what I was expecting.

FSOL - Electric Brain Storms 3, Frisky Radio, 26/09/08

 

 

 

 

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Today, on Fractional Difference...

...three whole hours of Electric Brain Storms...

The Future Sound of London - Electric Brain Storms 2, The Pod Room, 15/11/08

...the first remix in six years...
2008 Remixes

...and Noel Gallagher's album of the year.

The Amorphous Androgynous - A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble Exploding in Your Mind Vol 1 - Cosmic Space Music

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Today on Fractional Difference, we hit 2009, a year almost completely defined by gigs and transmissions...

...FSOL goes full on hauntology...

FSOL - Electric Brain Storms Vol. 4

...they then go on to confuse everyone at BLOC...
FSOL - BLOC Festival, 13/03/09

...Gaz talks to Rob Da Bank for two hours...
Gaz Cobain's A-Z of Psychedelia, BBC Radio 1, 23/03/09

...another Amorphous gig...
The Amorphous Androgynous - Kiev, 11/05/09

...and a proper FSOL gig with some great live reworkings...
FSOL - Existenz, Athens, 23/05/09

...oh, and another Amorphous gig there's no record of anywhere.
The Amorphous Androgynous - Bangers N Mash Festival, 30/05/09

[Alcofribas]

this is such an epic project that i think will be a standard fsol resource. thanks for all the work you're putting into this.