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

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Cheers Alco. Yeah, I'm hoping it'll be the go-to place for FSOL knowledge!

Today on Fractional Difference...

...Amorphous remix Oasis...
Oasis - Falling Down (A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble Mix)

...FSOL get lost in the jungle...

FSOL - Electric Brain Storm Vol. 5 (I Stood There, Motionless)[/b]

...and Gaz does his final on-stage DJ sets.
Park Live Festival, 18/06/09
Harvest Psychedelic Festival, 03/07/09
Beat Herder, 04/07/09

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Today on Fractional Difference...

...the final volume in the Zeebox series...

Zeebox - 1984-1987 (Vol. 3)

...the final Gaz DJ set and almost the final Amorphous live show (+ many others)...
A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble Exploding in Your Mind Tent, Green Man Festival, 23/08/09

...the final FSOL live show...
FSOL - Bestival 11/09/09

...and a bizarre sampler.
FSOL - The Archives - Sampler 1

 

 

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Today on Fractional Difference...

...a gig nobody even knew happened until today...
The Amorphous Androgynous - Electric Picnic 06/09/09

...The Amorphous Androgynous support a man later convicted of physical abuse...
The Amorphous Androgynous - Kasabian Support HMV Forum (21/09/09)

...I write a surprisingly negative review of an album...

The Amorphous Androgynous - A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble Exploding in Your Mind vol 2 - Pagan Love Vibrations

...more Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble...

The Amorphous Androgynous - A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble Exploding in Your Mind Vol 8, The Pod Room (07/11/09)

...and even more...

The Amorphous Androgynous - Mojo Presents A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble Exploding in Your Mind

...and finally, some FSOL!

FSOL - Electric Brain Storms Vol. 6 (The Most Secluded Place), The Pod Room (19/03/10)

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Today on Fractional Difference...

...a very weird Archive...

FSOL - From the Archives Vol. 6

...even more Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble...

The Amorphous Androgynous - A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble Exploding in Your Mind Vol 3 The 3rd Ear

...and a couple of Monstrous Bubble remixes, as well as Amorphous covering The Beatles...
2010 remixes and compilation tracks

 

 

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Today on Fractional Difference...

...utter crap...

Mental Cube - Q (2011)

...my favourite FSOL mix...

FSOL - Electric Brain Storms Vol. 7, The Pod Room, 13/10/11

...even more Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble...

The Amorphous Androgynous - A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble Exploding in Your Mind, Solid Steel Radio, 20/04/12

...eBay fodder...

FSOL - Papua New Guinea (Original) / Murmurations

...and a proper new FSOL album at last.

FSOL - Environments 4

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I somehow forgot to post Environments 3 last week lol.

FSOL - Environments 3

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FSOLDigital Sampler 2 - The Fears & Fantasies of the Unconscious Mind

A bit of a weird mix, and probably a largely forgotten part of the band's work, but with a handful of exclusive tracks and alternate mixes.

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The Archives continue to go from strength to strength, with by far the strongest volume yet...


The Future Sound of London - From the Archives Vol. 7

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2012 remixes, compilation tracks and production work, on which Amorphous and FSOL officially go their separate ways, Brian and Gaz produce a Noel Gallagher song, and the most obscure FSOL track trickles out into the world.

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Today, four EPs released together in August 2013. The first three could almost be mixed up and form a consistent album of their own; the fourth is very different.

Blackhill Transmitter - EP


EMS : Piano - One


Sand Sound Folly - Salient Moons 1973


Suburban Domestic - Stillness

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Just a brief one today:
Andy Cato - The Coastal Path Florence to Rome (Amorphous Androgynous MPB Mix). Yes, it's not even the right title.
The Future Sound of London - Lakeside. An ambient track and the first time FSOL work with Touched.

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Some more Amorphous today, with the intriguing pair of Cartel albums, notably for being the first instrumental albums of the psychedelic Amorphous era, but also because several tracks contain elements that would go on to become part of the next two Environments albums.


The Amorphous Androgynous - Monstrous Bubble Soundtracks Presents The Cartel Vol. 1
...which is mostly your usual Amorphous fare, with plenty of guitar and flute freakouts...


The Amorphous Androgynous - Monstrous Bubble Soundtracks Presents The Cartel Vol. 2
...which I only now realised is actually very FSOL in places, with a lot of tracks feeling much more like the FSOLDigital side-projects and occasionally the Environments series than Amorphous. I barely gave this albums a listen on release, but this second volume really impressed me today, and I expect I'll be giving it many more listens in the months to come...



The Amorphous Androgynous – Solid Steel Radio Cartel Mix (22/11/13)
...and a radio mix to promote them. And with that, 2013 is done!

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FSOL - The Electric Brain Storm Document Eight
A very odd EBS today, very low on electronic music. This one took me bloody ages, given the obscurity of so many of the tracks.

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The Amorphous Androgynous – Monstrous Bubble Soundtracks Presents The Cartel Remixes

Bloody hell, I've had enough Cartel this week to last me a lifetime.

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2014, the year that began with a bunch of weekly FSOLDigital releases...

Blackhill Transmitter - 2nd


The Jazz Mags - An Open Window


Glass Girl - What's it All About?

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I suppose in some ways it's quite typical of a band who never do things the normal way, but this was the absolute proper 'new album' after Dead Cities, released in a totally understated manner as the fifth volume of a series that started out with archival releases. Only FSOL would do things this way.

The Future Sound of London - Environment Five

The other link with Dead Cities is this is an album that I had the opportunity to reassess through the writing of this blog, and discovered that I like more than I realised. Since my initial glowing response to Environment Five, my opinion dropped a little due to it kind of being the peak of down to Earth, emotional sounding FSOL as opposed to weird otherworldly soundscape FSOL, but revisiting it now it's so clear how utterly stunning this record is.

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A bit of navel gazing today...

The Future Sound of London - Electric Brain Storm 10 Micro Edition, Terminal Radio, 24/10/14

 

And time for the band's first standalone book. Plus the bonus download EP that came with it. Caution: includes me gushing over one of my favourite FSOL tracks.

The Future Sound of London - Artworks 1

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2014 remixes & compilation tracks, featuring the first proper 'FSOL' remix in 19 years, the first 'new' Humanoid material in 25 years, and the first re-recording of a '90s track. And watch me struggling to get enthusiastic about a whole album of Amorphous remixes

 

Also, the now familiar between-album EPs of 2015...

Blackhill Transmitter - 3


Intelligent Communication - Drive

 

 

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This thread is just epic. Bravo @purlieu

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ooooh.  just found this little Amorphous nugget from 1994, that i never knew about... (Ephidrena outtake?)

Track 11 on this Virgin Comp: https://www.discogs.com/release/755100-Various-Signed-Sealed-Delivered-2

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4 hours ago, hayhook said:

ooooh.  just found this little Amorphous nugget from 1994, that i never knew about... (Ephidrena outtake?)

Track 11 on this Virgin Comp: https://www.discogs.com/release/755100-Various-Signed-Sealed-Delivered-2

Ah, that ended up on From the Archives Vol 3 under the name Stomach Acid. Bloody great track, though. I think it was listed as being from Environments at the time, although I think they said that about everything that was unreleased in 1994.

Cheers NSS, you keep reading and I'll keep writing.

Actually I'll probably keep writing either way.

Today...

The final Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble mix to date...

The Amorphous Androgynous – A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble (Exploding in Your Mind) The Wizards of Oz

The first of many FSOL nights hosted by Touched Music...
Touched Music FSOL Night 1 14/05/15

And a difficult and weird sounding Archive...

The Future Sound of London - Archived 8

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A very mixed bag today...


The Future Sound of London - Mushroom 11 Soundtrack
This features one of my favourite FSOL tracks, the sadly largely unheard 'The Equevelants'.

 
The Future Sound of London - The Most Important Moments in a Life / Life in Moments
An incredible book & CD package.

2015 remixes, compilation tracks and production work
In which I face in the unenviable task of wading through material by Noel Gallagher, Paul Weller and The Kooks, stumbling across a couple of excellent remixes and compilation tracks by Humanoid, Yage and FSOL in the process.

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Starting 2016 with a bit slab of hauntology.


Blackhill Transmitter - Four


Synthi A - Ignition of the Sun


Blackhill Transmitter - Blackhill Transmitter


Blackhill Transmitter - Contained by Silence

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Touched Music FSOL Night 2 02/04/16
A few intriguing exclusives played on this show, including a couple of remixes nobody ever thought they'd hear.

The Future Sound of London - Nemone's Electric Ladyland 16/04/16
The first FSOL appearance on BBC radio in eight years, with a nostalgic look back on their Kiss FM mixes.


The Future Sound of London - Accelerator (25th Anniversary Edition)
Another reissue of Accelerator (it had been a few years...)

And then, finally, new FSOL albums. Feels like an age since Environment Five...

The Future Sound of London - Environment Six


The Future Sound of London - Environment 6.5


The Future Sound of London - Environment Six Plus
Really enjoyed listening to those two today, it's been a long time since I last gave them a really focused listen and they stand up bloody brilliantly. Think I might be reverting to preferring 6 over 6.5 again...

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Finishing up 2016 today, with an unusual EBS mix.


The Future Sound of London - The Electric Brain Storms 11

And 2016's remixes, compilation tracks and production work, featuring the final Amorphous remix to date, Yage remixing a punk band, and a couple of the band's finest compilation pieces. And some utterly worthless Noel Gallagher things.