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

[Extralife]

You did a fantastic job with this and have done the band such a huge service in the process. Well done, @purlieu.

[purlieu]

So much to unpack with this cover. The art looks totally unlike any other FSOL cover to date. Buggy is very much not around these days, meaning there's been a real diversity in sleeve designs of late. This is a really bizarre one though.

Rituals seems to be the title, with e7.001 as the subtitle identifying it as part of the Environment 7 trilogy, which very much makes it an album with its own title, for the first time since Dead Cities, arguably. e7.002 is finished and already has a title too (a very different one to this), so it seems that titles are very much a thing they're interested in doing again. 

 

No tracklist yet, but a few tracks believed to be coming from the Environment Seven trilogy (knowing them they probably won't turn up now0:
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, played on a 2020 Touched Mixlr FSOL Night show.
A breaksy track called 'Rituals', played on the Touched Music FSOL Night show last July.

 

I'm looking forward to this a lot. Some of the other recent releases have been good but just haven't quite had that fully rounded FSOL album experience, I'm sure this will though.

[NewSchoolScience]

This was a heroic effort @purlieu, bravo!  Just been catching up with the last few posts.  Thank you for all the work.

Edited February 18 by NewSchoolScience

[purlieu]

Thank you, and to everyone else! It was a hell of an experience, even if I did have a fortnight of "what the fuck do I listen to now?" anxiety afterwards.

I'm hoping someone will do a similar thing for other artists but other superfans are losers.

[NewSchoolScience]

11 hours ago, purlieu said:

Thank you, and to everyone else! It was a hell of an experience, even if I did have a fortnight of "what the fuck do I listen to now?" anxiety afterwards.

I'm hoping someone will do a similar thing for other artists but other superfans are losers.

Autechre

[purlieu]

Rituals tracklist:

A1. Hopiate
A2. Triple Circles
A3. Somewhere Outside
A4. Ritualised
A5. Time Cone
A6. Solar Signals
B1. Sand to Ocean
B2. Far Seeker
B3. Slowly Slipped Away
B4. Visibility Accumulation
B5. I Am Error
B6. Colour Primary
B7. Time Passed the Sun

No 'Northern Point' or 'Sonata in A', although these might well appear on 7.002, 7.003 or even the extended CD version. 'Rituals' may have been renamed to 'Ritualised'. I believe the track from the Alan Dougans mix is among the ones listed here.

[NewSchoolScience]

On 3/6/2022 at 2:17 PM, purlieu said:

Rituals tracklist:

A1. Hopiate
A2. Triple Circles
A3. Somewhere Outside
A4. Ritualised
A5. Time Cone
A6. Solar Signals
B1. Sand to Ocean
B2. Far Seeker
B3. Slowly Slipped Away
B4. Visibility Accumulation
B5. I Am Error
B6. Colour Primary
B7. Time Passed the Sun

No 'Northern Point' or 'Sonata in A', although these might well appear on 7.002, 7.003 or even the extended CD version. 'Rituals' may have been renamed to 'Ritualised'. I believe the track from the Alan Dougans mix is among the ones listed here.

Any idea on the release date for this, @purlieu?

[purlieu]

LP on Record Store Day, 23rd April. CD and digital with four bonus tracks on 29th April. Further vinyl copies should be shipping from FSOLDigital at that point too. Digital bonus tracks:

14. Ebb Flow
15. Avoiding Mirrors
16. Clone A9
17. Only in Memories

[NewSchoolScience]

On 4/1/2022 at 11:16 AM, purlieu said:

LP on Record Store Day, 23rd April. CD and digital with four bonus tracks on 29th April. Further vinyl copies should be shipping from FSOLDigital at that point too. Digital bonus tracks:

14. Ebb Flow
15. Avoiding Mirrors
16. Clone A9
17. Only in Memories

Super, thanks. Can’t wait 😅 

[purlieu]

LPs are out now. Literally no promo on the band's social media haha. Can confirm that the first track on here, 'Rituals' from one of last year's Touched mixes and a renamed 'Rain Forest' from the first Mind Maps mix CD are on the album. 

[BUNKUM]

Finally finished reading it all, every page,  every track and mix. Hugely enjoyable, informative and well written, amazing achievement Ross, and really made be appreciate and re-evaluate some releases.

It was funny reading about releases I’d designed, still get a kick of having done them (roll on Mind Maps 3). Also had to laugh at the pic of the ‘95 Essential Mix track listing as that was my photo shot on my old work desk. 

I should also add that sT8818r and bdog on the Mind Maps 2 sleeve weren’t added by me, I asked Brian for some aliases to add to the artwork as, unlike the first one, I didn’t know who was on this one.

[purlieu]

Oh haha, he told me it was you. Naughty Brian.

Glad you enjoyed it anyway, cheers for reading!