Next
Future Sound Of London album
The next FSOL record is in the works, it has been announced. Lots
of work into 5.1 surround sound has been done lately, which have
resulted in a twenty minute video, "Stereo Sucks", and
"A Gigantic Globular Burst Of Anti-Static", a
soundtrack to an art installation at the Kinetica gallery in
London. The full "Stereo Sucks" video, plus an audio
clip, featured on the disc mounting Issue 182 of Future Music
Magazine. There will most likely be a short-run release of the
full "Globular Burst" piece in the short future. After
that, Gaz has announced the duo intend to spend "six months
working on a surround sound masterpiece". Elsewhere, both
Brian and Gaz have been working on separate musical projects,
some of which - including PartSubMerged, Polemical, Heads Of
Agreement and The Orgone Accumulator - have appeared on MySpace
and FSOLDigital, while others remain unknown. These projects may
well lead to further material adding to the forthcoming album.
Everything heard so far has been extremely electronic, and in
most places very ambient.
Archives
Brian has spoken of the forthcoming From The Archives 5
disc, the final in the series, and a potential 1-5 boxset. The
Electric Brain Storm 1 tracklist contains songs supposedly from
Archive 6, although this may be a typographical error. Further
archived releases include '2" Tape Reels', which is
described as 'Various sessions - demos and
outakes from the 2" multitrack recordings @ RAM studio. 16
songs - 1 hr 5 mins', including a bizarre mix of We Have
Explosive previewed on the band's MySpace, and 'Zeebox 3 -
heavily involved in drugs', which is the long awaited final
chapter in the Zeebox series, recently previewed on YouTube.
Yage - The Woodland of Old
An album of newly recorded material under the alias
Yage, a CD release is likely after May's digital release.
The Amorphous Androgynous
Several AA releases have been suggested for the future.
The long spoken of Amorphic Archives are due to follow the
successful FSOL archive series, although may have been renamed to
Amorphik Alternatives, if the Electric Brain Storm 1 online mix
tracklist is anything to go by. The booklet for The Peppermint
Tree contains covers for the following releases: The New Love
Poetry, Wobbly Oozescapes and 2012, promising their availability
on FSOLDigital.com. It is possible that one of these is the
archive disc, but what the other two - or maybe even three -
contain is currently a mystery.
Environments
Environments II & III, recently revealed, are
expected to have mp3 releases and possible CD versions later in
the year. Brian has described them as containing music 'past and
present'.
A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble
In the Freeze article, Gaz confirmed 'mix/DJ albums'
will be coming out this year. Those of you with good memories may
remember the Monstrous
Psychedelic Bubble MySpace page from last year. As Gaz says
over there: "The first VOLUME is upon us- the Eternal Now-A
History Of Psychedelic Travel and Sonic Teleportation is being
transmogrified by the Amorphous Androgynous RIGHT NOW and is
scheduled for a Sept 2007 release on Platipus Records."...
"The second volume is to be mixed by the Future Sound Of
London and will appear toward the end of the year. 'The Monstrous
Bubble' will be an ongoing mix series featuring guest collaters
at the behest of the Amorphous Androgynous and the FSOL."
The label have announced they are releasing a series of
compilations which will take ['A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble']
to even greater legendary status [than it's 1997 recording].'
Here's Platipus Records. The first volume, by AA, is out in
August/September 2008 as a double CD.
FSOL and Amorphous DVDs
Several years ago, the official forum mentioned a FSOL
DVD release - and the band are still in talks with EMI over this.
Expect videos. Expect a long wait. In the nearer future, an
Amorphous Androgynous DVD, containing unreleased audio and video
from the Isness/Alice In Ultraland sessions, is set for release
on Future Sound of London Recordings later in 2008.
6
Oscillators In Remittance - Light Senses Dark Edges
Another of Brian's experiments, so likely to just appear
as an mp3 release alongside Heads of Agreement, Polemical, Zeebox
and PartSubMerged, one track is on FSOLDigital as a sampler. Made
by oscillators reacting to light, this material is droney
ambient.
EMS:Piano
Another project of Brian's, currently incomplete, will
be out sometime in the future. Featuring electronics and piano
(unsurprisingly), the record is inspired by soundtrack work
Brian's father had done. Two tracks were previewed on The
Electric Brain Storm online radio show in June 2008.
Recent releases:
July 28th 2008: The Amorphous Androgynous - The
Peppermint Tree & The Seeds Of Superconsciousness (CD)
July 21st 2008: The Future Sound of London - Environments (CD)
May 12th 2008: Yage - The Woodlands Of Old (MP3)
May 12th 2008: The Future Sound of London - From The Archives
Volume 4 (CD)
May 5th 2008: The Future Sound of London present The Pulse EPs
(CD)
April 7th 2008: Smart Systems - Tingler 2008 (12")
February 20th 2008: The Amorphous Androgynous - The Peppermint
Tree & The Seeds Of Superconsciousness (MP3)
November 19th 2007: The Future Sound of London - Environments,
Various - By Any Other Name (MP3)
November 29th 2007: Humanoid - Your Body Robotic (CD/12")
November 12th 2007: Humanoid - Stakker Humanoid 2007 Remixes
(12")