The first of 2 EPs 2 proceed the next Future Sound Of London album in 2025.

Side A is a deeply moody dark ambient journey through mists of choirs to a place of ritualist electronic beat swamp finally being spat on a leaf suburb road somewhere in Surrey - what just happened !

Side B unlike the previous side this begins far more reflective, as the journey progress it becomes more unsettling once more - a baroque minimalist piece followed by modular synths melding with breaks and drum machine - ambient field recordings , a mesh of carefully gathered and selected samples - FSOL perfection.

TRACK LISTING

1. Fentanyl
2. Being Human
3. Leafy Suburbs
4. Humans Being
5. Slow Moving Carcass
6. Out Of View

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FSOL present the final instalment in the Environments Trilogy. “7.003” goes deeper and darker than the previous two albums, the flavour here harping back with memories of the groups 90s sounding pre “Dead Cities” album. On this release we have swamp laden electronics dripping from cavernous breakbeats weaving in and out of otherworldly chords and strings firmly back in the driving seat. FSOL deliver not only the final piece of the jigsaw but a clever jaw-dropingly sensorium.

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: Crisp percussive trickles and paddling guitar snippets weave around each-other into echoing electronic chirps. There are moments of jagged, glitched unease but the soaring melodic direction and airy, echoic haze more than offset that. As ever, a wonderful and perfectly produced outing from FSOS.

TRACK LISTING

1. Future Testaments
2. Resting Point
3. A Desolate Stretch Of Night Road
4. Where All Is Ending
5. Overwrite
6. I'm Eating Here
7. Echos Of Inherent Sense
8. A Space In The Subsequent Familiar
9. Drift Incline
10. Trichome
11. Absence Of Solution
12. Kwaahu
13. Ruler
14. Awkward Shape

“Built By Humanoid” is Humanoid's second album, a mere 30 years after the debut, though Brian Dougans claims the first album wasn't really him anyway. Humanoid's classic acid house single, "Stakker Humanoid", highly regarded as one of the key tracks from the era (Richard James sights the Stakker project as a major influence), enjoyed massive success in 1988. Reaching No.1 for 5 weeks in the UK dance charts, performances on Top of the Pops, a John Peel session for the BBC and European tours eventually led to an album deal. Whilst all this was happening, Brian Dougans (one half of electronic legends Future Sound of London) claims he was returning to his squat in Kings Cross with no electricity or water. He not only became disillusioned with the business, but also became increasingly ill from the conditions he was living in. Around 6 tracks into the album, he left London and record label, Streetsounds, returning to Manchester to recover and regroup his thoughts. However, Steetsounds pressed ahead with the album and it was finished in Brian’s absence with guest performers.

Brian left Humanoid behind and went on to create FSOL with Gaz Cobain becoming leading lights in the burgeoning ambient scene, scoring a top 10 album "Lifeforms" on Virgin Records. In 2003 Rephlex (Aphex Twin’s label) released a posthumous album of 1988 out takes compiled by Brian. Recently Humanoid tracks have been popping up on modern compilation albums (Touched Music / Gasman, etc) signaling a possible return. “Built by Humanoid” is a brand new nine track album of future acid cuts, breaks and electronics, a lot of which is credited to 2 synthesisers co-designed by Brian Dougans and English Electronics company Digitana. It is this innovation that has helped usher Humanoid back into the limelight and consequently the album has a rather new and unique sound and style. The track "Polymath" is created using a possibility / probability theory that results in a track which at no point repeats itself - 303 tinged acidic bubbles. Meanwhile "Traktion" is a break beat, pulse laden, bass heavy monster. "Fu*k It’ is the future sound of 303. Fast, frantic and beat driven. Whilst "Post Humans" combines thumping 909 and 303 into an acid hallucination. 

TRACK LISTING

1. Orfan Atmosphere
2. Polymath
3. Blokd
4. Traktion
5. Fu*k It
6. To Function Autonomously
7. Post Humans
8. A.P.E
9. N-Droid

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Collectors Limited Edition Double Vinyl for Record Store Day 2014 * Hand Numbered 750 Units

A special collector's double vinyl of 'The Cartel' by the Amorphous Androgynous exploring psychsploitation (where psychedelia meets blaxploitation) on their 'MONSTROUS BUBBLE' soundtrack series.

Features original tracks from The Cartel Vols 1&2 written by the Amorphous Androgynous plus remixes by Youth, DJ Food, Black Light Cinema, Cranium Pie, Lost In Edit and by the Amorphous Androgynous themselves. Also includes 'WHERE DOES THE EVIL GO ?' featuring Alisha Sufit (Magic Carpet) on vocals and BANKSTERS which features Noel Gallagher on bass and guitar.

TRACK LISTING

Disc 1
1. The Chaser (Black Light Cinema Remix)
2. City Of Regrets (Broadcast Of Variants Remix)
3. Where Does The Evil Go
4. Tunnel Vision (DJ Food Remix)
5. Billionaire
6. Bugged (Virgil Howe Remix)
7. The Watch Man
8. The Killin' Spree
9. The Costa Rican Cartel
10. Visiting The Visitor (Seafar Remix)
11. Out About (Mikey Rowe Remix)
12. Wasp (Blood Solution) (Youth Remix)

Disc 2
1. Banksters
2. The Bug
3. Regrets (Re-edit)
4. Radio Break (NMESH Re-mix)
5. Wasped (Cranium Pie's Baking Research Centre Remix)
6. 1 000000 (Cranium Pie's Baking Research Centre Remix)
7. The Wasp
8. Bankster Island
9. The First Billion Is The Hardest
10. Regrets And The Damage Done (Lost In Edit Re-mix)
11. The Rat
12. Opium Smiles