After being blown away upon first-listen to Future Sound of London's experimental ambient epic, Lifeforms from 1994, I did a bit of digging to find more exciting sounds from the artist. I quickly discovered that the same gents from FSOL also perform under the moniker, Amorphous Androgynous with quite an expansive catalog for the project. But the real shocker was the realization that FSOL was in fact the other half of the brilliant psychedelic EP I'd ordered from DJ Food earlier this year!
The Amorphous Androgynous
DJ Food & The Amorphous Androgynous collaborated on The Illectrik Hoax EP in 2012 producing a fantastic electro-psych-rock-leftfield mix that really gets inside your skull.
It sounds as good as it looks.
DJ Food & The Amorphous Androgynous - The Illectrik Hoax EP
I wasted no time in picking up an archive of both FSOL / Amorphous Androgynous' extended discographies as well as a complete archive of their radio broadcasts, live mixes and anthologies, anxious to learn more about the psychedelic side project.
For those who own copies of FSOL's primary albums, there is a treasure trove of other material in the presently-circulating lossless discographic archive and its accompanying radio broadcast collection. The content is organized chronologically into a series of categorical subfolders thusly:
The Future Sound of London Studio Discography
The Future Sound of London - Complete Radio Broadcasts
BBC Radio 1 Essential Mixes
The Collected Electric Brain Storms
The Collected ISDN Live Transmissions
The Collected Kiss FM Transmissions
The Collected Monstrous Psychedelic Broadcasts
The Future Sound of London Studio Discography:
Albums
Anthologies
EPs & Singles
Albums:
(1991) Accelerator
(1994) Lifeforms
(1995) ISDN
(1996) Dead Cities
Environments Series
From the Archives Series
Environments Series:
(2008) Environments
(2008) Environments 2
(2010) Environments 3
(2012) Environments 4
From the Archives Series:
(2007) From the Archives Vol. 1
(2007) From the Archives Vol. 2
(2007) From the Archives Vol. 3
(2007) From the Archives Vol. 4
(2008) From the Archives Vol. 5
(2010) From the Archives Vol. 6
(2012) From the Archives Vol. 7
Anthologies:
(1992) Earthbeat
(2006) Teachings From The Electronic Brain (The Best of FSOL)
(2008) By Any Other Name
(2008) FSOL Digital Mix
(2013) The FSOL Remix Anthology
(2013) The Papua New Guinea Anthology
EPs & Singles
(1993) Cascade
(1994) Expander
(1994) Lifeforms EP
(1994) Promo 500
(1995) Far-Out Son of Lung and the Ramblings of a Madman
(1996) My Kingdom
(1997) We Have Explosive
(2007) A Gigantic Globular Burst of Antistatic
(2008) The Pulse EPs
The Future Sound of London - Complete Radio Broadcasts:
BBC Radio 1 Essential Mixes
The Collected Electric Brain Storms
The Collected ISDN Live Transmissions
The Collected Kiss FM Transmissions
The Collected Monstrous Psychedelic Broadcasts
BBC Radio 1 Essential Mixes:
(1993) BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix 1
(1995) BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix 2
The Collected Electric Brain Storms:
01 Vol. 1 (2008)
02 Vol. 2 (2008)
03 Vol. 3 (2008)
04.1 Vol. 4A (2009)
04.2 Vol. 4B (2009)
0.5 Vol. 0.5 (2006)
05 Vol. 5 (2009)
06.1 Vol. 6A (2010)
06.2 Vol. 6B (2010)
07 Vol. 7 (2011)
The Collected ISDN Live Transmissions:
01 Transmission 1- (1994) ISDN Tour
02 Transmission 2- New York, 11th May 1994
03 Transmission 3- Edinburgh, 28th October, 1996
04 Transmission 4- Netherlands, 9th September 1994
05 Transmission 5- Rome, 16th May 1994
06 Transmission 6- France, 17th May 1997
07 Transmission 7- Manchester, 6th November 1996
08 Transmission 8- Los Angeles, 22nd January 1996
09 Transmission 9- London, 25th March 1997
11 Transmission 11- Berlin, 12th June 1996
14.1 Transmission 14a- Barcelona 1995 - Preshow
14.2 Transmission 14b- Barcelona 1995 - Art Future Festival
16 Transmission 16- France, 1997
[1997] ISDN Show
The Collected Kiss FM Transmissions:
Test Transmission (Pts 1-6)
Test Transmission 2 (Pts 1-6)
Transmission 1 (Pts 1-6)
Transmission 2 (Pts 1-5)
Transmission 3 (Pts 1-2)
Transmission 4 (Pts 1-6)
Transmission 5 (Pts 1-6)
Transmission 6 (Pt 1-6)
The Collected Monstrous Psychedelic Broadcasts:
A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble Exploding In Your Mind: 13-Episode 8 Volume Library
01 AMPBEIYM Vol. 1 (Part 1)
02 AMPBEIYM Vol. 1 (Part 2)
03 AMPBEIYM Vol. 2 (Part 1 - Paul Thomas Mix)
04 AMPBEIYM Vol. 2 (Part 2 - Annie Nightingale Mix)
05 AMPBEIYM Vol. 3
06 AMPBEIYM Vol. 4
07 AMPBEIYM Vol. 5
08 AMPBEIYM Vol. 6
09 AMPBEIYM Vol. 7 (Part 1)
10 AMPBEIYM Vol. 7 (Part 2)
11 AMPBEIYM Vol. 7 (Part 3)
12 AMPBEIYM Vol. 7 (Part 4)
13 AMPBEIYM Vol. 8
Similarly, DJ Food has generously made a multitude of his mixes available at djfood.org for your listening pleasure. And NinjaTune has 37 of DJ Food's Solid Steel mixes uncut on their Soundcloud page.
This latest musical discovery has really pushed these two libraries to the front of the line. In the weeks ahead I'll be further-exploring the IDM / trip-hop / dub / psychedelic / and ambient wonders of DJ Food and Amorphous Androgynous. When I emerge from the funky depths, I'll go on to explore FSOL's thirty other aliases -
- Aircut
- Amorphous Androgynous
- Art Science Technology
- Candese
- Deep Field
- Dope Module
- EMS:Piano
- Heads Of Agreement
- Homeboy
- Humanoid
- Indo Tribe
- Intelligent Communication
- Mental Cube
- Metropolis
- Part-Sub-Merged
- Polemical
- Q
- Sand Sound Folly
- Semtex
- Semi Real
- Six Oscillators in Remittance
- Smart Systems
- Suburban Domestic
- T.Rec
- The Far-out Son Of Lung
- The Jazz Mags
- The Orgone Accumulator
- Unit 2449
- Yage
- Yunie
- Zeebox
...I've got some work ahead of me.
Tune in to the title track from The Illectrik Hoax below.
And check out the ambient epic - Lifeforms from 1994.
UPDATE: Before the end of the evening I was able to acquire the remaining stray albums and DJ sets missing from the above catalog. Now I've added:
1993 - Amorphous Androgynous - Tales Of Ephidrina
1994 - Future Sound of London - ISDN (Black Edition)
2005 - Amorphous Androgynous - Alice in Ultraland
2008 - Amorphous Androgynous - The Mello Hippo Disco Show
2008 - Amorphous Androgynous - The Peppermint Tree & The Seeds of Superconsciousness
2013 - Amorphous Androgynous - The Cartel Vol. 1
2013 - Amorphous Androgynous - The Cartel Vol. 2
2014 - Amorphous Androgynous - The Cartel Remixes
2015 - Amorphous Androgynous - A Monstrous Psychededlic Bubble Exploding in Your Mind - The Wizards of Oz (2CD)