The Future Sound of London - Archived 9

October 5, 2018

Fuck yes.

nice

Excite, obviously. 

splendid

neato

hell yea dude

CD tracklist:

1. Ocea
2. Semi Conscious Participant
3. Silent Midnight
4. Halfer
5. Embodied
6. Super Tide
7. Without You It's Meaningless
8. Oska Traveller
9. Slow Moving World
10. Propagate
11. Photographs Of An Object
12. A Constantly Changing Mind
13. Confirmation Bias
14. These Days
15. Riverbed
16. Extruded
17. Views Of A Empty Sky

LP tracklist:

A1: Ocea (6.38)
A2: Semi Conscious Participant (2.27)
A3: Silent Midnight (4.12)
A4: Halfer (4.34)
A5: Embodied (3.47)
A6: Super Tide (3.22)
B1: These Days (4.31)
B2: Slow Moving World (1.53)
B3: Propagate (3.41)
B4: Without You Its Meaningless (5.15)
B5: Light (3.05)
B6: Extruded (3.29)
B7: Views Of An Empty Sky (3.32)
B8: Plenary (1.24)

CD exclusives:
'Oska Traveller'
'Photographs of an Object'
'A Constantly Changing Mind'
'Confirmation Bias'
'Riverbed'

LP exclusives:
'Light'
'Plenary'

Various sites have release date listed as 29th September, 5th October and 19th October so far.

Pre-orders on FSOLDigital coming later this week. I think all copies bought from them should include a download of all 19 tracks, regardless of format.

When will we see on FSOLdigital?

Wooooooo! I <3 FSOL! Haven't been keeping track of other archival releases, would y'all recommend all of them? Some? Which are the best?

  On 9/26/2018 at 3:04 AM, Extralife said:

When will we see on FSOLdigital?

Hopefully this week.

  On 9/26/2018 at 6:44 PM, vproc said:

Wooooooo! I <3 FSOL! Haven't been keeping track of other archival releases, would y'all recommend all of them? Some? Which are the best?

The first four archives are quite patchy - lots of good tracks, but some very obvious 'outtake'-like tracks, and they're all cut up without linking sections so don't flow so well. Worth a listen, but the later ones are better. I think 7 is probably regarded as the best... other than a very Dead Cities-era track, none of it's easy to pin down to a particular era and it could just about pass for a completely new album. 5 is very Dead Cities in tone, 8 is quite a skeletal, heavily electronic record that doesn't really sound like anything else in their catalogue. The first half of 6 is particularly excellent.

They reissued the first 3 volumes I believe with continuous mixes on CD.

i liked 6.5

  On 9/26/2018 at 11:02 PM, dr lopez said:

i liked 6.5

6 + 6.5 was the peak for me, but most of the later ones have been very solid.

  On 9/26/2018 at 11:01 PM, Rubin Farr said:

They reissued the first 3 volumes I believe with continuous mixes on CD.

They've only been made available digitally so far - don't think there are any plans to release the 'enhanced' versions on CD.

http://www.fsoldigital.com/product/archived-9/ Archived 9 is up for pre-order now, with copies shipping on Saturday for an official release date on Monday. Just ordered the CD and can confirm it comes with a download of the vinyl-only bonus tracks.

  On 9/27/2018 at 3:13 AM, Extralife said:

 

  On 9/26/2018 at 11:02 PM, dr lopez said:

i liked 6.5

6 + 6.5 was the peak for me, but most of the later ones have been very solid.

They mean Environments, not the Archives series.

  On 9/27/2018 at 11:42 AM, Rubin Farr said:

 

  On 9/27/2018 at 3:13 AM, Extralife said:

 

  On 9/26/2018 at 11:02 PM, dr lopez said:

i liked 6.5

6 + 6.5 was the peak for me, but most of the later ones have been very solid.

They mean Environments, not the Archives series.

Bah you’re right. My mistake

Guess I was curious about the Environments, too

Environments 5, 6, 6.5 and the 'Environmental' section of Archived : Environmental : Views are all completely new recordings and bloody brilliant. 

^^^ Having only heard 6 and 6.5, I can confirm.

Highly recommended!

Thanks for the tip, Extralife!

I initially passed those Environments albums, but I'm really digging those. I'm still working through the buttload of archives/environments, but the standout tracks that have passed by coincidently were from those 6 and 6.5 environments! Great stuff. :)

First listen: Archived 9 is quite the treat.  Much more focused and IDMish than some of their more soundcapey stuff.  I kinda love that I can't really tell the difference between the new tracks and the older ones.  Really flows nicely as an album here.  The Archives keep getting better and better somehow...

I haven't listened to FSOL in a long time.