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kowalski__

12-24-2008, 07:13 PM

its really good!!! ;)

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The Amorphous Androgynous - A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble Exploding in Your Mind Vol. 1 - Cosmic Space Music (2008)
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A MONSTROUS BUBBLE started life as a (NOW ) legendary one off radio broadcast previewing a radical new 'psychedelic vision' by FSOL in 1996-psychedelia reinterpreted in a crazy collage of everything goes as long asit BLOWS in the juxtaPOSE ! Thus Bill Hicks and Bukowski spat out alongside the Beatles and the Trip , Italian Porn and the Chemical Brothers crashed in with a breakbeat or two underpinning a raga ride on a rickshaw ride somewhere in Notting Hill. This startling DJ broadcast led to the FSOL flipping into their alter ego AMORPHOUS ANDROGYNOUS without warning and producing the albums the ISNESS (2000 ) and then ALICE IN
ULTRALAND (2005) on the legendary Pink Floyd/ELO label HARVEST and countless further Monstrous Bubble broadcasts on stations such as BBC1 , BBC 6 and XFM over the ensuing decade .

These broadcasts filtered a new PSYCHEDELIA that they had glimpsed and which was stirring in the shadows. Now ten years later and psychedelic has become the buzz word for every band and every dj/individual/designer wishing to espouse a new liberated more experimental approach to either living/designing or simply making a more colorful music. Beards and long hair and guitar solos and coyote primal vocalising channeling the gods of all persuasions is more than ever likely to happen and we could very well be on the verge of that PARADIGM that the original broadcast foresaw and presaged. Every advertising agent is searching to sell liberation to us-our suspicion of marketing and technology has led to a new revolution and so
in an attempt to sell us a rebalance toward simplicity and innocence and freedom and health and sustainable ecological balance in gaia gurus ponder on the design of cars and colours swirl in psychedelic reverie and abandon in needless companionship for every conceivable product. Stomach yoghurt bacteria are activated by yoga assannas and mobile phones keep us connected while we migrate from the city in our horse drawn carriages.The big brother eyeball sensing the turning tide even camouflages itself in the new technicolour dreamcoat.

CD1
1. Donovan - Barabajagal (Love Is Hot)
2. Chiitra Neogy - The Perfumed Garden - The Encouragement of the Lusty Wife
3. Heaven And Earth - Feel the Spirit
4. Osibisa - Blank Ant
5. Pop Levi - Blue Honey
6. Yellow Moon Band - Entangled
7. The Earlies - Breaking Point
8. Betty Davis - If I'm in Luck (I Might Get Picked Up)
9. Mountain Machine - Mountain Machine
10. Henry Roland - After All
11. Paul Giovanni - Maypole
12. Ian Neal - Kingdom of the Birds
13. The Amorphous Androgynous - Light Beyond Sound
14. Bob Downes - Tunnels Electronic
15. Can - Flow Motion
16. The Cosmic Wizardsâ€™ Club Band - Musashi
17. Cranium Pie - There It Is Part 2
18. Miles Davis - Rated X
19. Psychonauts - Circles
20. Pentangle - Light Flight
21. Friends Of Dean Martinez - Wichita Lineman
22. The Amorphous Androgynous - The Lovers
23. The Amorphous Androgynous - Opus of the Black Sun

CD2
1. Tommy Graham - Sahajiya
2. Cranium Pie - Awakening of the Birds
3. Cranium Pie - Drying in the Sun
4. Nick Nicely - 49 Cigars
5. Chiitra Neogy - The Perfumed Garden - The Encouragement of the Lusty Wife
6. Donovan - Riki Tiki Tavi
7. Devendra Banhart - Lazy Butterfly
8. Mahavishnu Orchestra - You Know, You Know
9. Hariprasad Chaurasia - Manzh Khamaz Teental
10. Tim Buckley - I Never Asked to Be Your Mountain
11. The Emperor Machine - Roller Daddy
12. Mahagon - DÃ*vka s Jablky
13. Lord Sitar - I Am the Walrus
14. Wizards of Ooze - Helga
15. Tommy James and The Shondells - Cellophane Symphony
16. Hawkwind - Silver Machine
17. Magic Carpet - The Phoenix
18. David Axelrod - The Mental Traveler
19. Werkraum - Queen Mab
20. Shweta Javeri - Heart of Darkness
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Bargo

12-25-2008, 01:46 AM

Yeah I got this a few weeks ago and was taken quite by surprised at how good it actually is. It's mixed together really well and the tracklist is great. Definitely one of my surprise favorites of 08.

You can order it through fsoldigital.com like their other releases.

kowalski__

12-27-2008, 07:15 PM

yeah, i download it via leak, but it was so good that i ordered a copy already.

purlieu

02-13-2009, 11:00 AM

Noel Gallagher's been so astounded by it ("nothing has seemed the same since") he's got them to do a 23 minute 5-part Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble mix of the next Oasis album, and Gaz is going to be DJing their Wembley show afterparty.

Good mix CD, anyway, although I'll be honest I'm looking forward for volume 2 more, which should be mixed by FSOL (as opposed to AA).

joethelion

02-13-2009, 12:09 PM

King of Snake

02-17-2009, 09:13 AM

I've ordered this. Looking forward to it :)
Haven't really listened to anything by FSOL/AA after Dead Cities.

purlieu

02-22-2009, 09:51 AM

that's crazy...

so wait - they're going to do a mix of the NEXT Oasis album? As in, there's ANOTHER one coming up? or - do you mean, he's going to do a mix of the one that just recently came out?

and also - why chop up a mix that's only 23 minutes into five parts?
Yeah, sorry, next Oasis single. Falling Down. The MPB mix is going to be on a 12" of its own and as part of the download bundle. It's still one track, but has five movements in it or whatever (a la Juanita/Kiteless/To Dream Of Love).

Everyone knows they're performing as FSOL (not Amorphous) as BLOC festival next month, don't they? Quite likely to hear some of the new album.

kowalski__

03-08-2009, 04:36 PM

Oasis - Falling Down (A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble mix by Amorphous Androgynous)(2009) (http://maybeherenow.blogspot.com/2009/03/oasis-falling-down-monstrous.html)

http://sharebee.com/652be5a1 (http://sharebee.com/652be5a1)

its 22 minutes 27 seconds... and its brilliant.

bas_I_am

04-01-2009, 09:04 PM

For those that are interested. . .

Attached are readable images of the liner note text & music credits from the set (thanks to graham @ fsoldigital.com)

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undarrenworld

04-08-2009, 03:15 AM

jOHN rODRIGUEZ

04-11-2009, 10:50 AM

Why the F can I not get it to work?

Can you not just make open in WMP? Dammit.

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04-17-2009, 06:10 AM

i must be missing something - previews i've heard sounded, well, shit...:confused:

mmm skyscraper

04-20-2009, 11:07 AM

Got the Oasis 12". The inner sleeve artwork is pretty nice.

stimpee

04-20-2009, 11:47 AM

I have listened to this. Once. and that was enough.

Sorry, but its just... some old shit.

If this wasnt packaged as an FSOL/AA package you wouldnt be touching this.

joethelion

04-21-2009, 10:19 AM

I actually quite like it ...

although - I will say that it's way too fucking long. Like, there clearly are 'segments' of the song, where it goes from:

straight 'remix' to
FSOL/AA esque 'interpretation to
like FSOL/AA song-in-of-itself

and would have made much more sense if it was separated into tracks

I mean - it's not like "Thing in a Book" where it's one solid piece of music

crank

04-21-2009, 02:49 PM

agree with joethelion. as usual. but i quite like it.

King of Snake

04-22-2009, 03:58 AM

I have listened to this. Once. and that was enough.

Sorry, but its just... some old shit.

If this wasnt packaged as an FSOL/AA package you wouldnt be touching this.

I'm afraid i have to agree. I was kinda dissapointed with it. Certainly there a bunch of good music on there but 2cd's full of mostly 60's psychedelica was a bit much. Would have been better if they had kept it to one disc and did something a bit more special with it, production/remix-wise maybe...

Sean

04-29-2009, 11:28 AM

I like it overall. I definitely agree that it could be trimmed down to be a shorter, tighter collection, but man is there some beautiful stuff on there. And if anyone does want a shorter version, check out the fsol online shop (http://www.futuresoundoflondon.com/). They have a bunch of shorter mixes you can buy from live shows they've done. Just click on "The Pod Room", and scroll down to "A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble Transmissions"

Ally

05-23-2009, 10:07 AM

Worth it just for Riki Tiki Tavi by Donovan. Awesome.

Strangelet

05-23-2009, 01:16 PM

Worth it just for Riki Tiki Tavi by Donovan. Awesome.

i know right? that track rocks.

Ally

05-31-2009, 01:42 PM

i know right? that track rocks.

Absolutely. Rediscovered it because of this album and the song's soundtracked the start of my summer so far :) Donovan's fae Maryhill too, or as my mate Lauren who lives there calls it - Scaryhill :D

joethelion

06-01-2009, 12:25 PM

a bit off topic, but still kinda related (as it's about a Donovan track)

so... on the vinyl release "Donovan's Greatest Hits" the version of "Colors" has backing vocals on it - and it's ONLY on the vinyl version of the album, for some reason a different version was used for the cd/download release that came out later

the version with the backing vocals was used in the film "The Rules of Attraction", but on the actual soundtrack release - it's the one without backing vocals

any chance someone has a vinyl rip of "Donovan's Greatest Hits"? I REALLY want "Colors" (and actually there's a second vinyl-only track, I forget which one it is... but I think it's "Catch the Wind")

a friend of mine had it - and was going to let me rip it (for both of us) but for no apparent reason, my computer will only record in the left channel (and I'm out of town for a few days, and won't be able to fix it)