Forthcoming releases

[Enofa]

Known & announced material. As always, the band are working on many more projects behind the scenes than are listed here, and most of them will come out before most of the records listed below...

Environments
Brian has revealed that there will be ten collective volumes of the Environments series, with later entries being released over several albums each. New material is occasionally previewed via the FSOL Facebook and Youtube pages, as well as on Touched Music nights and the band's radio mixes, although recent volumes have contained relatively little previously heard material. The eighth volume will commence in 2025, previewed via two EPs: Captures and Multiple Angled Distortions. Captures features one track which will be on E8; the volume’s exact format remains to be seen.

It is uncertain what will happen following the completion of the Environments series: it may mean a return to albums without series names, or it might mark the end of FSOL.



Maps series
More Mind Maps are likely on their way. After Trip Maps, the series may move into new territory.



From the Archives
Boxes of tapes and discs of archived material are being uncovered all the time from Brian's collection. Many have been previewed on Electric Brain Storm mixes, while other titles have leaked over the years, including ‘Kaaawa’, ‘Turned’, ‘How to be a Genuine Fake’, ‘Santana’ (aka ‘Carlos’), ‘Under Pass’, ‘Dead Dolphine 2’, ‘Eleven Hot Knives’, ‘Boundaries’, ’49Innesp’, ‘Open Enclosure’, ‘Black Waters’, ‘Captured’, ‘Driving Round’, ‘East Pacifica’, ‘How to be a Genuine Fake’, ‘Icicles’, ‘LA4’, ‘Northern Point’, ‘Obollis Two’, ‘Old Metal Gates’, ‘Space Hippy’, ‘Downfall’, 'The Z Storm' and ‘Slowly Falling Backwards’. For the Touched Music FSOL Nights on Mixlr, the band provided a selection of unreleased tracks, some of which were given titles, including 'Peirch', 'Algae Floats the Water in Super Technicolor' and 'Arc City', along with several tracks of unknown title. Starting with volume 7, the Archives series has been including unreleased material from the FSOLDigital era as well as the group's '90s recordings.
The first five Archives were released in a boxset in 2016; a future boxset is rumoured to be in the works for the next five volumes when they happen.
As with the Environments series, there will be ten volumes of the Archives, although the re-launch of the Pulse series and the Calendar Albums are giving other archived pieces the opportunity to be heard away from the main FTA series.



Reissues
Releases from the band's back catalogue are regularly being brought back into print, from the J&P, Virgin and FSOLDigital eras; none are announced at the moment



The Amorphous Androgynous
The third Amorphous v2 album is called Listening Beyond the Head Chakra and may be released in 2026. The album was preceded by a 2CD/2LP pack of paths and remixes of the lead single 'We Persuade Ourselves We Are Immortal'; a similar release of 'Mantra' is expected to come out before the album.



Aliases and side-projects
Several side-projects have been announced over the past few years, via Electric Brain Storms releases and announcements to fans, including:
A second Synthi A album called Octagon Trees, announced in 2019.
Six Oscillators in Remittance - Light Senses Dark Edges, an album of drone-based oscillator experiments by Brian, announced via the 'Cloudscraper' single in 2008.
EMS : Piano - Vessels and Two EP. Another project of Brian's, several tracks have appeared on EBS mixes, including 'Untitled 5' and 'The Vessel'.
Unreleased Polemical tracks appeared on Electric Brain Storms Vol. 7.
A Yage album, Nam '71, was announced as part of the 2017 Calendar Album.
Aliases including The Superheads, The Field Recorders, The Bringers, C. P. A., Filter and Pulses, AnALOguE COntRoLleD SolENoiDs and Forest Trails have appeared as potential future FSOLDigital artists on mixes and calendar albums, although the Filter and Pulses and Forest Trails tracks have since been reassigned as FSOL, suggesting the potential projects may have been shelved. Friend of the band, Park, has been long expected to release an album on FSOLDigital, although nothing has yet emerged.
As Yage's Pygmy EP is the only new release not to be credited to FSOL, Humanoid, Amorphous or FSOLDigital since 2016, it seems that the focus has moved away from the many-alias format of late, and some doubt has been cast over whether any of the aforementioned albums will be released any time soon.



Apertures
This project, featuring Brian working with Imogen Hayley Baker, is due to release its first album in the future, following a compilation track 'Missing Skies' on the Touched by Silence box set.



M@
A collaboration between Brian and Martin Boulton from Touched will release an album in the near future.



Kingslan
A collaboration between Brian and lifelong friend Jon Goslan, planning to release an album in the next year or two.



FSOL - Digitana Synths
SX One modules continue to be built by Digitana. An affordable pocket synth, the HALia, is still in development and will be available somewhere down the line.



Hed-Set
Brian's project with regular collaborator Will White, Hed-Set is a production & mixing team working with various bands.



Re-recordings
Brian has confirmed that more re-recordings have been worked on for potential future release.
In 2014, Gaz stated the band had spent several years working on a new version of the Liz Fraser Lifeforms collaboration, but with the original Fraser vocal takes, it would need to be released by Universal, who have yet to show interest.



2" Tape Reels
Mentioned on the original version of FSOLDigital was 2" Tape Reels, which was described as 'Various sessions - demos and outakes from the 2" multitrack recordings @ RAM studio. 16 songs - 1 hr 5 mins'. With the only known track, a mix of 'We Have Explosive', released on We Have Explosive 2021 as 'Detonate', the release now seems less likely.



A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble Exploding In Your Mind / Electric Brainstorms
Gaz revealed that all MPB remix work is undertaken under the freedom that the remixes can be used on future MPB projects, and as such, a compilation of remixes and cover versions is in the works for Monstrous Bubble Records (he also hinted the 2001 Cosmic Jukebox remixes may appear on this record). It is possible further Monstrous Bubble Soundtrack albums may appear in the future. Given the success of previous volumes, it's not unlikely further MPB mix albums will be released.
A FSOL edition of the MPB CD series was planned to be the second in the series, but never materialised. In early 2015 Gaz revealed that a series of FSOL mix CDs entitled (unsurprisingly) Electric Brainstorms had been planned, but it seems like this is currently on hold. An EBS VHS was rumoured to be in the works.



Books
Ten volumes of the Ramblings of a Madman series of mini-books/zines are planned, each likely to come with its own music release. With six years since the third volume, it's possible this series has been cancelled.



Dead projects
The band were asked to score a forthcoming Brit horror flick Shh. The directive was for more dance-based material, and the group asked Will Propz to help out. However, the film has become stuck in development hell and looks unlikely to surface any time soon.
Working with friend Pete Fowler, Brian and Gaz have worked to soundtrack his cartoon series Monsterism Island, although this does appear to have disappeared from the TV radar. Who knows...
The Pod Room was announced to be moving to Mixcloud, although with the platform adding more restrictions in order to comply with licensing and financial issues, it seems unlikely that the shows will now appear.
Several Amorphous releases have been mentioned, but now seem long lost, including Amorphic Archives / Amorphik Alternatives, the albums mentioned in The Peppermint Tree booklet - The New Love Poetry, Wobbly Oozescapes and 2012 - and a compilation entitled Greatest Trips, mentioned by Gaz in a 2010 interview.
The Amorphous Androgynous have also recorded with Paul Weller, producing potential tracks for his 2015 album. Nothing has been heard since.
A film soundtrack by Brian's father, Clyde Port Authority, was expected to be released in the late '00s, but has since disappeared from the radar.
Various DVD releases have been mooted in the past - a FSOL video collection to coincide with the Teachings compilation, an Alice in Ultraland film, a 5.1 mix of Globular, a Part-Sub-Merged collection and a live DVD of the 2009 Athens show - but none of these look likely to come out now.



Recent releases:
22nd August 2025: FSOLDigital Presents Mind Maps Mix (Mixlr Broadcast) (CD)
22nd August 2025: FSOLdigital Presents Mind Maps 6 (CD/LP)
11th July 2025: FSOLDigital Presents Trip Maps 3 (CD/LP/Download)
19th June 2025: The Future Sound of London / Smart Systems / Indo Tribe / Yage – Pulse 5 EP (12"/Download)
16th May 2025: FSOLDigital Presents Trip Maps (Psychedelic Worlds) (CD)
6th May 2025: The Future Sound of London – Multiple Angled Distortions (12"/Download)
19th April 2025: The Amorphous Androgynous – Alice in Ultraland (2LP)
26th March 2025: The Future Sound of London – Papua New Guinea Translations (2LP/Download)
25th March 2025: The Future Sound of London / Yage – Translations Remixes (12"/Download)
26th February 2025: The Future Sound of London – Murmurations (Download)

[Enofa]

I have a theory about why there are Environments instead of new albums... but it will have to wait as my library time is almost run out.

[Pandemonium]

Recent releases: should also contain
Dougans/Cobain - Nu Psychedelia EP (XMT-184)
it was released in july/august 2013, probably July.

[Nmesh]

I don't think they're busy enough. Surely they can squeeze in a couple more releases...

[dell1972]

Oh, the last update on the Noel Gallagher stuff was that back in April he was learning the songs he did with the AA on guitar.

http://stopcryingyourheartoutnews.blogs ... ts-on.html

"The musician said "I’ve still got all those songs I did with Amorphous Androgynous but the moment has gone now with that. Because it was written and recorded in the studio in a rather psychedelic manner I’m currently in the process of trying to work out how to play the fucking things on the guitar. ""

Apparently he's recording a new album now so that could be a red herring, unless he's going to re-record them with Dave Sardy.

As for Brian and Gaz, noone could accuse them of being workshy...

[Enofa]

It's pretty bad to be complaining, given how much material they've put out in the last six years, but I do wish it was structured better. Say an album very 9 or 12 months rather than lumping them all together.

I had this fantasy (er, that sounds worse than it is) that they'd gone through all their archive tracks, filtered out the ones which were on transmissions/remixes of exisiting tracks/really early 90s sounding ones, and then pieced them together with new material and just put out a new album every year. Imagine getting a new record each year with tracks like Plazmatik and Water Hole.
Anyway.

My theory (perhaps hypothesis should be better, as it hasn't been tested), is that Environments 5 might be the last Environments album. They're obviously holding off doing a 'proper' new record (if only by name), and at the album-every-two-years rate that seems to be the case with Environments 2/3/4/5, that means the one after 5 will be in 2016 - twenty years after Dead Cities. What better time to bring out the first 'official' new FSOL album?

Fuck, writing that makes me feel old.

[Tito Lozano]

i think will be error make a ENVIRONMENTS MMXXIII...,not in time but yes on title number release

[Enofa]

Throwing this in as a sticky over here so it's more convenient.

[ronniedobbs]

VA - "Secret Rave 05" contains the new Humanoid track "Uling"

[Enofa]

Already mentioned above

[Enofa]

Trip Maps 3 & Mind Maps 6 on their way this year, to nobody’s surprise.

[mcbpete]

Had no idea we'd reached no.6 in such a short time since the series started. Any Yage remixes of yours in this one ? (or can't you say )

[Enofa]

I believe I’m just on Trip Maps this year.

[adreamingandroid]

This made me smile,
"the band had spent several years working on a new version of the Liz Fraser Lifeforms collaboration, but with the original Fraser vocal takes" I would love to hear new paths.

This, on the other hand did not
"it would need to be released by Universal, who have yet to show interest".

[Enofa]

Off the record, I think there’s more chance of The New Love Poetry, Wobbly Oozescapes and 2012 coming out than a Lifeforms re-recording.