Album Description
Trippy UK electronica legends FSOL add to their burgeoning catalogue with their latest release forJumpin & Pumpin. Originally released last year as an mp3 only bundle, ‘Environments’ comprises of twoextended FSOL head jams both clocking in at over 20 mins long.
Environments
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I was curious about the release of Environments when it was under the name of Amorphous Androgynous, which is the same people (the Future Sound of London). Mostly it’s noise. I play both songs on this disc the first time and skipped through both of them because it is nothing but noise. I played it again and it has music in it, but barely. Some of these sounds are from ISDN and Lifeforms. A little is true for the music as well. It certainly helps me to relax. The music brings life to the disc, but not enough to call it anything great. Even Steve Roach plays fine New Age hearts of space music!
I would call this more of a sound track than I would music.
Rating: 3 / 5
Environments
Nothing’s going on here. I have most of fsol’s stuff. This is just a waste. So boring.
Rating: 1 / 5
Environments
This disc is one of the most original, unique collections of a variety of ambient and other styles, including a cleverly sequenced group of strings, found sounds, rhythms and found speech. It’s really impossible to pigeon-hole this ‘music,’ but it creates such a perfect, otherworldly atmosphere that I consider it a must have. I cannot believe that this nearly was not released. It takes you on a pleasant trip, keeping your attention without demanding it. Deserves a category of its own. Genius. Beautiful and, for certain moods, absolutely perfect.
Buy this CD!
Rating: 5 / 5
Environments
Well if you’re a fan of The Future Sound of London then you most likely were aware of an unreleased album by their alias, Amorphous Androgynous called Environments. The album was made aware to the public in 1994 with the inside artwork for FSOL’s Lifeforms double album. I’ll admit it, i wasnt a fan of them yet, i was too young, so its not like i was waiting 14 years for this CD. I didn’t become a fan of their’s until around 2001, and in my opinion 7 years is a long time to wait too. At first most fans probably thought the unreleased Environments album turned up in pieces on 2007′s “From The Archives” releases, which had several tracks that started with the title environments… but no, apparently those were not from the unreleased album. Well here we have it, the unreleased album, re-mastered and tweaked i’m assuming.. but wait, whats this?? The Future sound of London?? Wasn’t this supposed to be by Amorphous Androgynous??? Well my best guess to that is they didn’t wanna confuse fans with the now psychedelic rock AA (AA was much more along the lines of FSOL’s music back in the 90s, but now they produce prog rock under the guise) plus it would sell better under FSOL, right? Ok so i forgive them for changing the name because its all about the music! Speaking of the music, is it any good? Yeah of course. if you enjoyed the 4 archive releases then you’ll for sure dig this too but the problem here is its 2 long (over 20 minutes each) tracks that don’t seem to represent an environment very well. It seems like several different tracks each with their own theme would have accomplished the goal much better. The music is just a combination of ambience and short bursts of the classic FSOL funk we’ve heard in the past. You’ll notice a lot of samples from Lifeforms on here, which is both cool and seemingly lazy at the same time. I’ve read that there is 2 more volumes of Environments coming out in the near future, but the question is if its new or more unreleased old material?
Rating: 4 / 5
Environments