Humanoid - 7 Songs - 5th July on De:Tuned

[Ross]

A1. "Truc"
A2. "Last Seen"
B1. "Pyramid 17"
B2. "Swerver"
B3. "Osculated"
C1. "Hed Set"
D1. "Seen Last"
12" + 10". Digital. No CD.

Humanoid invades De:tuned with a new and highly anticipated 7 song album of classic acid cuts. Flashback to the '88 acid-house spirit! Brian Dougans embarks on another journey of 303 breakbeat euphoria followed by fast, frantic and beat driven productions. The additional 10" completes the hallucinating trip with 2 floating acidic corkers.

Kevin Foakes (Openmind, DJ Food, Ninja Tune) created all the graphic work. Mastered by Matt Colton at Metropolis and pressed on 180 gr vinyl. A separate digital release will also be available at the usual digital shops. Stay tuned!

[Ross]

Clips on Juno.
Sound-wise, a move away from the more complex IDM sounds of Built by Humanoid, mostly four-to-the-floor beats, squelchy 303 lines, atmospheric pads. Reminds me a little of some unreleased FSOL material like 'Eleven Hot Knives'.

[OffLand]

Lots of Acid here. Sounds great and very Humanoid.

[mcbpete]

Woah yeah completely going back to 80s Humanoid - great to see the shifting around of styles for this returning alias!

[Ross]

De:tuned have just said on Facebook that it's been delayed to 30th July now.

Love vinyl releases these days, they add a wonderful sense of tension, guessing just how many weeks or months you'll have to wait after the initial release date before you actually get a copy.

[Ross]

Previews on Soundcloud:

[Ross]

Out now!

[Ross]

First listen now, really solid so far. 'Pyramid 17' has what sounds like a Lifeforms sample in it, tying in with the regular returning of sounds over FSOLDigital. Hed-Set is a collab with Will White (unsurprisingly, given that's also the name of their production team).
And, weirdly, Gaz receives co-writing credits on the album.

Publishing dates it as 2020, so I'd imagine it was probably knocked back quite a bit by Covid and the general vinyl meltdown at the minute.

[Ross]

CD version coming out on FSOLDigital on 19th November:
https://www.juno.co.uk/products/humanoi ... 846053-01/

The title is misleading as the CD version features seven bonus tracks.
Truc
Last Seen
Pyramid 17
Swerver
Osculated
Hed_Set
Seen Last
Tower
Battle Storms
Turrek
Co-Pilot
Monthuk
(K D P)/12
The Far Point

Far Point and Tower were released on compilations and Co-Pilot was on the Built by Humanoid bonus EP, that still leaves four unheard tracks though.



CDTOT 83, which is the next number up from WHE, so I would take that as confirmation that we're not getting Environment Seven this year...

[gabo86]

So this started out as an EP but now it became an album, didn't it?
Ok, I'm in

[mcbpete]

Nearly picked up the digital version of the 12'' so am happy my terrible speed at picking up new releases has ended up paying off for me

[Ross]

Clips of all 14 tracks:
https://www.juno.co.uk/products/humanoi ... 846053-01/

Also purchasable, but FSOLDigital copies should be in any time now.

[Ross]

Here we are, CDs & digitals on Bandcamp:

https://fsol.bandcamp.com/album/7-songs-bonus-edition

Also, the first digipak release on FSOLDigital!

[mcbpete]

Lovely stuff - Looking forward to finally hearing this bad boy

[moxlox]

Is this CD version going to appear on actual FSOLDigital? I see its sold out via Bandcamp. May be weirdly I'll get it from HMV like I did unexpectedly with Music for Three Books!