Amorphous Androgynous attempt to explode bubbles in your mind

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  • Future Sound of London will release a double mix CD of cosmic favorites next month.
  • Amorphous Androgynous attempt to explode bubbles in your mind image
  • Amorphous Androgynous are Future Sound Of London, but only the former will release a mix album later next month. Ambitiously entitled A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble Exploding in Your Mind Vol. 1: Cosmic Space Music, the duo of Gaz Cobain and Brian Dougans, have followed up the surprise announcement that they will perform live at next year's Bloc Weekender with the news that they will release a double CD mix that is set to be the first in a series. The duo will confusingly follow it up with an edition by FSOL proper, but it's hard to argue with the results of this one: Cobain and Dougans eschew the normal mix route and go for a survey of the last forty years of psychedelic music—in whatever form it takes. That means that the avant funk of Miles Davis, his one-time wife Betty Davis, freak folker Devendra Banhart, Donovan, Hawkwind, David Axelrod and more all share the spotlight over the course of these two discs with many more oddball choices. Unless the AA boys have dropped a house beat over top of all of this, we're guessing it's not going to be exactly the sort of dance mix that you're used to. But, then again, when have they ever done anything expected of them? Tracklist CD1 01. Donovan - Barabajagal (Love Is Hot) 02. Chiitra Neogy - The Perfumed Garden - The Encouragement of the Lusty Wife 03. Heaven And Earth - Feel the Spirit 04. Osibisa - Blank Ant 05. Pop Levi - Blue Honey 06. Yellow Moon Band - Entangled 07. The Earlies - Breaking Point 08. Betty Davis - If I'm in Luck (I Might Get Picked Up) 09. 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 Wizards’ Club Band - Musashi 17. Espers - Mansfield and Cyclops 18. Cranium Pie - There It Is Part 2 19. Miles Davis - Rated X 20. Psychonauts - Circles 21. Pentangle - Light Flight 22. Friends Of Dean Martinez - Wichita Lineman 23. The Amorphous Androgynous - The Lovers 24. The Amorphous Androgynous - Opus of the Black Sun CD2 01. Tommy Graham - Sahajiya 02. Cranium Pie - Awakening of the Birds 03. Cranium Pie - Drying in the Sun 04. Nick Nicely - 49 Cigars 05. Chiitra Neogy - The Perfumed Garden - The Encouragement of the Lusty Wife 06. Donovan - Riki Tiki Tavi 07. Devendra Banhart - Lazy Butterfly 08. Mahavishnu Orchestra - You Know, You Know 09. Hariprasad Chaurasia - Manzh Khamaz Teental 10. Tim Buckley - I Never Asked to Be Your Mountain 11. The Emperor Machine - Roller Daddy 12. Mahagon - Dívka 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 Amorphous Androgynous will release A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble Exploding in Your Mind Vol. 1: Cosmic Space Music on November 24th, 2008 on Platipus Records.
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