Future Sound Of London provided an immortal benchmark for post-rave chillout with 1991’s ‘Papua New Guinea’. Since then Gaz Cobain and Matt Dougan have pursued an ever-expanding but single-minded path which has put the commercial success they could easily have grabbed as low priority. Earlier this decade they started Amorphous Adrogynous to further their Psychedelic Cosmic Space Music concept homaging their love for psychedelic music in all its multi-hued strains, applying their technical skills and innate boffinry to a genre unused to such academic dissection and execution. This double set captures their two A Monstrous Bubble Exploding In Your Mind radio shows which went out on XFM and KISS FM, since becoming almost the stuff of legend. It’s an amazingly-diverse selection, often leaning to flutey folk rather than freak-out with Chitra Neogy, Donovan, Pentangle and several Eastern excursions, including Lord Sitar’s wacky ‘I Am The Walrus’. Hawkwind’s ‘Silver Machine’ appears but there’s also less-expected gems by Miles Davis, his slitheringly great ex-missus Betty, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Can, Tim Buckley, Bob Downes, Afro-rockers Osibisa plus modern exponents like Devandra Banhart, Cranium Pie, Emperor Machine, Pop Levi, Psychonauts and three cerebral press-ups from A.A. themselves.
4 Out Of 5
Reviewed By: Kris Needs
