Me and the internet have been spending a little bit of time apart recently; which probably explains why I’ve only just heard about the passing of the very singular Dory Previn

This wonderfully skewed song helped me through some very bad times.

Rest in peace, Dory, indeed.

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today is the day that Coseph turns ten…..

As you can see it’s got a heart on it and everything, making it the perfect gift for your loved ones:

FEEL THE POWER OF MY MARKETING

This month’s installment is remixes of an album, that with the benefit of 22 years of hindsight, I can admit I possibly bought for the wrong reasons.

The lead singer notoriously claimed that one day she would win an oscar, and there’s still time folks…

Here is the oh-so-dronemantic ‘the only one’, for you to stream / download / love and cherish:

As so often happens with Coseph albums – the unpredictable alchemy occurs – and hey! this one has come out strangely beautiful, droned and dreamed, a little like Spacemen 3 stretched out and lazy, hazy, well…..you can make up yr own minds (and hearts)…

Here’s ‘falling for a goldmine’:

The album is available on cdr for £5 with FREE postage in the UK or europe, please email us:
magicanddreamsmusic (AT) gmail.com

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(back to suburban base we go;

of course)

now – reverse backwards into the future

eyes on the past, sat the wrong way on the train,

looking at the scenery unroll behind you.

That you just escaped from

just

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Just wanted to say thanks and love to all the dancing crew at the Bishopsgate Institute the other week – I was drafted in at almost literally the last minute to replace King Midas Sound – had to scramble to make it in time to plug in and play…

…luckily there were plenty of punters happy to move their feet even though I wasn’t what they had been promised. I gave it all I had anyway, and it was a fun show. Big thanks to thee mighty Jonny Mugwump and all at the Bishopsgate Institute!

Ace to see Raime and LJK too, inspirational both.

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on full moons I like to think of Arthur Russell, trying to book some time in a studio for an allnighter…

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negative space. reversed reverb.

this year my luck will change.

X-101, wow-303.

UR. you are.

mindpower

MINDPOWER

MINDPOWER

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welcome to the auspicious and fate-riddled year of twenty twelve.

Here’s our opening salvo:

So we’re two thirds of the way through now…I had to really struggle to unearth a copy to sample of the album this is remixes of.

A greatest hits collection from the late seventies, since superseded several times over – I guess they are just one of those bands that get greatest-hitsetized a lot.

They have HITS. and STRINGS. and a VOCODER.

I still love them.

Here’s ‘evil woman’ to stream or download…

…and here’s ‘Telephone Line’:

The album is available on cdr for £5 with postage included in the UK or europe, £6 including postage for the rest of the known universe.

please email us:
magicanddreamsmusic (AT) gmail.com

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Cold clear winter sunshine, crows sing the call to prayer, your breath rises in clouds.

This is the kind of weird dislocated grime that I loved the most.

Strangely distant and alien, aggressive lyrics for sure, but with all the aggression washed out, missing, leaving a hollow space like an emotional echo chamber.

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I was never into the MC’s at FWD and DMZ (apart from Pokes of course), but I vividly recall having a D Double E epiphany one thursday night at Plastic.

Tubby on decks, D with the mic, spitting strange bars over my head. Fire.

You’ve got to love someone whose lyrical call sign is a kind of ‘EEEUGH’ noise.

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Adrian Belew takes us through his guitar techniques, both physical and electronical:

Too many highlights for me, including the ‘seagulls’ noise, how the guitar synthesizer works, his amazing outfit and variety of gurns.

But my favourite thing has got to be his general manner – sort of a mix between childish delight in the possibilities of sound, and something a bit Patrick Bateman…?

Here he is, on tour with Talking Heads, Rome 1980.  My, how I would have loved to have seen this tour – I mean ‘Stop Making Sense’ IS awesome – but this line-up looks even better:

Of course, |Adrian Belew is responsible for all kinds of awesome outside of the Byrne continuum, but I think I love him best for the little guitar solo in this, (although – the guitar part in ‘genius of love’ would put up a good fight)

starts at 2:43:

I think those little bleepy noises are the closest thing ever, to capturing the kinds of noises that go on in my head ALL THE TIME
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Happy new ears my friends…too weathered here for words just now…

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