Here’s what some people have been saying about ‘tapeswap’:
“one mind, one mindset, one trip”
“To breach is to invoke Breach”
“as forward thinking and exciting as anything else around”
“give us a pair of scissors and we’ll show you the universe”
And here’s the nudge:
This Friday in London;
This Saturday in Bristol.
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Posted by MAGIC
Dear friends,
I’m damn happy to announce this release, the album that Nick (Ekoplekz) and I (Bass Clef) made together.
We sent two tapes back and forth on journeys along the M4 (which is a journey I know very well, after all…) between our two studios and our two 4-track recorders and in the end we had ourselves an album. One that I am very proud of.
Have a listen to, or download and take for a spin, two tracks…
‘lens flare oh yeah’:
‘M4 endless’:
…and now on to the tapes themsleves.
The sleeves were made by the wonderful Print Project on their letterpress machine.
Text is printed with silver ink on a delicious high grade recycled black card.
As with all our tapes, it comes with a free download code to get all the tracks as 320 mp3s.
Available from us here, just email magicanddreamsmusic (at) gmail.com
£7 if you’re in the UK (includes FREE postage and packaging)
£8 if you’re in europe (includes FREE postage and packaging)
£9 for those of you on one of the other fine continents of this world… (includes FREE postage and packaging)
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Here’s the video for ‘G major severn’:
As I’m sure you know, Nick’s had a stellar year, with albums for Punch Drunk, Mordant and Further.
But I reckon with this one we’re both outside of our comfort zones, whilst still keeping our separate sounds too, to make something wholy other.
Not exactly a middle ground inbetween, but more of a fourth-world parallel-universe motorway-services island in the sea.
OH, I’ve just got to take another look at the sleeve…it’s beautiful…
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posted by MAGIC
Our erstwhile hero is off for a much deserved break – Happy Holiday Mr. MAGIC!
Which leaves you – dear reader – in my clumsy clutches…. cough….. i mean safe hands.
MAGIC recently threatened to run riot round the MAGIC + DREAMS site in my temporary absence – he may have planted a demon seed in my mind – for i fear that is the course i am intractably bound upon….
Song Of The Week on a Monday?! Believe. Part of a triptych, no less.
Here, to wave our hero bon voyage, is Pipe Dreams’ Song Of The Week / Euphoric Nihilism / Non-Guilty Pleasure mash up.
ROCK ON MAGIC!
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From a pure production point of view, surely one of the oddest, most OUT THERE pop singles of alltime. It’s philosophical message? “Rock on…” – and that is it. And that surely is Euphoric Nihilism in it’s very core essence.
And what does that sound like exactly? Well, for starters, try:
Slinky, wonky, slippery, liquidy, sinewy, ectoplasmic and downright sexy.
If this isn’t chopped-and-screwed-and-hawked-on-limited-edition-white-label-7″-vinyl-available-for-a-limited-time-only-via-mancunianmailorderwebsites by September then i just don’t know *what* the hypnagogic is up with this world.
“Jimmmmmmy Deeeeeannnnn…”
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New Bass Clef video >>> for “I think you are ready now for the eternal point of no return”>>>
From inner space break free…
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posted by MAGIC
Lovely review in this month’s WIRE magazine for all three of our inaugural releases (BASS CLEF, COSEPH JONRAD and SOME TRUTHS).
Personally, I’d beg to differ on ST (whose every transmission just blows me away, increasingly, with every release) but, on the whole, great stuff. Thanks Mr WIRE man.
Beautiful baby, just beautiful.
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A super sweet sunday in se23….
Smoking, strawberries, spuds, smoked peppered fish, sainos megacheap doughnuts… and the primary objective of the day:
Slice and dice!
Keep em peeled this week for brand new, fresh-from-the-oven, lovingly assembled homemade produce from MAGIC + DREAMS.
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our third wave of releases has been IMMINENTIZED
including a new some truths cassette featuring this little number:
(literally)
keep em peeled
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posted by Magic
Dear friends, tis MAGIC + DREAMS‘ great pleasure to bring you the much-delayed debut album from Pipe Dreams – ‘Green Eye Kissesss Infinity’.
Sincere apologies, thanks and praise to MAGIC, Bass Clef, Coseph Jonrad and Some Truths for the interminable wait for this one and the crew’s (almost) endless patience.
Pipe Dreams is db – former noisemaker, cosmic leader and chief whitey’er with the mighty Hey Colossus – and ‘Green Eye Kissesss Infinity’ is his debut solo album.
Available on CDr for £5 with FREE postage in the UK or europe, please email us to purchase: magicanddreamsmusic (AT) gmail.com
Excerpt from the liner notes:
Headphone sketches of an everyday worker-commuter
Simple soundtracks, devotional hymns
No computers, all done with handheld, battery-operated instruments
Loops going nowhere
Always on the move, slowly homeward bound
Inspired by winter, alice coltrane, axolotl, main, john coltrane, the skaters, albert & donald ayler, some truths, boredom (and boredoms), don cherry & terry riley, the dead c, keith hudson, ‘daydream nation’, miles davis and my one with the green eyes.
Watch a couple of videos and listen to / download a free track below:
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Tonight I will be braving the wilds of south london to guest on the excellent Steak House & Pollinate Radio show.
You can listen HERE from 8pm Greenwich Magic Time.
Expect nothing less than a paradigm-shifting selection of joyous tunes, including a selection of M + D killers…
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posted by magic
Dear friends,
I am very happy to announce the first of our two releases for this month, which are out tomorrow the 11th of may, available from us here at MAGIC + DREAMS…
(Watch this space for news of the (extremely anticipated by me!) debut album by my beloved label-partner-in-crime, Pipe Dreams).
This is the second in the ‘paper round tapes’ series from Coseph Jonrad.
Whereas the first in the series was a reinterpretation of an album by a certain 80′s group from the north of england, this time out it’s a reversioning of the multi-platinum third solo album by a red-haired american vocalist (who I must confess I had a crush on at age 13).
Here’s a video for the closing track, ‘shades of michealangelo’:
And here is a free track to download ‘visions of you’:
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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