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still like this one! :)
Magic Moments At Twilight Time This is still just me solo at this point.
Magic Moments At Twilight Time Demo no.3 was the first to receive any kind of circulation, "State Of The Art" (C-4003, March 1987). Again mostly me solo, but Shona did voice the embryonic version of "Story X" that was on it. Although I don't recall total sales making double figures, it did get us in the recording studio for Earworm records that summer, so it was hardly a complete write off. I will spare you the title track and my early attempts at singing! ;) Instead, the track I've selected for this collection is "GAL-0287543 (Beloglazova)", several versions of which appeared over the early years. Far more electronic than anything I'd done before, anyone who was at our debut gig might remember it as being the music that accompanied 'The Ceremony Of Getting Jay Out Of Bed' in our act! Enjoy muchly again...


Magic Moments At Twilight Time This recording was last issued on the same collection as the last two. Bit hissy, but hope I've managed to clean it up a bit.
Magic Moments At Twilight Time You'd never guess it was improvised, would you? ;)
Magic Moments At Twilight Time Release C-4004 was simply called 'The Sampler Single', and that's effectively all it was, a C15 tape with one track from each of the three demos on it, so it doesn't count as an album for our purposes, of course.
Magic Moments At Twilight Time Release C-4005 (May 1987) most certainly does though. However, that was "Mick & Chris On Acid!", which was included on the recent M&E 25th Anniversary release, "The United World Underground Collection", so everything on it has already been digitised. It's okay, I have a Plan B. Meanwhile, the 'UWU Collection' is still available and you'll find full details on the link...

* UWU COLLECTION *

Magic Moments At Twilight Time Plan B was recorded the same month, 16th May 1987 to be precise. Okay, it seemed like a great idea at the time; music always sounds amazing when you're tripping, you hear things you would never hear when you were straight. So, I thought - "Why not record something you create while you're tripping!? Oh wow!" Why not? Because you end up with hours of meandering self-indulgent drivel which, frankly, doesn't sound as good off acid as on it! :) If you don't have a sense of humour about your experimental music, consider this an ideal 11:10 (be grateful that's all I still have of the original 23 minutes!) to pop off, make a sandwich and a cuppa tea or something. For those brave enough to put their tongue firmly in their cheek, this is why not, this is the aptly titled "Experiment On L.S.D."...


Magic Moments At Twilight Time I'm... er... just off to put the kettle on... ;)
Magic Moments At Twilight Time Has it finished yet?
Magic Moments At Twilight Time Bugger.
Magic Moments At Twilight Time Cup of tea and a couple of Solpadeine and it's STILL going... ;)

Magic Moments At Twilight Time I can only apologise that I couldn't bring you "Mick & Chris On Acid", but at least I managed "Mick On Acid!" :)
Magic Moments At Twilight Time I do find this one interesting though, if a little monotonous, as it's where all the ideas for "Traveller II" came from. Magic Moments, music inspired by drugs, what a shining

example I am to my child... ;)

Magic Moments At Twilight Time It's okay, she's at school.

Albert M Tron Well I quite enjoyed recording it.
Magic Moments At Twilight Time Doc! You're back! Oh, hang on, I'm on.
Albert M Tron Oh, don't mind me.

Magic Moments At Twilight Time Um... that was quite hard work. It gets better, promise. C-4006 was kind of an accidental release, but I guess still counts as a 5th album for our purposes. As, tongue in cheek, 'a husband and wife duo from north west Surrey', Shona and I were due to play our debut gig on Saturday 9th May 1987, supporting The Charles...


Magic Moments At Twilight Time However, due to the fact they had an incompetent twat for a manager, the venue hadn't been booked and thousands / hundreds / dozens / some (*delete as you'd like to believe) fans had turned up to find nothing was on. So I suggested we put out a freebie album by way of an apology, and that's what we did, aptly titled "Live... And Sorry!", as explained in the local press by Adrian Creek, who seems to have made himself tag-proof...

Magic Moments At Twilight Time Shona and I had, somewhat fortuitously, recorded our rehearsal for the gig, so that became our side of it, The Charles providing 45 minutes worth of live recordings for the flip. Okay, it wasn't very good (I'm saving Pete Cole the grief of having to point that out again ;) ), but an album it is and so we feature a track, this is "ARE-1086016 (Souls?)"...


Magic Moments At Twilight Time I'm pleased to say we stopped using those daft 'catalogue number' titles after that.
Albert M Tron I always thought those were one of my best ideas. :(
Magic Moments At Twilight Time Sorry. The track itself is quite good, I think, always one of my own early favourites. The keen ears amongst you will recognise the backing tracks we later developed into "The Soultakers"!
Albert M Tron Now that was one of MY favourites.
Magic Moments At Twilight Time Cool.
Magic Moments At Twilight Time You may be pleased to know that, as I had to digitise one track from the album, I thought I may as well digitise the lot and make it available as a free download. I'm nice like that. Mostly. I'll come back to that at the end of the session.
Magic Moments At Twilight Time Releases C-4007, C-4008 and C-4009 were basically everything we'd done to that point repackaged into