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FLASHBAX OMICRON 13 - PART 2

AND NOW THE CONCLUSION...

You'll believe in parallel dimensions...

You'll believe in little green men in bowler hats...

You'll believe a sixty year old man really should have grown up by now...

Marc Gordon Hendley Bell 999 copies to go!
Jan N. Kremski you've sold one copy already? you must be thrilled! ;)
Magic Moments At Twilight Time Do you wanna give this guy a slap, Marc, or shall I? ;)

Magic Moments At Twilight Time It's Sunday, it's 13:00, and we're back! A very good afternoon to you all.
Magic Moments At Twilight Time Seven more tracks to come today, never previously digitised, all available as a free downloadable collection at the end of the session. And there'll be more, trust me.
Magic Moments At Twilight Time Now, where were we up to? That's right, we'd just played "Zen Sequent" from our live debut album, so where next? Within four months of that series of releases (C-4007-4010), I'd felt compelled to deconstruct everything and start over again. C-4011 was "The MMATT Story". Basically, I scrapped the first few demos and just presented a 90 minute 'best of', this was it...
Magic Moments At Twilight Time C-4012 was "Live At Frimley Community Centre", which was ostensibly a reissue of "Vol. 4: Live Debut Plus" with one small change. So small, I don't even remember what it was now! Slightly better cover mind...
Magic Moments At Twilight Time Either way, there's a better version available to download for free from Dropbox now (just click on the cover image), enjoy muchly...
Magic Moments At Twilight Time C-4013, however, was our first complete 'studio' album release. Although our seventh album, it was our first demo album proper, as it were. Confusingly part of the "21st Century Schizoid Band" co-released pair (below), it was called "At Twilight Time" by Magic Moments, but gradually came to be known as "The Magic Moments Album". Much of the album has not only been digitised, it's also been remastered and several tracks appeared on the 2015 Klappstuhl Records release, "Flashbax Ω Ultimate"...

The '21st Century Schizoid Band' twin albums, C-4013/4014, released simultaneously on Saturday 7th November 1987

Magic Moments At Twilight Time So, finding a track that hadn't been digitised previously did leave a rather limited choice of... well... this one. I think it's a source of some embarrassment now that we once called our music 'weirdobop', albeit tongue in cheek, but it did happen and we did call this track "The Weirdobop", enjoy muchly...

Albert M Tron I think you'll find it was me who came up with that name, I thought it absolutely appropriate.
Mick Tron I'm saying nothing.
Magic Moments At Twilight Time Back in phase, gentlemen? Good of you to join us.
Albert M Tron I wouldn't have missed it for the world. Any of the 25 of them.
Mick Tron I go where he goes...
Magic Moments At Twilight Time Ah, the track has finished. Silly title, but I do quite like the song. It was actually just a reworking of "Us Weirdos Gotta Stick Together". Well, you'll notice we've been joined again by The Doc (Albert M Tron) and his Biodroid counterpart, Mick Tron, talking to us from who knows where in the multiverse. That was quite a cliffhanger you left us with on Friday, guys, the transdimensional phantom with the mohican et al.
Albert M Tron Indeed. All will be revealed in due course. We have a couple of hours to keep it interesting first... ;)
Magic Moments At Twilight Time Good point. The other half of the "21st Century Schizoid Band" co-releases was "Magic Moments" by At Twilight Time, which also became more commonly known as "The At Twilight Time" album. The best known track from it is probably "Caulphorqaets", which also appeared on "Psychotron 0: The Best Of MMATT" (MMATT 20) when the label went 'official' in the July of 1988. Quite a lot of tracks from it have resurfaced here and there, but I still had a handful of good tunes to choose from...
Magic Moments At Twilight Time The album was a compilation of various recordings from the At Twilight Time Projects. These were basically a side project to the band's regular Mmatterial, giving us a chance to indulge whims, work solo or in any combination we chose to, do stuff we wouldn't normally do and collaborate. We did some soundtracks to the poetry of Mal Foster (then known as Cieslak), for example; a couple of tracks with Andy Bullock of Slack Bladder (now works under the name of Andy Bolus); and many bits and bobs that were well off the beaten MMATT track. The one I've chosen is the four of us playing around with bossa nova rhythms and a Mills & Boon romance, this is "Dear B'Nova"...

Jan N. Kremski Ah! that's got Karolina up and dancing around the kitchen - and she don't normally like your stuff! :)
Magic Moments At Twilight Time Dump her!
Jan N. Kremski harsh
Magic Moments At Twilight Time Sue me.
Albert M Tron Oh yes, I did enjoy doing this one. I remember dancing to this with Miss Moments. Happy daze.
Magic Moments At Twilight Time Weird that I have so many similar memories to you.
Albert M Tron Indeed, up until the point of divergence. A little over two years after this track was recorded, I was forced to leave the Earth completely. To this point, although our Earth was considerably more advanced than your own, the personal histories of my friends and I ran in almost perfect synchronicity with those of our counterparts. However, when I returned to Earth for the MMATT 25th Anniversary celebrations in 2012, I learned it had been involved in a terrible multi-world war, and many of those friends were no longer alive to receive me. Sometime in that 21½ year absence, events on our two worlds diverged severely, my heart and my gut tell me this is not the way things were meant to be. I am currently working with my Biodroid and his counterpart on your Earth to identify the specific point of divergence. I then plan to return to that point in the Ford Escortron and put right that thing that once went wrong, restoring our history and the lives of my friends. I realise I may not survive such a journey, but my chances increase with the more support I can muster on your side. I thank you for your time and hope I can count on your support as friends of the MMATT in another plane of reality.
Magic Moments At Twilight Time You know you can count on me, Doc.
Albert M Tron I know, my young friend, and I know you will help us greatly. Your 70 year old self has already told us much of what is to happen in the next decade.
Magic Moments At Twilight Time Doesn't that break that rule we worked out from watching Dr. Who about not crossing your own timeline?
Albert M Tron Don't be so silly, that's just made up stuff for television, this is reality!
Magic Moments At Twilight Time I don't think anybody doubts that, Doc. Right, the next recording issued was actually called "The 21st Century Schizoid Band Q.E.D." (C-4015), but it doesn't count for our purposes because it wasn't actually an album, just a promotional sampler.