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01. Don Campau... Don was actually one of the main inspirations for Music & Elsewhere when he visited our old Frimley base with Kevyn Dymond back in the autumn of 1991. That's Kevyn's group shot on the left; Sam (remember the 'S.J. Taylor' who cheques had to be made payable to? We've been together 37 years now!), Pete Program (MMATT live auxiliary), Leonie Jackson (MMATT vocalist, next generation), meself and Don. As well as running his Lonely Whistle Music tape label back then, he was also the U.S. arm of the great KFR Distribution set up that unleashed us west of the pond. Well, I interviewed Don for The Magic Net back in April 2014, one of the real troopers of the underground, so it's all there...

• INTERVIEW WITH DON CAMPAU (April 2014)

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   Don Campau - No One Knows (3:16 - "Mixed Messages", 1991)

05/10. Agent Yggdrasil... Jaws Of The Flying Carpet already had plenty of history before they had a first tape release on M&E in 1993, a Canadian band whose catalogue was almost entirely comprised of unbelievably tight improvised material. This particular incarnation of their works is the natural descendent of their Rotton Kidz project; a global co-operative of creatives who took on strange monikers and made recordings in random collaborations, all under the RK banner. It was one Zalnikor Zundorum we got to know best when his secret identity of David Bohatyretz came to stay for a while in October 2001. Discovering he had an interest in history, we took him down to Battle in East Sussex for an enormous re-enactment of the 1066 Battle Of Hastings, which the Normans won again, I suspect it was rigged. On the right there is me and him at Battle Abbey. Quite a fascinating and spiritual person, not to mention a keen practitioner of Falun Gong, which involved a rather laborious series of exercises each morning. Needless to say, when I started the website in 2013, I invited him to write a feature on the subject for it...

• DAVID BOHATYRETZ ON FALUN GONG

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   Rotton Kidz - Southeast Asia Peace Circle Dance (5:39 - "Green Asia", 1988)

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11. Valerios Calocerinos... His Left As In Sinister label (did you pick up the reference in the show?) was the first to release MMATT in Australia. Nice man. Although a musician himself (seem to recall he played bass with Lemon Avenue, and Ikon for a bit, and I'm sure he had a connection to This Gentle Flow as well), he never had a release on M&E, which feels mean of us, so it seemed the least we could do was publish an embarrassing old photo of him. Um... I think that's him on the right. My memory isn't what it was, I forget why I've gone into rooms these days. But I digress, which is most unlike me. Interesting fact thing about the double bass improvisations we included an excerpt from on the show; they were actually based on a visual score by New Jersey artist, Claudia Eligur, e.g. reading artwork like music. Curious? Well, just so happens we have the 'sheet music' on PDF, feel free to download and explore, maybe even try your own versions with other sounds...

VISUAL SCORES BY CLAUDIA ELIGUR: SCORE A / SCORE B

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       Lucky: "Actually, I wanted to ask about that shuddering, I mean, WHO MOVED THE GROUND?" (left)
       Lieutenant Anne Ouncer: "Spacequake, no big deal. Did you want to get a plug in for any of your other old bands too?"
       Lucky: "Well, I was just thinking that flying in INTER (centre) - stellar space, it should be smooth as BLUE VELVET." (right)

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14. And our special guests: The TR5's... That's Lucky, aka our old mate Sid Stovold, a very busy part of the old GU postcode local band scene back in the day, and probably not just with the three bands he managed to get a plug in for on the show! We had Who Moved The Ground and Blue Velvet on M&E in the early days, Inter came a little later, seem to recall a vinyl single on Yoshiko Records, I'm sure there was a CD too, long time ago, groan. Many thanks to Sid and the band for being such great sports. Oh, but a note to Buzz (the one who can't play and can't sing) about just pretending to be a big fan of bees as a "joke"; don't think we're just gonna forget about it, okay?

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   Who Moved The Ground? - Freshness & Taste (2:50, "If Pleasure Was Illegal", 1996)

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