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MAGIC BULLET FOURTH
BIRTHDAY EDITION : October 2023 - January 2024
The home of all things Magic
Bullet, Magic Moments At Twilight Time, Music & Elsewhere and United World
Underground!
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GREETINGS...
As the Magic
Bullet project hits four years old, well, good to be back with you for
another updated edition of The Magic Net. So, very little from us in
the four months since the last one, not least due to the loss of my birth
mother so soon after it was published. Really threw me for a while there,
something quite disconcerting about having both the people who brought you
into the world no longer there, left me with this awful sense of detachment
and a kind of creative paralysis, only the latter of which I'm now starting
to come out of. Many thanks for all the kind and supportive words received
throughout the period, very much appreciated.
As luck would
have it, old friend Kev Trundley has stepped up and provided us with a new
release worthy of a headline. I guess he got the idea after contributing
Asparagi to Communitas Volume III back in 2021, as Bug
Metallic is 51:40 of such mixes, sharing
the common theme of being built around samples, sound bites and interviews
from the world of
the Magic Bullet. Kev will be releasing the album on his Conny Plankton
Bandcamp sometime in the first couple of weeks of October, which you can get
to most easily by clicking on his nice banner graphic above!


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As for Project M
for Default Standard, I am saying nothing. It's like a damned jinx every
time I open my mouth about it, so not a word. Suffice it to say the next
time you hear about it, it'll be because whatever it has evolved into will
be finished. Likewise for all else I had planned for the latter half of the
year, I really need to get my head back in the right place first, so what
comes along will probably be as much a surprise to me as to you.
Meanwhile, there are
links to what is currently happening around our world down below, just click
on the images to visit the relevant page for further information, or the
play button to listen to the track and / or watch the video. There's also
some nice cost-of-living- crisis-busting
special offers at the foot of the page, postage and packing only for some
nice shiny compilation discs we've appeared on. Hopefully, come the next
issue in the New Year, things will be looking a tad brighter all round. Take
care...
N e x
t E d i t i o n : 1 s t F e b r u a r y
2 0 2 4
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.jpg) Us?
The Magic Bullet? Let loose with our own radioshow?
With OUR reputation? What WERE they
thinking. We can almost taste the tears...
DR. MAGIC'S AUDIO LAB - first Saturday
of the month
on KOWS 92.5 FM in Sonoma County,
California
and worldwide on
kowsfm.com from 19:00 - 20:00 PST (GMT/UTC
-8)
EMBRACE THE ECLECTIC
ELECTRO-EXPERIMENTAL EXPERIENCE...
Playlisting and further information inside
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THE
A-Z OF MUSIC & ELSEWHERE:
THE ADVENTURE CONTINUES!
As of the day of publication,
October 1st, Opera Multi Steel will be the 181st addition to the series, with another 103
to go, all the way up to Zerobranco in January. Just click on the tape logo
above or follow the posts on the
M&E Facebook page, and join us on a journey through the golden age
of the cassette underground, from 1986 - 2003 & beyond...
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Opera Multi Steel - Les Douleurs De L'Ennui (5:44)
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LOVING MEMORY
SALLY CHENNELLE (1942 - 2023)
Our solitary new release since
the last edition, as just nine days after its publication, my birth mother
passed away at the age of 80. This electro-experimental piece we were
working on with El Zombie Espacial, originally with something of an avant
garde jazz vibe to it, well, suffice it to say it took a rather dark turn
after that...
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Magic Bullet vs
El Zombie Espacial
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Requiem Maternus (7:23)
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FROM
THE MIND OF STAN BATCOW...
A barely recognisable and
completely unexpected (due to my age, I hasten to add, not his failing to
tell me he was going to do it) re-imagining of our In My World, I Am A
Writer Of Some Repute from Howl in the Typewriter, performed in a kind
of elektrofunk stylee with a wikkid groove, innit. Comes complete with a
psychotronic sixties vibe video from the warped mind of Stan himself...
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Howl in the Typewriter vs Magic Bullet -
Mmatterialisation
Chamber (Video) (4:21) |
MUSIQUE
CONCRÈTE SUR DISQUE!
There's now a limited number
of copies of the Ever Present compilation on Shaun Robert's Institute
For Alien Research label available on factory made CDR's, which includes
a new home for our Four Minutes And Thirty-Three Seconds Of Your Life You
Will Never Get Back. See 'Special Offers' below for how to bag yourself a
copy. Meanwhile, here's the original suite...
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Magic Bullet - Five Minutes Of Your Life You Will
Never Get
Back (5 x 1:00) |
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INTERNATIONAL
STRANGE MUSIC DAY: TAKING THE PISS IN THE NAME OF ART
No no no, we're not being
disrespectful to this modern day institution, we actually think it's a
really excellent idea, people should be drawn out of their
musical comfort zone, it's healthy. It's just the name of the track we did
for it this year, honest. And how the sounds in it were produced. Poor
taste? In my defence, I did clean the toilet before taking the picture...
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Magic Bullet - Taking The Piss In The Name Of Art
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BROKEN
TAPE RECORDS 500 TRACK EXPERIMENTAL COMP FINALLY OUT!
It's taken Alexey Kondart over
two years to put this ultra-ambitious monster together (we recorded Пятьсот
- Russian for 500 - especially for the project way back in June 2021!), but
he's finally done it. And even if the tracks only averaged at 5 minutes
long, that would give you the best part of two days running time. He may
just have put the rest of us out of business...
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Magic Bullet -
Пятьсот (3:00) |
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* S P E C I A L O
F F E R S - L I M I T E D C O P I E S
A V A I L A B L E - P & P O N L Y ! *
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* Ever Present
(Institute For Alien Research, CDR)
A recent addition to Shaun
Robert's respected musique concrète compilation series, professionally made,
comes in a full colour card and shrink-wrapped sleeve. And as the most
important thing is to spread the music, you can get one for £1.00 UK / £2.50
elsewhere (while stocks last - check first and we'll put one by for you).
HAVE A LISTEN -
IFAR
4'33''186
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* Godspunk
Volumes 22 & 24 (Pumf Records, 2 x CD)
Close on 5 hours of music on
two double CD sets in jewelled cases. Includes four Magic Bullet tracks
between them; Mutant Flash Mob, We Would Hear The Machines,
I Want More Toys and The Magic Bullet Song. Both collections are
yours for £2.00 UK (not sure it's worth it overseas, £5.00 - £7.50, but ask
if you're interested). HAVE A LISTEN -
VOL.
22 ►
VOL.
24 ►
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* P l e a s e
o r d e r v i a o u r
P A Y P A L a n d s e l e c t t h e
' f r i e n d s & f a m i l y ' o p t i
o n s o w e d o n ' t g e t
a n y
f u r t h e r d e d u c t i o n s , t h e
p r i c e s q u o t e d c o v e r a
j i f f y b a g a n d p o s t a g e
o n l y , t h a n k s ! |
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