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It's good to be back. Feels
like I have been such a slacker of late, that long five month gap between
Requiem Maternus and The Twelve Days Of Christmas, it was nice to
finally have a new track to promote, albeit just our take on a festive
traditional. Many thanks to Don Campau for putting the radioshow my way, I
think it was just the thing I needed to snap me out of the malaise and get
me working again. Yup, been going well, and thoroughly enjoying doing it to
boot. The fourth edition of Dr. Magic's Audio Lab (The St. Valentine's
Sonic Massacre Show) will be on air two days after this update first
goes online, full details can be found by clicking on either of the headline
graphics above. Which finally leaves us ready for the countdown to the long
awaited Gravitas Project, commencing this October! Meanwhile, watch the
boxes under each project for progress reports, release dates and links as
the countdown continues, tick tick tick...
Magic Bullet - The Twelve Days Of Christmas (4:40)
On the first phase of countdown The
Bullet gave to me
Three brand new collections...
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ΚΟΛΛΑΒΟΡΑΤΙΣ - a
special compilation for the Greek Default Standard Records label (hence the
title, Collaboratis in our alphabet), featuring our collaborations with M.
Nomized (France), GMPSCKT (Canada), Spam Javelin (Wales), Aura En El Espejo
(Mexico), rADio eNd (France), Levente (Romania originally, England now),
Gypsy (England), Mean Flow (Greece), Zebra Mu (England) and El Zombie
Espacial (Argentina). Plus a bonus copy of Here, our collaborative
video project with Gordon Way (Canada)!
OUT NOW ON
DEFAULT STANDARD - FULL DETAILS INSIDE
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FRATERNITAS - to be
released on our own M&E by way of a thank you to the other six labels who
have released a Magic Bullet album, featuring one track from each, plus some
imaginative reworks of our sounds by Filmy Ghost (Chile), Howl in the
Typewriter (England) and Conny Plankton (England). Did I mention a bonus
track from Flashbax Ω Ultimate?
OUT NOW ON
MUSIC & ELSEWHERE - FULL DETAILS INSIDE
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OBSCURITAS - for Otcrah
Records in Mexico, one of the few underground labels that still does
physical releases, and as much as we love Bandcamp, it'll be great to have
one on a 120mm
disc of silver for a change! This is a special collection of Magic Bullet
tracks that were originally created for compilations projects and have never
previously appeared on an album!
COMING 11th
JULY FROM OTCRAH - FULL DETAILS INSIDE
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On the second phase of countdown The
Bullet gave to me
Three brand new collections...
Two special conceptions...
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MI CASA, SU CASA: THE
RETURN (A LIMITED EVENT SERIES) - filling out the original 2020
Electronic Cottage split to become an album in its own right, including
extra material as both prequel and sequel, as our Lynchian transdimensional
domestic tour once again features Blacklight Braille legend Owen Knight,
returning to his role as The Traveller.
UPDATE:
OFFICER KITTY: LEGACY -
exactly how do you conclude a musique concrète for children adventure
featuring tales of Twizz's plastic cat and an electro-experimental band?
Join us to find out as we explore all the possibilities. Officer Kitty went
to space, then she went to Ty-Land, then she fought The God Of Love and had
a mash-up on his radioshow, then she fought The Scary Donut, now she faces
the end. Everyone will be back for the revelation. Expect the unexpected.
And whiskers. Miaow. Prrrrrr.
UPDATE:
On the third phase of countdown The
Bullet gave to me
Three brand new collections...
Two special conceptions...
And a brand new collaboration!
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MAN + MACHINE II:
INTEGRATION / ASSIMILATION - yes, the Project M that dare not speak its
name, thankfully there was a Plan B. Based around a brilliantly immersive
half hour piece by Greek electro-experimentalist, Melophobia, we top and
tail it to make an album sequel to last year's work with fellow Greek, Mean
Flow. Again on the theme of AI, we go from original man, through early
computing and beyond The Singularity...
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THE
A-Z FINALLY COMPLETED...
It took 10 months, but all 284
entries in the series are now up on The Magic Net for your aural pleasure,
from A is for Acidfuck to Z is for Zerobranco. Just click on the graphic to
the left and you'll be transported to the feature index, your access point
to days of listening and several freely downloadable albums. Enjoy muchly...
Acidfuck - Piece Of Christ (4:24)
Zerobranco -
Irremovibile
Mirata (3:03)
IN MEMORY OF KEVYN DYMOND...
As 2023 was coming to a close,
I received the sad news of yet another loss of one of our own. Kevyn was
also a dear friend of over 30 years standing. I'd only met him physically
the once, when he and Don Campau had left their native California for
their great European tour in the Fall of 1991, but that was enough. Through
the M&E years, Kevyn had several releases on the label, both solo and as part
of Barking Dogma and The Folkoffs. Beyond making music, he was a keen
networker, running his own Guaranteed Cleveland Records label and publishing
the Anemic Billfold zine. Even when the heyday of cassette culture began to
fizzle away at the turn of the millennium, we remained in regular contact,
via actual letters sent back and forth through the postal service, my every
attempt to persuade him to get an e-mail address failing dismally! A
one-off, a hugely talented musician and a thoroughly decent guy. And I'm
really going to miss those handmade birthday and Christmas cards. I'll leave
you with some of that talent from our A-Z Of M&E series, plus a copy of his
Anemic Billfold zine from October 1993...
Kevyn Dymond -
The
Brandenburg Concerto (5:19)
Barking Dogma - This Is Fiction (15:35)
The Folkoffs - Coffee Love Jig (4:57)
with Cynde Gehman - I'm So Glad (2:51)
Anemic Billfold - No. 3 - October 1993 (pdf - 32pp
)
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GRAVITAS PROJECT? NOW WHERE
HAVE I HEARD THAT NAME BEFORE?
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