"THE MMATTRIX"

ELECTRONICAL DREAMS (ED 033, 1993)

Side 1;

1. "The Zen Sequent" (1'38)

2. "Caulphorquaets" (10'33)

3. "Pandora" (5'00)

4. "Shades Of Purple" (4'31)

5. "Spirit" (4'16)

6. "Monthiversary Waltz" (6.00 edited)

Side 2;

7. "Sister Jody" (32'08)

8. "The Adventure Continues..."

Track 2 was originally released on "The At Twilight Time" album (C-4014, 1987), though later found deservedly wider distribution on "Psychotron 0" (MMATT 20, 1988); 3 is from "The Magic Moments Album" (C-4013, 1987); 4 is from "Zoen Nostalgia" (MMATT 30, 1989); 5 would most likely be the acoustic version released on "Zoen Nostalgia II: Earthbound" (MMATT 33, 1991); 6 & 7 were on the flipside of "Live Debut Plus" (C-4010, 1987) and 8 is just Shona saying "Magic Moments At Twilight Time, the adventure continues." Track 1 is a bit of a mystery with its 1:38 running time. The credits show it as featuring the original foursome, so I would guess it's either the Earworm version or from "The Magic Moments Album" and the running time is a misprint? Sadly, there is no way to be 100% sure as I no longer have a copy of the cassette. But then if cassettes had actually passed the test of time, we'd still be using them, huh?

The quite excellent artwork of Alan "Hawkwind" Arthurs adorned the inlay, he also rather kindly did the painting for the cover of the "United World Underground" compilation CD for us in 2001. Nice man. The acknowledgements on the inner sleeve credit Patrice Miossec with the logo design for this release. Coincidentally, he also did the wonderful package for the French edition of "Flashbax Vol. 1" we started with!

The inner sleeve also featured this rather nice photo of me and Lulu (Leonie Jackson), taken by Pete Program at Virginia Water in 1991.

The Electronical Dreams label was run by Clive (he preferred 'Cleve') Littlewood, based all the way down in St. Austell, Cornwall. Primarily an electronic music label, he rather surprised me when he suggested releasing a Magic Moments album. Well, he had folk like Dave Anderson (Demi Monde) and Alan Arthurs (Hawkwind's finest cover artist) amongst his friends, so I guess he was a bit of a closet spacehead, which was a lucky break for us. However, there was no way he was going to be happy with a standard edition of Flashbax. He insisted on picking every track himself, and as ED releases were something of a work of art, professionally duplicated et al, I wasn't about to argue. I remember the whole process taking the best part of two years, but it was so worth the wait. The finished product was impressive, certainly inspired me to up my game at M&E. Though we opted for red print on a white cassette body, rather than adhesive labels, I rather think we owe Clive one for that! In fact, I think we owe EVERYONE that released a MMATT album a very big thank you. Ta kissy kissy.

The man himself, Clive Littlewood

The cassette label for the release was quite an inspiration for Music & Elsewhere tape designs in the years that followed.