P a r t   3 :   M   i s   f o r   M a g i c   M o m e n t s ,   M a n ,   M a c h i n e   &   M e a n   F l o w . . .  

THE OPENING THEME FROM

MAN + MACHINE II (5:08)

Released On: "Exquisite Tones For Oozing Ears - Vol. II" - Various Artists (45 tracks)

Label: Corn On The Cob Music

Release Date: 18th May 2025

Format: Download

Buy Link: Bandcamp

THE ORIGINAL M.M.A.T.T. TRACKS...

   Kronophobia (4:32)

   The Night Fantasia (10:01)

Late March 2023, following another four month silence and a little over two years since the initial invitation, the actual recording work finally began. Me and Skit having stocked up with beers and cheesy wotsits, over a Tuesday and Wednesday in the last week of the month, put together the opening and closing themes for our concept (which was still Mission To Mars at the time, the graphic on the left comes from the 2025 release). Both pieces were constructed from samples taken from the 1996 Magic Moments At Twilight Time album, 'Creavolution' (the Analogue Remaster released on TMR Records in 2018), in particular the 'marching drum' on 'Kronophobia', with the synths on the opening section coming from 'The Night Fantasia'. To complete the album, we substituted those samples in the closing version with clips from Melophobia's contribution, 'Michael & Marilyn'. Although the whole album was to be a conceptual collaboration, we thought it would be nice to finish on a track that included elements of both of us. Now we just had to see if Dimitris still remembered we existed...

03/04/2023, 16:11
Magic
Tough week last week. We'd put it aside to concentrate on recording for the Project M collaboration, then my mother gets rushed into hospital and we nearly lost her. As luck would have it, we'd already got two 'frames' done (backing tracks, embellishment to come). We thought we would treat it exactly like a movie soundtrack; consistent themes, repeating motifs and ideas etc, so these two pieces both share a 'marching drum' and structural commonality. This is now project no. 1 on our schedule, so we'll be working on it fairly constantly, though there may obviously be another gap if my mother takes a turn for the worse. Will send you a DL code in 10 minutes or so.

11/04/2023, 15:30
Olympus
hello there... a pop / beat / exp-one here we have... I wish the best for your mother... everything else is not crucial... take care, Dimitris

I wish I could be that laid back about things! I was already seriously agitated and frustrated enough about this project and didn't really understand why it had become such a 'block issue' for me. Wonder how I would have felt then if I'd known we weren't even half way through the process? And that there was still two and a half years to go before it would be completed? AARRGGHH! Anyway, I digress, which is most unlike me. Just two days after receiving that message from Dimitris, we released 'Man + Machine : In Harmony / In Discord', a collaborative album with Greek electro-experimentalist, Mean Flow. Of course, we had absolutely no idea that would have any bearing on this project at the time, but looking back it seems so obvious. It consisted of one solid track, in which an electronic soup created by ourselves, 'Def Rig', served as a frame for three works by Mean Flow, aka Theofilos Tsiolakakis. I'm not sure of the precise moment we realised a sequel to this would be a much better idea than the Mission To Mars thing, but in any event, come Saturday 10th June, my birth mother died and little else seemed to matter.

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Artist: Mean Flow & Magic Bullet

Title: Man + Machine : In Harmony / In Conflict
Label: Mean Flow (MF 150)

Release Date: 13th April 2023

Running Time: 54:12

Format: Download

Buy Link: Bandcamp

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