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Magic Bullet vs Levente - Astra Cum Distorta (Orion / Outland / Arecibo)

from Communitas (Volume I) by Magic Bullet & Friends

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From the first artist to have a release on M&E to the last, Levente, whose “Turning Pages” (M&E 596) was in our final batch of releases in May 2003. An ethnic Hungarian who fled Ceaușescu’s Romania, which was very much their loss and our gain, he’s an exceptionally talented electronic musician who I wish had found the label sooner, rather than during our final wane. It’s at least gratifying that I was able to do something more for him second time around, including his work on our “United World Underground Collection” (M&E 25-01, 2017) and... this? Not sure it’s me that’s doing him the favour here! Recently, he’s been talking much about giving it all up, and we’ve all been there, so I’ve been desperately trying to persuade him not to, maybe just more measure his output, find a better work-life balance. But, in case he were to throw in the towel, I didn’t want to miss the opportunity of working with him first, having a particular idea on giving some of his spacier works the Magic Bullet treatment. The three pieces we agreed on were “Heart Of Orion” (from “Places”, 2000), “Outland” (in memory of Carl Sagan, from “Explorers”, 2014) and “Overhearing The Stars (Arecibo Observatory)” (from “Firmamentum”, 2015). Then Skit and I set to work on selecting parts and samples from each to add our ideas to, finally putting the three together as a kind of ‘star suite’. Rather graciously, he described our efforts as “hey this is cool”, which from a man of such talent is praise indeed. Sadly, the Arecibo Observatory was decommissioned in 2020, but Levente is still there for now, writing an electronic music blog called Notes From A Nebula and, of course, there’s always Bandcamp...

Blog - notesfromanebula.blogspot.com
Bandcamp - levente.bandcamp.com

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from Communitas (Volume I), released October 1, 2021

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Mick Magic England, UK

Formed psychotronic / experimental rock band Magic Moments At Twilight Time in 1986, went on to produce 13 albums across the following decade (with varying line ups). Founded the Music & Elsewhere underground tape label in 1992, releasing 600 titles up to 2003. A lost decade, then released some digital collections from 2013-19, now recording again with broad spectrum experimentalists Magic Bullet. ... more

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