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Spacemen 3

Threebie 3 - 2024 Repress

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Coloured LP

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Heavyweight yellow vinyl.

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ORBIT020LP

Release date
12 Jan '24 (originally released 4 Sep '20)
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Heavyweight yellow vinyl.

Spacemen 3 were an English alternative rock band, formed in Rugby, Warwickshire by Peter Kember and Jason Pierce, known respectively under their pseudonyms Sonic Boom and J Spaceman.Their music is known for its brand of "minimalistic psychedelia". Spacemen 3 had their first independent chart hits in 1987, gaining a cult following, and going on to have greater success towards the end of the decade.However, they disbanded shortly afterwards, releasing their final studio album post-split in 1991 after an acrimonious parting of ways. They gained a reputation as a 'drug band' due to the members' drug-taking habits and Kember's candid interviews and outspoken opinions on recreational drug use.Kember and Pierce were the only members common to all line-ups of the band.Both founding members have enjoyed considerable success with their respective subsequent projects: Sonic Boom/Spectrum and Spiritualized.

'Threebie 3' is a live Spacemen 3 recording featuring performances from a 1988 gig at Melkweg in Amsterdam which were excluded from the live 'Performance' album.It was originally released in a strictly limited edition of 1,000 numbered copies which were only available via a mail order offer that came with the seminal and critically acclaimed Spacemen 3 'Playing with Fire' studio album released in 1989 which went to number 1 on the indie charts. Out of print for more than 30 years and now re-mastered by John Rivers at Woodbine Street Studio.

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A1 – Starship (Live)
A2 – Revolution (Live)
A3 – Suicide (Live)
B1 – Repeater (Live)
B2 – Live Intro Theme (Xtacy)

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Spacemen 3

Forged Prescriptions - 2023 Reissue

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2xLP

£28.99

180 gram black vinyl.

Cat Number

ORBIT082LP

Release date
15 Dec '23
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180 gram black vinyl.

Space Age Recordings are pleased to announce the release of, for the first time ever on vinyl, Spacemen 3 “Forged Prescriptions”.

Featuring Sonic Boom a.k.a. Peter Kember (Spectrum, E.A.R.) and Jason Pierce (Spiritualized). Packaged in a gatefold sleeve with a new take on the original artwork layout. The audio has been digitally remastered by John Rivers at Woodbine Studios and spans across two 180g Heavyweight Black vinyl to ensure the purest of sound quality. This is definitely one for the collection.

This double album contains a myriad of alternative takes and demo versions from Spacemen 3’s album “The Perfect Prescription” Including, at the time of the CD release, some never before heard tracks. In his liner notes, Spacemen 3’s Sonic Boom says this release presents the album’s songs in their “full guitar laden versions with all the layers of beautifully streamlined guitar — considered by us to be too hard to replicate live and therefore reduced for the original release.” “For me, this is where Spacemen 3 song writing came to a head – many of these songs pre-dated “Sound Of Confusion”, some were even recorded at both sessions, but I am still impressed mightily by Jason’s lyrical genius on originals like “Walking With Jesus” and re-writes like “Come Down Easy” and his fluid guitar playing across the whole sessions. To be sure “Playing With Fire” was soon to be our long and sultry Indian Summer but “Perfect Prescription” was the progeny of that hot, lazy (and occasionally rainy) summer.” Sonic Boom.

TRACK LISTING

Side A)
1 Things'll Never Be The Same
2 Walking With Jesus
3 Ode To Street Hassle
4 Call The Doctor
5 Feel So Good
Side B)
1 Come Down Easy (Demo)
2 Transparent Radiation (Single Version)
3 Ecstasy Symphony
4 Soul
Side C)
1 Transparent Radiation
2 Come Down Easy
3 Walking With Jesus (Demo)
4 Things'll Never Be The Same (Demo)
Side D)
1 We Sell Soul
2 Starship (Demo)
3 Take Me To The Other Side (Demo)
4 Velvet Jam
5 I Want You Right Now

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Experimental Audio Research

Mesmerised (RSD23 EDITION)

Space Age Recordings

THIS IS A RECORD STORE DAY 2023 EXCLUSIVE, LIMITED TO ONE PER PERSON.

The E.A.R. debut project, Mesmerised, is a total collage of drones, tones, and endless atmospheric washes that becomes a logical extension of earlier works into realms of psychedelic haze. This mysterious and beautiful sound is a complete exploration into 90ís post/space rock. Only released on vinyl once in 1994, this RSD 2023 release has been created to exactly replicate the Space Age Recordings release from 2009. Working with Pete Kember, and keeping an environmentally conscious mind. This superb release will look as good as it sounds. Transparent red vinyl, inside a clear acetate bag with concentric circles and the EAR logo printed direct to it (plus barcode, track list etc). A very special release and one sure to get the collectors buzzing.

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E.A.R.

Beyond The Pale - 2022 Reissue

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ORBIT077CD

Release date
15 Jul '22
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This CD, consisting of post ambient feedback and electronic sounds was produced and mixed by Sonic and has been repressed in a limited run for 2022. The new, deluxe digifile, looking so much crisper, brighter and cleaner retains the original artwork, created by longtime E.A.R. collaborator - artist Anthony Ausgang.

Although not released until 1996, Beyond The Pale was originally recorded in Northampton, back in 1992 at Angus Wallace’s Far Heath Studios. It was the first album from Experimental Audio Research (aka E.A.R) an experimental music collective formed around Sonic Boom (Pete Kember), founding member of Spacemen 3 (along with Jason Pierce), who, on this project works closely with Eddie Prevost (AMM), Kevin Shields (My Bloody Valentine) and Kevin Martin (God).

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John Massoni & Sonic Boom

The Sundowner Sessions

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Coloured LP

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ORBIT025LP (#AUGDROP)

Release date
29 Aug '20

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Not previously released on vinyl Originally recorded in Seattle, in 2000 and released on CD only later the same year 'The Sundowner Sessions' is a recording featuring John Massoni (electronics) and Sonic Boom (custom human voice synthesizer). "[Sonic} can make something out of almost anything.He'd just pick out a tape of mine (I have a bunch of tapes with sound and drone experiments), and work something into a piece.His focus and ability not to be undermined by the limits surrounding him is really amazing to watch.We worked well into the night - thus 'The Sundowner Sessions' were born." - John Massoni. Never before released on vinyl but now re-mastered by John Rivers at Woodbine Street Studio especially for vinyl release for RSD 2020.

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The Telescopes

Altered Perception

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2xColoured LP

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ORBIT014LP (#AUGDROP)

Release date
4 Sep '20

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Purple coloured heavyweight 180 gram audiophile double vinyl LP Not previously released on vinyl The Telescopes are an English noise, space rock, dream pop and psychedelic band, formed in 1987 by Stephen Lawrie, and drawing influence from artists such as Suicide, The Velvet Underground and The 13th Floor Elevators.They have a total of eleven released albums including their debut, Taste, released in 1989. 'Altered Perception' collects 15 of their most intricate workings from their first two albums with the odd rarity and b-side thrown in for good measure. Never before released on vinyl but now re-mastered by John Rivers at Woodbine Street Studio especially for vinyl release for RSD 2020.

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Spacemen 3

Live In Europe 1989

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Recorded over four nights in Germany during what turned out to be Spacemen 3's final tour, ‘Live in Europe 1989’ is far better than the more ragged earlier Spacemen 3 live album, 1988's ‘Performance’. The album's also notable for documenting the group's short-lived quartet line-up, with bassist Willie Carruthers and drummer Jon Mattock. Despite the change in rhythm sections, the focus is, as always, on guitarists Pete Kember and Jason Pierce, who by this point in the group's career aren't even pretending to be interested in standard verse-chorus-verse structure. Rather surprisingly, only one of the 13 tracks; a 16-minute take on Playing With Fire's centre-piece track ‘Suicide’ breaks the ten-minute barrier that was so often smashed through on the group's studio recordings, but there's still an epic, expansive feel to these loose, perfectly ragged performances. Although newcomers are advised to start with Playing with Fire or Recurring, Live in Europe 1989 is essential for fans.

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TRACKLISTING:

1. Rollercoaster (5:45)
2. Mary Anne (4:05)
3. Bo Diddley Jam (2:37)
4. 2:35 (3:33)
5. Walkin’ With Jesus (4:33)
6. I Believe It (4:09)
7. Lord Can You Hear Me? (3:22)
8. Things’ll Never Be The Same (5:35)
9. Starship (3:50)
10. Revolution (6:36)
11. Suicide (15:52)
12. Take Me To The Other Side (4:38)
13. Suicide (Version 2 Edit) (7:30)

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Acid Mothers Temple

Does The Cosmic Shepherd Dream Of Electric Tapirs?

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2xColoured LP

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ORBIT041LP (#RSD19)

Release date
26 Apr '19

THIS IS A RECORD STORE DAY 2019 EXCLUSIVE, LIMITED TO ONE PER PERSON.

Mustard coloured heavyweight 180 gram audiophile vinyl double LP with new artwork layout. Re-mastered by John Rivers at Woodbine Street Studio especially for first time vinyl release.

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Spacemen 3

Playing With Fire

Space Age Recordings

Every once in a while a record comes along that somehow manages to define an era. In the late 80's there can be no doubt that one such record was released - and that record was "Playing With Fire" by Spacemen 3. Fuelled by narcotic indulgence and an overwhelming sense of darkness it was rightly hailed as a classic at the time and is still considered to be one of the greatest albums of the time by many today. Its mesmerising beauty and sublime originality are still recognised as a genuine triumph to this day.

When "Playing With Fire" was released in February 1989, the creative abilities of Sonic Boom (aka Pete Kember) and Jason Pierce were at their peak - all but gone were their earlier homage's to The Stooges and MC5, replaced by a graceful, blissed-out beauty which had writers everywhere clamouring for their dictionaries. Only on the insurrectionist's clarion call of "Revolution" and the Vega/Rev tribute "Suicide" did they allow the guitar assaults to cut loose, instead they used gentle waves of sound to produce the same effect; powerful, emotive and yet somehow also genuinely disturbing.

By this time, Spacemen 3's use of drugs had become notorious (a major factor in their eventual demise) and they seemed to be trying to achieve that same (almost religious) high within their music, strangely foreseeing the dance explosion which was to happen shortly after.

Now, Space Age Recordings are making this legendary record available again, complete with live versions of "Suicide" and "Repeater" and recordings of "Che" and "May The Circle Be Unbroken". Not only that but they've also included a second CD full of studio out-takes and demos, including the Spacemen 3 version of "Any Way That You Want Me" - the song which went on to become Spiritualized's debut single.

Producers: Jason Pierce, Pete "Sonic Boom" Kember. For the majority of its six-year career, of which 1988's PLAYING WITH FIRE is the approximate midpoint, the British trio Spacemen 3 pursued its sound-for-sound's-sake obsessions in near-total oblivion. It turns out, however, that the band was merely a decade or so ahead of its time. Spacemen 3 featured guitarists/keyboardists Pete "Sonic Boom" Kember and Jason "Spaceman" Pierce, who later formed Spectrum and Spiritualized, respectively. The commercially and critically successful '90s work of these two sonic iconoclasts earned much more interest than the material of Spacemen 3 did during its 1985-1991 lifespan. The band's third full-length studio album, PLAYING WITH FIRE finds the band moving beyond its earlier, somewhat more song-oriented work into more abstract and improvisational areas. The highlight is the corrosive "Suicide," one of the band's most visceral works.

TRACK LISTING

Disc One
1. Honey
2. Come Down Softly To My Soul
3. How Does It Feel?
4. I Believe It
5. Revolution
6. Let Me Down Gently
7. So Hot (Wash Away All Of My Tears)
8. Suicide
9. Lord Can You Hear Me?
10. Suicide (Live)
11. Repeater (How Does It Feel?) (Live)
12. Che
13. May The Circle Be Unbroken

Disc Two
1. Honey (Demo)
2. Let Me Down Gently (Drum Mix)
3. How Does It Feel? (Alternate Version)
4. Suicide (Demo Vocal)
5. Lord Can You Hear Me? (Demo Vocal)
6. I Believe It (Alternate Mix)
7. Che (Maracas Mix)
8. Any Way That You Want Me (Demo)
9. Girl On Fire (Demo)

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