www.speedywunderground.com | @SpeedyWunder

Speedy Wunderground release their fourth single, ‘Keep Your Eyes Open 

Boy’ by Scotti Brains on 2nd September

Scotti Brains is label chief and producer Dan Carey, best friend and fellow producer / 

recording artist Oli Bayston & Beth Buxton.

Taking their name from a shared love of San Franciscan psych band Bunny Brains and Dan’s 

cat Scotti (who coincidentally is prone to close his eyes and ‘dance’ upon hearing Bunny 

Brains), Scotti Brains was initially a project born out of early morning recording sessions 

following parties at Dan’s South London studio. Tradition dictated that the insane / furious / 

psych / punk / noise results featured Beth screaming over the tracks - major labels seemed 

unimpressed so a Speedy Wunderground release beckoned.

Having a full day rather than a few snatched hours to record, Scott Brains’ debut single for 

Speedy Wunderground is slightly more accessible than their previous late-night-output. A 

perfect summer-song, in the great Speedy Wunderground tradition ‘Keep Your Eyes Wide 

Open Boy’ again features the Swarmatron but this time a lunch-break was allowed – the boss’ 

prerogative.

Recording Beth’s ‘vocal’ over the phone due to ‘relationship-problems’ (Oli & Beth are 

partners who split up during the recording of the single but now happily back together), 

the track also features an ominous and anonymous ‘keep your eyes wide open boy’ vocal 

snatch taken from a tape Dan had bought along with a vintage 1950’s tape recorder in the 

Oxfam shop on Streatham High Road. The tapes featured recordings of the owner and his 

friends ‘chatting’ and at one point a woman repeating ‘keep your eyes wide open boy’, a 

phrase that was to provide the title for the single.

‘Keep Your Eyes Open Boy’ is a summer warning to all who think it’s all OK (it might not be).

SW004: Scotti Brains - Keep Your Eyes Open Boy (Full Version)

Released in November 2020 - Lost Map records
Ursula Russell - Drums
James Howard - Bass
Dimitrios Ntontis and Phil MFU - synths 
Clémentine March - voice guitar and flute

Recorded by Toby Burroughs at Rumbaba Studios, March 20
© Clémentine March - Lost Map Records

Elixir -  Single Version

Regalo para las fiestas patrias de parte de los Astros del Norte y Los Vikingos de Mendoza o como sea….. (Ya andamos pisteando)

Producida por Don Alex.

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I Want To Break Free (Astros De Mendoza & Los Vikingos Del Norte Remix)

Carlinhos Santos - Giramundo (02:47)

Intro : Shaman Olivia Arevalo
00: 50 : Los Mirlos - El Milagro Verde
03:24 :  Peter Croce - Maracatu Detroit
10: 06 : Nicola Cruz - La Cosecha
15:05 : Marcos Valle - Bicicleta
18:41 : Vanderkraft - Ce bon vieux Jean Lassalle
24:38 : Bixiga 70 - Balboa Dub
28:42 : Os Trincoãs - Deixa a Gira Girar

Pavillon Puebla mixtape

Limited 7" (250 copies) out 8th June.
Order here - http://speedywunderground.com/shop/

SW024 - black midi - bmbmbm

Title track from the forthcoming Instant Nostalgia EP, released on Lost Map on Friday 23rd November 2018, on 10" vinyl and digital download.  Available to pre-order from the Lost Map website: https://www.lostmap.com/products/bas-jan-instant-nostalgia

Buy 10" EP

Bas Jan - 'Instant Nostalgia'

Brian Eno's huge back catalogue of work as a solo musician, band member and producer goes back decades, including high-profile work with Roxy Music, Talking Heads, David Bowie, John Cale and many others. He is often credited with inventing ambient music, but this conversation between Juliet and Brian does not talk about the past. Instead, we focused on how Brian has adapted to new music, new technology, and neoliberalism, and what responsibilities artists have to acknowledge and use their cultural capital.

SELECTED REFERENCES

Works by Brian Eno
Discreet Music (1975)
Ambient 1: Music for Airports (1978)
Spore (2008, video game soundtrack) - https://pitchfork.com/news/30187-brian-eno-makes-interactive-music-for-spore/
The Ship (2016) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pn1riJSHhkY
Reflection (2017) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dwo-tvmEKhk
Bloom (with Peter Chilvers) - http://www.generativemusic.com/bloom.html

Berlin Horse (dir. Malcolm Le Grice, 1970) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDj8Tc6259o
Gavin Bryars, 'The Sinking of the Titanic' (1975, LP) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oVMRADOq5s
David Byrne & Brian Eno, 'My Life in the Bush of Ghosts' (1981, LP)
Anna Calvi
Client Earth - https://www.clientearth.org/people/eno-brian/
Richard Dawkins
DiEM25 - https://diem25.org/brian-eno-people-are-rethinking-what-democracy-means
Mark Fisher (k-punk), 'Precarity and Paternalism' - http://k-punk.abstractdynamics.org/archives/011486.html
Forensic Architecture - https://www.forensic-architecture.org
gal-dem - http://gal-dem.com
PAOLO GERBAUDO, The Digital Party (2019) - https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745335797/the-digital-party/
Stuart Hall
Harmonia & Eno '76 - https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/20947-complete-works
Jon Hopkins
Long Now Foundation - http://longnow.org/seminars/02003/nov/14/the-long-now/
Lowly, 'Baglæns' (2018, song) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9ydgJenbQA
Henri Matisse
Media Reform Coalition - https://www.mediareform.org.uk/
Tom Rogerson, 'Finding Shore' (2017, LP) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxWMlK31Mpw
Alexei Sayle
Superflux - http://superflux.in
Raymond Williams
Liv Wynter - https://i-d.vice.com/en_uk/article/pamn9v/hero-of-the-week-liv-wynter-who-resigned-as-tate-artist-in-residence

Suite (212) - series 2

An interview with Brian Eno

Victoria Hume - 'Desert'

Lost Map Records welcome London-based French singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Clémentine March to the label roster, for the release of her eclectic, charming and truly cosmopolitan debut album Le Continent in January 2020. It’s preceded by the release of the title track as a PostMap postcard single in November 2019. ‘Le Continent’ Clémentine describes as “a personal account of a traveller who is trying to find her way everywhere in the world... melted with that strange spirit of the times we’re living. I wrote this song in 2017,” she says, “and it was – still is! – hard to avoid to overload of media anxiety about Brexit.” Phil MFU from the band Vanishing Twin contributes an organ part and an improvised freakout section in the middle of the song – and also a remix of ‘Le Continent’ exclusive to the postcard release.

Elixir - Single Version

Clémentine March

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