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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)

'Oblique Fantasy' by Jane Weaver.
Out digitally on Speedy Wunderground 23rd March 2022.
Out on limited 7" (500 copies) on 17th June 2022.
Produced by Dan Carey.
Listen / order - https://ffm.to/sw040_janeweaver

https://www.speedywunderground.com/
https://janeweavermusic.com/

SW040 // Jane Weaver - Oblique Fantasy

Out digitally now and on limited 7" (500 copies) on 15th April.

https://ffm.to/sw039_lewsberg

SW039 // Lewsberg - Six Hills

SW005: Kate Tempest - Hot Night Cold Spaceship - Mr Dan's Monday Morning Remix

SW005: Kate Tempest - Hot Night Cold Spaceship

SW006: Childhood - Pinballs (Full Version)

Out digitally now and on limited 7" (500 copies) on 22nd July 2022.
Stream / pre-order here - https://ffm.to/sw041_queenshead

SW041 // The Queen's Head - Your God Owes You Money

SW042 // HighSchool // Only a Dream

Out digitally now and on limited 7" (500 copies) - 13th Jan 2023.

Order / listen here - https://ffm.to/sw043_o

SW043 // O. // OGO

SW044 // English Teacher - 'Song About Love' - out digitally 24th Jan and on limited 7" (500 copies) 10th March 2023.
Listen / order here - https://ffm.to/sw044_englishteacher

Produced by Dan Carey.

SW044 // English Teacher // Song About Love

SW007: Juce - Braindead

SW045 // Hot Face - dura dura

SW009 - Kate Tempest & Loyle Carner - Guts

SW011- Teleman - Strange Combinations

‘Ill’ features on FEWS’ debut album ‘Means’, out May 20th. Pre-order and get 3 tracks instantly: found.ee/meansitunes

Pre-order on CD: found.ee/meanscd

Pre-order on LTD Edition clear vinyl: found.ee/meansclearvinyl


SW012 - FEWS - ILL

ORDER THE LTD 7" HERE - 

 http://speedywunderground.com/shop/

OUT MONDAY 10TH AUGUST 2015.

SW013 - Peluché - The Guy With The Gammy Eye

out 27/11/15 on limited 7" only.

Order here: http://speedywunderground.com/shop/

SW014 - BOSS - I'm Down With That

SW016 - Boxed In feat. Formation - Running Out

Out on 10th Feb on limited 7" (250 copies).
Pre-order - speedywunderground.com/shop/

SW020 - JW Ridley - Everything (Deathless) - Part 1

SW020 - JW Ridley - Everything (Deathless) Full Version

Out on limited 10" (250 copies)Friday 1st December - pre-order here:

http://speedywunderground.com/shop/

SW022 - Flamingods - Hyperborea (Part 1 & 2)

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

SW024 - black midi - bmbmbm

SW024 - black midi - Savage Gary's DbDbDb - B Side

Out 21st Sept on ltd 7" (250 copies) + digital.
Order the vinyl here >>> http://speedywunderground.com/shop/

SW025 - Squid - The Dial

Out 8th March on limited 7" (250 copies) + digital.
Pre-order vinyl here - http://speedywunderground.com/shop/

SW026 - Black Country, New Road - Athen's, France

Out 5th April on limited 7" (250 copies) - http://speedywunderground.com/shop/

SW027 - All We Are & Alex Kapranos - Heart Attack

Out digitally 27th Sept.
Out physically 1st Nov - limited edition 7" - 250 copies.

Order here - https://smarturl.it/lkane_narcissus

SW031 // Lazarus Kane - Narcissus

Out digitally 22/11.
Out physically 13/12 on limited (250 copies) 7" vinyl.
Pre-order here - https://www.speedywunderground.com/shop/singles

SW032 - Pynch - Disco Lights

Out 17th Jan 2020 on limited 7" (250 copies) - https://www.speedywunderground.com/shop/singles

SW033 - PVA - Divine Intervention

'Nothing To Say' by Savage Gary feat. Georgia.
Taken from the Speedy Wunderground 'Quarantine Series'.

Out now on Speedy Wunderground.
Art + Visualizer by Raissa Pardini.
Produced by Dan Carey (Savage Gary).
Mixed by Orla Carey.
Georgia appears courtesy of Domino Recording Company.

Listen/download here - https://ffm.to/savgeorgia​

https://www.speedywunderground.com/​

Speedy Wunderground is Dan Carey, Alexis Smith & Pierre Hall.

QUARANTINE SERIES 21 // Savage Gary feat. Georgia - Nothing To Say

Digital release 22nd Jan.
Physical release 26th Feb - limited 7" (500 copies).
Order here - https://brodka.ffm.to/sw035

SW035 // Brodka & Scottibrains - Wrong Party

Speedy Wunderground – A ten-point plan

1. Speedy Wunderground is a new label which begins on February 25th 2013 with the release of “I Go Out” by Steve Mason & Emiliana Torrini.

2. Speedy Wunderground is the idea of producer Dan Carey. Dan will produce all releases. All records will be recorded at Dan’s South London studio. Dan has previously produced Franz Ferdinand, Bat For Lashes, TOY, Willy Mason, Django Django, Emiliana Torrini, The Kills, Chairlift and Steve Mason.

3. Recording of all records will be done in one day and finish before midnight. The recordings will be a snapshot of the day. Mixing will be done the day following the recording, also in one day only. This will prevent over-cooking and ‘faff’.

4. There will be no lunch break during recording and mixing days.

5. Overdubs will be kept to a minimum allowing the recordings to be free of clutter.

6. The recordings will appear in limited runs of two hundred and fifty 7”s, which will be in the shops as soon as humanly possible following their completion.

7. The core of each song will be a live take recorded in the dark with smoke and lazers and somewhere on each record the Swarmatron – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJyub78p924 - will make an appearance.

8. Speedy Wunderground work quickly. There will be as a little delay as possible between recording and release. Speedy Wunderground records will not sit on the shelf gathering dust waiting to be released.

9. Speedy Wunderground will release each year’s recordings as a compilation at the end of the year.

10. Speedy Wunderground Records will not be slow.

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