https://soundcloud.com/james-serviceav
🛒 https://themagusproject.bandcamp.com/album/aerohead-dat-two
🔊 https://youtu.be/2uBXrf8J32k

Broken Britain, late 1994. Amidst a welter of Tory sleaze, John Major's 'Back to Basics' campaign is dead in the water. No one is buying the traditional-family-values mantra of the hypocritical, festering
ruling classes.

Meanwhile, that same year’s hastily misconceived Criminal Justice Act attempts to criminalise entire musical genres, and by extension the nation’s irrepressible youth. The CJA’s famously reductive edict, characterising 'rave' as "wholly or predominantly categorised by the emission of a succession of repetitive beats" lumps acid house, techno, disco, breaks—all of it—together; a cloddish cudgel against
unlicensed parties everywhere.

Though the spirit of the nation's young hearts hasn't been extinguished, perhaps the music begins to reflect a slightly dampened, more introspective mood: driven further underground, sent indoors and out to the borderlands by authoritarian over-policing.

As seasoned organisers abandon Britain to create raves in more permissive parts of Europe, there is a trace of optimism, however—the much-vaunted high-speed Eurostar railway connecting England with
France is finally open, signifying ongoing musical and cultural aﬃliations. It's hard to believe now, but the dream of the UK in Europe is still alive, and dance music is an integral element.

Into this intense, contradictory culture, in which acutely fertile dance scene clashed directly with an ossified establishment, came The Magus Project, who some 30 years ago in a small bedsit in Fulham, took the sounds of the moment and distilled them into five electronic objet d’art, hitherto completely unheard.

If a tree falls in the woods, does it truly make a sound? The Aerohead casket of DAT tape curiosities, rare components and DIY musical alchemy raises a similar question. Can music never heard at the time
speak to the mood, the moment, the magic? Listen for yourself, to an indefinite past meeting an indefinable future. 

Tracklist:

1. Eurostar 
2. Drone 
3. Boomwa

PREMIERE: The Magus Project - Boomwa [What Sonic?]

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The Why people dance question was asked for the first time in Lithuania back in 2013 but it gained a worldwide echo in its 8 years of existence. Run by @pauliuskamblevicius with the help of @experimentsserial and a network of collaborators, the online electronic music platform and label keeps its heart open for new friends and treasure finds but its filter tight and deep underground. Tune into WPD channels on Soundcloud, YouTube and Bandcamp.

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