There is plenty of activity at Chicago’s TurnTabling Records. Paisley Babylon is back in the studio recording material for a vinyl-only release in 2010. More details on that project are coming soon.
Three albums were released in 2009 including one by Texas new wavers Goop. Synthetic Reasons is now available for download from iTunes.
Another Texas group, the collective known as Post Mortem Telepathy also dropped its first official release on Turntabling Records. PMT released quite a lot of material informally between 1997 and 2001, but this is PMT’s first wide release. The album Nitrous Oxide From the Three-Point Line: The Adventures of Dr. K is a concept album with no vocals to advance the story. Founding PMT members aren’t talking, either. PMT is available via iTunes for download and preview. The album Nitrous Oxide From The Three-Point Line: The Adventures of Dr. K is available in its entirety.
Nitrous Oxide is one of the very rare PMT recordings with absolutely no copyright infringement whatsoever, it’s also the first to be released in any official capacity with no fear of lawsuits or death threats from the surviving members of Pink Floyd, The Doors, or Led Zeppelin.
You can also buy Paisley Babylon’s Midnight Hallucinations
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Midnight Hallucinations is exactly what the name implies–a collection of sonic excursions into the scary underbrush of your subconscious. If Eno described his ambient works as being full of “evil and doubt”, by comparison Paisley Babylon’s Midnight Hallucinations are chemically-altered space voyages where dream logic rules and gravity is only a theoretical possibility.
Paisley Babylon started in 1996, releasing The Alpha Wave Variations in 1997. Most of the tracks for Midnight Hallucinations were recorded in Iceland in 2000, and never saw the light of day until later when founder Joe Wallace rediscovered the recordings in Chicago in 2004. Wallace has recorded and performed with a variety of similarly freaked out Texas psych/experimental bands including Crevice and Post-Mortem Telepathy.
Take a trip with two free Paisley Babylon tracks from Midnight Hallucinations:
Paisley Babylon–Pavement and Broken Windscreen mp3
Paisley Babylon–Not a Hangover mp3
…or you can buy Paisley Babylon Midnight Hallucinations from iTunes
