Name: Dreamweapon
Brand: Spacemen 3

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

orbit058cd

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Colour

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Discs

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Housed in a shrink-wrapped 6 panel fold out card wallet.

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2018-02-23

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Cargo

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

5023693105826

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Spacemen 3

Genre GB

Psychedelic

Label GB

Space Age Recordings

Digitally re-mastered by John Rivers at Woodbine Studios, November 2017. August 1988, Spacemen 3 embark on one of the strangest events in the band's already strange history. Billed as "An Evening of Contemporary Sitar Music" (although consciously omitting the sitar), the group would play in the foyer of Watermans Arts Centre in Brentford, Middlesex to a largely unsuspecting and unsympathetic audience waiting to take their seats for Wim Wenders' film Wings of Desire. Spacemen 3's proceeding set, forty-five minutes of repetitive drone-like guitar riffs, could be seen as the Sweet Sister Ray of '80s Britain. Their signature sound is at once recognizable and disorienting – pointing as much to the hypnotic minimalism of La Monte Young as to a future shoegaze constituency. On this reissue, Dreamweapon is augmented by studio sessions and rehearsal tapes from 1987 that would lead up to the recording of Spacemen 3's classic Playing With Fire album. Spacemen Jam, featuring Sonic Boom and Jason Pierce on dual guitar, is a side-long mediation on delicate textures and psychedelic effects.

CD - Housed in a shrink-wrapped 6 panel fold out card wallet.

2LP - Heavyweight double vinyl in a Gatefold sleeve. Includes download card and new insert with liner notes by Will Carruthers.

Dreamweapon

Music GB