Eye Candy, Politics and WTF?

June 27, 2006 6:38 PM

Dreamies. It's 1972, and affable salaryman and good husband Bill Holt quits his good job at 3M to become a musical pioneer from the comfort of his own basement. The resulting album, Dreamies, is notable for its generous and ahead-of-its-time use of sampling/plunderphonics and became a highly sought-after lost classic until its re-release this year. Bill now has his own website, also called Dreamies, where he releases Eye Candy and Politics in liberal doses. Some are hypnotic, some are, for want of a better term, 'relaxing', others are anything but. And all of them are subtly infused with the slightly unsettling taste of Huh?
posted by nylon (8 comments total)

This is awesomeness, distilled. I'm thrilled.
posted by jantastic at 7:18 PM on June 27, 2006

sublymonal!
pudding :P
posted by kliuless at 7:28 PM on June 27, 2006

who's that singing Strawberry Fields Forever?
I like the links under each of the, erm, Dreamies.
the Dreamies themselves are, uh, interesting!
more weed, please.
posted by carsonb at 7:41 PM on June 27, 2006

Makes me think of The Residents, but if you're reading this thread then I'm sure the same thought passed through your mind.
posted by furtive at 7:59 PM on June 27, 2006

carsonb: Liza Lee performs "Strawberry Fields Forever" -- at the end of the clip, click on the musical notes at the left side for music info.
posted by potsmokinghippieoverlord at 8:03 PM on June 27, 2006

Wow! Great post!
posted by arse_hat at 9:24 PM on June 27, 2006

Great post Nylon... I love finding stuff like this!
posted by wfrgms at 9:31 PM on June 27, 2006

This is great. Another left of center creative sound organizing that fell through the musical history books.
posted by gcbv at 7:27 AM on June 28, 2006