DREAMIES Auralgraphic Entertainment 1973 ORIGINAL PRESS BEATLES TRIPPY PSYCH LP

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DREAMIES "AURALGRAPHIC ENTERTAINMENT" LP

ORIGINAL 1973 LP on the US STONE THEATRE label, STEREO DM68481

SCARCE ORIGINAL PRESSING - you can tell the difference easily when comparing to the recent reissue.

COVER is rough, FAIR/GOOD, top seam completely split, bottom seam has 3" split, heavy ringwear

VINYL looks good, shiny, light marks, plays VG to EXCELLENT all over the place really - SIDE 2 has a feelable mark which causes a click for the first 7 minutes and a few skips.

Block that kick!  Block that kick!  Financial imbalance.  The Watusi. Eldorado.  In my broken chair, my wings are broken and so is my hair.  If any of that makes sense to you, chances are you’re gonna like what the Dreamies have to offer on their 1973 LP Auralgraphic Entertainment.  The Dreamies were really the work of one man, Bill Holt, who quit his job in Delaware one day (aha, something we both share!) and spent the next few months recording his dream project – quite literally a “dream project” since he was attempting to create an aural recreation of the process of manufacturing dreams.  The fact that he was obviously a big fan of John Cage and the Beatles’ “Revolution #9” helped shape the sound and the titles – the album contains one 25-plus minute song per album side, “Program Ten” and “Program Eleven,” which is probably Bill’s sly way of telling you that this is what should you should be playing right after “Revolution #9.”  And it should.  “Program Ten” starts out with a John F. Kennedy quote followed by the sound of cicadas, and a sad acoustic descending guitar riff that channels both “Nights in White Satin” and the Kinks “Sunny Afternoon.”  This is followed, in time, by a nice “I’ll Be Free” melody, overlaid with some proto synth and electronics.  But the song is not afraid to develop slowly and patiently, like Pink Floyd’s “Shine On You Crazy Diamond,” which is as good a reference point in both mood and patience as any.

Side 2, which is just one minute shorter at 25 minutes, is an altogether trippier affair, more quasi-psychedelic than “Program Ten,” as if the acid (or percocet) were finally kicking in.  There’s a recurring vocal theme here, a line “Wanna take a ride with me?” which substitutes for “Number 9, Number 9” I’m guessing, and lots of distant, distorted and somewhat creepy vocals.  Like its Beatles inspiration, there are also recurring loops of canned audience laughter, more synth and electronic pulses and drones, and yet another looped vocal snippet that sounds like someone saying “Just dream,” but I’d have to submit it to my buddy Zach Bagans and his Ghost Adventures EVP decoder to know for sure.  This side of the album has more “stuff” going on, in the sense of melody, sound effects and vocal snippets, and really does come across like a more musical “Revolution #9,” less Lennon and more McCartney.  Still, it leaves some time for a few minutes at the end of the album side that are total ambient noise, droning passages of hypnotic electro sounds like the deepest of dream states.  And it all ends with a totally acid-drenched coda of outer space synth sounds and heavily-processed tune-in turn-on and freak-out nonsense vocals.  The whole of krautrock took notes.  And so did MOJO magazine, who voted Auralgraphic Entertainment the 37th most “out there album of all time.”  It should definitely be on the list, that’s for sure.  There’s no other album like it, and that might be because Paul, George and Ringo always had a say.  Well, maybe not Ringo, but you get the point.  But for pure unadulterated DIY dream-state altered-states headphone electro-collage psychedelia, Auralgraphic Entertainment is about as good as it gets.  Take this, brother, may it serve you well.

Side 2 has a noticeable click through first 7 minutes that does skip a few times.

PLEASE NOTE I NO LONGER SHIP TO ITALY DUE TO A CORRUPT POSTAL SYSTEM (THERE, NOT HERE).  BUYERS FROM ITALY AGREE TO PAY FOR GLOBAL PRIORITY MAIL INSURED ONLY!

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Media mail shipping with delivery confirmation starts at $4.00 in the US, with each additional record only $1 additional shipping.  Overseas shipping has, unfortunately, gone way up in the fast few months, which translates to $15 for the first LP to Canada ($3 each one thereafter) and $24 for the first LP everywhere else in the world, with each add'l LP an extra $5 (so it pays to buy more, nudge nudge wink wink).   I accept payments through Paypal. 

I try to grade as best as I can, and I list as many blemishes/imperfections I can find (writing, ringwear, scuff marks, etc.) – Also, please note that I DO listen to these albums – I may not listen to every track, but my grades are based on LISTENING, not just looking at it, since chances are you’ll be listening to the record you buy, not just looking at it.  Most of the albums I sell are the ones I’ve enjoyed for years – and I treat my records with kid gloves.  But sounds speak louder than words, so check out the sound clips below – they’re from the actual record you’re bidding on. 

SHIPPING AND PACKAGING

Listen, I buy a bunch of records too (when I’m not getting outbid at the last second, which is more often than not) – and I know what it’s like to get a rare, one-of-a-kind album packaged dangerously in a flimsy bubblewrap package.  I hate that too.  So rest assured, I ALWAYS package albums with stiff cardboard reinforcements, same for 45s.  And yes, the records are removed from the sleeves (for albums).  I ship out once a week, every Friday, because I have a regular day job.  But I’d be willing to give that up if you’d all be so kind as to bid my items up to stupidly high amounts. 

 For more security and international tracking, you may request GLOBAL PRIORITY MAIL - but bear in mind the cost of this service is upwards of $30.  For expensive items, however, it may be well worth it.  Unfortunately, there isn’t a cost-effective way of tracking parcels to foreign countries yet, and shipping times vary depending on your country’s postal system.   Italy in particular seems to be really bad at delivering packages quickly, or delivering packages at all, now that you mention it.  I will always email you when your package ships, but once it’s on its way, please don’t ask me when it will arrive because I don’t know.  If the world’s postal systems can ever agree on a universal tracking system that’s affordable, I’ll be the first to use it.

NOW IT’S YOUR TURN…

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