JEFF PHELPS – Magnetic Eyes – LP – Smog Coloured Vinyl – Default Title

LABEL: Numero

CAT NO: NUM814LPC1

BARCODE: 0825764181426

Tracklisting:

A1. Magnetic Eyes (Instrumental)
A2. Dont Fall Apart On Me
A3. Super Lady
A4. Wrong Space, Wrong Time
A5. Sometime Lover

B1. Phase Shift (Instrumental)
B2. K-Shell
B3. Hear My Heart
B4. On The Corner
B5. Excerpts From Autumn (Instrumental)

JEFF PHELPS Magnetic Eyes

LP Limited Edition Smog Coloured Vinyl

Much is made of Detroit techno progenitors proximity to the auto plants. Similarly, overlooked electronic pioneer Jeff Phelps was raised just blocks from a Western Pennsylvania steel millclose enough to smell the sulphur and hear the roaring blast furnace. When Tascam released their ground breaking Portastudio in 1984allowing multi tracking on the far more financially inclusive cassette tapePhelps purchased one immediately, and quickly added a Roland SH-101 monophonic synthesizer, Fender Rhodes suitcase piano, Roland drum machine, and a basic Radio Shack stereo mic. Those basic tools were employed on his first commercial productions for his own Engineered For Sound label: 1985s Magnetic Eyes LP and Antoinettes Now Youre Gone 45. These DIY sketches generated few profits, and Phelps kept his day job in the energy business.

Jeff Phelps eventually found his way back into performance and recording, starting with The Next Level Band near the end of the decade. Houston gourmands might have caught them at the opening of Texass first Cheesecake Factory. Magnetic Eyes has already had a few lives, between TomLabs 2010 replica pressing and inclusion on Dante Carfagnas genre-defying Personal Space compilation. This 2022 edition features the heretofore un-re-released second mix, completed after discovering flaws in the initial 1985 pressing. Enjoy this technically perfect, artist-approved version of a visionary techno-adjacent masterwork.

See below for tracklisting