Can, Spacemen 3, Faust, Black Sabbath, Bardo Pond, Ash Ra Tempel, Magical Power Mako, Hawkwind, The Godz, Loop, Sleep, Dead C, Skullflower, Popul Vuh, Angus Maclise, La Monte Young, Henry Flynt, Bo Diddley, early Staple Singers, Crazy Horse jams, Amon Duul II, balinese & javanese gamelan
"AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS" LIVE at ZERO POINT 1/26/08
"Magic Lantern's songs—mantras would be a more accurate term, actually—burrow deep into your consciousness through repetition and intense, densely textured riffage. It's very hard to make this sort of music exciting...but these five Long Beach dudes find the ecstasy in stasis and ride it into the sun with distortion pedals a-blazin'."
1 in a series of 6 hyper-handmade limited releases by Not Not Fun for NEON COMMUNE. Sold only at NEON COMMUNE. Recorded live in 2007 at the Echo Curio.
At the Mountains of Madness C30 (2007), Edition of 100, [NNF103]
"Plenty of cacophony comes crawling outta the NNF mailbox/inbox on a daily basis, but it’s been a spell since an hourglass of holy din has caught us captive quite the way Magic Lantern’s tape has. This LBC guru posse formed last year but only began laying down live sets in the last four months, and the evolution is radical. The A side shockwave, “At the Mountains of Madness,” rides a roiling riff through forcefields of charged tones, percussion concussion, and collective overdrive before slowly ramping up and over drug-rock repetition into raw light cone rapture. A perfect cyclone of basement storm and interstellar Hawkwind, and a real contender for CS single of ’07 in our book. The live B piece shows a looser slice of psychic youth, all amplifier wash and blissed waves of Bardo comedown…like a teenage Taj Mahal Travellers bootleg. Illuminating. Keep yr eyes peeled for more ML signal flares on NNF in the future. Stenciled tape-labeled tapes with full-color fire-dancer J-cards in gold-flecked cases embellished with jewels."
Side A - "At the Mountains of Madness"
Side B - "Untitled (Live)"
SOLD OUT
Self-Titled CD-R (2007), Edition of 30, self-released SOLD OUT
Tracklist:
1. At the Mountains of Madness
2. Vampires in Heat
3. Chance Encounter
4. Gateway
5. Untitled (Live)
willevansTAG (1:13:53 PM): oh, if you want to drop out of life with bong in hand, there is a serious psychedelic show tonight at the echo richgaccione (1:14:00 PM): that rules richgaccione (1:14:05 PM): hahahaha richgaccione (1:14:16 PM): who willevansTAG (1:14:32 PM): magic lantern & pocahaunted richgaccione (1:14:45 PM): woah willevansTAG (1:14:45 PM): magic lantern are like titties if they were kaleidoscopes into alternate realities
DNT037 - Super Minerals "The Piss" cassette $6ppd US/Canada $10ppd International New cassette by Long Beach's Super Minerals, which is Phil and William from psych band Magic Lanterns. "The Piss" takes a different route than ML using murky drones and faint cries for help. Heavily influenced by old zombie films. Limited to 75 hand numbered copies on piss yellow cassettes with gross hairy label art. Red fishy cover art with yellow splatter.
