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Jeff Phelps - Magnetic Eyes
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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
mill—close
enough
to
smell
the
sulphur
and
hear
the
roaring
blast
furnace.
When
Tascam
released
their
ground
breaking
Portastudio
in
1984—allowing
multi
tracking
on
the
far
more
financially
inclusive
cassette
tape—Phelps
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:
1985’s
Magnetic
Eyes
LP
and
Antoinette’s
“Now
You’re
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
Texas’s
first
Cheesecake
Factory.
Magnetic
Eyes
has
already
had
a
few
lives,
between
TomLab’s
2010
replica
pressing
and
inclusion
on
Dante
Carfagna’s
genre-defying
Personal
Space
compilation.
This
2021
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.
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