www.myspace.com/thedaydreamunderground
Where to start with this?
It’s always been a part of the Daydream Generation’s short-lived history to orchestrate seemingly random, near-impossible, and hopelessly pointless projects. Way out beyond the periphery of financial considerations, we’ve built a maze of profiles that nobody ever finished (or was interested in), survived the technological headfuck of an online music festival, kickstarted a makeshift record label with it’s own chaotic collective, and released countless free records for you to download, compilations, Best Of’s, EPs, LPs, debut albums, unreleased features, and even compilations of compilations. So on paper at least the idea of starting a secret underground musical collective may have sounded completely random, probably impossible, and almost certainly pointless, but there was a quixodelic vibe of familiarity about us even bothering to dream it up in the first place. Without any real research or consideration whether it would actually work or not and not even knowing what the purpose of such an underground society would be, I got back on the horse and sent out a load of invitations to anyone I thought might be interested, and even a few that I suspected would not. And so The Daydream Underground was born.
Once the hard part of getting on the horse was out of the way it quickly became apparent that such a society without a coherent philosophy or purpose would drift away like the Maze before it, so I turned my attention to conjuring up some kind of “mission” that would hopefully unite the secret anonymous members of the underground. After a few seconds I settled on the first thing that came into my head, the idea of a collective record of instrumentals from as many of us as possible, each recording under a pseudonym, anything goes, the madder the better, “a record of sounds that run like paints on a Jackson Pollock painting” I think I said. In my mind I imagined a psychedelic/experimental journey of ideas, textures, sounds you’ve never heard before, and sounds you’ve never heard together before, colliding and captured on a single disc…
…and two weeks later here we are. “Into The Ewigkeit” is everything I imagined and a bit more. From your armchair to a wild west showdown, from the robotic sounds of subterranean secret basements to snake-infested Iowa, from Paris to fuzz, from handclaps to glockenspiels, and all the way to the skies of World War II – it is a dark record, thick with the fog of ideas, and quite possibly the first chapter of a great adventure into the unknown.
And so about the people who have contibuted to making this record I really can’t tell you a thing. I don’t know how many contributors there are, or even where they are from, very occasionally I recognise a sound that I’ve heard somewhere before but for all I know the tracks that make up the first ever Daydream Underground release are from the same person operating under 16 different pseudonyms. Whether this is a global project or 16 people that just happen to live on my street, or your street… your guess is as good as mine. I don’t know whether these are people I know from previous DG compilations, or if they are new to all this, and I don’t even know how to find them to say thankyou. But for what it’s worth, here are the founding members of the secret musical society:
LOUIS LA WAYE & THE OH OOH OH’S
OH NO NOT THAT FUCKING LLAMA AGAIN
THE PURPLE OHM EATERS
ARMCHAIR SUPERMAN
FINKBRAU
JIM PINE
LANKIE & THE SEVEN SCARED LADS
DIP
OLD MEN USE CANES
NEBULALA
SHORT PANTS IN WINTER
JONNY BALLS
THE WAY IT IS
THE CRYSTAL MONOLITH
and
GLOWHEEL
So head to the QUIXODELIC RECORDS section at the top of the site, click to download, stick it on your iPod or burn it to a disc, and please remember to strap yourself in because the ride could be a little bumpy and then some.
If you like what you hear please check out our MySpace (link above) and if you want to get involved in any future underground projects then check out the following link:
http://www.groups.myspace.com/thedaydreamunderground
Secretly yours
DQ
Downloading and digging.