JEFF PHELPS - Magnetic Eyes - LP - Smog Coloured Vinyl

LABEL: Numero

CAT NO: NUM814LPC1

BARCODE: 0825764181426

Tracklisting:

A1. Magnetic Eyes (Instrumental)
A2. Don’t 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 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 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.