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Artist:	MEEK, JOE
Title:	I Hear A New World: An Outer Space Music Fantasy
Label:	RPM (UK)
Format:	LP
Price:	$20.00
Catalog #:	RPM 103LP

"Idiosyncratic, mad genius of early British R&R, producer Joe Meek is considered to be one of the most important independent producers of the early sixties. Like musical mastermind Phil Specter, Meek also developed his own production style in a similarly eccentric manner, stamping each work with an inimitable sound and making him a legend on the musical fringes. Although Meek was responsible for some mainstream R&R hits as well (The Tornadoes 'Telstar', The Honeycombs 'Have I The Right', etc.), this album, recorded in 1960, was one of Meek's more extreme projects. Essentially I Hear A New World: An Outer Space Music Fantasy was a concept album, which took as its subject matter 'life on the moon' -- with each song dedicated to one of the myriad populations that Meek suspected inhabited the moon's different regions (complete with a description of these inhabitants in the liner notes). Using clavioline, Hawaiian guitar and early electronic sound effects, Meek created futuristic sounding aural tapestries linked to a time when we still believed that the moon was populated by little green men. Released at the time as only a 4 track EP, the complete work has finally been restored and released with all 12 original tracks."

Artist:	MEEK, JOE
Title:	Work In Progress: The Triumph Sessions
Label:	RPM (UK)
Format:	2LP
Price:	$22.00
Catalog #:	RPM 121LP

"Please allow us to take our part in celebrating an artist that left this world too early to show what he could have been capable of, although we all have a pretty good idea, given the large and brilliant discography of the man. Without being able to play a single instrument, Meek was able to invent a 'sound' as a producer and sign a few late fifties British r'n'r hits (The Tornados' 'Telstar' speaks for all). These sessions feature 27 music files -- outtakes, demos and B-sides -- from the vaults of his own Triumph label (1959-1960) for an intensely pleasant retrospective of an absolute yet controversial genius."

Artist:	MEEK, JOE
Title:	Meek's Groups - Crawdaddy Simone
Label:	RPM (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	RPM 227CD

"A follow up compilation to RPMs highly successful Joe Meeks Girls comes this round up of several important group acts on Meeks books. The most notable are the Syndicats whose single 'Crawdaddy Simone,' their last in 1966, is stupidly rare and valued at Ł300! Happily RPM can report that the recording on this compilation is taken from the original master tape. The track has its rarity value as an uncommon 'piece of Meek' but also in itself has a reputation for being just about the toughest freakbeat single ever -- Ray Fenwicks guitar burst in the middle seals it. RPMs series of Joe Meek collections is the way to make sense of the residual Meek archive, and this package is enhanced by comprehensive notes and pictures courtesy of long time Meek archivist Roger Dopson."

Artist:	MEEK, JOE
Title:	I Hear A New World (Special Edition)
Label:	RPM (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	RPM 502CD

Special Edition enhanced CD featuring: original album, Joe Meek monologue, Joe Meek film clip - on CD-ROM track. "An early RPM release gets the makeover treatment to bring you a very special...special edition. Meek's highly influential album I Hear A New World, from which tracks continue to be sampled by today's pop meisters such as David Toop and Lewis Taylor, has added to it an extra 40-minute audio track, plus a bonus enhanced CD-ROM track. The audio is an interview with Meek conducted in 1962 as he takes the listener around his studio. The enhanced ROM track is the segment filmed by the World In Action team for a Granada TV documentary broadcast in the early '60s discussing influential people in popular culture at that time. The clip of Meek is approx. 3 mins in duration. The profile of Joe Meek and his recordings has risen immeasurably over the last decade. TV documentaries, book biographies, a recording equipment company named after him selling his compressors, frequent name checks and frequent press pieces on his work. I Hear A New World is a unique recording -- Meeks' vision of an outer space music fantasy has never been equalled since."

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