Rapid Eye Electronics Ltd. (REEL)

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REEL formed when three refugees from The Psychedelic Duelling Wars congealed in the psychic wreckage of a Somerset studio to record Wild Garlick electronics, eschatological ambience & brown acid techno on adapted bits of farm machinery & petrol cans

The cover of Maldoror by Comte de Lautreamont featuring a sculpture of a dancer.
Two fair-skinned people (the man with dark hair, the woman with blonde) gaze at each other lovingly in a white room decorated by magazine posters of people like Marilyn Monroe & Brigitte Bardot
The cover features a hand (perhaps Eve’s, maybe Adam’s) plucking an apple from a tree.
The book cover of The Vegetarian by Han Kang, featuring a pure white bird's wing against the intricate purple and red veins of a (red cabbage?) leaf
A poster for death wish - a middle-aged guy inspecting a revolver. The legend in small writing: judge, jury, executioner
The cover of the Happiness DVD, a cartoon representation of the main characters in the film including: Jane Adams, Elizabeth Ashley, Dylan Baker, Lara Flynn Boyle, Ben Gazzara…
Beatrice Dalle in Betty Blue drinking from a Champagne bottle.
Keith Floyd, a middle aged white man in a dinner jacket, is smiling (possibly drunk) while holding up a glass of red wine (or possibly blood from his ancestors’ enemies)
Girl being force fed milk by another girl meme. Blonde girl dressed in black is feeding brunette & holding her hair off her face.
Black boots with white and red stripes
The EVER DREAM THIS MAN? Poster but with REEL’s own Farmer Glitch wearing his customary gas mask instead of the original guy with the eyebrows. The text is as the original: “Every night, all over the world, hundreds of people see this face in their dreams. If this man appears in your dreams too, or if you have any information that can help us identify him, please contact us.” www.thisman.org
David Thewlis (who’s probably only in his late 20s but looks about 40 in today’s money) in NAKED with his head framed by a spiky antique ‘solar’ style clock which makes it seem like he’s a guy with a halo in an old alchemical manuscript. Or Justice. Or the Statue of goddamn Liberty
Ludwig the strange mid 70s cartoon with the psychedelic space-egg robot / alien / Trillion thing
The pelican edition with a still from the film The Hustler on the jacket. Paul Newman is a fabulous looking fair skinned man in a grey suit cueing up his next shot in a pool game. Blurry white guys in hats watch him (and probably wish they were
Harry Enfield playing Stavros the Greek kebab shop owner on Friday Night Live or some such comedy show from the 80s
'Memo From Turner' is almost a detachable promo film for the song, though taken out of context detracts from its pertinence. This is not enter-tainment, pure and simple. Here, as throughout the film, Roeg's camera is always moving, "even manic". Roeg doesn't want his camera to be unobtrusive. "To me, the zoom calls attention to the fact that the camera can go where the human eye can't." Shooting on location helps one to be inventive. Harry Flowers' office was not shot in Lowndes Square, but upstairs in a neglected boardroom, on the top floor above a Chinese restaurant, the Chuen Cheng Ku, at 17 Wardour Street. David Cammell had been involved in a nightclub on those premises some years earlier. It had quite a reputation, with celebrated visitors, including Princess Margaret. It was called Le Condor, though it is repeatedly mis-written as El Condor. Names have meanings, often mischievous ones. Le Condor is a play on 'Le Con d'or,' the golden cunt, and has a literary allusion, to a book by Louis Aragon, writing as Albert de Routisie. His infamous secret novel, Le Con d'Irène, first appeared in 1928 in Paris, hand in hand with, and bearing the same discreet publishing mark as, Georges Bataille's first edition of Story of the Eye (using the pseudonym Lord Auch), both supplied with relevant illustrations by André Masson. Memo From Turner' was written by Cammell and Jagger, playing on ideas that merged the two worlds. With Turner dressed as Harty Flowers, poised and posed in the office where the business operates, earlier events are paralleled and merged. Chas' new boss and father figure becomes the analyst, leading him through the tunnels, mocking their lifestyle and confronting his sexuality. Asked to strip off, all the associates are set in action, with Chas the only exception. He doesn't strip. This is Chas' viewpoint. But Chas never saw the Magritte painting propped against the mirror. Observer and observed. Bifurcating. This must be Turner too, the analyst entering t…
Paul Buck’s Performance: biography of the classic sixties film book
The cover is a slow focus Baconesque photograph of a man (or perhaps a boy) shaking his head - if you read the book you can probably guess why.
We see a shanty salad, a bender brunch, all kinds of wonderful / terrible meals
Illustrations of some of the key authors in the book - it’s huge, well over 600 pages. They include Shakespeare, Wilde, Darwin, Eliot, Brontë, Scott.
A 1980s Penguin addition, featuring a detail from 119th division by Richard Lidner, which may be a stylised female torso with fire in the belly & perhaps wearing a corset or maybe because she’s wearing a corset & this is a demonstration of extreme chafing. I think there’s a flag as welll & it all possibly associates entirely with the book but I havent read it yet
Two ‘free’ 7” compilations given away with Sounds, featuring Celtic Frost, Motörhead, Jesus and Mary Chain, Head of David, Stupids etc - they are titled Sounds Wave 1 & 2
You can see a dozen or so CDs: several Fabric CDs, Booka Shade, several Four Tet, Underworld, Death in Vegas, Rough Trade compilations
Submission by Michel Houellebecq - the sleeve is a night shot of a dark Paris with the Eiffel Tower illuminated, possibly ironically.
We see Hitler & Chamberlain at a meeting. A flash of a Nazi armband
A dark haired woman in a dive bar, looking up contemptuously at some poor sap of a guy while smoking & wearing a white shirt under a white jacket.
The note on a post-it reads: introspective self-analysis, first person selective narrative, credible insight and ????? (Help me out here), Pretty depressing!
An amazing b&w swirling poster with a giant unblinking eye and a broken woman kneeling in desperation.
The cover says, amongst other marketing quotes, “international bestseller”, which seems plausible. It’s mostly the same colour pink as my old hallway & there’s a fish shaped soy sauce sachet thing.
3 middle aged guys dancing (sort of) to their own music
house hallucinates pump up london volume one On vinyl. Psychedelic sleeve with a boiling beaker - I forgot the name - dripping (probably) acid
Sunday 29 March 6pm - 9:30pm DI DAS DER present RAPID EYE ELECTRONICS LTD. - CRIES FROM THE LTN - DEZ DARE - ISN'TSES - OLD BORT £8 on the door or free with Noise Maker Market ticket Unit 4, Minerva Works, 158 Fazeley St, Birmingham B5 5RT Centrala
A slightly ridiculous but beautiful red estate car that looks like (and probably was) either an ambulance or a hearse… but driven by Cold War French spies circa 1962.
The paperback edition. A picture of 2 men fishing in a lake. The picture is disconcertingly sideways with the title flowing down the page in a jagged fashion
The picador edition with a collage of Burroughs smoking… lumps of glistening, pearlescent meat… cold blasts of iron… naked anatomical figures… a scaffold & some old shutters… scratches on the wall making constellations
A pre Judge Dredd early edition of 2000AD with Dan Dare and a monster on the cover. This comic cost 8p which gives you some idea of how old it is.
There are a lot of people on this album sort of Sgt Pepperish cover… jg ballard, orbital, Eliane Radigue, rd Laing, AO Spare, Kate Bush, Xenakis, Rimbaud, Coil, Anais Nin, Wittgenstein, Chris & Cosey, yves Tanguy, Sylvia Plath, William S Burroughs, Eric Dolphy, delia Derbyshire, Angela Carter, Stockhausen, Kant, Bunuel… probably more. But this is really about Eliane RIP
The limited edition megamix of I Feel Love by Bronski Beat and Marc Almond
FLYER: Sunday 29 March 6pm - 9:30pm DI DAS DER present RAPID EYE ELECTRONICS LTD. - CRIES FROM THE LTN - DEZ DARE - ISN'TSES - OLD BORT £8 on the door or free with Noise Maker Market ticket Unit 4, Minerva Works, 158 Fazeley St, Birmingham B5 5RT Centrala
The sleeve of Widowermaker is fairly dull tbh. Just some plasticky abstracts that look like Jeff Koons ran out of toys to turn into balloon sculptures
A sunset, water, triangles (lots of them in early 2000), horses heading to the horizon
A comic strip sleeve which has robot pac-man attempting to eat a dub scientist in his studio while various shady-looking characters (mummies, Dracula, Elvira etc) watch on through the window. Only Dub can save him now!
The Cranes EP INESCAPABLE - mostly blue and gold, ornate, rococco, some strange key-like thing
From Secretary (2002) - James Spader telling Maggie Gyllenhall that “We can't do this 24 hours a day, seven days a week.” Her asking: why not?
Barry Adamson in black and white under an umbrella in the rain. He doesn’t look happy but I guess Moss Side was a bit dodgy back then.
Mix-up by Cabaret Voltaire on vinyl
The Human Fly 12” on Warp
A spacey asteroid belt explosion sleeve
Void Dweller on vinyl - sleeve is spacey asteroid stuff
The sleeve of Date With Elvis - ivy as a horny devil. Lots of gold satin
Tod Dockstater - luna park, traveling music, apocalypse (quite a day you had there, Tod). The sleeve is some vaguely eastern ink work, which could well be some kind of visual score. Or maybe their kids just got into the ink well