Blog: mapsadaisical

Perhaps I'm overthinking this, but the decision to call this new Editions Mego offshoot label Spectrum Spools seems just too perfect, almost unavoidable even. Though it is going to be issuing LP-only editions, the reference takes in recordings which use tape as part of the creative process, as well as things which are actually issued on a format which continues to have such persistent relevance in certain musical scenes. The spectrum aspect, as well as the allusion to that vivid display of colour (as beloved of psychedelia as much as its more recent musical cousin, hypnagogia) is surely a reference [...]