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MORE SONGS ARE ON THE STERLING ROSWELL deadbeat PROFILE.... UBIK FREQUENCY OSCILLATOR is available as a 4 track CD and 4track 12" vinyl. THE GIRL FROM ORBIT 3 TRACK COMPACT DISC.... VENUS HONEY VINYL 7 INCH DISC....Pure Groove Records 679 Holloway Road Archway London N19 5SE T: 44-(0)20-7281 4877 F: 44-(0)20-7263 5590 [email protected] THE PSYCHEDELIC UBIK LONG PLAY ALBUM MINTmicrodot...!!! CHECK OUT 'SKY SUNLIGHT SAXON'S LIGHTER LONG PLAYER 'TRANSPARENCY' DOUBLE DISC SET ON JUNGLE PEOPLE RECORDS Helpful Customer Reviews THE PSYCHEDELIC UBIK : STERLING ROSWELL : MINTmicrodot recordings.....MINTCD017. The best album of the year you've never heard of!, By Ouija Boy "Ouija Boy" (UK)Everyone who hears this record says the same thing "This is fantastic! Why haven't I heard it before?!" It's definitely an unexpected treat if you're a follower of the careers of the ex-members of Spacemen 3. Sterling Roswell (SR) was their long-standing drummer and played on several albums including their breakthrough Perfect Prescription. But he's a bit of a mystery and I don't think he ever let his photo - or even his name - appear on their record covers. He quit in 1988. All the ex-members went on to do really good projects. The albums SR went on to make while in Darkside, with Spacemen's Pete Bain, are very good, but PSYCHEDELIC UBIK is on a different astral plain. He calls it THE NEW PSYCHEDELIC UNDERGROUND. In some ways it's old school; in others its futuristic space rock. Sometimes there's lovely woody double bass thumping away, there's understated 60s style beats. But it's melded so well with electric guitars (sort of twangy surf style) and swooshing, throbbing synths that it sounds like a whole new thing he's invented. It's lazy, it's absorbing. It reaches deep inside you. His songwriting is masterful. They're heartbreakingly romantic, or their so obviously instant pop classics that they could be classified as soul, britpop, garage, country or rock and you wonder if they weren't written years ago, in another dimension, and have been seeping through and guiding us ever since. It really GELS; it's a very well crafted and mature piece of work. One of the tracks is even backwards - and its one of my favourites! There are several rumours circulating regarding SR's present circumstances. This is what I heard: (1) He quit England after he finished making the PSYCHEDELIC UBIK to join a voodoo tribe in his native Africa. That's why he's never on TOP OF THE POPS; (2) Sterling Roswell is in a maximum security mental hospital in the USA for killing and eating his entire band including bass player TOMMY DOYLE who, apparently, used to play in The Plastic Ono Band; (3) He fell in love with his guitarist, O. D. Loveless and - in an attempt to woo him - had a sex change so that he could look exactly like Poison Ivy from THE CRAMPS, who Loveless was infatuated with. I don't know how it worked out. Weird, eh? Not sure about that second one, but he did grow up in Africa, according to his website, so maybe he went back, like in Greystoke: the Legend of Tarzan.Ouija Boy, Sterling Roswell - The Psychedelic UbikSterling Roswell, best known as 'Rosco' from Spacemen 3 has finally fulfilled his ambition to create an album of 'Space Age Pop'. Originally Rosco set out to score the music for a forthcoming film - sadly the film was never to materialise - but the project grew into an album and then progressed into a live band.Recently they have completed a trio of gigs at the newly opened Marquee club in Leicester Square, played at the Kosmiche Club and featured on a TV show. Rosco currently gigs and DJ's regularly.Featuring the Morricone String Quartet, producer Neil Brockbank, drummer Bob Irwin, guitarists Steve Donnelly and Laine Hines. This album has already received 4 star reviews in Mojo and Record Collector and was awarded 'Album of the Week' in The Organ.The CD is packaged in a shrink-wrapped card slipcase around a standard jewel case.PRESS QUOTES:"It makes you wonder if the real inspiration in Spacemen 3 was Sterling Roswell. Roswell's stoned Dylanising shines through transcendent acid rock...'Venus Honey Dew' could have come straight off the last Air album. If ever a record was worthy of the lofty claim 'Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space', this may well be it" MOJO, * * * * (Four Stars)"A wonderful debut album - a fine mix of glowing futuristic almost whispered Mercury Rev/Beach Boys flavoured space pop, warm 60's garage psychedelia and frothing, creamy, dreamy, analogue synth seduction. Beautifully crafted, detail drenched, delicate velvety pop songs. Triumphantly uplifting - you need this album." Album Of The Week, Organ Magazine."A floaty, symphonic psychedelic pop record with woozy sound effects. Actually, this is brilliant!" Time Out."A heady, hazy half hour with this album and the contact high remains long after. Reminiscent of Stereolab's euro-lectric pop, a dash of lazy guitars, beats and horns make this a perfect summer afternoon record for slipping out of synch." Record Collector, * * * * (Four Stars)"Girl From Orbit is a great, great love song; it is sex in a rocket destined for Planet Elsewhere" Single Of The Month, Sleaze Nation.