MAGAS
friends forever CD & 2x12" vinyl

CD TRACK LISTING  
01: BLIND CONTACT
02: DEAD QUASARS
03: TOYS (REDUX)*
04: POCKET RACERS
05: HARD TO DETECT
06: THIS IS HOW WE DO IT
07: LOVECOMPRESSOR (EDIT)*
08: KLUB 99
09: CHEAPER & SLOWER
10: INTO THE VOID
11: TOO MUCH FEAR
*CD Bonus Track

2x12" PLAYLIST
A1: BLIND CONTACT
A2: KLUB 99
B1: POCKET RACERS
B2: DEAD QUASARS
B3: THIS IS HOW WE DO IT
C1: HARD TO DETECT
C2: CHEAPER & SLOWER
C3: TOO MUCH FEAR
D1: TOYS (FxU Remix by J. Vulpine)*
D2: MONO MOUTH*
D3: INTO THE VOID
*DP Bonus Track
Music, Vocals & Lyrics by James Marlon Magas.
©2003 ERSATZ AUDIO.

www.magasnews.com

RELEASE DATE: MARCH 18, 2003 (EZCD-25/EZ-025)
MAGAS is James Marlon Magas. His new album "Friends Forever" proves he is an unstoppable force in today's underground music scene. This new album is... electronic, it's rock, it's no wave. It's great driving music, and great dancing music. Who cares what you call it. It's simply great music. Listen to this 11 song album, and get ready to be revived. The beats are thick. The synths are vindictive. And the vocals will send shivers up your spine.

Unlike many musicians, MAGAS gives to the music community in two unique ways. First, with his up-tempo minimalist songs, racing towards annihilation. And second, running the influential record store WEEKEND RECORDS & SOAP (Chicago) with his wife Bridgette Wilson. MAGAS is that unique individual who can simultaneously operate a successful specialty record shop and still create music that is uncontaminated by the hordes of records that move through his shop each week. He uses his knowledge of record releases to create a sound that is both fresh and educated. MAGAS has always been on the outside of any one style or genre since his beginnings in music, from Couch to Lake Of Dracula and The Many Moods of Marlon Magas.

"Friends Forever" is the follow up to the ground-breaking 12" EP "Bad Blood" on Ersatz Audio last year. As with "Bad Blood," MAGAS once again employed the co-production assistance of Adam Lee Miller of ADULT., and together they produced another fantastic album that will surely stir the waters.

"Magas makes driving Doomsday disco sound like the best idea in the world. A star is born." -Vice

"An unstoppable force of electronic no wave, thick beats, vindictive synths, and vocals to chill your blood." -Boomkat

"...one will find something unique, driven by a strange and individual mindset, which is something that everyone who loves music must surely be seeking." -No Ripcord

"The album's 11 tracks belong in rock clubs as much as they do on dance floors." -San Francisco By Guardian

"Magas often sounds like an electro version of rockabilly punk favorites The Cramps. I'd even be tempted to try out the term 'electrobilly' if there were any chance that anyone but Magas (or Quintron) were likely to make a record like this in the future."
-Pitchfork

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