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Smile with the Eyes

by Five Times of Dust

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Smile With The Eyes 06:01
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Advertising Space 04:48
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Sayonara 07:57
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I Want Straight Sex 04:07
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The Single Off The Album 03:28
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Plastiche Taschen 07:01
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Ethnic Bomb 02:38
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The Estate Children 06:58
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Insect Charge 04:21
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Technology 06:39
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Megamix 05:14
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The Mainframe 05:11
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Riding To Heaven 05:55
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Covered In Dust 02:47
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We’re happy to present Smile With The Eyes: a double LP of selections of unreleased material from the prolific outsider / underground duo Five Times Of Dust. Formed in 1980 in Bristol, Mark Phillips (MAP) and Robert Lawrence came together with a shared passion for Krautrock, Industrial Electronics and the burgeoning DIY tape scene, as well as being influence by the Dadaist movement and the works of Burroughs and Ballard. Unconventional, quirky and at times melancholic and romantic, their music acted as the perfect escape from the urban decay of early 80s Bristol and Cardiff, the two cities they travelled between on weekends to record. Although unashamedly electronic, the sound of Five Time Of Dust is far harder to pin down, perhaps in part due to their location. Both Phillips and Lawrence produced music that owed little to any scene happening in London, Manchester or Sheffield at the time. As a result, the majority of their output are perfectly formed electronic curiosities.

The material on Smile With The Eyes spans recordings Lawrence and Phillips made between 1982-1986. As a follow up to The Dadacomputer, their debut cassette release as a duo which we reissued earlier this year, Smile With The Eyes remains lo-fi but is musically more complex. The recordings are catchy, curious and emotionally rich. Whereas The Dadacomputer could be compared with the early output of Robert Rental, Smile With The Eyes is a collection of works that stands all on its own.

Smile With The Eyes is a double LP pressed on 180 gram black vinyl and housed in a heavyweight gatefold sleeve. Limited edition to 500 numbered copies.

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released March 12, 2019

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Five Times 0f Dust [5X0D] is a British electronic band whose personnel is MAP and Rob Lawrence (and Suisse for a while). In 1981, MAP answered an advert that Rob had placed in a record shop in Bristol UK. They both both had cassette labels - Maptapes (MAP) and Quick Stab Music Products (Rob). ... more

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