Re-Hash

Whilst the Magic Mushroom Band shares members with

Astralasia, the Magic Mushroom Band has been a working

band for far longer. The band first came together in 1982

when they first began playing their brand of "Psychedelic

Space Pop". It was said that one of the original members

Kim Russell AKA Kim OZ was discovered by another founder

member Gary Masters AKA Gary Moonboot when he heard

her singing in the bath and promptly climbed through the

bathroom window and invited her to join the band. In addition

to becoming a member of the Magic Mushroom Band Kim has

subsequently become Mrs. Masters. The band has had many

members over the year with members sometimes coming and

going in twos or threes, although the core trio of Masters,

Russell and Guitarist Gary Twining have remained throughout

the band's history. Initially the band released a limited edition

cassette, which was limited to a run of 1,000 copies. The

cassette idea was to remain popular even while the band were

releasing proper albums and all of these cassettes are now

highly prized collectors items The band has also released nine

albums in the period 1982 through to 1994.In 1990 members

of the Magic Mushroom Band embarked on what was to be

initially an offshoot band or part time project if you like. This

project was the Ambient trance band Astralasia which although

sharing members of the Mushroom band were actually more

dance oriented than the Mushies as they were now known.

By 1992 however, the band were devoting about 50% of their

time to the offshoot band Astralasia and were experimenting

more and more with the ambient dance led direction of that

band which has continued up to the present while the

Mushroom Band have been on indefinite hold since 1995.

The album R U Spaced Out II released in 1993 was the follow

up to the Re Hash album, which saw the band revisiting older

material in the style of Ast ralasia. R U Spaced Out II was a

more traditional Magic Mushroom Band album and found the

band in more familiar territory with the album pretty much split

between the psychedelic pop and spacey instrumentals of old

and as if to reinforce the point there is an excellent cover of

Hawkwind's Hurry On Sundown alongside original band

generated material such as New Day and Remember Your

Future. An edit of the track Life Is So Strange was also released

as a promotional EP alongside tracks from the previous two

albums Re Hash and Spaced Out for those who seek out

collector's items.

R U Spaced Out II continues the series of Magic Mushroom

Band re issues which will see the bands back catalogue 

remastered for this series of releases over the next twelve

months. 

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