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ACFM Trip 27: Magic

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Voodoo Ray on the Bitches Brew

Voodoo Ray by a guy called Gerald or also known as Gerald Simpson is from 1988. Voodoo Ray is actually a sample from a Derek and Clive album, which were comedy albums that Peter Cook and Dudley Moore used to produce. When I was coming up as a young punk or post-punk, the sort of counter-cultural scene of that time did include things such as like pranks. You're left with burning a million quid and not even knowing why as some kind of gesture of defiance. And I think there's something to all of those explanations that does speak to a whole interesting question about the whole, you know, the history of the concept of magic.

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