:: t r a n s i s t o r s :: n e w s ::.. [1998 - October]

Good News! The new release of Swinging Italy CD with special liner-notes written by Byron Werner!

Yes! Byron Werner, who invented the term "S.A.B.P.M." (Space Age Bachelor Pad Music), wrotes, during last November, the liner notes for Swinging Italy CD!

Byron's liner notes:

Attention Earthlings!
From out of the future come the Transistors! Drawing upon seasoned musical talents, these two adventurous Italians have forged a musical style made up of exotic influences both of the past and the present, and yet right up-to-date for today's young swinging moderns!
When the recent craze of Space Age Bachelor Pad Music first started making its way around the world, it was mainly a revivalist movement, saving obscure, quirky records from History's trash pile. Now we move into the second phase: taking up where the old craze left off and extending it into the future!
The TRANSISTORS, Maurizio “Erman” Mansueti and Vic G, are gentlemen of heart and talent, vision and imagination, intellect and soul. Their fantastic creations are intelligent soundtracks for the modern age, joining Easy Listening and Psychedelic styles in a seamless mixture that is most pleasurable for relaxed listening, but also serving as a potent accompanyment for dancing. They draw upon the Masters of the past, Esquivel, Mancini, Morricone, Barry, and Piccioni, to name a few, with a skill that shows that influence in the subtext, rather than in a blatant sampling form. Thanks to their time-traveling TRANSISTORS MOBILE UNIT ONE, they are also able to throw interplanetary and futuristic influences into the blend. Everything from Atlantis to Mars and beyond is blended so that YOU, the modern swingers of the world, can have the most up-to-date musical experience available!
As a young lad, I was disappointed that the future of bubble-top cars and flying jet-packs promised by POPULAR SCIENCE magazines was not forthcoming. Little did I know that the world of the future was just catching its breath and would indeed come to pass! And so now, I proudly give you a toast to the coming world: Good luck, TRANSISTORS, in your courageous mission to bring the modern world into the future, where it belongs!
May you succeed beyond your wildest dreams!
Byron Werner Los Angeles 1998

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