Dreamies


Dreamies is an experimental music album by Bill Holt, released in 1973. It is a collage of songs performed on guitar and synthesizer combined with snippets of found sound. The album consists of two long tracks called "Program 10" and "Program 11", a reference to the Beatles' "Revolution #9". Dreamies includes excerpts of radio and television broadcasts as well as snippets taken from recordings by the Beatles. In its use of "sound bites", the album anticipated the use of sampling in later popular music.
AllMusic's Stanton Swihart described Dreamies as "one of the finest pieces of experimental pop from the era."

Derivation

"Dreamies" is a term coined by Isaac Asimov in 1955 in a short story called "Dreaming is a Private Thing". It refers to manufactured dream sequences.

Track listing

Side One

  1. "Program Ten" 26:10

    Side Two

  2. "Program Eleven" 26:15