Café Seven by System 7 & Mirror System
Café Seven, our 2018 studio album release, expertly mixes 5 more-chilled tracks from Mirror System with 5 more-up tempo System 7 tunes, and features a System 7 collaboration with Marcus Henriksson (Minilogue / Son Kite) on ‘Million Suns' and a Mirror System collaboration with top trance artist and guitarist Ajja on ‘Smooth Operator’.
The album also features some high profile remixes by Steve and Miquette including Sudo’s 'Sensation (System 7 remix)’ and Joujouka’s ‘And Justice Killed (System 7 remix)’ and a Mirror System remix of Six Degrees Records artists Delia Derbyshire Appreciation Society on ‘Cloudface (Mirror System Remix)’.
With a seamless blend of atmospheres and beats, Café Seven demonstrates how Steve and Miquette can express their deep artistic spirit through different genres, maintaining throughout their warm and distinctive psychedelic sound.
Tracklist
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Credits
Track 4 Smooth Operator is a collaboration with Ajja
Track 6 Million Suns is a collaboration with Marcus Henriksson
Track 3 is System 7's remix of Sensation by Sudo
Track 7 is System 7's remix of And Justice Killed by Joujouka
Track 9 is Mirror System's remix of Cloudface by The Delia Derbyshire Appreciation Society
Tracks 1, 2, 5, 8 and 10 written by Steve Hillage and Miquette Giraudy (Stage Three Music Publishing Ltd), track 4 written by Ajja Leu, Steve Hillage and Miquette Giraudy (Stage Three Music Publishing Ltd/ copyright control), track 6 written by Marcus Henriksson, Steve Hillage and Miquette Giraudy (Stage Three Music Publishing Ltd/copyright control STIM)
Track 3 written by Isao Sudo and Takashi Sudo, published by copyright control, used by kind permission of Sudo, SCI+TEC and Dubfire, track 7 written by Minoru Tsunoda, Tsuyoshi Suzuki and Tsuyoshi Sakamaki, published by copyright control, used by kind permission of Joujouka and Matsuri Digital, track 9 written by Garry Hughes and Harvey Jones, published by copyright control, used by kind permission of The Delia Derbyshire AppreciationSociety, Six Degrees Records and Bob Duskis
Mixed by Steve Hillage and Miquette Giraudy at A-Wave Studios, Notting Hill, London February - March 2018
Track 3 additional production by Ajja Leu and track 6 additional production by Marcus Henriksson
Several tracks, including the guitar solos on tracks 9 and 10, feature the Moog guitar - kindly provided by Paul Smith of Moog Sound Lab UK. The sample & hold sound used on track 10 was recorded by Finlay Shakespeare at the Moog Sound Lab, Surrey University, Guildford.
Mastered by Shane McEnhill at Finyl Tweek London March 2018
Released by A-Wave - distributed by SRD
Ⓟ and © 2018 A-Wave.com Ltd
Artwork and Design by Andrew Debens www.designbyz3.com
Live Visuals by Antonio Pagano
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SYSTEM 7’s Steve Hillage and Miquette Giraudy have had a strong influence on the birth of psychedelic dance music and it’s journey up to the present, forging a unique and bang up-to-date identity on the genre map, in a space where techno, progressive and trance meet - and with the added element of Steve's highly specialised techno guitar.