This is an album that was almost never to be, but ended as one of those few records that are instantly established not only as underground classics but as genre-defining milestones. When these Californian doom metallers took the opportunity of a '90s major-label deal with London records, they blew the advance on 70ies vintage amplification equipment and loads of the highest quality grass and returned to the label with a massive 65 minutes track dedicated to dope smoking. Imagine the reaction of the freaked out corporate manager upon first listen the tape was immediately returned and demanded to be reworked into a series of songs. SLEEP did nothing about it and a legal battle ensued, resulting in the shelving of the album as unmarketable. (Music Cartel cover). 1 # Audio tapes soon found their ways into the underground and a privately issued bootlegged (approved by the band) CD appeared in 1996.

  1. Sleep Dopesmoker Album
  2. Sleep Dopesmoker Vinyl

The album was then licensed to 'Music Cartel', that issued a 6 part sliced edition of it in 1997 and then 'Tee Pee', which re-entitled the original rough version of a band as 'Dopesmoker', adding the extra track 'Sonic Titan' for the definitive 2003 extended CD edition. This is the privately issued rough first version of the track, as it was first introduced to London Records and issued in the private edition. 2 # A great review of the album from Julian Cope can be found at his Head Heritage site.

BLISS 91 comp.tape. NOTRE DAME tapes.

TANT QU’IL Y AURA DU TANGO tape. DISCO TOTEM. HOW TO BECOME A MILLIONAIRE?

Lyrics

Comp.tape. PRIVATE SOUNDS comp. Tape. QFVDLO?

Tape. PASSIONS ORGANIQUES comp. Tapes. ATTENTION A MARIANNE T.

Sleep Dopesmoker Album

Tape. BLOC OPERATOIRE compilation tape. NOMUZIC-tapes(any). MITCH RUSHTON-tapes(any). PENGA-tapes (any). DARK ENIGMA-CLAUSTROPHOBIA tape.

DITTO-TEXAS ELECTRIC tape. STEVE HARTWELL-anything. DINO DIMURO-anything.

VIKTIMIZED KARCASS-anything. RANCID POULTRY-anything.

Sleep Dopesmoker Vinyl

CARL HOWARD-anything. L.G.

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