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The Free Design

The Now Sound Redesigned
CD $8
Digital Download $11.99
  • First Time on CD!
  • Featuring exclusive cuts from Stereolab, Madlib, members of Mars Volta and Belle & Sebastian, Danger Mouse, Super Furry Animals, Kid Koala, Peanut Butter Wolf, Caribou (formerly Manitoba) and many more
  • Includes 3 unreleased tracks
  • Sequenced, edited, and additional interludes by Nobody

Description

Now on CD for the first time, The Free Design: The Now Sound Redesigned, includes every track from the 12" vinyl series housed in a beautiful gatefold digipak. It’s a celebration of all things Dedrick mixed with the sound of now.

It’s funny how things can hit you, seemingly out of the blue. Back in the summer of 2001, in a mad effort to locate lost Beach Boys tapes; a group called The Free Design popped up on my computer. The bubble gum grade-school artwork of their Kites Are Fun debut decorated my monitor a couple of clicks later. A quick trip over to eBay procured the first of many OG press editions of The Free Design catalog, and within a week, we were in contact with the owner of their master recordings. The quest to share this music, long relegated to vinyl graveyards across the country, had begun!

Selling Free Design albums has never been easy. Despite angelic vocal talents, hook-heavy songwriting skills, and immaculate presentation, the group’s soft-psych family affair failed to elicit iconic stature in the ever-fickle pop community. Even state-of-the-art recording techniques...

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Preview Tracklist

  • 1 Redesigned (Intro)
    1:04
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  • 2 Where Do I Go
    4:22
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  • 3 Umbrellas
    3:56
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  • 4 Radio Break (Interlude)
    0:13
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  • 5 Harvey Daley Hix
    5:46
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  • 6 Don't Turn Away
    3:06
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  • 7 Crossover (Interlude)
    0:23
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  • 8 2002 - A Hit Song
    3:39
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  • 9 I Found Love
    3:49
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  • 10 Funk Design (Interlude)
    1:06
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  • 11 Don't Cry Baby
    4:18
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  • 12 Blowin' Bubbles (Interlude)
    0:26
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  • 13 Kites Are Fun
    4:32
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  • 14 Girls Alone (Nobody Muzak Mix)
    4:05
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  • 15 To a Black Boy
    3:23
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  • 16 The Proper Ornaments
    2:29
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  • 17 An Elegy
    4:52
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  • 18 Light My Fire (Interlude)
    0:39
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  • 19 Dorian Benediction
    8:45
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