Label: none - STONED
Format: Cassette, Album
Country: UK
Released: 14 Aug 2026
Genre: Electronic, Non-Music
Style: Abstract, Dub, Musique Concrète
Zonked, mangled and reconfigured edits of popular American Rock band R.E.M - genius or disaster, you decide.
Any record store will surely have tales of their most colourful regulars. We also have many. To protect this particular character from legal proceedings we won’t divulge their identity, but it’s good to give some context about this tape. Said person is a long time store customer. They are awkward yet excitable with almost aggressive thirst to find new and old music. This pursuit is not deterred by what would be considered bad manners. Wandering upstairs to find stuff we haven’t listed yet, drifting behind the counter to check what isn’t for sale - all standard practice and we love it. After drinking with this person one night a while ago, they confessed that after the pub their favourite thing to do is lie down in a bush close to their house, get stoned and listen to R.E.M. It felt like a confession of a man’s most personal, private pleasure. Then, a few weeks ago after opening up, a vintage Tesco bag for life had been stuffed through the letterbox containing this - Red Eye Music. A connection made real.
Now personally, smoking even the smallest quantity of weed makes me feel like I’m going to die and I never spent time listening to R.E.M. But listening to this gives a new context. Everything’s pulled apart and drenched heavy with audacity’s most indiscreet plug-ins, re-rendering the whole thing into a heavily-baked dream sequence totally detached from it’s source. It’s too good to miss. Get a copy, find your own bush and get comfy… (Mint / New - NO download - cassette only).
"Inspired by Guided By Voices, Dub remixes of major label albums, cannabis, the Lambkin/ Lescalleet trilogy, Audacity’s built in effects and REM, The Stoned REM’s ‘Red Eye Music’ is a conceptually watertight remix album that successfully addresses the non-issue of REM’s music not being improved by smoking cannabis."
Tracklist
Side A
Side B
