Sitars, theremin and mellotron, backwards guitar, phasing and fuzz, fringes and mohawks, paisley, black, velvet and leather, feedback, bass and drone, beads, berets and safety-pins, Shindig! and Creem, 3 chord wonders, teenage symphonies and snarl, Rickenbacker, Farfisa and 4-track recorders... onstage at CBGB's, Max's Kansas City or the Trip, the Roundhouse, the 100 Club or the Crystal Ballroom, Catcher's, Big Daddy's or the Squatters Arms.... and the Cat and the Brat on 3D Radio!
Three D Radio announcer, MeganCat (up until recently with her husband, the late Peter Brat)lives in "The BratHaus" a rural seaside home about 100km from Adelaide on South Australia's scenic Fleurieu Peninsula. Veteran musician Peter, and artist/musician Megan, were long-time DJs onThree D Radio 93.7fm, Adelaide's eclectic independent music station. Together Peter & Megan, known as "The Cat and The Brat" created this blog to allow listeners to review the playlists of their radio show, "Technicolour Dreaming", watch clips of selected songs and simply join them in the enjoyment of their favourite music... psychedelia, 60's garage, surf, punk/post-punk, pop, folk-rock, glam, 'Krautrock', goth, 80's electro... and much more!
But The Cat is carrying on the tradition, with guest co-presenters, and "Technicolour Dreaming" will continue in the same format, drawing from the huge "Cat & Brat" music collection, with the addition of new releases and reissues to keep things current. The Brat is hugely missed, but the show must go on, as he wanted...
Community Radio canbe fraught with challenges, not the least technical ones... I seemed to be beset with these from the start of the show, unfortunately having to cancel my scheduled interview with The Citradels, and things got worse from there, with CD players and computer refusing to work!. But no matter, it's all a challenge, and things seemed to come good in the end (but only after the hastily grabbed Scientist's 7" "stuck" due to overuse!). The show featured a Residents/Beatles double-play of "Flying", a hell of a lot of songs that started and ended in phasing, feedback and backwards effects, and much, much more. Who knows what will happen next week? While I ponder that question, here's the playlist.....
The Scientists - We Had Love (7" single 1983 Australia)
The Besnard Lakes - Golden Lion ("A Coliseum Complex Museum" 2016 Montreal, Canada)
Climax - You ... I (7" single 1969 Belgium)
Procession - Mind Magician ("Procession" LP 1968 Melbourne, Australia)
Paul's Collection - What Have I Done? (7" single [b-side to "Time for a Change"] 1971 Belgium)
The Wheelers of Oz - Revivalised ("Revivalised" 2015 Perth, Australia)
Scantharies - Berlin ("The Scantharies" 2012 Italy)
Thee Pink Stainless Tail - Gottzar ("Tomorrow is Today: A Tribute to the Australian Psychedelic Scene 1966-70" 2007 Melbourne, Australia)
Charlie and the Moonhearts - Deathstar Pt 1 / Pt 2 ("Moonhearts" 2010 USA)
The Paisleytones - Devil Stole my Surfboard ("Happening" 2006 Adelaide, Australia) The Tomorrowmen - Hemispherical Synchronization ("Futourism" 2010 San Francisco, USA)
The Citradels - Honey ("Are They Still Here?" 2016 Melbourne, Australia)
Afterglow - Susie's Gone ("Afterglow" LP UK 1968)
Preston - This World is Closing In On Me (7" single 1967 USA)
Sheetah et les Weismuller - My Little Red Book [Love] ("Hola Ye-Yeah!" 2008 France)
The Aardvarks - Arthur C. Clarke ("Arthur C. Clarke" 7" EP 1989 London, UK)
The Night Beats - The 7 Poison Wonders ("Sonic Bloom" 2013 Seattle USA)
The Residents - Flying [Beatles] ("The Beatles Play the Residents and The Residents Play The Beatles" 7" single 1977 USA)
Even - Living in a Child's Dream [Masters Apprentices] ("Tomorrow is Today: A Tribute to the Australian Psychedelic Scene 1966-70" Melbourne, Australia)
The Sun Blindness - Crack in the Concrete ("Like Pearly Clouds" 2008 Melbourne, Australia)
Velvet Moth - TV Troll ("Velvet Moth" 2014, Adelaide, Australia)
Vibravoid - Optical Sound [Human Expression] ("Colour Your Mind" 7" EP 2013 Düsseldorf, Germany)
93 Million Miles From the Sun - Waiting There("Northern Sky" 2011 Doncaster UK)
In Zaire - Mercury ("Sound of Cobra Sampler Vol.1" 2014 Germany)
This week’s show featured a journey
around the current world of psychedelia,
plus assorted oddities and a side-trip back in time to the first pop psych
explosion. So much music to play, and only two hours each week to squeeze it
all into! We recently acquired a copy of the brand new addition to Born Bad Records’ wonderful “Wizzz!Psychorama francais 1966
– 71” compilations, Volume 3, making this series a serendipitous
choice for our Compilation of the Week, mais oui! Back in the present, we
played new tracks from the Wands, Pretty Lightning, Jacco
Gardner, the Noble Krell and the Barbarellatones latest demo (love the lyrics!),
fitted in some surf from Chile and Denmark, and some 60’s faves such as Gary Walker and the Rain’s much covered classic, “Francis”. And we finished up with Vibravoid’s ode to the Fuzztones organ player Deb
O’Nair, which can be found on the just-reissued and re-mastered edition
of their classic “2001” LP, complete with extra tracks and quite stunning packaging
– it certainly gets our seal of approval! So.....
..... until next week, here
is the playlist plus associated visuals.....
Sula
Bassana - My
Blue Guitar ("Dreamer –10th Year Anniversary Edition” 2012
Germany)
This edition’s “Compilation of the Week” is actually a series
which began in 1998, was compiled in 2011 into two boxsets covering volumes 1-5
and 6-10, and continues with volume 11 being released in 2012. We are of course
speaking of the eclectic “Electric Psychedelic
Sitar Headswirlers” series which, as regular listeners will have
noticed, we have been happily plundering for the show since we discovered their
existence several years ago, and which are well-deserving of being acknowledged
in our weekly feature; indeed the hardest part was choosing only five tracks to
play with so many goodies on offer! The rest of the show also had a plethora of
fine new music and older faves, including a track from the long-awaited second
album from Australia’s Black Ryder, as well as
more from the new one by Sydney’s the Grease Arrestor
and CleopatraRecords’soon-to-be-released
Beatles psych tribute album, plus a bunch of
re-issues and re-discoveries, such as tracks by the
Lost and Found, the Byrds, the Aardvarks and XTC
(in their Dukes of Stratosphear guise). So
until next Tuesday afternoon.....
......
here is the playlist with some visuals, plus a movie at the end to enjoy.....
the Lost and Found - I'm So Hip to Pain
("Forever Lasting Plastic Words" LP 1968 Texas, USA)
Powder Blue - Sunfire Drug Haus ("II"
2014 Manitoba, Canada)
the Aardvaarks - Arthur C. Clarke ("Arthur C.
Clarke" EP, 1989 London UK)
the Black Ryder - Santaria ("Door
Behind the Door" 2015 Australia/USA)
the Doors - Summer's Almost
Gone ("Waiting for the Sun" LP
1968 Los Angeles, USA)
the Dukes of Stratosphear - Collideascope ("Psonic
Psunspot" LP 1987 UK)
