Obscured By... Technicolour!!!

Especially for Three D Radio's annual Radiothon, I was joined by Technicolour Dreaming alumni Michael Hunter for a special edition of "Obscured By... Technicolour!!!" We had a hell of a lot of fun - hope you enjoyed it too!!

Bronco Bullfrog - Listen to the Sky [Sands]  ("Time Waits for Norman" 2014 UK)

Quitty and the Donts - All of You  (7" single 2013 Brooklyn, New York, USA)

White Lightning - (Under the Screaming Double) Eagle  ("Strikes Twice 1968-1969" 1997 Minnesota, USA)

The Gremlins - Kingsforth Hemmingseen  (7" single 1968 New Zealand)

Les Variations - Spicks and Specks [Bee Gees]  (7" single 1967 France)

Tony Burello - There's A New Sound (aka "The Sound of Worms")  (7" single 1953 USA)

The Monkees - You Bring the Summer  ("Good Times!" 2016 USA)

David Arvedon - Eliot Ness  ("In Search of the Most Unforgettable Tree We Ever Met 1967-1994" USA)

Sonny and the Sunsets - Blot Out the Sun  ("Talent Night at the Ashram" 2015 San Francisco, USA)

The Claypool Lennon Delirium - Breath of A Salesman  ("Monolith of Phobos" 2016 USA)

The Liminanas - Dahlia Rouge  ("Malamore" 2016 France)

Sagittarius - Glass  ("Present Tense" LP 1968 USA)

Crocheted Doughnut Ring - Two Little Ladies (Azalea and Rhododendron)  (7" single 1967 UK)

Mike Stuart Span - Second Production  ("Expansions" 7" EP 1993 [recorded 1967] Brighton, UK)

Purson - The Sky Parade  ("Desire's Magic Theatre" 2016 Southend-On-Sea, UK)

Blue Giant Zeta Puppies - The Joe 90 Theme  ("Fruits De Mer Annual 2014" 7" EP 2013 UK)

Micah P Hinson and the Gospel of Progress - Don't You (Part 1 and 2)  ("Micah P Hinson and the Gospel of Progress" 2004 Texas, USA)

The Demon Parade - Do You Believe in Hell?  ("God Says it's Legal" EP 2010 Melbourne, Australia)

The Mystery Lights - What Happens When You Turn the Devil Down  ("The Mystery Lights" 2016 California USA)

Dean Allen Foyd - Insects  ("Road to Atlas" EP 2013 Stockholm, Sweden)

The Winstons - 番号番号 (Number Number)  ("The Winstons" 2016 Milan, Italy)

Tor-Peders - Aye Makami  ("Brev Från Ederstorp" LP 2014 Sweden)

Schnauser - Astral Traveller [Yes]  ("Herne Bay" 7" single 2014 Bristol, UK)

Vibravoid - Get Out of Here  ("Gravity Zero" LP 2012 Dusseldorf, Germany)

Technicolour Dreaming

On this, the third-to-last show of 2014, our choice for “Band of the Week” was Denmark’s Halasan Bazar, who regular listeners will recognise from previous shows – we do play them a lot, but for good reason – just listen to their music and you’ll surely become a fan! We first discovered them though through their collaboration with France’s Tara King th. – another Cat & Brat fave – on the “8” album, released through their common  label, California’s Moon Glyph Records, and worked back from there to their earlier releases – great stuff! During the rest of the programme, we did play a few new releases, such as tracks from Ty Segall’s “$ingle$ 2” anthology and Los Trasgos Muertos’ new EP, but the bulk of the show featured some of our faves of this year, such as Balduin, les Limiñanas, the Chemistry Set and Southern Boutique, as well as a number of older releases which we discovered [or rediscovered] this year, such as Slight, the Rain Parade and Morgen. It’s been a great year for psychedelia and we look forward to the next two shows, when we’ll feature our picks for “best LP/single/band/etc of 2014” amongst all our other favourites of the year [and beyond!]! It should be fun, so tune in to 3D Radio and join us.....

..... but in the meantime, here is this week’s playlist, with visual appendages.....

les Limiñanas – Intro / I'm Dead [2013 live recording]    (“I’ve got Trouble in Mind : 7” & Rare Stuff 2009 –2014” anthology 2014 France)

MMOSS & Quilt - Sandy      ("New Hampshire Freaks" EP 2013 US)

Balduin - Kite Come Back      ("All In A Dream" LP 2014 Switzerland)

Slight - The Freakwave      ("Melodion " EP 2013 Quebec, Canada)

Morgen - Of Dreams      ("Morgen" LP 1969 New York, USA)

Ty Segall - Femme Fatale [Velvet Underground cover]      ("$ingle$ 2" 2014 Los Angeles, USA)

los Trasgos Muertos - Roll With the Punches      ("Eponymous" EP 2014 Manchester UK)

the Churchills  - Debka      ("The Churchills" LP 1969 Israel)

the Vagrants - I Can't Make a Friend      (7"single 1966 New York, USA)

Bill Plummer and his Cosmic Brotherhood - Journey to the East      ("Cosmic Brotherhood" LP 1968 Los Angeles, USA)

the Allah-Las - No Werewolf       ("Worship the Sun" 2014 California, USA)

Morgan Delt - Elastic Id      ("Psych For Sore Eyes Volume 2" compilation 2014 USA/Germany)   

Southern Boutique  - Afterglow      ("Southern Boutique" 2014 Austin, Texas, USA)

Sky PIcnic - The Good Humor Man (He Sees Everything like this) [Love cover]     (recorded 2013 USA for "The Active Listener Presents...Forever Changing - A Tribute to Love's ‘Forever Changes’ LP" compilation 2014 New Zealand)

Love - You Set the Scene      ("Forever Changes" LP 1967 Los Angeles, USA)

Crystal Jacqueline - You Just Gotta Know My Mind [Dana Gillespie/Donovan cover}     (recorded in Wales, UK 2014 – taken from "Postcards from the Deep" flexi-disc box-set 2014 UK)

the Junipers - Our Budgerigar (is addicted to rasmalai)      ("Euphonious Trolley EP 1" 2014 UK)

     ###     “Band of the Week”    –   HALASAN BAZAR     ###

Halasan Bazar - Am I Blind     ("Space Junk" LP 2013 Denmark)

Halasan Bazar -Tin Foiled      ("How to be Ever Happy" 2012 Denmark)

Halasan Bazar & Tara King th. - Rot Inside      ("8" LP 2014 Denmark/France )

the Chemistry Set - Elapsed Memories      (7"single 2014 UK)

the Rain Parade - What's She Done to Your Mind      ("Emergency Third Rail Power Trip" LP 1983  USA)

Bronco Bullfrog - Rocking Horse Mender      (“Time waits for Norman” EP 2014 UK)

Technicolour Dreaming

This week’s edition was bookended with tracks by Welsh band Soft Hearted Scientists, who have rapidly wormed their way into our “fave band list” since we discovered their 2013  album “False Lights” and then began working our way through their back-catalogue. Then there were our “just-arrived-in-the-mail” features, the first of which, “The Drop” LP by Denmark’s Pinkunoizu, came in a very cool gatefold sleeve and has barely been off the turntable all week. Though it was released late last year and has taken us a while to get our own copy, we found it to be a brilliant slice of modern psychedelia and well worth the wait – thoroughly recommended! The other new arrival was the debut album from Doug Tuttle, formerly of Cat & Brat faves, MMOSS, whose two albums have frequently reverberated around our house over the past year or so. Now recording under his own name this album finds him further refining his idiosyncratic take on psychedelic music, with a textured 60’s pop feel more evident than in the past. Catchy yet woozy with lots of his trademark reverb and effects, it, like the afore-mentioned Pinkunoizu, keeps insinuating itself into your mind more with each hearing –we’ll definitely be playing more tracks from both albums for you in coming weeks! Also featured were tracks from the Citradels, Slingshot Dragster and Bronco Bullfrog, new mp3s from both the Red Plastic Buddha and the Luck of Eden Hall plus cuts from Schnauser, Dark Ocean Colors, the High Learys and many more.....

..... so here is the playlist with attendant visuals.....

Soft Hearted Scientists – Panorama       (demo 2012 Wales, UK)

the Red Plastic Buddha – Little White Pills      (mp3 download 2014 USA)

the Wise Dude’s Revolver – Hide & Run      (“The Wise Dudes EP” 2013 France)

Diane Coffee – Tale of a Dead Dog      (“My Friend Fish” 2013 California, USA)

 Walter Ghoul’s Lavender Brigade – Frumpy & the Strange Machine      (recorded 1999 UK – taken from “Retrospectoscope : 1966-1970” faux-anthology 2007 UK)

Pinkunoizu – Moped      (“The Drop” LP 2013 Denmark)

the Barracudas – I Saw my Death in a Dream Last Night      (“Drop Out with the Barracudas” LP 1981 UK/USA)

the Matadors – Get Down from the Tree      (7”single 1967 Czechoslovakia)

the High Learys – Down Time      (“Here Come the High Learys” 2014 Perth, Australia)

Slingshot Dragster – Tatiana      (“Bite the Bullet” 2014 Adelaide, Australia)

the Citradels – It’s Only a Northern Love Song       (“Droned & Rethroned” 2014 Melbourne, Victoria)

Sky Picnic – Universal Mind Decoder      (“Farther In This Fairytale” 2010 USA)

the Byrds – Space Odyssey      (“The Notorious Byrd Brothers” LP 1968 USA)

Dark Ocean Colors – Temporary Man      (“Patches and Patterns” EP 2012 USA)

the Black Tambourines – Cat Days       (“Chica” EP 2011 France)

the Luck of Eden Hall – You Asked About Water on Mars      (mp3 download 2014 Chicago, USA)

Bronco Bullfrog – Rocking Horse Mender      (7”single b-side [to Time Waits for Norman] 2014 UK)

Schnauser – Buddy      (“The Missing Link” 2009 UK)

Doug Tuttle – Turn This Love      (“Doug Tuttle”  2014 USA)

Mark Fry – The Witch      (“Dreaming With Alice” LP 1972 UK/Italy)

Delphine – La fermeture éclair [We The People cover]      (7”single 1967 France)

Soft Hearted Scientists – The Caterpillar Song      (“Take Time To Wonder In A Whirling World” 2007 Wales, UK)