Technicolour Dreaming

We began this week with some modern psychedelia from Italy. Sonic Jesus released this debut EP on Fuzz Club Records last year and more recently have done a split 10” single with the Black Angels on the same label. They were just one of some great new bands we played on the show today, including Sydney’s Aether Beach and Los Tones, and the UK’s Violet Woods. Needless to say there were also a bunch of our regular faves such as Balduin, the See See, Singapore Sling and the Dandelion, as well as some brilliant music by the Rolling Stones, the Throb, the Bee Gees and others from the mid-1960’s, since acknowledged as ‘the first psychedelic era’. This then led us into our new feature, “Compilation of the Week”, which we debuted by playing a bunch of classic singles taken from that original garage psych compilation, the one which has since spawned a plethora of successors, namely the 1972 double-LP, “Nuggets : Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic  Era, 1965-1968”, which was compiled of course by Lenny Kaye, who later found renown in the Patti Smith Group, though Nuggets will probably be his real legacy, and thus a fitting start to our new feature. So, until next week.....

..... here is the playlist, complete with visual extras.....

Sonic Jesus - Monkey On My Back      ("Sonic Jesus" 10" EP 2014 Lazio, Italy)

Toy - To a Death Unknown      ("Join the Dots" 2014 UK)

the Dandelion - Paranoid Floyd in a Bliss You Can Hear      ("Strange Case of The Dandelion" 2013 Sydney, Australia)

Aether Beach - Friends      ("The Aether Beach EP" 2014 Sydney, Australia)

Okko - Painted Sails on Ganges      ("Sitar and Electronics" LP 1971 Germany)

Davie Allen and the Arrows - Experiment in Terror [Henry Mancini cover]    ("Shots in the Dark" compilation 1996 USA)

the Throb - Black      (7"single 1966 Australia)

the Rolling Stones - Citadel      ("Their Satanic Majesties Request" LP 1967 UK)

Balduin - Love is You       ("All in A Dream" LP 2014 Switzerland)

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

Jim Jenkin - Bike [Syd Barrett cover]      ("Fruits de Mer Records presents: A Momentary Lapse of Vinyl" double-CD compilation 2014 UK)

the See See - The Rain and the Snow      (7”single 2013 UK – taken from "Days, Nights and Late Morning Lights" anthology 2014 UK)

the Left Banke - Shadows Breaking Over my Head       ("Walk Away Renee / Pretty Ballerina" LP 1967 New York, USA)

Psychic Ills - Come Around      (recorded 2014 UK – taken from "Psych For Sore Eyes 2" compilation 2014 Germany)

the Spyrals - Sunflower Microphone      ( 7"single 2011 San Francisco USA)

Sun Eater - Twin Peaks      (digital single b-side [to Wild Arum] 2014 Tacoma, Washington)

Cheval Sombre - She Went Walking in the Rain       (“Mad Love” 2013 UK)

              ###   “Compilation of the Week”   ###  

      Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era, 1965-1968

the Strangeloves - Night Time      (7"single 1965 USA – taken from “Nuggets : Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic  Era” double-LP compilation 1972 USA)

the Seeds - Pushin' Too Hard      (7"single 1966 San Francisco, USA– taken from “Nuggets...” double-LP compilation 1972 USA)

Count Five - Psychotic Reaction      (7"single 1966 San Jose, California USA– taken from “Nuggets...” double-LP compilation 1972 USA)

the Third Rail - Run, Run, Run      (7"single 1967 New York, USA– taken from “Nuggets...” double-LP compilation 1972 USA)

Sagittarius - My World Fell Down      (7"single 1967 Los Angeles, USA– taken from “Nuggets...” double-LP compilation 1972 USA)

Davey Lane - Molty [Barbarians cover]     (recorded 2012 Sydney – taken from "Nuggets: Antipodean Interpolations of the First Psychedelic Era 1965-1967" compilation 2012 Australia)

Los Tones - Speedboat      ("Psychotropic" LP 2014 Sydney, Australia)

Singapore Sling  - Who Put the Ebb in the Ebbebbeb      ("The Tower of Foronicity"  2014 Reykjavik, Iceland)

Violet Woods - Cyanide Suns       (7"single [b-side to "Raw Love"] 2014 Cambridge, UK)

the Carnaby - Jump and Dance      (7"single 1965 UK)

the Bee Gees - Like Nobody Else      (recorded 1966 Australia, unreleased – taken from "Downunder Nuggets" compilation 2012 Australia)

Orange Seaweed - Pictures in the Sky      (7"single b-side [to "Stay Awhile"] 1968 UK)

Mona Lisa Overdrive - It's Just Too Much      (demo 2008 Adelaide, Australia)

the Wands - Sound of the Machine     ("The Dawn" 2014 Denmark)

Technicolour Dreaming

We had some new compilations to share with you this week, dear 3D Radio listeners, including a double-CD of Syd Barrett/Pink Floyd covers, which was an end-of-the-year bonus from the lovely people at Fruits de Mer Records in the UK, as well as another fine Active Listener compilation, “Forever Changing – A Tribute to Love’s Forever Changes LP”, both of which we shall certainly be plundering over the months ahead. There were new tracks by artists from various parts of the globe including Tasmania’s Violet Swells, Spain’s My Expansive Awareness and Canada’s Elephant Stone plus some older ones from the likes of Cheval Sombre, Wire, Sons of Adam and Russia’s excellent Polska Radio One. Then there was our “Artiste of the Week”.... Scotland’s own Jim Noir, whose four albums and plethora of singles and EPs gave us lots to choose from, starting with a track from his brilliant new album “Finnish Line”. We realise we say this about our feature artists each week but that doesn’t make it less true.... you should investigate the Jim Noir back-catalogue – you won’t be sorry!! To finish the show, we dug out one of our all-time faves, the 2011 album by Dark Ocean Colors and with that, we’ll leave you until next week.....

..... so here is the playlist, with visual additives.....

the Green Tambourine Band – Maybe the People Would Be the Times or Between Clark and Hilldale [Arthur Lee cover]      (recorded 2013 UK for "The Active Listener Presents...Forever Changing - A Tribute to Love's ‘Forever Changes’ LP" compilation 2014 New Zealand)

Ghost - Water Door, Yellow Gate      ("In Stormy Night" 2007 Japan)

the Smoking Trees - Calling      ("Acetates" 2013 Los Angeles, USA)

Rupert Angeleyes - Jealousy      ("Young Sunset" 2013 Los Angeles, USA)

Wire - Start to Move      ("Pink Flag" LP 1977 UK)

My Expansive Awareness - Lysergic Waltz      (digital single 2014 Zaragoza, Spain)

Asteroid #4 - Oubliette      ("The Windmill of the Autumn Sky" EP 2013 Philadelphia, USA)

Cheval Sombre - She Went Walking in the Rain      ("Mad Love" 2013)

Oakapple Day - Oceans of Fire      (7" single b-side [to No Face, No Name, No Number] 1969 Perth, Australia)

Halasan Bazar and Tara King th. - Ventolin      ("8" LP 2014 Denmark/France)

Elephant Stone - Motherless Child (Love is Not For War)      ("Three Poisons" 2014 Canada)

the Nice - Flower King of Flies     ("The Thoughts of Emerlist Davjack" LP 1967 UK)

Larry Page Orchestra - All Day and All of the Night  [Kinks cover]      ("Kinky Music - The Larry Page Orchestra plays the Music of the Kinks" LP 1965 UK)

Sons of Adam - Feathered Fish      (7" single 1966 San Francisco, USA)

the Triptides - Colors      ("Colors" EP 2014 Indiana, USA)

Violet Swells - Here Comes Yesterday      (CD single 2104 Tasmania, Australia)

the Citradels - Slow Burn      ("Nepenthe" 2104 Melbourne, Australia)

   ###   “Artiste of the Week” – Jim Noir   ###

Jim Noir – The Broadway Jets     ("Finnish Line" 2014 Scotland, UK)

Jim Noir - The Cheese of Jim's Command      ("Jimmy's Show" 2012 Scotland, UK)

Jim Noir - Don't You Worry      ("Jim Noir" 2007 Scotland, UK)

Jim Noir - I Me You I'm Your      ("Tower of Love" 2005 Scotland, UK)

Polska Radio One - To the Delta of Aquarius     ("Cosmos Inside" 2013 Yekaterinburg,Russia)

the Chemistry Set - See Emily Play [Pink Floyd cover]      (recorded 2014 UK for “Fruits de Mer presents: A Momentary Lapse of Vinyl” compilation 2014 UK)

Vespero - Scream Thy Last Scream [Syd Barrett cover]      (recorded 2014 Russia for “Fruits de Mer presents: A Momentary Lapse of Vinyl” compilation 2014 UK)

the Magic Mushroom Band - Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun [Pink Floyd cover]      (12” single b-side [to Magick Eye] 1992 UK – taken from “Fruits de Mer presents: A Momentary Lapse of Vinyl” compilation 2014 UK)

Dark Ocean Colors - The Other Line      ("Dark Ocean Colors" 2011 USA)