Technicolour Dreaming

Lots of new and soon-to be released music tracks found their way onto this latest playlist - a sneak preview of Lorelle Meets the Obselete's new one, "Balance"; Volume 2 in the "Big Beat Cellar Scene" compilation series of 1960's Adelaide bands (sorry, no videos for these tracks); the latest pop-acid-folk musings of Dodson and Fogg's Chris Wade on "Walk On"; and the Netherlands' Eerie Wanda with "Hum", among others. Also featured were a selection of Melbourne bands, care of the "Magic Mixtapes from Melbourne" . Just a normal show, really. Enjoy!!!!

The Assassins - Kill The Prime Minister  (12" split single [with Ian List and the UV's] 1990 Adelaide, Australia)

The Good the Bad and the Queen - Herculean  ("The Good, The Bad and the Queen" 2007 UK)

Brigitte Bardot and Serge Gainsbourg - Bonnie and Clyde  ("Bonnie and Clyde" LP 1968 France)

The Force - You Keep Me Hanging On  ("Big Beat Cellar Scene Vol 2" Adelaide, Australia)

Soft Hearted Scientists - Zeds  ("Golden Omens" 2016 Wales)

Inkase - Pictures of Matchstick Men [Status Quo]  ("Big Beat Cellar Scene Vol 2" Adelaide, Australia)

Ty Garrett Segall - Squealer  ("Emotional Mugger" 2015 California USA)

Hugo - Colours ("Big Beat Cellar Scene Vol 2" Adelaide, Australia)

Black Angels - Indigo Meadow  ("Live in San Francisco" EP 2013 Austin, Texas USA)

Medicine Mike [aka Fifth Estate] - I've Never Been so High  (7" single 1969 New York, USA)

The Allusions - Mr Love (7" single 1967 Sydney, Australia)

The Magnetic Mind - Stay Away From the Door  ("...Is Thinking About It" 2015 London, UK)

Lorelle Meets the Obsolete - La Distinción  ("Balance" 2016 (pre-release) Guadalajara, Mexico)

Annique Monet - Nowhere  ("Phantom Letters" cassette 2015 Brooklyn, USA)

The Citradels - This Man  ("Magic Mixtapes from Melbourne Vol 1" 2014 Melbourne, Australia)

Coloured Clocks - Killing Time  ("All is Round" 2014 Melbourne, Australia)

Dodson and Fogg - Grab Your Soul  ("Walk On" 2016 Leeds, UK)

Drakkar Nowhere - Higher Now  ("Drakkar Nowhere" 2016 New York, USA)

Dukebox Accelerator - V8  ("Astonishing Soundshow Stories Vol 2" 2016 UK)
The Dunes - Mountain  (digital single 2016 Adelaide, Australia)

Eerie Wanda - To Dream Again  ("Hum" 2016 Netherlands)

Espectrostatic - This Modern Curse  ("Silhouette" 2016 Austin, Texas USA)

Kikagaku Moyo - White Moon  ("Forest of Lost Children" 2014 Japan)

Mordecai Smyth - Sinister Cyclist  ("Sticky Tape and Rust" 2013 Reading, UK)

The Mushroom Club - I Love You  ("EP 2" 2015 Glasgow, UK)

The New Pollution - Lucifer the Man  ("Magic Mixtapes from Melbourne Vol 1" 2014 Melbourne, Australia)

Barbarellatones - Sex Nerd  (Demo 2016 Hawaii, USA)

The Spasms - We Better Operate - ("We Better Operate" 2013 Melbourne, Australia)

Trabants - Dutch Treats ("Freakout" 2015 Los Angeles, USA)

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Just when you think that the recent spate of musical heroes departing this earth has abated, along comes a very big lightning bolt from the blue - David Bowie has joined them. Not a promising start for the year, but a fitting reason to re-listen to Bowie's collected works, and play some favourites on the radio. Indeed, on the day in question, by the time 1pm had rolled around, there had been a massive 29 Bowie tracks aired, with not a single repetition amongst them! Just goes to show that Bowie's different stylistic twists and turns appealed to a very wide range of fans over the years. Sadly, so many inspirational musicians are approaching an age where their mortality is becoming more and more apparent - as a friend recently wrote, someone should go find Keith Richards and roll him up in bubble-wrap, pronto!
..and here's the playlist for this week's show, clips and all...
David Bowie - Scream Like a Baby  ("Scary Monsters" LP 1980 UK)




Vespero - Scream thy Last Scream [Pink Floyd]  ("A  Momentary Lapse of Vinyl" 2014 Russia)

Soft Hearted Scientists - Mount Palomar  ("Uncanny Tales from the Everyday Undergrowth" 2015 reissue Wales UK)




Wild Pink Yonder - Two of a Kind [Syd Barrett]  ("A  Momentary Lapse of Vinyl" 2014 UK)
Crystal Jacqueline  - Somebody to Love [Jefferson Airplane]  ("Sun Arise" 2015 UK)



Soft Hearted Scientists - Diving Bell  ("Uncanny Tales from the Everyday Undergrowth" 2015reissue Wales UK)

Papy - Toi le Shazam  (7" single 1967 France)


Fatty Nautty - Tumba Part 2  ("Fatty Nautty EP" 1968 France)



Dodson and Fogg - Clunes the Gravedigger  ("In a Strange Slumber" 2014 UK)
Traffic - Paper Sun  (7" single 1967 UK)




David Bowie - Friday on my Mind [Easybeats]  ("Pin Ups" LP 1973 UK)



The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Leave it Alone  ("Thingy Wingy" mini-album 2015 USA)

The Hanging Stars - Golden Vanity  (CD single 2015 London UK) 

The Easybeats - Peculiar Hole in the Sky [Valentines]  (7" single 1969 Australia) 



 The Amazing - Picture You  ("Picture You" 2015 Sweden)




 David Bowie - Queen Bitch  ("Hunky Dory" LP 1971 UK)




 Dukes of Stratosphear - Vanishing Girl  ("Psonic Psunspot" LP 1987 UK)




The Monkees - Girl That I Knew Somewhere  ("Monkees Live 1967" LP 1987 USA) 



  Cherokees - I've Gone Wild  (7" single b-side (to "Minnie the Moocher") 1967 Australia) 




 Castaways - Liar Liar  (7" single 1965 USA)




 The Systemaddicts - Can't Put You Down  ("The Systemaddicts" 2011 Adelaide, Australia)


Vertebrats - Left In The Dark  ("Screaming Like a Mad Choir" 2011 USA) 


The Nightcrawlers - The Little Black Egg  (7" single 1965 USA) 


The Fallen Angels - Mother's Homesick Too  ("The Fallen Angels" LP 1967 USA)
 

The Black Angels - Deer-Ree-Shee  ("Directions To See a Ghost" 2008 Austin Texas, USA)


The Velvet Underground - I'm Set Free  ("The Velvet Underground" LP 1969 USA)  

 Adrian Pride - Her Name Is Melody  (7" single 1966 USA) 

Rashamra - The Love of a Woman  ("Unforgotten" 2009 Adelaide, Australia)
Flaming Lips - Is David Bowie Dying?  ("The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends" 2012 USA)  

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Rather than a band, we had Dutch solo performer Jacco Gardner as our “Artiste of the Week” in this edition of Technicolour Dreaming. Regular listeners will be aware that we have featured his music quite frequently since we first heard his “Clear the Air” single early last year, the song later appearing on his excellent debut album “Cabinet of Curiosities”. Whilst clearly in thrall to 60’s psychedelic pop, Jacco has managed to create his own inspired take on the genre, letting the strength of his song writing shine through – like his predecessors, he sure knows how to write a catchy pop song with twists and unexpected turns a-plenty. Wonderful music.... and his ever-growing renown is well-deserved – hopefully he’ll bring his band on tour to Australia soon! Also featured again this week was the UK record label Fruits de Mer, including tracks by FdM stalwarts such as Spain’s excellent Stay and Welsh outfit Schnauser amongst others, the two mentioned above taken from the latest promo sampler “Friends of the Fish vol. 1” which reminds us of the diversity of the label’s output and which we’ll certainly be plundering over coming months – great stuff! Also played this week were new tracks from Espectrostatic, Sky Picnic and Dodson & Fogg [featuring the Young Ones’ Nigel Planer] plus a few ‘blasts from the past’  by the likes of the Sorrows, Holland’s After Tea, the United States of America and Peru’s We All Together doing a Badfinger cover, taken from their sole 1972 LP.

There was much more of course, as always, so until next week.....

..... here is the playlist with some associated clips, plus a short film of the famous 1964 LSD debate at MiT featuring Dr Timothy Leary.... Enjoy!  

After Tea – The Time is Nigh         (7” single b-side [to Not Just a flower in Your Hair] 1967 Netherlands)

Lumerians – Xulux         (“Transmalinnia” 2013 USA)

David Crosby – Song With No Words [Tree With No Leaves]         (”If I Could Only Remember My Name...”  LP 1971 USA)

Stay – If I Needed Someone [Beatles cover]         (“Mersey Dream” EP 2013 Spain)

Jason Crest – Black Mass         (7”single b-side [to A Place in the Sun] 1969 Kent, UK)

Espectrostatic – Escape from Witchtropolis         (“Escape from Witchtropolis” 2014 Austin, Texas, USA)

Paul Messis – Nightmares         (7”single 2014 UK)

Soft Walls – Won’t Remember My Name         (“No Time” 2014 USA)

the United States of America – The American Metaphysical Circus         (“The United States of America” LP 1968)

Schnauser – Westward Ho!         (“Where Business Meets Fashion” 2013 Wales, UK – taken from Fruits de Mer Records promo-CD compilation “friends of the fish – a first collection” 2014 UK)

Sendelica – Hard Coming Love [United States of America cover]         (recorded 2014 UK – taken from “Fruits de Mer label:‘7 and 7 Is’” vinyl 7”singles box-set 2014 UK)

Kaleidoscope – Flight From Ashiya         (7”single 1967 UK)

White Sails – The Answer         (“White Sails EP” 2013 USA/Finland)

the Californians – The Cooks of Cake and Kindness       (7”single b-side [to Mandy]1969 UK)

   ###    “Artiste of the Week”   –   Jacco Gardner    ###

Jacco Gardener – Puppets Dangling         (“Cabinet of Curiosities” 2013 Netherlands)

Jacco Gardener – End of August         (7”single 2013 Netherlands)

Jacco Gardener – Clear the Air         (“Cabinet of Curiosities” 2013 Netherlands)

Jacco Gardener – Always on My Mind [Billy Nicholls cover]         (“Trouble in Mind Records presents: Record Store Day 2013 4-Way Covers Split 7 inch” compilation EP [with Maston, MMOSS, and the Resonars] 2013 USA/Netherlands)

Skull Cave – Acid Tone      (CD-single 2014 Perth, Australia)

Miss Elm – Facebook Never Lies      (“Hybrid” EP 2014 Queensland, Australia)

New Electric Ride – The Beyond       (“Balloon Age” 2014 UK)

the Psychedelic Schafferson Jetplane – Blessings from the Reptiles [Diego]      (“Psychedelic Schafferson Jetplane”  2010 Chile)

Maston – Strange Rituals       (“Shadows” 2014 Los Angeles, USA)

We All Together – It’s a Sin to Go Away [Badfinger cover]      (“We All Together” LP 1972 Peru)

Dodson & Fogg (feat. Nigel Planer) – Entrepreneur in the Garden      (“In A Strange Slumber” 2014 UK)

the Sorrows – You’ve Got What I Want      (7”single 1966 UK)

Sky Picnic – Upon Further Reflection       (“Her Dawn Wardrobe” 2014 Brooklyn, New York, USA)

plus....

Timothy Leary 1964 debate link - http://www.openculture.com/2014/09/the-historic-lsd-debate-at-mit.html

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Alongside some new releases by local Adelaide favourites Slingshot Dragster and the Dunes we also played tracks from the brand new albums from Dodson & Fogg, Ty Segall and White Fence, plus single A-sides from House of Fire and the Brian Jonestown Massacre’s ‘tambourine guy’ Joel Gion, King Penguin’s brilliant Byrds cover from Fruits de Mer’s lavish “7 & 7 Is” singles boxset, which was released this week. We also featured songs by Les Big Byrd, the Chemistry Set, Swiss psychedelecist Balduin and 60’s classics by Gary Walker & the Rain and the Millennium, as well as a previously unreleased track by the Velvet Underground, recorded in 1969 but only released in 1984 on the “VU” album. Last, but certainly not least, we celebrated Beaulieu Porch as our “Band of the Week”. Consisting of the compositions and recordings of Englishman Simon Berry, Beaulieu Porch has released two albums, an anthology and several singles, both vinyl and digital, on his own Tillsammans Records label, all of which he recently made available as free downloads on his bandcamp page. His modern, idiosyncratic take on vintage psychedelia has been hailed in magazines such as “Shindig!” and “Mojo” plus blogs like “The Active Listener” and various “Top 10 Albums of the Year” lists – not bad for a bloke recording alone in his home studio, and we are eagerly awaiting the completion of his new album which he reports is “about halfway there”. In the meantime we strongly advise downloading the back-catalogue – you won’t regret it! – and also checking out his clips on youtube, also made by him at home, a few of which we’ve posted below. So, until next week, it’s “cheerio” from the Cat and the Brat.....

..... and here’s the playlist, with aforementioned vids.....

Prince Rupert’s Drops – Plague Ride         (“Run Slow” LP 2012 New York, USA)

 

the Heart Snatchers – Silk         (“Fall in Toulouse” 2013 Toulouse, France)

Les Big Byrd – Back to Bargarmossen         (“They Worshipped Cats” 2014 Sweden)

the Chemistry Set – Come Kiss Me Vibrate and Smile        (7”single b-side [to Time to Breathe] 2012 UK)

Balduin – A Hope For Loving You         (“Post From Mars” 2014 Switzerland)

Joel Gion – Overthrow        (7”single 2014 USA)

West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band – Help, I’m a Rock [Frank Zappa cover]         (“Part One” LP 1967 USA)

Slingshot Dragster – St Duane [Tremolo Beergut cover]         (demo 2014 Adelaide, Australia)

the Dunes – End of the Beginning         (“Bad Lands” EP 2014 Adelaide, Australia)

the Velvet Underground – Ocean         (recorded in 1969, released on “VU” LP 1984 New York, USA)

the Brian Jonestown Massacre – La Façon Dont La Machine Va Vers l'Arrière       (previously unreleased – taken from “Dead Bees Records Label Sampler No 9”  2010 Toulouse, France)

 

House of Fire – The Keeper of the Doors         (7”single 2014 Pennsylvania, USA)

the Millenium – 5 a.m.         (“Begin” LP 1968 USA)

Dodson and Fogg – A Sweet and Strange Surprise         (“In a Strange Slumber” 2014 UK)

  ###    BAND OF THE WEEK  –  Beaulieu Porch    ###

Beaulieu Porch – Laminations are Loaded      (“Beaulieu Porch” 2012 UK)

Beaulieu Porch – The View from Gainsborough      (7”single 2014 UK)

Beaulieu Porch – Greencroft Street      (“Beaulieu Porch” 2012 UK)

Beaulieu Porch – Is      (“We Are Beautiful” 2013 UK)

 

Tony, Caro & John – There Are No Greater Heroes      (“All On The First Day” LP 1972 UK)

White Fence – Wolf Gets Red Faced      (“For The Recently Found Innocent” 2014 California, USA)

Ty Segall – Who’s Producing You?      (“Manipulator” 2014 California, USA)

Gary Walker & the Rain – Magazine Woman      (“Album No. 1” LP 1968 Japan/UK)

King Penguin – She Don’t Care About Time [Byrds cover]      (7”single 2014 UK – taken from “Fruits de Mer label:‘7 and 7 Is’” vinyl 7”singles box-set 2014 UK)

the Myrrors – Mind’s Eye      (“Burning Circles In The Sky” 2008 Tucson, Arizona, USA)