Technicolour Dreaming

As usual, it was a veritable smorgasbord of psychedelia, new & old, which we shared with you this week, including long-time faves such as Espers, Black Box Recorder, the Sunchymes, the Loved Ones and the Twilights. An array of new tracks from the Amazing, Semool and Vibravoid rounded out the set, and of course not forgetting the delights contained within our “Compilation of the Week”! Our selection this time round was the Dirty Water series – 2010’s "Dirty Water : The Birth of Punk Attitude" and the following year’s release "Dirty Water 2 : More Birth Of Punk Attitude" a matching pair of 2-disc treats complete with sumptuous booklets. As can be seen from our selections, the tracks on this series, curated by Kris Needs, are all about the “Attitude” of the title that influenced the later Punk movement, particularly in the UK and US, and it can be seen that psychedelia played a significant role in this regard also. So until next week.....

.....here is the playlist, with some educational visuals for your perusal.....

Espers - Dead King      ("Espers II" 2006 USA)

H.P. Lovecraft - Spin Spin Spin      ("H.P.Lovecraft II" LP 1968 Chicago, USA)

Elephant Stone - Setting Sun      ("Elephant Stone" LP 2013 Montreal, Canada)

Polska Radio One - To the Delta of Aquarius      ("Cosmos Inside" 2014 Yekaterinburg, Russia)

the Sunchymes - Uncle Albert's Slide Show      ("Let Your Free Flag Fly" 2014 UK)

Semool - Essai 10      ("Essais" LP 2015 France)

the Loved Ones - Magic Box      ("Magic Box"  LP 1967 Melbourne, Australia)

Sons of Hippies -The Soft Parade      ("A Psych Tribute to the Doors" 2014 Germany)

Glass Family - Guess I'll Let You Go      (7" single b-side [to Agorn] 1968 California, USA)

Vibravoid - Raga Baya      (7" single b-side [to Rheinflow] 2015 Dusseldorf, Germany)

Twilights - Blue Roundabout      ("Once Upon a Twilight" 1968 Adelaide, Australia)

Spontaneous Generation - Up in My Mind       (7" single 1968 USA)

Prince Rupert’s Drops - Sesame Seed      ("Climbing Light" 2014 USA)

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

the Iguana - California My Way       (7" single 1968 Australia)

 

Compilation of the Week - "Dirty Water: The Birth of Punk Attitude" 2010 and "Dirty Water 2: More Birth Of Punk Attitude" 2011

the Seeds - Evil Hoodoo      ("The Seeds" LP 1966 Los Angeles) Vol 1 Disc 1

the Sensational Alex Harvey Band - The Hot City Symphony - Part 1: Vambo      ("The Impossible Dream" LP 1974 Scotland UK) Vol 1 Disc 2

the Human Expression - Love at Psychedelic Velocity      (7" single 1966 Los Angeles, USA) Vol 2 Disc 1

Patti Smith - Piss Factory      (7" single b-side [to Hey Joe] 1974 USA) Vol 2 Disc 1

Faust - It's A Rainy Day Sunshine Girl      ("So Far" LP 1972 Germany) Vol 2 Disc 2

the Mind Flowers - Japanese Hills      (digital single 2013 Copenhagen, Denmark)

Black Box Recorder - The School Song      ("Passionoia" 2003 UK)

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

Technicolour Dreaming

This week we went from Adam & the Ants to All Night Radio and Ian Skelly,  Les Fleurs de Pavot to Beaulieu Porch, Australian 90’s icons Clouds and a 1967 Brian Wilson demo, a few covers [including a briefly-reformed lineup of local punk legends, the Dagoes, covering their own classic 1980 version of a Roky Erikson gem, plus Espers acid-folk take on the Blue Oyster Cult], some new  and older vinyl & CD releases incorporating a bunch of re-issues from the 60’s, as well as a duo of songs featuring giant squids [one of which includes the immortal rhyme “the squid was vicious, Sid was delicious...”] amongst other things – what else could it be but the Cat & the Brat’s “Technicolour Dreaming” streaming psychedelic psounds to the world on Adelaide’s own 3D Radio.....

..... so here is the playlist, plus some visual accompaniment.....

the Dagoes – We Sell Soul [Roky Erikson cover]     (“Oh Yeah” 2008 Adelaide, South Australia)

Dead Skeletons – Cemalim      (“ORD” EP 2013 Iceland/Germany)

Groep 1850 – Mother No-Head      (7”single 1967 Netherlands – taken from “Group 1850 – Mother No-Head : Their 45’s” anthology 2012)

 

Adam & the Ants – Plan 9 Failed      (“Dirk Wears White Sox” LP 1979 London, UK)

Brian Wilson – Surf’s Up      (demo 1967 Los Angeles, USA)

Heaven’s Gateway Drugs – Missed Connections (Shadows)      (“CPF Cassette” 2012 Indiana, USA)

Gift of Love [aka the Atlantics] – Flowers      (7”single 1967 Australia)

Brian Jonestown Massacre – Viholliseni Maala [In the Land of my Enemy]      (“Revolution Number Zero” EP 2013 USA/Germany)

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

Soft Hearted Scientists – Seaside Sid & the Giant Squid       (“False Lights” 2013 Cardiff, UK)

Baterz – Giant Squids      (“the Red Single” 1999 Adelaide, South Australia)

Espers – Flaming Telepaths [Blue Oyster Cult cover]       (“The Weed Tree” EP 2004 USA)

the Fourmyula – Nature      (7”single 1969 New Zealand – taken from “Inside the Hutt : New Zealand's Pop-Psych Kingpins 1968-1969“ anthology 2013)

All Night Radio – Sky Bicycle [You’ve Been Ringing]      (“Spirit Stereo Frequency” 2004 USA)

Clouds – Alchemy’s Dead      (“Thunderhead” LP 1993 Australia)

Headband – Stay With Me       (7”single b-side [to Country Lady] 1973 Adelaide, South Australia)

Damon – Song for a Gypsy      (“Song for a Gypsy” LP 1969 Hollywood, USA)

Abunai! – Citadel [Rolling Stones cover]      (“Pull Up The Paisley Covers : a Psychedelic Omnibus” compilation 2002 USA)

Les Fleurs de Pavot - Pourquoi L'amour À Deux      ("Les Fleurs de Pavot" LP 1968 France)

Sudden Death of Stars – I’m Not Among Believers      (“Getting Up, Going Down” 2013 Brittany, France)

the Luck of Eden Hall – Black Sheep [SRC cover]      (“Luck of Eden Hall” EP 2013 Chicago, USA)

Ian Skelly – Paper Sky      (“Cut From A Star” 2012 Scotland, UK)

El Futuro Sonidos – Like Stars, Like Dust      (“The Throwaway Age” faux 60’s-movie soundtrack 2012 USA)

the David – I’m Not Alone      (“Another Day, Another Time” LP 1967 USA)

Procession – Mind Magician      (“Procession” LP 1968 Australia)

Mayfly – Blue Sofa      (“Mayfly” LP 1971 Holland)

Sky Picnic – Seven      (“Farther In This Fairytale” LP 2011 Brooklyn, USA)

Technicolour Dreaming

It’s the final show for 2013 and it was on New Year’s Eve, so it was appropriate we wrapped up our series of “Favourites of the Year” with what was certainly a highlight of 2013 – the new Wooden Shjips LP. Before we got there though, there was a plethora of other faves to be played, though of course some slipped through the cracks and these will no doubt ooze into our early 2014 shows! Anyway, we hope you all have a great New Year – one that promises to build on the growing eruption of excellent psychedelia that seems to be overtaking us... 2014 should hold some very intriguing new music! So, without further ado.....

..... here is the playlist plus a bunch of eye-candy to enjoy.....

Sundial – She’s Looking All Around      (“Other Way Out” LP 1990 UK)

Me & My Kites – Isis’ Adventure      (7”single b-side [to The Band] 2013 UK)

Brenton Manser – Dogged Old Joy      (“The Edge of Forgiveness” 2013 Adelaide, Australia)

the Easybeats – Amanda Storey      (recorded 1968, unreleased – taken from “The Definitive Anthology” 2-CD box 2003 Australia)

the Sufis – I’ll Come to See You      (“Inventions” 2013 Nashville, USA)

Plastic Penny – Give Me Money      (“Currency” LP 1969 UK)

the Seeds – Mr Farmer      (“A Web of Sound” LP 1967 Los Angeles, USA)

Corey – Come On, Let’s Go      (7”single b-side [to Is It Really Really Real?] 2013 San Francisco, USA)

Peter Sarstedt – Mary Jane      (“Peter Sarstedt” LP 1969 UK)

Montero – My World Fell Down [Sagittarius/Ivy League cover]      (“Nuggets : Antipodean Interpolations of the First Psychedelic Era” compilation 2013 Australia)

Sendelica – Set the Controls for the Heart of the Buddha      (“The Kaleidoscopic Kat And It’s Autoscopic Ego” 2013 Wales, UK)

Temples – Mesmerise      (pre-release from forth-coming “Sun Structures” LP 2014 UK)

the Hidden Masters – Last Days of the Sun      (“Of This & Other Worlds” 2013 UK)

the Lovetones – Was I There In Your Future?      (“Meditations” 2006 Melbourne, Australia)

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

France Gall – Teenie Weenie Boppie      (“Teenie Weenie Boppie” EP 1967 France)

the Mynd Gardeners – Misinterpreted      (split-EP [with the Stanleys] 2013 Australia)

Ride Into The Sun – Lost At Sea [a love song]      (“Ride Into The Sun” LP 2013 Adelaide, Australia)

the Black Angels – The Day      (“Indigo Meadow” 2013 Texas, USA)

Warm Soda – Waiting For The Man [Velvet Underground cover]      (“The Velvet Underground & Nico by Castleface Records and Friends” tribute compilation LP 2013 San Francisco, USA)

Crystal Stilts – Future Folklore      (“Nature Noir” 2013 USA)

Fuzz – Sunderberry Dream      (7”single 2013 USA)

the Monkees – Mary, Mary      (“More of the Monkees” LP 1966 USA)

Kak – Rain      (7”single 1968 USA – taken from “The Gathering of the Tribes” compilation boxset 2013)

the Dandelion – Here Comes Love      (“Strange Case of the Dandelion” 2013 Australia)

Espers – Blue Mountain [Michael Hurley cover]      (“The Weed Tree” EP 2004 USA)

Olly Holmes – Mercedes Benz [trad. cover]      (“Whiskey Barrel” EP 2013 Adelaide, Australia)

the Warlocks – Dead Generation      (“Skull Worship” 2013 USA)

Wooden Shjips – Ghouls      (“Back to Land” 2013 San Francisco, USA)

Technicolour Dreaming

Beginning with a track from the latest LP by Germany’s Vibravoid, the Cat & the Brat once again this week weaved a tenuous path through the labyrinths of their collective archives of favourite tunes, to bring you an assortment of sounds by bands as diverse as the Long Ryders, Death In June, Amon Düül, Melody’s Echo Chamber, Plasticland and the brilliant Espers, plus solo efforts from the likes of Cate Le Bon, Eric Ghardin and Chris Bell, before finishing on a ‘1-2 knockout’ with the Seeds and the Sufis. We confess to rather long and verbose introductions to a couple of our latest acquisitions, namely the wonderful second album from the UK’s Beaulieu Porch and the debut by young Dutch psychstar Jacco Gardner – both artists have rapidly won a high spot in our ‘all-time fave’ list! Have a listen....

..... so here is the playlist plus some clips.....

Vibravoid – Listen, Can’t You Hear?      (‘Delirio Dei Sensei’ 2013 Germany)

Chris Bell – I Am the Cosmos      (7”single 1978 USA)

Stiff Little Fingers – Bloody Dub      (‘Nobody’s Heroes’ LP 1980 UK)

Espers – Dead Queen       (‘Espers 11’ 2006 USA)

Death In June – We Drive East      (‘Heaven Street’ 12”EP 1981 UK – taken from ‘Lesson 1: Misanthropy’ anthology reissue 2006 UK/Australia)

Death in June - We Drive East (1982) by riton23

Beaulieu Porch – Limestone Head of the Year      (‘we are beautiful’ 2013 UK)

Traffic – Paper Sun      (7”single 1967 UK)

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

Black Box Recorder – Rock’n’Roll Suicide [Bowie cover]      (CD-single b-side [to Art of Driving] 2000 UK – taken from ‘Worst of Black Box Recorder’ anthology 2001 UK)

David Bowie – Joe the Lion      (‘Heroes’ LP 1977 UK/Germany)

Amon Düül – Hymn For The Hardcore      (‘Fool Moon’ LP 1989 Germany)

Cate Le Bon – Fold The Cloth      (‘Cyrk’ 2012 Wales, UK)

Melody’s Echo Chamber – Quand Vas Tu Rendrer       (‘Melody’s Echo Chamber’ 2012 France/Australia)

Dickens – Genocide      (‘Royal Incarnation’ LP 1969 France)

Eric Ghardin – Amour Limité Zéro      (7”single 1967 France)

Ted Mulry - Remember Me       (7”single b-side [to Memories] 1972 Australia/UK)

the Long Ryders – Lookin’ for Lewis & Clarke      (7”single 1985 Los Angeles, USA)

the Daily Flash – Jack of Diamonds      (7”single 1966 USA)

Jacco Gardner – Clear the Air      (‘Cabinet of Curiosities’ 2013 Netherlands)

Assemble Head In Sunburst Sound – Drunken Leaves      (‘When Sweet Sleep Returned’ 2009 USA)

Plasticland (featuring Twink) – Iris of the Waterfall      (7”single test-pressing b-side [to Seize the Time] 1989 USA – collected on ‘Make Yourself a Happening Machine’ anthology 2006 USA)

Children of the Mushroom – You Can’t Erase a Mirror      (7”single b-side [to August Mademoiselle] 1968 USA)

the Gripweeds – Love’s Lost On You      (‘Summer of a Thousand Years’ 2001 USA)

the Seeds – Two Fingers Pointing at You      (‘Psych-Out’ soundtrack LP 1968 USA)

the Sufis – Where Did She Go?      (‘the Sufis’ 2012 Nashville, USA)