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...
This show leaned more towards garage than psych for a little while, compliments of lots of new goodies to play - Adelaide's The Systemaddicts kicked things off with their latest album, "Broken Hearted on the Nullarbor", followed by a couple of new releases from State Records, by The Embrooks (UK) and The Missing Souls (France), and squeezed in the middle was a track from Juliette Seizure and the Tremor Dollsdebut long-player, "Chewing Out Your Rhythm on My Bubblegum."Somehow I managed to play THREE Tyrnaround tracks, twice from their classic 12" EP, as well as a cover of the title-track, "Colour Your Mind" by Vibravoid! And I musn't forget a selection from Sidewalk Society's new 4-track 7" EP, which is one of Fruits De Mer Records latest crop of releases - with more to be featured next week. Some "soon-to-be" releases from Heaters, Elkhorn and Drakkar Nowhere rounded out the show: luckily this entry didn't take as long to put together as the last one! Enjoy!
The Systemaddicts - Prison ("Broken Hearted on the Nullarbor" 2016 Adelaide, Australia)
Goldfrapp - Lovely Head ("Felt Mountain" 2000 UK)
Tyrnaround - Carroll by Candlelight ("Colour Your Mind" 12" EP 1986 Brisbane, Australia)
The Embrooks - Nightmare (7" single 2016 UK)
Juliette Seizure and the Tremor Dolls - Self-Defeating Blues ("Chewing Out Your Rhythm on My Bubblegum" 2016 Adelaide, Australia)
The Missing Souls - The Alligator (7" single 2016 Lyon, France)
The Chemistry Set - Albert Hoffman ("The Endless More and More" LP 2016 UK/Spain)
Sidewalk Society - Can't Help Thinking About Me [David Bowie and The Lower Third] (7" 4-track EP 2016 California, USA)
Ultravox! - ROckwrok ("Ha!-Ha!-Ha!" LP 1977 UK)
The Spikes - Spy In My House ("Colour In A Black Forest" LP 1986 Adelaide, Australia)
Elephant Stone - Love the Sinner, Hate the Sin ("Elephant Stone" 2013 Montreal, Canada)
The Merry-Go-Round - Listen, Listen (7" single 1968 Los Angeles, USA)
The Lovetones - The Colour and the Cut ("Meditations" 2005 Melbourne, Australia)
The Liminanas - Longanisse ("Crystal Anis" 2012 Perpignan, France)
Trabants - Mecca ("Freakout" 2015 Los Angeles, USA)
Tyrnaround - Francis [Gary Walker] ("Colour Your Mind" 12" EP 1986 Brisbane, Australia)
Fuzz - Let It Live ("Fuzz II" 2015, Los Angeles, USA)
Drakkar Nowhere - Higher Now ("Drakkar Nowhere" (to be released September 2016) New York, USA)
The Love Explosion - Wonderful Wonderful Wonderful ("Movies in Your Mind" 2016 Leichardt, New South Wales, Australia)
Elkhorn - Seed ("Elkhorn" (to be released August 2016) New York, USA)
Frantic Chant - Spellbound ("Active Listener Sampler #42" 2016 Scotland, UK)
Opus 1 - Back Seat '38 Dodge (7" single 1966 Los Angeles, USA)
More dreadful weather, internet outages, and a weekend away up in the big smoke to DJ at Wintersteady has meant a really big delay for this week's blog post...so no more prevarication, here it is, and on with the next one!
Vibravoid - Listen, Can't you Hear ("Delirio Dei Sensi" 2013 Dusseldorf, Germany)
Ola And the Janglers - We've Got a Groovy Thing Goin' [Paul Simon] ("Lime Light" LP 1966 Stockholm, Sweden)
Blush Response - The City Will Eat Itself ("Wintersteady - Going Steady Mix Tape #7" 2016 Adelaide, Australia)
The Misunderstood - I Can Take You to the Sun (7" single 1966 US/UK)
Holy Cosmos - Hurricane Fighter Plane [Red Krayola] ("The Psychedelic Sounds of the Blog That Celebrates Itself Vol. III" 2015 Mexico City, Mexico)
The Luck Of Eden Hall - Another High Speed Blowout ("Acceleration of Time" LP 2016 Chicago, USA)
Procul Harum - Shine On Brightly ("Shine On Brightly" LP 1968 UK)
Monochromatic Visions - Don't Let Your Youth Go To Waste ("Blue Thunder - A Tribute to Galaxie 500" compilation 2016 Athens, Greece)
Warm Sounds - Nite Is A Comin' (7" single 1967 UK)
Mystic Brew - Something More Than A Dream ("Something More Than a Dream" LP 2015 Russia)
Polska Radio One - Volga ("North Berry EP" 2014 Yekaterinburg, Russia)
Sun Mahshene - No Control (demo) ("Dog's Got A Bone #5" compilation 2016 Dublin, Ireland)
Dream Sick - Dig ("Last Little Bit" 2014 Tucson, Arizona, USA)
Violet Swells - Strange, Strange Design (CD Single 2016 Hobart, Australia)
I was very happy to hear from the guys in Swiss band Borderline Symphony recently - they finally have a brand new, self-titled album out, their first full length release after a number of EPs, so I just had to help spread the word by playing one track each from the new "Borderline Symphony" LP and the older "EP 1". The band is unique in that they sing in German, Italian and English, and in my humble opinion, they're a cross between modern psych-pop and an almost medieval sound - check them out, and you'll see what I mean. I also flogged Dig The Fuzz Records groovy compilation "Astonishing Sound Show Stories Volume 1", with quite a few tracks getting on the playlist this week; they've just released Volume 2, which is heading my way from Spain, so I should have some more to playing in coming weeks ... hope you enjoy my selections below...
Dark Haze - The Temple ("The Dark Haze" EP 2014 Brazil)
Magic Cat - Spaceman Tree ("For Friends Only" 2013 Rome, Italy)
The Paperhead - Eye For Eye ("Africa Avenue" 2014 Nashville, USA)
The Baudelaires - Where You Go ("Be A Baudelaire" 2014 Melbourne, Australia)
Victoire Scott - 4'eme Dimension ("4'eme Dimension" 7" EP 1968 France)
Les Fleurs De Pavot - La Caresse Du Fleuve ("Les Fleurs De Pavot" LP 1968 France)
Borderline Symphony - Zundel se ne va ("EP 1" 2014 Zurich, Switzerland)
Pennywise - Lily Come Near Me (7" single 1968 Amsterdam, Netherlands)
No Bodies - Bank Robbers ("No Bodies" LP 2013 Halifax, Nova Scotia)
Shinkiro - The Formula For Eternal Life ("Ceremonial Ride" 2015 Barcelona, Spain)
The Rhemedies - Leave Me Alone (digital single 2015, Edinburgh, UK)
Corridor - Le Viol De Sharone (digital single 2016 Montreal, Canada)
Electric Alice - The Creeping Ritual ("The Electric Alice Xperiment" 2013 Falkirk, Scotland UK)
Murmurs of Irma - Squadron Leader Baseheart ("Astonishing Sound Show Stories Vol. 1" compilation 1998 UK)
Borderline Symphony - Aeroplani neri al cielo ("Borderline Symphony" 2016 Zurich, Switzerland)
Slow Down Molasses - Flowers ("Blue Thunder - A Tribute to Galaxie 500" 2016 Canada)
Mouses - Psycho (digital single 2015 UK)
The Barbarellatones - Candida (demo 2016 Hawaii, USA)
Heaters - Dune Ripper ("Holy Water Pool" 2015)
Kikagaku Moyo - Green Sugar ("House In The Tall Grass" 2016 Japan)
Polska Radio One - Shroomin' ("Polska Radio One 2012 Singles" Poland)
Jason Tryp - She Creature (From The Deep) (digital single 2014)
Singapore Sling - Try ("Psych Fuck" 2015 Iceland)
Lorelle Meets The Obsolete - 4th of July ("Blue Thunder - A Tribute to Galaxie 500" 2016)
The Disturbed - Don't Look Down ("Astonishing Sound Show Stories Vol 1" 1998 UK)
The Trypt Up - Pictures of You ("Astonishing Sound Show Stories Vol 1" 1998 UK)
Saffron - I Remember ("Astonishing Sound Show Stories Vol 1" 1998 UK)
