Technicolour Dreaming

Very sad to hear that another two legendary musicians have joined the Supergroup in the Sky - and coincidentally on the same day - Jefferson Airplane members Signe Anderson, the original vocalist, and guitarist/vocalist/songwriter Paul Kantner. This intro is rapidly becoming a list of who has died, rather than what I've played on the show - hopefully at least a week will go by without any more major losses....

So here's the playlist for the week, and amazingly with a clip for every song! Enjoy...

Vibravoid - Playing with Beuys  ("The Politics of Ecstasy" 2009 Dusseldorf Germany) 

Procul Harum - Shine on Brightly  ("Shine on Brightly" LP 1968 UK)

Billy Nicholls - Girl From New York  ("Would You Believe" LP 1968 UK)

Jefferson Airplane  - Wooden Ships  ("Volunteers" LP 1969 San Francisco USA)

Pinkunoizu - I Said Hell, You Said No ("The Drop" 2013 Copenhagen, Denmark)

Sundays and Cybele - Waiting for You  ("Gypsy House" LP 2015 Hokkaido, Japan)

The Who - Armenia City in the Sky  ("The Who Sell Out" LP 1967 UK)

Moodoid feat. Melody's Echo Chamber - Le Lac d'or  (CD single 2015 France)

Octopus Syng - Listen to the Moths  ("Reverberating Garden No 7" 2014 Finland)

Dean Allen Foyd - Lovely Sort of Death  ("The Sounds can be So Cruel" 2012 France

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

Holy Wave - Son of Sound  ("Relax" 2013 Austin, Texas USA)

Elephant Stone - Child of Nature (Om Namah Shivayah)  ("The Three Poisons" 2014 Montreal Canada)

The Tremolo Beer Gut - While Squaresville is Watching From Afar... ("From the Vinyl Archives of..." mini-album 2001 Denmark)

Turbonegro - Suffragette City [Bowie]  (7' single 1997 Norway)

The Royal Beat Conspiracy - Had To Be a Woman  ("Music to Rock the Nation" 10" LP Gothenburg, Sweden

The Cush - The Vigilant Ones  ("Between the Leaves" 2009 Fort Worth, Texas USA)

Pineapples From the Dawn of Time - Freaky Acid Planet / Too Much Acid ("Shocker" LP 1987) Brisbane, Australia

Fast Camels - 50 Things on Your Mind  ("The Magic Optician" 2007 Glasgow, Scotland)

West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band - Smell of Incense  (7" single 1968 USA)

Tom Northcott - Who Planted Thorns in Miss Alice's Garden  (7" single b-side [to "Sunny Goodge Street"] 1967 Canada)

The Misunderstood - Never Had a Girl (Like You Before) (7" single 1969 USA/UK)

Jefferson Airplane - And I Like It (alt version prev unreleased)  ("Takes Off" LP 1966 USA)

Technicolour Dreaming

Another episode of Technicolour Dreaming, with the usual mix of old and new, Australian, American and European psychedelia of various styles. Rather than prattle on here, I think I’ll just let the music and pictures do the talking this week … though I was intrigued by what the translation would be of the second track I played, by French band Dansez Avec Moa (Dance of the Moa). So thanks to my handy translator, I’ve found that it is: “The French are Calves [Well Well! I Commend You - Pfut , Pfut , Pfut]”. So now you know…. …and here is the playlist, with associated visuals - and apologies for the formatting - the blog is just not in a co-operative mood this week! Laika & the Cosmonauts - Psyko     (“Cosmopolis 1988-2008” compilation 2008 Finland)   Dansez Avec Moa - Les Francais Sont Des Veaux [Eh Bien! Je Vous Félicite- Pfut, Pfut, Pfut]     (7” single late 1960s, taken from “Wizzz 3!” compilation 2015  France )   The Misunderstood - I Can Take You to the Sun     (7" Single 1966 US/UK)   Billy Nicholls - The Girl from New York City     (“Would You Believe” LP 1968 UK)   Brian Eno - Cindy Tells Me     (“Here Come the Warm Jets” LP 1973 UK)   Tor-Peders - Småfåglars Värn     (“Brev Från Ederstorp” LP 2014 Sweden)   The Dials - The Crawling Man     (“The End of the Pier” 2013 UK)   The Apple - The Otherside     (7" single [b-side to “Doctor Rock”] 1968 Cardiff UK)   Beaulieu Porch - Golden Face     (“The Carmelite Divine [Original Soundtrack]” 2014 Salisbury UK)   The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Vad Hande Med Dem?     (“Revelation” 2014 USA) The Wild Cherries - Krome Plated Yabby     (7" single 1967 Australia) ZX+ - Up and Down the Stairs     (“Don't Drink the Water” 2015 UK) Red Crayola - Hurricane Fighter Plane     (“The Parable of Arable Land” LP 1967 Dallas ,Texas, USA) Holy Wave - Psychological Thriller     (“Relax” 2013 Austin, Texas, USA) Mystic Tide - Psychedelic Journey Volume 1     (7" single 1967 USA) Moon Duo - I Been Gone     (“Circles” 2012 USA) Pez Headz - Black Denim     (“Active Listener Sampler # 21” LA, USA) My Expansive Awareness - Space     (“Uroboros” EP 2014 Zaragoza, Spain) Dantalian's Chariot - Madman Running through the Fields     (7" single 1967 UK) Sir Richard Bishop - Barbary     (“The Freak of Araby” 2009 USA ) Jacco Gardner - Hypnophobia     (“Hypnophobia” 2015 Netherlands) The Galileo 7 - You're Not Dreaming     (“False Memory Lane” 2014 UK)

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It was one of those weeks when our P.O. box was inundated with new releases and a few older goodies so we had lots to choose from to play for you. From amongst this pile of CDs and vinyl we selected new tracks from the UK’s Wicked Whispers, Three Minute Tease [featuring Anton Barbeau], Eternal Tapestry and the brilliant triple-CD from New Orleans’ Chef Menteur, plus songs from the Wands, Surf School Dropouts and Japan’s Sundays & Cybele amongst others. Our featured compilation series this edition was Northern Star Records’ excellent double-CD “Psychedelica” series, beginning with Volume One in 2006 and ending with volume 5 in 2013, and featuring a plethora of both known and obscure modern bands throughout, with many of the tracks unavailable elsewhere. Most of the issues are ‘sold-out’ but can be found on sites such as Discogs and eBay et al. if you search them out. We’ll be playing more of our new ‘incomings’ next week, so until then.....

..... here is the playlist with some visuals to divert.....

Surf School Dropouts - Ebb and Flow      ("Second Nature" 2015 Denmark)

Sundays and Cybele - Waiting for You      ("Gypsy House" 2014 Hokkaido, Japan)

the Murlocs - Adolescence      (digital single 2015 Geelong, Australia)

Tyrannosaurus Rex - Knight      ("My People Were Fair and Had Stars in their Hair ...But Now they're Content to Wear Stars on their brows" LP 1968 UK)

Dungen - Jamna Plagor      (b-side from "Panda" CD single 2005 Stockholm, Sweden)

the Wicked Whispers - I'd Follow You Anywhere      ("Maps of the Mystic"  2014 UK)

Three Minute Tease - Coffee That Makes the Man Go Mad      ("Bite the Hand" 2015 UK)

the Wands - Get it Out of Your System / Don't You Wanna Feel alright      ("The Dawn" 2015 Denmark)

les Liminanas - Salvation      ("Crystal Anis" 2012 France)

House of Fire - The Morning Light      ("The Morning Light" EP 2012 Pennsylvania, USA)

Chef Menteur - Il obstrue ma vue de Venus / Terpsichore       ("Chef Menteur III : [disc 1] East of the Sun & West of the Moon”  2015 New Orleans USA)

Holy Wave - Star Stamp       ("Relax" 2013 Texas, USA)

West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band - Shifting Sands      ("Volume 3: A Child's Guide to Good and Evil" LP 1968 USA)

Compilation of the Week :

Northern Star Records’  "Psychedelica" series no. 1 - 5

Brian Jonestown Massacre - Anenome       (originally from "Their Satanic Majesties' Second Request" 1996 USA – taken from "Psychedelica Volume 1" 2006 UK)

Singapore Sling – Godman       (originally from "Perversity, Desperation and Death" LP 2009 Reykjavík Iceland – taken from "Psychedelica 4" 2011)

the Deaths -May Queen       (originally from “Choir Invisible” 2006 Canada – taken from "Psychedelica 2" 2007)

the Urges - In the End      ("Psychedelica 5" 2013)

Youngteam - Sunny Sunday Afternoon      ("Psychedelica 3" 2008)

the Silhouettes - All A Lie      (originally on “the Silhouettes” LP 2013 Netherlands – taken from "Psychedelica 5" 2013)

Eternal Tapestry - Wild Strawberries     ("Wild Strawberries" 2015 Portland, USA)

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Another psychedelic spin around the world from the 1960’s to the present? Yes, it’s another edition of Technicolour Dreaming on 3D Radio 93.7fm, featuring new songs from Lay Llamas, H.Hawkline and Haliewa back to “should-have-been-hits” by the Pretty Things, Ray Brown & the Whispers and Del Shannon, as well as a couple more tracks from Fruits de Mer's "A Momentary Lapse of Vinyl" compilation. Then there was a set of songs by Canadian psychedelicists Elephant Stone, our “Band of the Week”. Led by sitarist Rishi Dhir, formerly of the High Dials, they have released two albums plus an anthology and are psych festival favourites. The most recent LP, “The Three Poisons” has received great reviews and has quickly become one of our picks for “best of the year”. We finished with a blast of girl garage fuzz from Melbourne’s Reprobettes, and so until next week.....

.....here is the playlist, plus visuals.....

Les Papyvores - Le Papyvore      ("Le Papyvore" EP 1967 France)

Lay Llamas - We are You      ("Ostro" LP 2014 Sicily, Italy)

White Manna - Acid Head      ("White Manna" 2012 California USA)

Dodson and Fogg [feat. Nigel Planer] - Clunes the Gravedigger  / Don't You Pass Me By      ("In a Strange Slumber'' 2014 UK)

the Junipers -  And In my Dreams     ("Euphonius Trolley EP One" 2014 UK)

Pretty Things - Alexander      ( "The Pretty Things with Phillippe De Barge" LP 1969 UK/France)

Wild Pink Yonder - Two of a Kind [Syd Barrett cover]     (recorded 2014 New York, USA for “Fruits de Mer presents: A Momentary Lapse of Vinyl” compilation 2014 UK)

Jay Tausig - Fearless [Pink Floyd cover]    (recorded 2014 USA for “Fruits de Mer presents: A Momentary Lapse of Vinyl” compilation 2014 UK)

Heaven's Gateway Drugs - Apropos      ("Apropos" 2014 Fort Wayne, Indiana USA)

the Raveonettes - Boys Who Rape (Should be Destroyed)      ("In and Out of Control" 2009 Denmark  )

the Movements - All the Lost      ("Like Elephants 1" 2013 Denmark)

Rings and Things - Strange things are Happening      (7”single 1968 Netherlands)

Ray Brown & the Whispers - Ain't it Strange      (7"single Australia 1966)

the Challenge - Reflections of Charlie Brown (Les Fleur De Lys cover)      ( 7"single 1970 Auckland, New Zealand)

Ray Columbus and the Art Collection - Snap, Crackle, Pop      (recorded 1967 but unreleased, taken from "A Day in My Minds Mind: Volume 3" compilation 2008 New Zealand)

Holy Wave - Albuquerque Freakout ("The Evil Has Landed" EP 2012 USA)

Del Shannon - I Think I Love You      ("The Further Adventures of Charles Westover" LP 1967 USA)

Haleiwa - Wall of Blue Sky      (7"single 2014 UK)

H. Hawkline - Black Domino Box      ("Salt Gall Box Ghouls" 2014 Wales, UK)

the High Dials - Your eyes are a Door ("War of the Wakening Phantoms" 2005 Montreal, Canada)

     ###   “BAND OF THE WEEK”    Elephant Stone   ###

Elephant Stone - Seven Seas      ("Seven Seas" 2009 Montreal, Canada)

Elephant Stone - Child of Nature (Om Namah Shivaya)      ("The Three Poisons" 2014 Montreal, Canada)

Elephant Stone - Sally Go Round the Sun      ("Acid Killed my Rock'n'Roll" anthology 2013 Canada)

Elephant Stone - Living for Something     ("The Three Poisons" 2014 Montreal, Canada)

Jim Noir - Come and See      ("Finnish Line" 2014 Scotland, UK)

the Reprobettes - Young and Stupid      (“Off the Hip Sampler” record company compilation 2014 Australia)

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It was the Radiothon ’14 edition of Technicolour Dreaming this week – chaos abounded with the phones ringing, the picking and organising of ‘bribe-to-subscribe’ giveaways, subscribers coming into the station, payments being made, volunteers running about and, unusually for us, lots of air-breaks and chatter and.... did I mention chaos? But it was all in a good cause – our annual Radiothon where we ask listeners to help keep us on-air by becoming valued 3D Radio subscribers! We won’t go into all the details – you can go to the 3D Radio website here and see how to pay [yes we do PayPal], the form to fill out, what you get for your bucks [including this year’s DepthCharge CD compilation which ONLY subscribers are given] and details of the major prizes you are in the running for when you do subscribe - all for the low price of $60.... it doesn’t matter if you live in Adelaide or Athens, the USA or Uruguay, anyone can be a 3D Radio subscriber and help us keep this unique music community radio station broadcasting every day of every week, and of course letting us, the Cat and the Brat, play all the wonderfully diverse psychedelia [and associated obscurities] that we love to share with you every Tuesday afternoon on this show. Normal broadcasting will resume next week of course [whew!] but in the meantime.... dig deep, go to the 3DRadio website and SUBSCRIBE people!

..... anyway, here are all the tracks we played during the show, with some nice pictures ta boot.....

the Green Tambourine Band – Aum [Part A]      (“...Let Yourself Be / AUM” double-LP 2013 Edinburgh, Scotland)

the Beatles – I Am The Walrus      (“Magical Mystery Tour” double-EP 1967 UK)

the Electric Prunes – I Had Too Much To Dream [Last Night]      (7”single 1966 USA)

Holy Wave – Night Tripper      (“Relax” 2013 USA)

Kelley Stoltz – All That Jazz [Echo & the Bunnymen cover]      (“Crockodials” 2002 USA)

Robyn Hitchcock – The Ghost In You [Psychedelic Furs cover]      (“The Man Upstairs” 2014 UK)

Les Big Byrd – Indus Waves / Tinitus Aeternum      (“They Worshipped Cats” 2014 Sweden)

Dean Allen Foyd – Please, Pleaze Me      (“The Sounds Can Be So Cruel” 2012 Sweden)

Love – 7 and 7 Is      (7”single 1966 Los Angeles, USA)

the Sand Pebbles – Sunshine to Burn [Long Grass cover]      (“Tomorrow Is Today : a tribute to the Australian Psychedelic Scene 1966-70” compilation 2007 Australia)

the Chemistry Set – A House Is Not A Motel [Love cover]      (recorded 2014 UK – taken from “Fruits de Mer label:‘7 and 7 Is’” vinyl 7”singles box-set 2014 UK)

 

Tara King Th. – Magnetic Bounds      (“Uncoloured Past [Part 1 & 11]” cassette 2012 Lyons, France)

Jeff St John & the Id – Eastern Dream      (7”single b-side [to Black Girl] 1966 Sydney, Australia)

Mt Mountain – She Runs       (“EP” 2014 Perth, Australia)

Invisible Ships – Lucy Dream      (mp3 single 2013 Faversham, UK)

            ###  “BAND of the WEEK” – Soft Hearted Scientists  ###

Soft Hearted Scientists – The A470 Song      (“Take Time to Wonder in a Whirling World” 2007 Wales, UK)

Soft Hearted Scientists – Robots Remember      ([from the pre-release of] “The Slow Cyclone” 2014 Wales, UK)

Soft Hearted Scientists – The Trees Don’t Seem To Know Its September      (“Wandermoon” 2011 Wales, UK)

Soft Hearted Scientists – Seeing      (“False Lights” 2013 Wales, UK)

Oak Apple Day plus the Deadly Pair – Moon Shot      (7”single b-side [to Let’s Do It On The Moon] 1969 Australia)

New Electric Ride – All Who You Know      (mp3 single 2014 UK)

the Fast Camels – Kelvin      (“Deadrooms and Butterfly Dreams” 2014 Scotland, UK)

the Sunchymes – Free Rider      (“Shifting Sands” 2009 UK)

Morgan Delt – Backwards Bird Inc      (“Morgan Delt” 2013 California, USA)