Technicolour Dreaming

There was a plethora of 1960’s goodness in this edition of Technicolour Dreaming with the centrepiece being our featured Compilation of the Week, "2131 South Michigan Avenue : 60's Garage and Psychedelia from U.S.A. and Destination Records", a double-CD from America  released in 2009 by Sundazed Records, certainly one of the leading, and most interesting, reissue labels around today. This particular compilation features a few bands you may recognise, such as the Cryan’ Shames and Park Avenue Playground, but many you probably don’t but should – for example the excellent Daughters of Eve and the Lost Agency – and that’s the fun of these type of ‘rarities’ compilations, finding great bands you’ve not heard before. Zooming to current releases, we played a tracks from the long-awaited and finally soon-to-be-released new album from Dutch psych hero, Jacco Gardner and the “Crocodilians” LP by the UK’s Moth Effect, plus recent releases from bands such as Psychic Ills, My Expansive Awareness, Vibravoid and France’s Moodoid, amongst a bunch of other delights. So, until next week.....

..... here is the playlist, complete with sundry visuals.....

Wall of Voodoo - Ring of Fire [Johnny Cash cover]      ("Wall of Voodoo" EP 1980 USA)

Moodoid [featuring Melody's Echo Chamber] - Le lac d'or       (digital single 2105 Paris, France)

Southern Gentlemen - I Want You Back Again      (7" single 1966 Adelaide, Australia)

We All Together - Tomorrow [Paul & Linda McCartney cover]      ("We All Together" LP 1972 Peru)

Psychic Ills – Come Around       (recorded 2014 USA – taken from “Psych For Sore Eyes 2” compilation 2014 Germany)

Vibravoid - Rheinflow      (7"single 2015 Dusseldorf, Germany)

My Expansive Awareness - Garage and Marijuana      ("Uroboros" 2014 Zaragoza, Spain)

the Magnetic Mind - Stay Away From The Door      (recorded London, UK for "The Active Listener Sampler 8" compilation 2013 New Zealand)

Jacco Gardener - Find Yourself      ("Hypnophobia" [pre-release] 2015 Netherlands)

Boeing Duveen and the Beautiful Soup - Jabberwock      (7" single 1968 UK)

Eternal Tapestry - When I Was In Your Mind      ("A World Out Of Time" 2012 Portland USA)

Palace of Light - Books       (7" single b-side [to Catherine] UK - 2015 reissue of 1991 release)    

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

James McKeown and the Negative Drivers - I See The Rain Again [Marmalade cover]       ("Active Listener : Record Store Day 2013" compilation 2103 New Zealand)

Compilation of the Week

"2131 South Michigan Avenue : 60's Garage and Psychedelia from U.S.A. and Destination Records" – double-CD pack

the Shady Daze - I'll Make You Pay     (7”single b-side [to Love is a Beautiful Thing] 1967 USA – taken from "2131 South Michigan Avenue : 60's Garage and Psychedelia from U.S.A. and Destination Records" compilation 2009 USA - disc 1)

Lord of the Flies - You Made a Fool of Me       (7"single Indiana, USA – taken from disc 2)

the Cryan' Shames  - Ben Franklin's Almanac     (7”single b-side [to Sugar & Spice] 1966 USA taken from disc 1)

the Daughters of Eve - Help Me Boy [Animals cover]      (7”single 1967 USA – taken from disc 2)

the Lost Agency - Time to Dream      (7”single 1967 USA – taken from disc 1)

Park Avenue Playground - The Trip      (7”single b-side [to I Know] 1968 USA – taken from disc 2)

    [the Daughters of Eve Radio Spot 1967]        (taken from disc 2)

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

Bleeding Knees Club - It's-A-Happening [Magic Mushrooms cover]      ("Nuggets: Antipodean Interpolations of the First Psychedelic Era" double-LP compilation 2012 Australia)

Traffic - Paper Sun       (7" single 1967 UK)

Moth Effect - Ghosts Afraid of the Dark      ("Crocodilians" 2015 UK)

White Noise - Black Mass: [Electric Storm in Hell]      ("An Electric Storm" 1969 UK)

Technicolour Dreaming

Regular listeners will be aware of our fondness for rarities, and this week we had a couple of brilliant examples. Firstly, we played from the new Orgone Box LP, a re-issue of Rick Corcoran’s classic 2001 album which includes remixes, re-recordings and an extra track from a 1996 Japanese-only EP, which was of course the song we played. We followed that with a lost Curt Boettcher-produced single from 1967, by our favourite ex-Byrd Gene Clark, which was unreleased at the time but finally issued by the fine people at Sundazed in 2008. Finally, towards the end of the show, we featured a track by Thomas Edisun’s Electric Light Bulb Band from their never-released 1967 pop-psych masterpiece, “The Red Day Album”, which was issued by Gear Fab records earlier this year. Then there were tracks by Eternal Tapestry, Holy Wave, the Left Banke, the Moles and many more, before finishing with UK outfit, the Sunchymes, as well as a song by Death In June, as a prelude to our forthcoming interview with Douglas P. next week.....

..... so here is the playlist, with accompanying visuals.....

Sendelica – Zhyly Byly      (“The Fabled Voyages of the Sendelicans” LP anthology 2014 Wales, UK)

Ant-Bee – Love Is Only Sleeping [Monkees cover]      (“Lunar Muzik” 1997 USA)

the Yardbirds – Little Soldier Boy      (“Little Games” LP 1967 UK)

Eternal Tapestry – Cosmic Manhunt      (“Beyond The 4^th Door” 2011 USA)

the Sun Blindness – A Trip in a Painted World      (“Like Pearly Clouds” 2008 Australia)

Faust – It’s a Rainy Day, Sunshine Girl      (“So Far” LP 1972 Germany)

Lords of Gravity – Where You Gonna Run      (“Contact” 2005 Australia)

Holy Wave – Do You Feel It?      (“Relax” 2013 USA)

Chris Malcolm – Hurt, Love & Fire      (7”single b-side [to Trip on Life] 1968 Australia/USA)

the Allah-Las – Every Girl      (7”single b-side [to Had It All] 2014 California, USA)

Graham Day & the Forefathers – Love Me Lies      (7”single 2014 UK)

New Electric Ride – Mr Bumblebee      (“New Electric Ride EP” 2013 UK)

the Left Banke – I’ve Got Something On My Mind      (7”single b-side [to Desireé] 1967 New York, USA)

Camera – People Are Strange [Doors cover]      (“A Psych Tribute To The Doors” compilation 2014 USA)

Moon Duo – Zoned      (split-7”single [with Psychic Ills] 2012 USA)

Orgone Box – Ticket With No Return      (orig. released 1996 in Japan only – taken from “Centaur” LP re-issue 2014 UK)

Gene Clark – Only Colombe      (recorded 1967 USA, unreleased – issued on 7”single 2008 USA)

Pinkunoizu – The Great Pacific Garbage Patch      (“The Drop” LP 2013 USA)

Zhol Caravan – Planet Earth      (“Electrip” LP 1969 Germany)

Françoise Hardy – Song of Winter      (“One-Nine-Seven-Zero” LP 1969 France)

Dickens – Genocide      (“Royal Incarnation” LP 1969 France)

les   Limiñanas – Votre Coté Yéyé M’emmerde      (“Costa Blanca” 2013 Perpignan, France)

Death In June – Idolatry      (”Rule of Thirds” 2008 Adelaide, Australia)

Pure Bathing Culture – Dream the Dare      (“Moon Tides” 2013 USA)

the Moles – Brain Garden      (“The Future Sounds of Ashton” 2010 Wales, UK)

Thomas Edisun’s Electric Light Bulb Band – Have You Been to the Light      (recorded 1967 – released as “The Red Album” 2014 USA)

the Sunchymes – Revelations In Her Mind      (“Let Your Free Flag Fly” 2012 Northampton, UK)

Technicolour Dreaming

The focus this week was again the on-going vinyl revival with selections from a plethora of bands using that format, including Germany’s Vibravoid, Finland’s Octopus Syng and Spain’s Stay from the UK’s brilliant Fruits de Mer label catalogue, Jacco Gardner on the Trouble In Mind label, a rare split single by Kelley Stoltz and a 7”single re-issue by We The People, plus the new LP by the Asteroid #4 on 12” black 180gm vinyl... all very cool stuff! We also featured new albums by Chile’s the Holydrug Couple, Crystal Stilts, Cate Le Bon and ex-Coral drummer Ian Skelly plus a track from the fabulous Night Beats’ latest offering, as well as a Barbarellatones song which was featured in a recent episode of TV’s “Sons of Anarchy” series, plus lots more.....

..... so here is the playlist with attendant visuals.....

Vibravoid - La Poupée Qui Fait Non [Michel Polnareff cover]      (“Colour Your Mind” EP 2013 Germany)

Wheat Fields – Saturnalia      (“Saturnalia” EP 2013 Sydney, Australia)

Octopus Syng – Listen With The Moths      (“Fruits de Mer Records 2014 Annual”  7”single 2013 Finland)

Fluffy – Boy’s Club      (cd-single 2013 Adelaide, Australia)

the Barbarellatones – Drag Queens on Choppers      (mp3 demo 2013 USA)

the Night Beats – Love Ain’t Strange (Everything Else Is)      (“Sonic Bloom” 2013 Texas, USA)

We The People – You Burn Me Up And Down      (7”single 1966 Florida, USA)

Tages – She’s Having a Baby Now      (“Studio” LP 1967 Sweden)

Cate Le Bon – Mug Museum      (“Mug Museum” 2013 Wales, UK)

Crystal Jacqueline – Play With Fire [Rolling Stones cover]      (“A Fairy Tale” EP 2013 UK)

the Holydrug Couple – Wonder      (“Noctuary” 2013 Chile)

Jacco Gardner – Notus      (7”single b-side [to End of August] 2013 Netherlands)

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

Ian Skelly – I See You      (“Cut From a Star” 2013 Scotland, UK)

Klaatu – Doctor Marvello      (“3.47 EST” LP 1976 Canada)

Stay – I See The Rain [Marmalade cover]      (“Mersey Dream” EP 2013 Spain)

the Asteroid #4 – Rukma Vimana      (“The Asteroid #4” LP 2013 USA)

the Strawberry Alarm Clock – Black Butter : Past, Present, Future      (“Wake Up... It’s Tomorrow” LP 1968 USA)

the Saddhu Brand – I Give You Johnee      (“Whole Earth Rhythm” LP 1970 USA)

Elmer Gantry’s Velvet Opera – Air      (“Elmer Gantry’s Velvet Opera” LP 1967 UK)

the Intelligence with Kelley Stoltz – (they found me in the back of) the Galaxy      (7” single 2012 USA)

the Pink Snow Flakes – Like Icecream      (“Sun Chasing” 2006 USA)

Daniel Beretta & Richard de Bordeaux – La Drogue      (“Extrait Du Film ‘Le Temps Fou’ Du Marcel Camus“ EP 1968 France)

Balduin – Autumn Almanac [Kinks cover]      (recorded 2013 Switzerland – taken from “the Active Listener Sampler 13” compilation 2013 Australia)

Jack Ellister – Flaming [Syd Barrett cover]      (“Dawn Dream Club” EP 2013 Netherlands)

the Left Banke – There’s Gonna Be a Storm      (7”single b-side [to Nice To Meet You] 1969 USA)