Technicolour Dreaming

This edition’s “Compilation of the Week” is actually a series which began in 1998, was compiled in 2011 into two boxsets covering volumes 1-5 and 6-10, and continues with volume 11 being released in 2012. We are of course speaking of the eclectic “Electric Psychedelic Sitar Headswirlers” series which, as regular listeners will have noticed, we have been happily plundering for the show since we discovered their existence several years ago, and which are well-deserving of being acknowledged in our weekly feature; indeed the hardest part was choosing only five tracks to play with so many goodies on offer! The rest of the show also had a plethora of fine new music and older faves, including a track from the long-awaited second album from Australia’s Black Ryder, as well as more from the new one by Sydney’s the Grease Arrestor and Cleopatra Records’ soon-to-be-released Beatles psych tribute album, plus a bunch of re-issues and re-discoveries, such as tracks by the Lost and Found, the Byrds, the Aardvarks and XTC (in their Dukes of Stratosphear guise). So until next Tuesday afternoon.....

...... here is the playlist with some visuals, plus a movie at the end to enjoy.....

the Lost and Found - I'm So Hip to Pain      ("Forever Lasting Plastic Words" LP 1968 Texas, USA)

Powder Blue - Sunfire Drug Haus      ("II" 2014 Manitoba, Canada)

the Aardvaarks - Arthur C. Clarke   ("Arthur C. Clarke" EP, 1989 London UK)

the Black Ryder - Santaria      ("Door Behind the Door" 2015  Australia/USA)

the Doors - Summer's Almost Gone      ("Waiting for the Sun" LP 1968 Los Angeles, USA)

the Dukes of Stratosphear - Collideascope      ("Psonic Psunspot" LP 1987 UK)

Baron Samedi - Vulture Purple      ("Dollars Eye" 2014 Zaragoza, Spain)

Groep 1850 - We Love Life (Like We Love You)     (7"single 1968 Netherlands)

the Grease Arrestor - Come Together      ("Volume 2" 2015 Sydney, Australia)

Ty Segall - The Clock      ("Manipulator" 2014 USA)

the Byrds - Why? [alternate/ RCA studios version]      ("Fifth Dimension” – bonus track on 1996 CD re-issue USA)

Johnny Young - Craise Finton Kirk [Bee Gees cover]     ("Suprises" LP 1968 Australia)

the Vegetable Garden - Even Stevens      (7"single b-side [to Hypnotic Suggestion] 1969 Perth, Australia)

Jan and Dean - Laurel and Hardy      ("Carnival of Sound" LP 1968 USA)

the Prisoners - Far Away      ("The Wisermiserdemelza" LP 1983 UK)

the Sun Blindness - The Carousel      ("Far Arden" 2011 Melbourne, Australia)

            ### “Compilation Series of the Week” ###

"Electric Psychedelic Sitar Headswirlers" Volumes One to Eleven

Sagittarius - Glass      ("Present Tense" LP 1968 California USA – taken from Vol 11)

Lord Sitar - I Am the Walrus [Beatles cover]      ("Lord Sitar" LP 1968 USA – taken from Vol 1)

Ray Brown and Moonstone - Start of a New Day      ("Mad House" LP 1970 Australia – taken from Vol 3)

Tomorrow - Real Life Permanent Dream      ("Tomorrow" LP 1968 UK – taken from Vol 6)

Boeing Duveen and the Beautiful Soup - Jabberwocky      (7" single 1968 UK – taken from Vol 8)

My Invisible Friend - O.N.S.      ("My Invisible Friend" EP 2015 Fidenza, Italy)

Man or Astro-man?  - Taxidermist Surf      ("Is It... Man or Astroman? 1993 USA)

the Neptunes - Hydrophobia      ("Hydrophobia" LP 1988 Perth, Australia)

Intercontinental Playboys - Faster Pussycat, Kill! Kill! Kill! [Bostweeds cover]     (bonus track on "Hymns of the Flesh" 2009 Australia)

Mike Furber & the Bowery Boys – You      (7”single 1966 Australia)

the Blank Tapes - The Word   (“The Magical Mystery Psych Out – A Tribute to the Beatles” compilation 2015 USA)

Technicolour Dreaming

We’ve been asked from time to time where we find the music we bring to you each week on Technicolour Dreaming. Well, it comes from a wide range of sources - some from our own home vinyl, CD, tape and digital collection, some from the huge 3D Radio Library [90,000 items and growing!], local demos and pre-releases we are given, mp3 downloads by musicians around the world from sites such as Bandcamp or compilations on blogs such as ‘The Active Listener’, plus promo releases from independent record companies such as the UK’s Fruits de Mer and State Records, or Australia’s Walking Bird and Smashed Records, not forgetting being given their latest releases by artists such as Death In June, the Byzantines, Subtract-S and the Dunes when they come in to join us on the show. So you can see that with such diverse resources, there never seems to be enough time each week to play everything we want to... which just adds to the fun – there’s always more fine music out there to discover and to share.....

..... so here is this week’s playlist, with some associated visuals.....

the Dials – Rose Marie      (“The End of the Pier” 2013 Brighton, UK)

Country Joe & the Fish – Section 43      (recorded live 1967 – taken from “Monterey International Pop Festival” compilation 2007 USA)

the Blue Giant Zeta Puppies – ‘Lost In Space’ TV Theme [John Williams cover]      (“Fruits de Mer 2014 Annual” compilation EP 2013 UK)

Man or Astro-man? – Taxidermist Surf      (“Is it... Man or Astro-man?” 1993 Alabama, USA)

Sisters Of Your Sunshine Vapor – Black Mind      (“Spectra Spirit” 2011 Detroit, USA – taken from “The Active Listener Psychedelic Sampler Vol.2” compilation 2012 New Zealand)

John Foxx – Shifting City      (“Subterranean Omnidelic Exotour” 1997 UK)

 

Ultravox! – Saturday Night in the City of the Dead      (“Ultravox!” LP 1977 UK)

the Hoodoo Gurus – (Let’s All) Turn On      (“Stoneage Romeos” LP 1984 Australia)

Wooden Shjips – These Shadows      (“Back to Land” 2013 California, USA)

WJLP – The Moon King      (“Bad News Baby” 2013 Netherlands)

Nilsson – You Can’t Do That [Beatles cover]      (“Pandemonium Shadow Show” LP 1967 California, USA)

Dead Horse One – Undone      (“Dead Horse One/Dead Mantra” split EP 2012 France)

the Aerovons – The Years      (“Resurrection” LP 1969 USA/UK)

the Left Banke – Shadows Breaking Over My Head      (“Walk Away Renee/Pretty Ballerina” LP 1967 New York City, USA)

the Byrds – Have You Seen Her Face      (“Younger Than Yesterday” LP 1967 USA)

the Ruby Suns – My Ten Years on Auto-Pilot      (“The Ruby Suns” 2006 New Zealand)

the Black Hollies – Here Comes the Rain      (7”single 2013 USA)

Todd Rundgren – Saving Grace/Little Red Lights      (“Something/Anything” double-LP 1972 USA)

the Rain Parade – This Can’t Be Today      (“Emergency Third Rail Power Trip” LP 1983 Los Angeles, USA)

the Dunes – Red Leaves       (“La Musique Nouveau” EP 2013 Adelaide, Australia)

the Asteroid #4 – Ode to Cosmo      (“The Asteroid #4” LP 2013 Philadelphia, USA)

Jonathan Wilson – Desert Trip      (“Fanfare” 2013 USA)

the Night Beats – Playin’ Dead      (“Sonic Bloom” 2013 Seattle, USA)

the Beep Seals – I Dreamt a Metal Hat      (“Things That Roar” 2008 UK)

Merrell Fankhauser & HMS Bounty – Lost In The City      (“Things” LP 1967 USA)

the Striped Bananas – Oasis of Time      (“Lady Sunshine” 2013 USA)

Technicolour Dreaming

Beginning the show with Canadian band Rings and Things’ single from 1968 and finishing with a recent album track by the Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, we continued this week on our quest for what they called “groovy sounds” back in the 1960’s, exploring various genres and locations, from then until now – all vaguely linked to the psychedelic in some way – from the whispering gothic drones of Adelaide’s All The Leaves Have Fallen, through Jacques Dutronc’s fuzzed-out French epistles to the shimmering pop of brilliant young Dutchman Jacco Gardner and from the equally woozy psychedelia of Beaulieu Porch to the 60’s weird of the Astral Scene and onto the sharp power-pop of Adelaide’s Arch Menaces. We also included this week our occasional ‘feature song’ segment, playing first the original and then a cover version, in this case “No Silver Bird”, originally by the Hooterville Trolley and recently recorded by Germany’s Vibravoid. Of course there was much more, so.....

.....here is the playlist and some visual accompaniments for your perusal.....

Rings and Things – Strange Things are Happening         (7”single 1968 Canada)

the Black Angels – Manipulation         (‘Passover’  2006 Austin, Texas, USA)

Sheetah et les Weissmullers – Hallucinations         (’Hola Ye Yeah!’  2009 France)

France Gall – Les Sucettes [Serge Gainsbourg cover]         (‘Les Sucettes’  7”EP 1966 France)

the Travel Agency – That’s Good         (‘The Travel Agency’ LP 1968 San Francisco, USA)

All the Leaves Have Fallen – Lull Before the Storm         (demo 2013 Adelaide, Australia)

Todd Rundgren – An Elpee’s Worth of Toons         (‘Todd’ LP 1974 USA)

the Arch Menaces – Not In My World         (‘Primitive Germs’  2013 Adelaide, Aust.)

Paul Messis – Sowing Seeds         (‘Case Closed’  2013 UK)

Drug Free Youth – Teenage Laughing Bean [The Laughing Soupdish cover]         (7”split-single [with Vibravoid] 2011 Greece/Germany)

Man or Astroman? – Journey to the Stars         (‘Is It … Man or Astroman?’  1993 USA)

les Liminanas –I Know There’s An Answer [Beach Boys cover]         (recorded 2012 France - taken from 'Mojo: Pet Sounds Revisited' magazine covermount-CD compilation 2012 UK)

Dieselwitch – UFO Surf         (‘Live at the Gov 2012’ demo 2013 Adelaide, Aust.)

Woodhead Monroe – (She’s a )Vampire         (7”single b-side [to Mumbo Jumbo] 1980 UK)

Baby Woodrose – Take It         (7”single 2009 Denmark)

the Flies – I’m Not Your Stepping Stone [Monkees cover]         (7”single 1966 London, UK)

the Astral Scene – (Astral Projection…Leaving the Body) Overture: The Sunshine Seekers         (‘The Astral Projection’ LP 1968 New York, USA)

Colours – Bad Day at Black Rock, Baby         (7”single b-side [to Love Heals] 1968 USA)

Beaulieu Porch – Greencroft Street         (‘Beaulieu Porch’  2012 UK)

Jim Noir – Don’t You Worry         (‘Jim Noir’  2008 UK)

Wolf People – Hesperus           (‘Fain’  2013 UK)

the Paperhead – Do You Ever Think of Me         (‘The Paperhead’  2012 USA)

the Point – All My Life         (‘Magic Circle’  LP 1983 Los Angeles, USA)

Vibrasonic – Kingsley J          (7”single 1994 Brighton, UK)

Jacco Gardner – Clear the Air         (‘Cabinet of Curiosities’  2012 Netherlands)

the Hooterville Trolley – No Silver Bird         (7”single 1968 USA)

Jacques Dutronc – La Responsable         (7”single 1969 France)

 

Unknown Mortal Orchestra – Secret Xtians         (‘Unknown Mortal Orchestra ll’  2013 New Zealand)

Pugwash – Fall Down          (‘The Olympus Sound’  2012 Ireland)

Vibravoid – No Silver Bird [Hooterville Trolley cover]         (‘Gravity Zero’  2012 Germany)       

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – Bad Blood         (‘Beat the Devil’s Tattoo’  2010 USA)