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A real mixed bag of music this time round, with way more 1960's USA singles than in recent weeks - which can only be a good thing!! - and only a few new releases (The Warlocks' "Songs from the Pale Eclipse", Beaulieu Porch's "Sarum Sounds", Anton Barbeau's "Magic Act", Garden Gate's "Dark Harvest" and the latest single from The Embrooks, "Helen" pretty much covers it). The rest of the show was a melange of new acquisitions of older albums, plus the usual romp through the decades....hope you enjoyed it! So here's the playlist, for those who have been nagging me for it...

The Moving Sidewalks - I Want to Hold Your Hand  (7" single 1968 Texas, USA)

The Loose Enz - The Black Door  (7" single 1968, USA)

Ron Wray Light Show - Speed  (7" single 1970 USA)

Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers - Born to Lose  ("L.A.M.F." LP 1977 New York, USA)

The Embrooks - Helen  (7" single 2016 Kent, UK)

R.E.M. - Dark Globe [Syd Barrett]  ("Orange Crush" 12" EP 1989 USA)

Doug Tuttle - Falling To Believe  ("It Calls on Me" 2016 New Hampshire, USA)

Jacco Gardner - Puppets Dangling  ("Cabinet of Curiosities" 2013 Netherlands)

The Cords - The Lesson  ("Get Ready to Fly- Pop Psych From The Norman Petty Vaults" compilation 2007 USA)

Pillow - Choirs  (7" single [b-side to "Oh, Carol"] 1969 Sweden)
Tin Tin - Swans On the Canal  (7" single [b-side to "Is That The Way"] 1971 Australia)

The David - People Saying, People Seeing  (7" single 1967 Los Angeles, California USA)

The Whatt Four - Dandelion Wine  (7" single 1967 USA)

Triops - Hybrid Taxidermy  ("Close to the Hedge" compilation 2013 UK)
Barracudas - Watching the World Go By  ("Through the Mysts of Time" 1999 London, UK)

The Raunchies - Little B  ("Falk" EP 2015 Italy)

The Warlocks - Dance Alone  ("Songs From The Pale Eclipse" 2016 California, USA)

The Deep Freeze Mice - A Red Light for the Greens  ("The Gates of Lunch" LP 1982 Leicester, UK)

Schnauser - National Grid  ("Protein For Everyone" 2014 UK)

Mordecai Smyth - Dream On (Marnie)  ("Dial M for Mordecai" 7" EP 2013 UK)

Anton Barbeau - Broken in Two  ("Magic Act" 2016 UK)

Garden Gate - Dark Harvest  ("Dark Harvest" 2016)

Beaulieu Porch - Burn  ("Sarum Sounds" 2016 UK)

The High Tide - Electric Blue  (7" single [b-side to "Dancing In My Mind"] 1981 UK)

Mark and the Clouds - Blue Skies Opening  ("Blue Skies Opening" LP 2014 UK)

Mordecai Smyth - Psychedelic Sarah  ("Dial M for Mordecai" 7" EP 2013 UK)

The High Tide - Dancing in My Mind  (7" single 1981 UK))

The Karova's Milkshake - Freak Out  ("Freakout Factory" 7" single 2012 Russia)

Nick Nicely - Hilly Fields (1892)  (7" single 1982 UK)

Barbarellatones - Psychedelic Freakout  ("Glitter Train" 2016 Hawaii, USA)
Le Superhomard - Maple Key  ("Maple Key" LP 2016 France)

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Lots of new and soon-to be released music tracks found their way onto this latest playlist - a sneak preview of Lorelle Meets the Obselete's new one, "Balance"; Volume 2 in the "Big Beat Cellar Scene" compilation series of 1960's Adelaide bands (sorry, no videos for these tracks); the latest pop-acid-folk musings of Dodson and Fogg's Chris Wade on "Walk On"; and the Netherlands' Eerie Wanda with "Hum", among others. Also featured were a selection of Melbourne bands, care of the "Magic Mixtapes from Melbourne" . Just a normal show, really. Enjoy!!!!

The Assassins - Kill The Prime Minister  (12" split single [with Ian List and the UV's] 1990 Adelaide, Australia)

The Good the Bad and the Queen - Herculean  ("The Good, The Bad and the Queen" 2007 UK)

Brigitte Bardot and Serge Gainsbourg - Bonnie and Clyde  ("Bonnie and Clyde" LP 1968 France)

The Force - You Keep Me Hanging On  ("Big Beat Cellar Scene Vol 2" Adelaide, Australia)

Soft Hearted Scientists - Zeds  ("Golden Omens" 2016 Wales)

Inkase - Pictures of Matchstick Men [Status Quo]  ("Big Beat Cellar Scene Vol 2" Adelaide, Australia)

Ty Garrett Segall - Squealer  ("Emotional Mugger" 2015 California USA)

Hugo - Colours ("Big Beat Cellar Scene Vol 2" Adelaide, Australia)

Black Angels - Indigo Meadow  ("Live in San Francisco" EP 2013 Austin, Texas USA)

Medicine Mike [aka Fifth Estate] - I've Never Been so High  (7" single 1969 New York, USA)

The Allusions - Mr Love (7" single 1967 Sydney, Australia)

The Magnetic Mind - Stay Away From the Door  ("...Is Thinking About It" 2015 London, UK)

Lorelle Meets the Obsolete - La Distinción  ("Balance" 2016 (pre-release) Guadalajara, Mexico)

Annique Monet - Nowhere  ("Phantom Letters" cassette 2015 Brooklyn, USA)

The Citradels - This Man  ("Magic Mixtapes from Melbourne Vol 1" 2014 Melbourne, Australia)

Coloured Clocks - Killing Time  ("All is Round" 2014 Melbourne, Australia)

Dodson and Fogg - Grab Your Soul  ("Walk On" 2016 Leeds, UK)

Drakkar Nowhere - Higher Now  ("Drakkar Nowhere" 2016 New York, USA)

Dukebox Accelerator - V8  ("Astonishing Soundshow Stories Vol 2" 2016 UK)
The Dunes - Mountain  (digital single 2016 Adelaide, Australia)

Eerie Wanda - To Dream Again  ("Hum" 2016 Netherlands)

Espectrostatic - This Modern Curse  ("Silhouette" 2016 Austin, Texas USA)

Kikagaku Moyo - White Moon  ("Forest of Lost Children" 2014 Japan)

Mordecai Smyth - Sinister Cyclist  ("Sticky Tape and Rust" 2013 Reading, UK)

The Mushroom Club - I Love You  ("EP 2" 2015 Glasgow, UK)

The New Pollution - Lucifer the Man  ("Magic Mixtapes from Melbourne Vol 1" 2014 Melbourne, Australia)

Barbarellatones - Sex Nerd  (Demo 2016 Hawaii, USA)

The Spasms - We Better Operate - ("We Better Operate" 2013 Melbourne, Australia)

Trabants - Dutch Treats ("Freakout" 2015 Los Angeles, USA)

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The first show of the New Year, and little has changed on Technicolour Dreaming -

 just more of the music you've come to expect....a slathering of psych, a smidgen of surf,

 plenty of pop,a pinch of punk, and much, much more! So here goes the rollercoaster ride

of sounds from the past and present - make sure you hold on tight, 

lest you lose your grip on reality !!!

Here's the inaugural playlist for 2016, plus some moving pictures to feast your eyes upon...

Assemble Head in Sunburst Sound - Kolob Canyon  ("When Sweet Sleep Returned" 2009

San Francisco USA)
 

Sleepy Sun - New Age  ("Embrace" 2008 San Francisco USA)
 

Deradoorian - Moon  ("Mind Raft" EP 2009 Los Angeles USA)
 

Wesley Fuller - Melvista  (CD Single 2005 Melbourne, Australia)
 

Icarus Peel - Almost Murder Ballad  ("The Barnburner EP - Icarus Peel vs Mordecai Smyth" 

10" 2014 UK)
 

Clue to Kalo - The Infinite Orphan (by the Familiars)  ("Lily Perdita" 2008 Adelaide, Australia)
 

Mordecai Smyth - Out in the Stars  ("The Barnburner EP - Icarus Peel vs Mordecai Smyth" 

10" 2014 UK)
  

Interstellar Emily - Interstellar Overdrive  ("A Momentary Lapse of Vinyl" 2014 UK)

 Mikal Cronin - Is It Alright?  ("Mikal Cronin" 2011 USA)
  

Lorelle Meets the Obsolete - Medicine to Cure Medicine Sickness  (7" b-side

[to "What's Holding you"] 2013 Guadalajara, Mexico)
  

 Cate Le Bon - Falcon Eyed  ("Cyrk" 2015 Wales)
  

 Steve Hillage - Hurdy Gurdy Man  ("Live at Deeply Vale Festival 1978" LP 1978 UK)
 

Peter Cook and Dudley Moore - The L.S. Bumble Bee  (7" single 1967 UK)
  

Ipissimus - Hold On [Sharon Tandy]  (7" single 1969 UK)
  

ESP Limited - Tell Me  ("It Came From the Garage - Nuggets from Southern California"

compilation 2007 USA)
   

A Little Bit of Sound - Girls Who Paint Designs  (7" single 1967 Long Island, New York USA)
 

The Black Ryder - Let Me Be Your Light  ("The Door Behind The Door" 2015 Australia/USA)
 

McGough and McGear - So Much To Love  ("McGough and McGear" LP 1968 UK)
  

D.C. Drifters - Louisiana Blues  (7" single b-side [to "I Know"] 1967 USA)

 The Sweet Acids - That Creature  (7" single 1969 Georgia, USA)
  

Grateful Dead - Morning Dew (Take Me For A Walk)  ("The Grateful Dead" LP

1967 San Francisco USA)
 

 The Messengers - We Can't Get Along  ("The Messengers" EP 2013 Melbourne, Australia)
 

The Sensational Alex Harvey Band - Action Strasse  ("Tomorrow Belongs To Me" LP 1975 UK)

 The Peep Tempel - People Don't Get You  ("The Peep Tempel" 2012 Melbourne, Australia)
  

Shake Spears - I Can't Tell (7" single 1965 Belgium) 
 

 The Sand Pebbles - Red Orange Purple and Blue  ("Ceduna" 2008 Melbourne, Australia)

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Douglas P. of Death In June fame joined us again as guest programmer this week, on the eve of his North American tour which begins shortly in Mexico [details here], playing some tracks from his recent “Live In Wein” double album. As always he entertained us with anecdotes and stories including the merits of the Dave Clark 5’s contribution to “the British Invasion” and their 1965 movie “Catch Us If You Can”, which we all agreed was an unjustly under-rated 60’s classic! He also brought in music for us to play by artists who have joined him on his various overseas tours, including Ostara, Spitting At Pigeons and Spiritual  Front. Also this week we played a couple of previews from some of the forthcoming album releases by the UK’s wonderful Fruits de Mer Records vinyl-only label – one from Sweden’s Tor-Peders and another by UK stalwarts Astralasia - you can get more details at their website. Add some Byrds, Clinic, Antoine, a mix of new and old psychedelia and more..... and that was the show for another week! We hope Douglas’s shows in the Americas go well and we look forward to catching up again after his return.....

..... so here is the playlist, with a multitude of visuals to enjoy.....

the Dave Clark 5 – Anyway You Want It      (7”single 1964 UK)

Ostara – Paradise Down South      (“Paradise Down South” 2013 Adelaide, Australia)

Tor-Peders – Aye Makami      (“Brev Från Ederstorp” LP 2014 Sweden)

the Byrds – Eight Miles High      (“Fifth Dimension” LP 1966 USA)

Pinkunoizu – Myriad Pyramid      (“Free Time” LP 2012 USA)

Clinic – Touch Me [Doors cover]      (“A Psych Tribute to the Doors” compilation 2014 USA)

Death In June – Heaven Street      (“Live in Wien” double-CD 2013 Adelaide, Australia)

Spiritual Front – Eternally Yours      (“Black Hearts in Black Suits” 2013 Italy)

Crisis – UK ’78 [demo]      (“Kollectiv” anthology LP 2014 UK)

Astralasia – The Desert      (bonus 7”single [rec.2006] with “Wind On Water” LP 2014 UK)

the Masters Apprentices – Our Friend Stanley Owsley lll      (“Choice Cuts” LP 1971 Australia/UK)

the Electric Prunes – Flowing Smoothly       (7”single b-side [to Hey Mr President] 1969 USA)

Death In June – C’est un Rêve      (“Live in Wien” double-CD 2013 Adelaide, Australia)

Lou Reed – Sword of Damocles      (“Magic and Loss” 1992 New York, USA)

Paul McCartney – Road      (“NEW” 2013 UK)

the See See – Open Up Your Door      (“Fountayne Mountain” 2012 UK)

Antoine – Un éléphant me regarde      (7“single 1966 France)

Mordecai Smyth – Georgina Jones      (7“single 2013 UK)

the Association – Pandora’s Golden Heebie Jeebies      (“Renaissance” LP 1967 USA)

Ostara – Darkness Over Eden      (“Paradise Down South” 2013 Adelaide, Australia)

Spitting At Pigeons – Cry of a Dying Star      (“Spitting at Pigeons” 2013 Slovakia)

Ikon – I Burn For You      (pre-release single 2014 Melbourne, Australia)

Gene Clark – Please Mr Freud      (rec.1972 – taken from “Here Tonight : The White Light Demos” 2013 USA)

the Dave Clark 5 – Come Home      (7”single 1965 UK)

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The Scientists are in Adelaide this week so we thought we’d feature one of their classic songs, albeit one originally released as a single b-side, and this kind of set the tone for the rest of the show. Yes there were some recent releases, including songs from Pinkunoizu, the Luck of Eden Hall and Temples and even pre-releases from the Barbarellatones and the Dandelion Seeds, but the bulk of rest were from all over the place, with tracks from artists such as Chad & Jeremy, John Foxx, nick nicely, the Good, the Bad & the Queen, This Mortal Coil and the Frantics, with Mordecai Smyth finishing off on a suitably British psych-pop note.....

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

Pinkunoizu – Necromancer      (“The Drop” LP 2014 Denmark)

 

nick nicely – 49 Cigars      (7”single b-side [to Hilly Fields (1892)] 1981 UK – taken from “Psychotropia” anthology 2010 UK)

the Arnold Corns (aka David Bowie) – Hang On To Yourself      (7”single b-side [to Moonage Daydream] 1971 UK)

Soft Hearted Scientists – Westward Leading      (“Wandermoon” 2011 Wales, UK)

John Foxx – Endlessly      (7”single 1982 UK)

the Scientists – Swampland      (7”single b-side [to Happy Hour] 1982 Perth, Australia)

King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard – Alluda Majaka      (“Oddments” 2014 Melbourne, Australia)

The Good, the Bad & the Queen – Herculean      (CD-single 2006 UK)

This Mortal Coil – Strength of Strings [Gene Clark cover]      (“Filigree & Shadow” LP 1986 UK)

the West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band – In the Arena/Suppose They Give a War and No One Comes      (“Vol. 2” LP 1967 USA)

the Frantics – Just For a While      (7”single 1968 USA – taken from “Relax Your Mind” anthology LP 1994 USA)

the Luck of Eden Hall – The Collapse of Suzy Star      (“Victoria Moon” LP 2014 Chicago, USA)

the Dandelion Seeds – Crazy Sun      (“Dandelion Seeds” LP 2014 Iceland)

Chad & Jeremy – Rest In Peace/The Gentle Cold of Dawn      (“Of Cabbages & Kings” LP 1967 UK/USA)

the Amazing – Kirwan Song      (“The Amazing” 2010 Sweden)

Temples – Move With The Season      (“Sun Structures” 2013 UK)

the Sun Blindness – Velvet Apple      (“Far Arden” 2011 Australia)

the Barbarellatones – Then the Sausage      (mp3 demo 2014 California, USA)

the Black Hollies – Toy Boat Toy Boat Toy Boat      (7”single b-side [to Benevolent Beacon] 2011 USA)

Mordecai Smyth – I’ve Been So Tired      (“Sticky Tape & Rust” LP 2011 UK)