Technicolour Dreaming

So.... have you ever wondered if there’s a process we go through when programming Technicolour Dreaming, to select the tracks we play?  Though it may seem surprising at times, yes there is!! It involves constantly listening to music – new purchases, forgotten gems, suggestions from friends, and whatever the Pod-of-i selects for us when we’re driving. Lists are made and re-made, the bags full of CDs and vinyl are packed and ready to go, then off we set to Three D Radio. But on the way, something strange happens…. the evil Pod-of-i tries to tempt us away from our plans with tasty musical morsels … then a stop at the Post Office heralds the arrival of more music from faraway lands, further derailing our resolve to stick with our list. And upon finally arriving at our destination, a quick scan of the “new releases” section of the 3D library tempts us further, and our steely determination collapses like a stack of 7” singles falling off the shelf! So with best made plans laid to waste, we give in and play whatever takes our fancy, track by track for your listening pleasure…..

..... and here are this week’s selections, with visual accompaniment.....

Roxy Music – If There Is Something      (‘Roxy Music’ LP 1972 UK)

Fourmyula – Nature      (‘Creation’ LP 1969 New Zealand)

the Modern Lovers – Modern World  [alternative version]      (recorded 1972, unreleased – bonus track on re-issue of ‘The Modern Lovers’ 2003 USA)

Pugwash – Waltz #714      (‘Jollity’ 2005 Ireland)

Ride Into The Sun – Too Cold      (‘Ride Into The Sun’ mini-LP 2013 Adelaide, Australia)

the Space Agency – Bombay Potatoes      (7”single 2013 Hove, UK)

Giobia – Fake Smiles on Statues     (‘Come and Get Me’ EP 2010 Italy)

the Story UK – Standing in the Rain      (‘Joy Ride on Memory Lane’ 2011 UK)

 

Crocodiles – Un Chant d’Amour      (‘Crimes of Passion’ 2013 USA)

Rangda – Idol’s Eye      (‘Formerly Extinct’ 2013 USA)

Dead Skeletons – Dead Mantra      (‘Dark Magick’ LP 2012 Iceland)

the Higher State – Ladder of Death      (‘Darker By The Day’ 2009 UK)

Plasticland – Let’s Play Pollyanna      (7”single 1989 Wisconsin, USA)

Siouxsie & the Banshees – She Cracked [Jonathon Richman cover]      (7”single b-side [to This Wheel’s On Fire] 1986 UK)

the Hierophants – There’s An Itch      (‘New Centre of the Universe, Vol.1’ compilation 2012 Geelong, Australia)

Montero – My World Fell Down [Sagittarius cover]      ('Nuggets: Antipodean Interpolations of the First Psychedelic Era, 1965-1968' compilation 2013 Australia)

Sagittarius – Hotel Indiscreet      (7”single 1967 Los Angeles, USA)

Unnatural Axe – They Saved Hitler’s Brain      (7”single 1978 Massachusetts, USA)

Clinic – If You Could Read My Mind      (‘Visitations’ 2007 UK)

Beaulieu Porch – Laminations are Loaded      (‘Beaulieu Porch’ 2012 UK)

the Raveonettes – Be My Sunshine      (7”single b-side [to Love in a Trashcan] 2005 Copenhagen, Denmark)

Vibravoid – The Politics of Ecstasy      (‘The Politics of Ecstasy’ 2008 Germany)

Crystal Stilts – Dark Eyes      (‘Radiant Door’ EP 2011 USA)

the Strange Flowers – No Love, No Pain, No Fall from Grace      (‘The Imaginary Space Travel of the Naked Monkeys’ 2007 Pisa, Italy)

Johnny Young – Craise Finton Kirk [Bee Gees cover]      (‘Surprises’ LP 1967 Australia/UK)

the Hollies – King Midas In Reverse      (7”single 1967 UK)

David McWilliams – The Days Of Pearly Spencer      (7”single 1967 UK)

Peter Murphy – The Final Solution [Pere Ubu cover]      (7”single 1985 UK)

Technicolour Dreaming

Sometimes the direction an edition of Technicolour Dreaming takes is as much of a surprise for the announcers as for the listeners! One song suggests another, and before we know it, we’re on a rollercoaster ride of sound! This was such a week, with some of our favourites – Plasticland, Go-Go Sapien, Jacques Dutronc and the Bee Gees for instance - interspersed with oddities – such as a bizarre version Big Star’s Holocaust by Los Bichos – and brand, spanking new releases (from Buried Feather and the Love Parade). A couple of 1980 Adelaide vinyl treasures from Nuvo Bloc and the Noise rounded out a particularly satisfying show! Hope you enjoyed it as much as we did bringing it to you!

.....and here is the playlist.....

801 – Third Uncle      (‘801 Live’ LP 1976 UK)

Plasticland – Iris of the Waterfall [feat. narration by Twink]      (unreleased 7”single b-side [to Seize the Time] 1989 USA – taken from ‘Make Yourself a Happening Machine’ anthology 2006 USA)

Buried Feather – In the Sun      (CD-single 2012 Melbourne, Australia)

Go-Go Sapien – Sick Love       (‘This Body Is Wrong For Us’ 2011 Melbourne, Aust.)

Lene Lovich – Say When      (‘Stateless’ LP 1978 UK)

Der Plan – Persisches Cowboy-Golf      (‘Geri Regi’ LP 1980 Germany)

Jacques Dutronc – Metamorpheses      (‘Jacques Dutronc’ LP 1967 France)

Makers of the Dead Travel Fast – Tael of the Saeghors      (7”single 1980 Sydney, Aust.)

the Sacred Cowboys – Nothing Grows in Texas      (7”single 1982 Melbourne, Aust.)

Machinations – Average Inadequacy      (7”single 1980 Sydney, Aust.)

Nuvo Bloc – Kidney X-Ray      (7”single b-side [to Atomic Fiction] 1980 Adelaide, Aust.)

the Noise – Think About Tomorrow Tomorrow      (7”single 1981 Adelaide, Aust.)

Los Bichos – Holocaust [Big Star cover]      (‘In Bitter Pink’ 1991 Pamplona, Spain – taken from ‘Not the Singer but the Songs: an Alex Chilton Tribute’ compilation 1991 Spain)

Sex Wizards – Freight Train      (‘Grey Matter White Matter’ 2012 Adelaide, Aust.)

the Cramps – Garbage Man      (‘Songs The Lord Taught Us’ LP 1980 USA)

Stu Spasm – Kill Somebody Today      (‘Popular Male Vocal’ EP 2004 USA/Adelaide, Aust.)

the Bee Gees – The Earnest Of Being George      (‘Horizontal’ LP 1967 UK/Aust.)

the Love Parade – Surfin’ NSW      (CD-single 2012 Aust. – from the forthcoming album ‘King Me’)

Thee Mysterious Tapeman – Ace of Spades      (rec. 2006 New Zealand – taken from ‘Antipodean Screams Vol. 2’ compilation 2007 Aust.)

the Medicine – Send the Rain     (‘Psychedelica 4’ compilation 2010 UK)

the Iron Butterfly – Gentle as it may seem     (‘Heavy’ LP 1968 California, USA)

the Seeds – (You’re) Pushin’ Too Hard      (7”single 1965 [re-issued 1966] USA – taken from ‘the Seeds’ LP 1966 Los Angeles, USA)

the Higher State – Yeah For Sure      (‘From Round Here’ 2006 UK)

the Dukes of Stratosphear – Brainiac’s Daughter     (‘Psonic Psunspot’ LP 1987 UK – taken from the ‘XTC as the Dukes of Stratosphear’ boxset 2010 UK)   #

     #   “Band of the Month”

     

Obscured By...

Though this week’s hosts, the Cat & the Brat, are a ‘duo’, this show was mostly about singles... the 7” vinyl kind ... and sometimes, their b-sides! From the Syssys and the Revillos to Psychic TV and Metal Urbain, we voyaged from decade to decade and country to country to bring them to you, even including a b-side featuring ubiquitous 60’s Sydney DJ, Ward ‘Pally’ Austin on the debut single by Python Lee Jackson! Not that we forgot the EP and LP formats either, with rarities from the likes of Frog Hollow and the Urinals to the Cosmic Dead and Apryl Fool... and with our predilection for boxsets, how could we fail to play a selection from “the Lost Tapes” set by Can? All in all, a singular show...

(NB: a couple of videos wouldn't allow embedding, so please use the provided links instead!)

..... and here is the playlist..... 

the Imagination – We Got Fun      (7”single b-side [to A Day in the Life] 1969 Australia)

Frog Hollow – A Slowish One      (‘Over Under Sideways Down’ 7”EP 1972 Aust.)

Alison Gros –Weaver of Life      (7”single b-side [to All the Days] 1971 Adelaide, Aust.)

the Syssys – Take a Heart      (7”single b-side [to Jump Back] 1966 Adelaide, Aust.)

Marty Rhone – No No No No No      (7”single 1967 Aust.)

Ward Austin (with Python Lee Jackson) – Who Do You Love [Bo Diddley cover]      (7”single b-side [to Python Lee Jackson-Emergency Ward] 1966 Sydney, Aust.)

Felt – Sunlight Bathed The Golden Glow      (‘The Strange Idols Pattern & Other Short Stories’ LP 1984 UK)

Psychic TV – Just Drifting      (7”single 1982 UK)

Hurrah! – Sweet Sanity      (7” single 1986 UK)

Skeletal Family – Promised Land      (7”single 1985 West Yorkshire, UK)

the Urinals – I’m a Bug      (‘Another EP’ EP 1978 Los Angeles, USA)

Sunglasses After Dark – Morbid Silence      (12”single 1984 UK – taken from ‘Sunglasses After Dark’ 2008)

Metal Urbain – Hysterie Connective      (7”single 1978 France/UK – taken from ‘Anarchy in Paris’ anthology 2004)

Can – Bubble Rap      (‘The Lost Tapes’ boxset 2012 Germany – disc 1)

Can – Your Friendly Neighbourhood Whore      (‘The Lost Tapes’ boxset – disc 2)

Can – One More Saturday Night      (‘The Lost Tapes’ boxset – disc 3)

Apryl Fool – The Lost Motherland Part 1      (‘Apryl Fool’ LP 1969 Japan)

Pierrot Lumiere – Narciso      (‘Pierrot Lumiere’ LP 1974 Italy)

the Revillos – Scuba Scuba      (7”single 1980 UK)

the Psychedelic Aliens – Gbe Keke Wo Taoo [Give us a chance]      (rec. 1975 Ghana – taken from ‘Psycho African Beat’ anthology  2010)

the Music Convention – Bellyboard Beat      (‘Children of the Sun’ soundtrack EP 1968 New Zealand)

the Grim Reepers – Two Souls      (7”single 1966 California, USA)

Plasticland – Let’s Play Pollyanna      (7”single 1990 Wisconsin, USA)

the Misunderstood – I Can Take You To The Sun      (7”single 1966 UK/USA)

Big Boy Peter – Cold Turkey      (7”single 1968 Norwich, UK)

the Cosmic Dead – White Rabbit      (‘The Cosmic Dead’ LP 2012 Iceland)

Technicolour Dreaming

Ahhhh... the Cat and the Brat were reunited on the airwaves this week after an enforced bunch of solo shows (two heads are always better than one!) resulting in a musical melange ranging from the neo-psych stylings of Prince Rama to  Josephine XV’s riposte to Napoleon XIV. We played two distinct 60’s bands called Kaleidoscope from two different continents, 80’s Adelaide rockabilly legends the Milky Bar Kids, the Mexican garage riot of Los Explosivos and was that an ode to decapitation by Dutch band Groep 1850? We also featured an interview with Melbourne psych-poppers Go Go Sapien prior to their Adelaide shows, including ‘behind-the-scenes’ anecdotes about the limited-release film which accompanies their new album, an homage to classic Australian schlock-horror B-movies... very groovy indeed! And we bid farewell to DieselWitch Will Kill You as our ‘Album of the Month’...

..... so here is the full playlist..... 

Prince Rama – Portaling      (‘Trust Now’ 2011 USA)

Plasticland – Alexander [Pretty Things cover]     (‘Colour Appreciation’ LP 1984 USA)

3D TV – A Summation Of All These Burdens     (orig. recorded 1991 – released on ‘Burn Your Fingers on the Sun’ compilation 2009 Australia)

Les Goths – Out of the Sun     (7”single 1968 Normandy, France)

the Masters Apprentices – Buried and Dead     (7”single 1967 Adelaide, Australia)

Josephine XV – I’m Happy They Took You Away      (7”single 1966 New York. USA)

Kurt Vile – It’s Alright     (‘So Outta Reach’ 2011 USA)

City Riots – She Never Wants to Dance     (‘In My Head’ cdEP 2011 Adelaide, Australia)

the Honey Pies – Henny Penny     (‘Carpe Carp’ 2011 Adelaide, Australia)

the Milky Bar Kids – If You Remember Me     (orig. released on ‘Regular Rockabilly’ Australian compilation LP 1984 – taken from ‘SouthBound’ compilation 2011 Adelaide, Australia)

Los Explosivos – Hey Monstro!     (7”single 2009 Mexico)

the Great Apes – Sebastapol Street [Procession cover]     (‘Tomorrow Is Today’ compilation 2006 Australia)

-          phone interview with Will Hindmarsh from Go Go Sapien

Go Go Sapien – Sick Love     (‘This Body Is Wrong For Us’ 2011 Australia)

Van Cleef – Barracuda     (‘Zapatistas!’ cdEP 2011 Adelaide, Australia)

Groep 1850 – Mother No-Head     (7”single 1967 Holland)

Kaleidoscope – A Dream For Julie     (7”single 1968 UK)

Kaleidoscope – Keep Your Mind Open     (‘Side Trips’ LP 1967 USA)

Scars – Your Attention Please     (‘Author! Author!’ LP 1981 Scotland, UK)

DieselWitch – Try Me     (‘DieselWitch Will Kill You!’ LP 2011 Adelaide, Australia)   #

        # “Album of the Month”

Technicolour Dreaming

Beginning with the likes of Spacemen 3 and Adelaide’s Asteroid Belt, the Cat and the Brat played some 60’s garage from the Chocolate Watchband and the Plague, some 70’s punk from X Ray Spex and France’s Metal Urbain (the very first single ever to be released by the UK’s Rough Trade Records), a selection of recent releases including Adelaide’s Isomer and DieselWitch and much, much more... all in all, the regular Technicolour Dreaming.....

..... and so here is the playlist.....

Gun – Take Off     (‘Gun’ LP 1970 UK – played from ‘Sweet Floral Albion’ compilation cd)

Spacemen 3 – Revolution     (‘Playing with Fire’ LP 1989 UK)

the Asteroid Belt – Incantations      (demo 2009 Adelaide, Aust.)

Thee Oh Sees – Destroyed Fortress Reappears     (Help)

the Hoa Hoas – Intensity     (Pop/Drone/Pedals)

The Plague – The Face of Time     (7”single 1966 Canada)

The Chocolate Watchband – Don’t need your lovin’     (‘Riot on Sunset Strip’ soundtrack compilation LP 1967 USA)

DieselWitch – I Set Bugs on Fire    (pre-release from forthcoming album 2011 Adelaide)

the Sand Pebbles – Occupied Europe (take me across the water)     (Dark Magic)

Black Cab – Ghost Anthems     (Call Signs)

Clinic – Baby     (Bubblegum)

Dean and Britta – Not a Young Man Anymore [Velvet Underground cover]     (Andy Warhol’s 13 Most Beautiful)

Ladytron – Sugar     (Witching Hour)

Isomer – Poison the Well     (Face Toward the Sun)

Metal Urbain – Paris Maquis [fasciste!]     (7”single 1977 France/UK)

X Ray Spex – Identity     (‘Germ Free Adolescents’ LP 1978 UK)

Thee Stag Knights – Come On     (‘Wild About You’ CD compilation 2004 Australia)

Rebecca and the Sunnybrook Farmers – What do you think of the War     (‘Birth’ LP 1969 UK – played from ‘Electric Psychedelic Sitar Headswirlers Vol. 10’ compilation CD)

Plasticland – Mink Dress     (7”single 1980 USA)

Eddy Current Suppression Ring – We got the Beat [Go-Go’s cover]     (So Many Things)