Technicolour Dreaming

I featured a couple of cool compilations on this week's show - the "Close to the Hedge" compilation from 2013 and the new "Get Ready to Fly: Pop-Psych From the Norman Petty Vaults"; neither of which unfortunately proved to have many film-clips associated with it (can't have everything, I 'spose!). The former is a Pink Hedgehog Records (from Weymouth, UK) release available thru Bandcamp; and the latter a selection of the American producer's pop-psych work from the late 60's to early 70's. Both definitely worth checking out. And the latest song to get stuck in my head is Anton Barbeau's ''Heavy Psychedelic Toilet"!!! Such is life.....

The Apple Glass Cydrom - Going Wrong  ("Get Ready to Fly: Pop-Psych From the Norman Petty Vaults"  2016 New Mexico, USA)

The Zodiac - Aries-The Fire Fighter  ("The Zodiac: Cosmic Sounds" LP 1967 USA)

The Intricate Blend - Door Knob  ("Get Ready to Fly: Pop-Psych From the Norman Petty Vaults" 2016 Dallas, USA)

The Dentists - Just Like Oliver Reed  ("Writhing On The Shagpile" 12"EP 1987 UK)

The Hooterville Trolly - No Silver Bird  (7" single 1968 Albuquerque, USA)

Sudden Death of Stars - Bright Sunday  ("All Unrevealed Parts of the Unknown" 2014 Rennes, France)

Borderline Symphony - Zundel se ne va ("EP1" 2014 Zurich, Switzerland)

Magic - Booked on A Drunk Charge  (7" single [b-side to "I Want To Fly"] 1969 Newcastle, Australia)

No Bodies - Forgotten Song  ("No Bodies" LP 2013 Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada)
Slingshot Dragster - UTI  ("Bite The Bullet" 2014 Adelaide, Australia)

Drab Doo Riffs - Hot Tanya  ("Postcards from Uranus" 2010 Auckland, New Zealand)


The Primitives - We Found a Way to The Sun  (7" single [b-side to "Really Stupid" 1986] Coventry, UK)

The Dee Jays - Twistin' Drums  (recorded 1962; "Board Boogie - Surf 'N' Twang from Downunder" compilation 2002 Australia)
The Valentines - Peculiar Hole in the Sky  (7" single 1968 Perth, Australia)

Anton Barbeau - Heavy Psychedelic Toilet  ("Magic Act" 2016 UK)

The Age - The Lantern  ("Inner Palace" 2016 Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada)
Harsh Reality - Praying For Reprieve  ("Heaven and Hell" LP 1969 Hertfordshire, UK)

Eye - Rain on Your Parade  ("Close to the Hedge" compilation LP 2013 UK)
8 x 8 - The Essence  ("Azaleas Room" New York, USA/Kiev, Ukraine)
Des 'n 'Al - Mistress Mine  ("Close to the Hedge" compilation LP 2013 UK)
Diamond Incarnation - Leaking of Our Hourglass  ("Scorpio Fifteen" EP 2014 Taipei, Taiwan)

Electrasy - Today's the Day  ("Close to the Hedge" compilation LP 2013 UK)

Elephant Stone - Andromeda (demo version)  (mp3 2016, Montreal, Canada)

Hallelujah Bay - Fairy King  ("Close to the Hedge" compilation LP 2013 Portland, UK)
Midwich Youth Club - Pomegranate  ("Fruit Salad Surgery" 2016 UK)
Mondo Jet Set - Wig Out  ("Provincial Drama Club" 2013 Dorset, UK)
Schnauser - Disposable Outcomes  ("Protein For Everyone" 2014 Bristol, UK)

Teenage Sin Taste - Don't Want to Know If You are Lonely  ("These Important Years, Husker Du Revisited" compilation 2016 France)

Technicolour Dreaming

This week’s edition was bookended with tracks by Welsh band Soft Hearted Scientists, who have rapidly wormed their way into our “fave band list” since we discovered their 2013  album “False Lights” and then began working our way through their back-catalogue. Then there were our “just-arrived-in-the-mail” features, the first of which, “The Drop” LP by Denmark’s Pinkunoizu, came in a very cool gatefold sleeve and has barely been off the turntable all week. Though it was released late last year and has taken us a while to get our own copy, we found it to be a brilliant slice of modern psychedelia and well worth the wait – thoroughly recommended! The other new arrival was the debut album from Doug Tuttle, formerly of Cat & Brat faves, MMOSS, whose two albums have frequently reverberated around our house over the past year or so. Now recording under his own name this album finds him further refining his idiosyncratic take on psychedelic music, with a textured 60’s pop feel more evident than in the past. Catchy yet woozy with lots of his trademark reverb and effects, it, like the afore-mentioned Pinkunoizu, keeps insinuating itself into your mind more with each hearing –we’ll definitely be playing more tracks from both albums for you in coming weeks! Also featured were tracks from the Citradels, Slingshot Dragster and Bronco Bullfrog, new mp3s from both the Red Plastic Buddha and the Luck of Eden Hall plus cuts from Schnauser, Dark Ocean Colors, the High Learys and many more.....

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

Soft Hearted Scientists – Panorama       (demo 2012 Wales, UK)

the Red Plastic Buddha – Little White Pills      (mp3 download 2014 USA)

the Wise Dude’s Revolver – Hide & Run      (“The Wise Dudes EP” 2013 France)

Diane Coffee – Tale of a Dead Dog      (“My Friend Fish” 2013 California, USA)

 Walter Ghoul’s Lavender Brigade – Frumpy & the Strange Machine      (recorded 1999 UK – taken from “Retrospectoscope : 1966-1970” faux-anthology 2007 UK)

Pinkunoizu – Moped      (“The Drop” LP 2013 Denmark)

the Barracudas – I Saw my Death in a Dream Last Night      (“Drop Out with the Barracudas” LP 1981 UK/USA)

the Matadors – Get Down from the Tree      (7”single 1967 Czechoslovakia)

the High Learys – Down Time      (“Here Come the High Learys” 2014 Perth, Australia)

Slingshot Dragster – Tatiana      (“Bite the Bullet” 2014 Adelaide, Australia)

the Citradels – It’s Only a Northern Love Song       (“Droned & Rethroned” 2014 Melbourne, Victoria)

Sky Picnic – Universal Mind Decoder      (“Farther In This Fairytale” 2010 USA)

the Byrds – Space Odyssey      (“The Notorious Byrd Brothers” LP 1968 USA)

Dark Ocean Colors – Temporary Man      (“Patches and Patterns” EP 2012 USA)

the Black Tambourines – Cat Days       (“Chica” EP 2011 France)

the Luck of Eden Hall – You Asked About Water on Mars      (mp3 download 2014 Chicago, USA)

Bronco Bullfrog – Rocking Horse Mender      (7”single b-side [to Time Waits for Norman] 2014 UK)

Schnauser – Buddy      (“The Missing Link” 2009 UK)

Doug Tuttle – Turn This Love      (“Doug Tuttle”  2014 USA)

Mark Fry – The Witch      (“Dreaming With Alice” LP 1972 UK/Italy)

Delphine – La fermeture éclair [We The People cover]      (7”single 1967 France)

Soft Hearted Scientists – The Caterpillar Song      (“Take Time To Wonder In A Whirling World” 2007 Wales, UK)