Sitars, theremin and mellotron, backwards guitar, phasing and fuzz, fringes and mohawks, paisley, black, velvet and leather, feedback, bass and drone, beads, berets and safety-pins, Shindig! and Creem, 3 chord wonders, teenage symphonies and snarl, Rickenbacker, Farfisa and 4-track recorders... onstage at CBGB's, Max's Kansas City or the Trip, the Roundhouse, the 100 Club or the Crystal Ballroom, Catcher's, Big Daddy's or the Squatters Arms.... and the Cat and the Brat on 3D Radio!
Three D Radio announcer, MeganCat (up until recently with her husband, the late Peter Brat)lives in "The BratHaus" a rural seaside home about 100km from Adelaide on South Australia's scenic Fleurieu Peninsula. Veteran musician Peter, and artist/musician Megan, were long-time DJs onThree D Radio 93.7fm, Adelaide's eclectic independent music station. Together Peter & Megan, known as "The Cat and The Brat" created this blog to allow listeners to review the playlists of their radio show, "Technicolour Dreaming", watch clips of selected songs and simply join them in the enjoyment of their favourite music... psychedelia, 60's garage, surf, punk/post-punk, pop, folk-rock, glam, 'Krautrock', goth, 80's electro... and much more!
But The Cat is carrying on the tradition, with guest co-presenters, and "Technicolour Dreaming" will continue in the same format, drawing from the huge "Cat & Brat" music collection, with the addition of new releases and reissues to keep things current. The Brat is hugely missed, but the show must go on, as he wanted...
The first show of winter, and it seems that I was a bit fixated on all things spacey, with bands "Death By Raygun", "Spaceman", "Spacegazer" and "Basement Spaceman" all featuring this week. And I just hadto start the show with a track off Eno's classic"Here Come the Warm Jets" LP, as I've had it on high rotation at home for days, and when a song gets stuck in your head, sometimes the best way to exorcise it from your mind is to play it for the masses - works for me! And here are some other songs that caught my ear or took my fancy this week..check out the playlist below -
Brian Eno - Cindy Tells Me ("Here Come the Warm Jets" LP 1973 UK)
The Onlookers - You Know Everything ("Blue and Green and Tangerine" 2012 UK)
The Magnificent Brotherhood - Lifetime ("The Magnificent Brotherhood" LP 2008 Berlin, Germany)
Circulus - Within You Is The Sun ("Thought Becomes Reality" 2009 UK)
The Outsiders - Daddy Died on Saturday ("CQ" LP 1968 Netherlands)
The Higher State - Know That You Know ("Darker By The Day"2009 Kent, UK)
The Moles - Ginger Tom ("Future Sounds of Ashton" 2010 UK)
Mark Fry - Mandolin Man ("Dreaming With Alice" LP 1972 UK)
Magazine - Shot By Both Sides ("Real Life" LP 1978 Manchester, UK)
Cato Salsa Experience - I Can Give You Everything ("A Good Tip For A Good Time" 2000 Oslo, Norway)
My Expansive Awareness - Liar Liar [The Castaways] ("The Psychedelic Sounds of The Blog That Celebrates Itself Vol III" 2015 Spain)
Algae and Tentacles - Cuddle Up ("Algae and Tentacles" cassette 2015 Tucson, USA)
The Prefab Messiahs - Flight Reaction [The Calico Wall] ("The Psychedelic Sounds of The Blog That Celebrates Itself Vol III"2015 USA )
The Shivas - We Go On ("Freezing to Death" 2010 Portland, Oregon USA)
The Butterscotch Cathedral - Waterfall Parasol ("The Butterscotch Cathedral" 2015 Tucson, USA)
The Coathangers - Stomp Stomp Stompin' ("Scramble" 2009 Atlanta, Georgia USA)
Wight Lhite - Counting Diamonds ("Beyond the Satellites" 2014 Tucson, USA)
Black Vacation - Hold ("Germantown,TN" 2016 Melbourne, Australia)
Death By Raygun - Sheila Comes Back ("The Clifford Hoyt Experience" 2012 Japan)
Dick Diver - Tearing the Posters Down ("Melbourne, Florida" 2015 Melbourne, Australia)
Epsilon One - Sweet Airwaves and TV Spells ("Spirals" EP 2012 Edinburgh, UK)
Spacegazer - Not Your Steppin' Stone [Monkees] ("The Psychedelic Sounds of TBTCI Vol 2", 2013 Paris, France)
A few notable new releases played on Technicolour Dreaming this week included The Honey Pot's latest,"Inside The Whale", which has a real West-Coast 60's psych feel to it, out now on MegaDodo Records; and The Murlocs new one "Young Blindness" - and if you were planning to buy the coloured vinyl, it's too late!! Melbourne bands were well represented on the show, making up 6 of the selections, plus the usual French oddities, some Canadian coolness, as well as tracks from Germany, Norway, Russia and The Ukraine - there's so much fantastic music out there, both old and new, the world over. Just 2 hours a week is never enough! Here's the playlist, plus visuals.....
Deep Feeling - Pretty Colours ("Deep Feeling" rec. 1966, rel. 2008 USA)
Sula Bassana - Perry Rhodan ("Dreamer" LP 2002 Germany)
Serge Franklin - KKK (Le Ku Klux Klan) ("45 Tours A La Une" 7" EP 1966 France)
We had some new compilations to
share with you this week, dear 3D Radio
listeners, including a double-CD of Syd Barrett/Pink Floyd covers, which was an end-of-the-year
bonus from the lovely people at Fruits de Mer
Records in the UK, as well as another fine Active
Listener compilation, “Forever Changing –
A Tribute to Love’s Forever Changes LP”, both of which we shall
certainly be plundering over the months ahead. There were new tracks by artists
from various parts of the globe including Tasmania’s Violet
Swells, Spain’s My Expansive Awareness
and Canada’s Elephant Stone plus some older
ones from the likes of Cheval Sombre, Wire, Sons of Adam
and Russia’s excellent Polska Radio One.
Then there was our “Artiste of the Week”....
Scotland’s own Jim Noir, whose four albums
and plethora of singles and EPs gave us lots to choose from, starting with a
track from his brilliant new album “Finnish Line”.
We realise we say this about our feature artists each week but that doesn’t
make it less true.... you should investigate the Jim
Noir back-catalogue – you won’t be sorry!! To finish the show, we dug
out one of our all-time faves, the 2011 album by Dark
Ocean Colors and with that, we’ll leave you until next week.....
..... so here is the playlist,
with visual additives.....
the Green
Tambourine Band – Maybe the
People Would Be the Times or Between Clark and Hilldale [Arthur Lee cover] (recorded 2013 UK
for "The Active Listener Presents...Forever Changing - A Tribute to
Love's ‘Forever Changes’ LP" compilation 2014 New Zealand)
the
SmokingTrees -
Calling ("Acetates" 2013 Los
Angeles, USA)
Rupert
Angeleyes -
Jealousy ("Young Sunset" 2013
Los Angeles, USA)
Wire - Start to Move ("Pink
Flag" LP 1977 UK)
My
Expansive Awareness -
Lysergic Waltz (digital single 2014 Zaragoza,
Spain)
Asteroid #4 - Oubliette ("The
Windmill of the Autumn Sky"EP
2013 Philadelphia, USA)
Cheval
Sombre - She Went Walking in the
Rain ("Mad Love" 2013)
Oakapple
Day - Oceans of
Fire (7" single b-side [to No Face, No Name, No Number] 1969 Perth,
Australia)
Halasan
Bazar and Tara King th. -
Ventolin ("8" LP 2014
Denmark/France)
Elephant
Stone - Motherless Child (Love is Not
For War) ("Three Poisons" 2014
Canada)
the Nice - Flower King of Flies ("The
Thoughts of Emerlist Davjack" LP 1967 UK)
Larry
Page Orchestra - All
Day and All of the Night [Kinks
cover] ("Kinky Music - The Larry Page
Orchestra plays the Music of the Kinks" LP1965 UK)
Sons of
Adam - Feathered
Fish (7" single 1966 San Francisco, USA)
the
Triptides -
Colors ("Colors" EP 2014
Indiana, USA)
Violet
Swells - Here Comes
Yesterday (CD single 2104 Tasmania, Australia)
the
Citradels - Slow
Burn ("Nepenthe" 2104 Melbourne, Australia)
###“Artiste of the Week”– Jim Noir###
Jim Noir – The Broadway
Jets ("Finnish Line" 2014 Scotland,
UK)
Jim Noir - The
Cheese of Jim's Command ("Jimmy's Show"
2012 Scotland, UK)
Jim Noir - Don't
You Worry ("Jim Noir" 2007
Scotland, UK)
Jim Noir - I Me
You I'm Your ("Tower of Love" 2005
Scotland, UK)
Polska
Radio One - To the
Delta of Aquarius ("Cosmos Inside"
2013 Yekaterinburg,Russia)
the
Chemistry Set - See
Emily Play [Pink Floyd cover] (recorded 2014 UK for “Fruits de Mer presents: A Momentary Lapse of Vinyl” compilation
2014 UK)
Vespero - Scream Thy Last Scream [Syd Barrett cover](recorded
2014 Russia for “Fruits de Mer presents: A
Momentary Lapse of Vinyl” compilation 2014 UK)
the Magic
Mushroom Band - Set
the Controls for the Heart of the Sun [Pink
Floyd cover](12” single b-side
[to Magick Eye] 1992 UK – taken from “Fruits de Mer presents: A Momentary Lapse of
Vinyl” compilation 2014 UK)
Dark
Ocean Colors - The
Other Line ("Dark Ocean Colors" 2011 USA)
