Technicolour Dreaming

At Three D Radio we are lucky enough to receive donations of CDs and vinyl to fill gaps in our collection, often from other announcers (I'm sure regular listeners will have heard me, and others, mentioning the latest release donated by Andrew K, whose show follows Technicolour Dreaming), and sometimes from generous members of the public. So I was very pleased to discover the compilation "Monster a Go-Go: Teen Trash from Psychedelic Tokyo '66-'69" had appeared as a new acquisition, and that it had not one, but two tracks by The Spiders! Some years ago, I had seen a some excerpts from the 1968 movie "Go Forward!" and a few other comedies that featured The Spiders (apparently there are thirteen in total!), but had no idea of the names of the songs. I've now discovered that one of my favourites was "Nati Bati Yi", which is included on the compilation (obscure fact - backing vocalist and tambourine player Masaaki Sakai might be better known as the lead character in the TV series "Monkey"). So here's the playlist for the show, with clip of "Go Forward!" at the end, for your amusement...

Toy - Strange  ("Toy" 2012 UK)

The Spiders - Nati Bati Yi  ("Monster a Go-Go: Teen Trash from Psychedelic Tokyo '66-'69" compilation Japan)

The Chocolate Watch Band - Are You Gonna Be There (At The Love-in)  (7" single 1967 USA)

The Mops - Blind Bird (7" single 1967 Japan)

First Crew To The Moon - The Sun Lights Up the Shadows of Your Mind  (7" single 1967 USA)

Cate Le Bon - Wonderful  ("Crab Day" 2016 Wales, UK)

Allah-Las - Warmed Kippers  ("Calico Review" 2016 Los Angeles, USA)

White Noise - Here Come the Fleas  ("An Electric Storm" LP 1969 UK)

Episode  Six - I Can See Through You  (7" single 1966 UK)

The Bystanders - Cave of Clear Light  (7" single [b-side to "When Jezamine Goes"] 1968 Wales, UK)

The Missing Souls - Sweet, Sweet Sadie  (7" single 2016 France)

Philwit and Pegasus (Mark Wirtz) - Pseudo Phoney Mixed Up Croney  (extra track on the 2003 reissue of the "Philwit and Pegasus" LP 1970 UK)

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

Frantic Chant - Colour  ("Ruthless Superman" 2014 Edinburgh, Scotland)

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)

Basement Spaceman - Pussyfooter  ("BS2" 2015 Melbourne, Australia)
Spaceman - Dead Baum ("Palm Haus" 2016 Fremantle WA)
The Maybes - Don't Ask  (digital single 2012, Glasgow, UK)
Tooth and Tusk - Nothing Makes Sense  (digital single 2015 Melbourne, Australia)

The Smoking Trees - Goodbye  ("The Archer and the Bull" 2016 LA, USA)

Trailer for "Go Forward!" 1968 Japan

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Another of the Nuggets series of boxsets was our choice for this edition’s “Compilation of the Week”... This time it was “Where the Action Is!  Los Angeles Nuggets 1965-1968” which was released in 2009, in a hard-cover book format with the 4-CDs slotted into the back cover – lots of very cool photos and articles with detailed liner notes about each song and artist... and what great songs they are! This is probably our favourite of the Nuggets boxset collection [the 1972 original double-LP stands separately of course!] because LA was producing a plethora of wonderful bands in this period, many well-known, but most not, which in no way diminishes the quality of the sounds coming out of the area however – brilliant stuff! Basically, if you can only have one boxset, this is the one! Another producer of fine music is the UK’s Fruits de Mer label whose latest compilation “Strange Fruit & Veg” is packed with goodies. From it this week we chose a great version of the Beatles’ “Tomorrow Never Knows”, complete with filmclip. We also featured an Australian 60’s section with tracks by Ray Brown and Hugo amongst others, plus recent music from acts such as Lumerians, the Myrrors and Elephant Stone. So now, we bid you “adieu” until next week, when we’ll have more psychedelia and associated obscurities for your listening and viewing pleasure....

.....until then, here is the playlist and some visuals to amuse you, including the Kikagaku Moyo “official clip” for ‘Kodama’..... enjoy!

Lumerians - Hook for an Eye      ("Transmissions from Telos - Volume III" 2014 UK)

Elephant Stone - Between The Lines      ("The Three Poisons" 2014 Montreal, Canada)

Rob Gould - Tomorrow Never Knows [Beatles cover]      ("Fruits De Mer Records presents ‘Strange Fruit and Veg’ – promo 2” compilation 2015 UK)

Les Annees - Freaktown Stars      ("Les Annees" 2009 Melbourne, Australia)

Jake Holmes - Leaves Never Break      ("A Letter to Catherine December" LP 1968 San Francisco, USA)

Ray Brown and the Whispers - Ain't It Strange     (7”single 1966 Australia)

the Moods – ‘Cos of You       (7”single b-side [to Say Hello to Me] 1966 Australia)

the Wild Cherries - Krome Plated Yabby      (7"single 1967 Melbourne, Australia)

Hugo - Girl in the Garden      (7"single 1969 Adelaide, Australia)

Quilt - Cry Baby Cry [Beatles cover]      ("The Magical Mystery Psych Out - A Tribute to the Beatles" compilation 2015 USA)

Deep Sea Arcade featuring Megan Washington - Bonnie and Clyde [Serge Gainsbourg cover]      ("Melodie Francaise" compilation 2013 Sydney, Australia)

Peoples Temple -   Twice Burned       (7"single b-side [to Brand New Thing] 2013 USA)

Clinic - The Lion Tamer      ("Bubblegum" 2010 UK)

the Myrrors - Juana Laguna      ("Arena Negra" LP 2015 Tucson, Arizona USA)

Amon Duul II - Archangel Thunderbird     ("Yeti" LP 1970 Germany)

Dr Cosmo's Tape Lab - The Secret of Tibetan Grapefruit is...      ("Ever Evolving Lounge" 2014 USA)

the Warlocks - House of Glass      ("Rise and Fall" 2001 USA)

      “Compilation of the Week”

  “Where the Action Is! Los Angeles Nuggets 1965-1968”

WC Fields Memorial Electric String Band - Hippy Elevator Operator       (7" single 1966 USA – taken from disc 1 of “Where the Action Is! Los Angeles Nuggets 1965-1968” compilation boxset 2009 USA)

Keith Allison - Action, Action, Action          (7" Single b-side [to Glitter and Gold] 1966 – taken from disc 3 of “LA Nuggets...” boxset)

the Monkees - Daily Nightly    ("Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd" LP 1967 USA – taken from Disc 3 of “LA Nuggets...” boxset)

the Leaves - Doctor Stone      ("Hey Joe" LP 1966 USA – taken from disc 1 of “LA Nuggets...” boxset)

the Merry-Go-Round - Listen, Listen      (7" single 1968 USA – taken from disc 2 of “LA Nuggets...” boxset)

Gene Clark - Los Angeles      (recorded 1968, unissued – taken from disc 4 of “LA Nuggets...” boxset)

the Black Hollies - Benevolent Beacon      (7" single 2011 USA)

Toy - Motoring      ("Toy" LP 2012 UK)

Dead Skeletons - Dead is God      ("Ord" EP 2012 Iceland)

Kikagaku Moyo - Kodama      ("Forest of Lost Children" LP 2014 Japan)

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It’s the 1^st show of the year and we had a large pile of new vinyl and CDs to play and thus begin as we intend to go on..... with a “kerrang”, as it were! Apart from all the formerly forgotten ‘lost’ classics from the past that are again seeing the light of day and finding appreciative audiences due to the dedication of ‘re-issue’ labels making them affordable again rather than just the preserve of a few well-heeled ‘collectors’, there is a rising swell of new, young bands from all over the world who are building on these roots and creating a plethora of new psychedelic sounds – 2014 promises to be another interesting year for psychedelia and associated sounds! So, without further ado.....

..... here is the debut 2014 playlist plus, of course, accompanying visual goodies.....

Sendelica – Something in a Grain of Sand      (“The Kaleidoscopic Kat & It’s Autoscopic Ego” 2013 Wales, UK)

Chris & Craig – Isha      (7”single 1966 Los Angeles, USA)

Penny Arkade – Color Fantasy      (recorded 1967 – taken from “Not The Freeze” anthology 2004 USA)

We All Together – Children      (“We All Together” LP 1973 Peru)

Sudden Death Of Stars – Space      (bonus track on “Getting Up, Going Down” 2013 Brittany, France)

Groep 1850 – A Point In This Life      (“Agemo’s Trip To Mother Earth” LP 1967 Netherlands)

the Future Primitives – 1-2-5 [Haunted cover]      (“Songs We Taught Ourselves” 2013 South Africa)

Mystic Brew – Don’t Cry No More      (7”single 2013 Russia)

the Brian Jonestown Massacre – Revolution Number Zero      (“Revolution Number Zero” EP 2013 USA/Germany)

Toy – It’s Been So Long      (“Join The Dots” 2013 UK)

Zane Armstrong – The Otherside [Apple cover]      (“Pull Up the Paisley Covers” compilation 2002 UK)

Crystal Jacqueline – Cousin Jane [Troggs cover]      (“A Fairytale” EP 2013 UK)

the West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band – As The World Rises & Falls      (“Vol.3 – A Child’s Guide to Good & Evil” LP 1968 California, USA)

October Country – Cowboys and Indians      (7”single 1968 California, USA)

the Smoke – October Country       (“The Smoke” LP 1968 USA)

the Dukes of Stratosphear [aka XTC] – The Mole From The Ministry      (“25 O’Clock” EP 1986 UK)

Jacco Gardner – How To Live Again      (“Trouble In Mind Records : Liverpool Psych Fest 2013”  compilation 2013 USA)

the Limiñanas – BB      (“Costa Blanca” 2013 Perpignan, France)

the Warlocks – Endless Drops      (“Skull Worship” 2013 USA)

Maston – Young Hearts      (“Shadows” 2013 USA)

Espectrostatic – Smokeface Appears      (“Espectrostatic” LP 2013 USA)

the UFO Club – My Love Is Waiting      (12”split-EP [with Night Beats] 2013 Texas, USA)

the Dead Skeletons – Odaudleg Ord      (recorded 2012 – taken from “ORD” EP 2013 Iceland)

the Dandelion – All Seeing Eye Syndrome      (“Strange Case of the Dandelion” 2013 Australia)

the Barbarellatones – Dead Man’s Curve [Jan & Dean cover]      (“Confessions of a Teenage Prostitute” 2011)

DeWolff – Gold & Seaweed      (cd-single b-side [to ‘Crumbling Heart’] 2014 Netherlands)

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With the end of the year rapidly approaching, we felt that over the next few weeks we should feature some of our favourite releases and reissues of 2013, as well as some older tracks that we’ve either unearthed or rediscovered or simply wanted to play because we could – we leave it to you to guess which songs fall into which categories. So, without further ado.....

..... here is this week’s playlist plus assorted visuals.....

Vibravoid – Listen Can’t You Hear      (“Delirio Dei Sensi” LP 2013 Germany – recorded/released in Italy)

Toy – Join the Dots       (“Join the Dots” double-LP 2013 UK)

Jim Noir – Look Around You      (“Jim Noir” 2008 UK)

the Dials – Mondo Space      (“End of the Pier” 2013 Brighton, UK)

Pregnant Insomnia – Wallpaper      (7”single 1967 Dublin, Eire)

Davey Lane – Moulty [Barbarians cover]      (“Nuggets : Antipodean Interpolations of the First Psychedelic Era” compilation 2013 Australia)

Permanent Clear Light – Higher Than the Sun : Astral Travel      (“Beyond These Things” 2013 Finland)

the Brian Jonestown Massacre – Panic in Babylon      (“Aufheben” LP 2012 USA)

Django Django – WOR      (“Django Django” 2012 Scotland, UK)

Jacques Dutronc – L’Augmentation      (“Jacques Dutronc” LP 1968 France)

Brigitte Fontaine – Je suis inadaptée      (“Brigitte Fontaine est... Folle” LP 1968 France)

les Limiñanas – Salvation      (“Crystal Anis” 2012 Perpignan, France)

Zorgones – Herr Doctor Reich      (7”single 1968 France – taken from “Wizzz! [psychorama français 1966-70] Vol. 2” compilation 2008 France)

the Monkees – Randy Scouse Git      (“Headquarters” LP 1967 USA)

Wooden Shjips – Other Stars      (“Back to Land” 2013 San Francisco, USA)

the Sandwitches – Sun In Rain      (“I Need You Bad” compilation LP 2013 San Francisco, USA)

Jacco Gardner – Puppets Dangling      (“Cabinet of Curiousities” 2013 Holland)

Black Cab – Summer of Love      (“Altamont Diary” 2004 Melbourne, Australia)

the Grand Rapids – Blow Up      (“Great Shakes” 2013 Melbourne, Australia)

the Balcony Stars – The Butterfly Girl      (“Sunshine” EP 2013 Liverpool, UK)

the Executives – Moving in a Circle      (7”single b-side [to It's A Happening World] 1968 Sydney, Australia)

Beaulieu Porch – Laminations are Loaded      (“Beaulieu Porch” 2012 UK)

Ben Mason – Care of Cell 44 [Zombies cover]      (“The Odessey Odyssey” LP 2013 Melbourne, Australia)

the Selfish Cales – Orange Skies [Love cover]      (“Dandelion Seeds” EP 2013 Italy)

the Night Beats – Rat King      (“Sonic Bloom” 2013 Seattle, USA)