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...
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)
It seems that 2007 was a good year for Australian compilations, seeing the release of the excellent "Tomorrow is Today - A Tribute to the Australian Psychedelic Scene 1966-1970", as well as Off The Hip's "Burn Your Fingers on The Sun", both of which are well worth tracking down if you can find a copy. I featured tracks from both comps, as well as Ty Segall's new release "Emotional Mugger", a few classics from the late 60's, and some more recent Australian efforts, plus quite a few cover versions....
So if you missed the show, this is the playlist.....
The Great Apes - Sebastopol Street [Procession] ("Tomorrow is Today" compilation 2007 Australia)
Pretty City - Mary Go Round (CD Single 2015 Melbourne, Australia)
Graham Day and the Forefathers - 30-60-90 / Love Me Lies [The Prisoners] (7" single 2014 Rochester, Kent UK)
Mid State Orange - Moving in a Circle [The Executives] ("Tomorrow is Today" compilation 2007 Australia)
James McKeown and the Negative Drivers - I See The Rain [Marmalade] "Active Listener's Happy Record Store Day!" compilation 2013 New Zealand)
Three Minute Tease - When I Was 46 in the Year 13 ("Bite the Hand" 2014 UK)
The Higher Elevation - The Diamond Mine (7" single 1967 Colorado, USA)
Scott Walker - The Plague ("Scott 2" LP 1968 USA)
Jacques Brel - Amsterdam (live 1964) ("Bowie Heard them Here First" compilation 2015)
Sir Richard Bishop - Barbary ("The Freak of Araby" 2009 USA)
Ultimate Spinach - (Ballad Of) The Hip Death Goddess ("Ultimate Spinach" LP 1968 Boston, Massachusetts USA)
Brainticket - Black Sand ("Cottonwood Hill" LP 1970 Switzerland)
Vic Conrad and the First Third - Mr V ("Trip Fest Psychedelic Stoner Experience" sampler 2016 Adelaide, Australia)
Dark Ocean Colours - When Both Our Worlds Collide (CD Single 2013 USA)
Ty Segall - The Magazine ("Emotional Mugger" 2016 Los Angeles USA)
El Goodo - Stuck in the 60's ("El Goodo" 2005 Wales, UK)
The Energy Package - This is the Twelfth Night (7" single 1967 USA)
The Bamboo Shoot - The Fox Has Gone to Ground (7" single 1968 UK)
We began with a
track by the Green Telescope from the latest
“Friends of
the Fish” compilation put out by the wonderful Fruits
de Mer label.From thereon in, it was a mixture of new
& old with familiars & obscurities of various genres loosely associated
with psychedelia from all over the world... in short, the usual style of TechnicolourDreaming, with this week’s featured compilation being the
Psychedelic Underground Generation series of
samplers, commonly called P.U.G. and put out
by a bunch of friends and musicians in Belgium sharing their latest discoveries
from the huge number of new releases currently on offer. The samplers are free
but you are asked to investigate the bands featured further and perhaps buy
direct from those that particularly catch your fancy... most are on bandcamp so they are easily accessible. So,
until next week, this is the Cat & the Brat
signing off .....
..... and here is the playlist, with eye candy to occupy
your mynd.....
the Green Telescope - I'm a Living Sickness [Calico Wall cover]
(recorded1985 – taken from "Fruits
de Mer Records presents ‘ Strange Fruit and Veg’ - Friends of the Fish, Promo 2"
CD-compilation 2015 UK)
the Green Tambourine Band – Maybe The People Would Be The Times or
Between Clark And Hilldale [Love cover](recorded 2013 USA – taken from “Forever Changing – a tribute to Love’s
Forever Changes” compilation 2014 New Zealand)
This edition’s “Compilation of the Week” is actually a series
which began in 1998, was compiled in 2011 into two boxsets covering volumes 1-5
and 6-10, and continues with volume 11 being released in 2012. We are of course
speaking of the eclectic “Electric Psychedelic
Sitar Headswirlers” series which, as regular listeners will have
noticed, we have been happily plundering for the show since we discovered their
existence several years ago, and which are well-deserving of being acknowledged
in our weekly feature; indeed the hardest part was choosing only five tracks to
play with so many goodies on offer! The rest of the show also had a plethora of
fine new music and older faves, including a track from the long-awaited second
album from Australia’s Black Ryder, as well as
more from the new one by Sydney’s the Grease Arrestor
and CleopatraRecords’soon-to-be-released
Beatles psych tribute album, plus a bunch of
re-issues and re-discoveries, such as tracks by the
Lost and Found, the Byrds, the Aardvarks and XTC
(in their Dukes of Stratosphear guise). So
until next Tuesday afternoon.....
......
here is the playlist with some visuals, plus a movie at the end to enjoy.....
the Lost and Found - I'm So Hip to Pain
("Forever Lasting Plastic Words" LP 1968 Texas, USA)
Powder Blue - Sunfire Drug Haus ("II"
2014 Manitoba, Canada)
the Aardvaarks - Arthur C. Clarke ("Arthur C.
Clarke" EP, 1989 London UK)
the Black Ryder - Santaria ("Door
Behind the Door" 2015 Australia/USA)
the Doors - Summer's Almost
Gone ("Waiting for the Sun" LP
1968 Los Angeles, USA)
the Dukes of Stratosphear - Collideascope ("Psonic
Psunspot" LP 1987 UK)
