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...
Thought it was time to throw a little bit of garage into the mix...well, a lot actually! This week's show was firmly rooted in the Late Sixties, with a few more recent releases thrown into the mix. Enjoy!!
The Knickerbockers - High on Love (7" single 1966 Los Angeles USA
Halasan Bazar - Everybody Dies (Once or Twice) ("Don't Tell Anyone" EP 2010 Denmark)
The Pasternak Progress - Flower Eyes (7" single b-side [to "Cotton Soul"] 1967 Los Angeles, USA)
Vibravoid - Shadows of Reflections ("Wake Up Before you Die" 2016 Dusseldorf, Germany)
Penny Arkade - Voodoo Spell ("Not The Freeze" LP 1968 USA)
Mark And the Clouds - Lady Stardust [David Bowie] ("A New Career in Town: More Songs by David Bowie" 2016 London, UK)
Antoine - An Elephant's Looking At Me (Un éléphant me regarde) ("Elucubrations: Antione on 45, 1965 - 1966" France)
Hearts and Flowers - Tin Angel (Will You Ever Come Down?) (7" single [b-side to "She Sang Hymns Out of Tune"] 1968 Los Angeles, USA)
Lee Hazelwood - Rainbow Woman (7" single 1968 Los Angleles USA)
Kikagaku Moyo - Streets of Calcutta ("Forest Of Lost Children" LP 2014 Japan)
The Spencer Davis Group - The Sanity Inspector (7" single b-side [to "Mr Second Class" 1967 UK)
The Summer Set- Cos It's Over (7" single b-side [to "Let's Go To San Francisco"] 1967 UK)
Those Fadin' Colours - Try Me On For Size ("Let's Go Down and Blow Our Minds" compilation 2016 UK)
The Koobas - Barricades ("Koobas" LP 1969 Liverpool UK)
Donovan - Sunshine Superman (7" single 1966 UK)
The Coffee Sergeants - Purple Martian Sanctuary ("Purple Martian Sanctuary" 2014 Austin, Texas USA)
Pretty Things - Talkin' About the Good Times (7" single 1968 UK)
The Moles - We Are the Moles (Part 1) (7" single 1968 Portsmouth, UK)
lightsweetcrude - Ahir/Now ("Listen To the Colour" 2011 Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
Simon Dupree and the Big Sound - Kites (7" single 1967 Portsmouth, UK)
Balloon Farm - A Question of Temperature (7" single 1967 New Jersey, USA)
The Calico Wall - I'm A Living Sickness (7" single 1967 Minneapolis, Minnesota USA)
The Luck of Eden Hall - Bangalore ("Alligators Eat Gumdrops" 2012 Chicago, USA)
The Sparkles - No Friend of Mine (7" single 1967 Texas, USA)
The Shy Guys - Black Lightening Light (7" single b-side [to "Goodbye to You"] 1968 Floida, USA)
Teddy and His Patches - Suzy Creamcheese (7" single 1967 San Jose, California, USA)
The Laurels - Manic Saturday ("Plains" 2012 Sydney, Australia)
Country Joe and the Fish - I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-To-Die Rag (7" single 1968 Berkeley, California USA)
Grace Slick and The Great Society - Somebody To Love ("Conspicuous Only In It's Absence" LP 1968 San Francisco, USA)
Galileo 7 - Staring At the Sound ("Staring At The Sound" LP 2012 The Medway, UK)
I seem to have a penchant for playing songs, albums, and even bands with extremely long titles - an occupational hazard when it comes to announcing them without tripping over my tongue. The prize for the longest title of a release this week (but only just) goes to one of Fruits De Mer's latest batch of coloured 7 inch's - "The Fruits de Mer Records Guide to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"(phew!), featuring three very different interpretations of the classic sci-fi TV show theme "Journey of the Sorcerer"(written by The Eagles, no less!) by Astralasia, The Blue Giant Zeta Puppies, and Icarus Peel. Another new one from FdM is Vibravoid's take on the Iron Butterfly classic "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" - all 15 minutes' worth, handily split into two-parts, all the better to fit on a 7" (I only played Part 1, I'm sure much to the relief of some listeners!). A pre-release track from Elephant Stone'slong-awaited album "Ship Of Fools"(due out in September) was a welcome teaser; and the brand-spanking new debut from Brisbane's Sacred Shrines, "Come Down From the Mountain"exceeded expectations. I wonder what's in store next week...??
Donovan - Season of the Witch ("Sunshine Superman" LP 1966 UK)
Magic Bus - Cosmic Rays of Dawn ("Transmission From Sogmore's Garden" 2014 Devon, UK)
Status Quo - Paradise Flat ("Picturesque Matchstickable Messages From The Status Quo" LP 1968 London UK)
The Missing Souls - Sweet, Sweet Sadie (7" single 2016 France)
Fire - Flies Like a Bird ("The Magic Shoemaker" LP 1970 UK)
Sacred Shrines - Curious Chemistry ("Come Down From the Mountain" 2016 Brisbane, Australia)
Lou Reed - Lady Day ("Berlin" LP 1973 USA)
Icarus Peel - Catch Your Breath ("Forget-Me-Not-Under-Pussy-Willow" LP 2016 [pre-release] Devon, UK)
Blue Giant Zeta Puppies - Journey of the Sorcerer ("The Fruits de Mer Records Guide to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" 7" EP 2016 UK)
Cate Le Bon - I Was Born On The Wrong Day ("Crab Day" 2016 Wales, UK)
Vibravoid - In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida [Iron Butterfly] (7" single 2016 Dusseldorf, Germany)
The Leaves - Dr Stone ("Hey Joe" LP 1966, San Fernando Valley, USA)
Elephant Stone - Manipulator ("Ship Of Fools" 2016 [pre-release] Montreal, Canada)
Del Shannon - I Think I Love You ("The Further Adventures of Charles Westover" LP 1968 Michigan USA)
Velvet Illusions - Acid Head (7" single 1967 Washington USA)
The Citradels - Love Bee (I Once Knew You) ("The Citradels" 2011 Melbourne, Australia)
Sonny And Cher - It's Gonna Rain (7" single [b-side to "I Got You Babe"] 1965)
The Fast Camels - Der Nazi Tea ("The Magic Optician" 2007 UK)
Singapore Sling - Shithole Town ("Psych Fuck" 2015 Reykjavík, Iceland)
The Turtles - Grim Reaper of Love (7" single 1966 USA)
Sisters of Your Sunshine Vapour - Highly Enchanting Eye ("Desert Brain" 2016 Detroit, USA)
Coloured Clocks - Green Lights ("Particle" 2016 Melbourne, Australia)
The Seeds - Tripmaker ("A Web Of Sound" LP 1966 Los Angeles, USA)
Lord Gammonshire - The Uncivil Servant ("Lord Gammonshire's Guide to Everyday Sounds" 2009 Bristol, UK)
Children of Leir - Shades (digital single 2016, Leicester, UK)
Sun Mahshene - A Morphing Hydrogenous Bubble Exploding In Your Head Jam ("On Blood" EP 2015 Dublin, Ireland)
Love - You Set the Scene ("Forever Changes" LP 1967 Los Angeles, USA)
Astralasia - Journey of the Sorcerer ("The Fruits De Mer Records Guide to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" 7" EP 2016 UK)
This show leaned more towards garage than psych for a little while, compliments of lots of new goodies to play - Adelaide's The Systemaddicts kicked things off with their latest album, "Broken Hearted on the Nullarbor", followed by a couple of new releases from State Records, by The Embrooks (UK) and The Missing Souls (France), and squeezed in the middle was a track from Juliette Seizure and the Tremor Dollsdebut long-player, "Chewing Out Your Rhythm on My Bubblegum."Somehow I managed to play THREE Tyrnaround tracks, twice from their classic 12" EP, as well as a cover of the title-track, "Colour Your Mind" by Vibravoid! And I musn't forget a selection from Sidewalk Society's new 4-track 7" EP, which is one of Fruits De Mer Records latest crop of releases - with more to be featured next week. Some "soon-to-be" releases from Heaters, Elkhorn and Drakkar Nowhere rounded out the show: luckily this entry didn't take as long to put together as the last one! Enjoy!
The Systemaddicts - Prison ("Broken Hearted on the Nullarbor" 2016 Adelaide, Australia)
Goldfrapp - Lovely Head ("Felt Mountain" 2000 UK)
Tyrnaround - Carroll by Candlelight ("Colour Your Mind" 12" EP 1986 Brisbane, Australia)
The Embrooks - Nightmare (7" single 2016 UK)
Juliette Seizure and the Tremor Dolls - Self-Defeating Blues ("Chewing Out Your Rhythm on My Bubblegum" 2016 Adelaide, Australia)
The Missing Souls - The Alligator (7" single 2016 Lyon, France)
The Chemistry Set - Albert Hoffman ("The Endless More and More" LP 2016 UK/Spain)
Sidewalk Society - Can't Help Thinking About Me [David Bowie and The Lower Third] (7" 4-track EP 2016 California, USA)
Ultravox! - ROckwrok ("Ha!-Ha!-Ha!" LP 1977 UK)
The Spikes - Spy In My House ("Colour In A Black Forest" LP 1986 Adelaide, Australia)
Elephant Stone - Love the Sinner, Hate the Sin ("Elephant Stone" 2013 Montreal, Canada)
The Merry-Go-Round - Listen, Listen (7" single 1968 Los Angeles, USA)
The Lovetones - The Colour and the Cut ("Meditations" 2005 Melbourne, Australia)
The Liminanas - Longanisse ("Crystal Anis" 2012 Perpignan, France)
Trabants - Mecca ("Freakout" 2015 Los Angeles, USA)
Tyrnaround - Francis [Gary Walker] ("Colour Your Mind" 12" EP 1986 Brisbane, Australia)
Fuzz - Let It Live ("Fuzz II" 2015, Los Angeles, USA)
Drakkar Nowhere - Higher Now ("Drakkar Nowhere" (to be released September 2016) New York, USA)
The Love Explosion - Wonderful Wonderful Wonderful ("Movies in Your Mind" 2016 Leichardt, New South Wales, Australia)
Elkhorn - Seed ("Elkhorn" (to be released August 2016) New York, USA)
Frantic Chant - Spellbound ("Active Listener Sampler #42" 2016 Scotland, UK)
Opus 1 - Back Seat '38 Dodge (7" single 1966 Los Angeles, USA)
More dreadful weather, internet outages, and a weekend away up in the big smoke to DJ at Wintersteady has meant a really big delay for this week's blog post...so no more prevarication, here it is, and on with the next one!
Vibravoid - Listen, Can't you Hear ("Delirio Dei Sensi" 2013 Dusseldorf, Germany)
Ola And the Janglers - We've Got a Groovy Thing Goin' [Paul Simon] ("Lime Light" LP 1966 Stockholm, Sweden)
Blush Response - The City Will Eat Itself ("Wintersteady - Going Steady Mix Tape #7" 2016 Adelaide, Australia)
The Misunderstood - I Can Take You to the Sun (7" single 1966 US/UK)
Holy Cosmos - Hurricane Fighter Plane [Red Krayola] ("The Psychedelic Sounds of the Blog That Celebrates Itself Vol. III" 2015 Mexico City, Mexico)
The Luck Of Eden Hall - Another High Speed Blowout ("Acceleration of Time" LP 2016 Chicago, USA)
Procul Harum - Shine On Brightly ("Shine On Brightly" LP 1968 UK)
Monochromatic Visions - Don't Let Your Youth Go To Waste ("Blue Thunder - A Tribute to Galaxie 500" compilation 2016 Athens, Greece)
Warm Sounds - Nite Is A Comin' (7" single 1967 UK)
Mystic Brew - Something More Than A Dream ("Something More Than a Dream" LP 2015 Russia)
Polska Radio One - Volga ("North Berry EP" 2014 Yekaterinburg, Russia)
Sun Mahshene - No Control (demo) ("Dog's Got A Bone #5" compilation 2016 Dublin, Ireland)
Dream Sick - Dig ("Last Little Bit" 2014 Tucson, Arizona, USA)
Violet Swells - Strange, Strange Design (CD Single 2016 Hobart, Australia)
As promised a few weeks ago, this show featured some more selections from the excellent hard-back book and double CD set "A Seance At Syd's", which has now sold out, unfortunate indeed if you wanted to buy a copy, but great for Mega Dodo Records, who released the package. The 300-page book, which was written by Dave Thompson, is described as "an anthology of modern acid-folk-haunt-psych-prog-space-kraut-radiophonic-rock etc quotes, words, wit and wisdom." Over 80 different performers, bands, record label heads and artists participated in the project, and it's a very entertaining read about life in the music industry, among other topics, with the 40 tracks across the 2 CD's acting as a soundtrack to your reading experience. A pleasure to listen to and read, with some fantastic discoveries, and re-discoveries made in the process!
Another new favourite that's just popped up on my radar, is Orgasmo Sonore, aka Frank Rideau, via his track "Turkish Psych" which appeared on the last Active Listener compilation. His latest release "Revisiting Obscure Library Music" is the most recent in a series of 4 LP's of interpretations of obscure soundtracks and other instrumentals, with the track I played taken from the upcoming LP "Themes International" due out any week now. Check him out, you won't be sorry! So here's the playlist, with moving pictures and stuff...
Roxy Music - In Every Dream Home A Heartache ("For Your Pleasure" LP 1973 UK)
The Balloon Farm - A Question of Temperature (7" single 1967 New Jersey, USA)
The Music Machine - You'll Love me Again ("Bonniwell Music Machine" LP 1968 [2014 reissue bonus track] Los Angeles, USA)
The Barbarellatones - Psychedelic Freakout ("Glitter Train" 2016 Hawaii, USA)
Midwich Youth Club - A Mind Made Of ("A Seance at Syd's" [hardback book + 2 CD set] 2015 Birmingham, UK)
David Devant and His Spirit Wife and the Mystery Fax Machine Orchestra - Miracles Happen (Worshiping in Silence) ("A Seance at Syd's" [hardback book + 2 CD set] 2015 Brighton, UK)
The Aurapool - Furry Fury Tango ("The Earth Above the Sky Below: Your Psych Tunes Vol 3" compilation 2007 Fort Lauderdale, Florida USA)
The Hare and the Moon - Bard of Eve ("Wood Witch" 2015 UK)
Vibravoid - What You Want ("Psychedelic Blueprints: An Introspection of the Years 2000-2013" 2016 Dusseldorf, Germany)
Les Annees - Catherine Fields ("Les Annees" 2009 Melbourne, Australia)
Balduin - Wind in the Willows ("Rainbow Tapes" 2009 Switzerland)
The Creatures Of The Golden Dawn - It Will All End in Tears anyway ("Tripping" 2016 Pennsylvania, USA)
Diamond Incarnation - Spacespin ("Scorpio 15" EP 2014 Taipei, Taiwan)
Los VV's - Fancy Cars ("Los VV's" digital EP 2015 Paris, France)
Community Radio canbe fraught with challenges, not the least technical ones... I seemed to be beset with these from the start of the show, unfortunately having to cancel my scheduled interview with The Citradels, and things got worse from there, with CD players and computer refusing to work!. But no matter, it's all a challenge, and things seemed to come good in the end (but only after the hastily grabbed Scientist's 7" "stuck" due to overuse!). The show featured a Residents/Beatles double-play of "Flying", a hell of a lot of songs that started and ended in phasing, feedback and backwards effects, and much, much more. Who knows what will happen next week? While I ponder that question, here's the playlist.....
The Scientists - We Had Love (7" single 1983 Australia)
The Besnard Lakes - Golden Lion ("A Coliseum Complex Museum" 2016 Montreal, Canada)
Climax - You ... I (7" single 1969 Belgium)
Procession - Mind Magician ("Procession" LP 1968 Melbourne, Australia)
Paul's Collection - What Have I Done? (7" single [b-side to "Time for a Change"] 1971 Belgium)
The Wheelers of Oz - Revivalised ("Revivalised" 2015 Perth, Australia)
Scantharies - Berlin ("The Scantharies" 2012 Italy)
Thee Pink Stainless Tail - Gottzar ("Tomorrow is Today: A Tribute to the Australian Psychedelic Scene 1966-70" 2007 Melbourne, Australia)
Charlie and the Moonhearts - Deathstar Pt 1 / Pt 2 ("Moonhearts" 2010 USA)
The Paisleytones - Devil Stole my Surfboard ("Happening" 2006 Adelaide, Australia) The Tomorrowmen - Hemispherical Synchronization ("Futourism" 2010 San Francisco, USA)
The Citradels - Honey ("Are They Still Here?" 2016 Melbourne, Australia)
Afterglow - Susie's Gone ("Afterglow" LP UK 1968)
Preston - This World is Closing In On Me (7" single 1967 USA)
Sheetah et les Weismuller - My Little Red Book [Love] ("Hola Ye-Yeah!" 2008 France)
The Aardvarks - Arthur C. Clarke ("Arthur C. Clarke" 7" EP 1989 London, UK)
The Night Beats - The 7 Poison Wonders ("Sonic Bloom" 2013 Seattle USA)
The Residents - Flying [Beatles] ("The Beatles Play the Residents and The Residents Play The Beatles" 7" single 1977 USA)
Even - Living in a Child's Dream [Masters Apprentices] ("Tomorrow is Today: A Tribute to the Australian Psychedelic Scene 1966-70" Melbourne, Australia)
The Sun Blindness - Crack in the Concrete ("Like Pearly Clouds" 2008 Melbourne, Australia)
Velvet Moth - TV Troll ("Velvet Moth" 2014, Adelaide, Australia)
Vibravoid - Optical Sound [Human Expression] ("Colour Your Mind" 7" EP 2013 Düsseldorf, Germany)
93 Million Miles From the Sun - Waiting There("Northern Sky" 2011 Doncaster UK)
In Zaire - Mercury ("Sound of Cobra Sampler Vol.1" 2014 Germany)
