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

Technicolour Dreaming

It is appropriate that this edition’s Compilation of the Week is the 2014 Electric Sound Show 5-CD box-set, a series that describes itself as ‘An Assortment of Antiquities for the Psychedelic Connoisseur’, which, in part, is what we aim to play for our listeners each week, along with  more recent releases we pick from the current psychedelic outpouring and its 20^th century predeccessors! It has a slightly murky history (you try getting any CONSISTENT, accurate information about this series on the internet!) with the first instalment of the original vinyl series, the “We All Live On Candy Green” LP, put out by Soundshow Records in 2004, followed by “In King Solomon’s Minds” in 2010. The next LP was “Apricot Hash in the Hourglass” in 2011, “Paper Thoughts of Polly Pan” (2013) and finishing with “Green Eyed Gods of Smoke” (also 2013). The set covers rare 60’s psychedelia from Britain and the USA, plus what is variously described as ‘Pop-Psych’, ‘Mindblowing Nuggets’ and ‘Heavy Psychedelic Stoners’ from the rest of the world. The limited edition 5CD box set released by Particles Records that is our particular focus this week is based on the original vinyl albums, but with some different tracks to confuse the issue.... whatever, it is a great boxset, and deserved its place as our feature. Another highlight was a rare interview with Nick of Adelaide’s Molting Vultures... much merriment ensued as he regaled us with tales of the music scene in Melbourne where he now resides. This move several years ago means however that the Molting Vultures now only play occasionally in either city, but have a great turnout of loyal garage-psych aficionados whenever they appear and hopefully a new album release will also ensue in the not too distant future with Nick promising he has some new songs ready for the band to develop. For the rest of our playlist simply see below, and so until next Tuesday, between 2 and 4pm (Central Australian Time) on 3D Radio, we bid you “adieu”.....

...... and here’s the complete song-list, including some associated clips, including scenes from the Cat & Brat's wedding performance of 'Life On The Dole' with the Molting Vultures, the complete Andy Warhol tribute, “Songs for Drella”, played live in 1990 by John Cale and Lou Reed, plus an episode of Julian Cope's "Modern Antiquarian" TV show..... Enjoy!!

Three Minute Tease - Bravely Fade Away      ("Bite the Hand"  2014 UK)

Pinkunoizu - The Abyss      ("Free Time" 2013 Denmark)

White Noise - Phase In – Firebird     ("An Electric Storm" 1969 UK)

Halasan Bazar and Tara King th. - Ventolin     ("8" LP 2014 Denmark/France)

the Molting Vultures - Here Come the Mushroom People    ("Drop in and Go" 2009 Adelaide, Australia)

Interview with Nick Molty of  the Molting Vultures 

Peter Brat and the Molting Vultures - Life on the Dole      (7"single 2010 Adelaide, Australia)

Lothar and the Hand People - Sex and Violence     ("Presenting ... Lothar and the Hand People" LP 1968 New York, USA)

Dodson and Fogg [feat. Nigel Planer] - Entrepreneur in the Garden      ("In a Strange Slumber" 2014 UK)

Octopus Syng - Listen to the Moths      ("Reverberating Garden Number 7”  2014 Helsinki)

Julian Cope - Psychedelic Odin      ("Trip Advizer" 2015 UK)

the Icy Poles - Sugar and Spice      ("Antipodean Interpolations of the First Psychedelic Era" 2013 Aust)

Baby Grandmothers - Being is More than Life     (7"single 1968 Sweden)

the Black Hollies - No Illusion      ("Somewhere Between Here and Nowhere" USA 2013)

Dave Clark Five - Lost In His Dreams     ("Everybody Knows" LP 1968 UK)

Jacco Gardner - All Over      ("Hypnophobia" 2015 Netherlands )

the Wands - The Name of the Mountain      ("The Dawn" 2015 Denmark)

COMPILATION OF THE WEEK  

“ELECTRIC SOUND SHOW: An Assortment of Antiquities for the Psychedelic Connoisseur”   [5-CD boxset 2013 UK]

Tapestry - Who Wants Happiness      (7" single b-side (to Heart and Soul) 1969 UK : taken from CD1 - We All Live on Candy Green)

the Avengers - Listen, Listen      (7" single 1969 Wellington, New Zealand : taken from CD 2 - In King Solomon's Minds)

American Revolution - Opus #1      (7”single 1969 USA : taken from CD 3 - Apricot Hash on the Hourglass)

Tages - You're Too Incomprehensible    (7”single 1968 Sweden - taken from CD 4 : Paper Thoughts of Polly Pan)

William Sheller - Living East, Dreaming West (7"single b-side (to She Opened the Door) 1970 France - taken from CD 5 : Green Eyed Gods of Smoke)

Jacques Dutronc  - Hippie Hourrah      (7"EP  b-side [to “La Publicité"] 1968 France – taken from "Jacques Dutronc" LP 1968 France)

Lou Reed and John Cale - Work      ("Songs For Drella" CD/DVD 1990 USA)

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

plus.....

Technicolour Dreaming

There was a plethora of 1960’s goodness in this edition of Technicolour Dreaming with the centrepiece being our featured Compilation of the Week, "2131 South Michigan Avenue : 60's Garage and Psychedelia from U.S.A. and Destination Records", a double-CD from America  released in 2009 by Sundazed Records, certainly one of the leading, and most interesting, reissue labels around today. This particular compilation features a few bands you may recognise, such as the Cryan’ Shames and Park Avenue Playground, but many you probably don’t but should – for example the excellent Daughters of Eve and the Lost Agency – and that’s the fun of these type of ‘rarities’ compilations, finding great bands you’ve not heard before. Zooming to current releases, we played a tracks from the long-awaited and finally soon-to-be-released new album from Dutch psych hero, Jacco Gardner and the “Crocodilians” LP by the UK’s Moth Effect, plus recent releases from bands such as Psychic Ills, My Expansive Awareness, Vibravoid and France’s Moodoid, amongst a bunch of other delights. So, until next week.....

..... here is the playlist, complete with sundry visuals.....

Wall of Voodoo - Ring of Fire [Johnny Cash cover]      ("Wall of Voodoo" EP 1980 USA)

Moodoid [featuring Melody's Echo Chamber] - Le lac d'or       (digital single 2105 Paris, France)

Southern Gentlemen - I Want You Back Again      (7" single 1966 Adelaide, Australia)

We All Together - Tomorrow [Paul & Linda McCartney cover]      ("We All Together" LP 1972 Peru)

Psychic Ills – Come Around       (recorded 2014 USA – taken from “Psych For Sore Eyes 2” compilation 2014 Germany)

Vibravoid - Rheinflow      (7"single 2015 Dusseldorf, Germany)

My Expansive Awareness - Garage and Marijuana      ("Uroboros" 2014 Zaragoza, Spain)

the Magnetic Mind - Stay Away From The Door      (recorded London, UK for "The Active Listener Sampler 8" compilation 2013 New Zealand)

Jacco Gardener - Find Yourself      ("Hypnophobia" [pre-release] 2015 Netherlands)

Boeing Duveen and the Beautiful Soup - Jabberwock      (7" single 1968 UK)

Eternal Tapestry - When I Was In Your Mind      ("A World Out Of Time" 2012 Portland USA)

Palace of Light - Books       (7" single b-side [to Catherine] UK - 2015 reissue of 1991 release)    

the Left Banke - Shadows Breaking Over My Head      ("Walk Away Renee/Pretty Ballerina" LP 1967 USA)

James McKeown and the Negative Drivers - I See The Rain Again [Marmalade cover]       ("Active Listener : Record Store Day 2013" compilation 2103 New Zealand)

Compilation of the Week

"2131 South Michigan Avenue : 60's Garage and Psychedelia from U.S.A. and Destination Records" – double-CD pack

the Shady Daze - I'll Make You Pay     (7”single b-side [to Love is a Beautiful Thing] 1967 USA – taken from "2131 South Michigan Avenue : 60's Garage and Psychedelia from U.S.A. and Destination Records" compilation 2009 USA - disc 1)

Lord of the Flies - You Made a Fool of Me       (7"single Indiana, USA – taken from disc 2)

the Cryan' Shames  - Ben Franklin's Almanac     (7”single b-side [to Sugar & Spice] 1966 USA taken from disc 1)

the Daughters of Eve - Help Me Boy [Animals cover]      (7”single 1967 USA – taken from disc 2)

the Lost Agency - Time to Dream      (7”single 1967 USA – taken from disc 1)

Park Avenue Playground - The Trip      (7”single b-side [to I Know] 1968 USA – taken from disc 2)

    [the Daughters of Eve Radio Spot 1967]        (taken from disc 2)

White Manna - Acid Head      ("White Manna" 2012 California, USA)

Bleeding Knees Club - It's-A-Happening [Magic Mushrooms cover]      ("Nuggets: Antipodean Interpolations of the First Psychedelic Era" double-LP compilation 2012 Australia)

Traffic - Paper Sun       (7" single 1967 UK)

Moth Effect - Ghosts Afraid of the Dark      ("Crocodilians" 2015 UK)

White Noise - Black Mass: [Electric Storm in Hell]      ("An Electric Storm" 1969 UK)