Technicolour Dreaming

It was the day of “the race that stops Australia”, the Melbourne Cup, but here on 3D Radio, the only Race Horses to be heard were the Welsh band who started the show! Instead, our feature this week was the UK vinyl-only record label Fruits de Mer, which has been one of the foremost exponents of the recent revival of vinyl singles and albums in popular culture, with a brilliant range of beautifully packaged, limited edition, variously coloured vinyl slabs of psychedelia, Krautrock, r&b, progressive and spacerock goodness. From their catalogue, we played tracks of various genres and locales including the Netherlands’ Jack Ellister and Spain’s Stay as well as a new mix of Vibravoid’s swirling cover of Tyrnaround’s ‘Colour Your Mind’, the album version of which we played earlier this year – great stuff! Speaking of cover versions, we featured a few this week, including a great version of a Marmalade pop-psych classic by James McKeown, Crystal Jacqueline’s lovely take on a Second Hand song and Ty Segall’s new vehicle Fuzz doing King Crimson’s “21^st Century Schizoid Man” on the b-side of their new single. Of course we also played  some more tracks from the “Wizzz! psychorama francais - Vol.1” compilation LP, a new track from Dark Ocean Colors, a suite from Chad & Jeremy’s 1968 psych pop LP masterpiece “The Ark”, a new demo from the Barbarellatones in which they channel Andy’n’Edie..... and lots more.....

..... so here is the playlist plus instructive visuals.....

Race Horses – Cake      (“Goodbye Falkenburg” 2010 Wales, UK)

Vibravoid – Colour Your Mind [Tyrnaround cover]      (7”single 2013 Germany)

Morgan Delt – Barbarian Kings      (7”single 2013 USA)

Lightships – Sweetness In Her Spark      (“Electric Cables” 2013 UK)

Shocking Blue – Acka Raga      (“At Home” LP 1969 Holland)

Jack Ellister – Within You, Without You [Beatles cover]      (“Dawn Dream Club” EP 2013 Netherlands)

James McKeown& the Negative Drivers – See The Rain [Marmalade cover]      (“Happy Record Store Day : Active Listener compilation” download 2013 UK)

Crystal Jacqueline – A Fairy Tale [Second Hand cover]      (“A Fairy Tale” EP 2013 UK)

the Cleves – You & Me      (7”single 1970 New Zealand/Australia)

Chrysalis – Dr Root’s Garden      (“Definition” LP 1968 USA)

Fuschia – Girl from Kandahar      (mp3 2013 UK)

White Sails – The Answer      (“Laguna Sunrise” EP 2013 USA/Finland)

Fuzz – 21^st Century Schizoid Man [King Crimson cover]      (7”single b-side [to Sunderberry Dream] 2013 California, USA)

Dark Ocean Colors – When Both Our Worlds Collide      (“Close Enough to See” 2013 USA)

Devonian Gardens – Swallow the Sun      (“Solar Shifting” 2013 Calvary, Canada)

Chad & Jeremy – The Emancipation of Mr X / Sunstroke / The Ark      (“The Ark” LP 1968 UK)

Vintage Cucumber – Mondsucht      (“MC Goyl Style” 2012 Germany)

the Deep – Psychedelic Moon      (“Psychedelic Moods” LP 1966 USA)

101 Strings – Whiplash      (“Astro-Sounds From Before the Year 2000” LP 1967 USA)

It’s All Meat – Make Some Use Of Your Friends      (“It’s All Meat” LP 1970 Canada)

Stéphane Varègues – Le Pape Du Pop      (“Le Pape Du Pop” EP 1967 France – taken from “Wizzz: Psychorama Français 66-71” compilation LP 2001 France)

Messieurs Richard de Bordeaux et Daniel Beretta – Psychose      (“Messieurs Richard de Bordeaux et Daniel Beretta” EP 1967 France)

the Barbarellatones – Run, Rabbit, Run      (mp3 demo 2013 USA)

Stay – If I Needed Someone [Beatles cover]      (“Mersey Dream” EP 2013 Spain)

Lumerians – Koman Tong      (“The High Frontier” 2013 California, USA)

Technicolour Dreaming

With another bunch of CDs and vinyl appearing in our post-box, we were again spoiled with choice this week, playing amongst others, a track each from the new Carlton Melton and Magic Cat albums, a song from ex-Dolly Rocker Movement frontman Daniel Poulter’s new project, the Dandelion, as well as the A-side of Jacco Gardner’s latest single. We also finally received the long-awaited “Wizzz! Volume 1” compilation LP of French 60’s psychedelia which inspired a set of French grooviness from artists such as Les Papyvores, Jacques Dutronc and the inimitable Brigitte Bardot. However, a large hunk of the show was dedicated to the late Lou Reed – we featured songs from his Velvet Underground and solo periods plus a track from his widow, Laurie Anderson, and have included in the ‘moving pictures’ section of this blog, an hilarious TV interview in Sydney at the start of his 1974 tour here – I was fortunate enough to see him in Adelaide where he mixed with some of us in the bar during his support act, AC/DC – a memorable show!

..... and here is the playlist plus the aforementioned clips.....

Carlton Melton – Slow Wake      (“Always Even” 2013 California, USA)

the Walking Who – Have You Seen The Colours?      (“Mansions” EP 2013 Sydney, Australia)

the Towelheads – Hijacked      (“New Centre of the Universe, Vol.2” compilation 2013 Australia)

Race Horses – See No Green      (“Furniture” 2012 Cardiff, UK)

the Magic Cat – She’s Like Danger      (“For Friends Only” LP 2013 Rome, Italy)

the Smoking Trees – Entrance      (“Acetates” 2013 Los Angeles, USA)

Jacco Gardner – The End of August       (7”single 2013 Netherlands)

Lou Reed / John Cale – Hello, It’s Me      (“Songs for Drella” LP 1990 USA)

the Velvet Underground – I’m Beginning to See the Light      (“The Velvet Underground” LP 1969 New York, USA)

the Velvet Underground & Nico – All Tomorrow’s Parties      (“The Velvet Underground & Nico” LP 1967 USA)

the Velvet Underground – Sister Ray      (“White Light/White Heat” LP 1968 USA)

Lou Reed – How Do You Think It Feels?      (“Berlin” LP 1973 New York, USA)

 

Laurie Anderson – Example #22      (“Big Science” LP 1982 USA)

We The People – In The Past      (7”single 1966 Florida, USA)

Blues Section – Hey Hey Hey      (7”single 1967 Helsinki, Finland)

the Scantharies – Feat of Flame      (“The Scantharies” 2013 Greece)

the Stained Glass – My Buddy Sin      (7”single 1966 San Francisco, USA)

the Tuneful Trolley – Hello Love      (“Island in the Sky” LP 1969 Long Island, New York, USA)

Country Weather – Fly to New York      (recorded 1969 San Francisco, unreleased – taken from “Country Weather” double-LP 2005 USA)

the Dandelion – Pleiadian Love Vibrations      (“Strange Case of the Dandelion” 2013 Australia)

Brigitte Bardot – Comic Book      (“Bonnie & Clyde” EP 1968 France)

Christine Pilzer – Champs Elysées      (“Café Crême” EP 1967 France)

Jacques Dutronc – Hippie Hippie Hourrah      (“Jacques Dutronc” LP 1967 France)

William Sheller – Excitissimo      (“Erotissimo” soundtrack EP 1969 France)

Les Papyvores – Le Papyvore      (“Le Papyvore” EP 1967 France)

Les Copains – Give Your Love To Me [Come On]     (7”single 1966 Germany)

Lou Reed – Goodnight Ladies      (“Transformer” LP 1972 New York, USA)

 

      R.I.P.   Lou Reed   1942 – 2013