Technicolour Dreaming

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)

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We’ve been asked from time to time where we find the music we bring to you each week on Technicolour Dreaming. Well, it comes from a wide range of sources - some from our own home vinyl, CD, tape and digital collection, some from the huge 3D Radio Library [90,000 items and growing!], local demos and pre-releases we are given, mp3 downloads by musicians around the world from sites such as Bandcamp or compilations on blogs such as ‘The Active Listener’, plus promo releases from independent record companies such as the UK’s Fruits de Mer and State Records, or Australia’s Walking Bird and Smashed Records, not forgetting being given their latest releases by artists such as Death In June, the Byzantines, Subtract-S and the Dunes when they come in to join us on the show. So you can see that with such diverse resources, there never seems to be enough time each week to play everything we want to... which just adds to the fun – there’s always more fine music out there to discover and to share.....

..... so here is this week’s playlist, with some associated visuals.....

the Dials – Rose Marie      (“The End of the Pier” 2013 Brighton, UK)

Country Joe & the Fish – Section 43      (recorded live 1967 – taken from “Monterey International Pop Festival” compilation 2007 USA)

the Blue Giant Zeta Puppies – ‘Lost In Space’ TV Theme [John Williams cover]      (“Fruits de Mer 2014 Annual” compilation EP 2013 UK)

Man or Astro-man? – Taxidermist Surf      (“Is it... Man or Astro-man?” 1993 Alabama, USA)

Sisters Of Your Sunshine Vapor – Black Mind      (“Spectra Spirit” 2011 Detroit, USA – taken from “The Active Listener Psychedelic Sampler Vol.2” compilation 2012 New Zealand)

John Foxx – Shifting City      (“Subterranean Omnidelic Exotour” 1997 UK)

 

Ultravox! – Saturday Night in the City of the Dead      (“Ultravox!” LP 1977 UK)

the Hoodoo Gurus – (Let’s All) Turn On      (“Stoneage Romeos” LP 1984 Australia)

Wooden Shjips – These Shadows      (“Back to Land” 2013 California, USA)

WJLP – The Moon King      (“Bad News Baby” 2013 Netherlands)

Nilsson – You Can’t Do That [Beatles cover]      (“Pandemonium Shadow Show” LP 1967 California, USA)

Dead Horse One – Undone      (“Dead Horse One/Dead Mantra” split EP 2012 France)

the Aerovons – The Years      (“Resurrection” LP 1969 USA/UK)

the Left Banke – Shadows Breaking Over My Head      (“Walk Away Renee/Pretty Ballerina” LP 1967 New York City, USA)

the Byrds – Have You Seen Her Face      (“Younger Than Yesterday” LP 1967 USA)

the Ruby Suns – My Ten Years on Auto-Pilot      (“The Ruby Suns” 2006 New Zealand)

the Black Hollies – Here Comes the Rain      (7”single 2013 USA)

Todd Rundgren – Saving Grace/Little Red Lights      (“Something/Anything” double-LP 1972 USA)

the Rain Parade – This Can’t Be Today      (“Emergency Third Rail Power Trip” LP 1983 Los Angeles, USA)

the Dunes – Red Leaves       (“La Musique Nouveau” EP 2013 Adelaide, Australia)

the Asteroid #4 – Ode to Cosmo      (“The Asteroid #4” LP 2013 Philadelphia, USA)

Jonathan Wilson – Desert Trip      (“Fanfare” 2013 USA)

the Night Beats – Playin’ Dead      (“Sonic Bloom” 2013 Seattle, USA)

the Beep Seals – I Dreamt a Metal Hat      (“Things That Roar” 2008 UK)

Merrell Fankhauser & HMS Bounty – Lost In The City      (“Things” LP 1967 USA)

the Striped Bananas – Oasis of Time      (“Lady Sunshine” 2013 USA)

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We had a plethora of eagerly awaited releases to play this week, including tracks from the brand new Wooden Shjips and les Limiñanas LPs, plus, from the Sandgate Studios in the UK, new albums by the Higher State and Groovy Uncle featuring Suzi Chunk – Cat & Brat faves all! We were also pleased to discover, from Italy, the debut LP by Milan’s Selfish Cales whose earlier EPs had quite a bit of airplay here on 3D Radio, plus the latest album by the Dials and an Asteroid #4 EP from May this year, as well as tracks from a few of our favourite vinyl labels such as Fruits de Mer and the Reverberation Appreciation Society. Of course there was also some 60’s goodness from artists such as Dave Davies, Johnny Young and Evariste, with more cuts from the Dandelion, Sky Picnic and Black Hollies albums and finishing with Adelaide’s own Black Coral, before we once again ran out of time! So until next week.....

...... here is the playlist plus a few vital visuals.....

Wings – Venus and Mars (reprise)/Spirits of Ancient Egypt      (“Venus and Mars” LP 1975 UK)

the Asteroid #4 – Windmill of the Autumn Sky      (“Windmill of the Autumn Sky” EP 2013 USA)

the Dandelion – Here Comes Love      (“Strange Case of the Dandelion” 2013 Australia)

the Night Beats – The Seven Poison Wonders      (“Sonic Bloom” 2013 USA)

Jay Tausig – The Glorious Om Riff [Gong cover]      (“Shrunken Head Music – Fruits de Mer Records compilation” EP 2013 UK)

Allen Pound’s Get Rich – Searchin’ in the Wilderness      (7”single 1966 UK)

Dave Davies – Creeping Jean      (7”single b-side [to Hold My Hand] 1969 UK)

Wooden Shjips – Servants      (“Back To Land” 2013 San Francisco, USA)

West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band – Smell of Incense      (“Vol. 2” LP 1967 Los Angeles, USA)

the Higher State – Sky Clears to Blue      (“The Higher State” LP 2013 Kent, UK)

Groovy Uncle with Suzi Chunk – Neptune Girl      (“One Vowel Away From the Truth” LP 2013 UK)

the Dials – A Good Flying Day/Show at the End of the Pier      (“The End of the Pier” 2013 Brighton, UK)

the Luck of Eden Hall – Bangalore      (“The Luck of Eden Hall” EP 2012 USA)

Mikal Cronin – Weight      (“MC11” 2013 USA)

les Limiñanas – My Black Sabbath      (“Costa Blanca” LP 2013 Perpignan, France)

Sky Picnic – Freak Out Ethel      (“Paint Me a Dream” LP 2013 USA)

the Selfish Cales – State of Eternity      (“Light Worms & Old Dancing Ladies” 2013 Turin, Italy)

Johnny Young – Craise Finton Kirk [Bee Gees cover]      (7”single 1967 Australia)

Évariste – To The Fans      (“E=MC2” EP 1967 France – taken from “Do You Know The Beast?” anthology LP 2011 France)

the Monkees – All Of Your Toys (alt. mix)      (recorded 1967, unreleased – bonus track on  “Headquarters” reissue 1995 USA)

the Story UK – ‘Roundabout      (“Joy Ride On Memory Lane” 2011 UK)

the Black Hollies – Lunatic Influenza (suite) : Part 1-Yesterday’s Sorrows (the past is washed away with change)/Part 2-Take Me as I Am/Part 3-Path into the Sun      (“Somewhere Between Here & Nowhere” LP 2013 USA)

Black Coral – Swollen      (demo 2013 Adelaide, Australia)