Technicolour Dreaming

Community Radio can be 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) 

 

Beatles - Flying  ("Magical Mystery Tour" LP 1967 UK)

 

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) 


Frowning Clouds - Mayan Calender Girl  ("Whereabouts" 2013 Melbourne, Australia) 

 

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Work This Time  ("Oddments" 2014 Australia)

 

The Laurels - Tidal Wave  ("Plains" 2012 Sydney, Australia)

 

Dungen - Familj  ("Tio Bitar" 2007 Stockholm, Sweden)

 

Sky Saxon - Pushin' Too Hard  (7" single 2007 USA)

Technicolour Dreaming

Regular listeners will be aware of our fondness for rarities, and this week we had a couple of brilliant examples. Firstly, we played from the new Orgone Box LP, a re-issue of Rick Corcoran’s classic 2001 album which includes remixes, re-recordings and an extra track from a 1996 Japanese-only EP, which was of course the song we played. We followed that with a lost Curt Boettcher-produced single from 1967, by our favourite ex-Byrd Gene Clark, which was unreleased at the time but finally issued by the fine people at Sundazed in 2008. Finally, towards the end of the show, we featured a track by Thomas Edisun’s Electric Light Bulb Band from their never-released 1967 pop-psych masterpiece, “The Red Day Album”, which was issued by Gear Fab records earlier this year. Then there were tracks by Eternal Tapestry, Holy Wave, the Left Banke, the Moles and many more, before finishing with UK outfit, the Sunchymes, as well as a song by Death In June, as a prelude to our forthcoming interview with Douglas P. next week.....

..... so here is the playlist, with accompanying visuals.....

Sendelica – Zhyly Byly      (“The Fabled Voyages of the Sendelicans” LP anthology 2014 Wales, UK)

Ant-Bee – Love Is Only Sleeping [Monkees cover]      (“Lunar Muzik” 1997 USA)

the Yardbirds – Little Soldier Boy      (“Little Games” LP 1967 UK)

Eternal Tapestry – Cosmic Manhunt      (“Beyond The 4^th Door” 2011 USA)

the Sun Blindness – A Trip in a Painted World      (“Like Pearly Clouds” 2008 Australia)

Faust – It’s a Rainy Day, Sunshine Girl      (“So Far” LP 1972 Germany)

Lords of Gravity – Where You Gonna Run      (“Contact” 2005 Australia)

Holy Wave – Do You Feel It?      (“Relax” 2013 USA)

Chris Malcolm – Hurt, Love & Fire      (7”single b-side [to Trip on Life] 1968 Australia/USA)

the Allah-Las – Every Girl      (7”single b-side [to Had It All] 2014 California, USA)

Graham Day & the Forefathers – Love Me Lies      (7”single 2014 UK)

New Electric Ride – Mr Bumblebee      (“New Electric Ride EP” 2013 UK)

the Left Banke – I’ve Got Something On My Mind      (7”single b-side [to Desireé] 1967 New York, USA)

Camera – People Are Strange [Doors cover]      (“A Psych Tribute To The Doors” compilation 2014 USA)

Moon Duo – Zoned      (split-7”single [with Psychic Ills] 2012 USA)

Orgone Box – Ticket With No Return      (orig. released 1996 in Japan only – taken from “Centaur” LP re-issue 2014 UK)

Gene Clark – Only Colombe      (recorded 1967 USA, unreleased – issued on 7”single 2008 USA)

Pinkunoizu – The Great Pacific Garbage Patch      (“The Drop” LP 2013 USA)

Zhol Caravan – Planet Earth      (“Electrip” LP 1969 Germany)

Françoise Hardy – Song of Winter      (“One-Nine-Seven-Zero” LP 1969 France)

Dickens – Genocide      (“Royal Incarnation” LP 1969 France)

les   Limiñanas – Votre Coté Yéyé M’emmerde      (“Costa Blanca” 2013 Perpignan, France)

Death In June – Idolatry      (”Rule of Thirds” 2008 Adelaide, Australia)

Pure Bathing Culture – Dream the Dare      (“Moon Tides” 2013 USA)

the Moles – Brain Garden      (“The Future Sounds of Ashton” 2010 Wales, UK)

Thomas Edisun’s Electric Light Bulb Band – Have You Been to the Light      (recorded 1967 – released as “The Red Album” 2014 USA)

the Sunchymes – Revelations In Her Mind      (“Let Your Free Flag Fly” 2012 Northampton, UK)

Technicolour Dreaming

Regular listeners to 3D Radio will be aware of the Cat and the Brat’s penchant for compilations, anthologies and boxsets and our fondness for the unjustly obscure, whether it be old or new. This week we continued on our never-ending quest to share such aural delights with our listeners, starting with a track from the latest album by American psych outfit, Eternal Tapestry... and from there it went all over the place, including songs from two new Adelaide bands, Angels of Gungho and the Solar City and another from the excellent debut by Melody’s Echo Chamber. As always there were a few songs from better known artists, in this case T.Rex, the Walker Brothers and the Rolling Stones, plus a couple of Nico tunes, before we ventured off into lesser known territory with Simon & de Sade and the Ronnie James Reincarnation from the wonderful Electric Sound Show compilation boxset and the Moods from the new Nuggets Down Under selection. As promised last week we played the conclusion to the Lost’s ‘Space Kids’ radio serial... and were relieved that little Jimmy made it back to Earth unharmed after saving the world! [heh heh!]

Of course there was plenty more, so check out the playlist and associated clips.......

Eternal Tapestry – The Weird Stone      (‘A World Out Of Time’ 2012 USA)

Baptism of Uzi – Baby, Please Don’t Go [Them/Shadows of Knight cover]      (recorded 2012 Melbourne, Australia – taken from ‘Nuggets: Antipodean Interpolations of the First Psychedelic Era’ compilation/tribute 2012 Australia)

the Sun Blindness – Journey Through the Valley of O      (‘Far Arden’ 2010 Melbourne, Aust.)

the Rolling Stones – Child of the Moon      (7”single b-side [ to Jumpin’ Jack Flash] 1968 UK)

Baby Woodrose – I Need      (7”single b-side [to Take It] 2011 Denmark]

T.Rex – Ride a White Swan       (7”single 1970 UK)

Six Organs of Admittance – One Thousand Birds      (‘Ascent’ 2012 USA)

Ty Segall – LoveFuzz      (‘Twins’ 2012 California, USA)

Angels of Gungho – Walk the Plank      (‘Fire in the Sea’ EP 2013 Adelaide, Aust.)

Nico – These Days [Jackson Browne cover]      (‘Chelsea Girls’ LP 1967 USA)

Dean & Britta – I’ll Keep It With Mine [Dylan/Nico cover]      (‘13 Most Beautiful... Songs for Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests’ 2010 USA)

the Walker Brothers – Archangel      (7”single b-side [to Deadlier Than the Male] 1966 USA/UK)

Merrell Fankhauser & HMS Bounty – A Visit With Ashiya      (‘Things’ LP 1968 USA)

the Solar City – Medusa      (demo 2013 Adelaide, Aust.)

the Black Lips – Bicentennial Man      (‘Arabia Mountain’ 2011 USA)

the Moods – Rum Drunk      (7”single 1966 Melbourne – taken from ‘Down Under Nuggets: Original Australian Artyfacts 1965-1967’ compilation 2012 Australia)

the United States of Existence – Return to the Psychedelic      (‘Battle of the Garages Vol. 1’ compilation LP 1981 USA)

the Lost – Space Kids [Part 2]      (recorded 1967 – taken from ‘Flat Earth Society/the Lost’ reissue/compilation  1993 USA)

the Warlocks – Isolation      (7”single 2006 USA)

Melody’s Echo Chamber – You Won’t Be Missing That Part of Me      (‘Melody’s Echo Chamber’ 2012 France/Australia)

Simon & de Sade – Girl      (7”single double A-side [with Green Green Grass] 1969 Australia)

Ray Brown & the Whispers – That’s Evil      (‘Pride’ EP 1966 Australia)

Ronnie James Reincarnation – Is This the Only Life You’ve Had      (7”single b-side [to Jingle Jangle]

1969 UK – taken from ‘Electric Sound Show’ compilation boxset 2012 UK)

Jacques Dutronc – L’Augmentation      (‘Jacques Dutronc’ LP 1967 France)

the Tages – You’re Too Incomprehensible      (‘Studio’ LP 1967 Gothenburg, Sweden)

La Dusseldorf – Viva/White Overalls      (‘Viva’ LP 1978 Germany)