Technicolour Dreaming

The last show for May seemed to include quite a few bands from New Zealand, some of whom feature in the great compilation series "A Day in My Mind's Mind: 29 Kiwi Psychedelic Trips 1967-72" which is currently up to Volume 4. Psychedelia seems to have been a bit of a "late bloomer" on the Kiwi music scene, with psych tracks regularly in the charts up until the early 70's. Nowadays one of the cities to watch is Edinburgh, in Scotland - the new compilation "5", released by Dog's Got A Bone Records, is an excellent sample of a diverse range of bands, many unsigned or unreleased elsewhere - check out their sampler back-catalogue for more treats ... and this week's Technicolour Dreaming playlist is listed below:-

Hand - N.S.U. [Cream] ("A Day in My Mind's Mind Vol 1: 29 Kiwi Psychedelic Trips 1967-72" 2005 New Zealand)

The Spikes - Give Me Everything  ("Colour In A Black Forest" LP 1986 Adelaide, Australia)
The White Kites  - Love Doctor  ("Love Songs" 7" 2013 Poland)

Human Instinct  - A Day in My Mind's Mind  (7" single 1967 New Zealand)

The Third Eye - Pass Myself (7" single 1982 UK)

Troubled Mind - Finders Keepers  ("A Day in My Mind's Mind Vol 1: 29 Kiwi Psychedelic Trips 1967-72" 2005 New Zealand)

Maston - Wigwam / Well  ("Opal" EP 2011 Los Angeles, USA)

The Wicked Whispers - Amanda Lavender  ("Maps of the Mystic" 2014 UK)

Squire - No Time Tomorrow  (7" single 1982 UK)

The Playboys - Adventures in Paradise  ("The 'Sound Award' Album" LP 1965 Australia)

Pillow - Choirs  (7" single [b-side to "Oh, Carol"] 1968 Sweden)
Borderline Symphony - Crisantemi  ("Borderline Symphony" 2016 Switzerland)

Malka - For Now We Live  ("The Constant State" EP 2015 New York, USA)

Brilliant Beast - Another Day  ("Blue Thunder: A Tribute to Galaxie 500" 2016 Minneapolis, US )

Citrus Clouds - Christine [House of Love]  ("Soft as Fire in the House of Love" 2016 Phoenix, Arizona USA)

Dick Diver - Waste The Alphabet  ("Melbourne, Florida" 2015 Melbourne, Australia)

Dignan Porch - Sixteen Hits  ("Nothing Bad Will Ever Happen" 2012 UK)

Follow Me Not - The Beatles and the Stones [House of Love]  ("Soft As Fire In The House of Love" 2016 Bretagne, France )

Ghost Dance Collective - Byrd-Man  ("5 - Dog's Got a Bone" sampler, 2016 Edinburgh)
The Luck Of Eden Hall - Slow  ("The Acceleration of Time" 2016 Chicago USA)
Malcontent - Blue Thunder  ("Blue Thunder: A Tribute to Galaxie 500" 2016 Porto, Portugal)
Octopus Syng - Unknown Actress  ("Hollow Ghost/Rochelle Salt" LP 2016 Helsinki, Finland)

Peach Kelli Pop - Princess Castle 1987  ("Peach Kelli Pop III" LP 2015 Ottawa, Canada)

Pridjevi - Pjesma O Drveco  ("Pridjevi" 2014 Croatia)

Primitive Parts - Troubles  ("Parts Primitive" 2015 London, UK)

Psyclops Eyepatch - As Haunted As A Thousand Theremins  ("Paranoise" 2013 Sydney, Australia)

Rats on Rafts - The Last Day on Earth  ("Tape Hiss" 2015 Netherlands)

Salad Boys - No Taste Bomber  ("Metalmania" 2015 Christchurch, New Zealand)

The Butterscotch Cathedral - Flood Of Mendoza  ("The Butterscotch Cathedral" 2015 Tucson, Arizona, USA)

The Red Plastic Buddha - Little White Pills  ("Songs For Mara" 2014 Chicago)

The Twistettes - Lampost Light  ("5 - Dog's Got a Bone"  2016 Edinburgh)

The Wands - Sound of the Machine  ("The Dawn" 2014 Copenhagen, Denmark)

Technicolour Dreaming

In an effort to get this long-overdue playlist posted, I'll skip the long, drawn-out intro, and let the music, and the moving pictures, do the talking. The eagle-eyed among you will notice that I played a couple of the same selections from last week - accidentally, I assure you! So until next week...

The Beachnuts- Cycle Annie  ("The Velvet Underground - Etc" LP 1979 USA)

The Sunnyboys - Show Me Some Discipline  (7" single 1983 Sydney, Australia)

The Wands - War  ("The Dawn" 2014 Copenhagen, Denmark)

Loose Tooth  - Bites Will Bleed  ("Saturn Returns" EP 2016 Melbourne, Australia)

Plasticland  - Alexander [The Pretty Things]  ("Plasticland" LP 1984 Wisconsin, USA)

The Flower Machine - I am the Coelacanth  ("Chalk Dust Dream of the Tea Cozy Mitten Company" 2004 Los Angeles, USA)

Pony Face - Silver Tongue  ("Hypnotised" 2012 Melbourne, Australia)

Mugwump Establishment - Mondo Hollywood Freakout  ("Monday Hollywood OST" LP 1967 USA)

The Brats - Hoodlums  (demo 1980 Adelaide, Australia)

The Carnaby - Jump and Dance  (7" single 1965 UK)

Jacques Dutronc - L'Augmentation, 7" single [b-side to "Il Est Cinq Heure, Paris S'Eveille"] 1968 France)

Jacques Dutronc - Hippie Hippie Hourrah  (7" EP 1967 France)

Aquaserge - La Femme De Tahiti  ("MOSTLA-mix-SERGE-tape" 2013 France)

Balduin - I See Rainbows  ("Rainbow Tapes" 2009 Switzerland)

Blondi's Salvation - Ventoline  ("Wisdom Whisper" 2015 Nantes, France)

Los VV's - Fancy Car  ("Los VV's" EP 2015 Paris, France)

Steeple Remove - Mirrors  ("Position Normal" 2015 France)

Diamond Incarnation - Spacespin ("Scorpio 15" EP 2014 Taipei, Taiwan)

Kikagaku Moyo - Melted Crystal  ("House in the Tall Grass" LP Japan 2016)

Kingdom of the Holy Sun - Trip Out  ("Thirteen Eyes" EP 2014 Seattle, USA)

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Gamma Knife  ("Nonagon Infinity" 2016 Melbourne, Australia)

The Luck Of Eden Hall - A Man of Conservative Style  ("Acceleration of Time" 2016 Chicago, USA)
MIMICO - Astroblade  ("MIMICO" 2013 Toronto, Canada)

Night Beats - Puppet on a String  ("Night Beats" LP 2011 Seattle, USA)

Polska Radio One - North Berry  ("North Berry (Северная Ягода)" EP 2014 Yekaterinburg, Russia)

Halasan Bazar and Tara King th. - Dreamt Mutation Part 1 and 2  ("Mostla Tara Tape" 2014 France)

THANES - Kingdom of the Nobots  (digital single 2015 Adelaide, Australia)

The Dentists - Burning the Thoughts From My Skin  (7" single [b-side to "Strawberries Are Growing In My Garden (And It's Wintertime)] 1985 UK)

Vespero - K.A.M.S.A.S.  ("[Night Collectors] Psych Fest" compilation 2014 Moscow, Russia)

Vibravoid - Stepping Stone  (7" single 2015 Dusseldorf, Germany)

Technicolour Dreaming

This week’s show featured a journey around the current world of psychedelia, plus assorted oddities and a side-trip back in time to the first pop psych explosion. So much music to play, and only two hours each week to squeeze it all into! We recently acquired a copy of the brand new addition to Born Bad Records’ wonderful “Wizzz! Psychorama francais 1966 – 71” compilations, Volume 3, making this series a serendipitous choice for our Compilation of the Week, mais oui! Back in the present, we played new tracks from the Wands, Pretty Lightning, Jacco Gardner, the Noble Krell and the Barbarellatones latest demo (love the lyrics!), fitted in some surf from Chile and Denmark, and some 60’s faves such as Gary Walker and the Rain’s much covered classic, “Francis”. And we finished up with Vibravoid’s ode to the Fuzztones organ player Deb O’Nair, which can be found on the just-reissued and re-mastered edition of their classic “2001” LP, complete with extra tracks and quite stunning packaging – it certainly gets our seal of approval! So.....

..... until next week, here is the playlist plus associated visuals.....

Sula Bassana - My Blue Guitar      ("Dreamer – 10^th Year Anniversary Edition” 2012 Germany)

the Lovetones - Journeyman (Anton Newcombe mix)      ("Dimensions" 2008 Melbourne Australia)

Gary Walker and the Rain - Francis      (7" single b-side (to Come In, You'll Get Pneumonia) 1969 UK)

the Electric Prunes - Dr Do-Good      ("Underground" LP 1967 USA)

the Aardvarks - Arthur C. Clarke      (7" single 1989 London UK )

the Black Angels - Never/Ever      ("Directions to See a Ghost"  2008 Austin, Texas USA)

Three Minute Tease - When I Was 46 in the Year 13      ("Bite the Hand" 2014 UK)

 

the Barbarellatones - Electric Pussycat      (demo 2015 Hawaii USA)

the Velvet Underground - Ocean      (recorded 1969, released on "VU" LP 1984 New York, USA)

the Noble Krell - Never Ever      (7" single 2015 Baltimore USA)

the Smoking Trees - Trips      ("Home in the Morning" EP 2015 California USA)

the Surfing Arcanis - Tenbrosa Silhouetta      (digital single 2015 Region Metropolitana, Chile)

Los Explosivos - Larga-te de Aqui!!!      (7" single 2009 Mexico)

 

Surf School Dropouts - Should Have Known Better      ("Second Nature" 2015 Denmark)

Pretty Lightning - The Rainbow Machine      ("A Magic Lane of Light and Rain" 2015 Saarbrucken, Germany)

the Rolling Stones - Connection      ("Between the Buttons" LP 1967 UK)

Compilation of the week:  Wizzz! Psychorama francais 1966 - 71

 

Bernard Chabert - Helga Selzer      (7" single 1970 France – taken from “Wizzz! Vol 3” compilation 2015 France)

Les fleurs de Pavot - A 'degager      ( "Les fleurs de Pavot" LP 1969 France  – taken from “Wizzz! Vol 1”)

Bruno Leys - Hallucinations      (7" EP [unreleased] 1969 France – taken from “Wizzz! Vol 2”)

Papy - Toi Le Shazam     (7" single 1967 France  – taken from “Wizzz! Vol 3”)

Zorgones - Herr Doktor Reich      (7" single 1969 France – taken from “Wizzz! Vol 2”)

the Deep - Colour Dreams      ("Psychedelic Moods"  LP 1966 USA)

Morgan Delt - Mr Carbon Copy      ("Morgan Delt" 2014 USA)

Jacco Gardner - Another You      ("Hypnophobia" 2015 Netherlands)

the Wands - Totem Part II      ("The Dawn" 2015 Denmark)

Trolley - Love the Way you Look      ("Things that Shine and Glow" 2011 UK)

Vibravoid - She's Just 13 / Lovely Lady Deb-O-Nair      (" 2001 – 15^th Anniversary re-mastered edition" 2015 Dusseldorf, Germany)

Technicolour Dreaming

It was one of those weeks when our P.O. box was inundated with new releases and a few older goodies so we had lots to choose from to play for you. From amongst this pile of CDs and vinyl we selected new tracks from the UK’s Wicked Whispers, Three Minute Tease [featuring Anton Barbeau], Eternal Tapestry and the brilliant triple-CD from New Orleans’ Chef Menteur, plus songs from the Wands, Surf School Dropouts and Japan’s Sundays & Cybele amongst others. Our featured compilation series this edition was Northern Star Records’ excellent double-CD “Psychedelica” series, beginning with Volume One in 2006 and ending with volume 5 in 2013, and featuring a plethora of both known and obscure modern bands throughout, with many of the tracks unavailable elsewhere. Most of the issues are ‘sold-out’ but can be found on sites such as Discogs and eBay et al. if you search them out. We’ll be playing more of our new ‘incomings’ next week, so until then.....

..... here is the playlist with some visuals to divert.....

Surf School Dropouts - Ebb and Flow      ("Second Nature" 2015 Denmark)

Sundays and Cybele - Waiting for You      ("Gypsy House" 2014 Hokkaido, Japan)

the Murlocs - Adolescence      (digital single 2015 Geelong, Australia)

Tyrannosaurus Rex - Knight      ("My People Were Fair and Had Stars in their Hair ...But Now they're Content to Wear Stars on their brows" LP 1968 UK)

Dungen - Jamna Plagor      (b-side from "Panda" CD single 2005 Stockholm, Sweden)

the Wicked Whispers - I'd Follow You Anywhere      ("Maps of the Mystic"  2014 UK)

Three Minute Tease - Coffee That Makes the Man Go Mad      ("Bite the Hand" 2015 UK)

the Wands - Get it Out of Your System / Don't You Wanna Feel alright      ("The Dawn" 2015 Denmark)

les Liminanas - Salvation      ("Crystal Anis" 2012 France)

House of Fire - The Morning Light      ("The Morning Light" EP 2012 Pennsylvania, USA)

Chef Menteur - Il obstrue ma vue de Venus / Terpsichore       ("Chef Menteur III : [disc 1] East of the Sun & West of the Moon”  2015 New Orleans USA)

Holy Wave - Star Stamp       ("Relax" 2013 Texas, USA)

West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band - Shifting Sands      ("Volume 3: A Child's Guide to Good and Evil" LP 1968 USA)

Compilation of the Week :

Northern Star Records’  "Psychedelica" series no. 1 - 5

Brian Jonestown Massacre - Anenome       (originally from "Their Satanic Majesties' Second Request" 1996 USA – taken from "Psychedelica Volume 1" 2006 UK)

Singapore Sling – Godman       (originally from "Perversity, Desperation and Death" LP 2009 Reykjavík Iceland – taken from "Psychedelica 4" 2011)

the Deaths -May Queen       (originally from “Choir Invisible” 2006 Canada – taken from "Psychedelica 2" 2007)

the Urges - In the End      ("Psychedelica 5" 2013)

Youngteam - Sunny Sunday Afternoon      ("Psychedelica 3" 2008)

the Silhouettes - All A Lie      (originally on “the Silhouettes” LP 2013 Netherlands – taken from "Psychedelica 5" 2013)

Eternal Tapestry - Wild Strawberries     ("Wild Strawberries" 2015 Portland, USA)