Technicolour Dreaming

The show started with a French-language version ("Noir C'Est Noir") of a Spanish hit ("Negro Es Negro"), which later became the disco anthem "Black is Black" ... cover versions seemed to be the only unifying factor for the next 2 hours of music, which stylistically wandered all over the place. I don't think that Technicolour Dreaming could ever be accused of being predictable!

Here's the playlist for your edification, with some clips to ponder while wondering what in the world will be on the show next week!

Johnny Hallyday Avec The Blackburds [Los Bravos] - Noir C'Est Noir (7" single 1966 France) 

The Black Angels - Yellow Elevator #2  ("Phosphene Dream" 2010 Austin, Texas USA) 

The Gurus - Blue Snow Night (alt version)  ("The Gurus are Hear!" rec. 1966, rel.2003 USA) 

David Hemmings - Talkin' LA ("David Hemmings Happens" LP 1967 UK) 

Sand Snowman - The Rebel's Rulebook  ("Private Culture 2006-2013" 2013 London, UK) 

Sudden Death of Stars - Why Won't You Try?  ("All Unrevealed Parts of the Unknown" 2014 Brittany, France) 

The Blue Giant Zeta Puppies - Ah Om Oh Yay (She Said) ("12 Theories of Time Travel" 2015 UK) 

Anna Karina - Roller Girl  ("Anna - Original Soundtrack" rec.1966, rel.2009 France/Denmark) 

The Dandelion Seeds - The Waiting Game  ("The Dandelion Seeds" 2014 Iceland) 

The Gods - Hey Bulldog [Beatles]  (7" single 1969 UK) 

The Lemon Tree - William Chalker's Time Machine  (7" single 1968 Birmingham,UK) 

The Dunes - When You Wake Up  ("Trip Fest Psychedelic Stoner Experience Sampler" 2016 Adelaide, Australia) 

The Fast Camels - Der Nazi Tea  ("The Magic Optician" 2007 Scotland, UK) 

 The Leathercoated Minds - Over Under Sideways Down [Yardbirds]  ("A Trip Down Sunset Strip" LP 1967 Los Angeles, USA)

 The Soft Boys - Dreams  ("Underwater Moonlight" LP 1980 Cambridge, UK) 

 Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Menopause Man  ("Before Today" 2010 California, USA) 

 Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - The Line  ("Howl" 2005 Los Angeles, USA) 

 Silver Apples - I Have Known Love  ("Contact" LP 1969 New York, USA)   

 Clinic - Miss You  ("Free Reign" 2012 Liverpool, UK) 

 The Magnetic Mind - Maybe the Stars, Maybe the Sun (7" single 2012 London UK) 

 Morning After Girls - Always Mine  ("Shadows Evolve" 2005 Melbourne, Australia) 

Viva K - Dekoder  ("Viva K" 2005 Los Angeles USA)

Radio Moscow - I Just Wanna Make Love to You  ("He Put the Bomp! In the Bomp" compilation 2007 Iowa, USA)

Black Moth Super Rainbow - Sun Lips  ("Dandelion Gum" 2007 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania USA) 

 Dungen - Gjort Bort Sig  ("Ta Det Lugnt" 2004 Stockholm, Sweden) 

Wooden Shjips - Shrinking Moon For You  ("Wooden Shjips" 2007 San Francisco, USA) 

And as a little added extra, an amusing clip of the band "The Smart Alecs", featuring David Hemmings and Steve Marriott, from the 1963 movie "Live It Up!" 

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Another of the Nuggets series of boxsets was our choice for this edition’s “Compilation of the Week”... This time it was “Where the Action Is!  Los Angeles Nuggets 1965-1968” which was released in 2009, in a hard-cover book format with the 4-CDs slotted into the back cover – lots of very cool photos and articles with detailed liner notes about each song and artist... and what great songs they are! This is probably our favourite of the Nuggets boxset collection [the 1972 original double-LP stands separately of course!] because LA was producing a plethora of wonderful bands in this period, many well-known, but most not, which in no way diminishes the quality of the sounds coming out of the area however – brilliant stuff! Basically, if you can only have one boxset, this is the one! Another producer of fine music is the UK’s Fruits de Mer label whose latest compilation “Strange Fruit & Veg” is packed with goodies. From it this week we chose a great version of the Beatles’ “Tomorrow Never Knows”, complete with filmclip. We also featured an Australian 60’s section with tracks by Ray Brown and Hugo amongst others, plus recent music from acts such as Lumerians, the Myrrors and Elephant Stone. So now, we bid you “adieu” until next week, when we’ll have more psychedelia and associated obscurities for your listening and viewing pleasure....

.....until then, here is the playlist and some visuals to amuse you, including the Kikagaku Moyo “official clip” for ‘Kodama’..... enjoy!

Lumerians - Hook for an Eye      ("Transmissions from Telos - Volume III" 2014 UK)

Elephant Stone - Between The Lines      ("The Three Poisons" 2014 Montreal, Canada)

Rob Gould - Tomorrow Never Knows [Beatles cover]      ("Fruits De Mer Records presents ‘Strange Fruit and Veg’ – promo 2” compilation 2015 UK)

Les Annees - Freaktown Stars      ("Les Annees" 2009 Melbourne, Australia)

Jake Holmes - Leaves Never Break      ("A Letter to Catherine December" LP 1968 San Francisco, USA)

Ray Brown and the Whispers - Ain't It Strange     (7”single 1966 Australia)

the Moods – ‘Cos of You       (7”single b-side [to Say Hello to Me] 1966 Australia)

the Wild Cherries - Krome Plated Yabby      (7"single 1967 Melbourne, Australia)

Hugo - Girl in the Garden      (7"single 1969 Adelaide, Australia)

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

Deep Sea Arcade featuring Megan Washington - Bonnie and Clyde [Serge Gainsbourg cover]      ("Melodie Francaise" compilation 2013 Sydney, Australia)

Peoples Temple -   Twice Burned       (7"single b-side [to Brand New Thing] 2013 USA)

Clinic - The Lion Tamer      ("Bubblegum" 2010 UK)

the Myrrors - Juana Laguna      ("Arena Negra" LP 2015 Tucson, Arizona USA)

Amon Duul II - Archangel Thunderbird     ("Yeti" LP 1970 Germany)

Dr Cosmo's Tape Lab - The Secret of Tibetan Grapefruit is...      ("Ever Evolving Lounge" 2014 USA)

the Warlocks - House of Glass      ("Rise and Fall" 2001 USA)

      “Compilation of the Week”

  “Where the Action Is! Los Angeles Nuggets 1965-1968”

WC Fields Memorial Electric String Band - Hippy Elevator Operator       (7" single 1966 USA – taken from disc 1 of “Where the Action Is! Los Angeles Nuggets 1965-1968” compilation boxset 2009 USA)

Keith Allison - Action, Action, Action          (7" Single b-side [to Glitter and Gold] 1966 – taken from disc 3 of “LA Nuggets...” boxset)

the Monkees - Daily Nightly    ("Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd" LP 1967 USA – taken from Disc 3 of “LA Nuggets...” boxset)

the Leaves - Doctor Stone      ("Hey Joe" LP 1966 USA – taken from disc 1 of “LA Nuggets...” boxset)

the Merry-Go-Round - Listen, Listen      (7" single 1968 USA – taken from disc 2 of “LA Nuggets...” boxset)

Gene Clark - Los Angeles      (recorded 1968, unissued – taken from disc 4 of “LA Nuggets...” boxset)

the Black Hollies - Benevolent Beacon      (7" single 2011 USA)

Toy - Motoring      ("Toy" LP 2012 UK)

Dead Skeletons - Dead is God      ("Ord" EP 2012 Iceland)

Kikagaku Moyo - Kodama      ("Forest of Lost Children" LP 2014 Japan)

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“So much music, so little time” has been our mantra since day one and this week was no exception, so we squeezed in as many as possible of the diverse tunes on offer, including new releases from Morgan Delt, Diane Coffee, King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard and Thee Oh Sees. Naturally there was also a selection of 60’s goodies from Colours, Fleurs de Lys, the Executives and a few French ‘exotiques’ from the likes of Michel Polnareff and les Gypsys. Throw in some Luck of Eden Hall, White Fence, Sand Pebbles amongst others and it’s another sonic adventure with the Cat & the Brat on 3D Radio......

...... so here is the playlist and some associated visuals, our particular favourites this week being those by Clinic and the Lavender Brigade – hope you find them as entertaining as we did.......

Walter Ghoul’s  Lavender Brigade – Mr Spaceman      (recorded 1999 – taken from the “Retrospectoscope: 1966-70” faux-anthology 2007 UK)

Diane Coffee – New Years      (“My Friend Fish” 2013 USA)

Blackmilk – Mercy Ray      (“In Lak’ech” 2012 Perth, Australia)

Lovechain – Step Out of Your Window You Can Fly      (7”single 1969 USA – taken from “A Lethal Dose of Hard Psych” compilation 1999 USA)

Soft Hearted Scientists – Panorama       (“False Lights” 2013 Wales, UK)

Michel Polnareff – Le Roi des Fourmis      (“Âme câline“ EP 1967 France)

Henri Salvador – Carnaby Street      (“Pikabou“ EP 1967 France)

Graham Day & the Forefathers – 30-60-90      (7”single b-side [to Love Me Lies] 2014 UK)

King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard – Homeless Man in Adidas      (“Oddments” 2014 Melbourne, Australia)

Us & Them – Do I Know You?      (”By the Time It Gets Dark” EP 2014 Sweden)

Colours – Love Heals      (7”single 1968 USA – taken from “Love Heals” anthology 2008 USA)

the Misunderstood – My Mind      (recorded 1966 UK  – taken from “Before the Dream Faded” anthology 1992 USA/UK)

Dead Skeletons – Yama      (“Dead Magick” LP 2011 Iceland)

Sula Bassana – Dreamer      (“Dreamer” LP 2002 Germany)

Clinic – I’m Aware      (“Bubblegum” 2010 Sheffield, UK)

Gravenhurst – She Dances      (“The Western Lands” 2007 UK)

White Fence – Beat      (“Cyclops Reap” 2013 California, USA)

Foxygen – On Blue Mountain      (“We are the 21^st Century Ambassadors of Peace and Magic” 2012 USA)

Foxygen - 'On Blue Mountain' | A Take Away Show from La Blogotheque on Vimeo.

Morgan Delt – Sad Sad Trip      (“Morgan Delt” LP 2014 California, USA)

Thee Oh Sees – Wait, Let’s Go      (7”split-single [with the Mallard] 2012 California, USA – taken from “Singles Collection volume 3” anthology 2014 USA)

the Luck of Eden Hall – The Horrible Pill Book      (“Victoria Moon” LP 2014 Chicago, USA)

Loop – Cinnamon Girl [Neil Young cover]      (“The Bridge: Tribute to Neil Young” compilation LP 1989 USA – taken from “Loop: The World in Your Eyes” anthology 2009 UK)

Charlie Boyer & the Voyeurs – Evil Mothers      (7”single 2013 UK)

the Fleurs de Lys – Circles [Pete Townsend cover]      (7”single 1966 London, UK)

the Sand Pebbles – Sunshine to Burn [Long Grass cover]      (“Tomorrow is Today: A Tribute to the Australian Psychedelic Scene 1966-70” compilation 2007 Australia)

the Executives – Moving in a Circle      (7”single b-side [to It’s a Happening World] 1968 Sydney, Australia)

the Gypsys – Prolétaire      (7”single 1967 France – taken from “Psychegaelic : French Freakbeat” compilation 1999 Canada)

Technicolour Dreaming

So.... have you ever wondered if there’s a process we go through when programming Technicolour Dreaming, to select the tracks we play?  Though it may seem surprising at times, yes there is!! It involves constantly listening to music – new purchases, forgotten gems, suggestions from friends, and whatever the Pod-of-i selects for us when we’re driving. Lists are made and re-made, the bags full of CDs and vinyl are packed and ready to go, then off we set to Three D Radio. But on the way, something strange happens…. the evil Pod-of-i tries to tempt us away from our plans with tasty musical morsels … then a stop at the Post Office heralds the arrival of more music from faraway lands, further derailing our resolve to stick with our list. And upon finally arriving at our destination, a quick scan of the “new releases” section of the 3D library tempts us further, and our steely determination collapses like a stack of 7” singles falling off the shelf! So with best made plans laid to waste, we give in and play whatever takes our fancy, track by track for your listening pleasure…..

..... and here are this week’s selections, with visual accompaniment.....

Roxy Music – If There Is Something      (‘Roxy Music’ LP 1972 UK)

Fourmyula – Nature      (‘Creation’ LP 1969 New Zealand)

the Modern Lovers – Modern World  [alternative version]      (recorded 1972, unreleased – bonus track on re-issue of ‘The Modern Lovers’ 2003 USA)

Pugwash – Waltz #714      (‘Jollity’ 2005 Ireland)

Ride Into The Sun – Too Cold      (‘Ride Into The Sun’ mini-LP 2013 Adelaide, Australia)

the Space Agency – Bombay Potatoes      (7”single 2013 Hove, UK)

Giobia – Fake Smiles on Statues     (‘Come and Get Me’ EP 2010 Italy)

the Story UK – Standing in the Rain      (‘Joy Ride on Memory Lane’ 2011 UK)

 

Crocodiles – Un Chant d’Amour      (‘Crimes of Passion’ 2013 USA)

Rangda – Idol’s Eye      (‘Formerly Extinct’ 2013 USA)

Dead Skeletons – Dead Mantra      (‘Dark Magick’ LP 2012 Iceland)

the Higher State – Ladder of Death      (‘Darker By The Day’ 2009 UK)

Plasticland – Let’s Play Pollyanna      (7”single 1989 Wisconsin, USA)

Siouxsie & the Banshees – She Cracked [Jonathon Richman cover]      (7”single b-side [to This Wheel’s On Fire] 1986 UK)

the Hierophants – There’s An Itch      (‘New Centre of the Universe, Vol.1’ compilation 2012 Geelong, Australia)

Montero – My World Fell Down [Sagittarius cover]      ('Nuggets: Antipodean Interpolations of the First Psychedelic Era, 1965-1968' compilation 2013 Australia)

Sagittarius – Hotel Indiscreet      (7”single 1967 Los Angeles, USA)

Unnatural Axe – They Saved Hitler’s Brain      (7”single 1978 Massachusetts, USA)

Clinic – If You Could Read My Mind      (‘Visitations’ 2007 UK)

Beaulieu Porch – Laminations are Loaded      (‘Beaulieu Porch’ 2012 UK)

the Raveonettes – Be My Sunshine      (7”single b-side [to Love in a Trashcan] 2005 Copenhagen, Denmark)

Vibravoid – The Politics of Ecstasy      (‘The Politics of Ecstasy’ 2008 Germany)

Crystal Stilts – Dark Eyes      (‘Radiant Door’ EP 2011 USA)

the Strange Flowers – No Love, No Pain, No Fall from Grace      (‘The Imaginary Space Travel of the Naked Monkeys’ 2007 Pisa, Italy)

Johnny Young – Craise Finton Kirk [Bee Gees cover]      (‘Surprises’ LP 1967 Australia/UK)

the Hollies – King Midas In Reverse      (7”single 1967 UK)

David McWilliams – The Days Of Pearly Spencer      (7”single 1967 UK)

Peter Murphy – The Final Solution [Pere Ubu cover]      (7”single 1985 UK)