Best of 2016 mix, Volume 3

 

  1. Tristen - Chanson du XXe Siècle (2:36)
  2. The Yearning - The Moment Your Heart Would Say Goodbye (3:03)
  3. Daevid Allen Weird Quartet - Imagicknation (3:54)
  4. The Monochrome Set - Stick Your Hand Up If You're Louche (3:43)
  5. The Luck of Eden Hall - Blown To Kingdom Come (3:25)
  6. Rev Rev Rev - A Ring Without an End (3:43)
  7. Swans - When Will I Return (5:22)
  8. Dungen - Trollkarlen och fågeldräkten (4:29)
  9. King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard - Gamma Knife (4:17)
10. Carla Dal Forno - What You Gonna Do Now? (3:52)
11. Cate Le Bon - Love Is Not Love (3:00)
12. The Hanging Stars - The House On the Hill (3:03)
13. Big Business - Blacker Holes (3:14)
14. The Dwarfs of East Agouza - Hungry Bears Don't Dance (4:30)
15. Kristin Hersh - Detox (3:19)
16. Bill Baird - Caroline (4:54)
17. Gong - The Thing That Should Be (3:30)
18. GØGGS - Falling In (3:33)
19. Whyte Horses - When I Was a Scout (3:51)
20. Wire - Numbered (2:29)
21. Melvins - Planet Destructo (6:05)

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New Millennium Psychedelia, Vol. 4

It's been almost 3 years since the last volume of this series, at long last now we have Volume 4.  As mentioned on previous volumes,  this series of compilations is named in honour of Dale Simpson's facebook group, also named New Millennium Psychedelia. Dale also, like the previous 3 volumes, provided the artwork and suggested a couple of bands for this latest edition. There are now over 3400 members (including many of the artists featured on these comps) in this group, so if you haven't joined in the fun, do it now! 

Every day, members post wonderful clips of modern psychedelic music, plus links to gigs/events and artists advertising their own releases, many of which are free to download . Some of the bands featured here are relatively well known, but most are pretty obscure and just waiting to be discovered... You can find Dale's facebook group here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/245395615520771/

  1. The Lucid Dream - 21st Century (1:59)
  2. The Mystery Lights - Candlelight (3:15)
  3. The Hanging Stars - Golden Vanity (2:49)
  4. Beaulieu Porch - Golda 03 (3:15)
  5. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Bone (2:16)
  6. Motherdust - Drastic Buddha (4:36)
  7. Vanishing Twin - It Sends My Heart into a Spin (3:34)
  8. Whyte Horses - Astrologie Siderale (2:11)
  9. Gulp - Vast Space (3:16)
10. The Karovas Milkshake - Purple Sun of Glastonbury (7:28)
11. Wand - Growing Up Boys (3:46)
12. Nuvem Leopardo - Narcisos (3:46)
13. White Fence - Arrow Man (2:34)
14. Doug Tuttle - Make Good Time (3:02)
15. Heron Oblivion - Beneath Fields (7:27)
16. The Asteroid #4 - Mount Meru (3:41)
17. My Friend Peter - Groovy Kind of Stonedness (3:32)
18. Mr. Elevator & The Brain Hotel - Right Where You Ought to Be (3:31)
19. White Noise Sound - Bow (3:44)
20. The Orange Revival - All I Need (8:38)


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Coming soon....

 

 I was hoping to post this before Christmas but, due to problems with my ISP and being quite ill the past few days, unfortunately it's been somewhat delayed. Hopefully it will appear before the year's end.

Best of 2016 mix, Volume 2

 

  1. The Limiñanas - Paradise Now (3:18)
  2. Vanishing Twin - Choose Your Own Adventure (4:19)
  3. Quilt - Searching For (3:07)
  4. Yorkston/Thorne/Khan - Everything Sacred (5:06)
  5. Landing - Shifts (3:53)
  6. Mermaidens - Cold Skin (4:56)
  7. The Paradise Bangkok Molam International Band - India Chia Muay (Thai Boxing Re-fix) (3:19)
  8. Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions - Day Disguise (4:49)
  9. PoulainJars - Le Calme (5:58)
10. Baby Woodrose - Termination (8:23)
11. Jenny Hval - Female Vampire (3:37)
12. King Creosote - Love Life (4:13)
13. Wovenhand - The Hired Hand (4:12)
14. Lambchop - JFK (5:27)
15. Murals - Watching in the Dark (4:41)
16. Still Corners - The Fixer (3:08)
17. Debo Band - Yachat (3:31)
18. Ty Segall - Californian Hills (3:09)


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Best of 2016 mix

 

On what has been one of the crappiest years in existence, thankfully it was also one of the best for new music. I could go on to make 3 volumes, after compiling a rather huge "short"list for this compilation. We shall see! Anyway, here's a few selected personal highlights, I hope you all enjoy...

  1. Electric Orange - Shattered (4:40)
  2. Amber Arcades - Right Now (3:55)
  3. Beyond the Wizards Sleeve - Iron Age (3:52)
  4. North Sea Radio Orchestra - Alsace Lorraine (5:11)
  5. Churn Milk Joan - Fuzzy Baby (2:43)
  6. The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Like Describing Colors to a Blind Man on Acid (2:59)
  7. The Winstons - 番号番号 (Number Number) (6:09)
  8. UXO - Blind Suicide (3:54)
  9. Roy Montgomery - You Always Get What You Deserve (4:37)
10. Modular - La Alfombra Mágica (3:39)
11. Higher Authorities - Abracadbra (3:42)
12. Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation - Where I'm Going (3:47)
13. Konono N°1 & Batida - Yambadi Mama (6:21)
14. Night Beats - No Cops (3:10)
15. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - When I Try, I'm Full (3:51)
16. The Coral - Chasing the Tail of a Dream (3:43)
17. CFM - Glass Eye (2:33)
18. Programm - On That Day (2:53)
19. Drakkar Nowhere - In the Eye of Time (2:11)
20. Violeta de Outono - A Painter of the Mind (4:55)


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The 2nd Worst Prog Album in the World!

 

Continuing from the previous "Worst" prog album, more obscurities but with a few more familiar names this time around. 


  1. Amon Düül II - Wolf City (3:13)
  2. Collusion - Song of Pity (4:59)
  3. Le Orme - Era Inverno (5:00)
  4. Dr. Z - Summer for the Rose (4:21)
  5. G.F. Fitz-Gerald - Under and Over the Waterfall (2:36)
  6. Dancer - Mind the Houses (4:38)
  7. O Terço - Ponto Final (4:35)
  8. Gong - You Can't Kill Me (6:14)
  9. Nyl - Ibha (3:51)
10. Matching Mole - Nan True's Hole (3:36)
11. Brainticket - Egyptian Kings (5:50)
12. Pazop - What Is the Further Purpose (3:10)
13. Catapilla - Charing Cross (6:27)
14. Premiata Forneria Marconi - Grazie Davvero (5:47)
15. Diabolus - Lady of the Moon (3:49)
16. Magma - Weïdorje (4:28)
17. Marsupilami - And the Eagle Chased the Dove to It's Ruin (6:35)


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Chris Knox - Osmosis: Chris Knox's Greatest Bits 1980-2009

 

01. Tall Dwarfs - Sunday Song (1:54)
From the compilation album "Stroke: Songs for Chris Knox", 2009
02. Tall Dwarfs - Nothing's Going to Happen (3:37)
From the album "In the Dying Days of Helen Young", recorded 16/8/04
03. Toy Love - Swimming Pool (2:35)
From the album "Toy Love", 1980
04. Chris Knox - Meat (3:58)
From the album "Croaker", 1990
05. Tall Dwarfs - Thought Disorder (4:08)
From the album "Fork Songs", 1991
06. Chris Knox and The Nothing - Doughnut (4:14)
From the album "Chris Knox and The Nothing", 2005
07. Chris Knox - The Joy of Sex (3:54)
From the album "Yes!!", 1997
08. Chris Knox - Justification Song (1:44)
From the album "Song For Cleaning Guppies", 1983
09. Tall Dwarfs - Crush (5:55)
From the EP "Slugbuckethairybreathmonster", 1984
10. International Tall Dwarfs - Swan Song (1:30)
From the album "Stumpy", 1996
11. Chris Knox - Osmosis (3:34)
From the album "Polyfoto, Duck Shaped Pain & "Gum"", 1993
12. Tall Dwarfs - Round These Walls (2:06)
From the album "Fifty Flavours of Glue", 1998
13. Tall Dwarfs - Song of the Silents (3:55)
From the EP "Louis Likes His Daily Dip", 1982
14. Chris Knox - Baby You're a Rich Man (2:49)
From the compilation album "Monk III - AD 1987", 1987
15. The Nothing - Then She Exploded (2:56)
From the album "A Warm Gun", 2008
16. Tall Dwarfs - Pirouette (4:12)
From the album "Weeville", 1990
17. Toy Love - Squeeze (3:29)
From the album "Toy Love", 1980
18. Tall Dwarfs - This Room Is Wrong (3:21)
From the EP "Canned Music", 1983
19. Chris Knox - Instant Mashed Potato II (2:33)
From the album "Songs of You and Me", 1995
20. Tall Dwarfs - Get Outta the Garage (3:03)
From the album "That's the Short and Long of It", 1985
21. International Tall Dwarfs - Carsick (2:55)
From the album "The Sky Above The Mud Below", 2002
22. Tall Dwarfs - What Goes Up (2:47)
From the album "3 EPs", 1994
23. Chris Knox - Laughter (3:27)
From the album "Beat", 2000
24. Chris Knox - Not Given Lightly (5:09)
From the album "Seizure", 1989


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Post-Punk Mix - Volume 8

 

  1. Jowe Head - Glistening Pincers (2:50)
  2. Minimal Compact - Statik Dancin' (3:40)
  3. Where's Lisse? - Red Light (2:53)
  4. The Cure - All Cats Are Grey (5:21)
  5. Spherical Objects - Elliptical Optimism (3:14)
  6. Modern Eon - Mechanic (4:38)
  7. Gothic Hut - There Has to Be an Answer (3:14)
  8. Repetition - Fade Out (4:35)
  9. Električni Orgazam - Leptir (3:55)
10. Blam Blam Blam - Respect (3:38)
11. The Mothmen - Animal Animaux (2:35)
12. Grauzone - Eisbær (4:10)
13. Gods Gift - Jacqueline's Admission (5:41)
14. Orange Juice - Dying Day (3:08)
15. MX-80 Sound - Cover to Cover (2:41)
16. Chandra - Kate (5:46)
17. The Victor Dimisich Band - Native Waiter (3:35)
18. Monitor - In Terrae Interium (3:38)
19. Blue Orchids - Dumb Magician (2:53)
20. The 39 Clocks - A Look Into You (6:57)

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A Collection of Oddities - Volume 2

 

Once more, what the title says.... A few odd tunes from the 1950s to the 1980s. Some are peculiar/insane cover versions, some are songs you wouldn't expect from a certain artist, and the rest are just... rather odd!

Just a few words about some of the artists on this mix:
With the onset of psychedelia in the mid 60s, a few well known acts jumped on the bandwagon with usually peculiar results, or in the case of The Four Seasons (mostly known for songs such as Big Girls Don't Cry) releasing an unheralded masterpiece of an album, called "The Genuine Imitation Life Gazette". I thought it fitting to end this volume with one of the finest tracks from that album. The Everly Brothers made a couple of attempts at psychedelia, and the track featured here, if you removed the brass and bongos (insane bongos!) could easily be mistaken for a mid 60s lost classic from The Byrds. Howlin' Wolf was another unlikely artist to take on psychedelia, but you just need to hear the acid drenched revisions of some of his blues classics on the album he recorded in 1969 with Rotary Connection backing him. Also featured is probably one of the earliest "psych" recordings, a track from the Alan Watts album "This is It", from 1962.

Away from the psych phenomenon I've featured a track from the actor Robert Mitchum's calypso album from the late 50s, and keeping with the actors recording albums theme a song from Peter Wyngarde's solo release in 1970, a quite bizarre album where he daren't sing on, so just spoke to us in his most "seductive" voice. I purposely avoided putting on the track "Rape" from this album, which it's probably most infamous for and why a reissue of it was cancelled quite recently.

A peculiarity is the song by Dib Cochran & The Earwigs, who released the one single back in 1970. In reality this was Marc Bolan and Tony Visconti (on lead vocals) in disguise, and the song could easily have been a big hit if released in the mid 70s as disco took off. Now we come to Jon Wayne, and no it isn't the actor. I remember coming across, and buying, this album in the mid 80s, and it remains one of the most hilarious albums I've ever heard. The best way I could describe the sound is "country slop". One reviewer remarked on it as "a hideous, drunken, sloppy mess that grafts the musicality of Merle Haggard etc onto a very loose/chaotic California punk sound. If that sounds like a bad combination...you're right. It is."

I may write some more about the acts featured on this latest volume, but for now I hope you enjoy!
 
   1. Lieutenant Pigeon - Opus 300 (2:08)
   2. The Everly Brothers - Mary Jane (2:57)
   3. Jon Wayne - Texas Jailcell (3:12)
   4. Chubby Checker - Autobahn Baby (1:56)
   5. Peter Wyngarde - The Way I Cry Over You (3:28)
   6. Kevin Ayers and The Whole World - Hat (5:27)
   7. Sroeng Santi - Kuen Kuen Lueng Lueng (3:32)
   8. The Kaplan Brothers - Happy (4:31)
   9. Robert Mitchum - Mama Looka Boo Boo (Shut You Mouth-Go Away) (2:53)
  10. Rajput & The Sepoy Mutiny - Up, Up & Away (2:11)
  11. Bruce Haack - Cherubic Hymn (2:16)
  12. Armand Schaubroeck Steals - Ratfucker (3:47)
  13. Dib Cochran & The Earwigs - Oh Baby (2:46)
  14. Mystery Artist - Mystery Track (0:59)
  15. Rita Lee - Frique Comigo (3:23)
  16. Ivor Cutler - Go and Sit Upon the Grass (2:06)
  17. Howlin' Wolf - Smokestack Lightning (3:54)
  18. Stud Cole - The Devil's Comin' (2:18)
  19. R. Stevie Moore - Ditch Me (1:39)
  20. Oho - Pale Hippo (1:48)
  21. Moondog - Wine, Woman and Song (2:22)
  22. Alan Watts - Love You (3:05)
  23. Eden Ahbez - Eden's Cove (2:39)
  24. David Hemmings - Talkin' L.A. (7:16)
  25. The Four Seasons - Genuine Imitation Life (6:16)


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Oozings from the Inner Mynde - Volume 22: Changes, Light & Purple

 

  1. US 69 - I'm on My Way (A Patch of Blue) (6:12)
  2. Joe Byrd and the Field Hippies - The Elephant at the Door (5:11)
  3. Earth Island - This Island Earth (2:28)
  4. Ro-d-Ys - Isn't It a Good Time (2:09)
  5. Simon Dupree and the Big Sound - Castle in the Sky (2:44)
  6. Majic Ship - Night Mare (2:37)
  7. Gale Garnett and The Gentle Reign - Water Your Mind (5:12)
  8. The Lollipop Shoppe - Don't Close the Door on Me (4:23)
  9. Amber - Sea Shell Rock Me (3:09)
10. Os Brazões - Modulo Lunar (4:49)
11. Helpful Soul - Peace for Fools (10:29)
12. Puff - Changes (3:36)
13. Burnin Red Ivanhoe - Purple Hearts (5:44)
14. Impala Syndrome - Let Them Try (3:00)
15. The Superfine Dandelion - Ferris Wheel (2:39)
16. Foxx - Opus Epyllion (The Age of Light) (3:51)
17. Peacepipe - The Day the War Has Ended (10:06)

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