Nightshadow (RARE PSYCH GARAGE)

NIGHTSHADOW - "Square Root Of Two"
aka _{'LITTLE PHIL & THE NIGHTSHADOWS'}

This record has really been kicking me in the ass lately. Sometimes you feel shocked that it took this long to hear something so good, and wonder why it isn't being talked about. Originals of this Lp sell for around $3000 these days. Atlanta, GA psychedelic with a very familiar 13th Floor Elevators vibe, but with Psycho strange phazed out production and lots of amazingly warped guitar.

The psychedelic intro actually gave me a flashback!
A gem!

Nightshadow - I Can't Believe


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Forbidden Planet Soundtrack (1956) RIP BEBE BARRON

RIP BEBE BARRON

Another Legend of the Early Electronic World has past on. 

Louis & Bebe Barron's atmospheric, eerie and sinister electronic soundtrack to the cult classic sci-fi movie from 1956, Forbidden Planet starring Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, Leslie Nielsen and Robby the Robot.

The groundbreaking Forbidden Planet soundtrack is credited as the first all-electronic music soundtrack for a major commercial movie and was unlike anything that audiences had heard before. In fact, during one preview of Forbidden Planet, the audience actually broke out in spontaneous applause as the sounds of the spaceship landing on Altair IV filled the theater!

Making electronic music was slow and laborious process back in the 1950s. By following the equations presented in the 1948 book, Cybernetics: Or, Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine, by mathematician Norbert Wiener, Louis Barron built electronic circuits which he used to generate sounds. Most of the tonalities were generated with a circuit called a ring modulator. After recording the sounds, the couple further manipulated the material by adding effects such as reverb and delay and also by sometimes reversing and changing the speed of certain sounds.

From the liner notes by Louis & Bebe Barron:
We design and construct electronic circuits which function electronically in a manner remarkably similar to the way that lower life-forms function psychologically. In scoring Forbidden Planet - as in all of our work - we created individual cybernetics circuits for particular themes and leit motifs, rather than using standard sound generators. Actually, each circuit has a characteristic activity pattern as well as a "voice". We were delighted to hear people tell us that the tonalities in Forbidden Planet remind them of what their dreams sound like.

A great classic of early electronic music! Made with primitive equipment years before any commercial synthesizer's where available.

Louis and Bebe Barron - Love At The Swimming Hole


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More Information on the Barron's here,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_and_Bebe_Barron

Ya Ho Wha 13 Collection - God and Hair

This 13 CD box set collects the complete available recordings of 70s cult rockers from CA, Ya Ho Wha 13. Led by the late Father Yod, who supposedly died in a hang-gliding accident in the late 70s(?), Ya Ho Wha 13 released numerous LPs (and at least one 8-Track) on their own Higher Key label in the mid-70s. Only distributed locally at the time, some of these have been reissued in psuedo-legit (or outright bootleg) fashion in the UK over the last decade (although more recent Swordfish releases are fully authorized), but have never been widely available.

These records epitomize the insanity of highly-personalized psychedelic exploration via the fringes of rock music and its subsequent private documentation better than anything else produced by the human race to date. Tribal-acid pound from the familys key group members (Djinn, guitar; Sunflower, bass; Octavius, drums) and freakish vocal output from Yod himself, wailing away on top like the king of the universe. The music still represents the ultimate in the weird & insane world of private press psychedelic documentation, not to be missed.

 

Contains the following 13 albums:
1) FATHER YOD AND THE SPIRIT OF 76: Kohoutek (the debut release on Higher Key from 1973)

2) FATHER YOD AND THE SPIRIT OF 76: Contraction (1974)

3) FATHER YOD AND THE SPIRT OF 76: Expansion (1974)

4) FATHER YOD AND THE SPIRIT OF 76:All Or Nothing At All (1974, with 4 bonus 7" tracks)

5) YAHOWA 13 (1974, with two bonus 7" tracks)

6) YAHOWA 13: Savage Sons of Yahowa (1974)

7) YAHOWA 13: Penetration: An Aquarian Symphony (1974, the masterpiece)

8) YAHOWHA 13: Im Gonna Take You Home (1974, again! & and another monster record)

9) YAHOWA 13: To The Principles For The Children (1974-75)

10) FIRE, WATER, AIR: Golden Sunrise (1977, the 8-track only release)

11) YODSHIP (undated, showed up as a UK boot/legit issue a few years ago; classic acid-folk floatation/chant from Osirus & Sunlight with the brothers and sisters)

12) VA: Related Singles (featuring Sky Saxon on most tracks)

13) VA: Unreleased Materials (jamming post-Yod psych from Djinn, Sunflower, Octavius, etc, with Sky Saxon on some tracks)."

14) Artwork & Scans

The exact number of of original Ya Ho Wha Lp's has never been clearly specified.

Melodic Energy Commission (Canadian Psych Folk Weirdness!)

Stranger in Mystery (Canada 1979) - Lp

An interesting branch of the Hawkwind family tree is Melodic Energy Commission, which included among it membership Hawk electronics maestro Del Dettmar. The band's lineup consisted of Xaliman on vocals, guitar, piano, electro-keys, gongs, percussion, and shepherds pipes, Randy Raine-Reusch on dulcimer, khaen, gongs, and flutes, Del on EMS synth and Delatronics, George McDonald on guitar, theramin, and wall of oscillation, Mark Franklin on bass, and Paul Franklin percussion, tablas, glockenspiel, and synth organ, plus numerous guests. Stranger In Mystery is a Canadian Gem feature tribal, acoustic, flower power, hippie psychedelia combined with loads of spacerock electronics. The music is raw, but heavily exploratory, often changing radically within a single track. For example, the nine minute title track features acid guitar and synths jamming in their own individual directions in a kind of heavy Hawkwind,Tangerine Dream Vibe to Ethnic notes which remind me of the Sun City Girls or early Tower Recordings. Xaliman's slightly efx'd vocals are a bit eerie and fit the music well. This album goes from psychedelic chamber orchestra, to dissonant strumming acoustic guitars, and tweaked analog electronics. The original vinyl of the release is very rare. The band is from Vancouver Canada and still exists to this day. Look for them on myspace!

I've also included in the zip file a rare early single by the group.
- Melody is Energy 7''

The Album was originally posted over at Ezhevika Fields.
This one needs to make it to more ears!
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!!!

Melodic Energy Commission - Song Of The Delatron


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Pip Proud (Australian 60s Low-Fi Folk)

Pip Proud - Eagle-Wise (1968-1969)

Eagle-Wise is a compilation of his LP's A Bird In The Engine and Adreneline and Richard, both albums that were originally released in 1968 and 1969 and incredibly hard to find now. Incredibly Tender intimate Folk.

Reminds me at times of Alistair Galbraith, Syd Barrett, Sentridoh, and Neon Pearl.



BIO:
The greatest Australian singer-songwriter of the 1960's. While all around him artists fell over each other trying to imitate overseas trends - beat groups, psychedelia, or whatever they were listening to in London and LA that month - Pip Proud was starting from scratch, and making his own music. The Adelaide-born Proud learnt guitar and developed his own idiosyncratic style as a teenager; moving to Sydney in his late teens, he began writing poetry, novels and songs at an impressive rate.

Pip Proud - Adreneline And Richard


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Book Of Am (Spanish Folk Psych 1977)

The Book of AM - Part One & Two ; Dawn and Morning
(Spain 1977)

Beautiful cult commune hippie psych folk item with a certain eastern flavour. Extremely rare - most of it is really good. Spiritual songs with various acoustic instruments, harmonium, sitar, tabla female/male vocals.

A gem of the Acid Folk Genre!


Book of AM - Dawn; The Cauldron Of Regeneration


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This release was recently reissued as a Double Lp with a Deluxe 112 page book of artwork.
Its available HERE <-
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Kenneth Higney - Attic Demonstration

DAMAGED KILLER ALBUM!!!

Attic Demonstration is a collection of demos performed by Higney in 1976. A New Jersey truck driver looking to jumpstart a career as a songwriter, Higney pressed the record in order to give it to other musicians, in hopes that they would perform his songs. That no one took him up on his offer is not surprising, since this a relentlessly downbeat, ramshackle collection of music. It’s a compelling and frequently bleak piece of work, but not one with much (or anything at all) in the way of the commercial potential Higney may have hoped for. Imagine Neil Young’s depressive masterwork On the Beach, only replace Neil Young with an untrained singer who vacillates between a haunted, plaintive drawl and a raspy shout, force the musicians to play constantly out of time, drench everything in tortured lead guitar, and deprive the band any second-takes.

As Higney explains in his liner notes, all of the music, (including overdubs), was recorded in a single take. That explains the ragged, cacophonous sound of the LP’s two rockers, the opening “Night Rider” and the final track, “No Heavy Trucking.” Perhaps they were intended as anthemic road songs; instead, these are abandoned landscapes as desolate as the one photographed on Attic Demonstration’s front cover – a shaggy haired Higney framed by a dreary cloud-choked sky, a vaguely pained expression on his face, resembling the jean-jacketed lead in some long-lost, Garden State Antonioni film. “Night Rider” is the most upbeat track; Higney harangues the title character, probably a biker, backed by clattering drums and guitars that are rarely in sync with the percussion. The dissonant and claustrophobic “No Heavy Trucking” portrays a truck-driver at the end of his rope, sitting alone and helpless in a malfunctioning rig - a glimpse into the trucker’s life far removed from anything dreamed up by C.W. McCall.

There’s also a plodding dirge sung from the point of view of a disillusioned rock star, a plea for his “Children of Sound” (his songs?) not to leave him and go “die in this world of hate,” and three break-up laments that combine bitter misanthropy and wounded self pity. “Look at the River” is the highlight – it begins as an acoustic rumination on the pain of being left by a woman, but builds into an acidic rebuke of her foolishness in abandoning him (”Your life will be an empty shell / Your life will be a rusty bell”), with Higney‚s increasingly desperate vocals matched by corrosive blasts of guitar.

While the LP showcased Higney’s original songwriting (almost utterly devoid of hope and happiness), the two bonus tracks, both from a single released in 1980, are in a more playful vein. Since they were produced with the intention of actually being released commercially, they are considerably more polished than the demos on Attic Demonstration. “Funky Kinky” is a disco (!) song, complete with a high-pitched chorus and cheesy synths. The stomping glam-rocker “I Wanna be the King” is Higney’s tribute to New York City punkers, and contains a great should-not-be-a-rhyme in the line: “I’m gonna be a star / I hate the sissy music of John Denver!” The single, Higney explains, didn’t get much more attention than Attic Demonstration did – it was a “monster record which drowned in the swamp after being chased by villagers.”

Kenneth Higney - I Wanna Be King


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Mort Garson - rip

Canadian Electronic Musician Mort Garson passed on at the age of 83 on January 4th in San Fransisco. His records from the 60s and 70s are some of the best Moog Synth music ever made. Here is a cult classic for you all to enjoy. Rest well Mort.

Lucifer (Mort Garson)
Black Mass
(1971)

The concept of this album showed the Moog delivering sounds sinister and exciting to a degree the lurid horror films of the day never matched. All the titles related to occult phenomenons and themes, and seemed to focus mainly on the darker side of occultism. With it's breakbeats galore, intense synthesizer, hip original themes, this was really a unifying concept. An occult Moog-album! The man behind this recording was a somewhat obscure solo artist; Mort Garson.

Mort Grason was born in Canada in 1924, as a graduate from the Juilliard School, he began writing musical scores in the 1940s, and worked as an arranger / composer / engineer in the late 1940s / early 1950s. He got highly acclaimed as the orchestral arranger for Glen Campbell's 1968 "By The Time I Get To Phoenix". Garson also had production credits on records by vocalists and other artists, including Mel Torme, Doris Day, Ed Ames, and Leslie Uggams. He wrote, arranged, and directed for many years on many labels in many styles. He also made music for TV and movies. But he recorded some albums too, each more strange than the other.

According to a Robert Moog (inventor of the Moog) interview, he told that when he was showcasing his instrument at an expo, Garson (even then in his mid-40's) and an assortment of crazed geniuses decided to use it, among other electronic instruments to make a psychedelic pop / rock / spoken word concept album which turned out to be the first usage of the Moog on a commercial pop record from the West Coast. This was the album Zodiac Cosmic Sounds, recorded together with Jacques Wilson in 1967. It consisted of twelve "songs" composed as a suite on the twelve signs of the zodiac and where accompanied by Paul Beaver on electronic keyboards, including the Moog synthesizer. That same year Garson wrote and arranged another little masterpiece, the single credited to the Big Game Hunters.
Next album Electronic Hair Pieces from 1969 used the Moog to arrange some well-known pop hits. His third album was the electronic masterpiece The Wozard of Iz (also from 1969) sets to (Moog) music a socio-political satire built around the children's classic (Bernie Krause on "environmental sounds" and Nancy Sinatra as a co-narrator). His passion for the Moog took him to compose entire albums for A&M of music for each zodiacal sign(!) that predated new-age music by a decade: Signs of the Zodiac: Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagitarius, Capricorn, Aquarius and Pisces.

But he also made another record in 1971, which was very different. Under the devilish pseudonym "Lucifer", Garson released this record: Lucifer - Black Mass. It had his wildest hodgepodge of electronic sounds. Little is known about this release though.
The same year, after the Black Mass album, Garson released a not-occult album called Music For Sensual Lovers in collaboration with performance-artist "Z", which contained moody Moog music accompanied by the wonderful screaming and orgasmic moans of a porn star(!). Then, four years passed, before Mort Garson returned with another occult-themed Moog record; Ataraxia - The Unexplained in 1975...

Lucifer - Black Mass


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Le Stelle Di Mario Schifano (Italian Psych Acid Pop)

LE STELLE DI MARIO SCHIFANO -
"Dedicato A"

"Originally released in 1967 on the BDS label. Mario Schifano (the amazing painter and sculptor from the Italian pop scene) recruited four young and unknown musicians to record this innovative album. Features Peter Hartman and beautiful cover artwork by Schifano himself." Previously carried on the dubious Mellow label, this version has got to jump one giant step forward in the great Italian label scramble for legitimacy! Starts out with a killer side-long track that almost makes this one out as the Italian answer to Love Live Life + 1: flying freak-out stuff, stumbling percussion, screaming organ waver, screaming female vocals, screaming, heavy lead guitar all add up to a first class psychedelic cacophony. The remaining tracks are fine, in a shorter psych/pop vein. Unknown and good-to-astounding, depending on your relationship to the psych universe. The is a heavy Velvet Underground influence on some of these tracks, in a very good way!

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!

LE STELLE DI MARIO SCHIFANO - Molto Alto


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White Elephants & Golden Ducks - Music of Burma

Lets send them our good thoughts & Listen to some of their beauty

Music of Burma - Prosperous Majesty


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INSTANT ORANGE - Rare California Psych 1968-1975

Self Titled (1968-1975)
Reissue by Shadoks / Edition 450 Lp

Besides home to the Hells Angels, farmers and citrus grooves, San Bernardino, California was also where Instant Orange lived and released their first single in 1968. The band forged ahead and released another single (1973), album (1973) and two ten inch eps (1974 & 1975). All of their releases were small pressings of 100 copies and to this day, Instant Orange remains virtually unknown. Their homemade sound is a refreshing reflection of their west coast folk-rock influences that were so prevalent during the sixties and early seventies. All original tracks with inspiration from bands like the Byrds, Buffalo Springfield, Love, Sandy Bull and others. Songs full of electric and acoustic guitars with nice doses of McGuinnesque 12 string riffing as well as many unsuspecting surprises (antiquated electronic effects, rambling rural explorations, long jams, experimental moves, stoner banter and other weirdness between songs, caveman fuzz, etc). A solid listen with enough original imagination to keep it interesting without the band creating an identity crisis by trying too hard to be something else than themselves. Here it all on this limited double album, but grab it before it becomes elusive like some of San Bernardino's motorcycle riding inhabitants.

TERRY WALTERS, RANDY LANIER & LYNN McCURDY are INSTANT ORANGE with the help of Joe Bianchi & Bob Lautz.

INSTANT ORANGE - Silent Green


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Joe Jones - "Solar Music" 1983

Joe Jones - Notes on Solar Music

After my first experience of using SOLAR ENERGY in my music, I found it difficult to go back to making battery powered pieces.

Playing with the subtle changes that occured in the sounds produced by the different combinations of solar cells and motors, under a constant light source (light bulb), selecting one, then taking this combination out into the sun light, where the movement of the earth, cloud formations, and wind, slowly and sometimes radically changed the sounds. The voltage being higher in direct sunlight and lower when cloud formations cast shadows over the solar cells.

The wind plays it's part by gently or not so gently moving the motors or hanging instruments, causing them to swing. The combination of all these factors create the solar music for that particular day.

From complete density of sound in a cloudless sky at mid-day to silence in a heavy sky or total silence at sun down.

FIRST SOLAR PIECES

The first Solar Music Piece was hand made chimes 1977, Harlekin Art, Wiesbaden. This was immediately followed by hanging zitars, to take advantage of their multi-string sound capacity. The "Solar Zitar" pieces could be hung outside or in a window, the sun and wind creating their own composition.

This was a development of an earlier idea, 1964, but could not be completed because of the cost of material at that time.

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Joe Jones - "Solar music, at Sierksdorf, Ostsee"

CD,
Edition of 500 Copies

This is the second cd documenting composer / inventor / sound artist Joe Jones' Solar Music released on the same label (part of the Hundertmark Art Gallery in Germany) that released the last Hermann Nitsch document. This disc is live and was recorded in the early morning of Sunday April 1st, 1984. The instrumentation on this recording is large zitar, 2 tamb, and tamba drum. The interesting thing is that Jones has built 'solar umbrellas' that use solar energy to mechanically play the instruments.

Joe Jones, born in '34, first studied composition at the Hartnett Music School and started his career as a jazz drummer. Due to his white skin, however, there were few jobs for him in this field in the early sixties, since New York only had two active jazz clubs at that time. Because of this Jones began to study experimental composition under John Cage and Earle Brown in 1960. Through his teachers he got acquainted with Dick Higgins and Alison Knowles. When Higgins and Knowles travelled to Europe in 1962 to participate in several Fluxus Festivals, Jones rent their studios. Here he developed his first music machines, with which he was very successful from the beginning. Since 1963 Jones participated in the Fluxus-movement and took part in a number of performances with his music machines. In 1963 he performed at the Yam festival in New Brunswick for the first time, a year later he performed at the Avantgarde music festival in New York. Many exhibitions and actions in New York and Nice followed until Jones opened his own 'Music-Store' in New York in 1969. In 1972 he produced the album 'Fly' together with John Lennon and Yoko Ono and founded the 'Fluxus-Airline' with George Macunias. At that time he settled down in Europe; he lived in Amsterdam, Asolo (Italy), Berlin and Wiesbaden and exhibited worldwide in galleries and museums. In 1980 Jones was a guest of the DAAD's Berlin artist program, before he took up residence in Düsseldorf and Wiesbaden. Since the mid-eighties Jones produced short films with his computer, the so-called 'Fluxus-Home-Movies', and he also devised larger orchestra-like installations with his music machines. His busy exhibition schedule remained unchanged: In 1988 his works could be seen at the Museum Ludwig in Cologne, in 1992/93 there was a big touring exhibition with stops in Helsinki, Nuremberg, Rotterdam and Wuppertal. In addition to that his music machines have been represented in the worldwide exhibition 'Fluxus in Deutschland' since 1995, which could be seen in Gera, Budapest, Istanbul, Brünn, Copenhagen, Athens, Tel Aviv and Warsaw so far; further stops are planned for Australia, New Zealand, Japan and South Africa until 2002.

Beautiful Stuff!

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Hans Frisch - Levend Objekten Sjoo: Paradiso 4/1/69

Hans Frisch
"Levend Objekten Sjoo :
Paradiso 4/1/69"

No idea about the lineage of this record or the artist involved. Picked it up in Europe about seven years ago. Very little in the way of info on the actual record. What I can say is this sounds like a monster of post-Fluxus/free-hippie flotsam. Recorded at the famed Paradiso in Amsterdam circa 1969- this one sounds like outtakes from Cherry's sessions for Jodorowsky's Holy Mountain. Flutes, insane tribal drumming ala Psychedelic Underground, electronics. All you could ask for in a record, right?

TOTALLY RARE AND RECOMMENDED!

Hans Frisch - track 2


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ps. sorry for the lack of posts recently. I've been off on musical travels and enjoying the last of the summer. I'm sure the winter boredom will bring many new posts of rare nuggets.

The Apollo Stars @ new blog "X-RAY VISIONS"

X-RAY VISIONS

Posting a very rare Scientologist Lp from the 70's.
Grab it before their Lawyers take it down!

Wicked Lady - The Axeman Cometh (UK Biker Psych!)

Wicked Lady - The Axeman Cometh
UK 1968-72

Their appearance marked some belated recognition for the power trio, which Northampton singer-guitarist Martin Weaver formed in 1968 with drummer "Mad" Dick Smith and bassist Bob Jeffries.However, Wicked Lady never came within a whisper of the stratospheric status attained by Cream, or the Jimi Hendrix Experience. The band's liberal use of feedback -- and large biker following -- kept them relegated to clubs, even during the twilight hours of the psychedelic era. Awash in drink and drugs, Wicked Lady split up in 1970, but Smith and Weaver soon regrouped with new bassist, Del "German Head" Morley.The new lineup duly set about documenting its existence, as captured on Psychotic Overkill -- whose feel is looser than Axeman Cometh. The effect is a shotgun marriage of Black Sabbath-style rifferama, supported by a less risk-taking rhythm section. Weaver's vocal style lacks charisma, but his wah-wah and fuzz-driven guitar style carries the day. The highlights include a bluesy cover of Hendrix's "Voodoo Child," the sex 'n' drugs snapshot of "Sin City," and the howling, 21-minute epic, "Ship Of Ghosts." But Wicked Lady's erratic ways proved too difficult for clubowners, who eventually refused to let them play. (At one gig, the band reportedly played the same song over and over until an irritated management pulled the plug on them.) Wicked Lady imploded in 1972, but Weaver rebounded that same year by joining the Dark, a more psychedelic- and progressive-outfit.

Wicked Lady - The Axeman Cometh


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Kadura - Eastern-influenced Japanese Psych!

Debut CD and only release I'm aware of by this eastern-influenced psychedelic, atmospheric space-rock by this Osaka band. Leader Atsushi Kobayashi's guitar is a spectral thing, while his vocals are impossibly emotional. The drumming is sometimes strongly tribal, while at other times it functions as a simple, beautiful pulse augmented by bells and other percussion. Spiritual, intense music for the mind.

Not too far off from more tranced out Sun City Girls Rock, and Fushitsusha.

Kadura - Travel To Faraway


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Lightdreams - Private Press Canadian Space Psych Folk

Lightdreams - Islands in Space
Canada 1981

Private Press Lp from 1981 released in Victoria, BC, Canada by the band. I really have no information on this great Lp... Some great Space Psych Folk moments that are similar to another west coast band of the era called "Melodic Energy Commission" who had members of Hawkwind playing with them at one time. I should post their rare debut Lp soon.

This album is dedicated to the colonization of space. Serious! Read the notes on the back cover image included with the mp3's.

Vinyl rip by me,,, you ain't gonna find this anywhere else!

Lightdreams - Islands in Space


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Ash Ra Tempel - Best of The Private Tapes (The Early Years) REPOST!

I've made for you all a killer comp of all the best material from the Ash Ra Tempel box set which came out in the late 90s. Unfortunately a lot of the box set is Manuel Göttsching's solo work which I'm not as big of a fan of. So what I've done is boiled down the comp to pretty much all the early Live Ash Ra Tempel Live shows mostly featuring a young Klaus Schulze on drums. This is some serious deep hazy psych that made legends of this band! Most of the live sets are 30min+ and totally epic.
Highly recommended!

NOTE: This is a repost since the early one I did was 128 mp3. I just got 256kbps mp3's of this release. So if you dug the post earlier re-download the higher quality one.

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Nice Strong Arm - Reality Bath (Texas 80s Underground)

Originally from the Austin scene that spawned such kindred spirits as the Butthole Surfers and Scratch Acid. This group began in 1986 with 2 drummers, guitar and bass. Most probably influenced by english groups like Section 25, Joy Division and Josef K but making it very american. This band was in the head space as contemporaries Sonic Youth, Swans, and Scratch Acid.

Releases on Homestead Records include Reality Bath, Mind Furnace, Stress City, Cloud Machine EP, and Secret Language 7". Nice Strong Arm's legacy includes the vaunted harmonic and pentatonic "Asian"/ sitar-like style indie guitar playing since reproduced by bands such as Polvo & Trumans Water.

I discovered this record years ago at a college radio station and have always loved its vibe. It reminds me of the old Austin, Texas 80s scene which is sadly gone. This record came out 20 years ago which is hard to believe. TIME!

Nice Strong Arm - Minds Lie


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