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THE ALPS

Morning Light

THE ALPS

Morning Light

Beautiful hazy strums from this excellent Tarentel offshoot.

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PELT

Dismal Falls

PELT

Dismal Falls

Contemplative raga drones meet bluegrass at the fingers of Jack Rose's former band.

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ERIC COPELAND

Auto Dimmer

ERIC COPELAND

Auto Dimmer

Incredible lop-sided psyche-pop wooze.

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TICKLEY FEATHER

Fly Like An Eagle

TICKLEY FEATHER

Fly Like An Eagle

Hypnagogic chamber pop sounding like Nite Jewel-meets-Ariel Pink. Trippy.

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KUUPUU

Myrskylaulu

KUUPUU

Myrskylaulu

Misty dream-sequence folk with mossy textured ambient atmospherics.

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ZELIENOPLE

More Mess

ZELIENOPLE

More Mess

late night psychedelic ambience from this amazingly hypnotic band.

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ASTRAL SOCIAL CLUB

Part 7

ASTRAL SOCIAL CLUB

Part 7

looped motorik narcosis from the always intriguing Astral Social Club.

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CURSILLISTAS

Caves Carved In Golden Light

CURSILLISTAS

Caves Carved In Golden Light

Mystic, textured lullaby from Matt Lajoie's Cursillistas.

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GREEN BLOSSOMS

Red Cup

GREEN BLOSSOMS

Red Cup

Slow and lonesome guitar pluck experiments from the Digitalis imprint.

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Black To Comm & Aosuke

Blizzard Angels Of The Golden Stratosphere

Black To Comm & Aosuke

Blizzard Angels Of The Golden Stratosphere

Advanced post-drone articulations with a shifting patina of shimmering guitars.

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Henry Flynt and the Insurrections

uncle sam do

Henry Flynt and the Insurrections

uncle sam do

Legendary avant-garde hillbilly road trip from Henry Flynt.

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JACK ROSE

Black Pearls From The River

JACK ROSE

Black Pearls From The River

Utterly mesmerizing lap guitar mastery from the recently departed Jack Rose. R.I.P.

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RICHARD SKELTON

Scar Tissue

RICHARD SKELTON

Scar Tissue

Roadside interlude from hugely gifted bowed string composer Richard Skelton.

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TU M'

Strange Sleep

TU M'

Strange Sleep

Looped and spliced strums from this excellent Italian band.

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This time on 14tracks:

“14 tracks: Psychedelic Wanderlust”

At the fringes of lo-fi, freeform folk, blues and experimental electronics are a number of artists operating with an untamed and psychedelic spirit of wanderlust. These cottage craftsmen share a large amount of DIY and improvised sensibilities, often inspired by standardised forms like the classic folk and pop song or the spiritual Indian Raga, but intuitively seeking to free the music through distorted personal perceptions. Applying the "psychedelic" prefix to any style can be precarious, certainly when it leads to lazy tagging and lumpen classification, but these modern practitioners all deserve the title. Whether it's the great, recently departed Jack Rose's exquisite raga blues modifications, Astral Social Club's motorik electronics or the psilocybic sound collages of Black To Comm, the peripheries of modern psyche are providing some of the most charmingly esoteric sounds that we can find. In the mists of the online environment these scattered souls are able to proliferate in the undergrowth, leaving truffles of rare and unexplored beauty ready to be found by intrepid explorers like yourself.

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On 13 Jan 20:17 Gene Onegin said:

“After Midnight”

Great selection as usual - perfect for late night. Thanks!

On 14 Jan 01:42 Frank Paul said:
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“Narcotic murk - yummy!”

Particularly liking that Astral Social Club track. Kind of a murky, soupy, krautrock-meets-Birchville kind of feel to it. Kudos &etc.

On 16 Jan 08:57 alektor said:

great selections guys!

On 16 Jan 08:59 alektor said:

“great”

great selections guys

On 21 Jan 17:54 A C Stevenson said:
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“Lovely stuff”

Great to see a wide range of psychedelia catered for (instead of the usual 'obvious' garage rock/folk rock cliches). Nice.

On 03 Feb 11:01 trevor barton said:
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“brilliant mix”

inspired selections, I have a couple of these albums and have been trying to find a couple of others, but I want the whole 14 as they glue together so brilliantly, and this lot makes a great sort of A side to the angelo badel.. 14 which is also great, thanks...

On 17 Feb 14:28 Brent said:

“Pretty Dreamy”

Wow, what a cool mixture of electronic meets an almost late 80's version of Sonic Youth(just much less distortion of course) . Definitely a late evening laid back indie lounge setting feel.