Wednesday, May 16, 2007
Psychedelica
Lately I've been listening to a lot of psychedelic music; mostly a combination of Pink Floyd and various psytrance artists. Anyone who's been over to somewhere I've lived, or who's had me provide music for something, has been exposed to some sub-set of my psybient/psytrance collection. I can definitely say that psychedelic + modifier is my favorite branch of music (psychedelic rock, psychedelic trance, psychedelic ambient, etc).
Today I decided to look up some old favorites and see what they're collaborating on now. After some hunting around I discovered that Shpongle's Simon Posford and Raja Ram are teaming up to produce a fourth CD. I had to excuse myself to the bathroom shortly after the discovery. Furthermore, I knew Posford was working on several other projects, but I finally found a sample of his other big group, Younger Brother, today. After perusing the tracks for a few minutes I decided that I really needed a copy. Those playing the home game may also recall that Posford, as well as 90% of psybient*, is on UK's Twisted Records record label. Getting stuff from Twisted used to be somewhat complicated since they had an extremely limited US distributorship, but now not so much. Most of their stuff will show up on Amazon, albeit sans album covers.
Even though bizarre European psychedelic electronica is now available domestically, I still prefer to buy it from a business in Germany that's given me some great customer service (www.psyshop.com). They have a pretty poor website and you can essentially only browse by Record Label, so if you don't know who someone is with your pretty much screwed trying to use their search feature. Long story short, after browsing them for a while I've got three CDs on the way.
I'm rapt with anticipation.
* 90% of psybient, as a genre, is probably a total of eight or nine people. Being so small, the most recognized artist, Shpongle, is able to claim CD sales in the 80-90K range.
Today I decided to look up some old favorites and see what they're collaborating on now. After some hunting around I discovered that Shpongle's Simon Posford and Raja Ram are teaming up to produce a fourth CD. I had to excuse myself to the bathroom shortly after the discovery. Furthermore, I knew Posford was working on several other projects, but I finally found a sample of his other big group, Younger Brother, today. After perusing the tracks for a few minutes I decided that I really needed a copy. Those playing the home game may also recall that Posford, as well as 90% of psybient*, is on UK's Twisted Records record label. Getting stuff from Twisted used to be somewhat complicated since they had an extremely limited US distributorship, but now not so much. Most of their stuff will show up on Amazon, albeit sans album covers.
Even though bizarre European psychedelic electronica is now available domestically, I still prefer to buy it from a business in Germany that's given me some great customer service (www.psyshop.com). They have a pretty poor website and you can essentially only browse by Record Label, so if you don't know who someone is with your pretty much screwed trying to use their search feature. Long story short, after browsing them for a while I've got three CDs on the way.
Younger Brother - A Flock of Bleeps (Twisted Records)
T.I.T. - Ambient Factory (Ultra Vista)
Kick Bong - A Cup of Tea (Ultra Vista)
I'm rapt with anticipation.
* 90% of psybient, as a genre, is probably a total of eight or nine people. Being so small, the most recognized artist, Shpongle, is able to claim CD sales in the 80-90K range.
# posted by Chris/Stewy @ Wednesday, May 16, 2007 
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