Russian Neo-Psychedelia

Russian neo-psychedelia. Lovelier than Putin bare-chested on a horse.  But seriously, Pussy Riot forever!!! Special thanks to Brown Noise Unit for the great playlists, especially the one on Russian Psych and Post-Punk.  Album images to come. Now! Народный Комитет (People’s Committee) . An Introduction to Russian Psychedelic and Post-Punk Music (Volume 2) . Натюрморт (Still Life) […]

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¡Perú psicodélico!

Today’s show is curated in part by the amazing Juan Ra. Special thanks to Freddy Alva for posting about Peruvian psychedelia on No Echo.  Also, get your debit card out and buy all of the Peruvian psych reissues from the independent Lima label repsychled. We’re going to start out with the wonders of Chicha and […]

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20 Years of Acid Mothers Temple

Today we celebrate 20 years of Acid Mothers Temple, the greatest contemporary psychedelic rock band in the world! With over 100 albums out, and numerous solo and collaborative projects under various names, Acid Mothers Temple has been consistently good and consistently diverse.  One major hurtle in curating today’s show was that many of Acid Mothers […]

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Neo-Electro & Neo-Kosmische

On today’s show I want to follow (distantly, loosely) two trajectories of psychedelic electronic music. One is an obvious (characteristically) extension of the German Kosmische sound ala Cosmic Jokers, Ash Ra Tempel, and Agitation Free, etc.. The other is a kind of neo-electro pop, a psychedelia that seems to come out of the late ’80s […]

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