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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Cambodian and Thai Psychedelia

Upon the suggestion of the Coconut Kaleidoscope I present to you psychedelic music from Cambodia and Thailand! Sinn Sisamouth . Cambodian Rocks Volume 1 . I Recognize That Face . Orchard House . 2003 Ros Sereysothea . Cambodian Rocks Volume 1. Cry Loving Me . Orchard House . 2003 Eng Nary . Cambodian Rocks Volume […]

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DRONE

A slow persistence, a perseverance, an minimalist excess.  You might want to sit, or even better, lay down for this.  Today’s Global Psychedelia is drone to vibrate your gray matter.  From Pran Nath and the Theatre of Eternal Music to Takehisa Kosugi. Turn on, tune in, turn up. Pandit Pran Nath . Ragas of Morning […]

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