tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71269996351437773842024-03-05T12:25:45.002-08:00The Spacerock ContinuumNot all spacerock, and not all the time. A compendium of artful noise brought to you monthly by your favorite aficionado of the spacier side of rock music, BeeDub.BeeDubhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15091322992801506270noreply@blogger.comBlogger127125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7126999635143777384.post-67767292808206973892022-03-01T11:59:00.001-08:002022-03-02T07:32:24.096-08:00MARCH-ing Forward!<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEixRoRxBH-_zhQwHBuyaUWa3gYUHmwFSKEiY7Ye-dXUFvNLjxqy5bFnYSQzP7mJVsmbMDvw395jqponT--M_zflA27_h7v_ell6FlBGwLmydtNOLRTCxxEy7puxkIv47tbRu7KDyeARsmwTAm8dwn_VGkWiMXdzoxejJeTYdsOXIJSgAVaQdCDPO4riYw=s4032" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEixRoRxBH-_zhQwHBuyaUWa3gYUHmwFSKEiY7Ye-dXUFvNLjxqy5bFnYSQzP7mJVsmbMDvw395jqponT--M_zflA27_h7v_ell6FlBGwLmydtNOLRTCxxEy7puxkIv47tbRu7KDyeARsmwTAm8dwn_VGkWiMXdzoxejJeTYdsOXIJSgAVaQdCDPO4riYw=w300-h400" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">NOTHING CAN STOP THE SPACE ROCK!!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Onwards to less green pastures. Soon this will be the last time I see this view. Heading to my permanent home in the HIGH Desert, Joshua Tree CA, from the northern climes I've called home for 30 years. The times are a-changin', and Everyone Knows This Is Nowhere. Going to join my love, and nurse my soul, but I'ma keep on rockin' the Continuum from my new location.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">So anyway, here's some toonz to help YOU March along with me. No theme, just a random selection of new and old spacerock. I'm a busy boy, so more words next month. Also: new Spiritualized and Loop!!! And be sure to check out the song from my friend's Portland-based band Lost Echoes!!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The following tracks are included in the player below:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Spacerock Continuum Intro - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">bRambles</span></span><br />Mainline - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Spiritualized</b></span><span style="font-size: 21px;"><b> </b></span>- <i>Everything Was Beautiful</i><br />Halo - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Loop </b></span>- <i>Sonancy</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Second Foot Stomp - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Clinic</b><b> </b></span>- <i>Internal Wrangler</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Tangerine - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Electric Eye </b></span>- <i>Pick Up, Lift Off, Space Time</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Nectarine Dreams - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Tibetan Miracle Seeds </b></span>- <i>Inca Missiles</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Acheron - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>King Buffalo</b></span><span style="font-size: 21px;"><b> </b></span>- <i>Acheron</i><br />Not - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Big Thief</b><b> </b></span>- <i>Two Hands</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Most My Time - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Golden Animals </b></span>- <i>Here Eye Go</i><br />Dreaming - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Lost Echoes </b></span>- <i>Stars</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">We Are Drugs - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Throw Down Bones</b><b> </b></span>- <i>Two</i></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Сон (instrumental) - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Menk </b></span>- <i>II</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Bulls - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>All Them Witches</b><b> </b></span>- <i>Sleeping Through The War</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Waning - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Dead Otter </b></span>- <i>Bridge Of Weird<br /></i>VI-IV - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Papir </b></span>- <i>VI</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Eldorado - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>The Sun Or The Moon</b></span><span style="font-size: 21px;"><b> </b></span>- <i>Cosmic</i><br />Glen Plays Moses - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Mildred Maude</b><b> </b></span>- <i>Sleepover</i></div></div></div></div></div><p></p>
<iframe frameborder="0" height="120" src="https://www.mixcloud.com/widget/iframe/?hide_cover=1&light=1&feed=%2Fthespacerockcontinuum%2Fthe-spacerock-continuum-march-2022%2F" width="100%"></iframe>BeeDubhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15091322992801506270noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7126999635143777384.post-60012630123586269802022-02-01T10:34:00.001-08:002022-02-01T10:34:30.158-08:00But wait, there's more! The Very Best of 2021 Part 2<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiQahAermWgfEJvILQX3EkRAmNVFTz6Gc8coSwWmfz0Rx-nnM5wFVaKrGyn0gviqFrP516e8pM9szoxPlZMDjPVlD5OXziiA4vSerNPE4S92DcTo7M0G1Y-_2UwwzDvjSiV4LdzoMbXwN8sVqDQkE8lDY5sqQBvpzQzMKjez9-Q6QDfaZw-mA12jI1q8g=s2602" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2326" data-original-width="2602" height="286" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiQahAermWgfEJvILQX3EkRAmNVFTz6Gc8coSwWmfz0Rx-nnM5wFVaKrGyn0gviqFrP516e8pM9szoxPlZMDjPVlD5OXziiA4vSerNPE4S92DcTo7M0G1Y-_2UwwzDvjSiV4LdzoMbXwN8sVqDQkE8lDY5sqQBvpzQzMKjez9-Q6QDfaZw-mA12jI1q8g=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: left;">What? The 3-1/2 hours of The Very Best of 2021 Part 1 back in January (see previous post) wasn't enough? You're in luck! I've got 3 more hours of amazing spacerock musix for you! YOU CAN'T "BEET" THIS! The beet has always been a symbol of power for me, of inner strength and resilience, be it my Northern European heritage (BORSCHT!), or my love of Tom Robbin's "Jitterbug Perfume", a novel where the great god Pan delivers beets to the protagonists to create the elixir of infinity.</p><p>21 songs this time, ranging from the psychedelic to shoegaze to Kraurock/motorik to experiMENTAL rock and instruMENTAL post rock. This mix spans the gamut, and winds in up with 5 of the tracks well over the 10 minute mark for some lengthy explorations into SPACE! What space, you ask? Well it could be outer space, the stratosphere of otherworldly expeditions. Or it could be INNER space - the space between your ears. It's a place to get lost... then find yourself again. Last year's lockdown, as I've said before, showed no decline in musical productivity. The opposite in fact: artists the world over got busy with their newly found free time, an unexpected benefit of a worldwide pandemic that locked us up for yet another year, but somehow inspired endless creativity. So my spacerock hat is off to the wonders to be found in last year's offerings I hope you find this music as inspiring as I do. There's not much more to say other than... LISTEN.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The following tracks are included in the player below:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Spacerock Continuum Intro - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">bRambles</span></span><br />Hypnopaedia - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Modern Stars</b></span><span style="font-size: 21px;"><b> </b></span>- <i>Psychindustrial</i><br />Om Ganesh - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>La Era De Acuario </b></span>- s/t</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Last Call At The Infinity Pool - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Electric Eye</b><b> </b></span>- <i>Horizons</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">God's Electric Fence - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Polite Society </b></span>- s/t</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">O.N.E. - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard </b></span>- <i>L.W.<br /></i>Clarified Budder - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Possum </b></span>- <i>Lunar Gardens</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Exit Strategy To Myself - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>The Notwist</b></span><span style="font-size: 21px;"><b> </b></span>- <i>Vertigo Days</i><br />Flock Of Swans - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Mountain Movers</b><b> </b></span>- <i>World What World</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Dawn Patrol - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Rose City Band </b></span>- <i>Earth Trip</i><br />Delving - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Delving </b></span>- <i>Hirschbrunnen</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">To The Bin My Friend, Tonight We Vacate Earth - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Mogwai</b><b> </b></span>- <i>As The Love Continues</i></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The Inner Void - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>The Oscillation </b></span>- <i>Untold Futures</i><br />Last King Of Hell - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Cult Of Dom Keller </b></span>- <i>They Carried The Dead In a U.F.O.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Runes - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Diagonal </b></span>- s/t</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Space Race (Breaking The Atmosphere) - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Tren Go! Sound System and Ornamental </b></span>- <i>Assessment</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">This Is Us - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Throw Down Bones </b></span>- <i>Two</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Basfällan - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Kungens Man</b><b> </b></span>- <i>Den Nya Skiven</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Nexus - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Elara Sunstreak Band </b></span>- <i>Vostok 1<br /></i>17.01.2020 #3 - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Papir </b></span>- <i>Jams</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Shrinks The Day - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Ryley Walker And Kikagaku Moyo</b></span><span style="font-size: 21px;"><b> </b></span>- <i>Deep Fried Grandeur</i><br />Government Came - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Godspeed You! Black Emperor</b><b> </b></span>- <i>God's Pee At State's End</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i><br /></i></div></div></div></div>
<iframe frameborder="0" height="120" src="https://www.mixcloud.com/widget/iframe/?hide_cover=1&light=1&feed=%2Fthespacerockcontinuum%2Fthe-spacerock-continuum-february-2022-best-of-2021-part-2%2F" width="100%"></iframe>BeeDubhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15091322992801506270noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7126999635143777384.post-5211344154419919602022-01-01T18:01:00.001-08:002022-01-08T16:47:22.054-08:00The Very Best of 2021 Part 1<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhCYvBtdbv2QqIg8Y4CWVkvBrifSIEdQ7-TjibGfVWRyu0Y9WcqBt7tphmclkrfnO495ScVXCOhEorCw5ut0-VKw9QTpqwByY5Q1g-UM_Bon2MlTx_tP_dWg8tgn1bItsodrNCJK8l0kjhS7Dh2Cod0Kug3PaYKwHuqEP0DAFsXtIUjZSCPNAjNu59PaA=s540" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="540" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhCYvBtdbv2QqIg8Y4CWVkvBrifSIEdQ7-TjibGfVWRyu0Y9WcqBt7tphmclkrfnO495ScVXCOhEorCw5ut0-VKw9QTpqwByY5Q1g-UM_Bon2MlTx_tP_dWg8tgn1bItsodrNCJK8l0kjhS7Dh2Cod0Kug3PaYKwHuqEP0DAFsXtIUjZSCPNAjNu59PaA=s320" width="320" /></a></div><p style="text-align: left;">Okay, here goes nuthin'. Although all of this musix falls amongst my faves of the year, I always have to make a Top 10 list. And it's so fucking hard to limit it to just ten! So I allowed a few "runners up" because they deserved it. With apologies for omissions, impulsiveness, controversies, and periodic changes of heart, this... is... IT:</p><p>1. Low - HEY WHAT</p><p>2. Papir - Jams</p><p>3. King Buffalo - Acheron/The Burden Of Restlessness (two album tie)</p><p>4. Tibetan Miracle Seeds - Inca Missiles</p><p>5. Electric Eye - Horizons</p><p>6.<i> </i>Mythic Sunship - Wildfire</p><p>7. Black Heart Death Cult - Sonic Mantras</p><p>8. The Sun Or The Moon - Cosmic </p><p>9. Jack Harlon And The Dead Crows - The Magnetic Ridge</p><p>10. Hooveriii - Water For The Frogs</p><p><i>Honorable mention</i>:</p><p>Menk. - II</p><p>Mildred Maude - Sleepover</p><p>Polite Society - s/t</p><p>Tonstartssbandht - Petunia</p><p>Psychedelic Porn Crumpets - SHYGA! The Sunlight Mound</p><p>Godspeed You! Black Emperor - God's Pee At State's End!</p><p>Trees Speak - Post Human</p><p>So... WHAT THE FUCK, 2021?!?!? Longest year of our lives! But somehow musicians the world over managed to safely record pandemic music in prolific amounts! Maybe isolation lockdown can contribute to inspiration, determination, and a soul-deep desire to say Damn The Torpedos, we're going to RAWK! Who knows what 2022 will hold, but I have SIX AND A HALF FUCKING HOURS that says 2021 was life-affirming from the perspective of the musix that keeps us alive and thriving in the face of adversity. This will be divided between my January and February playlists but I hope you'll listen... dig DEEP, and trip through the never-ending Spacerock Continuum with me!</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The following tracks are included in the player below:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Spacerock Continuum Intro - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">bRambles</span></span><br />Days Like These - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Low</b></span><span style="font-size: 21px;"><b> </b></span>- <i>Hey What</i><br />Time To Live - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Blankenberge </b></span>- <i>Everything</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Trevena - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Mildred Maude </b></span>- <i>Sleepover</i><br />Olympia - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Mythic Sunship</b><b> </b></span>- <i>Wildfire</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Inca Missiles - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Tibetan Miracle Seeds </b></span>- <i>Inca Missiles<br /></i>Glitter Bug - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Psychedelic Porn Crumpets </b></span>- <i>SHYGA! The Sunlight Mound</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Control - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Hooveriii</b></span><span style="font-size: 21px;"><b> </b></span>- <i>Water For The Frogs</i><br />Kartoffelstampf - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Camera</b><b> </b></span>- <i>Prosthuman</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">BBQ - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Acid Dad </b></span>- <i>Take it From The Dead</i><br />Honey - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>The Kundalini Genie </b></span>- <i>Half In, Half Out</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Hex - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>The Third Sound</b><b> </b></span>- <i>First Light</i></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Глаза - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Menk </b></span>- <i>II</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Blackened Soul - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>The Kings Of Frog Island </b></span>- <i>VII</i><br />Seven Kingdoms - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>White Canyon And The Fifth Dimension </b></span>- <i>Spectral Illusion</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Stereofuzz - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Acid Rooster </b></span>- <i>Irrlichter</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">I Might Have - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>A Place To Bury Strangers </b></span>- <i>Hologram</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Hebetation - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>King Buffalo </b></span>- <i>The Burden Of Restlessness</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Langolier - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Jack Harlon And The Dead Crows</b><b> </b></span>- <i>The Magnetic Ridge</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Queen Of The Underground - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Goat </b></span>- <i>Headsoup<br /></i>Teenage Daydream - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Plankton Wat </b></span>- <i>Future Times</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Trippin' On Mars - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>The Sun Or The Moon</b></span><span style="font-size: 21px;"><b> </b></span>- <i>Cosmic</i><br />Punk Product #4 - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Dummy</b><b> </b></span>- <i>Mandatory Enjoyment</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Hall Of Death - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Matt Sweeney And Bonnie Prince Billy </b></span>- <i>Superwolves</i><br />Pass Away - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Tonstartssbandht </b></span>- <i>Petunia</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Hopsa-japapé - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Upupayama</b><b> </b></span>- s/t</div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Gas - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Zement </b></span>- S<i>chleifen</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The Calling - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Maragda </b></span>- s/t<br />Sacred Ritual To Unlock The Mountain Portal - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>The Hologram People </b></span>- <i>Sacred Ritual To Unlock The Mountain Portal</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The Moral Compass Of A Self Driving Car - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Yoo Doo Right </b></span>- <i>Don't Thing You Can Escape Your Purpose</i><i><br /></i>Sonic Dhoom - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>The Black Heart Death Cult </b></span>- <i>Sonic Mantras</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Mexicali/Calexico - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>10,000 Russos </b></span>- <i>Superinertia</i><br />Tap End - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Foam Giant </b></span>- <i>Acetate Parade</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Oscured - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>The Oscillation </b></span>- <i>Untold Purpose</i><i><br /></i>From Deep Within - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Elder And Cadaver </b></span>- <i>ELDOVAR - A Story Of Darkness And Light</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i><br /></i></div></div></div></div></div>
<iframe frameborder="0" height="120" src="https://www.mixcloud.com/widget/iframe/?hide_cover=1&light=1&feed=%2Fthespacerockcontinuum%2Fthe-spacerock-continuum-january-2022-best-of-2021-part-1%2F" width="100%"></iframe>BeeDubhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15091322992801506270noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7126999635143777384.post-35886606082878521122021-12-01T05:45:00.000-08:002021-12-01T05:45:43.037-08:00This one goes to infinity!!!<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPbdierknng06oJz_o2nxJp3MIjNd-vlkwvxQK0jwKqJEKzg347_5b96L43qv6lKhC7T06OqIfs3WA7xuwjmix_0g0duKZHUhUFKi3WsjUIIMQrSjSORaRZ_fVrUhB7tXc2jjVTFNluPvb/s872/spaceman+infinity.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="872" data-original-width="526" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPbdierknng06oJz_o2nxJp3MIjNd-vlkwvxQK0jwKqJEKzg347_5b96L43qv6lKhC7T06OqIfs3WA7xuwjmix_0g0duKZHUhUFKi3WsjUIIMQrSjSORaRZ_fVrUhB7tXc2jjVTFNluPvb/w386-h640/spaceman+infinity.jpeg" width="386" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">TO INFINITY AND BEYOND!!!</div><div><br /></div><div>There is light in darkness. There is darkness in light. The eternal ouroboros swallows its tail as the cycle continues, dark light dark light dark light... like the seasons. As December is the darkest month, I gathered some choonz that encompass darkness and light, sometimes within the same song. Cuz without Yin there is no Yang, and vice versa. And this playlist is all over the fucking spectrum so prepare for a wild ride!</div><div><br /></div><div>Starting with a couple borderline glowstick-waving trance-edelic tracks, Zement and Throw Down Bones bridge the gap between rave (Goa? you either know or don't) and krauty motorik. Then shit gets really weird.</div><div><br /></div><div>Low have long been known to produce insular claustrophobic lo-fi slowcore, but their last couple albums have culminated in one of the most groundbreaking "rock" albums of all time: "HEY WHAT". Using the studio as an instrument they utterly deconstruct what could be relatively straightforward indie rock pieces, made from nothing but guitar, drums, and incredible, impeccable vocal harmonies, then shattering it through the looking glass with digital noise and manipulation. I haven't heard an album as "important" than this since early Eno. ALBUM OF THE YEAR.</div><div><br /></div><div>Then an adventure into the ecstatic, with noisemongers in love with sound for sound's sake Mildred Maude, Mythic Sunship who take psych rock to Sun Ra freak jazz proportions, poly-tonalists King Gizzard from New Zealand, and millifluous guitar/drums duo of brothers Tonstartssbandht from Florida, pastoral-gone-ritual frenzy from Upupayama, and desert-fried reverence from Sisters Of Your Sunshine Vapor. The Nova Saints top it off with the cathartic sugar high of early ecstasy culture.</div><div><br /></div><div>Then to counter all that light we get dark with Jesu's cinematic shoegaze, A Place To Bury Strangers latest and earliest (Skywave is Oliver Ackerman's pre-APTBS project), and 10,000 Russos' metronomic drive.</div><div><br /></div><div>Then we're back the psychedelic catharsis of Menk and Papir, largely improvisational outfits, culminating in a lengthy tension-and-release workout from Hey Colossus.</div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The following tracks are included in the player below:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Spacerock Continuum Intro - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">bRambles</span></span><br />Goa - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Zement</b></span><span style="font-size: 21px;"><b> </b></span>- <i>Rohstoff</i><br />No-Fi - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Throw Down Bones </b></span>- <i>Two</i><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">More - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Low </b></span>- <i>Hey What</i><br />Chemo Brain - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Mildred Maude </b></span>- <i>Sleepover</i><br />Going Up - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Mythic Sunship</b><b> </b></span>- <i>Wildfire</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Black Hot Soup - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard </b></span>- <i>Butterfly 3000</i><i><br /></i>Falloff - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Tonstartssbandht </b></span>- <i>Petunia</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Hopsa-Japape - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Upupayama</b></span><span style="font-size: 21px;"><b> </b></span>- s/t<br />Desert Brain - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Sisters Of Your Sunshine Vapour</b><b> </b></span>- <i>Desert Brain</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Sugar Coated - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>The Nova Saints </b></span>- <i>Newfoundland</i><br />Alone - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Jesu </b></span>- Terminus</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">End Of The Night - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>A Place To Bury Strangers</b><b> </b></span>- <i>Hologram</i></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Over And Over - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Skywave </b></span>- <i>Killerrocknroll</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Super Inertia - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>10,000 Russos </b></span>- <i>Superinertia</i><br />Coh (instrumental) - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Menk </b></span>- <i>II</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">VI - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Papir </b></span>- <i>V</i><i><br /></i>A Trembling Rose - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Hey Colossus </b></span>- <i>Dances/Curses</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i><br /></i></div></div></div>
<iframe width="100%" height="120" src="https://www.mixcloud.com/widget/iframe/?hide_cover=1&light=1&feed=%2Fthespacerockcontinuum%2Fthe-spacerock-continuum-december-2021%2F" frameborder="0" ></iframe>BeeDubhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15091322992801506270noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7126999635143777384.post-88637310270971737952021-11-01T09:58:00.000-07:002021-11-01T09:58:52.847-07:00A multicolored life<p style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgV-_v7AbgkmIbkXLGVdu6vwypxsn3wDYPxU4LhQvL00SMjtNe1hvUJY-gqH5nKXLd-J_GxtwGrosgHWMQwdsjyTwxxw5NFC2mmXicwHuK9Evob6_ZxFHxdF0s-hYXMiNug1oVEbPisk6mb/s720/SRC+November.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="549" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgV-_v7AbgkmIbkXLGVdu6vwypxsn3wDYPxU4LhQvL00SMjtNe1hvUJY-gqH5nKXLd-J_GxtwGrosgHWMQwdsjyTwxxw5NFC2mmXicwHuK9Evob6_ZxFHxdF0s-hYXMiNug1oVEbPisk6mb/w305-h400/SRC+November.jpeg" width="305" /></a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Rainbow hills! Whether real or imagined, it's the same. It's all in how you SEE it.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And HEAR it!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">This playlist is literally multicolored, all over the board, every piece a star player in the game. We start with an unusual track on the fringes of the space rock realm... space jazz? This track is a standalone anomaly from the Lounge Lizards, denizens of the bowels of NYC, and differs from their avant garde freejazz/punk skronk by lightyears. I had to add it after reading the memoirs of their fearless leader, the illustrious wizard John Lurie. What a story, what a man, what a band! What a SONG.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">We then return to our regularly scheduled programming with some down and dirty psych/blooz, with Jack Harlon And The Dead Crows (Melbourne, Australia), King Buffalo (Rochester, New York), and All Them Witches (Nashville, Tennessee).</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Following that we have some modern psych par excellence with The Nova Saints (Bristol, UK), Hologram People (UK), and Upupayama (Parma, Italy).</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Then maybe some motorik madness with Zement (Wurzberg, Germany) and Mugstar (Liverpool, UK)? Some gritty psych traditionalists with The Third Sound (Berlin, Germany), Dead Radio (Newcastle, Australia), and Acid Dad (Queens, New York)? Some shoegaze-adjacent jams from Chatham Rise (Minneapolis, Minnesota) and The Horrors (London, UK)?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Then off the deep end into the experimental post-punk of Liars (Australia). And we wrap up the set with some impossible to classify weirdness from Acid Baby Jesus (Athens, Greece), Domiciles (Scotland), Yoo Doo Right (Montreal, Quebec), Menk (St. Petersburg, Russia), and 3AM (Lima, Peru).</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">It's like a grab bag of leftover Halloween candy, close your eyes and dig in. You never know what sweet confections await you. Chances are you'll get lucky and grab the psilocybin-infused ones. Those are the BEST! And the parenthetical points of origin yet again illustrate the fact that spacerock is EVERYWHERE!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The following tracks are included in the player below:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Spacerock Continuum Intro - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">bRambles</span></span><br />A Paper Bag And The Sun - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Lounge Lizards</b></span><span style="font-size: 21px;"><b> </b></span>- <i>Voice of Chunk</i><br />The Tale Of The Magnetic Ridge - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Jack Harlon And The Dead Crows </b></span>- <i>The Magnetic Ridge</i><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The Knock - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>King Buffalo </b></span>- <i>The Burden Of Restlessness</i><br />Alabaster - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>All Them Witches </b></span>- <i>Sleeping Through The War</i><br />The Draft - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>The Nova Saints</b><b> </b></span>- <i>Newfoundland</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Pray To The Maypole Witch - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>The Hologram People </b></span>- <i>Sacred Ritual To Unlock The Mountain Portal</i><i><br /></i>The Blue Magician's Fantasy - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Upupayama </b></span>- s/t</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Soil - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Zement</b></span><span style="font-size: 21px;"><b> </b></span>- <i>Rohstoff<br /></i>Star Cage - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Mugstar </b></span>- <i>Graft</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Tokoloshe - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Dead Radio </b></span>- <i>Callisto</i><br />RC Driver - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Acid Dad </b></span>- Take It From The Dead</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Hummingbird - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Chatham Rise</b><b> </b></span>- <i>Meadowsweet</i></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Dive In - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>The Horrors </b></span>- <i>Skying</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">From What The Never Was - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Liars </b></span>- <i>The Apple Drop</i><br />Untitled - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Sisters Of Your Sunshine Vapour </b></span>- <i>Spectra Spirit</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Diogenes - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Acid Baby Jesus </b></span>- <i>Selected Recordings</i><i><br /></i>Six Degrees of Separation - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Domiciles </b></span>- <i>This Is Not A Zen Garden</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Marche De Vivants - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Yoo Doo Right </b></span>- <i>Don't Think You Can Escape Your Purpose</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Volni - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Menk </b></span>- <i>Lopasti Buddy</i></div>UHF - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>3AM</b></span><span style="font-size: 21px;"><b> </b></span>- <i>Transmissions</i></div></div><p></p>
<iframe frameborder="0" height="120" src="https://www.mixcloud.com/widget/iframe/?hide_cover=1&light=1&feed=%2Fthespacerockcontinuum%2Fthe-spacerock-continuum-november-2021%2F" width="100%"></iframe>BeeDubhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15091322992801506270noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7126999635143777384.post-19999537103173045202021-10-01T08:22:00.001-07:002021-10-01T08:22:46.997-07:00I'm back! Well, sort of...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEie1QWKlk8C9RFqfzwf8y4zxG4nSbJukJipSEf4np5Cta-ihwkHXaxgc6QE7Qa4FfE7jj4WuZUabjSbPsg9HT8B1J3CFGGTW7KjbtjmU7IlmuGhs67EP0DiYzP1kMkpUokzP9tx-jhkDEO8/s640/iggy.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEie1QWKlk8C9RFqfzwf8y4zxG4nSbJukJipSEf4np5Cta-ihwkHXaxgc6QE7Qa4FfE7jj4WuZUabjSbPsg9HT8B1J3CFGGTW7KjbtjmU7IlmuGhs67EP0DiYzP1kMkpUokzP9tx-jhkDEO8/w400-h300/iggy.gif" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Hello dear spacerockers. I am deeply sorry to have missed my September installment, but your fearless leader has been recuperating from a "mystery illness" (NOT Covid) and convalescing in isolation, too weak to even sit at the computer to write, much less make a mix. My condition is improving but it may be a long road. My deepest sympathies to anyone affected or afflicted by this plague - my own malaise has given me deeper perspective ("too MUCH fucking perspective") as to the world's many ills. One of our only consolations is that MUSIC will get us through. It always does. So SLOW DOWN, be mindful, appreciate what we have, and give this playlist, two months in the making, a good contemplative head spin. You'll be glad you did.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The following tracks are included in the player below:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Spacerock Continuum Intro - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">bRambles</span></span><br />Can't Stand - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>3AM</b></span><span style="font-size: 21px;"><b> </b></span>- <i>UFO Blues Tapes</i><br />Cato - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Mugstar </b></span>- <i>Graft</i><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">At Heaven's Gate - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>The Third Sound </b></span>- s/t<br />Tehb - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Menk </b></span>- <i>II</i><br />Maankind- <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>The Haands</b><b> </b></span>- <i>We Aare The Monsters</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Burning - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>King Buffalo </b></span>- <i>The Burden Of Restlessness</i><i><br /></i>Heatstroke #2 - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Automatism </b></span>- <i>Immersion</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Make Worry For Me - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Matt Sweeney and Bonnie 'Prince Billy</b></span><span style="font-size: 21px;"><b> </b></span>- <i>Superwolves<br /></i>Big Wheels In Shanty Town - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Rain Tree Crow </b></span>- s/t</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">A Certain Sense Of Disenchantment - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Yoo Doo Right </b></span>- <i>Don't Think You Can Escape Your Purpose</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Lord Shiva's Mothership - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>The Hologram People </b></span>- <i>Sacred Ritual To Unlock The Mountain Portal</i><br />Wait And See - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Delving </b></span>- <i>Hirschbrunnen</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Sand - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Zement</b><b> </b></span>- <i>Schleifen</i></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Bridge Of Weird - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Dead Otter </b></span>- <i>Bridge Of Weird</i><br />17.01.2020 #1 - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Papir </b></span>- <i>Jams</i></div></div><p></p>
<iframe frameborder="0" height="120" src="https://www.mixcloud.com/widget/iframe/?hide_cover=1&light=1&feed=%2Fthespacerockcontinuum%2Fthe-spacerock-continuum-october-2021%2F" width="100%"></iframe>BeeDubhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15091322992801506270noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7126999635143777384.post-21680519846245521012021-08-01T07:23:00.000-07:002021-08-01T07:23:11.444-07:00Haunted Houses In The High Desert<p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXkRdtu4w0b1pLPMvTYVRjpFpUxVn067UjVgJEdKLuFfrquiks6RJqCf_zrTgeHE57VovdzAtV1zKuPN-czgULnlfSZER0WzWYipCfMXVpe707VxewWOJFBGehv9sMsmGbEy91F4wW8Z-s/s1944/mo+JT.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1296" data-original-width="1944" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXkRdtu4w0b1pLPMvTYVRjpFpUxVn067UjVgJEdKLuFfrquiks6RJqCf_zrTgeHE57VovdzAtV1zKuPN-czgULnlfSZER0WzWYipCfMXVpe707VxewWOJFBGehv9sMsmGbEy91F4wW8Z-s/w400-h266/mo+JT.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Ever get the feeling there's a mysterious presence in your SPACE? In your house, in your room, in your bed... in your HEAD? The spirit will be benign as long as you acknowledge its presence, allow it to be a part of you, absorb its essence - this is an opportunity to align with the STARS. Don't deny it, accept it and be calm in the universe, and be at peace. The triumvirate of songs leading off this set are for YOU. Band Of Horses, The Confederate Dead, and the notorious Butthole Surfers appear to be asking the same question in their own inimitable ways.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">After a rough take off with an obscure Swell Maps outtake, the Deliverous Mistale (mistake?), we then launch into the HEAVENS with Sun Dial, Karkara, Purple Heart Parade, and Pretty Lightning. Then comes the inevitable come down, soothed by the ever-dependable Warlocks. Then it's time to get off yer ass and space boogie with Penza Penza, and two Loves, both Dimension and Explosion.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Then OG shoegazers Ride live up to their name and takes us on a journey on the back of The Grasshopper! And the voyage to The Outskirts Of Reality continues with Papir, Mote, Yuri Gagarin, Weites Luftmeer, and crashing back down into inner space with Dadamah. I know this playlist is a little all-over-the-place, but sometimes that's the way I like it. And the SPIRIT does too.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The following tracks are included in the player below:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Spacerock Continuum Intro - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">bRambles</span></span><br />Is There A Ghost? - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Band Of Horses</b></span><span style="font-size: 21px;"><b> </b></span>- <i>Cease To Begin</i><br />I Feel It (Do You Feel It Too?) - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>The Confederate Dead </b></span>- <i>Infinite Expansion</i><br />Who Was In My Room Last Night? - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Butthole Surfers </b></span>- <i>Independent Worm Saloon</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Deliverous Mistale - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Swell Maps </b></span>- <i>Mayday Signals</i><br />Fire From Heaven - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Sun Dial </b></span>- <i>Mind Control</i><br />Proxima Centaury - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Karkara </b></span>- <i>Crystal Gazer</i><br />Lonestar - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Purple Heart Parade</b><b> </b></span>- <i>Lonestar</i><br />Greyhound - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Pretty Lightning </b></span>- <i>Jangle Bowls</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">I'm Not Good Enough / Party Like We Used To - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>The Warlocks</b></span><span style="font-size: 21px;"><b> </b></span>- <i>The Chain<br /></i>Wunder City - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Penza Penza </b></span>- <i>Beware Of Penza Penza</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Fire - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>The Love Explosion </b></span>- <i>Own Your Mind Business</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Outer Space - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>The Love Dimension </b></span>- <i>Tree In The Seed</i><br />Grasshopper - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Ride </b></span>- <i>Grasshopper</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">20.01.2020 #1 - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Papir</b><b> </b></span>- <i>Jams</i></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Samalas - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Mote </b></span>- <i>Samalas</i><br />The Outskirts Of Reality - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Yuri Gagarin </b></span>- <i>The Outskirts Of Reality</i><br />Couche Tard - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Weites Luftmeer </b></span>- <i>Couch Tard</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Limbo Swing - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Dadamah</b><b> </b></span>- <i>This Is Not A Dream</i></div></div><p></p>
<iframe frameborder="0" height="120" src="https://www.mixcloud.com/widget/iframe/?hide_cover=1&light=1&feed=%2Fthespacerockcontinuum%2Fthe-spacerock-continuum-august-2021%2F" width="100%"></iframe>BeeDubhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15091322992801506270noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7126999635143777384.post-2948819639726681562021-07-01T06:15:00.000-07:002021-07-01T06:15:34.602-07:00Summerlong<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhb1WILu7OUQ_taFbPRhyaOmsqbGLQuaiobfBEf25ktngFMW7BAj7VJW2-_Viu10tqQ_G0fFSR2A33wb7euntrxIjxr7Br2_5JVnRHp94tY58831jOaabjjrtGl94uEkmuf2LJjtI_tPM10/s874/SRC+pic+summerlong.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="874" data-original-width="874" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhb1WILu7OUQ_taFbPRhyaOmsqbGLQuaiobfBEf25ktngFMW7BAj7VJW2-_Viu10tqQ_G0fFSR2A33wb7euntrxIjxr7Br2_5JVnRHp94tY58831jOaabjjrtGl94uEkmuf2LJjtI_tPM10/w400-h400/SRC+pic+summerlong.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Hello summer! Wistful for the waves of long ago, longing for the desert sea of my future. This is me. Is it you too? Journeys are coming, journeys need soundtracks, and I've got a helluva great one for YOU (as always!). This month is a headtripper for sure, featuring some of the very best (mostly) recent psych and spacerock. The mind journeys being generated during worldwide lockdown emerged with a newfound intensity in spite of, or perhaps because of, our collective pandemic blues.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And where did they come from? Denmark (the blazing jazz-inflected motorik of Mythic Sunship); Los Angeles (the proggy murmurations of Hooveriii - pronounced "Hoover-three"); Hay On Wye, UK (the driving trance of Moon Goose); Montreal (the bombastic declarations of Yoo Doo Right); London (the hypnotic postpunk of Hey Colossus); Brazil (the psychedelic explorations of White Canyon And The 5th Dimension); Poland (the kraut-influenced experimentalism of Lastryko); Finland (the manic mantras of the mighty Circle, taking us back to 1998); Portland, OR (the exotic travelogues of the EPIC Grails, circa 2007); Liverpool (the Spacemen 3 worship of Mugstar); Sweden (the prolific improv of Kungens Man); unknown (the is-it-a-German-band-from-1973-or-a-modern-forgery-of-mysterious-origin? acid rock of Golem); Dublin, Ireland (the inexplicable what-the-heck-is-this-ness of Afterwardness); and finally, also from Montreal, The Dears offer up their trademark cinematic catharsis asking the universal human question: is there really no such thing as LOVE?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I don't know why I'm so obsessed with the geographical locations of all these artists I've been exploring and curating. I mean, it's all from SPACE, right? But I guess it helps define the journey, makes it more interesting by pointing out that <i>space</i> is where you find it, <i>space</i> is EVERYWHERE, and we are not alone on this journey. So take a trip with me, won't you?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><p>The following tracks are included in the player below:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Spacerock Continuum Intro - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">bRambles</span></span><br />Maelstrom - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Mythic Sunship</b></span><span style="font-size: 21px;"><b> </b></span>- <i>Wildfire</i><br />Gone - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Hooveriii </b></span>- <i>Water For The Frogs</i><br />Second Life - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Moon Goose </b></span>- <i>Source Code</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The Ocelot That Lost A Lot - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Yoo Doo Right </b></span>- <i>Nobody Panicked And Everybody Got On</i><br />The Eyeball Dance - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Hey Colossus </b></span>- <i>Dances / Curses</i><br />Ouroboros - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>White Canyon And The 5th Dimension </b></span>- <i>Spectral Illusion</i><br />Dwa - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Lastryko</b><b> </b></span>- <i>Tetno Pulsu</i><br />Kartano - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Circle </b></span>- <i>Pori</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Silk Rd - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Grails</b></span><span style="font-size: 21px;"><b> </b></span>- <i>Burning Off Impurities<br /></i>Zeta Potential - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Mugstar </b></span>- <i>Graft</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Raketens Vandring Over Himlen - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Kungens Man </b></span>- <i>Stockholm Maraton</i><br />Stellar Launch - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Golem </b></span>- <i>Orion Awakes</i><br />Shellakapooky - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Afterwardness </b></span>- s/t</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">There Is No Such Thing As Love - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>The Dears</b><b> </b></span>- <i>End Of A Hollywood Bedtime Story</i><br /></div></div></div><p></p>
<iframe frameborder="0" height="120" src="https://www.mixcloud.com/widget/iframe/?hide_cover=1&light=1&feed=%2Fthespacerockcontinuum%2Fthe-spacerock-continuum-july-2021%2F" width="100%"></iframe>BeeDubhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15091322992801506270noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7126999635143777384.post-55375793859059436302021-06-01T05:37:00.000-07:002021-06-01T05:37:59.481-07:00June bloom, less doom and gloom<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjADuUHYvOTuxYet_mv6frBb59WZxvg-wcBDEt421ib1NY6iZqivDNq7vEV7gKa0HwnwXNijPTsg_BrSmim03de_8ltBj8NDtRXzWOGR_Az4w8L32K6Pe2CpbEByy4_kmf7EEntSE3I5E6k/s667/SRC+pic.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="667" data-original-width="480" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjADuUHYvOTuxYet_mv6frBb59WZxvg-wcBDEt421ib1NY6iZqivDNq7vEV7gKa0HwnwXNijPTsg_BrSmim03de_8ltBj8NDtRXzWOGR_Az4w8L32K6Pe2CpbEByy4_kmf7EEntSE3I5E6k/w461-h640/SRC+pic.jpg" width="461" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Less gloom, less doom, more BLOOM. That rainbow may have been shattered forever but the colors are still there, rearranging themselves to bring us the LIGHT. Colors bloom and show us the future, and the future is...US! We can remake out society into one of LOVE... LIGHT... FRIENDSHIP... NORMALITY... PRODUCTIVITY... ENLIGHTENMENT... and of course we'll need a soundtrack! I may have something lying around, and... oh, here it is! June is HERE!</div><p></p><p>This month's playlist is a very PROGgy affair. Cuz I live me some prog too, whatever that means. Progressive rock can be psych, space rock, acid rock, post rock... depends on the era. But most of us HEADS know what it means: trippy and heady and experiMENTAL and mofos who can really PLAY. Instrumental prowess is a hallmark of prog, but that doesn't mean <i>technical</i> can't be trippy as fuck!</p><p>From a TRIPLE PLAY of the mighty WEEN, to my friend's outfit Nofa Kinway (say it out loud!), we have some jammers who go above and beyond the call of duty. But that doesn't make them Rush or Yes, who, let's face it, SUCK. No, these trippers have their hearts and minds and souls in the right place, that place between reality and BEYOND.</p><p>Elder, Moon Goose, Mogwai, and King Gizzard straddle that bridge between the head and heart, the technical and the visceral, but then we go a little deeper into the psyche (emphasis on the "e"), deep into that hole in our souls with an upbeat slammer by Psychedelic Porn Crumpets (what's in a name? best album of the year so far! and I mean... King Gizzard?!?!? loads of odd names in this set), to some tripped out drones from The Confederate Dead, White Canyon, and Black Heart Death Cult. Then Here the Captan Speaking and Tren Go! catapult us into motorik space! Keep moving, people! Never stop!</p><p>So... everything is somewhat normal for this Continuum, until... God Is An Astronaut assault us with their modern wave of blazing post rock, daring us the confront the demons within. All the practitioners of rote crescendo-core take notice! THIS is how post RAWK is done!</p><p>Then the really weird shit happens: it's a new band mysteriously called Black Country, New Road (they have a comma in their name, just Like Here (hear?) The Captain Speaking, The Captain is Dead, not just an exclamation point like Tren (train?) Go! Sound System and OrnaMENTAL, or Godspeed You! Black Emperor for that matter). I really don't know what they even are (maybe a hint of Slint? similarities with their modern peers like Black Midi?) but they trip me right the fuck out, and are the perfect segue into another triumvirate, this time from from Yoo Doo Right, a band named after a CAN song and who also confound me at every pace.</p><p>This selection is so good I had the give you three... TWICE! You decide. Alls I know is this is heady fucking shit and I wanna listen to it over and over again. I hope you do too! The colors reassemble, the birds still fly, we are not dead.</p><p>The following tracks are included in the player below:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Spacerock Continuum Intro - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">bRambles</span></span><br />Captain Fantasy/Mutilated Lips/The Mollusk - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Ween</b></span><br />The Rabbit Hole - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Nofa Kinway </b></span>- <i>The Rabbit Hole</i><br />The Mysterious Coffins Of Arthur's Seat - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Moon Goose </b></span>- <i>Source Code</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">In Procession - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Elder </b></span>- <i>Omens</i><br />Supposedly We Were Nightmares - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Mogwai </b></span>- <i>As The Love Continues</i><br />Static Electricity - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard </b></span>- L.W.<br />Pukebox - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Psychedelic Porn Crumpets</b><b> </b></span>- <i>SHYGA! The Sunlight Mound</i><br />Fell In A Bad Dream - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>The Confederate Dead </b></span>- <i>Infinite Expansion</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Endless Sea - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>White Canyon And The 5th Dimension</b></span><span style="font-size: 21px;"><b> </b></span>- <i>Spectral Illusion<br /></i>Goodby Gatwick Blues - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>The Black Heart Death Cult </b></span>- <i>Sonic Mantras</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Space Race (Breaking The Atmosphere) - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Tren Go! Sound System And Ornamental </b></span>- <i>Assessment</i><br />Event Horizon - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Here The Captain Speaking, The Captain Is Dead </b></span>- s/t<br />Spectres - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>God Is An Astronaut </b></span>- <i>Ghost Tapes #10</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Sunglasses - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Black Country, New Road</b><b> </b></span>- <i>For The First Time</i><br />Nobody Panicked And Everybody Got On/Distaval/Fear Of Elevators - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Yoo Doo Right</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: 21px;"><b><br /></b></span></div></div>
<iframe frameborder="0" height="120" src="https://www.mixcloud.com/widget/iframe/?hide_cover=1&light=1&feed=%2Fthespacerockcontinuum%2Fthe-spacerock-continuum-june-2021%2F" width="100%"></iframe>BeeDubhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15091322992801506270noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7126999635143777384.post-2526533241298728742021-05-01T05:57:00.001-07:002021-05-01T06:08:30.736-07:00May(be) is here~<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaID8bT_2Op4GvqKsVNRAtrVWpHaDqIHXWXh78dRsKC3u-sguKWQW4TVei3RMpdocFTTzKS94Mj6zotjHejww4FpIhxmpoNzZBGnvaYLKrh8bJ1cNSzW5rsVzvhCDNdu6vKMp5RhV_TW0V/s526/Next+SRC.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="524" data-original-width="526" height="399" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaID8bT_2Op4GvqKsVNRAtrVWpHaDqIHXWXh78dRsKC3u-sguKWQW4TVei3RMpdocFTTzKS94Mj6zotjHejww4FpIhxmpoNzZBGnvaYLKrh8bJ1cNSzW5rsVzvhCDNdu6vKMp5RhV_TW0V/w400-h399/Next+SRC.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">MAYbe there will be live music again soon. MAYbe we can go back to living in relative harmony with one another rather than in FEAR. MAYbe we can all hug each other jump in unison together and rock in SPACE. MAYbe we won't die - MAYbe will all LIVE!</div><p></p><div>But there's no MAYbe in the music. There's no doubt that the spacerock continuum CONTINUES to flow with abundance. New discoveries of old music, new music generated under lockdown, the music is eternal. And I have a particular fondness for the euphoric rising drone explosion inherent in some psych and space rock that I can only think of calling the "Ecstatic Hey" (as opposed to the "Monolithic Undertow" explored in a recent book of the same name). As in the cathartic "heeeeeeyyyyyy...!" build up that elevates a song skyward. Hard to describe, but you'll know it instantly and inherently when you hear it. Consider the opening songs by the late great (and mostly unsung) Weekend, and by Mogwai, Hooveriii (pronounced Hoover 3), Astronoid (not so much in this cover song but in many of their others), and even the proggier dynamics of Amplifier, who are a recent strangely obscure discovery of mine. Among many others - Jane's Addiction, Smashing Pumpkins, many post rock bands, and even the heavenly psychedelia of relatively unknowns Yume Bitsu - it can be vocal, instrumental, or both. Listen, dig, and explore, and see if you get what I mean.</div><div><br /></div><div>In this playlist list we also have some surprising shifts in sound, from the unusually psychedelic guitar workouts of Lou Barlow's (Dinosaur Jr., Sebadoh, etc.) "NEW" Folk Implosion, incendiary jamming from the usually subdued freak-folky Devendra Banhart, and a dub-cum-noise freakout by postrock balladeers The Dears.</div><div><br /></div><div>We have more dub/psych from the Berliners Camera, Saharan motifs from prolific Aussies King Gizzard, blazing <i>motorik </i>psych from Chileans Astromelia, tribal experiMENTALism from Londoners Gum Takes Tooth, dark drone from Portuguese 10,000 Russos and The Oscillation from the UK, psychedelic space exploration from Valencians Here The Captain Speaking, Arcane Allies (also Berliners), and Moon Goose from Hay On Wye UK, culminating in the kind of heady improvs that Swedes Kungens Man proliferate. I sincerely hope you enjoy the JOURNEY. May-be?</div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The following tracks are included in the player below:</div><br />Spacerock Continuum Intro - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">bRambles</span></span><br />Coma Summer - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Weekend </b></span>- <i>Sports</i><br />Ceiling Granny - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Mogwai </b></span>- <i>As The Love Continues</i><br />Bird On A Wire - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Hooveriii </b></span>- s/t</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Only Shallow (My Bloody Valentine cover) - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Astronoid </b></span>- single<br />Airborne - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Amplifier </b></span>- s/t<br />Brand Of Skin - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>The New Folk Implosion </b></span>- s/t<br />Rats - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Devendra Banhart</b><b> </b></span>- <i>What Will We Be</i><br />Postcard From Purgatory - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>The Dears </b></span>- <i>No Cities Left</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Bajo La Sombra - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Astromelia</b></span><span style="font-size: 21px;"><b> </b></span>- s/t<i><br /></i>Alar Alar - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Camera </b></span>- <i>Prosthuman</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Ataraxia - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard </b></span>- <i>L.W.</i><br />The Arrow - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Gum Takes Tooth </b></span>- <i>Arrow</i><br />UsVsUs - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>10,000 Russos </b></span>- s/t</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Truth In Reverse - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>The Oscillation</b><b> </b></span>- <i>Monographic</i><br />Lithium Sturm - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Here The Captain Speaking, The Captain Is Dead </b></span>- <i>Flux Capacitor</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">State Of Hypnosis - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Arcane Allies</b></span><span style="font-size: 21px;"><b> </b></span>- <i>Saraswati</i><i><br /></i>Fist Fight At The Bingo - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Moon Goose </b></span>- <i>Source Code</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Third War Three - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Kungens Man </b></span>- <i>Branna Tid</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i><br /></i></div></div></div>
<iframe frameborder="0" height="120" src="https://www.mixcloud.com/widget/iframe/?hide_cover=1&light=1&feed=%2Fthespacerockcontinuum%2Fthe-spacerock-continuum-may-2021%2F" width="100%"></iframe>BeeDubhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15091322992801506270noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7126999635143777384.post-33029449899718400452021-04-01T18:16:00.002-07:002021-04-03T06:04:01.341-07:00Ain't no foolin'...!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin9djyY4SjeNllCRsvSfgMPjWnRVaiXyUbVpDcaEGDKLrYMOEyMOMmM7_PIhiWHJ8rNTsiD4Wc9rzEqyAPWkhiMO2cxSQCaOIpe0nJERznjjtSHCK2EIEKkxcj00CFPd_72Fm3jbhKtLVy/s1800/fireflies.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="650" data-original-width="1800" height="231" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin9djyY4SjeNllCRsvSfgMPjWnRVaiXyUbVpDcaEGDKLrYMOEyMOMmM7_PIhiWHJ8rNTsiD4Wc9rzEqyAPWkhiMO2cxSQCaOIpe0nJERznjjtSHCK2EIEKkxcj00CFPd_72Fm3jbhKtLVy/w640-h231/fireflies.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p>Sometimes space rock isn't all about the SPACE, as in <i>outer</i> space, but the space <i>between.</i></p><p>The space between worlds, the space between our ears, the space between fantasy and reality (whatever <i>that</i> is). Sometimes it's earthly, existing in mystical woods like the Japanese firefly forest pictured above, the vast oceanic vistas of my beloved Pacific, or the cosmic expanses of the ancient desert stonework in my soon-to-be permanent home of Joshua Tree in the California Mojave (don't worry, I'll still be blogcasting no matter where I lay my weary head). And now that I'm fully vaccinated who knows where we'll go?!?!?</p><p>So SPACE ME! And remember, it's still space rock, whether it's the psych-y explorations of the James Gang in the 70s or the House of Love in the 80s or Baliterpace in the 90s. Whether it's the 21st century shoegaze of Nothing or the berserk psych frenzy of Slift. Whether it's the kraut drone of Finland's mighty Circle or Japan's Minami Deutsch. Or the psych-en-espanol of Los Acidos or Lorelle Meets The Obsolete. Or the gorgeous experiMENTAL post rock of Verstarker or Lastryko. Or the psychAmericana of Tulsa Drone or Jackie O-Motherfucker.</p><p>Say it with me: It's. All. Space. Rock!!!</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The following tracks are included in the player below:</div><br />Spacerock Continuum Intro - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">bRambles</span></span><br />Turn To Stone - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>The James Gang </b></span>- <i>The Best Of...</i><br />Cruel - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>The House Of Love </b></span>- <i>Babe Rainbow</i><br />Bernie Sanders - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Nothing </b></span>- <i>The Great Dismal</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Trapezohedron - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Slift </b></span>- <i>La Planete Inexploree</i><br />Scoop - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Circle </b></span>- <i>Meronia</i><br />El Habla - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Los Acidos </b></span>- s/t<br />What's Holding You? - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Lorelle Meets The Obsolete </b></span>- <i>Chambers</i><br />Now - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Adama </b></span>- <i>Ganga</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">No Heaven Like Hell - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>The December Sound</b></span><span style="font-size: 21px;"><b> </b></span>- <i>The Silver Album</i><i><br /></i>Pyre - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Servo </b></span>- <i>Alien</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">D Thing - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Bailterspace </b></span>- <i>Wammo</i><br />Trenker - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Verstarker </b></span>- <i>Mehrwerk III</i><br />Limbo - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Lastryko </b></span>- <i>Limbo</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Futsu Ni Ikirenai - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Minami Deutsch</b><b> </b></span>- s/t<br />Long Way Back - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>The Janitors </b></span>- <i>Drone Head</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Closer To The Sun - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Lammping</b></span><span style="font-size: 21px;"><b> </b></span>- <i>Bad Boys Of Comedy</i><i><br /></i>Monongahela - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Tulsa Drone </b></span>- <i>Songs From A Mean Season</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Radiating - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Jackie-O Motherfucker </b></span>- <i>Bloom</i><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i><br /></i></div></div>
<iframe frameborder="0" height="120" src="https://www.mixcloud.com/widget/iframe/?hide_cover=1&light=1&feed=%2Fthespacerockcontinuum%2Fthe-spacerock-continuum-april-2021%2F" width="100%"></iframe>BeeDubhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15091322992801506270noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7126999635143777384.post-65168109662403348422021-03-01T05:41:00.001-08:002021-05-31T23:45:27.463-07:00March Madness!!!<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjrB25bp9V_J9NfYumh3dujdSAZ8HuEWvDGELXx0KfxJ08ClNSRCKPeVY5ORwk_DQrLc1e4HJIGaQ1e9xPjvdukkZncipAqgiu7mKXfukcunD8Bixt37YXbL7nfKiQJk2YoTewEo5yMH9Z/s532/shoegaze+bird.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="532" data-original-width="526" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjrB25bp9V_J9NfYumh3dujdSAZ8HuEWvDGELXx0KfxJ08ClNSRCKPeVY5ORwk_DQrLc1e4HJIGaQ1e9xPjvdukkZncipAqgiu7mKXfukcunD8Bixt37YXbL7nfKiQJk2YoTewEo5yMH9Z/s320/shoegaze+bird.jpg" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>Have I used this title before? Who cares?!?!? Certainly not this little psychonaut bird!</p><p>All that matters is the SOUNDZ! And we've got some fun stuff here to propel us toward the light at the end of the tunnel. Vaccines and future gatherings and a new US administration that isn't based on egomania and nihilism. HOPE? I dare say it's returned.</p><p>So why not a little Black Sabbath tribute from Nick Zinner of Yeah Yeah Yeahs and his friends? Why not a Rain Parade cover from Asteroid #4? Why not some berserk psych-en-espanol from Los Acidos, IAH, Vuelvateloca ("drive you crazy"), and Firefriend? Why not an absolute BEAST from the mighty Mogwai, and some barnburners from Turtle Skull, Hotel Wrecking City Traders and OG psychsters Bardo Pond? It's all here, resolving with the bliss that is the OZEAN.</p><p>I can't wait to chill on some San Tropico beach "once all this is over". And even if we can't make plans yet, we CAN see that light that beckons us. My friends, one thing we've learned is that we're all in this same fucked up trip together, and once the surreality wears off...? Well, we'll still have SPACE ROCK!</p><p>So sit back, smoke 'em if you got 'em, and enjoy THIS trip with me! And I may have never mentioned here, but you can contact me on my <a href="https://www.facebook.com/The-Spacerock-Continuum" target="_blank">Facebook page</a>. Hit me up, tell me what you like, ask me about the artists, just say a socially distant fucking HELLO!</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The following tracks are included in the player below:</div><br />Spacerock Continuum Intro - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">bRambles</span></span><br />Sweet Leaf - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>BSCBR </b></span>- <i>Master Of Rehearsal</i><br />Espejos - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Los Acidos </b></span>- s/t<br />Glasgow Mega Snake - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Mogwai </b></span>- <i>Mr. Beast</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Cabalgan Los Cielos - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>IAH </b></span>- s/t<br />23 Enigma - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>My Sleeping Karma </b></span>- s/t<br />Ciudades Subterraneas - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Vuelvateloca </b></span>- <i>Contra</i><br />I Look Around (Rain Parade cover) - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>The Asteroid #4 </b></span>- <i>These Flowers Of Ours</i><br />San Tropico - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Vintage Cucumber </b></span>- <i>San Tropico</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Higher Worlds - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Vinyl Williams</b></span><span style="font-size: 21px;"><b> </b></span>- <i>Lemniscate</i><i><br /></i>Who Cares What You Think? - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Turtle Skull </b></span>- <i>Monolith</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Home Or Exile - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Firefriend </b></span>- <i>Fantasma</i><br />Holy Motors - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Alien Mustangs </b></span>- <i>Alien Nation</i><br />My Eyes Are Always Heavy - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Mountain Movers </b></span>- <i>Pink Skies</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Cosmodrome - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Temples</b><b> </b></span>- <i>Cosmodrome</i><br />Rockwind - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Heavy Moon </b></span>- <i>12</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Saturnine And Iron Jaw - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>All Them Witches</b></span><span style="font-size: 21px;"><b> </b></span>- <i>Nothing As The Ideal</i><i><br /></i>Third Reichel - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Sungod </b></span>- <i>Contackt</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Phantamonium - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Hotel Wrecking City Traders </b></span>- <i>Phantamonium</i><br />Night Of Frogs - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Bardo Pond </b></span>- <i>On The Ellipse</i><br />Ozean - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Colour Haze </b></span>- <i>Tempel</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></div>
<iframe frameborder="0" height="120" src="https://www.mixcloud.com/widget/iframe/?hide_cover=1&light=1&feed=%2Fthespacerockcontinuum%2Fthe-spacerock-continuum-march-2021%2F" width="100%"></iframe>BeeDubhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15091322992801506270noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7126999635143777384.post-21366235105640269292021-02-01T18:40:00.001-08:002021-02-05T18:36:08.115-08:00The Very Best of 2020 Part 2<p style="text-align: center;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW-UJWgROEIf_6b4x1ABkW5iemREpmBEvQwzZBchgwgNYj6_GRvX_Sw231-JTctntjsEA2SjRsd7rWpABgGB56MQTtutV2THEyy2A_R-_u28w51EL9HNf7Fi2u4S06XStMkDHZ9eR46Aso/s455/Lightning+cloud.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="455" data-original-width="300" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW-UJWgROEIf_6b4x1ABkW5iemREpmBEvQwzZBchgwgNYj6_GRvX_Sw231-JTctntjsEA2SjRsd7rWpABgGB56MQTtutV2THEyy2A_R-_u28w51EL9HNf7Fi2u4S06XStMkDHZ9eR46Aso/w264-h400/Lightning+cloud.gif" width="264" /></a></div><div><br /></div>Ya know, things look pretty FUCKED out there. And I admit, things are pretty fucked, even after some modicum of equilibrium has been established. That's the ROCK. The lightning is US. Looking for some grounding. Or some kind of release. I'm not sure where we're headed. Some relief may come. I'm not sure where I'm headed. I'm at a fucking CROSSROADS (don't mention the Devil - he already knows). <div><br /></div><div>But looking back, 2020 was less dark than where 2021 is headed. Let's hope we have another year as amazing for space rock as 2020 was (and many of these recordings were done in isolation!). Isolation? You don't know isolation. I continue to work with mask on, salvage relationships with no close contact, and LIVE if only for the SOUNDS. For, there is nothing else but the MUSIX. Just listen to this shit, okay? Judge for yourself. If anything it indicates that there is HOPE. Although right now I feel as I could jump off a starbridge and fall into the great unknown and NOBODY WOULD FUCKING CARE. Correct me if I'm wrong...</div><div><br /></div><div>Three hours. 31 songs. Epic fucking goodness. Lotsa GAZE in this set. Lotsa psych en espanol. Epic one-two punch opener with Turtle Skull and Hey Colossus (my two favorite songs of the year) and one-two punch closure from Alien Mustangs and Iah (my other two favorite songs of the year), as well as a "hidden" country-psych track from Rose City Band for palate cleansing). It's a journey for sure.</div><div><br /></div><div>JOIN ME</div><div><br /></div><div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The following tracks are included in the player below:</div><br />Spacerock Continuum Intro - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">bRambles</span></span><br />Rabbit - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Turtle Skull</span></span><span style="font-size: 21px;"><b> </b></span>- <i>Monoliths</i><br />Revelation Day - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Hey Colossus </b></span>- <i>Dances/Curses</i><br />Five -<span style="font-size: 21px;"><b> Flavor Crystals </b></span>- <i>Moon Patrol</i><br />Hollow World - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Elephant Stone </b></span>- <i>Hollow</i><br />Accept - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>The Love Explosion </b></span>- <i>Own Your Mind Business</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Inner Eye Insight - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>The Love Dimension </b></span>- <i>Tree In The Seed</i><br />Dias - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Vintage Cucumber </b></span>- <i>San Tropico</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Emision - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Sei Still </b></span>- s/t<i><br /></i>Pill - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Peel Dream Magazine </b></span>- <i>Agitprop Alterna</i><br />Once Upon A Freak - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Ringo Deathstarr </b></span>- s/t<br />Say Less - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Nothing </b></span>- <i>The Great Dismal</i><br />Dream Rats - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>No Joy </b></span>- <i>Motherhood</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Waves - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Hum</b></span><span style="font-size: 21px;"><b> </b></span>- <i>Inlet</i><i><br /></i>Hide - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Deserta </b></span>- <i>Black Aura My Sun</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Flames vs The Seventh Art - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>The Voices </b></span>- <i>Death Of A Lover's Song</i><br />Centro De La Ciudad - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Sunset Images </b></span>- single<br />Misterio - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Las Cobras </b></span>- <i>Selva</i></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Puentes Enterios - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Vuelvateloca</span></span><span style="font-size: 21px;"><b> </b></span>- single<br />Al Otro Lado - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Los Acidos </b></span>- s/t</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Contingencia - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Mint Field </b></span>- <i>Sentimiento Mundial</i><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Us Vs Us - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>10,000 Russos </b></span>- s/t<br />Shades - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Split Moon </b></span>- <i>Slow Satellite</i><br />Teenage Hive - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Facs </b></span>- <i>Void Moments</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Olde Feelings - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Tonstartssbandht</b><b> </b></span>- <i>single</i><br />Logos - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Lemurian Folk Songs </b></span>- <i>Logos</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Szabodelico - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Causa Sui</b></span><span style="font-size: 21px;"><b> </b></span>- Szabodelico<i><br /></i>Let It All In - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Arbouretum </b></span>- <i>Let it All in</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Fairy Meadows - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Alien Mustangs </b></span>- <i>Beat of The Earth</i><br />Uaset - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Iah </b></span>- <i>III</i><br />Real Long Gone - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Rose City Band </b></span>- <i>Summerlong</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i><br /></i></div></div></div>
<iframe frameborder="0" height="120" src="https://www.mixcloud.com/widget/iframe/?hide_cover=1&light=1&feed=%2Fthespacerockcontinuum%2Fthe-spacerock-continuum-february-2021-best-of-2020-part-2%2F" width="100%"></iframe>BeeDubhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15091322992801506270noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7126999635143777384.post-29142900599876492722021-01-01T07:28:00.007-08:002021-01-07T06:28:12.475-08:00The Very Best of 2020 Part 1<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF-ARP8hoY_3LoYnFVkQQlF2YCBKTw5Itm-Skqulwky7kIrV156z935ijX3z8pK_p4R60-3DGfSMsZsAcJXYJuAFol71hQC3iQMfpxcoRTGjbVFV6zT7d6BmIk-Hnpt85jZqcA9m_RIVII/s640/Stardust+rock.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="336" data-original-width="640" height="260" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF-ARP8hoY_3LoYnFVkQQlF2YCBKTw5Itm-Skqulwky7kIrV156z935ijX3z8pK_p4R60-3DGfSMsZsAcJXYJuAFol71hQC3iQMfpxcoRTGjbVFV6zT7d6BmIk-Hnpt85jZqcA9m_RIVII/w495-h260/Stardust+rock.jpg" width="495" /></a></div></div>
<div><br /></div><div>Yes, that's a genuine space rock above, m'dears. Made of actual stardust, as are we all. We may not feel that united, but we've endured all this fuckery together: the pandemic will be all but over sometime this year, the con-man president will be kicked to the curb, and we can be TOGETHER again, in real time, at music festivals, at listening parties, at club gigs, and just snuggling up with one another with some space rock soundtracks!</div><div><br /></div><div>And yes, despite all the chaos, torpor, and general shittiness, 2020 was a very good year... for SPACE ROCK! And in keeping with tradition, January is when I list my TOP TEN ALBUMS of the previous year. Always challenging and contentious (I frequently argue with myself), this list is subject to change, the positions 1-10 are somewhat arbitrary, and aside from these ten there was a TON of great musix. So much in fact I've split the Best Of playlists into two THREE HOUR segments. But first:</div><div><p>The Top Ten Albums for 2020!</p><p>1. Slift - <i>Ummon</i></p><p>2. The Asteroid #4 -<i> Northern Songs</i></p><p>3. Kanaan - <i>Odense Sessions</i></p><p>4. Turtle Skull - <i>Monoliths</i></p><p>5. Vintage Cucumber - <i>San Tropico</i></p><p>6. Los Acidos - <i>Los Acidos (2020 reissue)</i></p><p>7. Split Moon - <i>Slow Satellite</i></p><p>8. Ringo Deathstarr - s/t</p><p>9. Kooba Tercu - <i>Proto Tekno</i></p><p>10.<i> </i>Vuelvateloca<i> - Contra</i></p><p>So now I bring you the first HALF of the Spacerock Continuum's Very Best of 2020 playlist. THREE HOURS in length, 37 songs, it's only the first installment of two, painstakingly curated by ME, Beedub, cuz I LOVE YOU!</p><p>Get ready for a lengthy journey comprised of international artists all of whom managed to release amazing musix during this troubled year. From futurama to modern psychedelia to tribal rhythms to kosmische to noise rock to stoner rock to shoegaze to post rock to electronica, it's all SPACE ROCK to me!</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The following tracks are included in the player below:</div><br />Spacerock Continuum Intro - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">bRambles</span></span><br />2020/A Warning In The Dark - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Maserati</span></span><span style="font-size: 21px;"><b> </b></span>- <i>Enter The Mirror</i><br />Ummon - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Slift </b></span>- <i>Ummon</i><br />Space Caravan -<span style="font-size: 21px;"><b> Karkara </b></span>- <i>Nowhere Land</i><br />10,000 Dong - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Moon Goose </b></span>- <i>The Wax Monster Lives Behind The First Row Of Trees</i><br />Home Or Exile - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Firefriend </b></span>- <i>Fantasma</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Fair Game - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Kooba Tercu </b></span>- <i>Proto Tekno</i><br />Holy Shit Part 1 - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Blanchard </b></span>- <i>Holy Shit</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Shine Theory - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Household Gods </b></span>- <i>Palace Intrigue</i><i><br /></i>Ol' Mule Pepe - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Low Rider </b></span>- <i>Refractions</i><br />Enemy Of My Enemy - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>All Them Witches </b></span>- <i>Nothing As The Ideal</i><br />Mind Leaf - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Heavy Trip </b></span>- s/t<br />Red Star Part 2 - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>King Buffalo </b></span>- <i>Dead Star</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">123 Eternity - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Pretty Lightning</b></span><span style="font-size: 21px;"><b> </b></span>- <i>Jangle Bowls</i><i><br /></i>Magical Flight - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Halo Noose </b></span>- <i>Magical Flight</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Seminal Art - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Cafe Racer </b></span>- <i>Shadow Talk</i><br />Forest For The Trees - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Lammping </b></span>- <i>Bad Boys Of Comedy</i><br />Petrichor - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Purple Heart Parade </b></span>- <i>Desolation Angel</i></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Sonic Dhoom - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">The Black Heart Death Cult</span></span><span style="font-size: 21px;"><b> </b></span>- <i>Sonic Dhoom</i><br />No One Weeps - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>The Asteroid #4 </b></span>- <i>Northern Songs</i><br />The Quiet Ones - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Kelley Stoltz </b></span>- <i>Ah! (etc.)</i><br />I - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Servo </b></span>- <i>Alien</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Sound Of Confession - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Helicon </b></span>- <i>The Can Only Lead To Chaos</i><br />Post Animal - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Post Animal </b></span>- <i>Forward Motion Godyssey</i><br />C+A - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Lastryko </b></span>- <i>Limbo</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Malibu Liquor Store - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Shit And Shine </b></span>- <i>Malibu Liquor Store</i><i><br /></i>The Aughts - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Flat Worms </b></span>- <i>Antarctica</i><br />That Dream (Shitty Beach) - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Magik Markers </b></span>- <i>2020</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">A Bright Form - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Mountain Movers</b></span><span style="font-size: 21px;"><b> </b></span>- single<i><br /></i>Division Blues - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Caspian </b></span>- <i>On Circles</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Electric Saloon - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Ellis/Monk Ensemble </b></span>- <i>San Diego Sessions</i><br />Seemingly Changeless Stars - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Kanaan </b></span>- <i>Odense Sessions</i><br />Arp (Parts I-IV) - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Dan Deacon </b></span>- <i>Mystic Familiar</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i><br /></i></div></div>
<iframe frameborder="0" height="120" src="https://www.mixcloud.com/widget/iframe/?hide_cover=1&light=1&feed=%2Fthespacerockcontinuum%2Fthe-spacerock-continuum-january-2021-the-very-best-of-2020-part-1%2F" width="100%"></iframe>BeeDubhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15091322992801506270noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7126999635143777384.post-16315104731938551812020-12-01T18:04:00.000-08:002020-12-01T18:04:41.953-08:00The Dao<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2EgqLXNWZgiyGp0DDG3vD2cVKmw06awedwYZoJwUdTbSchhuvIcCBeoJtqb5i6DdPfA4GHuel_PqPAjBT3N_4_ImqmxHQxcyLnGUMjn-GD9ZrZqglPP5REbIaQANh3lWT32IEyPndm_Eg/s298/dao.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="279" data-original-width="298" height="374" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2EgqLXNWZgiyGp0DDG3vD2cVKmw06awedwYZoJwUdTbSchhuvIcCBeoJtqb5i6DdPfA4GHuel_PqPAjBT3N_4_ImqmxHQxcyLnGUMjn-GD9ZrZqglPP5REbIaQANh3lWT32IEyPndm_Eg/w400-h374/dao.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p>That's the Dao, or Tao, depending on your preference. It means "The Way". As in way of living, way of being, way of existence, or my family name. The path... the road... the way to... enlightenment. Just BE. Be like the water that flows around the rocks to the path of least resistance yet fills all with liquid love and light... and SOUND. There will always be sound, and we humans only tap the source and drink of its essence. We're LISTENING. Always creating and listening and shaping and flowing because sound is the Dao.</p><p>The dao is the way is the flow is the motorik rhythm and strange sonics of bands like British pioneers Stereolab, this completing my 3-month feature called MULTI-PLAY with the third and final installment featuring multiple tracks from a highlighted artist, this time mixing two tracks from their groundbreaking album 'Transient Random Noise Bursts With Announcements'. Peel Dream Magazine exist as a simulacrum of Stereolab's ethos, with a name referencing both the late great John Peel, champion of musical esoterica, and popular fanzine music that may have somehow bypassed most of the populace. Brightonians Electrelane exist in a similar vernacular, as do krautrockers from diverse places as Sei Still (Mexico City) and Minami Deutsch (Tokyo).</p><p>Then it's time to switch gears with the blissed-out noise-for-noise-sakes of Soviet Soviet (Italy), Is Bliss (Wales), and Helicon (Scotland). Continuing into modern psych cuz that's what we do, we have Halo Noose (Scotland), Las Cobras (Uruguay!), Vintage Cucumber (Germany), Trad Gras Och Stenar (Sweden), and Verstarker (Kentucky, US!).</p><p>To wrap up this set we set forth on an epic journey (replete with more motorik/dao splendor) of space exploration out into the cosmos, <i>seeking the sun</i> (the LIGHT), and back inwards deep into our psyches, with lengthy tracks from Mt. Mountain (Australia), the <i>double sun</i> of Kanaan (Norway), and finally we wrap up this MAD MAD crazy bad/good weird WTF and just plain glad-it's-over year by <i>swimming into the sun</i> with Kandodo, the side project of The Heads' Simon Price. GOODBYE and good riddance, 2020! You brought us some great music (just wait until you hear the Best Of 2020 playlists in the upcoming months!), but that's about it, so FUCK YOU, and don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out (same to you, "Mr. President"). BYEEeeeeeeee...!</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5ydD9pq8ku8vBNONyCv8VyeEuhZ71AWtzbNYSs8QDYHlX5jeX7dGhd8GZr7JrXs3DUGw2RVOp2XHjLB9nqUni4EaIhgdH92tvq6FpjFKZD0XHUIOlDzxsUWXaQL29OrOML-q-IpaxLnIO/s300/Dao+2.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5ydD9pq8ku8vBNONyCv8VyeEuhZ71AWtzbNYSs8QDYHlX5jeX7dGhd8GZr7JrXs3DUGw2RVOp2XHjLB9nqUni4EaIhgdH92tvq6FpjFKZD0XHUIOlDzxsUWXaQL29OrOML-q-IpaxLnIO/s0/Dao+2.jpeg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The following tracks are included in the player below:</div><br />Spacerock Continuum Intro - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">bRambles</span></span><br />Our Trinitone Blast/Analogue Rock - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Stereolab</span></span><br />Eyeballs - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Peel Dream Magazine </b></span>- <i>Agitprop Alterna</i><br />Bells -<span style="font-size: 21px;"><b> Electrelane </b></span>- <i>Axes</i><br />El Camino - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Sei Still </b></span>- s/t<br />I've Seen A U.F.O. - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Minami Deutsch </b></span>- <i>With Dim Light</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Endless Beauty - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Soviet Soviet </b></span>- <i>Endless</i><br />What To Believe - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Is Bliss </b></span>- <i>Strange Communication</i><br />Kolorskope - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Helicon </b></span>- <i>Mind Explosion</i><br />Rollercoasting Your Mind - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Halo Noose </b></span>- <i>Magical Flight</i><br />Evil In Your Eyes - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Las Cobras </b></span>- <i>Selva</i><br />La Fruta Bomba - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Vintage Cucumber </b></span>- <i>San Tropico</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Punkrockaren - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Trad Gras Och Stenar</b></span><span style="font-size: 21px;"><b> </b></span>- <i>Hemlosa Katter</i><i><br /></i>(Hallo) Commando - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Verstarker </b></span>- single</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Seek The Sun - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Mt. Mountain </b></span>- <i>Cosmos Terros</i><br />Double Sun Part 2 - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Kanaan </b></span>- <i>Double Sun</i><br />Swim Into The Sun - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Kandodo </b></span>- <i>k2o</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i><br /></i></div>
<iframe frameborder="0" height="120" src="https://www.mixcloud.com/widget/iframe/?hide_cover=1&feed=%2Fthespacerockcontinuum%2Fthe-spacerock-continuum-december-2020%2F" width="100%"></iframe>BeeDubhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15091322992801506270noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7126999635143777384.post-80903195954353743732020-11-01T21:19:00.000-08:002020-11-01T21:19:03.041-08:00All Shall Be Revealed in November!<p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht5QfDZThbNhbZ9yvcnS3SELz6qh-JUUpMLFa8CJwErZleCe0bu7zSZI2RqdKjBFFH6DA-rh9gAi3x3UTbgUPAQ0lYnQa4VWkk24LLHm3RlDCj1db9JMjaXBk5v5fxiuX-vyQGxMPCDBEk/s1000/Crystal-ball-in-Endless-space.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1000" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht5QfDZThbNhbZ9yvcnS3SELz6qh-JUUpMLFa8CJwErZleCe0bu7zSZI2RqdKjBFFH6DA-rh9gAi3x3UTbgUPAQ0lYnQa4VWkk24LLHm3RlDCj1db9JMjaXBk5v5fxiuX-vyQGxMPCDBEk/w400-h400/Crystal-ball-in-Endless-space.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p>I've got a Triple Threat of personal and global expectations happening the first week of November 2020:</p><p>1. That I will buy a house.</p><p>2. That I will have healthcare.</p><p>3. That WE will have a new president of the United States.</p><p>Upon writing this these factors are complete unknowns but filled with HOPE for the future. AND it's Daylight Saving Time - let there be more LIGHT!</p><p>I've also got a new Spacerock Continuum for ya'll, so DIG THIS! First I'm digging into the distant psychedelic PAST for a different kind of Triple Threat with tracks from The James Gang (1970), Blue Oyster Cult (1974), and The Amboy Dukes (1968)!</p><p>Then I continue my 3-month feature called MULTI-PLAY with the second installment featuring multiple tracks from a highlighted artist, and this time it's Japanese pysch/folk/prog weirdos GHOST! I've mixed FOUR of their tracks together for your listening pleasure, and if you've never heard them before I hope this blows your space socks off!</p><p>Then we delve into the not quite as distant past with early-oughts oft-overlooked should-have-beens Ambulance Ltd, then deep back into the 90s with the spacier side of the indie rock that was flourishing in those days with Archers Of Loaf, Built To Spill, The Boo Radleys, Bailterspace, Dinosaur Jr, and Husker Du! Next up, a band that was hitting their peak back then released a fantastic comeback in 2020: the one and only Hum, followed up by a fantastic modern band that harkens back to the glory daze of shoegaze, Ringo Deathstarr, then with a little post rock homage to their forebears, the mighty Mogwai, it's obscure but wonderful G-Plan.</p><p>Then we round up the TIME with a segment featuring only what I would call Modern International Psych; artists that are as diverse in SOUND and location of origin as they are pleasing to the SOUL: Julie's Haircut (Italy), Radar Men From The Moon (Netherlands), The Dunes (Australia), Pretty Lightning (Germany), Kooba Tercu (Greece), Alber Jupiter (France), and Muun Bato (Minnesota, US). The "scene" is not only alive and well, it's GLOBAL, and offers us solace during worldwide MAYHEM. The sounds of SPACE will comfort us during this dark TIME, because it has been said that..</p><p>"IF ART IS HOW WE DECORATE SPACE, THEN MUSIC IS HOW WE DECORATE TIME."</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The following tracks are included in the player below:</div><br />Spacerock Continuum Intro - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">bRambles</span></span><br />The Bomber - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">The James Gang </span></span>- <i>The James Gang Rides Again</i><br />Astronomy - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Blue Oyster Cult </b></span>- <i>Secret Treaties</i><br />Journey To The Center Of The Mind -<span style="font-size: 21px;"><b> The Amboy Dukes </b></span>- <i>Journey To The Center Of The Mind</i><br />Aramaic Barbarous Dawn/Leave The World!/Hazy Paradise/Piper - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Ghost</b></span><br />Yoga Means Union - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Ambulance Ltd. </b></span>- s/t</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Step Into The Light - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Archers Of Loaf </b></span>- <i>Vee Vee</i><br />Velvet Waltz - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Built To Spill </b></span>- <i>Perfect From Now On</i><br />Lazarus - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>The Boo Radleys </b></span>- <i>Giant Steps</i><br />X - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Bailterspace </b></span>- s/t<br />Little Furry Things - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Dinosaur Jr </b></span>- <i>You're Living All Over Me</i><br />Eight Miles High (Byrds cover) - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Husker Du </b></span>- single<br />In The Den - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Hum </b></span>- <i>Inlet</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Cotton Candy Clouds - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Ringo Deathstarr </b></span>- s/t<br />There's People Lying Dead In The Stairwell - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>G-Plan </b></span>- <i>All Roads Lead To This</i><br />Until The Lights Go Out - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Julie's Haircut</b></span><span style="font-size: 21px;"><b> </b></span>- <i>In The Silence Electric</i><br />What The Lightning Said - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Radar Men From The Moon </b></span>- <i>Strange Wave Galore</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Just Because You're Not Being Followed Doesn't Mean You're Not Paranoid - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>The Dunes </b></span>- s/t</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">RaRaRa - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Pretty Lightning </b></span>- <i>Jangle Bowls</i><br />Ukunta - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Kooba Tercu </b></span>- s/t<br />Uber En Colere - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Alber Jupiter</b></span><span style="font-size: 21px;"><b> </b></span>- <i>We Are Just Floating In Space</i><br />Planet Of The Children - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Muun Bato </b></span>- s/t</div></div><br>
<iframe width="100%" height="120" src="https://www.mixcloud.com/widget/iframe/?hide_cover=1&feed=%2Fthespacerockcontinuum%2Fthe-spacerock-continuum-november-2020%2F" frameborder="0" ></iframe>BeeDubhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15091322992801506270noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7126999635143777384.post-54415416068235991792020-10-02T16:11:00.002-07:002020-10-02T17:59:30.495-07:00F this, I'm going to the desert.<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeYeV6zc1fQRSVB14KKVuGuN4RkO4Meo60BBfAvgZtD-LF115cQRHIAtViRsbXkIW3Ogy5GBlZctFd2PzMyMHEc0k0n9zIIbM_qH9cy5ndY1aGw4asbJ1RoFDZHb-LPTt6QGcv4KT3Kbh6/s1080/2020.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="722" data-original-width="1080" height="274" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeYeV6zc1fQRSVB14KKVuGuN4RkO4Meo60BBfAvgZtD-LF115cQRHIAtViRsbXkIW3Ogy5GBlZctFd2PzMyMHEc0k0n9zIIbM_qH9cy5ndY1aGw4asbJ1RoFDZHb-LPTt6QGcv4KT3Kbh6/w410-h274/2020.jpg" width="410" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Global pandemic, hellish infernos, political boiling point... FUCK THAT. We will survive all this shit and emerge renewed. Music can sustain us. And I've got some killer shit for the KILLING TIME.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">And I'm introducing a new feature on the Spacerock Continuum! It's called MULTI-PLAY!!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">For the next few months each installment will feature multiple tracks from a highlighted artist. That's NEVER (rarely) happened before! For October it's zany Brit krautrockers Clinic, who turned psychobilly on its head by incorporating the dark mesmer of minimalist no wave artists like Suicide and the motorik "repetition and nonsense" of artists like Can. Hypnotic, manic, and GROOVY! Take a trip down fuzzy memory lane with me and CLINIC!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Then we delve deep into exotic psychotropia with international artists like Sunset Images (Mexico), Muun Bato (Minnesota), Kooba Tercu (Greece), Ghost (Japan), Lastryko and Trupa Trupa (Poland!), Sun Dial (UK), Hum (outta Illinois with their fantastic new comeback record!), The Men (New York), Ganglians (San Francisco), Tonstartssbandht (Florida?!?!?), O.G. psychproggers Porcupine Tree and The Bevis Frond (UK), the almighty GNOD (also UK), Tambourinen (Arizona?!?!?), and Acid Rooster (Germany).</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">I'm mostly giving you the geographic origins of these artists lately rather than describe them in much detail so you can come up with your own conclusions. And you will find that SPACEROCK is indeed EVERYWHERE! Without it we'd never make it through this alive...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The following tracks are included in the player below:</div><br />Spacerock Continuum Intro - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">bRambles</span></span><br />Voodoo Wop / The Return of Evil Bill / Internal Wrangler - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Clinic</span></span><br />Hajime - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Sunset Images </b></span>- <i>Hajime</i><br />Muun Bato -<span style="font-size: 21px;"><b> Muun Bato </b></span>- s/t<br />Cybele - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Kooba Tercu </b></span>- <i>Kharrub</i><br />Rabirabi - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Ghost </b></span>- <i>Lama Rabi Rabi</i><br />Srodek Czarnego Nieba - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Lastryko </b></span>- s/t</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Picture Yourself - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Trupa Trupa </b></span>- <i>Headache</i><br />Never Fade - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Sun Dial </b></span>- <i>Reflector</i><br />Cloud City - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Hum </b></span>- <i>Inlet</i><br />Patterns - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>The Men </b></span>- <i>Devil Music</i><br />100 Years - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Ganglians </b></span>- <i>Monster Head Room</i><br />Opening - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Tonstartssbandht </b></span>- <i>Sorcerer</i><br />Strip The Soul - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Porcupine Tree </b></span>- XM</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Barking (or False Point Blues) - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>The Bevis Frond </b></span>- <i>Son Of Walter</i><br />Run-A-Round - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Gnod </b></span>- <i>Gnod Drop Out (with White Hills)</i><br />Wooden Flower - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Tambourinen</b></span><span style="font-size: 21px;"><b> </b></span>- <i>Wooden Flower</i><br />Moon Loop - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Acid Rooster </b></span>- s/t</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></div>
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhreMf6K242wdaAzl_0lwbnCwLYoJID1__hABKllxBj_JZzBQDGn63DvrUOuulYq_SSbUxUMVy-8ILpRwtzMYxPZuPOlLLwfPfytACcToTPvwUNHvuoqUCgpZJfmAmqsYnUcFHyVzokq1Nk/s700/space+rock.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="470" data-original-width="700" height="275" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhreMf6K242wdaAzl_0lwbnCwLYoJID1__hABKllxBj_JZzBQDGn63DvrUOuulYq_SSbUxUMVy-8ILpRwtzMYxPZuPOlLLwfPfytACcToTPvwUNHvuoqUCgpZJfmAmqsYnUcFHyVzokq1Nk/w410-h275/space+rock.jpg" width="410" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Welcome to the return of the ROCK. Not that this space hasn't always rocked, but September seemed appropriate for back-to-school (distance learning version). That is the question: what is space rock (aside from the photo above)? I've answered this thousands of times with my playlists but they often veer off into uncharted territory of extremes and experiMENTALs. Which is still space rock. This set spans the gamut too, but in what I think is a more concise explanation, while still swinging wildly across the psychedelic sky. Catch the comet if you can!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">It passes over Italy (Julie's Haircut), Germany (Desert Mountain Tribe), Canada (Possum, Quest For Fire), Australia (Mote, Dunes, Hotel Wrecking City Traders), San Diego, CA (Aunt Cynthia's Cabin), Portland, OR (Ripley Johnson's <span>Rose City Band and my buddy's band Lost Echoes), France (Dead Horse One, Slift), San Francisco, CA (Carlton Melton), Sweden (Causa Sui), Norway (Kanaan), London, UK (Kandodo, which is Simon Price of The Heads with US conspirator John MacBain of Monster Magnet who composed together over Thee Vast Oceans of Interwebs), and... Rochester, NY (King Buffalo)?</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span>Heh heh...</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span>As always, space is EVERYWHERE!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The following tracks are included in the player below:</div><br />Spacerock Continuum Intro - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">bRambles</span></span><br />Anticipation Of The Night - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Julie's Haircut</span></span><span style="font-size: 21px;"><b> </b></span>- <i>In The Silence Electric</i><br />Midnight Sky - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Desert Mountain Tribe </b></span>- <i>Either That Or The Moon</i><br />Worm's Hollow -<span style="font-size: 21px;"><b> Possum </b></span>- <i>Space Grade Assembly</i><br />Magnetic Space - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Mote </b></span>- <i>Samalas</i><br />Misty Woman - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Aunt Cynthia's Cabin </b></span>- <i>Misty Woman</i><br />Rivers Of Mind - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Rose City Band </b></span>- s/t<br />When You Sleep - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Lost Echoes </b></span>- single<br />When You Wake Up - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>The Dunes </b></span>- s/t<br />Olifnt - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Dead Horse One </b></span>- <i>The West Is The Best</i><br />Confusion's Home - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Quest For Fire </b></span>- <i>Lights From Paradise</i><br />Eternal Return - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Carlton Melton </b></span>- <i>Mind Minerals</i><br />Altitude Lake - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Slift </b></span>- <i>Ummon</i><br />Seven Hills - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Causa Sui </b></span>- Vibraciones Doradas</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Mountain - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Kanaan </b></span>- Double Sun<br />Quasar - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Hotel Wrecking City Traders </b></span>- <i>Passage To Agartha</i><br />Megladon't - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Kandodo / McBain</b></span><span style="font-size: 21px;"><b> </b></span>- <i>Lost Chants / Last Chance</i><br />Red Star Parts 1 and 2 - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>King Buffalo </b></span>- <i>Dead Star<br /><br /><br /></i></div>
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And now for something completely different...<br />
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I've never made a playlist featuring only artists from a single record label before (I had considered doing so with Canadian post rock outpost Constellation Records once, and may still one day). But I have had the luck to have bestowed upon me the singular psych/spacerock stalwarts that make up the roster of the label run by my social media friend Dave Schmidt, aka Sula Bassana, overlord of the mighty Sulatron Records in Germany.<br />
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Sula Dave has gathered brain candy from around the world and shared it with me, so that I can share it with you this August. Representing some of the finest of the genre, we have artists from such diverse locales as the UK (Sun Dial), Germany (Electric Moon, Zone Six), Finland (Permanent Clear Light), Norway (Seid), Italy (Sherpa), The Netherlands (Astral Son), Croatia (Seven That Spells), Estonia (Centre El Muusa), and New Zealand (Lamp Of The Universe)!<br />
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It's so refreshing, and so damn necessary, to know that cosmic psychedelic light glows around the globe, and can restore us to health and humanity. I thank Sula Dave for his generosity, and so will you. Prepare yourself to enter the world of SULATRON!<br />
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Spacerock Continuum Intro - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">bRambles</span></span><br />
Magic Potion - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sun Dial</span></span><span style="font-size: 21px;"><b> </b></span>- <i>Return Journey</i><br />
Turkeyfish - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Centre El Muusa </b></span>- s/t<br />
Your Own Truth -<span style="font-size: 21px;"><b> Electric Moon </b></span>- <i>You Can See The Sound</i><br />
In - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Seven That Spells </b></span>- <i>The Death And Resurrection Of Krautrock</i><br />
Coyoteman - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Seid </b></span>- <i>Weltschmerz, Baby!</i><br />
Rite Of Spheres - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Lamp Of The Universe </b></span>- <i>Align In The 4th Dimension</i><br />
Cheap Magic Spells - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Astral Son </b></span>- <i>Wonderful Beyond</i><br />
Kim (((o))) - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Sherpa </b></span>- <i>Tigris And Euphrates</i><br />
Glitter Bo - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Centre El Muusa </b></span>- <i>Famous Dust</i><br />
Maurice N'est Pas La - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Permanent Clear Light </b></span>- <i>Cosmic Comics</i><br />
Through You - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Sun Dial </b></span>- <i>Return Journey</i><br />
Haukeye - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Seid </b></span>- <i>Weltschmerz, Baby!</i><br />
Szolnok - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Centre El Muusa </b></span>- s/t<br />
Matrix Of Creation - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Astral Son </b></span>- <i>Wonderful Beyond</i><br />
Corneville Skyline - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Permanent Clear Light </b></span>- Cosmic Comics<br />
Sun Stroke Mind Train - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Sun Dial</b></span><span style="font-size: 21px;"><b> </b></span>- <i>Return Journey</i><br />
Kozmik Koon - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Zone Six </b></span>- <i>Kozmik Koon</i><div><i><br /></i><div>
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Pretty much says it all. The global pandemic is just a symptom of a very sick planet. The virus is HUMAN, and the pathogen is the PSYCHO RIGHT-WING CAPITALIST FASCIST INDUSTRIAL DEATH MACHINE. It's what WE the disease are doing to the planet, not what it's doing to us. Systemic corruption, species-wide pollution, and an imminent implosion as our fate. The only goddam good thing we are doing to combat our illness is creating ART. And psychedelic spacerock is the pinnacle of self-reflective and re-directive consciousness that can SAVE US! Do you want to be "a cog in the machine" or "a stick in the wheel" of DEATH that has become us?!<br />
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For now, don't be the selfish twats that our overlords want us to be: social distance and wear that dang mask when you have to go out. The only exposure we need is that of the evil MACHINE that we have created - the police/government/fascist/kkkapitalist/kkkorporation that must be eradicated. For now, stay the fuck home and listen to THIS!<br />
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This shit is literally all over the place, sonically and geographically. We start this set with some MANIC hard industro-psych, in-your-face fast-paced psychic blasts from Gnod (Manchester, UK), Kungens Man (Stockholm, Sweden), Desert Mountain Tribe (London via Koln), Karkara (Spain/Portugal), and Alber Jupiter (Chile).<br />
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Then we bliss out with complete unknowns the currently defunct Tom Spacey (Chicago), and Portsmouth UK spacemen Is Bliss, head into the garage with Cafe Racer (Chicago), and slow it down and space the fuck out with a one-two punch from Wooden Shjips founder Mr. Ripley Johnson's other projects, Rose City Band (Portland) and Moon Duo (doing an amazing Black Sabbath cover).<br />
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After that we take it up a "Fest"-ive notch with Blankenberge (St. Petersburg, Russia), and take a tour of the blooz-addled swamp with Pretty Lightning (Germany) and my personal friends <b>The Spiral Electric</b> (SF/Oakland). Jakob (New Zealand) put the "post" in post rock, Blanchard (Chesterfield, UK) just rock the fuck out, Lowrider (Sweden) put the "stoned" in stoner rock, and Kandodo, featuring Simon Price, singer/guitarist of The Heads (London) remind us that we are all in DREAM, this month of July.<br />
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The following tracks are included in the players below:</div>
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Spacerock Continuum Intro - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">bRambles</span></span><br />
Stick In The Wheel - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Gnod</span></span><span style="font-size: 21px;"><b> </b></span>- <i>Just Say No To The Psycho Right-Wing Capitalist Fascist Industrial Death Machine</i><br />
Man Med Medel - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Kungens Man </b></span>- <i>Chef</i><br />
Feel The Light - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Desert Mountain Tribe </b></span>- <i>Either That Or The Moon</i><br />
Proxima Centaury - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Karkara </b></span>- <i>Crystal Gazer</i><br />
Fangs - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Alber Jupiter </b></span>- <i>We Are Just Floating In Space</i><br />
Divers - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Beaches </b></span>- <i>Second Of Spring</i><br />
Silly Things - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Tom Spacey </b></span>- <i>Mars Is Eden</i><br />
Someone - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Is Bliss </b></span>- <i>The Honeycomb Explosion</i><br />
Pretty Trash - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Cafe Racer </b></span>- <i>Famous Dust</i><br />
Floating Out - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Rose City Band </b></span>- <i>Summerlong</i><br />
Planet Caravan (Black Sabbath cover) - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Moon Duo </b></span>- <i>What Is This That Stands Before Me?</i><br />
Fest - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Blankenberge </b></span>- <i>More</i><br />
When The Black Sun Sets - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>The Voices </b></span>- <i>Death Of A Lover's Song</i><br />
The Rhythm Of Ooze - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Pretty Lightning </b></span>- <i>The Rhythm Of Ooze</i><br />
Swamp Type Thing - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>The Spiral Electric </b></span>- s/t<br />
Nice Day For An Earthquake - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Jakob</b></span><span style="font-size: 21px;"><b> </b></span>- <i>Subsets Of Sets</i><br />
Holy Shit Part 2 - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Blanchard </b></span>- <i>Holy Shit</i><br />
Pipe Rider - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Lowrider </b></span>- <i>Refractions</i><br />
July 28th - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Kandodo </b></span>- <i>k2o</i><br />
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This machine makes MAGIC! Every time I push THIS BUTTON, I give you NEW MUSIC! It will warp and expand your mind and do things to you like never have been done before, ya FEEL ME? That's cuz I LOVE YOU, spacerockers! I do all this for YOU, e'ry dang month, cuz you know you need it! I know I sure do. In the face of the Global Pandemic Blooz I figure we all just need to get out of our heads, and, as always, I've got the playlist for YOU. Just some feel good straight-up psych in this set, but stay with it. It gets darker as it progresses, just like our moods can tend to in isolation, but there is light in the darkness. Let it comfort you, like a balm for the soul, slowly leaked in through the ears until it takes over your mind and body. Please, to enjoy...<br />
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Spacerock Continuum Intro - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">bRambles</span></span><br />
Heroes And Villans - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Brian Wilson</span></span><span style="font-size: 21px;"><b> </b></span>- <i>Smile</i><br />
Glide - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>The Dream Syndicate </b></span>- <i>How Did I Find Myself Here?</i><br />
Astral Energy - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>The Love Explosion </b></span>- <i>Own Your Mind Business</i><br />
In A Paradise - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Post Animal </b></span>- <i>Forward Motion Godyssey</i><br />
Feel Free - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Split Moon </b></span>- <i>Slow Satellite</i><br />
Dr. Ron - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Highlands </b></span>- <i>Wish You Were</i><br />
You Stooge You - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>The Warlocks </b></span>- <i>The Chain</i><br />
Setting Sun - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>The Black Heart Death Cult </b></span>- s/t<br />
Strap Me Down - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>The Janitors </b></span>- <i>Drone Head</i><br />
Which One Is The Jellyfish? - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Aunt Cynthia's Cabin </b></span>- <i>Misty Woman</i><br />
Jolo - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Mote </b></span>- <i>Samalas</i><br />
Glasgow Uni Accent - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Helicon </b></span>- <i>This Can Only Lead To Chaos</i><br />
Germinal - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>10,000 Russos </b></span>- <i>Distress Distress</i><br />
Heliopolis - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Sekel </b></span>- s/t<br />
Pleasure And Pain - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Soundpool </b></span>- <i>Dichotomies And Dreamland</i><br />
Monica - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Deserta</b></span><span style="font-size: 21px;"><b> </b></span>- <i>Black Aura My Sun</i><br />
The Sound Of Young America - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>The Voices </b></span>- <i>The Sound Of Young America</i><br />
Mit Gluck - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Verstarker </b></span>- <i>Activat</i><br />
Drinking From The River Rising - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>King Buffalo </b></span>- <i>Orion</i><br />
El Centro - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>All Them Witches </b></span>- <i>Dying Surfer Meets His Maker</i><br />
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Yep! It's a black hole springtime sun for everyone! It seems we've all but disappeared from the planet, sucked into the viral vortex of isolation, loneliness, fear, paranoia, and despair. It's as if we're hiding our eyes behind our masks - without seeing smiles we aren't seeing each other. But luckily the music HASN'T disappeared. It just keeps on coming, escaping the darkness with glimmering light so that all might see (don't hide your ears!).</div>
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MAY is upon us. And MAY(be) the light we once knew will be revealed, and we will bask in the sun, growing like the grasses and flowers, and we will see each other again. But for now, we find it inside ourselves, and MAY(be) pouring these amazing sounds through your earholes and into your blown minds will suffice. For now, DIG THIS!</div>
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(and pay attention to the song titles - it's a song cycle of sorts, from darkness to the light)</div>
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The following tracks are included in the players below:</div>
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Spacerock Continuum Intro - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">bRambles</span></span><br />
Pandemic - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Helms Alee</span></span><span style="font-size: 21px;"><b> </b></span>- <i>Noctiluca</i><br />
Killing Time - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Maserati </b></span>- <i>Enter The Mirror</i><br />
Into The Godless Void - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead </b></span>- <i>The Godless Void And Other Stories</i><br />
It's Coming - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Slift </b></span>- <i>Heaven Is Waiting</i><br />
Apropos Of Nothing - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>The Dream Syndicate </b></span>- <i>The Universe Inside</i><br />
Before I'm Gone - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Celestial Bums </b></span>- s/t<br />
Look Around - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Blankenberge </b></span>- <i>More</i><br />
Coming Down - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Tennis System </b></span>- <i>P A I N</i><br />
God Help The Ones You Love - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Ringo Deathstarr </b></span>- s/t<br />
Dead Inside - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Purepleaser </b></span>- <i>Take</i><br />
Corona - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Gwei-Lo </b></span>- s/t<br />
Void Walker - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Facs </b></span>- <i>Void Moments</i><br />
Future Warrior - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Palms </b></span>- s/t<br />
Feels Like A Weight Has Been Lifted - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Quicksand </b></span>- <i>Interiors</i><br />
The Aughts - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Flatworms </b></span>- <i>Antarctica</i><br />
Reducer - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Pigs </b></span><b style="font-size: 21px;">Pigs </b><b style="font-size: 21px;">Pigs </b><b style="font-size: 21px;">Pigs </b><b style="font-size: 21px;">Pigs </b><b style="font-size: 21px;">Pigs </b><b style="font-size: 21px;">Pigs</b><span style="font-size: 21px;"><b> </b></span>- <i>Viscerals</i><br />
The Wanderer - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Warm Drag </b></span>- s/t<br />
Southlands - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>The Black Delta Movement </b></span>- <i>Seven Circles</i><br />
California - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Kooba Tercu </b></span>- <i>Kharrub</i><br />
Kelso Dunes - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Floating Points </b></span>- <i>Reflections: Mojave Desert</i><br />
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Are these the END TIMES?!?!? Got the Global Pandemic Blues? Need a Social Isolation Soundtrack? Well I've got the CURE for what ails ya! Stay safe, stay home, stay well, stay PSYCHEDELIC, spacerockers!<br />
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Opening with an appropriate and awesome Joy Division cover from garage rockers The Janitors, to a Chameleons classic, followed by The Reegs (featuring the twin guitarists from The Chameleons - who knew?!?!?), to some epic modern psych (sick of it?! no way!) including The Imajinary Friends and L' Epee who both feature members of The Brian Jonestown Massacre, to an extended shoegaze segment (Rev Rev Rev, Stellarium, Slow Glows, Stargazer Lilies, Flyying Colours, Fleeting Joys, Greet Death), and wrapping up in some dark end-of-the-world blowouts...! "Shit sucks", alright. "What comes at the end"...?<br />
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The following tracks are included in the players below:</div>
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Spacerock Continuum Intro - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">bRambles</span></span><br />
Isolation (Joy Division cover) - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">The Janitors</span></span><br />
Monkeyland - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>The Chameleons </b></span>- <i>Script Of The Bridge</i><br />
The Dream Police - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>The Reegs </b></span>- <i>The Definitive Collection</i><br />
10,000 Light Years From Home (Rolling Stones cover) - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Danse Society </b></span>- <i>Heaven Is Waiting</i><br />
Expecting To Fly (Buffalo Springfield cover) - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Medicine </b></span>- <i>Scarred For Life</i><br />
Sick Of Psych - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>The Imajinary Friends </b></span>- s/t<br />
Ghost Rider - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>L'Epee </b></span>- <i>Diabolique</i><br />
Ride Again - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Hills </b></span>- Master Sleeps<br />
Bergamot - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Sekel </b></span>- s/t<br />
What You Love Will Kill You - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Helicon </b></span>- <i>This Can Only Lead To Chaos</i><br />
Waiting For Godel - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Rev Rev Rev </b></span>- <i>Kykeon</i><br />
Leaks - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Flyying Colours </b></span>- <i>EPx2</i><br />
Io - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Stellarium </b></span>- <i>Untitled</i><br />
Cloudlike Mercury - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Fleeting Joys </b></span>- <i>Occult Radiance</i><br />
The End - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Slow Glows </b></span>- <i>Stargaze Rock 'n' Roll</i><br />
Foreverless - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>The Stargazer Lilies </b></span>- <i>Occabot</i><br />
The Waste - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Greet Death </b></span>- Dixieland<br />
Exit To The Death Lane - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Psychic Lemon </b></span>- <i>Frequency Rhythm Distortion Delay</i><br />
Shit Sucks - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Pontiak </b></span>- <i>Nope/Jeppe</i><br />
What Comes At The End - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Cloud Cult </b></span>- <i>Advice From The Happy Hippopotamus</i><br />
Silverfuck - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Smashing Pumpkins </b></span>- <i>Siamese Dream</i><br />
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It's true! Nothing in this life matters because NOTHING IS REAL. It doesn't matter if we live or if we die, as long as we ARE. It doesn't matter what "happens", because time is illusory, reality is a dream, and dreams reality. The avoidance of pain and the seeking of bliss are the only constants, and by their very nature are transitory. Nothing lasts forever, and forever is a long, long time. And it doesn't matter that, in the time since the "year 2019", more amazing bliss, in the form of outlandish, outre', out-of-body, out-of-this world, out-of-this-space/time continuum MUSIX "happened"... only to be discovered after the "fact". But it's never too "late"!</div>
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Whoops, I did it again! I ended up with another THREE HOUR playlist! Shit "happens"! So here it is! The following tracks are included in the players below:</div>
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Spacerock Continuum Intro - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">bRambles</span></span><br />
Listen To The Band (Monkeys cover) - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Medicine </b></span>- <i>Scarred For Life</i><br />
I'd Rather, Jack - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Teeth Of The Sea</b><b> </b></span>- <i>Wraith</i><br />
Quite A Charade - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>10,000 Russos </b></span>- <i>Kompramat</i><br />
The Hills - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Possum </b></span>- <i>Space Grade Assembly</i><br />
Stars And Sea - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Juju </b></span>- s/t<br />
Silver Bird - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>White Canyon And The 5th Dimension </b></span>- s/t<br />
The Shrine - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Dead Horse One </b></span>- <i>The West Is The Best</i><br />
Look At 'Em Scramble - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Hawkeyes </b></span>- <i>Last Light Of Future Failure</i><br />
Aloha From Hell - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>The Black Heart Death Cult </b></span>- s/t<br />
Fear Song - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Rose City Band </b></span>- s/t<br />
Mystical Vibrations - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>High Spiral </b></span>- <i>Revolving Skies</i><br />
Levitation - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Souvenir Driver </b></span>- <i>A Dangerous Crossing</i><br />
Lux, Lumina - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Lorelle Meets The Obsolete </b></span>- <i>De Facto</i><br />
I'm Lost - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Duster </b></span>- s/t<br />
All My Heart - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Lost Echoes </b></span>- <i>All My Heart</i><br />
Go - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Blankenberge </b></span>- <i>More</i><br />
C-Rock - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Lumerians </b></span>- Yellowcake<br />
Esther Narcotica - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Flores De Sinaloa </b></span>- <i>Enter The Reverb</i><br />
Sugar And Shite - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Singapore Sling </b></span>- <i>Killer Classics</i><br />
Talkin' With - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>23 And Beyond The Infinite </b></span>- Faces From The Ancient Gallery<br />
Paradox - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Stellarium </b></span>- <i>Untitled</i><br />
A New Color - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Astronoid </b></span>- s/t<br />
Dark Matter - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Psychic Lemon </b></span>- <i>Freak Mammal</i><br />
Who's Gone What's Missing - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Firefriend </b></span>- <i>Avalanche</i><br />
Andromeda - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>SageNESS </b></span>- <i>Akme'</i><br />
Nishi No Jiku - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Minami Deutsch </b></span>- <i>Can't Get There</i><br />
Fyrkantig Bojelse<i> </i>- <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Kungens Man </b></span>- <i>Chef</i><br />
Freud III - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Colour Haze </b></span>- <i>We Are</i><br />
Magnetic - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Jonas Munk and Nicklas Sorensen </b></span>- <i>Always Already Here</i><br />
You Broke A Heart I Gave To You - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>The Voices </b></span>- The Sound Of Young America<br />
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Addendum: shout out to some PORTLAND (and my many friends there) LOVE: Rose City Band, High Spiral, Lost Echoes, and Souvenir Driver all hail from the Emerald City! Happy accident? Kismet? You tell me.<br />
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UPDATE: the tracks by Jonas Munk, Minami Deutsch, Dead Horse One, and Juju, disappeared during mixdown. So enjoy your almost-was three-hour playlist. Maybe I'll include those tracks in future playlists. Freakin' software updates.... GGRRRRRRR....! Oh well.. NOTHING FUCKING MATTERS. LOL.<br />
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<b style="font-size: 21px;">MORE FROM THE VAULTS!</b><br />
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Yep! As noted in the picture above, this is 30-40 more songs (34 actually) representing the very best space rock released in 2019! Beware! This is some heavy shit! Coming after the 31 songs included in Part 1 in January, Part 2 comes hot on the heels of the new year, furiously chasing the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDMICVjWi0U&list=OLAK5uy_kOFgH6OiYpi3mOMpC3LUIXKT8WB53U1Bk&index=1" target="_blank">MAELSTROM</a> of ecstatic release. Or something like that.<br />
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I've chosen 65 songs for the annual best of 2019 playlists, divided into two THREE HOUR sets for easier digestion. Songs from the albums above appear in one or the other playlist, and this is the SECOND, for February 2020. Most of it fits the niches of psychedelic, experiMENTAL, kraut rock, post rock, stoner rock, shoegaze, dream pop etc., all under the blanket term SPACE ROCK. And, as is my wont, I included plenty of the just plain WEIRD noisy avant-garde WHATCHAMACALLIT just to keep you on your toes and your head in SPACE.<br />
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DIG IT, and see you next month! YES! We're going back to MONTHLY for as long as the music keeps coming, and that could be a while, cuz "forever is a long long time..."<br />
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The following tracks are included in the players below:<br />
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Spacerock Continuum Intro - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">bRambles</span></span><br />
A Descent Into The Maelstrom - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>The Spiral Electric </b></span>- s/t<br />
Blood And Rockets - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>The Claypool Lennon Delirium</b><b> </b></span>- <i>South Of Reality</i><br />
Tribute To Hawkwind - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>The Warlocks </b></span>- <i>Mean Machine Music</i><br />
Taste - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Ty Segall </b></span>- <i>First Taste</i><br />
The Experimenter - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Thee Oh Sees </b></span>- <i>Face Stabber</i><br />
Alone - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Tennis System </b></span>- <i>Lovesick</i><br />
Social Candy - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Psychedelic Porn Crumpets </b></span>- <i>And Now For The Whatchamacallit</i><br />
Braindrops - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Tropical Fuck Storm </b></span>- <i>Braindrops</i><br />
Star Furnace - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>The Comet Is Coming </b></span>- <i>The Complete Studio Recordings</i><br />
8:30 - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Chinatown Slalom </b></span>- <i>Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?</i><br />
Glasgow Coma State - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Gnoomes </b></span>- <i>MU!</i><br />
Levitation - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Flamingods </b></span>- <i>Levitation</i><br />
The Last Note - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Gong Gong III </b></span>- <i>Phantom Rhythm</i><br />
Eclipse Solar - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Mint Field </b></span>- <i>Mientras Esperas</i><br />
Phil Mitchell'd - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Helicon </b></span>- <i>Zero Fucks</i><br />
Ideal Flower - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Pharaoh Overlord </b></span>- <i>5</i><br />
Prism - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Cellar Doors </b></span>- s/t<br />
Black Light - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>The Dream Syndicate </b></span>- <i>These Times</i><br />
This Air - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Wand </b></span>- <i>Laughing Matter</i><br />
A Bug On Its Back - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Pile </b></span>- <i>Green And Gray</i><br />
Tee Bei Omar - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Hopf </b></span>- s/t<br />
Immolationin' - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>The Intelligence </b></span>- <i>Un-Psychedelic In Peavey City</i><br />
Viridian - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Floral Print </b></span>- s/t<br />
Western - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Black Midi </b></span>- <i>Schlagenheim</i><br />
Woolworm - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Indian Summer </b></span>- <i>Giving Birth To Thunder</i><br />
Dream About - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Trupa Trupa </b></span>- <i>Of The Sun</i><br />
Tubeway Revolution - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Routine Death </b></span>- <i>Two Weeks To Four Months</i><br />
3 Not 3 - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Rev Rev Rev </b></span>- <i>Kykeon</i><br />
Les Jardins<i> De Minuit </i>- <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Alcest </b></span>- <i>Spiritual Instinct</i><br />
Interachnid - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Helms Alee </b></span>- <i>Noctiluca</i><br />
Arluck - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Russian Circles </b></span>- <i>Blood Year</i><br />
Continuum - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Opeth </b></span>- <i>In Cauda Venenum</i><br />
7empest - <span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>TOOL </b></span>- <i>Fear Inoculum</i><br />
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