The Summer of Sulatron!

And now for something completely different...

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.

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)!

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!

The following tracks are included in the player below:

Spacerock Continuum Intro - bRambles
Magic Potion - Sun Dial - Return Journey
Turkeyfish - Centre El Muusa - s/t
Your Own Truth - Electric Moon - You Can See The Sound
In - Seven That Spells - The Death And Resurrection Of Krautrock
Coyoteman - Seid - Weltschmerz, Baby!
Rite Of Spheres - Lamp Of The Universe - Align In The 4th Dimension
Cheap Magic Spells - Astral Son - Wonderful Beyond
Kim (((o))) - Sherpa - Tigris And Euphrates
Glitter Bo  - Centre El Muusa - Famous Dust
Maurice N'est Pas La - Permanent Clear Light - Cosmic Comics
Through You - Sun Dial - Return Journey
Haukeye - Seid - Weltschmerz, Baby!
Szolnok - Centre El Muusa - s/t
Matrix Of Creation - Astral Son - Wonderful Beyond
Corneville Skyline - Permanent Clear Light - Cosmic Comics
Sun Stroke Mind Train - Sun Dial - Return Journey
Kozmik Koon - Zone Six - Kozmik Koon

Summer of Slaughter!

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?!

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!

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).

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).

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 The Spiral Electric (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.

The following tracks are included in the players below:

Spacerock Continuum Intro - bRambles
Stick In The Wheel - Gnod - Just Say No To The Psycho Right-Wing Capitalist Fascist Industrial Death Machine
Man Med Medel - Kungens Man - Chef
Feel The Light - Desert Mountain Tribe - Either That Or The Moon
Proxima Centaury - Karkara - Crystal Gazer
Fangs - Alber Jupiter - We Are Just Floating In Space
Divers - Beaches - Second Of Spring
Silly Things - Tom Spacey - Mars Is Eden
Someone - Is Bliss - The Honeycomb Explosion
Pretty Trash - Cafe Racer - Famous Dust
Floating Out - Rose City Band - Summerlong
Planet Caravan (Black Sabbath cover) - Moon Duo - What Is This That Stands Before Me?
Fest - Blankenberge - More
When The Black Sun Sets - The Voices - Death Of A Lover's Song
The Rhythm Of Ooze - Pretty Lightning - The Rhythm Of Ooze
Swamp Type Thing - The Spiral Electric - s/t
Nice Day For An Earthquake - Jakob - Subsets Of Sets
Holy Shit Part 2 - Blanchard - Holy Shit
Pipe Rider - Lowrider - Refractions
July 28th - Kandodo - k2o