June Gloom

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...

The following tracks are included in the players below:

Spacerock Continuum Intro - bRambles
Heroes And Villans - Brian Wilson - Smile
Glide - The Dream Syndicate - How Did I Find Myself Here?
Astral Energy - The Love Explosion - Own Your Mind Business
In A Paradise - Post Animal - Forward Motion Godyssey
Feel Free - Split Moon - Slow Satellite
Dr. Ron - Highlands - Wish You Were
You Stooge You - The Warlocks - The Chain
Setting Sun - The Black Heart Death Cult - s/t
Strap Me Down - The Janitors - Drone Head
Which One Is The Jellyfish? - Aunt Cynthia's Cabin - Misty Woman
Jolo - Mote - Samalas
Glasgow Uni Accent - Helicon - This Can Only Lead To Chaos
Germinal - 10,000 Russos - Distress Distress
Heliopolis - Sekel - s/t
Pleasure And Pain - Soundpool - Dichotomies And Dreamland
Monica - Deserta - Black Aura My Sun
The Sound Of Young America - The Voices - The Sound Of Young America
Mit Gluck - Verstarker - Activat
Drinking From The River Rising - King Buffalo - Orion
El Centro - All Them Witches - Dying Surfer Meets His Maker

MAY(hem) 2020!

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!).

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!

(and pay attention to the song titles - it's a song cycle of sorts, from darkness to the light)

The following tracks are included in the players below:

Spacerock Continuum Intro - bRambles
Pandemic - Helms Alee - Noctiluca
Killing Time - Maserati - Enter The Mirror
Into The Godless Void - And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead - The Godless Void And Other Stories
It's Coming - Slift - Heaven Is Waiting
Apropos Of Nothing - The Dream Syndicate - The Universe Inside
Before I'm Gone - Celestial Bums - s/t
Look Around - Blankenberge - More
Coming Down - Tennis System - P A I N
God Help The Ones You Love - Ringo Deathstarr - s/t
Dead Inside - Purepleaser - Take
Corona - Gwei-Lo - s/t
Void Walker - Facs - Void Moments
Future Warrior - Palms - s/t
Feels Like A Weight Has Been Lifted - Quicksand - Interiors
The Aughts - Flatworms - Antarctica
Reducer - Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs - Viscerals
The Wanderer - Warm Drag - s/t
Southlands - The Black Delta Movement - Seven Circles
California - Kooba Tercu - Kharrub
Kelso Dunes - Floating Points - Reflections: Mojave Desert

Apocalypse Trippin'!!!

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!

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"...?

Listen... NOW...

The following tracks are included in the players below:

Spacerock Continuum Intro - bRambles
Isolation (Joy Division cover) - The Janitors
Monkeyland - The Chameleons - Script Of The Bridge
The Dream Police - The Reegs - The Definitive Collection
10,000 Light Years From Home (Rolling Stones cover) - Danse Society - Heaven Is Waiting
Expecting To Fly (Buffalo Springfield cover) - Medicine - Scarred For Life
Sick Of Psych - The Imajinary Friends - s/t
Ghost Rider - L'Epee - Diabolique
Ride Again - Hills - Master Sleeps
Bergamot - Sekel - s/t
What You Love Will Kill You - Helicon - This Can Only Lead To Chaos
Waiting For Godel - Rev Rev Rev - Kykeon
Leaks - Flyying Colours - EPx2
Io - Stellarium - Untitled
Cloudlike Mercury - Fleeting Joys - Occult Radiance
The End - Slow Glows - Stargaze Rock 'n' Roll
Foreverless - The Stargazer Lilies - Occabot
The Waste - Greet Death - Dixieland
Exit To The Death Lane - Psychic Lemon - Frequency Rhythm Distortion Delay
Shit Sucks - Pontiak - Nope/Jeppe
What Comes At The End - Cloud Cult - Advice From The Happy Hippopotamus
Silverfuck - Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream

Mostly Missed in March (2019 revisited)

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"!

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:

Spacerock Continuum Intro - bRambles
Listen To The Band (Monkeys cover) - Medicine - Scarred For Life
I'd Rather, Jack - Teeth Of The Sea - Wraith
Quite A Charade - 10,000 Russos - Kompramat
The Hills - Possum - Space Grade Assembly
Stars And Sea - Juju - s/t
Silver Bird - White Canyon And The 5th Dimension - s/t
The Shrine - Dead Horse One - The West Is The Best
Look At 'Em Scramble - Hawkeyes - Last Light Of Future Failure
Aloha From Hell - The Black Heart Death Cult - s/t
Fear Song - Rose City Band - s/t
Mystical Vibrations - High Spiral - Revolving Skies
Levitation - Souvenir Driver - A Dangerous Crossing
Lux, Lumina - Lorelle Meets The Obsolete - De Facto
I'm Lost - Duster - s/t
All My Heart - Lost Echoes - All My Heart
Go - Blankenberge - More
C-Rock - Lumerians - Yellowcake
Esther Narcotica - Flores De Sinaloa - Enter The Reverb
Sugar And Shite - Singapore Sling - Killer Classics
Talkin' With - 23 And Beyond The Infinite - Faces From The Ancient Gallery
Paradox - Stellarium - Untitled
A New Color - Astronoid - s/t
Dark Matter - Psychic Lemon - Freak Mammal
Who's Gone What's Missing - Firefriend - Avalanche
Andromeda - SageNESS - Akme'
Nishi No Jiku - Minami Deutsch - Can't Get There
Fyrkantig Bojelse - Kungens Man - Chef
Freud III - Colour Haze - We Are
Magnetic - Jonas Munk and Nicklas Sorensen - Always Already Here
You Broke A Heart I Gave To You - The Voices - The Sound Of Young America

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.

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.

The Very Best Of 2019 Part 2

MORE FROM THE VAULTS!

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 MAELSTROM of ecstatic release. Or something like that.

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.

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..."

The following tracks are included in the players below:

Spacerock Continuum Intro - bRambles
A Descent Into The Maelstrom - The Spiral Electric - s/t
Blood And Rockets - The Claypool Lennon Delirium - South Of Reality
Tribute To Hawkwind - The Warlocks - Mean Machine Music
Taste - Ty Segall - First Taste
The Experimenter - Thee Oh Sees - Face Stabber
Alone - Tennis System - Lovesick
Social Candy - Psychedelic Porn Crumpets - And Now For The Whatchamacallit
Braindrops - Tropical Fuck Storm - Braindrops
Star Furnace - The Comet Is Coming - The Complete Studio Recordings
8:30 - Chinatown Slalom - Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?
Glasgow Coma State - Gnoomes - MU!
Levitation - Flamingods - Levitation
The Last Note - Gong Gong III - Phantom Rhythm
Eclipse Solar - Mint Field - Mientras Esperas
Phil Mitchell'd - Helicon - Zero Fucks
Ideal Flower - Pharaoh Overlord - 5
Prism - Cellar Doors - s/t
Black Light - The Dream Syndicate - These Times
This Air - Wand - Laughing Matter
A Bug On Its Back - Pile - Green And Gray
Tee Bei Omar - Hopf - s/t
Immolationin' - The Intelligence - Un-Psychedelic In Peavey City
Viridian - Floral Print - s/t
Western - Black Midi - Schlagenheim
Woolworm - Indian Summer - Giving Birth To Thunder
Dream About - Trupa Trupa - Of The Sun
Tubeway Revolution - Routine Death - Two Weeks To Four Months
3 Not 3 - Rev Rev Rev - Kykeon
Les Jardins De Minuit - Alcest - Spiritual Instinct
Interachnid - Helms Alee - Noctiluca
Arluck - Russian Circles - Blood Year
Continuum - Opeth - In Cauda Venenum
7empest - TOOL - Fear Inoculum

The Very Best Of 2019 Part 1

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MIND BLOWN!

Happy new year! Happy new decade! 2019 was a load of shit for me, but not as bad as 2018. Here's hoping 2020 vision will restore some sort of meaning to the world. But at least there was a SHIT TON of amazing musix to be had, so...

Here it is! The Spacerock Continuum Top Ten of 2020:

Tool 'Fear Inoculum'
Is Bliss 'Strange Communication'
Black Mountain 'Destroyer'
The Spiral Electric s/t
American Football '3'
The Claypool Lennon Delirium 'South Of Reality'
Highlands 'Wish You Were'
Ride 'This Is Not A Safe Place'
Black Midi 'Schlagenheim'
Jay Som 'Anak Ko'

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 first, for January 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 shit (witness the last three albums above, but there's MORE!), just to keep you on your toes and your head in SPACE.

DIG IT! And see you next month for Part 2!

The following tracks are included in the players below:

Spacerock Continuum Intro - bRambles
Hey Man (Spacemen 3 cover) - Flores De Sinaloa - Enter The Reverb
It's Not Me It's You - Rancho Relaxo - DOOM
Belong - Is Bliss - Strange Communication
Clouds Of Your Mind - The Kundalini Genie - It's All In Your Head
Superbike - Jay Som - Anak Ko
Taking The Bliss - Pure Pleaser - Take
Faces - Cosmonauts - Star 69
You're Gonna Hate What You've Done - Greet Death - New Hell
Silhouettes - American Football - s/t #3
Stars Are The Light - Moon Duo - Stars Are The Light
Blankenship - Diiv - Deceiever
Running - Blushing - s/t
Caravan - Slow Glows - Stargaze Rock N Roll
I Can't See Tomorrow - isn't - When The Autumn Hides The Sun
Routine Dream - Highlands - Wish You Were
Lake Placid Blue - Fleeting Joys - Speeding Away To Someday
Distance Dealer - Fly Pan Am - C'est Ca
Monsters Of Your Thought - The Stargazer Lilies - Occabot
Oculatus Abyss - Acid Rooster - s/t
Eternal Recurrence - Ride - This Is Not A Safe Place
Mary Winter - Swervedriver - Future Ruins
Atomise - Temples - Hot Motion
Une Lune Etrange - L'Epee - Diabolique
Lions In Cages - The Prids - Part Time Punks Sessions
45 And Straight - B. Hamilton - Nothing And Nowhere
High Rise - Black Mountain - Destroyer
3AM/100 Degrees - Lightning Dust - Spectre
Rah Wah Wah - Psychic Ills - Inner Journey Out
Mystic Mountain - Chris Forsyth - All Time Present
Echoes (Pink Floyd cover) - Rodrigo y Gabriela - Mettavolution

Trilogy Part 3

AND HELLLOOO AGAIN AGAIN SPACEROCKERS!!! As noted the last two months, this year has seen an even more massive boon of spacerock being culled into my earholes than ever before, and I need to share that with you, my faithful listeners. So over October, November, and December of this year I'ma hit you with THE TRILOGY: monthly blasts of all the goodies I've discovered. Why? Because I love you!

We've been monthly for three months now - do you think this should be a thing? It used to be, but with plenty of SPACE but very little TIME we've been reduced to quarterly. But the libraries are crammed full of spacerocky goodies and the idea of going monthly again may very well rekindle this LOVE affair. It's time, to make the TIME. And also, the month of January 2020 will feature the very BEST OF 2019, which now plays at SIX FUCKING HOURS. That's alotta spacerock! Prepare accordingly (make the TIME).

And since our motto is "not all spacerock (and not all the time)," this set, being the THIRD installment in the Trilogy, features some bona fide WEIRDNESS. Shoegaze, post rock, psychedelia, kraut rock... all the usual spacerock suspects are here, but an abundance of the abstruse permeates throughout. Some dark, some heavy, some trance-inducing, and some excellent examples of WHAT. THE. FUCK? Because, why not?

"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro." - Dr. Hunter S. Thompson

The following tracks are included in the players below:

Spacerock Continuum Intro - bRambles
The Point Between Heaven And Hell - Helicon - Suburban Decay
Jump Jet - Ride - This Is Not A Safe Place
Wavygravy - Flyying Colours - EPX2
Echoes - God Is An Astronaut - s/t
One Hit Wonder - Fly Pan Am - C'est Ca
Screen Man - Failure - Comfort
Reggae - Black Midi - Schlagenheim
Year Of The Vet - The Intelligence - Un-Psychedelic In Peavey City
Pre Strike Sweep - Goggs - Pre Strike Sweep
Normal People - Fucked Up - Dose Your Dreams
Be Rad Tomorrow - Helms Alee - Noctiluca
Longing To Be The Mountain - King Buffalo - Longing To Be The Mountain
Venus - Heaters - Suspended Youth
Electric - Follakzoid - III
Roadhouse - Gnoomes - Ngan!
Every Last Coffee Or Tea - 75 Dollar Bill - I Was Real

The Spacerock Continuum December 2019 from beedubyoo on 8tracks Radio.