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The Amboy Dukes - Migration (1969 us, hard psych, korean remaster)
The most prominent feature of Migration (the Amboy Dukes' third recording, originally released on Mainstream records) is the lack of a spaced-out follow-up to the group's biggest hit, "Journey to the...
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A Bolha - Um Passo A Frente (1973 brazil, sensational heavy psych with...
Brazilian band The Bubbles became the toast of the underground Rio de Janeiro scene, backing Tropicalist singer Gal Costa's residence at the Sucata night club in 1970. They won the "Best Band of the...
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Smack - Smack (1968 us, fuzzed heavy psych blaster, 2012 Shadoks release)
Recorded in late July early August 1968 in Lawrence, Kansas USA. The four of us were all summer scholarship music and arts students attending Kansas University (KU) in Lawrence, Kansas. There was a...
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Electric Flag - The Trip (1967 us, cool experimental psych for a great...
The first studio recordings of The Electric Flag, Michael Bloomfield’s swaggering soul / jazz / rock ensemble… Fine Jung Thing and Peter Gets Off are wild, jazzy rockers, which perfectly score Fonda’s...
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The Third Power - Believe (1970 us, detroit high energy acid rock, 2010...
This three-piece hailed from Detroit, and formed as The Blewsies in 1967, with a line-up of Drew Abbott (guitar, vocals), Jem Targal (bass, vocals) and Jim Craig (drums). Living together in a rented...
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Nick Gravenites - My Labors (1969 us, awesome blues rock, 2010 Retro edition)
Singer and songwriter, bandleader and producer, raconteur and poet of the blues; Nick Gravenites is one of those seminal sixties figures whose contributions to American music cannot be measured solely...
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Sutherland Brothers And Quiver - The Very Best Of (1971-79 uk, brilliant...
It was 1971......two guitars, two voices singing songs of anqst, lust, spirit and the sea. Scottish Folk, English Beat, American Country Blues all in the pot via Stoke and W14 and Reebop played the...
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Mighty Baby - Live In The Attic (1970 uk, marvelous experimental blues, folk,...
Mighty Baby was the short-lived band that followed the Action, one of the finest and most unheralded outfits of the ‘60s British rock/pop explosion. Upon finding no label willing to support them while...
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The Kitchen Cinq - Everything But (1967 us, exciting garage folk psych, 2010...
When buying albums by '60s rock bands, ground zero is 1966. If I'm hesitant to spend the cash, proximity to that year makes a difference in whether I end up springing for something or not. One of the...
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Terry Manning - Home Sweet Home (1970 us, woderful mix of psych dirty hard...
If you recognize Terry Manning's name, its likely a result of his work as an engineer and producer, including numerous projects for the Memphis-based Ardent Records were he worked with the likes of...
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Infinity - Collected Works (1969-70 uk, splendid garage heavy psych, 2009 issue)
Legendary UK psych outfit Infinity formed in 1969 from the ashes of "Chocolate Soup" psych faves the Flies and Cymbaline. The mission: to develop a heavy psychedelic/pop sound, and express it through...
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A.B. Skhy - A.B. Skhy (1969 us, magnificent psych blues brass rock)
Originally known as New Blues, they were basically an electric blues band with horns and some jazz influences. From Milwaukee, Winconsin they relocated to San Francisco where they became a popular live...
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Stud - Stud (1971 ireland, gentle moods with jazzy undertow and harder proggy...
Stud began as a trio with Jim Cregan (ex Blossom Toes) (vocals, guitar), Richard McCracken (bass) and John Wilson (drums), the latter pair having split with Rory Gallagher's Taste on 31st December...
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The Alan Bown Set - Emergency 999 (1965-67 uk, effective soul drenched mod...
Alan Bown is most known -- certainly in the United States -- for his late '60s recordings as leader of a group (actually called the Alan Bown) that played psychedelic pop. The trumpeter had already...
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Domingo "Sam" Samudio - Hard And Heavy (1971 us, exciting classic rock melted...
Sam the Sham pulled the plug on the Pharoahs toward the end of the '60s and set out playing blues on his own, grinding away to little notice until Atlantic head honcho Ahmet Ertegun decided to give him...
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Keith Cross, Peter Ross - Bored Civilians (1971-72 uk, magnificent folk rock...
Keith Cross first band was Bulldog Breed and one year later he joined T2. Keith was hailed as the new Eric Clapton when T2 released their album It'll All Work Out in Boomland. He left T2 after a few...
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Imagine - Images, Clear Skies And Rainbows (1975 us, elegant progressive...
"Images, Clear Skies and Rainbows" was an impressive venture into prog-rock teetering on the edge of progressive by a group called Imagine.An exceptionally solid effort from start to finish. The first...
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Nigel Mazlyn Jones - Sentinel / The Fools Of The Finest Degree (1976-78 uk,...
Nigel Mazlyn Jones has released 10 albums since 1976. The first two albums ‘Ship to Shore’ and ‘Sentinel’ are sought by collectors and have now been re-released by Kissing Spell with extra tracks and...
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The Blues Train - The Blues Train (1970 canada, great psych blues rock, Gear...
The Blues Train, like the Crazy People, are unknown artists that released some great sounds in the late 60's and early 70's. While little is known about them, we do know they were Canadian and recorded...
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Colours / Christian – Voluptuous Doom / Good vs. Evil (1968-70 us, slpendid...
Thank's to Frantic Records for unearthing more forgotten gems of California's rich musical heritage. Having languished in the vaults for close to 40 years, the Colours and Christian tapes finally make...
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