Tag: Psychedelia
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The Art of Atari
I’m not sure if today’s generation realise the wonder of arcade and home console/computer game art, travelling into a world of Chris Foss and pulp sci-fi covers crossed with D&D fantasy, cutesy pop art and plain Robert Crumb psychedelic strangeness. The thrill of seeing new worlds, and being able to travel to them on your…
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Disco Bollywood Part 2
If you’ve listened to the shows, you’d probably know I have a thing for disco, and also Indian/Bollywood music, especially Usha Uthup and ABBA Hindi I posted exactly (spook!) 5 years ago, and strange covers in general. Well I discovered this video and ended up delving (again) into the brightly coloured world of silver costumes…
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Jack Kirby’s Psychedelic Lord of Light
The story behind Jack Kirby and the set designs for the film of Roger Zelazny’s ‘Lord of Light’ is a strange one, almost as strange and wonderfully psychedelic as the images themselves. The intended film and theme park never happened, but the set designs were borrowed for what became the Iran hostages “Canadian Caper’ and…
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Residents – Commercial DVD
Slightly drunk, recovered from the stomach / arm ache almost flu that nuked my Easter (did your Chocolate Rabbit Jesus crucifixion anniversary go well? Always love how she is resurrected as a chocolate egg, as we all know. POSTRES!) and finally having some chocolate and listening to The Residents. A normal Easter, amirite? The Residents…
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Tabula Rasa – new mix
Something I’ve been working on for a few weeks is a different kind of mix…I hate the words ‘downtempo’ or ‘chilled’ *shudder* but at some point I stripped all the uptempo tunes out of this mix, I wanted something deeper, something heavier, something that says ‘blank slate’ and new start – hence the name and…