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This is where you will find all the Boulders, Pebbles, Nuggets and Rubble etc. that is the minefield of Compilation LP’s, please note that track lists change on later CD releases as stuff gets added and chopped with re-releases (it is common for most CD releases to have extra tracks not included on the original vinyl release)

“....Stand back I’m not sure how big this things gonna get....!!”

Fluorescent Tunnelvision - Various Artists

2001

Submergence SUB-0047

Track List:

Disc 1: Circle -Veitsi, F/I - Quantum Foam, Pseudo Buddha - Calling Quexzalcoatl, Zelany Rashoho - ......., Oránj Climax - Offering, Djam Karet - New Light On The Dark Age, Quarkspace - Brainhaze (D.O.B.H#3), Melodic Energy Comission - Ramalite From Vega, Ektroverde - Suru.
Disc 2: Faust - From The Upper Underworld (Little Eavvivando), Volcano The Bear - Strasshand, Escapade - Warningless, Tombstone Valentine - Fleeing From The Perfect Master, Mushroom - Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, Tree Sine - Jump To The Moon, 2012 - Look, Subarachnoid Space - So Near And Yeti So Far.

Review:

My God It's Full Of Stars...Following on from 1999's acclaimed Turn Century Turn: Space Rock & Psychedelia From Around The Globe (Mother West), Fluorescent Tunnelvision picks up very much in that vein featuring Free Form, Avant-Garde Space Rock/Psych and Experimental tracks from bands across the globe, hand picked by Compiler Hadley Kahn (drummer with Escapade). Although the collection of bands here are somewhat incestuous, Oránj Climax features Escapade's Bass player and Circle, Ektroverde and Tree Sine are all related too, this does not detract from a very well picked selection of tunes from around the world. If the extent of your Space Rock exploration ends with Gong and Hawkwind then this is not for you, BUT if your bag is full on sonic exploration then step forward into the darkness....
Finland's mighty Circle open Disc 1 with 'Veitsi', a fine, powerful, hypnotic track very much typical of their sound. What follows is nothing short of excellent as your are fed an endless supply of audio exotica from across the globe via the cold darkness of outer space. High points for me (as well as Circle) were Pseudo Buddha, Oránj Climax and the ultra heavyweight
Ektroverde track 'Suru' (which is more 'Circle' than it is 'Ektroverde').
Disc 2 contains as many ion charged particles as its predecessor, opening with the legendary Faust, one of the big hitters on the original Krautrock scene who have had a long and influential career starting with their self titled debut album way back in 1971. It is good to see original members Joachim Irmler and Werner Diermaier still producing strange and evocative music in the year 2001. Escapade are their usual spontaneous fluid selves with 'Warningless' and American psych/space rock supremo's Tombstone Valentine make a welcome appearance with 'Fleeing From The Perfect Master', 2012 is a long strange trip with 'Look' and San Francisco's Subarachnoid Space close the airlock on this fine comp with the eerie (and tongue in cheek?) 'So Near And Yeti So Far'.
Fluorescent Tunnelvision, the perfect way to sample some of the worlds finest Avant-Garde Space Rock in two easy to swallow discs.....look no further for your dose.

Reviewed by pOoTer - December 2001

Floralia Volume 2

1997

On Off NF 004

Track List:

Moonflowers - Let It Rain, Tribe Of Cro - Implosion, Dunlavy - In Circles, Humus - Brylecreem, Earcandy - Cosmic Space, Wobble Jaggle Jiggle - Keep Yourself In Control, Zen - Spaghetti Eastern, Lo-Fi Sucks! - Get Out Of My Way, Iron Bong - All Day Long, TV Dinner - Sheltering Sky, Bag - The Last Resort, Frolic Froth - Karmic Controlled Planets, Ole Lukkoye - Children, Atman - Theatre Of Mist, Anna Nancher - 39, Kryptästhesie - Brevi Amnesie, S/T - Marsschenleifen.

Review:

With Volume 2 of the 'now approaching legendary' Floralia comps Giampiero Fleba took the interesting approach of inviting bands from around the world to contribute tracks and in doing so has created a 'snapshot of the state of world psychedelia' in 1997. In our opinion this has worked very well and there is an interesting mixture of both bands and musical styles evident here.
Our personal faves were Belgium's Tribe Of Cro with their Gong-like spiralling space rock 'Implosion', the wonderfully cynical and tongue in cheek Wobble Jaggle Jiggle from here in the UK with their curious Garage Punk mantra, Frolic Froth from Mexico City with Karmic Controlled Planets and the beautifully hypnotic Theatre Of Mist from Atman (Poland).
As far as comps go this IS a very good one that we can recommend without a doubt and there really isn't a bad track on it, which is unusual for comps but shows Giampiero's commitment to release great music.

Please contact Giampiero at Mizmaze Records in Italy for more information on the Floralia Compilation Series. mizmaze@tiscalinet.it

Reviewed by pOoTer

Floralia Volume 3

1999

Wot 4 Records WoT4CD99003

Track List:

Cosmic Gardeners - Moment Opens Moment, Amp - Left It, Korai Öröm - Welcome To The Hippie Future, Tom Kazas - Shadows of White, Ohm - Super Breakout, In The Labyrinth - Sagamartha, Smoking The Century Away - Professing the Non-pasteurized, This Fluid - Joni's Sweet Echo, Acid Mothers Temple and The Melting Paraiso U.F.O - Psycho Karman, Magic Carpathians - First Step into The Mountain, Le Forbici Di Manitu - Division 6, Ectogram - Ochenaid Llseg, Tombstone Valentine - The Web, Alquimia - Floralia.

Review:

Floralia Volume 3, compiled by Giampiero Fleba picks up where Volume 2 left off with a stunning array of sonic delights from around the globe to grace your speakers and ears with. Totally new bands this time (excluding perhaps Anna Nacher and Atman who featured with a solo track on Floralia 2) from all corners of the planet, Germany, UK, Hungary, Australia, USA, Sweden, Mexico, Greece, Japan, Poland and of course Italy.
As with previous Floralia comps the standard is exceptionally high with some great global psychedelia featured here. Cosmic Gardeners is dreamy and eastern influenced, AMP a spacey jam full of effects. A favourite of ours, Korai Öröm from Hungary is an Ozrics feely space jam, Tom Kazas is airy and Floyd-ish and Ohm is a modern day digital Krautrock synth voyage.
Next up are Sweden's In The Labyrinth with their wonderful sitar and tabla 'Sagarmartha' followed by Mexico's strange Smoking The Century Away which is in a cosmic experimental jazz style featuring keyboards and clarinet. 'Joni's Sweet Echo' from Greece's This Fluid is a trippy electronic voyage and perhaps the most well known band here, Japan's Acid Mothers Temple are featured here in collaboration with The Melting Palaiso U.F.O for a frenetic and demented synthesiser and guitar fest of a truly warped nature......"Can you last the distance?"
Another favourite of ours are Poland's Magic Carpathians with 'First Step into The Mountain', a wonderful slice of gentle and haunting psych folk. We shall be trying to track down their latest release Ethnocore 2: Nytu, which from what we have heard is absolutely stunning and VERY different (yes please!!). Le Forbici Di Manitu come across like a discordant Bauhaus on a heavy hit of acid. Tranquility is resumed by the ethereal tones of Wales' Ectogram followed by the interesting sounding Tombstone Valentine who sound very promising indeed.
Floralia 3 finishes up with another excellent track, this time from the Mexican/English Alquimia who produces and plays all the synths and vocals on Floralia, taken from her latest album A Separate Reality.

Please contact Giampiero at Mizmaze Records in Italy for more information on the Floralia Compilation Series. mizmaze@tiscalinet.it

Reviewed by pOoTer

The Psychedelic Experience Vol- 1

199?

Mystic 6

Track List:

Astros - Space Walk, Premiers - Get On This Plane, Fantastic Zoo- Lightshow, Flower Power - You Make Me Fly, One Mile Ahead - Contribution, Picture - Evolution, Apple Glass Cyndrome - Someday, Kollektion Savage Lost, Apparition - Apparition, Brass Toads - In The Back Of My Mind, Black Rose - Love Handles, Troy - Amnesia, Tommy Jett - Groovy Little Trip, Twilighters - Nothing Can Bring Me Down, Inexpensive Handmade Look - What Good Is Up, Jason Merrick & The Finders - I'm Not What You Are, Johnny Thompson Quintet - Color Me Columbus, Scorpion - I'm Only Human, Embryo Infinity Rebirth - Walls, NGC45 - Skippin Thru' The Night, Stu Mitchell - Acid, Tommy & The True Blue Facts - I'm Back.

Review:

This collection really reflects the earliest of garage psychedelic sounds - kinda corny but that makes it all the more endearing to true inner-astronauts! I value this collection, it's a must for one who collects anything trippy.

Reviewed by Mindy Togonon, Berkeley, California

The Psychedelic Experience Vol -2

1998

Mystic 8

Track List:

Decades - On Sunset, Higher Elevation - Odyssey, Monocles - Psychedelic, Waters - Mother Samwell, Trespassers - Come With Me, Cave Dwellers - Meditation, Castaways - Just On High
Dirty Filthy Mud - Forest Of Black, Element - Open The Door To Your Mind, Elopers - Music To Smoke Bananas By, Inner Light - Long Journey, Purple Underground - Countback, Mirror's Image - No Lovin' Man, Jokers Wild - All I See Is You, Doppler Effect - God Is Alive In Argentina
Essex St. Journal - Progression 256, Sherman Marshall - Realization Of Life, Unsettled Society - 17 Diamond Studded Cadillacs, Quiet Jungle - Ship Of Dreams, Knightsbridge Quintet - Sorrow In C Major, Raving Madd - Boundaries, East Side Kids - Close Your Mind, Ed Powers - Mourning
Trane - One Way Street.