Wednesday, June 19, 2019

Twisted Orange Rainbow

The great thing about these out-of-print Sundazed Psychedelic Microdots comps is not so much the choice of tracks, a mix of the relatively well-known (The 13th Floor Elevators - again) and the obscure that seemed to offer little to the swivel-eyed afficionado, but the quality of the sound. Bob Irwin sourced the master tapes, and it's a quantum leap from the gritty Pebbles noise the collector had come to regard as standard - this material has never sounded better, and possibly never will. There are also enough unique stereo mixes and otherwise unavailable tracks to make this set kind of essential. Details at discogs.
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  1. Farquhar Throckmorton IIIJune 19, 2019 at 10:21 AM



    Let's all blow our minds.

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  2. PsychfanJune 19, 2019 at 10:48 PM

    Thanks very much! This was before the people involved decided that stereo didn't exist in the sixties after all..............

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    1. B._B.June 23, 2019 at 7:14 AM

      Super well put. MONOmania prevailed soon thereafter. Thanks in large part to "RhiMONO" rekkids label out of L.A.-L.A.-Land & chief instigator Bill Inkblot. Never will forget his "justification" for the MONO on a Rhino Rascals set: "Because it rocks." What a pinhead.

      - B._B.

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  3. Farquhar Throckmorton IIIJune 23, 2019 at 9:28 AM

    It's a kind of Aryan Purity thing - mono is "purer", stereo is gussied-up bells and whistles decadence that gets us further from the Artist's Intent. Many take this quest for "creative integrity" to ridiculous extremes - raw demos are preferred to professionally-produced studio recordings. Overdubs are sneered at. Welcome to the worrying world of the lo-fi enthusiast.

    Last I counted, I had two ears.

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