Space Box: 1970 Beyond (Space, Krautrock & Acid Trips)

Country: USA
Genre: space rock, krautrock, prog rock, psychedelic, acid, ambient, electronic
Year: 1996
Label: Cleopatra
Review: It is the history of analog space rock. This 3-CD box set include 36 tracks of classic bands: Amon Düül, Cluster, Guru Guru, Hawkwind, Faust and others. There are many rare and unknown groups. Music: space, kraut, progressive, acid, psychedelic, hard rock, art rock, electronic, ambient, drone, techno and more. Enjoy.

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Alain Goraguer - La Planète Sauvage (1973)

Country: France
Genre: soundtrack, space jazz rock, psychedelic
Year: 1973
Label: Pathé Marconi EMI
Review: La Planète Sauvage (Fantastic Planet) is an animated 1973 science fiction film directed by René Laloux. The film was an international production between France and Czechoslovakia and has been distributed in the United States by Roger Corman. It won the special jury prize at the 1973 Cannes Film Festival. The story is based on the novel Oms en Série, by the French writer Stefan Wul.

It is the best surrealistic psychedelic animation i've ever seen. This OST is fantastic.

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Man Or Astro-man? - 1000x (1997)

From: USA
Genre: space rock, futuristic surf, post punk
Year: 1997
Label: One Louder
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Review: I think this EP bacame a new stage of group evolution. Previous releases was a mystical cosmic surf with sci-fi atmosphere. Here band exceeded the limits of standart surf music and started to experiment: more samples, more electronic sounds (this guys liked to use a good analog synthesizers and percussions), more psychedelia, more post-punk (yea, "Specify Gravity", "Universe City" and "With Automatic Shutoff" with Star Crunch's vocal are perfect post punk). I like this record, this chemical experience.

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John Woo - Woodoo (2001)

Country: Italy
Genre: garage, psychedelic surf, gonzo
Year: 2001
Label: Fog Records
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Review: JOHN WOO, frantic gun cotton punk. A 44 magnum shot directly to the brain. Uncovered nerv bioconnect with american 1967 garage. Spaghetti western soundtracks shooted on the moon. BOOM BOMM. Which music do the martian surfers listen? The MISFITS? The DEAD KENNEDYS? The JOHNWOO? Everybody knows Duane Eddy was of greek origins, but who knows that the surf music was originally inspired from the folk tunes of the Nabuk planet? BANG. The musical pills of the Johnwoo. Zen for your ears. Punk-zen. My god! Explosions sent back to an infinite movieolae that starts in the Venice highway and ends up there, among the stars. Among toxic cats and mutant dogs. Zombie brains and drunk aliens. DEVO-lution. Comodore 64. Highway 61. The 69 position. Rock'n'roll never an end in itself. ELVIS. But now we are talkin' about divinity. And about anphetamines. VELOCITY VELOCITY VELOCITY. Slow-motions guns like the drumsticks of a Trixon '60es drumset, that hit the drumheads quickly and roaring. TUM-CIAK STA-TA-TUM. And the SBRAAAANG of an Eko guitar stolen from agents behind the Iron Curtain. And the Precision bass instills an apparent calm into you, the Meazzi keyboard rend you with its PUNK-WAVE razor-cuts. BZZ BZZ. The broadcast is very noisy now. Few minutes left. Aliens are closer now. The JOHNWOO will play for them. In some minutes you'll realize it...AHAHAHAH!!!
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I don't know nothing about this guys expect that they from Italy and they play amazing music. It is very very wild and crazy record. The John Woo will make you kindle a fire in your home, perform pogo-shaman dance all night and worship new space God of rock'n'roll.

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The Chameleons - Script of the Bridge (1983)

From: UK
Genre: post punk, dream pop
Year: 1983
Label: Statik Records
Review: The Chameleons formed in Middleton, in Greater Manchester, England in 1981. They consisted of singer and bassist Mark Burgess, guitarist Reg Smithies, guitarist Dave Fielding, and drummer John Lever (replacing original drummer Brian Schofield).

Through Mark Burgess' vocals and dark and ironic lyrics, their songs often dealt with personal themes of childlike innocence and a reverence for nostalgia. Musically, perhaps most notable in their work was the band's innovative and distinctive use of dual guitar melodies, courtesy of Reg Smithies and Dave Fielding, as opposed to the traditional rhythm-and-lead guitarist format prevalent in rock music even to this day. These arrangements were often characterized by the use of delay and chorus effects. Dave played a melodic and atmospheric guitar while Reg played a more traditional riff-based guitar.

Script Of The Bridge - debut album by The Chameleons. This record is very melancholy, dark, gloomy with the fantastic and atmospheric melodics. It is perfect autumn music, times of gloom, rains and ... death.

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Timebox - The Deram Anthology (1998)

From: UK
Genre: psychedelic pop, mod, soul
Year: 1998
Label: Deram
Review: Timebox was formed in 1966 in Southport (UK) by Mike Patto and Ollie Halsall. But keyboard player 'Professor' Chris Holmes left the group in 1970 and he remaining members continued under the name Patto (they played a progressive jazz rock).

Retrospective of the finest recordings for the Deram label 1967-69 by this British psychedelic quintet with a penchant for a psychedelic pop sound with element of soul. While they first recorded on the Picadilly label, their best stuff is generally considered their output for Deram, which includes the singles 'Walking Through The Streets Of My Mind', a cover of the Four Seasons' 'Beggin'', 'Gone Is The Sad Man', 'Poor Little Heartbreaker' and 'Yellow Van'.

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Teenage Filmstars - Star (1992)

From: UK
Genre: experimental, shoegazing, psychedelic rock
Year: 1992
Label: Creation Records
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Review: Teenage Filmstars are an English, post punk, independent, psychedelic 1980s-90s band, formed in 1979 by Edward Ball, Daniel Treacy and Joseph Foster. The band segued into The Times in 1980 and reappeared twelve years later with the album 'Lift Off Mit Der Teenage Filmstars' (AKA 'Star' 1992) on Creation Records. Partly bearing witness to My Bloody Valentine's release 'Loveless' from the previous year, the forthcoming progressive 90's psychedelia and Ball's own troubled vision of popular music, it prompted Kevin Shields to remark of Ball in 1995, "A sensitive soul from another planet. A modernist musical alchemist - where other people struggle Ed plays what we're thinking." (c)wiki

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Man Or Astro-man? - Your Weight On The Moon (1994)

From: USA
Genre: futuristic surf, space rock
Year: 1994
Label: One Louder
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Review: As part of the surf revival movement of the early '90s, Auburn's Man or Astro-man? specializes in a slightly different variation on the genre, self-described as space-age surf. Formed in 1992, the quartet originally consisted of members who went by such off the wall aliases as Birdstuff (drums), Star Crunch (guitar), Dr. Delecto & his Invisible Vaportron (bass), and Electronic Monkey Wizard (on something called alternate-universe bass), Man or Astro-man? combined the classic surf sounds of the '60s along with the quirky humor and approach of such groundbreaking groups as Devo. (c) allmusic

"Your Weight On The Moon" - first band's EP. I like it, because I begun to listen MOAM after this record. It is atmospheric dark sci-fi futuristic surf music and good example of early works of Man Or Astro-man?.

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Zodiac - Cosmic Sounds (1967)

From: USA
Genre: psychedelic rock
Year: 1967
Label: Elektra Records
Review: Divided into 12 separate tracks, one for each astrological sign, it appeared just as both psychedelic rock and astrology itself were coming into vogue in the youthful counterculture. In some respects it was similar to other instrumental psychsploitation albums of the time, with a spacy yet tight groove that could have fit into the soundtrack of 1966 Sunset Strip documentaries, played in large measure by seasoned Los Angeles session musicians. In other respects, it was futuristic, embellished by some of the first Moog synthesizer ever heard on a commercial recording, an assortment of exotic percussive instruments, and sitar. The arrangements were further decorated by haunting harpsichord and organ, along with standard mid-1960s Los Angeles rock guitar licks. For those who took the astrology as seriously as the music, there was the dramatic reading of narrator Cyrus Faryar, musing upon aspects of each astrological sign in a rich, deep voice without a hint of irony.
(с) Richie Unterberger

The album was released in late 1967. The sleeve, by artist Abe Gurvin and art director William S. Harvey, featured a florid psychedelic design. On the back, in large purple letters, were written the instructions: "Must be played in the dark".

Tracks:
01 Aries - The Fire-Fighter
02 Taurus - The Voluptuary
03 Gemini - The Cool Eye
04 Cancer - The Moon Child
05 Leo - The Lord Of Lights
06 Virgo - The Perpetual Perfectionist
07 Libra - The Flower Child
08 Scorpio - The Passionate Hero
09 Sagittarius - The Versatile Daredevil
10 Capricorn - The Uncapricious Climber
11 Aquarius - The Lover Of Life
12 Pisces - The Peace Piper

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