My two-year-old and I have been going to an overpass and watching the trains pass by. The playlist of this episode starts with hallucinatory psychedelia that would fit well with the 1996 film Trainspotting, but becomes more meditative as the episode progresses.
| time | artist | title |
|---|---|---|
| 00:19 | Self-Immolation Music | Anhedonia |
| 03:30 | Helicon | Freakquency |
| 07:46 | The Orange Dots | Lost A Dream |
| 12:29 | A Crone's Orchard | Worms |
| 19:23 | Solipsisme | Chimiosynthèse |
| 23:31 | The Midnight Vein | The Link |
| 29:05 | Carlton Melton | Hazel Heat |
| 34:29 | Ouzo Bazooka | Monsters |
| 40:25 | The Soundcarriers | Falling Back |
| 44:02 | The Groovy Nobody | Elevated |
| 47:39 | Baghdad Battery | Days Gone By |
| 53:11 | Chino Burga | Quien Como Dios |
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Trainspotting has taken on a narcotic connotation because of the 1996 film directed by Danny Boyle, based on the novel by Irvine Welsh. Although that story was not about psychedelics, the film has its share of hallucinatory moments, the sequel less so. About the music in this episode, the playlist features psychedelia that starts out more in the hallucinatory vein but then becomes more meditative. Check out the music map below. A good illustration of how psychedelia has become a worldwide phenomenon. This episode features artists from the US, Canada, the UK, Norway, Israel, Guatemala, and closes out with a soundscape from Peruvian artist Chino Burga.
The title of this episode is from something my two-year-old and I have been doing recently. We’ve been going to an overpass nearby and wait for trains to pass. I’d never thought of myself as a trainspotter but I guess I’ve had a fascination since my childhood days staying at my grandparents’ home. Their house was about 100 yards from train tracks and I vividly recall the booming sound of the freight trains on summer nights when all the windows were open. So anyway, where my son and I go there are two sets of tracks, one for the DC metro trains, which comes above ground where we are, and one for the intercity trains. It’s always a jolt when we get the metro drivers to honk the horn.
⦾ February 14, 2022
Carlton Melton
#Experimental #Fuzz #Jam #Psych #PsychedelicRock #SpaceRock
Carlton Melton is based in San Francisco.
⦾ January 28, 2022
The Orange Dots
#Experimental #ArtRock #GarageRock #Fusion #Psychedelic
TMODM: What had the strongest influence on Lost A Dream?
OD: Lost a Dream was written about a strange dream where I was stuck in an 8-bit video game. The riff came about after hunting for drum breaks to just jam to and ending up with a gem from Habibi Funk 009: Jazz, Jazz, Jazz by The Scorpions & Saif Abu Bakr.
Then when i (Thomas) brought the half-finished tune to Tore we tried a lot of different grooves before finally settling on that Elvin groove.
TMODM: What record changed your life? (it would be interesting to hear from anyone who wants to answer this question)
OD:
Thomas (guitar and stuff):
I still find life changing records every couple of years but I will drop 2 that really opened up my guitar playing here.
Mary Halvorson Octet – Away With You
Sonny Sharrock – Black Woman
Tore (drums and stuff):
John Coltrane – A Love Supreme
AND
Maj Brit Andersen – Folk er rare 2
TMODM: What’s next for you?
OD: We will start booking shows in this finally opening state we are finding us in. Fingers crossed!
⦾ January 28, 2022
Solipsisme
#Neopsychedelia #Psychedelic #PsychRock #PsychedelicRock
TMODM: What had the strongest influence on Chimiosyntese?
S: I wrote Chimiosynthèse before forming the band. All the songs were written and pre-produced before I had found any members to form Solipsisme. I wasn’t thinking about forming a band yet and was mostly just recording songs for fun. In the beginning, I was digging Jacco Gardner’s Hypnophobia and was (still is) going through my eternal Brian Jonestown phase. I don’t think it sound like them though.
TMODM: What record changed your life?
S: Without hesitation: The Smile Sessions from the Beach Boys. Back when it was released in 2012, I didn’t really know or care much about the Beach Boys except for Pet Sounds that I would spin from time to time, but nothing more. It wasn’t until one of my roommate told me “You know the guy (Brian Wilson) went nuts after Pet Sound”. That’s where I fell into the Brian Wilson rabbit hole and discovered the Smile Sessions that was coincidently just recently released few weeks before. Apart from the regular song set list, I went through the whole 6 hours of the box set sessions countless times to a point where I could lip-sync the studio chatter between takes. I then discovered the whole world of Smile Bootleg, personal assembly and alternates mixes, along with Smiley Smile and its sessions. For a few years I would listen to a Smile assembly/mix multiple time a day…
It became a problem for people around because they couldn’t stand hearing about it and then at one point I wasn’t allowed to listen to any Smile related material at home or at work. I had to hide to listen to it, so I would just go away for a while (and then I’d have world peace). I don’t think it’s the record itself but the whole world/story around Smile that changed my life. I still listen to the Smile era material a couple of times a week but its less of a concern for my entourage now.
TMODM: What’s next for you?
S: We have a new record written and ready to be recorded that is planned to be release by the end of the year. We have a couple shows planned for the spring and summer in the Province of Québec, hopefully more outside the province will be added.
⦾ January 27, 2022
Self-Immolation Music
#Devotional #Psychedelic
TMODM: What had the strongest influence on Anhedonia?
SIM: The Telescopes and 2CB
TMODM: What’s next for you?
SIM: We nearly finished writing and plan to record a new 8-track record over the next few months. Next week we’re doing another video, this time with cutscene tv in Leeds. We’ve also got some upcoming gigs around the UK to be cracking on with.
⦾ January 21, 2022
The Soundcarriers
#Experimental #IndieRock #Psych #PsychedelicRock #Soundtrack
The Soundcarriers are based in Nottingham, UK.
#Experimental #Neopsychedelia #Psych #Psychedelic #PsychedelicRock #Sitar
p class=”has-small-font-size”>TMODM: What had the strongest influence on Freakquency?
Helicon: The Velvet Underground. Or more specifically, the ostrich guitar tuning sometimes used by The VU. You tune every string of your guitar to the same note. I love the weirdness of it. It creates this sinister drone underneath different harmonics and frequencies within that note that all bounce off each other and sing together at different octaves. I was messing about and experimenting with that tuning when I came up with the main guitar hook and everything else flowed quickly from there. The lads picked it up instantly and took it to a new level. From coming up with the hook to putting out the single was only about 2-3 weeks tops.
TMODM: what record changed your life?
Helicon:
JP: Piper At The Gates Of Dawn – Pink Floyd. i was probably 14 or 15 when i first heard it and it blew my mind that you could fuck shit up and sound way more interesting as a result. I actually stole the cassette from Our Price (i think – sorry Mum) for my brother Gary’s birthday present when he was about 11 or 12 because i wanted it for myself and we shared a room. He had no idea who or what it was but instantly loved it too. Hope I wasn’t to blame for Our Price going bust.
Mike: Piper At The Gates Of Dawn for me too! My first band down in Ayr always finished our set with Interstellar Overdrive. We were playing in a bar one time and the police came in to stop because of the noise. We just kept going because you cannae just end Interstellar! You need to wait for the riff to come back!
Seb: What a question! Forever Changes – Love. After starting to take acoustic guitar seriously and drumming with my first band from 2006. I picked up on this album. It always makes my Top10 and I learned a lot of how to approach the acoustic, dreamy noodles and timing. Unusual ways of writing chord structures were the biggest attraction for me. Arthur Lee had a real whimsical voice that hooked me right in.
Billy: Live Vol 2 – Cream. I remember buying the LP at a record fayre in Greenock in the late 90s. I used to jam along to it religiously and tried to perfect my Jack Bruce chops. Many times i’d drop old Mick Jagger tongue blotters on my own and play along to it on the old shiter of a bass I had back then.
Graham: Quadrophenia – The Who. First LP I bought and I still haven’t changed much since. ‘The Real Me’, I wanted to be that bassline. First cassette was Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller’, scary video, cool leather jacket. I thought MJ was amazing when I was 10.
JP: I think he’d have liked you when you were 10 too Graham.
Mark: Tubular Bells – Mike Oldfield. It really caught my imagination. Its also the first record that terrified me. My brothers would play ‘piltdown man’ to get rid of me if I was annoying them when I was aged 5. I still go back to it and hear something different each time I do. It inspired me to write instrumentally first and lyrics, if needed, later.
Luigi (producer): The next Helicon album. I became rich.
TMODM: What’s next for you?
Helicon: A lot! We’re currently shortlisting and refining demos for the next album which we’ll record in Spring for release on Fuzz Club later this year (vinyl pressing times permitting). We’re really excited about it. The tunes are sounding great. We’ve got a string quartet, guest vocalists and other surprises lined up.
We’re working on a collaboration album project with The Janitors (SWE), Servo (FRA) and Black Doldrums (ENG) for release on Fuzzed Up & Astromoon Records (IRE), again hopefully this year.
And we’re finalising UK/EU tour dates for June and Sept.
No rest for the wicked.
⦾ January 19, 2022
A Crone’s Orchard
#Alternative #Doom #HeavyPsych #PsychedelicRock #StonerRock
TMODM: What had the strongest influence on Highest State of Being?
ACO: Each of the songs comes from a different place ranging from my own cynicism about the world, dreams I’ve had, the monotony of life, past personal issues, etc. I’d say the main theme across all of them is just trying to make sense of the devastating silence of the universe when looking for meaning outside of the material. Trying to fill the gaping void with noise and give our own meaning
To become our own creators of meaning and reach a higher state of being
Also, weed
TMODM: What record changed your life? (it would be interesting to hear from anyone who wants to answer this question)
ACO: For me (bass and vocals) Lightning at the door by ATW
TMODM: What’s next for you?
ACO: We’re still figuring it out. We are all working 9-5 jobs living paycheck to paycheck since there really isn’t a scene or actual touring in Guatemala. We started writing new stuff a few days ago, though.
⦾ January 7, 2022
Baghdad Battery
#Experimental #DarkAmbient #Electronica #Instrumental #Kosmische #Krautrock #PsychedelicRock #World
TMODM: What had the strongest influence on Eternal Return?
BB: Eternal Return is influenced by a wide range of music that I listen to, including Klaus Schulze, Robbie Basho, Terry Riley, Popol Vuh, and many more. My goal with Eternal Return was to combine all those influences into something new yet rooted in the love for my musical heroes.
TMODM: What record changed your life?
BB: Ash Ra Tempel – Self Titled. Its free form approach and fuzzed out echoed guitars and thunderous drumming was a revelation. It changed the way I look at music and it was a big reason I wanted to start making music.
TMODM: What’s next for you?
BB: Keep making music! This is really just a passion project for me so I just want to keep improving and growing while doing what I love