Go Down Records Compilation

So this is the end of the year 2011. I think this year was a great musical year with a lot of great releases.

I will not bother you with an end-of-the-year-list, but I will tell you what my favorite album of 2011 is: The debut album of the French band Mars Red Sky.

In this last post of 2011 I present you the free download compilation album that is offered by the Italian label Go Down Records. This compilation is a nice overview of what Go Down Records has released in their existance. These are 30 tracks of nice Stoner Rock, Psychedelic Rock and Rock 'n' Roll. Enjoy!

I'd like to wish you all a great 2012!

Go Down Records Compilation (2011)

Tracks: (Band / Track title / Album title)

1 Dome La Muerte And The Diggers / Session Man /Diggersonz

2 Muzzled / Gimme More / Reborn

3 The Morlocks / Dirty Red / Easy Listening For The Underachiever

4 Clepydra / Jimi Plays My Guitar / Marmalade Sky

5 Poison Deluxe / Mature Wine / The Three Dead Blues

6 Muffx / Like Before / Small Obsession

7 Maya Mountains / Wanna Know What I Know? / Hash And Pornography

8 Ojm / Oceans Hearts / Volcano

9 Small Jackets / Listen To The Rock / Cheap Tequila

10 Re Dinamite / Fuzzy Love / Split Connetion Vol.1 With Vic Du Monte's Persona Non Grata

11 Cut / Summertime / Annihilation Road

12 The Sade / Deaf Love / Damned Love

13 Link Protrudi & The Jaymen /Bandito /The Beast Of Link Protrudi & The Jaymen

14 The Last Killers /Flesh And Proud (Feat.Brian Auger)/Violent Years

15 The Shoes / Talk With You / The Shoes

16 Losfuocos / Revolution / Revolution Losfuocos

17 Pater Nembrot / Supercell / Sequoia Seeds

18 Vic Du Monte's Persona Non Grata / Barons &Bankers / Barons & Bankers

19 Glincolti / Ferma Un Momento / Visti & Imprevisti

20 The Strange Flowers / Hollywood / Vagina Mother

21 Gorilla / Hot Cars / Rock Our Souls

22 Veracrash / Beyond The Grave / 11:11

23 El Thule / Black Mamba / Green Magic

24 Underdogs / Fuck Coverband / Ready To Burn

25 King Size / Money Laundering / Guess It

26 Volcano Heat / The Sky / Vive Le Rock!

27 Fango / What I Think / Icarus

28 The Fuzztones / Me Tarzan, You Jane In Heat / Raw Heat

29 Autumn's Rain / Too Loud / Autumn's Rain

30 Horrible Porno Stuntmen / Camon / Unpublished Of Next Album Of 2012

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Inside The Acid Temple

From Arlington, Texas comes Liquid Sound Company. This bad plays some incredible Neo Psychedelic Rock music. This band was formed by John Perez in 1996. This is their second album Inside The Acid Temple from 2002. Liquid Sound Company get their inspirations from LSD, mushrooms and grass. Their music does for sure show that. These tracks are trippy jams all the way. Enjoy!

Texas space psychsters Liquid Sound Company return with an amazing follow up to their Exploring The Psychedelic album from a few years back. Founding member John Perez (also with doom metal band Solitude Aeturnus) is once again joined by Jason Spradlin and new member David Fargason (Vas Deferens Organization, Muz) replaces Teri Pritchard on bass.

I'll tell you right off the bat that this is a serious slab of take-no-prisoners spaced out, fuzz laden mindfucked psychedelia. The disc opens with "Cubehead", which after a brief monologue sample launches into a fuzzed out acid rocking manna from psychedelic heaven that defines the bands name and sound. The guitars will make you drool, a substance that will mix in nicely with the matter from your melting brain. But "Cubehead" is a short track that serves to prime the listener for the remaining 45 minute journey.

On "The League For Spiritual Discovery Lives", the band take a couple minutes to hypnotize the listener before launching into the trademark Liquid Sound rocking acid blast. Phased and wah'd trip guitars and pounding tribal drums are embellished by beautifully bubbling space efx. And at 8 minutes this sucker stretches out nicely. It rocks hard but will wrap its loving arms around your brain, massaging and caressing and injecting rainbows of colors and cosmic images. And the trip continues as the song segues seamlessly into "Preparation For The Psychedelic Eucharist", an ultra hypnotic mantra building tune. (Some of this is making me think of a more purely acid-psych version of Farflung.) And the voyage continues with the Eastern influenced title track, one of the most powerhouse mind assault songs of the set. I really dig the combination of sitar and swirling psych guitars and the throbbing Stoner undercurrent.

"The Art Of Ecstasy" is a little different, communicating a jazzier mood, but is still mucho psychedelic. The Gospel According To Robot A. Hull" is a very cool psych song with a bit of a 60's flavor and blistering fuzz licks. "Free I" is a steady paced meditational ride with luscious whispers. And "Unfolding" is similar but a bit of a teaser as throughout its 9 minute length the percussion builds in a way that seems to be preparing for an explosion... but it never comes. Oh well, it still serves as a gentle closing track that allows the listener to cool down before rejoining physical reality.

In summary, this gem easily made my best of 2002 list. One listen and you'll be hooked, though subsequent listens will reward you with new found treasures. Highest recommendation!
((By Jerry Kranitz at Aural Innovations)

Liquid Sound Company - Inside The Acid Temple (2002)

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Apocalypse Psychedelicka

Galacticka is an Instrumental Psychedelic Rock band from Tampere, Finland. Their sound is mainly based on Space Rock, but there are also some Stoner grooves.This band has created several releases and Apocalypse Psychedelicka is their most recent one. Apocalypse Psychedelicka is a great album with eight songs. Each one is awesome. This is absolutely nice to listen! Enjoy!

Galacticka is a Finnish psychedelic band formed in 2004. Apocalypse Psychedelicka is their first official album, before this they have pot out seven CD-R releases but unfortunately I haven’t heard these. This Tampere-based band plays hypnotic, kraut rock styled and rather heavy improvisation based instrumental rock, and the best reference point might be Circle in the 90’s. The keyboards are a bit more varied and jamming, though.

”Acid Rain”, the first track on the album starts with sounds of rain and thunder. After a drum fill there comes a hypnotic kraut riff in 5/4 time bringing to mind Circle ten years ago. At around the four-minute-marker the keyboards start to jam, nice! Then some heavier, slow riffing and electric piano follow and finally the kraut riff returns before eight minutes along with great analogue synths. An excellent starter! “Unsanity” starts off in a rather peaceful way with clean guitar and small UFO sounds and grows gradually. This is a hypnotic track as well, and soon it cools down again and some rather psychedelic bubbling and hallucinatory sounds follow. Then they build up again and relax in the end. “Implosion” is a wilder and shorter Circle-like blast in ¾ time; heavy and pretty fast stuff. The guitars stay repetitively pretty much in one chord which works. “Fallout” is at first slow and hard stuff with synth effects; at some point the track starts to speed up a bit and gets more variation and we get to hear some hypnotic jamming. After about six and a half minutes there comes a faster, heavier thing that sounds like heavy rock according to my young son. Then some slower, great jamming follows again. “Pigs” is the fastest and wildest track on the album and occasionally it almost crushed your skull. Before one and a half minutes have passed there is a slower part with strange, almost classical sounding melodies. Then it gets faster again and we get some space sounds. Although the album’s been excellent so far, the best piece is still yet to come. “Homo Nihilus” begins peacefully in 7/8 time signature, but gets fiercer after one and a half minutes. There’s some hypnotic going here too. The track cools down a bit again, and a superb, Oriental styled synthesizer solo follows. Towards the end they let it rip so that I’m almost transformed into a black hole. Amazing stuff! One of the best Finnish albums this year.
(By DJ Astro at Psychotropic Zone)

Galacticka - Apocalypse Psychedelicka (2006)

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New York Psychedelics

Thanks to Jessica from the band Heliotropes for sharing their EP!
Heliotropes is an all female band from Brooklyn, New York. These girls play some great mesmerizing Grunge influenced Psychedelic Rock. According to MySpace Heliotropes is inspired by the following: Current 93, Spacemen 3, Spiritualized, Brian Eno, Pentagram, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Black Sabbath, My Bloody Valentine, Shirley Collins, Laurie Anderson and Sleep.
III is the title of their debut EP and that is a bit odd! This EP contains three nice tracks with awesome hypnotic vocals. I definitely like to hear some more of Heliotropes in the future! Enjoy!

Heliotropes - III (2010)

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Italian Garage Vibes

A while ago I've posted the 7' single Uomini from the Italian band Mastica here. This is their debut album from 2004. Mastica plays some nice Sixties Psychedelic Garage Rock. Compared with the Uomini single, there is not so much Hammond organ on (12) Treize Cigarettes, but instead you get a lot of good guitar riffs served. (12) Treize Cigarettes has twelve great songs that brings you forty years back in time. Enjoy!

Mastica - (12) Treize Cigarettes (2004)

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Smoke For Everybody

This is a compilation I made for the SludgeSwamp. Unfortunately it is removed over there. Too bad, but here it is anyway! All of the tracks did appear earlier at this blog. Enjoy!

Tracklist:

1 Threshold - Talbot (1:54)
2 Cayenne - Talbot (7:09)
3 The Endless Void - Hypnos 69 (7:47)
4 The Man. The Sun. The Desert - The Grand Astoria (13:07)
5 Mother , Some Day I'm Going To Be An Astronaut - The Movements (Space Edition) (7:53)
6 Justice - Suma (9:31)
7 Sleeping Pill - Telestrion (8:53)
8 Kingdom - Naam (16:24)

Smoke For Everybody (2010)

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The Third Bardo.

A while ago I posted the 60's Psychedelic Acid compilation Pebbles Vol.3 - The Acid Gallery here. One of the tracks of that compilation was Five Years Ahead Of My Time by The Third Bardo. Since I've heard that song I'm complete obsessed about it. So I was searching for more songs. I found this EP on some blogs. These a nice songs, but not so great as Five Years Ahead Of My Time. If you like Sixties Psychedelic Acid, maybe you will like this one. Enjoy

The Third Bardo recorded just one single, "I'm Five Years Ahead of My Time," which appeared on Roulette in 1967. That one single, however, is lauded by many collectors as one of the greatest 1960s garage/psychedelic tracks. With its mysterious lead guitar lines that recalled the theme to the Twilight Zone, Eastern-like minor melody, creepy organ, and one of the most definitive sub-Jagger garage snarl lead vocals ever, it was worthy of more exposure than it got. However, although it got some airplay on the East Coast, it was pulled off the radio, lead singer Jeff Monn has recalled, because of perceived drug associations, although in fact there are no overt drug references in the lyrics.

The Third Bardo's material, oddly, was produced by Teddy Randazzo, who had been a singer in the 1950s, and then later producer for Little Anthony & the Imperials. His session with the Third Bardo was far weirder than could have possibly been expected given his resume, the group laying down ominous psychedelia with Eastern-influenced melodies and odd sound effects. Six tracks were recorded at the Third Bardo's one and only session, much of the material co-written by Rusty Evans, who had helped craft similarly strange stuff for the Deep. Aside from "I'm Five Years Ahead of My Time," however, just one song, its B-side "Rainbow Life," was released. The other four cuts (including an alternate version of "Rainbow Life") would surface much later on Sundazed's 2000 10", six-song EP The Third Bardo.

After the Third Bardo broke up in 1967, Monn went solo and did an album for Vanguard in the late '60s, changing his name to Chris Moon for another solo album that came out on CBS/Kinetic in 1970. Jeff Beck considered hiring Monn as his singer in 1971, but the pair didn't hit it off and nothing came of it. "I'm Five Years Ahead of My Time" became a cult favorite among '60s collectors after its inclusion in the Pebbles reissue series, and was selected for the expanded Nuggets '60s garage box set in the late 90's.

(By Richie Unterberger at All Music Guide)

The Third Bardo - The Third Bardo EP (1967)

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Re-Post Request: Øresund Space Collective - The Black Tomato.

This one was originally posted here. Someone asked to post it again, cause the download link failed! This is a very good Space Rock Album. Check it out and enjoy!

Øresund Space Collective - The Black Tomato (2007)

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Sinister Acid.

Thanx to Manual Zombie for sending their album!
Manual Zombie is a Psychedelic Rock band from New York, U.S.A. On their MySpace they claimed to be influenced by the following: Bob Dylan, Pink Floyd, The Velvet Underground, Black Flag, Blue Cheer, Argento and Goblin, Jefferson Airplane, Hawkwind, The Misfits, Neil Young, Skinny Puppy, The 13th Floor Elevators, Jimi Hendrix, The Doors, The Bad Brains, Black Sabbath, Cream, The Stones, John Carpenter.
I think Autumn is a great album. There's a sinister feeling on it and I like that. Normally I don't like drum machines, but on this album it sounds not that bad. The guitar fuzz is awesome. If you like creepy Psychedelic music, than maybe Manual Zombie is your thing. Enjoy!

Manual Zombie - Autumn (2009)

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Strange Stuff.

This EP was dropped in my mailbox today.
Everything is strange about this EP: The band name, the EP title and the artwork. But as I said before: Strange is cool!
Vere is a Psychedelic Rock band from Memphis/Jackson, Tennessee and they play their music well. I think that I want to hear more than this 15 minute EP. Go check this out and give the band some support!

We've been told we sound like:
"...The Appleseed Cast, Sunny Day Real Estate, Pink Floyd, Bauhaus, Deftones, Type O Negative, Mogwai, Down..."
(From Their MySpace)

Vere - We Are Time EP (2009)

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Mellow Psychedelics

I've got this sample CD from a guy who bought this Uncut magazine issue for a Beatles article. He was not interested in this sample CD, so he passed it to me.
Seeing For Miles is a compilation with several Psychedelic songs. Except for The Assemble Head In Sunburst Sound, Wooden Shjips and Six Organs Of Admittance anything is unknown to me.
This collection is announced as New Psych-Rock Classics, but it's more mellow to me. Try it and maybe you like it.

Tracklist:

1 Arbouretum - Another Hiding Place
2 The Assemble Head In Sunburst Sound - Kolob Canyon
3 Sleepy Sun - New Age
4 Deradoorian - Moon
5 Ganglians - The Void
6 White Denim - Mirrored and Reverse
7 Wooden Shjips - Down By the Sea
8 Sun Araw - Heavy Deeds
9 Sir Richard Bishop - Barbary
10 Six Organs Of Admittance - Actaeon's Fall (Against the Hounds)
11 Theo Angell - Wakeling
12 Mountains - Map Table

Various Artists - Seeing For Miles (Uncut CD 10) (2009)

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A Bit Of Danish Psychedelic Garage Rock

I don't know what it is with Denmark, but this country has a lot of great Psychedelic Bands. If you like Baby Woodrose, then you will like The Setting Son. In the past Lorenzo Woodrose has given his cooperation to this Psychedelic Sixties Garage Rock Band by producing and drumming.

Sebastian T.W. Kristiansen is the young and shy brainchild behind The Setting Son. This unusual talent has composed more than 50 songs and recorded them on his small 4-track taperecorder in his flat in Copenhagen. A collection of songs that is both naive and rather desperate with Sebastians highly addictive vocals on top. The debut album by The Setting Son was produced by Lorenzo from Baby Woodrose and was recorded and mixed in 9 days at the Black Tornado studio in Copenhagen in December 2006. The result was 14 songs in a little over 30 minutes and the album is set for release September 3rd 2007. In A Certain Way was chosen as the first single and will be released as limited edition 7" vinyl and CD single. Line-up on the album: Sebastian T.W. Kristiansen: vocals, rhythm guitar, organ Lorenzo Woodrose: drums, percussion, vocals (Baby Woodrose) Adam Olsson: lead guitar, vocals (The Good The Bad, The AIM) Marco Burro: bass (The Untamed)
(From Lp33.tv)

Spring Of Hate (2009)

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Freak Out In Space, Baby!

After I published the following Øresund Space Collective albums The Black Tomato, Inside Your Head and Good Planets Are Hard To Find it's time for their self-title debute album. Again this album doesn't disappiont. Freak out in space, baby!

The Øresund Space Collective was formed in April 2004. The collective is a group of Danish, Swedish and American musicians that get together as often as possible for free form improvised space rock music. The flavour of the music is different with each session. The jams can often combine complex interplay between guitar and synthesizer as well intense drumming and bass playing. We enter into the genre of funk, jazz, reggae and space rock as we improvise our way along. The jam sessions alternate between Malmö and København across the Øresund bridge! The core of the collective features current and former members of the Danish bands Mantric Muse and Gas Giant as well as the Swedish bands Bland Bladen. Occasionally other musicians join as well from other Swedish band like the Carpet Knights and Sgt. Sunshine. Mantric Muse is an all instrumental progressive psychedelic space rock band, who has recorded an CD-EP entitled, Picks in Space and a full length CD, called Kap Næb (currently looking for a label to release it). The band has played concerts in and around København for the last 6 years. Gas Giant are an internationally known heavy psychedelic space rock band, who have toured all over Europe and have released several albums, with the latest called Mana. Bland Bladen, are a progressive instrumental space rock band based in Malmö, Sweden. The band released a debut CD-R in 2004on their own and has played mainly in Sweden but also in København (with Mantric Muse). The collective records all of the jam sessions and makes these available to fans via the web site in MP3 format. We currently have over 20 hours of material on the web site for free download. The band has released 10 limited edition CD's with the best of the jam sessions. The band records in the studio every 6-8 months and plans to release several CDs a year. Our first CD came out in Jan 2006 on Transubstans Records in Malmo, Sweden
(From Progarchives)

Øresund Space Collective - Øresund Space Collective (2006)

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Øresund Space Collective - Good Planets Are Hard To Find

This is the most recent album of Øresund Space Collective and not Inside Your Head as I said in my previous ØSC post.
This one is ripped from vinyl. Special thanks and credits to Zillagord!

This is the 5th CD by the all improvised space rock band from the Copenhagen-Malmö region of Scandinavia (Øresund). It was recorded at the Black Tornado Studios in November 2007 and featured new members on drums, percussion, bass, guitar and sitar that had never been in the studio with the band before. The dynamics and vibe was different and KG from the band Siena Root played some amazing sitar on the opening and closing pieces of music on the CD. We think you will find the music has a more progressive and melodic element and is less spacey than our previous releases. The same cool vibe and long journeys await the patient listener. The CD was mixed by Steve Hayes (Secret Saucer) in the USA. Steve also provides on synthesizer solo on Orbital Elevator to replace one that Mogens played when his synthesizer went out of tune. Steve has different ears and different gear so the mix is unique. The band allowed Steve full freedom in the mix process, so he actually becomes more a part of the musical project, so to speak. The CD was mastered to give a nice round but intense rich sound by Henrik Udd, who had mixed and mastered the band's previous 2 albums. The band on this release was: KG- Sitar, Guitar; Tobias- Guitars; Mogens- Hammond and Synthesizers; Jocke and Thomas- Bass; PIB- Drums; Luz- Percussion; Dr. Space- Synthesizers The band has played the Kildemose Festival, headlined the Slottskoggen goes Progressive Festival and also played the Space Rock Odyssey 2008 Festival in Uppsala in 2008. Currently, the band has plans to play gigs in Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Norway, in March and April 2009, including opening for Hawkwind at Oslo's legendary Rockefeller Venue on April 18th.
(From CD-Baby.com)

Line-up:
- Tobias / guitars
- PIB / drums
- Thomas / bass
- Jocke / bass
- Luz / percussion
- Mogens / Hammond, synths
- Dr. Space / Synths
- KG / sitar, guitar, Hammond

Øresund Space Collective - Good Planets Are Hard To Find (2009)

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This is were the band's name from: The Øresund Bridge, connecting Sweden and Denmark. Go Wiki for more about this.

Øresund Space Collective - Inside Your Head

Earlier before I did post some Øresund Space Collective stuff. Here is the latest album.

I have to thank Mari for this contribution.

"Leave your normal life behind, close your eyes and fly into the unknown reaches of your mind. The music is meant to get Inside Your Head and give you a pleasureful and unique listening experience. You don`t know where it is going or what you will hear. You just go with the flow of the band."

(From All That Is Heavy)

Øresund Space Collective - Inside Your Head (2008)

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TWIN EARTH - Trancers 33 7" EP

I consider Arthur from Orange Sunshine as one of the best guitar players from Holland. One of his previous bands was Twin Earth (Don't confuse it with the same named Swedish Stoner Band).

The song Trancers also appeared on the first Motorwolf compilation CD.

Psychedelic acid rock for those who are into Monster Magnet and the Stooges, cool!
(From Motorwolf.com)

Twin Earth - Trancers 33 7" EP (1995)

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These Italians take you 40 years back in time.

A while ago I ordered some vinyl stuff at Kozmic Artifactz. This 7" I got as replacement for another item.
Mastica from Italy makes some good Psychedelic Sixties Rock. And when there's a Hammond involved it almost can't go wrong.

Mastica are five heavy psych rockers from the north part of Italy. With a hard and heavy psych sound, derived from the past, Mastica captures attention. They floor the uninitiated with their indisputable musical skills and with songs that are direct and stunning.
Their sound is made using vintage instruments, italian lyrics, vulcanic vocals and a very capable line up, which has recently been improved by the addition of the Hammond organ sound of Apollo (of Link Quartet fame) and by the new guitarist Andrea (Slowtime Mondays). Thanks to their participation in various important international festivals (Euro Ye Ye, Le Beat Bespokè, GoLleida, to name a few) the band have already gotten much attention and gained lots of popularity.

With the last remaining flames of beat and the first hints of hard blues with heavy psych flashes Mastica brings you an incredibly strong and striking 7” single. So lets trip with Uomini and rave to Scemo Chi Spara!

The members of the band:
Matteo Bizzotto (Mad) - bass, vocals
Giovanni Beghetto (Pacio) - drums
Paolo Narduzzo (Paul) - bass, guitar, slide guitar
Andrea Garbo (Garbo) - guitar, talk box, harmonica
Paolo Negri (Apollo) - hammond, clavinet, moog
(From Crusher Records)

Mastica - Uomini 7" (2005)

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Øresund Space Collective - The Black Tomato

This is really a great album from these Psychedelic Space Rockers from Denmark, Sweden and The U.S.A.

Wow, these guys are really on a roll. Hot on the heels of their outstanding 2-CD "It's All About Delay" album, Øresund Space Collective (OSC) are back with a brand new set of space jams. The Black Tomato consists of three tracks, totalling nearly 80 minutes of all instrumental improvisational space rocking bliss.

The CD kicks off with the nearly 40 minute "RumBle", which begins with a stoned jamming cosmic hard rocking space groove. There's some ripping trip guitar, freaked out alien electronics, and the whole atmosphere is like a deep space stoner acid jam. This is some of the heaviest music I've heard from OSC yet. And as you can imagine on a 40 minute improv jam, the music twists and turns through a multitude of moods and themes, though of course the key to real appreciation is to just sit back and surrender yourself to wherever the band wants to take you. It's a guided tour with the focus on the voyage and destination is the least of your concerns. OSC have a fluid cast of participants but everyone has more or less played with each other enough that it's no surprise that they continue to crank out ass kicking space jams that you can groove to endlessly! Some of it brings to mind a cross between Ozric Tentacles and Alien Planetscapes.

Next up is the 32 minute "The Black Tomato", another space rocking excursion. It's got some killer melodic development that really hooked me, while retaining the driving jam quality throughout. The organ and heavy keyboards give the music a 70s hard prog-psych edge that I really liked, and combined with the electronics, guitars and pounding rhythm section makes for an absolutely awesome space rock journey. Lots of cool Gong/Hillage elements and I even detected some moments of Frippertronic styled guitar, but mostly this is searing acidic mucho cosmic heavy jamming space rock. OSC have cultivated a real knack for taking off and exploring while keeping these loooooong jams comprehensible and consistently seductive throughout. Finally, rounding out the set is the relatively short (6 minutes) "Viking Cleaner", a quirky, playful, but totally spaced out rhythmic groove tune that makes for an appropriate finale to this outstanding set. These guys gotta start making the rounds of the festival circuit.

For more information you can visit the Øresund Space Collective website.

There are STILL many hours of jams you can download from their site!

Reviewed by Jerry Kranitz from Aural Innovations

The Black Tomato (2007)

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Thanx again to Zillagord and credits to Ihriel from http://pachuparitiflitico.blogspot.com/

Life after Gas Giant: Øresund Space Collective

From Copenhagen, Denmark comes Øresund Space Collective, a Space, Psych, Stoner Rock collective featuring two members from Gas Giant. In 2007 they released their third album called  The Black Tomato. 

It's a band with apperance of many guest musicians. Sometimes they play up to 12 men on one stage. There are many influences, like Pink Floyd, Ozric Tentacles and Black Sabbath.

The Øresund Space Collective (OSC) had their first jamsession in April 2004, encouraged by longtime spacerock-fanatic Scott Heller; aka Dr. Space. The collective is a group of Danish, Swedish and American musicians that get together as often as possible for free form improvised cosmic music. The flavour of the music is different with each session.

The stretched out jams can often combine complex interplay between guitar and synthesizer as well intense drumming and bass playing. Sometimes chaotic, sometimes melodic but most of the time funky and cosmic ! We enter into the genre of funk, jazz, reggae, kraut, stoner, folk, world, electronica and space rock ( and probably some others) as we improvise our way along. The jam sessions alternate between Malmö and København across the Øresund bridge, which connects Denmark & Sweden! The core of the collective features current and former members of the Danish bands Mantric Muse and Gas Giant as well as the Swedish band Bland Bladen. Quite often other musicians join as well from other Swedish bands like the Carpet Knights, Drahk von Trip and Sgt. Sunshine. (From Myspace)

Here are some downloads from live shows:

Øresund Space Jam 46- Dragens Hule, København Oct 11th, 2008

Øresund Space Jam 31- Semfinal, Helsinki 08/4/07

Øresund Space Jam 32- Studenterhuset, København 12/4/07

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I have to thank Zillagord for bringing this under my attention.