A Pleasant Evening.. and a few surprises.

It’s been a while since I posted any downloadable mixes on Stereo Sanctity, but now that I have a working CD burner and a reliable home broadband connection for the first time in a few months, it seems like a good time to catch up with some of the homemade compilations I’ve been pottering about with recently.

This one here for instance is the latest instalment in my reality capsizing, galaxy-spanning (well, iTunes spanning at least) overview of my favourite examples of psychedelic music.

A themed edition (y’know, like the Pebbles ‘Surf’ volume or something), this ‘Psychedelic Dancefloor’ one gives me a nigh on endless opportunity to beat my chops (that means talk, in case you were wondering) about the inherently mind-altering nature of dance, and thus how odd it is the psychedelia is often primarily associated with lying around in a heap listening to some hippies wig out at a glacial pace. Or about how my upbringing and cultural circumstances meant I never really got the chance to engage with dance-music-as-genre. Or hey, how about that whole thing recently with people claiming that one of the best ways for avant/psyche/drone/noise etc music to find new purpose is to reconnect itself with repetitive dancebeats to form some kinda planet-smashing form of ultimate hypnogogic disco whatever that we’d all listen to exclusively for eternity..?

I’m not sure how that’s all coming along (I’ve not read The Wire in years), but hey, I’m sure I could find an opinion on it, and if the monged out club bits on that great Blues Control album from last year or thousands of kinds going nuts at Animal Collective concerts are a stumble in that general direction, you can surely count me in.

ANYWAY, I’m NOT gonna talk about any of that stuff or try to explain/expand on any of my selections here. Let’s just say this is a collection of great, mind-bending fuzzy tunes that you could actually dance to, in the idyllic imaginary nightclub environment of your dreams, should you wish.

Sorry the cover’s not up to much – my photoshop skills leave something to be desired, and I’ve not had the time or desk space to knock anything together on paper. The original comic book panel comes courtesy of no less a personage than Gentleman Jack Kirby though, so that should more than make up for my artistic failings!

Enjoy!

1. Peter Wyngarde – Come In
2. The Index – Shock Waves
3. Ros Sereysothea - [title unknown]
4. Ennio Morricone – Nightclub Scene from ‘Danger: Diabolik!’
5. L’Oeil – Bernadette
6. Ruth – Mots
7. Paula Sheppard – Me & My Rhythm Box
8. Black Devil Disco Club – Follow Me
9. Ellen Allien & Apparat – Way Out
10. Arthur Russell – In the Light Of The Miracle
11. Betty Davis – Git In There
12. The Group – The Feedback
13. The Science Fiction Corporation – The Whistling Astronaut
14. Francesco de Masi – New York: One More Day
15. Land of Giants – Cannibal Dolls
16. Baby Huey – Running
17. Sparks – The Number One Song in Heaven
18. Peter Wyngarde – April

DOWNLOAD
(93mb zip file / 78 minutes)

(If the link’s not working for you for whatever reason don’t suffer in silence – drop me a line and I’ll get it to you some other way.)

Labels: dancing, mixtapes, Psychedelia