Some sci-fi for your hi-fi… Halloween dance party!

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1. All Night Party – Tabu
2. Factory – BlackShag
3. Strangers In A Strange Land (Instrumental) – N.O.I.A.
4. Light Years Away – Warp 9
5. Space Is The Place – Jonzun Crew
6. Feeling Love L.E.B. Harmony
7. Robot Is Systematic – ‘Lectric Workers
8. Sapphire (EscortRemix) – Zombi
9. Disco Computer – Transvolta
10. Mandroid – Gift Of Dreams
11. Tomorrow (Instrumental) – The New Company
12. Carry On Turn Me On – Space
13. Future World – Ganymed
14. Mind Warp – Patrick Cowley
15. Shall Return – The Warlord
16. Love Is – Gino Soccio
17. Pulstar – Hipnosis

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1. World of Dreams – The Cake
2. Sally Go Round The Roses – Grace Markay*
3. Hide & Seek – The Feminine Complex
4. What A Way To Die – The Pleasure Seekers
5. Twilight Dreamer – Earth & Fire***
6. Little Sadie – Trees**
7. Beauty – Mad Curry***
8. Tuesday – Birtha
9. Hard Chargin’ Woman – Zephyr
10. Lottery – Rochelle Rosenthal & The Kickball Queen
11. No Warmth In My Life – Room***
12. People On The Highway – The Pentangle*
13. Number 33 – Jan & Lorraine**
14. God Bless The Child – Fifty Foot Hose**
15. Evening’s Child – Savage Rose***
16. Port and Lemon Lady – Goliath***
17. I Am And So Are You – Affinity***
18. Eli’s Coming – Affinity***

One of my many pipe dreams is to establish and all-girl psychedelic rock band. For now, a mix will have to vicariously suffice. It proved to be quite a challenge to compile, leaving out the “givens”: Janis, Grace, The Velvet Underground, etc. Sure, there were a ton of all-girl garage bands but an all-girl psych rock band was really hard to find. I guess I could’ve listened to more garage acts for nuances of psychedelia but I just got kind of exhausted searching for appropriate material. Also, the portrayal of many garage bands as novelties rather than rockers really bothered me. Not that these ladies didn’t rock out, but the wolfish selling of “gee whiz, a hot all-girl band” and/or the implied smirk “aw, girls trying to play guitars & drums, ain’t that cute” tainted the sound for me.

Once I threw out the all-girl criteria, I discovered a wealth of interesting vocalists, from jazz-influenced to folk to pop, and several albums worth some quality headphone-listening time (specifically Earth & Fire, Goliath, Savage Rose, Mad Curry and my favorite, quite possibly the best thing I’ve heard in awhile, Affinity [except for the lame cover of "All Along The Watchtower"]). This is by no means a de-femme-itive list; I’m barely delving into the niche. Gonna listen to this mix and the albums from each band a whole lot more because when I really like a song, I have to listen to it about a million times in a row before moving on to new material. Please leave a note if you have further thoughts or suggestions!

*via Spisce Animals
**Featured on The Black Months and Wyldeflowers mixes previously compiled
***via this person’s list of Post-Psychedelic Proto-Progressive Female Vocalists. I didn’t get to listen to everyone on here, but definitely some cool finds.

These people look like they’re having fun, don’t they?

The music coming out of their waterproof jambox would sound something like this: a sexy, mellow train wreck of jazz, disco and soft pop, as they get ravaged by mosquitos and third-degree sunburns. Music perfect for lounging poolside at some douchey resort at your family reunion; drinking warm beer at a backyard barbecue you don’t know anyone at; trying not to stare at your friends’ pudgy and pasty bits at a pool party; the point of no return when a fling gets weird. A mix that sickeningly yet oh-so-sweetly coats your mouth like the bouquet of blue Alizé.

Can you stomach this languid drift?

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Wistful electronic tunes from the late 20th century to today

for cruising dark suburbs with the windows rolled down on hot summer weeknights; for that pre-dusk hour at the beach where people pack up their stuff and go home, crammed all sticky and sandy in their air conditioned cars; for humid Saturday mornings going to the mall to buy new high tops and lunch at Chick-Fil-A; for walking out of the hair salon after enjoying a cold Coke at your chair, feeling the clippings inside your shirt and knowing you’ll have to wash it and break the spell; empty palm-lined sidewalks in New Urban shopping developments; the smell of cheap plastic toys and swimsuit fabric in souvenir shop after souvenir shop; tail light trails on a 4-lane freeway as streetlights flash by; the tunnel level in Pole Position.

Summer’s sadness is a journey of longing, on your way to or from somewhere where something actually happened. Step into my ride.

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