The Past Tense - with an excerpt from version of the long-lost track soul fiction, by The Hippies - released in South Africa in the 60s. Taken from a new box-set from Fruits de Mer Records - Postcards From The Deep; not your run-of-the-mill box-set, this one has 10 single-sided flexidiscs, a CD (the CD includes The Thanes vocal take on L.S.D., one of the flexis contains their instrumental version of the same song)... youtu.be/zI2KXURrZ_Y?list=UUqlwpk3vFrZKBgitMhgY3LA Postcards From The Deep - 10 tracks on 10 flexidiscs, by a bunch of artists who really should know better - including The Past Tense, Astralasia, The Loons, Schizo Fun Addict, Crystal Jacqueline and The Luck Of Eden Hall. Each 7” clear square flexi comes with its own 7” square postcard, which is nice. The music ranges from psych to surf, fuzz to freakbeat, garage rock to krautrock (of sorts) and ends with a TV theme. The box-set includes a CD that compiles all the recordings into one place; the only thing is that a few of the bands took the opportunity to do something a little different with their contributions for the CD - extend their ‘flexi recordings’ a little here and there, add vocals to an instrumental, take a 3 minute track and extend it to 11 minutes – that sort of thing. fruitsdemerrecords/postcards.html, its got to be worth a look
Posted on: Tue, 09 Dec 2014 07:04:19 +0000