A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble Exploding In Your Mind: Volume 1
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A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble Exploding In Your Mind: Volume 1 is a 2008 compilation album
with selections by Amorphous Androgynous It was released on CD in November 2008. It is an extensive compilation mix album featuring a wide variety of artists, selected and mixed by the duo. Cosmic Space Music is the first in the series, and focuses on the band's psychedelic side, featuring everything from 60s pop to film scores and modern psychedelia.
The album generally received positive reviews. Time Out described it as "quite simply the best compilation ever", and one from Noel Gallagher
of the band Oasis
. Gallagher got into contact with Gaz Cobain after hearing this record and asked him if the Amorphous Androgynous would remix the forthcoming Oasis single "Falling Down
".
Compilation album
A compilation album is an album featuring tracks from one or more performers, often culled from a variety of sources The tracks are usually collected according to a common characteristic, such as popularity, genre, source or subject matter...
with selections by Amorphous Androgynous It was released on CD in November 2008. It is an extensive compilation mix album featuring a wide variety of artists, selected and mixed by the duo. Cosmic Space Music is the first in the series, and focuses on the band's psychedelic side, featuring everything from 60s pop to film scores and modern psychedelia.
The album generally received positive reviews. Time Out described it as "quite simply the best compilation ever", and one from Noel Gallagher
Noel Gallagher
Noel Thomas David Gallagher is an English musician and singer-songwriter, formerly the lead guitarist, backing vocalist and principal songwriter of the English rock band Oasis. He is currently fronting his solo project, Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds.Raised in Burnage, Manchester with his...
of the band Oasis
Oasis (band)
Oasis were an English rock band formed in Manchester in 1991. Originally known as The Rain, the group was formed by Liam Gallagher , Paul "Bonehead" Arthurs , Paul "Guigsy" McGuigan and Tony McCarroll , who were soon joined by Liam's older brother Noel Gallagher...
. Gallagher got into contact with Gaz Cobain after hearing this record and asked him if the Amorphous Androgynous would remix the forthcoming Oasis single "Falling Down
Falling Down (Oasis song)
"Falling Down" is a song by English rock band Oasis, featured on their 2008 seventh studio album Dig Out Your Soul. Written and sung by lead guitarist Noel Gallagher, it was released as the third single from the album and is also the final single released by the band with the digital release...
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Disc 1
- DonovanDonovanDonovan Donovan Donovan (born Donovan Philips Leitch (born 10 May 1946) is a Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist. Emerging from the British folk scene, he developed an eclectic and distinctive style that blended folk, jazz, pop, psychedelia, and world music...
– Barabajagal (Love Is Hot) – (3:18) - Chiitra Neogy – The Perfumed Garden – The Encouragement Of The Lusty Wife – (0:14)
- Heaven and Earth – Feel The Spirit – (4:26)
- OsibisaOsibisaOsibisa is a British Afro-pop band, founded in London in 1969 by four expatriate African and three Caribbean musicians. Osibisa were one of the first African bands to become widely popular, leading to claims of founding World Music.-History:...
– Blank Ant – (3:15) - Pop LeviPop LeviPop Levi is an English singer, multi-instrumentalist, record producer and filmmaker. Pop Levi's career started in Liverpool. He was the founding member, along with Snap Ant and Loka, of Super Numeri, and has played bass for Ladytron both on record and on tour...
– Blue Honey – (3:27) - The Yellow Moon BandThe Yellow Moon BandThe Yellow Moon Band are a British progressive rock band. They released their debut album, Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World on the Static Caravan label in early 2009, to positive reviews...
– Entangled – (2:20) - The EarliesThe EarliesThe Earlies are a band formed by Christian Madden and Giles Hatton from Lancashire, England, and Brandon Carr and John Mark Lapham from the United States...
– Breaking Point – (4:25) - Betty DavisBetty DavisBetty Davis is an American funk, rock and soul singer. She was also Miles Davis's second wife.- Background :She worked as a model, appearing in photo spreads in Seventeen, Ebony and Glamour...
– If I'm In Luck (I Might Get Picked Up) – (4:34) - Mountain Machine – Mountain Machine – (3:24)
- Henry Roland – After All – (3:33)
- Paul GiovanniPaul GiovanniPaul Giovanni was an American playwright, actor, director, singer and musician. New Yorker Giovanni is best known for writing the music for the 1973 British horror film The Wicker Man...
– Maypole from The Wicker Man – (2:18) - Ian Neal – Kingdom Of The Birds – (4:58)
- The Amorphous Androgynous – Light Beyond Sound – (0:51)
- Bob DownesBob DownesBob Downes is an English avant-garde jazz flautist and saxophonist. Probably best known for his work with musicians like Mike Westbrook and for leading his own group since 1968, the Open Music Trio.-External links:*...
– Tunnels Electronic – (1:02) - CanCan (band)Can was an experimental rock band formed in Cologne, West Germany in 1968. Later labeled as one of the first "krautrock" groups, they transcended mainstream influences and incorporated strong minimalist and world music elements into their often psychedelic music.Can constructed their music largely...
– Flow Motion – (3:55) - The Cosmic Wizards Club Band – Musashi – (1:32)
- EspersEspers (band)Espers is a psych folk band from Philadelphia that is part of the emerging indie folk scene. They formed in 2002 as a trio of singer-songwriter Greg Weeks, Meg Baird and Brooke Sietinsons but later expanded to a sextet including Otto Hauser, Helena Espvall and Chris Smith...
– Mansfield And Cyclops – (5:45) - Cranium Pie – There It Is Part 2 – (0:42)
- Miles DavisMiles DavisMiles Dewey Davis III was an American jazz musician, trumpeter, bandleader, and composer. Widely considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, Miles Davis was, with his musical groups, at the forefront of several major developments in jazz music, including bebop, cool jazz,...
– Rated X – (5:10) - PsychonautsPsychonautsPsychonauts is a platform video game created by Tim Schafer, developed by Double Fine Productions and published by Majesco. The game was released on April 19, 2005, for the Xbox, April 26 for Microsoft Windows and June 21 for PlayStation 2. It was released on Steam on Oct 11, 2006, as an "Xbox...
– Circles – (3:26) - PentanglePentangle (band)Pentangle are a British folk rock band with some folk jazz influences. The original band were active in the late 1960s and early 1970s and a later version has been active since the early 1980s...
– Light Flight – (2:55) - Friends of Dean MartinezFriends of Dean MartinezFriends of Dean Martinez is an instrumental rock/post-rock band featuring members of Giant Sand, Calexico, and Naked Prey. FoDM music may be described as a combination of americana tunes with bits of electronica, ambient, lounge, psychedelia and dub intertwined with surf rock inspired lead...
– Wichita Lineman – (4:52) - The Amorphous Androgynous – The Lovers – (4:41)
- The Amorphous Androgynous – Opus Of the Black Sun – (3:46)
Disc 2
- Tommy GrahamTommy Graham (singer)Tommy Graham is a singer and record producer from Toronto, Ontario, Canada.-Life:Graham joined his first band in 1958. He worked his way through the Toronto club scene with Kay Taylor And The Regents. He moved to Los Angeles in 1960 and returned to Canada three years later...
– Sahajiya – (3:40) - Cranium Pie – Awakening Of The Birds – (1:17)
- Cranium Pie – Drying In the Sun – (2:05)
- Nick NicelyNick Nicelynick nicely is a British musician. His music can be categorized as psychedelic rock.nicely was born in 1959 in Greenland during a transatlantic stopover by his parents, but he grew up in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, England, as Nickolas Laurien...
– 49 Cigars – (2:49) - Chiitra Neogy – The Perfumed Garden – The Encouragement Of The Lusty Wife – (0:50)
- Donovan – Riki Tiki Tavi – (3:08)
- Devendra BanhartDevendra BanhartDevendra Obi Banhart is a singer-songwriter and visual artist. Banhart was born in Houston, Texas and was raised by his mother in Venezuela, until he moved to California as a teenager. He began to study at the San Francisco Art Institute in 1998, but dropped out to perform music in Europe, San...
– Lazy Butterfly – (4:04) - The Mahavishnu OrchestraThe Mahavishnu OrchestraThe Mahavishnu Orchestra was a jazz fusion group, led by John McLaughlin, that debuted in 1971, dissolved in 1976 and reunited from 1984 to 1987.-First Mahavishnu Orchestra:...
– You Know, You Know – (5:01) - Hariprasad ChaurasiaHariprasad ChaurasiaPandit Hariprasad Chaurasia is an Indian classical instrumentalist. He is a player of the bansuri, the North Indian bamboo flute. Chaurasia is a classicist who has made a conscious effort to reach out and expand the audience for classical music.-Early life:Hariprasad Chaurasia was born in...
– Manzh Khamaz Teental – (2:07) - Tim BuckleyTim BuckleyTimothy Charles Buckley III was an American vocalist, and musician. His music and style changed considerably through the years; his first album was mostly folk oriented, but over time his music incorporated jazz, psychedelia, funk, soul, avant-garde and an evolving "voice as instrument," sound...
– I Never Asked To Be Your Mountain – (5:34) - The Emperor Machine – Roller Daddy – (5:13)
- Mahagon – Divka & Jablky – (3:03)
- Lord Sitar – I Am The Walrus – (4:01)
- Wizards Of Ooze – Helga – (2:02)
- Tommy James and the Shondells – Cellophane Symphony – (7:38)
- HawkwindHawkwindHawkwind are an English rock band, one of the earliest space rock groups. Their lyrics favour urban and science fiction themes. They are also a noted precursor to punk rock and now are considered a link between the hippie and punk cultures....
– Silver Machine – (4:12) - Magic CarpetMagic Carpet (band)Magic Carpet was a pioneering Anglo-Indian United Kingdom band of musicians that first appeared in the early 1970s.The band members were Clem Alford, sitar; Alisha Sufit, voice and guitar; Jim Moyes, guitar; and Keshav Sathe, Indian tabla percussion...
– The Phoenix – (3:38) - David AxelrodDavid Axelrod (musician)David Axelrod is an American composer, arranger and producer, working in several musical genres.-Biography:...
– The Mental Traveler – (3:43) - WerkraumWerkraum-Overview:Growing up in the fields of experimental music and post-industrial music with several other projects since the early 1990s, Axel Frank began to adapt a more melodic neofolk, electronic and dark ambient approach...
– Queen Mab – (3:33) - Shweta Javeri – Heart Of Darkness – (12:00)
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- A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble at MySpaceMySpaceMyspace is a social networking service owned by Specific Media LLC and pop star Justin Timberlake. Myspace launched in August 2003 and is headquartered in Beverly Hills, California. In August 2011, Myspace had 33.1 million unique U.S. visitors....