Pande-reviews: 2009.0 (FSOL - EBS Vol.4)

[Ross]

Oh God, good luck with that. Barely anything goes on for more than a minute or so on that mix.

[Dennis]

MPB3 is easily my favourite of the MPB-podcasts (Ok, along with the first one from 97'), I especially love how everything is melted together on this one with some tracks only played for a few seconds and others played simultanously, as someone wrote here on the forums 'random onslaught of psychedelic insanity' or so, that's just it. And a lot of tracks are almost remixes with a lot of noises and samples on top, absolutely love that. When I first heard the Polyphonic Spree album I almost was a bit dissapointed about that missing string-sample thats in the mix, it just fits so perfectly.

[Pandemonium]

Yeah, it's a very solid mix made with lots of preparing. Heavily influenced by Zappa/Mothers.

[Pandemonium]

FSOL - A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble Exploding in Your Mind Vol.4
(Resonance FM London) [radio mix] (28.01.2003)
- bootleg / first official release 15.11.2008, currently unavailable



This is hands-down the weirdest MPB mix of them all. 90 minutes of psychedelic insanity largely referencing Christianity, and it sounds like a parody on the first try, but if you give it a few shots, you'll notice that this is a really good mix, with an insane amount of tracks (more than 80) packed in 90 minutes. Most of the tracks are chopped up and remixed with a large number of spoken samples and environments.

Huge influence of Italian & German psychedelia, as well as some musicals, and you will notice, that there are about 5 or 6 records (most of them compilations) that source half the tracks of this mix. So, MPB 4 - deconstructed & explained - read away...

(...and Yes, I am expecting some kind of Board diploma for digging out all these jewels! )

(scroll to the end of the post to see just the plain tracklist)

00:00 Rotary Connection - Soul Man - (Cadet Concept Records, 1968)
- From the debut album by Rotary Connection, half of the tracks from this one were used in this mix.
- Rotary Connection was a psychedelic soul jazz fusion band started by Marshall Chess, son of Leonard Chess, the Polish jew that started Chess Records, the label that (I dare say) invented electric blues in the '50s. It's all well documented in the Cadillac Records movie ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1042877/?ref_=nv_sr_1 ) which is a must-watch.
- ( http://www.discogs.com/Rotary-Connectio ... ase/389896 )

00:18 The Sunworshippers - The Sunworshippers Speak - (Trunk Records, 2001)
- A number of tracks were used from this witty compilation. Trunk Records specialize in lost film scores, unreleased TV music, library music, old advertising jingles, art, sexploitation and kitsch releases.
- ( http://www.discogs.com/Various-Resurrec ... ase/409405 )

00:30 Mylo - Sunworshipper - (Breastfed Recordings, 2003)
- Contains a sample of 'Si Tu Étais Né En Mai' (from 1978) performed by Maxime Le Forestier.
- ( )
- ( http://www.discogs.com/Mylo-Destroy-Roc ... ase/218548 )

00:57 Mike Sammes Singers & The Ted Taylor Organsound - He Who Would Valient Be - (Davjon, 1968)
- Also on the Resurrection compilation by Trunk Records, but the source release named here is older.
- ( )
- ( http://www.discogs.com/Mike-Sammes-Sing ... se/1999424 )

01:56 The Litter - Apologies to 2069 - (Hexagon, 1968)
- This US psychedelic was a total mad-house. The music that they were making in the '60s... long before it's time...
- ( )
- ( http://www.discogs.com/Litter-100-Fine/release/2986495 )

02:16 Mike Sammes Singers & The Ted Taylor Organsound - Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken - (Davjon, 1968)
- Also on the Resurrection compilation by Trunk Records, but the source release named here is older.
- ( )
- ( http://www.discogs.com/Mike-Sammes-Sing ... se/1999424 )

04:12 Andrew Lloyd Webber & Tim Rice - The Temple - (MCA Records, 1970)
- From the rock opera musical Jesus Christ Superstar. Literally half the tracks from this release are in this mix.
- ( http://www.discogs.com/Various-Andrew-L ... se/3179793 )
- ( )

04:55 Ralph Carmichael - The Addicts Psalm [feat Pat Boone] - (Light Records, 1971)
- From The Cross and the Switchblade movie, written by the book from 1962 with the same name.
- ( )
- ( http://www.discogs.com/Ralph-Carmichael ... se/1134627 )

06:20 Cosmic Rock Show - Psiship - (Voxx Records, 1990)
- Another psychedelic compilation used heavily in this mix.
- ( )
- ( http://www.discogs.com/Various-Beyond-T ... se/2256845 )

07:08 The Mothers of Invention - The Return of The Son of Monster Magnet - (Verve Records, 1968)
- The Zappa influence from MPB 3 continues into MPB 4.
- ( )
- ( http://www.discogs.com/Mothers-Of-Inven ... se/2370491 )

07:47 ????? - ????? (spoken)

08:01 ????? - ?????

08:30 Nazareth - Hair of The Dog - (A&M Records, 1975)
- Scottish rock band that became famous with this song, and later their greatest cover/hit 'Love Hurts'.
- ( )
- ( http://www.discogs.com/Nazareth-Hair-Of ... se/1760066 )

09:46 Big Mama Thornton - Sing Out for Jesus - (Amos Records, 1971)
- US r'n'b singer (yes, back then r'n'b was good and stood for something), best known as the first singer to record Hound Dog, a hit that almost everyone presume it's by Elvis.
- ( )
- ( http://www.discogs.com/Various-Vanishin ... se/2865355 )

10:07 The Amorphous Androgynous - Divinity (Spoken Version) - (unreleased)
- A really touching spoken version of Divinity. Are they trying to tell something to all those Jesus quotes?

11:25 James Last - Here Comes The Sun - (Polydor, 1972)
- German composer and big band leader. His "happy music" made his numerous albums best-sellers in Germany and the UK.
- ( )
- ( http://www.discogs.com/James-Last-Music ... se/1454918 )

12:36 The Louvin Brothers - Satan Is Real - (Capitol Records, 1959)
- The Jesus preachings are mostly from US songs, understandably
- The Louvin Brothers were gospel/country singers from Alabama.
- ( )
- ( http://www.discogs.com/Louvin-Brothers- ... se/2756628 )

12:48 The Who - The Seeker - (Polydor, 1970)
- A very overlooked non-album song.
- ( )
- ( http://www.discogs.com/Who-The-Seeker/release/3915424 )

13:39 ????? - ????? - (the first few verses are from the Bible, John 1:9)

14:03 Magma & Christian Vander - Otis (Ending) - (Label Du Bon Independant, 1985)
- French progressive rock band founded in Paris in 1969 by classically trained drummer Christian Vander, tells the story of a group of people fleeing a doomed Earth to settle on the planet Kobaïa. Vander invented a constructed language, Kobaïan, in which most lyrics are sung. Nothing strange there, move along...
- ( )
- ( http://www.discogs.com/Magma-6-Christia ... se/1461443 )

14:18 The Edgar Winter Group - Frankenstein - (Epic, 1972)
- An albino US rock musician, one of my favorites!
- ( )
- ( http://www.discogs.com/Edgar-Winter-Gro ... se/4899132 )

14:58 The National Raga Company of India - A Raga Suite to Sri Guru - (Everest, '60s)
- Very little is known about this release, probably a bunch of Indian master musicians got together and played. Gaz probably picked it up on his journeys to India.
- ( http://www.discogs.com/National-Raga-Co ... se/2439803 )

15:01 - Deepak Chopra - "Curving back within myself, I create again and again and again." - (from the Bhagavad Gita, by Lord Krishna)

15:02 Mrinalini Sarabhai - Sri Guru - (unknown year)
- ( )

15:38 John Lennon & The Plastic Ono Band - Give Peace a Chance - (Apple Records, 1969)
- It's some weird stripped down version...
- ( )
- ( http://www.discogs.com/Plastic-Ono-Band ... ase/390189 )

17:10 Ralph Towner - Visitation - (ECM Records, 1975)
- US multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger and bandleader. Here he plays with Jan Garbarek in Oslo.
- ( http://www.discogs.com/Ralph-Towner-Sol ... se/2282797 )

17:42 ????? - ????? - the "Slowly Falling Backwards" track that isn't the "Slowly Falling Backwards" track

19:19 ????? - ?????

20:28 Jefferson Starship & Paul Kantner - Starship - (RCA Victor, 1970)
- Another album that contributed a bunch of tracks to this mix. This is the first album after Jefferson Airplane disbanded and Jefferson Starship emerged.
- ( http://www.discogs.com/Paul-Kantner-Jef ... se/1132944 )

21:22 The Hombres - Let It Out (Let It All Hang Out) - (Verve Forecast, 1968)
- It is a deadpan southern-fried parody of Bob Dylan's Subterranean Homesick Blues.
- ( )
- ( http://www.discogs.com/Hombres-Let-It-O ... se/2968771 )

22:42 ????? - ?????

23:43 801 & Phil Manzanera - Lagrima (Live) - (Island Records, 1976)
- An experimental rock band featuring Eno and few other great musicians.
- ( )
- ( http://www.discogs.com/801-801-Live/release/1489339 )

24:12 Sandy Nelson - Teenage House Party - (London Records, 1962)
- One of the best-known US rock drummers of the early 1960s, had several solo instrumental Top 40 hits and was a session drummer on many other well-known hits, and released over 30 albums.
- ( http://www.discogs.com/Sandy-Nelson-Tee ... se/4443274 )

25:10 MC5 - Ramblin' Rose - (Elektra, 1969)
- These guys were playing punk before it was cool!
- ( )
- ( http://www.discogs.com/MC5-Kick-Out-The ... se/5693483 )

25:26 I Marc 4 - Asfalto in Agguato - (Nelson Records, 1970)
- Funky Italian soundtrack style!
- ( http://www.discogs.com/I-Marc-4-I-Marc- ... se/4476576 )

26:37 Rotary Connection - Amen - (Cadet Concept Records, 1968)
- ( http://www.discogs.com/Rotary-Connectio ... ase/389896 )

30:18 Piero Piccioni - Richmond Bridge [feat Julie Rogers] - (Mercury, 1966)
- Another Italian old-skool soundtrack jazz.
- ( )
- ( http://www.discogs.com/Piero-Piccioni-J ... se/4384017 )

30:59 ????? - ?????

31:25 The Yardbirds - Stroll On - (1966)
- This group is notable for having started the careers of three of rock's most famous guitarists: Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page.
- ( )
- ( http://www.discogs.com/Yardbirds-Yardbi ... se/2154960 )

32:45 ????? - ?????

32:58 The Sunworshippers - The Sunworshippers Speak - (Trunk Records, 2001)
- ( http://www.discogs.com/Various-Resurrec ... ase/409405 )

33:02 Colors of The World - Gita Gouinda - (Allegro, 2000)
- ( https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/south ... d496417701 )

34:11 101 Strings Orchestra - Fly Me to The Moon - (Alshire, 1964)
- The original track is from 1964, but this version is probably taken from here:
- ( http://www.discogs.com/101-Strings-Play ... se/3772241 )
- ( )
- ( http://www.discogs.com/101-Strings-Fly- ... se/4590545 )

35:40 ????? - ?????

35:54 ????? - ?????

36:31 Mandrill - Universal Rhythms - (Polydor, 1972)
- American latin-influenced psychedelic funk group.
- ( )
- ( http://www.discogs.com/Mandrill-Mandril ... ase/554699 )

38:35 VIP 200 - Madame "La Mousse" - (Giaguaro Records, 2001)
- Another shady Italian band...
- ( )
- ( http://www.discogs.com/VIP-200-Psicoero ... se/1690799 )

41:16 ????? - ????? (spoken)

41:37 ????? - ?????

41:53 Nektar - Crying in The Dark - (Bacillus Records / Bellaphon, 1972)
- Nektar were originally a group of British musicians living and working together near Heidelberg in Southern Germany during the early to mid seventies. Hmm... I need to check them out.
- ( )
- ( http://www.discogs.com/Nektar-A-Tab-In- ... ase/599254 )

42:18 Daniele Patucchi - Motivi Psichedelici - (CAM, 1973)
- The name says it all, it's Italian, and it's psychedelic...
- ( )
- ( http://www.discogs.com/Various-Psichede ... se/3359219 )

43:33 VIP 200 - Psicoerotica - (Giaguaro Records, 2001)
- ( http://www.discogs.com/VIP-200-Psicoero ... se/1690799 )

44:58 Keith Murray - Countdown - (Jive, 1994)
- And no one should complain after this one that FSOL weren't mixing hip-hop
- The countdown sample is actually taken from Walter Cronkite (a CBS speaker) on February 20, 1962.
- ( )
- ( )
- ( http://www.discogs.com/Keith-Murray-The ... ase/236098 )

45:09 When - Death in The Blue Lake - (Witchwood Records, 1988)
- Norwegian avant-garde musician that I should check out.
- ( )
- ( http://www.discogs.com/When-Death-In-Th ... ase/722904 )

45:41 Rauschangriff - Zehn Gebote - (NC Music, 1998) (also, The Awakening (1980 movie) sample)
- only the intro bells are taken in the mix, otherwise it's a punk song.
- ( )
- ( http://www.discogs.com/Rauschangriff-Si ... se/1729457 )

46:16 Amon Düül II - Jail-House-Frog - (United Artists Records, 1972)
- One of my favorite kraut acts - they never fail to deliver.
- ( )
- ( http://www.discogs.com/Amon-D%C3%BC%C3% ... ase/835856 )

48:35 ????? - ????? (environments)

48:48 VIP 200 - Fase Onirica - (Giaguaro Records, 2001)
- ( http://www.discogs.com/VIP-200-Psicoero ... se/1690799 )

50:54 Jefferson Starship & Paul Kantner - Sunrise (Grace's Acoustic Demo Tk.8) - (RCA Victor, 1970)
- ( http://www.discogs.com/Paul-Kantner-Jef ... se/4652243 )

51:14 The National Raga Company of India - Transcendental Meditations on The Mystique of Spiritual Love - (Everest, '60s)
- ( http://www.discogs.com/National-Raga-Co ... se/2439803 )

51:30 Amon Düül II - Wie Der Wind Am Ende Einer Strasse - (United Artists Records, 1972)
- ( )
- ( http://www.discogs.com/Amon-D%C3%BC%C3% ... ase/835856 )

54:32 Andrew Lloyd Webber & Tim Rice - Overture [feat Alan Doggett] / Heaven On Their Minds - (MCA Records, 1970)
- ( http://www.discogs.com/Various-Andrew-L ... se/3179793 )

56:34 The Günter Kallmann Choir - Daydream - (Polydor, 1970)
- ( )
- ( http://www.discogs.com/G%C3%BCnter-Kall ... se/3086769 )

57:31 Demons of Negativity - Resurrection - (Voxx Records, 1990)
- ( )
- ( http://www.discogs.com/Various-Beyond-T ... se/2256845 )

58:22 Frank Zappa - Yo' Mama - (Zappa Records, 1979)
- ( )
- ( http://www.discogs.com/Frank-Zappa-Shei ... se/1770862 )

58:26 Rotary Connection - Memory Band - (Cadet Concept Records, 1968)
- The sitar sound at 58:34 (0:15 on the original track) is sampled in more than a dozen hit songs!
- ( )
- ( http://www.discogs.com/Rotary-Connectio ... ase/389896 )

1:00:54 Andrew Lloyd Webber & Tim Rice - Damned for All Time / Blood Money - (MCA Records, 1970)
- ( http://www.discogs.com/Various-Andrew-L ... se/3179793 )

1:01:35 The Sallyangie - Balloons - (Transatlantic Records, 1968)
- A short lived band of Mike Oldfield & his sister Sally Oldfield.
- ( http://www.discogs.com/Sallyangie-Child ... se/1723115 )

1:01:49 Monsoon - Tomorrow Never Knows [feat Sheila Chandra] - (The Mobile Suit Corporation, 1982)
- A brave (short-lived) and pioneering attempt to blend traditional music from the Indian sub-continent with '80s British rock.
- ( )
- ( http://www.discogs.com/Monsoon-Tomorrow ... ase/578914 )

1:04:15 The Greek Fountains - An Experimented Terror - (Voxx Records, 1990)
- ( )
- ( http://www.discogs.com/Various-Beyond-T ... se/2256845 )

1:05:03 Madlib - It's Almost Here - (unreleased, later on Madlib Invazion, 2012)
- Multi-genre producer, sadly most associated with Hip-Hop...
- ( )
- ( http://www.discogs.com/Madlib-Madlib-Me ... se/3658752 )

1:05:28 Frank Zappa - Yo' Mama - (Zappa Records, 1979)
- ( )
- ( http://www.discogs.com/Frank-Zappa-Shei ... se/1770862 )

1:06:00 Quintessence - Midnight Mode - (Island Records, 1969) - with Deepak Chopra quotes...
- Ron Rothfield aka Raja Ram's first band of psychedelic motherfuckers...
- ( )
- ( http://www.discogs.com/Quintessence-In- ... se/2644733 )

1:09:47 Mahavishnu Orchestra - You Know, You Know - (Columbia, 1971)
- Well, this track was sampled in Massive Attack's "One Love", Mos Def's "Kalifornia", Black Sheep's single "Similak Child", David Sylvian's "I Surrender", Cecil Otter's "Rebel Yellow" and Blahzay Blahzay's "Intro" from Blah Blah Blah album.
- Mahavishnu Orchestra is a jazz-fusion group led by John McLaughlin.
- ( http://www.discogs.com/Mahavishnu-Orche ... ase/557286 )
- ( )

1:13:30 Roy Harper - Hell's Angels - (Harvest, 1970)
- UK folk rock singer, he's laughing at the end of the song...
- ( )
- ( http://www.discogs.com/Roy-Harper-Flat- ... se/1381687 )

1:14:55 Vernon Elliott - From 'Fishing' - (Trunk Records, 2001)
- Another Trunk Records release.
- ( http://www.discogs.com/Vernon-Elliot-Cl ... se/1038231 )

1:15:15 The 5th Dimension - Let The Sunshine In (The Flesh Failures) - (Liberty, 1969)
- Written for the Hair musical.
- ( http://www.discogs.com/5th-Dimension-Th ... se/4681585 )
- ( )

1:16:47 Andrew Lloyd Webber & Tim Rice - Juda's Death - (MCA Records, 1970)
- ( )
- ( http://www.discogs.com/Various-Andrew-L ... se/3179793 )

1:16:59 Miles Davis - Rated X - (Columbia, 1972)
- One of the best / maddest / meanest fusion jazz tracks by Miles, and it's non-album song. No trumpet either, Miles palyes the organs here.
- ( http://www.discogs.com/Miles-Davis-The- ... se/1636599 )
- ( )

1:21:38 Rodgers and Hammerstein - Climb Ev'ry Mountain - (Broadway, 1959)
- From The Sound of Music musical.
- ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climb_Ev%27ry_Mountain )

1:22:13 Hariprasad Chaurasia - Raga: Manzh Khamaz (Teental) [aka Raga: Manj Khamaj (Teental)] - (Oriental, 1995)
- Chaurasia has a Pandit title, which is title of respect for a learned man (scholars) in India.
- Raga - A traditional melodic type in Hindu music, consisting of a theme that expresses an aspect of religious feeling and sets forth a tonal system on which variations are improvised within a prescribed framework of typical progressions, melodic formulas, and rhythmic patterns.
- Tala - Tala, Taal or Tal is the term used in Indian classical music for the rhythmic pattern of any composition and for the entire subject of rhythm, roughly corresponding to metre in Western music, though closer conceptual equivalents are to be found in the older system of rhythmic mode and its relations with the "foot" of classical poetry, or with other Asian classical systems such as the notion of usul in the theory of Ottoman/Turkish music.
- Tintal (or teental, trital) - is one of the most famous talas of Hindustani music. It is also the most common tal in North India.
- Khamaj - is one of the ten Thaats (parent scales) of Hindustani music. It is also a specific raga within the Khamaj thaat.
- Manzh Khamaz aka Manj Khamaj is a night raga.

1:28:38 Andrew Lloyd Webber & Tim Rice - King Herod's Song (Try It and See) - (MCA Records, 1970)
- ( http://www.discogs.com/Various-Andrew-L ... se/3179793 )
- ( )

1:29:22 End

And here's a plain tracklist, for the fans that want to save it:

[+] Oooh and did you know that ...

00:00 Rotary Connection - Soul Man (1968)
00:18 The Sunworshippers - The Sunworshippers Speak (2001)
00:30 Mylo - Sunworshipper (2003)
00:57 Mike Sammes Singers & The Ted Taylor Organsound - He Who Would Valient Be (1968)
01:56 The Litter - Apologies to 2069 (1968)
02:16 Mike Sammes Singers & The Ted Taylor Organsound - Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken (1968)
04:12 Andrew Lloyd Webber & Tim Rice - The Temple (1970)
04:55 Ralph Carmichael - The Addicts Psalm [feat Pat Boone] (1971)
06:20 Cosmic Rock Show - Psiship (1990)
07:08 The Mothers of Invention - The Return of The Son of Monster Magnet (1968)
07:47 ????? - ????? (spoken)
08:01 ????? - ?????
08:30 Nazareth - Hair of The Dog (1975)
09:46 Big Mama Thornton - Sing Out for Jesus (1971)
10:07 The Amorphous Androgynous - Divinity (Spoken Version) (unreleased)
11:25 James Last - Here Comes The Sun (1972)
12:36 The Louvin Brothers - Satan Is Real (1959)
12:48 The Who - The Seeker (1970)
13:39 ????? - ????? (the first few verses are from the Bible, John 1:9)
14:03 Magma & Christian Vander - Otis (Ending) (1985)
14:18 The Edgar Winter Group - Frankenstein (1972)
14:58 The National Raga Company of India - A Raga Suite to Sri Guru ('60s)
15:01 - Deepak Chopra - "Curving back within myself..." (from the Bhagavad Gita, by Lord Krishna)
15:02 Mrinalini Sarabhai - Sri Guru (unknown year)
15:38 John Lennon & The Plastic Ono Band - Give Peace a Chance (1969)
17:10 Ralph Towner - Visitation (1975)
17:42 ????? - ????? - the "Slowly Falling Backwards" track that isn't the "Slowly Falling Backwards" track
19:19 ????? - ?????
20:28 Jefferson Starship & Paul Kantner - Starship (1970)
21:22 The Hombres - Let It Out (Let It All Hang Out) (1968)
22:42 ????? - ?????
23:43 801 & Phil Manzanera - Lagrima (Live) (1976)
24:12 Sandy Nelson - Teenage House Party (1962)
25:10 MC5 - Ramblin' Rose (1969)
25:26 I Marc 4 - Asfalto in Agguato (1970)
26:37 Rotary Connection - Amen (1968)
30:18 Piero Piccioni - Richmond Bridge [feat Julie Rogers] (1966)
30:59 ????? - ?????
31:25 The Yardbirds - Stroll On (1966)
32:45 ????? - ?????
32:58 The Sunworshippers - The Sunworshippers Speak (2001)
33:02 Colors of The World - Gita Gouinda (2000)
34:11 101 Strings Orchestra - Fly Me to The Moon (1964)
35:40 ????? - ?????
35:54 ????? - ?????
36:31 Mandrill - Universal Rhythms (1972)
38:35 VIP 200 - Madame "La Mousse" (2001)
41:16 ????? - ????? (spoken)
41:37 ????? - ?????
41:53 Nektar - Crying in The Dark (1972)
42:18 Daniele Patucchi - Motivi Psichedelici (1973)
43:33 VIP 200 - Psicoerotica (2001)
44:58 Keith Murray - Countdown (1994) - The countdown sample is actually taken from Walter Cronkite (a CBS speaker) on February 20, 1962.
45:09 When - Death in The Blue Lake (1988)
45:41 Rauschangriff - Zehn Gebote (1998) - (also, The Awakening (1980) movie sample)
46:16 Amon Düül II - Jail-House-Frog (1972)
48:35 ????? - ????? (environments)
48:48 VIP 200 - Fase Onirica (2001)
50:54 Jefferson Starship & Paul Kantner - Sunrise (Grace's Acoustic Demo Tk.8) (1970)
51:14 The National Raga Company of India - Transcendental Meditations on The Mystique of Spiritual Love ('60s)
51:30 Amon Düül II - Wie Der Wind Am Ende Einer Strasse (1972)
54:32 Andrew Lloyd Webber & Tim Rice - Overture [feat Alan Doggett] / Heaven On Their Minds (1970)
56:34 The Günter Kallmann Choir - Daydream (1970)
57:31 Demons of Negativity - Resurrection (1990)
58:22 Frank Zappa - Yo' Mama (1979)
58:26 Rotary Connection - Memory Band (1968)
1:00:54 Andrew Lloyd Webber & Tim Rice - Damned for All Time / Blood Money (1970)
1:01:35 The Sallyangie - Balloons - (Transatlantic Records, 1968)
1:01:49 Monsoon - Tomorrow Never Knows [feat Sheila Chandra] (1982)
1:04:15 The Greek Fountains - An Experimented Terror (1990)
1:05:03 Madlib - It's Almost Here (unreleased until 2012)
1:05:28 Frank Zappa - Yo' Mama (1979)
1:06:00 Quintessence - Midnight Mode (1969) - with Deepak Chopra quotes...
1:09:47 Mahavishnu Orchestra - You Know, You Know (1971)
1:13:30 Roy Harper - Hell's Angels (1970)
1:14:55 Vernon Elliott - From 'Fishing' (2001)
1:15:15 The 5th Dimension - Let The Sunshine In (The Flesh Failures) (1969)
1:16:47 Andrew Lloyd Webber & Tim Rice - Juda's Death (1970)
1:16:59 Miles Davis - Rated X (1972)
1:21:38 Rodgers and Hammerstein - Climb Ev'ry Mountain (1959)
1:22:13 Hariprasad Chaurasia - Raga: Manzh Khamaz (Teental) [aka Raga: Manj Khamaj (Teental)] (1995)
1:28:38 Andrew Lloyd Webber & Tim Rice - King Herod's Song (Try It and See) (1970)
1:29:22 End

Want to read about the other MPB mix series? Click away:

A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble Exploding in Your Mind Vol.1 (Kiss FM Manchester) (Aug.1997)
A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble Exploding in Your Mind Vol.2 (BBC Radio 1) (23-28.12.2001)
A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble Exploding in Your Mind Vol.3 (XFM, The Rinse) (27.12.2002)
A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble Exploding in Your Mind Vol.4 (Resonance FM) (28.01.2003)
A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble Exploding in Your Mind Vol.5 (XFM) (14.09.2005) --> It's this post.
A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble Exploding in Your Mind Vol.6 (XFM) (21.09.2005)
A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble Exploding in Your Mind Vol.7 (BBC SixMix) (30.10.2005)
A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble Exploding in Your Mind 2xCD Vol.1 (Cosmic Space Music) (24.11.2008)
A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble Exploding in Your Mind 2xCD Vol.2 (Pagan Love Vibrations) (21.09.2009)
A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble Exploding in Your Mind Vol.8 (FSOLDigital.com) (07.11.2009)
A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble Exploding in Your Mind (Mojo Mix CD) (05.01.2010)
A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble Exploding in Your Mind 2xCD Vol.3 (The Third Ear) (01.11.2010)
A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble Exploding in Your Mind 2xCD Vol.4 (The Wizards of Oz) (16.03.2015)

[Ross]

You're a lunatic.


But really that's amazing, well done!

[Pandemonium]

Well, that's what you get when I'm alone for a week
(the wife and the little one went visiting relatives in another town - so my free time increased exponentially)

- I'm thinking... I want to collect UNMIXED versions of all the radio mixes (Kiss, MPB, EBS) - I am hunting/downloading most of these tracks anyway so... it would be cool to have them (and share them)... I don't know if I should start that right now or wait after the reviews... What do you guys think?

[Ross]

I did that for the MPB / Big Chill / Mello Hippo mixes 2001 / 2002, but then the tracks started getting more obscure and gave up, ha.

Really though, how the hell did you find all of these?

[Pandemonium]

Well, I did recognized 7 or 8 tracks, then found out those compilations that contribute about 30 tracks to the mix,
and the rest is a combination of Shazam (audio recognition software) and double/triple checking with YouTube and What.CD

EDIT: and ofcourse Google and my personal digital archive of 30.000 releases

[Ross]

Aha. Again, amazing work man. I don't think I have it in me to do this kind of thing - I did have a run through everything with lyrics last year and managed to do a reasonable update to the MPB tracklists, but never would have got further, so you're really helping me update the site and keep it as accurate as possible.

[Pandemonium]

2003 was pretty much uneventful for Dougans/Cobain. They broadcasted MPB 4 in January as you read a few posts up, then released digital remasters of Stakker Eurotechno from 1989 (reviewed here) and Humanoid Sessions 84-88 (reviewed here) both on Rephlex - still to this day I wonder if Richard D. James and Brian Dougans ever met in Rephlex and what did they talked about...

Then in July they had a concert as AA in Russia on the Stereoleto Festival (we don't have any kind of recording of that to review). And that was it for 2003, aside for the bootlegs below (I know I said no bootlegs, but these are exception to the rule, because they were pretty big event in 2003).

FSOL - Papua New Guinea (Bootleg drum'n'bass Remixes) (08.09.2003)
White Labels - DAONE 001 / DNB 001 / PAB 001



In September, three different, mostly single-sided 12" bootleg drum'n'bass remixes of PNG hit the scene, and (I don't understand why) they became pretty big on the dancefloors. Probably because the d'n'b scene was at it's highest peak in 2003, and these guys were fresh and promoted by Hospital Records - a drum & bass giant of it's time (some say they still go strong, but I kinda don't agree).

A. Papua New Guinea (High Contrast vs. FSOL) [7:56]
- High Contrast is a Welsh producer that got big with his 2002 debut True Colours. Apparently he doesn't drink, smoke or do anything naughty... Some of his album are pretty good, but this remix is really boring. It has a nice opening and a few cool effects but then it goes into a boring d'n'b loop for 5 minutes! The track slows down in the middle, contains a well known Jimmy Castor Bunch sample from Troglodyte (from 1972) "What we're gonna do here is go back, way back..." and the boring loop continues... I guess it was good enough for the dancefloors...

A. Papua New Guinea (Papa's Got A Brand New Guinea Mix by Nu:Tone) [7:50]
- Nu:Tone was a rising d'n'b star (if there is such thing, I'm not trying to be cynical here, I respect the semi-underground d'n'b movement too much to call them stars) with a handful of 12" singles behind him. His mix uses the same opening horns that High Contrast used, but his opening is much much longer, and a little bit better. The loop he uses is more garage-like and has more PNG in it, but it also get boring after 3-4 minutes of 'nothing-happens-in-the-track' except an occasional drop.

A. Papua New Guinea (Vector Burn Remix) [7:03]
- I like this guy the most. His releases are rare but always filled with quality d'n'b (and he hasn't released an album yet!). This mix was ready in 2001/2002, but this was his first official unofficial pressing. Vector Burn released a web compilation a month ago (May 2014) with all of his 12" only singles, and he has a few different versions of the PNG remix.
- This mix sounds like a bad-mother-fucker (in a good way), with awesome effects and the whole neurofunk feeling. People just went crazy on the dancefloors!

[Ross]

I really can't listen to any of the remixes that use those Future Music made samples. It's not hard to cut samples from the Dumb Child of Q mix like Hybrid did, at least.

[Dennis]

Hey, amazing work, MPB 4 is really a beast! I remember a FSOL-Track called "Slowly Falling Backwards" appeared on one of those older lists for MPB 4 on Ross' site, does someone know about it? Maybe it's only one of those environment bits'n pieces, I always found it a cool trackname, really wished there would be a proper track behind it.

[Pandemonium]

If you mean the track 'She Fell Backwards' from Archive 5 or 6 - no, I don't think it appeared on the MPB 4...
It did appear on the Kiss '94 mix though...

[Ross]

You may be thinking of this...

[Pandemonium]

Oh yes, that is closer year-wise...
I didn't thought of that - because my chronology listening is on 2004/2005 right now

- Hearing it now - I'm almost positive that Dennis is right and there is some connection, I'll find it when I get there, no time tonight ...