Yamantaka Eye - Cassette Acid Garage Punk Mix

Who is Yamantaka Eye? Only one of the most accomplised and talented musicians of our generation, in any genre. Boredoms talisman, solo artist extraordinaire. Check this out.

One of the main reasons why I adore eYe so much, his knowledge and talent spans across so many genres, it's kind of mind boggling, and the coolest thing about him is he tries to interplay the best parts of a certain genre with another. Here is a good example of that, he uses his electronic music/jockeying skills to put together a selection of really obscure garage rock tracks from the 60's that most of you have likely never heard of before (I certainly hadn't). It's not as much a compilation as it is a mixtape, it feels like one long, glorious 60 minute garage rock track where everything flows into each other seamlessly. It's brilliant, give it a shot.

cassette acid garage punk mix

Theredsunband - The Shiralee

Theredsunband was a band I stumbled upon quite randomly. I was wandering through Australia at a very hazy, melancholic phase in my life, and happened to see them perform at the Oxford in Sydney, only word of mouth leading me into them ( I'd previously heard that they resembled Mazzy Star, so I was sold fairly easily, I should say). They were touring at the time in support of their new record - The Shiralee. Well, suffice it to say it was an enchanting evening, I've been enamored with them ever since.

Their brand of dream pop/garage rock, lazy, breezy and introspective seems perfect for what I look for here. It's a pretty personal record, they've stepped up the songwriting since their debut; and the mid-end section of the album is flawless. Also contains an amazing cover of Bill Callahan's 'Bathysphere'. Hope y'all dig it as much as I do.

you were already gone, i just heard the echo

The Terminals - Touch

The Terminals are a NZ psych/garage/noise pop hybrid of an act, fairly unclassifiable in terms of sound, they create something that is entirely their own. They are, quite possibly, my favourite band of all time, my best kept secret. I've been getting into them slowly but surely, from their humble beginnings in the Flying Nun/Xpressway scene to watching them develop their sound throughout the 90's to their current tenure on the brilliant Last Visible Dog (who have reissued all their albums by the way, hint hint). Here's their 1992 album, Touch.

How many of those cheap ass, unsatisfying, low-diet post rock/garage/shoegazer albums have you had for dinner as of now? Well 'Touch' is different. Why? It's like doing 3 rounds of speedball for dessert and diving headlong into the jaws of oblivion. It's a world that is completely unique; deconstructed and noisy, the atmosphere ranging somewhere between twilight and the deepest fucking abyss you have ever imagined. Your life might never be the same again (*)

dark and scary, staring down

The Stooges - Fun House

 During the psychedelic haze of the late '60s, the grimy, noisy and relentlessly bleak rock & roll of the Stooges was conspicuously out of time. Like the Velvet Underground, the Stooges revealed the underside of sex, drugs, and rock & roll, showing all of the grime beneath the myth. The Stooges, however, weren't nearly as cerebral as the Velvets. Taking their cue from the over-amplified pounding of British blues, the primal raunch of American garage rock, and the psychedelic rock (as well as the audience-baiting) of the Doors, the Stooges were raw, immediate, and vulgar. Iggy Pop became notorious for performing smeared in blood or peanut butter and diving into the audience. Ron and Scott Asheton formed a ridiculously primitive rhythm section, pounding out chords with no finesse — in essence, the Stooges were the first rock & roll band completely stripped of the swinging beat that epitomized R&B and early rock & roll. During the late '60s and early '70s, the group was an underground sensation, yet the band was too weird, too dangerous to break into the mainstream. Following three albums, the Stooges disbanded, but the group's legacy grew over the next two decades, as legions of underground bands used their sludgy grind as a foundation for a variety of indie rock styles, and as Iggy Pop became a pop culture icon. 

Simply the greatest. rawest straight up rock and roll album of all time. Foresees the coming of punk, grunge and a bunch of other stuff a good decade before its time; Iggy Pop delivers what is the quintessential performance by a frontman in a rock and roll album. Hedonism and cacophony forever.


Out of my mind on a Saturday night