HOMEMADE LOFI PSYCH --- WHERE TO START?





"There is so much great music here..." WHERE TO START???

I recommend to
start with the HLFP-Samplers (especially HLFP 04).
Here you will come to know many of the bands/musicians featured in this blog. If you like what you hear, you may check out more of their music later on.
(You may also click on the picture on the sidebar and you will find the original post with download links.)

There is also a "FOCUS ON..." section. Here you will find albums that imo are absolutely great (***** = "five-stars-recordings") and that are essential listening and strongly recommended for download.


I TRY to RE-UP some stuff that has been down from time to

time, but I still don't have enough time to

listen to/post much new stuff.

Sorry!

IMPRESSUM: see here!

Thursday, May 30, 2013

The end of HLFP? Well, maybe ...


Homemade Lofi Psych

IS ...


... FROZEN!

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

RE-UP: some INTERPRETACE (Czech)




A new video by INTERPRETACE - Recorded at Basement studio, Pavlovice, Liberec 16th May 2014.

RE-UP by request: some old INTERPRETACE music from the 80ies posted earlier.



Avantgarde improvised industrial no wave sounds, that will blow your mind!

1: INTERPRETACE - MC (198?), see original post here.
Get it here or here or here!
2: INTERPRETACE - GARAZ (1981), see original post here.
Get it here or here or here!
3: INTERPRETACE - HANNIBAAL (lost & found tapes from the eighties 1).
See original post here!
Get it here or here or here!


4: INTERPRETACE - CHAPEL live 198?, (lost & found tapes from the eighties 2).
See original post here.
Get it here or here or here!
Enjoy!

Thanks again to Richard Charvat for making all this great music available.


More INTERPRETACE here.







Wednesday, January 30, 2013

RE-UP: Rangers - Homemade Cassette Collages III (USA 2009)



Homemade cassette collage: "For the lack of a better title I entitled this track: 'Concorde breakfast - Audio decadence for enlightened jetsetters'" (Rangers)
Enjoy!


RANGERS - Homemade 
Cassette Collages III (USA 2009)
(1 mp3 track, 28 min, 24,8 MB)
Concorde breakfast - Audio decadence for enlightened jetsetters (27.20)
Get it here!

RE-UP: The Holydrug Couple - Psychedelic Laboratory EP (CHI 2009)



THE HOLYDRUG COUPLE are from Santiago de Chile.
Excellent psychedelic rock band that you really should check out!

The Couple is
Ives Sepulveda : Guitars, voice, keyboard
Manuel Parra: Drums and percussion.

"These songs were recorded on Friday 21 of August. We recorded and mixed and mastered on the same rainy day. We did it with a compaq notebook, with two condenser mics, a couple of guitar amps and lots of reverb and delay and phasers. A drummer friend, from another friend band, did the recording stuff. Manuel recorded the drum first and I (Ives) recorded the guitars and voices and keyboards. -- We have no official releases. -- Our first gig was in November of 2008, in a very small place with a few friends. Our last gig in August was in a lot of bigger place with a lot of more people. --
Our influences goes from the sixties garage rock, progressive rock, the sixties counterculture in general (hippies, Vietnam war ..), psychedelic bands, Acid rock, krautrock too, and LSD and psylocibine of course, ahhh, and some Chilean psychedelic bands form the sixties like Los Jaivas, Los Blops or Los vidrios quebrados, they're very important." (I. S.)


THE HOLYDRUG COUPLE - PSYCHEDELIC LABORATORY 
EP (CHI 2009)
(mp3-zip, 2 tracks, 11:28 min, 16 MB, artwork incl.)
1. Ancient Land - 5.32
2. Now it's the time - 5.52
Get it here!

Friday, January 11, 2013

RE-POST: Light Seems Dark - Soundtrack From The Film 'Affekt' (GER. 1999)

RE-POST BY REQUEST:

Since 'Psychedelic Virgin' by short-lived German organ dominated psychedelic rock band LIGHT SEEMS DARK is one of the most downloaded albums from this blog – and a very fine one, that's for sure – I decided to post their only other recordings: the soundtrack from a no budget trash movie (called 'AFFEKT'  by an unknown director). 
Again a true homemade lofi psych recording, done on a 4-track analog Fostex tape recorder – very much in the style of early PINK FLOYD in their 1969 soundtrack phase. 

A nice addition to LSD's main work posted earlier.

'Main Theme' is suprisingly funky, while 'Callings From The Distanace' is a shorter instrumental version, different from the one on 'Psychedelic Virgin'. The remaining three tracks are instrumental improvisations.
Enjoy!


Light Seems Dark - Soundtrack From 
The Film
'Affekt' (GER. 1999)
(mp3-zip, 5 tracks, 11 min, 25,8 MB, @ 320)

Get it here or here or here!

Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Listen to this: verform records


Transform Records is founded in 2012 by Christian Schmidt from Hamburg aka tis / johnnyx guitar. Transform Records is a label with roots in 60erbeat, punk, psychedelic and electro stuck. Christian is into recording music since 2004. In 2008 he started this project JOHNNYX GUITAR. 
(Download some of his stuff here!)
He already released the following recordings under the name TIS: Pain E.P. (12", EP); Psycho Shoxxs 2005 Distinction (12"); Electric Movement Records 2006 Drug Trip (12"); Electric Movement Records 2006 God And Demons E.P (EP) (2 versions), Kurbel 2006 God And Demons (12", Promo, W/Lbl); Kurbel 2006 Unknown Emotions (12"); Electric Movement Records. 
And than Christian had a phase from 2007 to 2012 produce ambient musik, in which he sought new inspiration. he had several releases on psychedelic blocks underground. Transform wants to revive the sound again and has set the goal to spread new mixsounds on the dancefloor and the way to liberate your mind.



Interpretace - Versus (video)




Our old HLFP friends INTERPRETACE recorded live at Stamina club, Liberec 20th December 2012.

Wednesday, November 28, 2012

RE-POST: Orange - Industrial Acid Punk Rock (Live Bootleg 1994-96) (GER)



I already posted some material by this German psychedelic rock/grunge band, that existed between 1993 and 1997, and will do so in the future. Why? Because I really like that stuff.
ORANGE mainly played in the Rhein Main area around Frankfurt a. M. and also did some festivals/open airs in that region and also in south Germany - to mixed responses. They baffled quite a lot of people with their unique sound/style mixture (grunge, free style improvisation, krautrock, psych-folk, psychedelic rock, minimalistic avantgarde music...). ORANGE built themselves a small follower fan base with their always surprising live gigs (not a great number of people, but it was ok for a start). No two concerts were the same, and so one never knew what to expect from the band.

ORANGE also once won the second prize at some kind of "battle of the bands" contest with some hundred bands competitioning in Mainz at the OPEN OHR FESTIVAL in the final round. The interview segment (track 6) is about that competition, where ORANGE played - of all things - a shortened (!) 20 minutes version of "Neil's Elevator".

This live collection here features the more experimental pieces of the band with the flashlight on ORANGE's most avantgarde project, the minimalistic track "Rockwork Orange", that followed an acid punk version of"Magic Spell" (read more about the history and the many variations of that song here).

This version of "Rockwork Orange" is a composite version from two different gigs, with the long middle section coming from the debut performance of "Rockwork Orange" from Frankfurt's "Dreikönigskeller". After 40 minutes the tape run out, while the song lasted for over 60 minutes. The story goes like this:

"In the 'Dreikönigskeller' we first played a normal set with some more or less simple rock songs and then wanted to end the gig with our minimalistic piece 'Rockwork Orange'. The original idea was to play the same riff over and over again until everybody in the audience left the room or the power was cut off by the club owner - however long that might take. But most of the people in the audience really got into us and were digging what we were doing - you can hear some ecstatic screams every 15 minutes or so from some guys in the audience - and the club owner also liked what we did and even contributed on the mixing desk adding spontaniously some effects. So it all ended that we played the same riff for over 60 minutes until we called it quitts... It was indeed a very special experience for both, audience and band. Very trance like and very far out." (Mike S. 2009)

"Rockwork Orange" was played live on view occasions, but never that long again and more often in a more 'traditional' way with the guitar doing some noise solo instead of monotoniously repeating the same riff over and over again.

"He Came To Me One Morning" was improvised on the spot and is a good example of the more free style jamming ORANGE.

"25 Ways" and "Yawning" are some kind of organized improvisations, more in song format.

More ORANGE stuff is still available for download here.
Enjoy!

ORANGE - Industrial Acid Punk Rock 
(Live Bootleg 1994-98)
(mp3 zip, 6 tracks, 73 min, 99,6 MB, artwork for slimcase incl.)
1. 25 Ways - 4.38
2. Magic Spell - 4.38 ->
3. Rockwork Orange (Composite Version) - 44.49
4. Yawning - 8.44
5. He Came To Me One Morning (Jam) - 7.39
6. SWF 3 Radio Interview (incl. fragments of Neil's Elevator) - 1.49
Get it here!

Dreamtime: Centre of Mind (Video)



Great band! Great video!

Band name: Dreamtime
Track name: Centre Of Mind

Track details: 
Track 1 from our second self-released album called Sun. This track is currently streaming and available for download on our Bandcamp page. The full album will be released on our Bandcamp page this Saturday 17th November. We will be playing at Lost Race Festival, Coorparoo Bowls Club, Brisbane Australia to launch the album locally.

Band Bio:

Drifting off during extended meditative jams, the music plays through us. Inspiration comes to us through psychedelic bands from 1968 – 1971 among other places. We are mindful in creating personal journeys to help draw listeners out of their frontal lobe consciousness and into sonic fantasies. Drums – Tara Wardrop, Bass – Catherine Maddin, Guitar – Zac Anderson




Austin Psych Fest: http://www.austinpsychfest.com/

Thursday, November 8, 2012

RE-POST: Paneye - Wilt and Loom (AUSTRALIA 2009)


 "Wilt and Loom" is a fantastic record!!!

The man behind the one-man project 
PANEYE is Will Treffry, and he is from Summer Hill near Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
PANEYE's music could be described as a mixture of electronic, ambient, psych folk and indie dream pop.


Regular blog readers will certainly already be familiar with Will Treffry's music recorded under the name PANEYE as well as BRIRSTLES ON THE CARAPACE. In fact he is one of my favourite musicians featured here on HLFP. 


Dive into his dreamscapes and enjoy!


PANEYE - Wilt and Loom 
(AUSTRALIA 2009)
(mp3 zip, 14 tracks, 46 min, artwork incl., 66,4 MB)
Get it here!