100
With my 100th posting on Kopfleuchten (now Pie in the Sky) I want to refer to the starting point of my journey into psychedelic music. I was planning to do a series about electronic psychedelia on Actual colors may vary, a blog about photography and music edited by Julia Schiller and myself. I decided not to follow through with this plan because I was afraid it would go beyond the scope of our blog that mainly focuses on photography.
If The Gaslamp Killer wouldn’t have sampled Erkin Koray’s outstanding music on the production of Gonja Sufi’s record “A Sufi and A Killer” from 2010, I would have not found about this vast universe of extraordinary psychedelic music I’m introducing you to here on Kopfleuchten.
In times of great personal and artictic freedom in Europe, UK and the US but also in historically oppressed countries like Iran, Egypt or Turkey musical styles began to mix and led to a fascinating cultural crossover. The experiments of these musicians in the late 1960s and early 1970s are the foundation of the explosion of musical genres later in the 20th century’s postmodern music. Listen and find the roots of Hard-, Grunge-, Noise- and Punk-Rock, as well as Progressive Rock, Jazz and “World Music” and electronic music from Kraut-Rock, Techno to Dubstep.
Sample based Hip-Hop music played also an important role in the revival of psychedelic music with DJ’s like J Dilla, Madlib or The Gaslamp Killer digging for rare grooves on forgotten vinyl from all over the world. I ’ll note the connections I found to contemporary music when ever I can find the time to do so.
Here are some labels and various other sources of information as a starting point for you:
Guerssen Records/ Pharaway Sounds