Artist	Song
Kindred Spirits	Blue Avenue - {An Overdose Of Heavy Psych}
The Sorrows	Pink, Purple, Yellow, Red - {Holy Hot Smoke And Sassafras: Psychedelic Pstones Volume 1}
Frijid Pink	Crying Shame - {Frijid Pink}
Iceman	Ice - {Rubble Vol. 11: Adventures In The Mist}
Coram Publico	Bodensee - {Hungry Krauts, Daddy!: German Psychedelic Underground 1968-1974}
Mavi Isiklar	Ask ¦itegi - {Turkish Delights: 26 Beat, Psych & Garage Ultrarities from Beyond the Sea of Marmara}
Music Emporium	Velvet Sunsets - {Music Emporium}
Mystic Siva	Keeper Of The Keys - {Mystic Siva}
Tortilla Flat	Rumplestiltzchen - {Fur Un 3/4 Stnndchen}
Blonde On Blonde	All Day, All Night - {Holy Hot Smoke And Sassafras: Psychedelic Pstones Volume 1}
The Pretty Things	Bracelets of Fingers - {S. F. Sorrow}
Huw Jones	Dwr - {Welsh Rare Beat}
The Easybeats	Funny Feelin' - {Volume 3}
Sonics	Louie Louie - {Boom}
The Elastic Band	Spazz - {Pebbles Vol. 1}
Pan Ron	When Will You Be Free - {Cambodian Rocks IV}
Tomorrow	Real Life Permanent Dream - {Tomorrow}
Apple	Mr. Jones - {An Apple A Day...}
Sounds Of Modification	Carry On Carole - {Soft Sounds For Gentle People 2}
Penny Arkade	Color Fantasy - {Not The Freeze}
Lost	Kaleidoscope - {Lost Tapes 1965-1966}
Ramases	Journey To The Inside - {Space Hymns}
Ramases	Molecular Delusions - {Space Hymns}

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First off, I wanted to thank everyone for their kind words and assistance in putting together this series. To be quite honest, this mix has been the works for over a year. Many of the mixes are pretty much at a final stage, awaiting a new track or three, a change of sequencing, or some enhanced cover art. There are MANY volumes to come. And, I hope nobody minds me continuing this seemingly neverending barrage of psych, garage and prog...but I assure you, each one is a little labor of love AND well worth the time spent. Anyhoo, lets get to it. Our highlight for this one is:RamasesOf all the artists who passed through the cult-filled portals of the Vertigo label during the early '70s, few have attracted more attention than Ramases. His one and only album for the label, Space Hymns, was recorded with the nascent 10cc as backing musicians, but even more importantly, it represents one of the most spellbinding releases in the label's entire catalog, a conceptual epic that actually leaves you believing that what Ramases himself believed was true - he really was the reincarnation of the Egyptian deity whose name he had adopted.Born in Sheffield, England, Martin Raphael was working as a central heating salesman when he and his wife, Selket, emerged onto the late-'60s psychedelic scene, with an act that was as eye-catching as their legend. A one-off deal with CBS saw them cut the single "Crazy Eye"/"Mind's Eye" in 1968. According to Ramases, the A-side was actually called "Quasar One"; it was retitled by a crackling telephone line.Released under the name Ramases & Selket (conjuring images of some kind of bizarre Sonny & Cher), the single did little, and the pair moved on to Major Minor, which released "Love You"/"Gold Is the Ring" later that same year, this time under the name Ramases & Seleka. Again the record fared poorly, but Ramases' musical vision continued expanding and, in 1970, the duo signed with Vertigo.Recorded at Strawberry Studios in Manchester, the ensuing Space Hymns LP remains one of bassist Graham Gouldman's favorite sessions, out of all those that the future 10cc undertook during the early '70s. "It was great. It was a really fine album to make. We would sit down on the floor with acoustic guitars, that kind of vibe, very hippy and mystical."The album retains that vibe, both across the music and via a majestic sleeve painting from Roger Dean. But Space Hymns sold no more than most of Vertigo's other releases (two singles, "Balloon" and "Jesus Come Back," disappeared likewise), and Ramases slipped from view for the next three years.He and Selket resurfaced in 1975, releasing the astounding Glass Top Coffin album and, thanks to the 10cc connection, looking set to enjoy at least a degree of success. Unfortunately it didn't work out like that, and the pair returned to obscurity. Ramases died by his own hand at his Felixstowe home in the mid-'90s.

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