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Astral Daze - Psychedelic South African Rock 1968 - 1972 (2006)
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Length:  1:04:04
    Track Listing:
      1.  
      		 The Whip - Suck    2:52
      2.  
      		 The Invaders - Astral 3    4:52
      3.  
      		 Omega Limited - The Boy And The Bee    4:18
      4.  
      		 Otis Waygood - Straight Ahead    2:54
      5.  
      		 Abstract Truth - My Back Feels Light - What Can You Say    4:21
      6.  
      		 Dickie Loader With Freedom's Children - The Eagle Has Landed    2:52
      7.  
      		 The Flames - You Keep Me Hanging On    6:51
      8.  
      		 Buzzards - Blurry Visions    3:04
      9.  
      		 Fire - The Third Eye    2:48
      10.  
      		 Hawk - Predictions    5:18
      11.  
      		 Freedom's Children - Kafkaesque    2:42
      12.  
      		 Bryan Miller's Destruction - Blue Machines & Dreams    2:30
      13.  
      		 John & Phillip Cooper - The Mad Professor    2:44
      14.  
      		 The Fireflies - Cathy Come Home    1:53
      15.  
      		 Tidal Wave - Morning Light    3:31
      16.  
      		 The Bats - Race With The Devil    5:00
      17.  
      		 The Idiots - Magic Dragon    2:11
      18.  
      		 McCully Workshop - Birds Flying High    3:15
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      VA - Astral Daze: Psychedelic South African Rock (1968-72)

      Tracklist:

      01 - The Whip - Suck
      02 - The Invaders - Astral 3
      03 - Omega Limited - The Boy And The Bee
      04 - Otis Waygood - Straight Ahead.flac
      05 - Abstract Truth - My Back Feels Light - What Can You Say
      06 - Dickie Loader With Freedom's Children - The Eagle Has Landed
      07 - The Flames - You Keep Me Hanging On
      08 - Buzzards - Blurry Visions
      09 - Fire - The Third Eye
      10 - Hawk - Predictions
      11 - Freedom's Children - Kafkaesque
      12 - Bryan Miller's Destruction - Blue Machines & Dreams
      13 - John & Phillip Cooper - The Mad Professor
      14 - The Fireflies - Cathy Come Home
      15 - Tidal Wave - Morning Light
      16 - The Bats - Race With The Devil
      17 - The Idiots - Magic Dragon
      18 - McCully Workshop - Birds Flying High[size=2]

      Dustygroove.com: “Psychedelia from the late 60s & early 70s South African scene -- a fertile landscape of lumbering rhythms, fiery electric guitars, and hazy atmospherics! Hard charging, walloping blues & psychedelia influenced rock & roll was a universal language at the time, and many of these the sound was remarkably cohesive from clime to clime -- and these tunes stand up with the mightier grooves from Haight Asbury, or anywhere else!”

      Myspace.com/astraldaze: “Astral Daze - Psychedelic South African Rock 1968-1972 features 18 classic, rare and obscure tracks (16 of which have never previously been officially released on CD before). This CD was compiled by Benjy Mudie and Brian Currin with major input from SA rock collector Tertius Louw.

      Sleeve Notes: Although the South African rock movement of the late sixties and early seventies was not a major commercial success, it's participants heralded an exciting new age in South African rock and started a movement aimed at changing the musical tastes of fans in a spectacular way. Stadium concerts became the vehicle for feeding the youth with heavier rock sounds and behind studio glass were producers like Clive Calder, Billy Forrest, Graham Beggs and Selwyn Miller who acted as change agents to transform conventional pop into heavier 4 to 5 minute songs. The movement's struggle for recognition through airplay remained unanswered and only the true fans of rock knew about their existence.

      Smashing instruments and 5 minute plus recordings were not everbody's cup of tea and neither did record companies go out of their way to market the rock revolution in South Africa.

      Clive Calder, one of rock's premier custodians, had this to say in 1971: "Rock is the biggest thing in music today. It's the universal language of the young generation. A handful of bands produced highly creative music and young South Africa welcomed them with open arms. Gullible powers retaliated by banning or restricting their artistic influence and radio stations ignored them! But ROCK accepted them!" Tertius Louw, June 2005. “
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