Davey

Oh sorry, didn't know this place was still turned on. Seemed past dead last time I stopped by. Dilate, yeah, that one is pretty nice. Used to talk about it some at Rave Recs. I remember our old friend Cornelius had seen them a few times (along with just about everyone else I ever mentioned since his band played a lot of the same gigs) and said the chick was pretty hot amidst those walls of droning guitars. Something about a nice looking woman and lots of feedback that gets me a bit horny too

Well, you likely guessed by the Ash Ra Tempel reference in their name that they have a lot of Krautrock in their soul, and that's the case. Bardo Pond has a pretty dense drone sound, but with Roy Montgomery they clean up the sound and turn it into more of an ambient feel. Kind of a soundtrack to a lazy day. But Ash Ra Tempel, they were the real deal, huh? I know you are a big Tangerine Dream fan, so no news to you that drummer/synth guru Klaus Schulze left and hooked up with guitarist Manuel Gottsching and eccentric bassist Hartmut Enke to form one of Germany's most cosmic bands, Ash Ra Tempel. And made history with that 1971 debut ...

If you don't know Hash Jar Tempo, you owe it to yourself to check out Well Oiled from 1997. It's a collaboration between Roy Montgomery and Bardo Pond, and is a long suite in seven movements. Supposedly just a sample of a seventy-minute session which was improvised in 1995. If you love that instrumental psychedelic rock, this is the real buzz, formed from the groundwork by the Velvet Underground, Pink Floyd, the Doors, Hawkwind, and other visionaries in the psych world. I also have Under Glass from a couple years later, which is very good too, if maybe just a small step below and a bit more experimental. And on the more pop side, you know how much I love the new Voyager One Dissolver