Beat Music Vol. 1

There was a series of cassettes that an unnamed record collector put together in the early to mid 90's called The Psychedelic Archives (clever eh?). Well, what he lacked in creative titles he had in records and music taste.

Consisting of multiple volumes broken up by genre - UK Psych, Dutch Rock, Country Rock, Pop-Sike, etc... I forget how many there were total but some had multiple tapes devoted to them (upcoming Pop-Sike one is tape #2, have yet to locate #1) and at one time the archives here probably had them all, but they were so good they would get pulled out for road trips, loaned to those in need, or like cassettes tend to do, they just broke. Thankfully there's quite a few of them left here and I'm making my way through transferring them.

Not as easy as it should be as, like most of us who loved making cuts tapes, the goal of having no dead air between trax was something we were all striving towards and this guy did a pretty good job. Tracks are split up on this though (no complaining if there's a bleed somewhere!) so you can toss if you've better sounding duplicates.

So we'll start with the Beat Music Vol. 1 for no other reason than I had such a great time listening through it when I ripped it. Tony Jackson, Unit 4+2, Merseys and the Four Just Men (pre-Wimple Witch) ... There's maybe four duff tracks on the whole thing (The Fabs being one of them, jeez how I hate that song) but then I prefer my white people with guitars to be dosed so... Of course, some or lots may be familiar by now but when these tapes were made they weren't widely available on a billion niche sixties comp cds.

Anyway 42 tracks in all - one unlisted surprise and a similar mystery track - if you know who it is put it in the comments and win a prize (not really).


side one
















side two