Take the Brown Acid... umm, listen! I mean listen to Brown Acid.

Something rather unexpected just came out: Brown Acid The Essential Mix
(If you are unfamiliar with the Brown Acid series read more below * )

I’ve never seen nor heard of remixes of these compilations, but I was intrigued and boy was I rewarded. It’s grooves and funk and beats and all the good stuff, with loads of spoken word sound bites and obviously really good rock music. But with a modern beat (and twist) on it all.

To quote the offender themselves, Mr Dibbs: “When I was approached by RidingEasy Records about this project, I’m not sure they understood exactly what they’d done. They turned over Twenty-One volumes and over three hundred files of post hippie, aggressive, apocalyptic and psychedelic rock, funk metal and said, “do your thing.” What was supposed to be a quick flip turned into a 7-month project. I laughed, I cried, I broke shit and put it all back together again. And I mean that, literally and figuratively. Because, y’all, halfway through this labor of funk, my studio flooded. I was then relocated, that’s including 15k records, demo’ed, remodelled, rebuilt and moved back. Not once did I stop working. This ain’t no micro dose, this is two tabs, double dipped. So this time, take the brown acid.”

It’s pretty good too! Highly recommended listening.

• It’s an ongoing series of curated compilation albums released by RidingEasy Records and Permanent Records. The series gathers rare singles from obscure, often short-lived bands that never achieved mainstream success or released full-length albums and focuses on “archival” rock and roll, specifically documenting the underground heavy psychedelic, hard rock, and proto-metal scenes of the late 1960s and 1970s.

The series home page, and the physical releases obviously, contain a lot more information about each release and about the bands/songs on it.

Last year saw the release of “Brown Acid: The Twenty-First Trip (Heavy Rock From The Underground Comedown)”, and that to me is amazing. That’s 21 compilation albums of very obscure, very good rock music, that only handful of people have probably heard before. I’ve listened to them all (I think) and many a time have I considered buying the combined collections (Brown Acid All 20 Trips vinyl LP combo is about $300 plus postages), but I’m scared. And I have no room.