AKA - SKYRIDER

AKA is an acronym of Apotik Kali Asin (Kali Asin Pharmacy), the place where Ucok Harahap and his band AKA practiced, Ucok's parents owned the place. They put out their first album in 1971 (Do What You Like) and this album, Skyrider came out in 1973.... GET IT HERE Enjoy!

THE STROLLERS - BEFORE THE DAWN / OOPSY DOOPSY

Here's a 7" from 70's Malaysian psych-pop band The Strollers.... GET IT HERE Enjoy!

THE STROLLERS - JUST AS I AM / DYING PATH

Here's a 7" from 70's Malaysian psych-pop band The Strollers.... GET IT HERE Enjoy!

PANBERS - MENGAPA BEGINI

Here's the second album from the Panbers.... GET IT HERE Enjoy!

DEDDY DAMHUDI & BAND 4 NADA - KASIH BERSEMI

A few years ago my buddy music ethnologist Andrew N. Weintraub who is a Professor at the University in Pittsburgh and who wrote the excellent books Dangdut Stories , Power Plays: Wayang Golek Puppet Theater of West Java , and loads more asked me if I had Eddy Damhudi's album Kasih Bersemi, saying it was an important album.... I checked and yes, I have it, asked him why this was such an important album and he told me: "The psychedelic guitar on that record seems to be way ahead of its time. It was recorded in 1967. Of course, Jopie was influenced by Enteng (Tanamal), as well as the Ventures and Shadows. But this pushed the envelope. I interviewed him about the song "Syarifah," and he was talking about some pretty advanced techniques like distortion/overdrive ("speaker pecah"), Vox echo tape unit (aka "echoplex"), "backwards" guitar (playing a solo, playing it back backwards, and then recording the backwards part), and sticking a matchstick in between the three tone settings on his strat to make two additional tone settings." Recorded it, listened to it and man, this is really a fantastic record! Jopie Item's guitar playing is out of this world on this one and the rest of the band, Band 4 Nada is also excellent!!! A great example of 1960's early psych-pop.... So here it is! GET IT HERE Enjoy!

MICKY MERKELBACH - DOKTER PANCAROBA

Here's an extremely rare solo album from Micky Merkelbach, a promotional vinyl copy for radio stations and this came out in 1976.... GET IT HERE Enjoy!

THE GEMBELL'S - BALLADA KALIMAS

Here's the second album from 70's band The Gembell's.... GET IT HERE enjoy!!!

THE GEMBELL'S - PAHLAWAN YANG DILUPAKAN

Here's the first album from band The Gembell's, pretty good stuff this.... GET IT HERE Enjoy!

E L L Y N I E M A N & R I K K E R T Z U I D E R V E L D - D E D R A A D V A N A R I A D N E

Elly Nieman and Rikkert Zuiderveld, better known as Elly and Rikkert were a Dutch stoner hippie couple. They were introduced to each othet at a party somewhere in the late 60's by the father of an old friend of mine, Dutch film maker Job Pannekoek... They came out with this album in 1971 with their buddy Hans (Appie) Sleijpen, and it's a great, total DIY album and there's one song on it that became a huge hit in Holland, ""De Kaugomballenboom" (The chewinggumballtree)... In 1976 they became devote Christians, they're still together, still active and they released tons of albums, mostly Christian songs and songs for kids and tons of books for kids.... Here's their website: And here's some fairly recent pictures of them:

GET IT HERE Enjoy!

TRUCK - SURPRISE, SURPRISE

Truck was a psychedelic pop band from Singapore/Malaysia and they only released this album in 1974.... GET IT HERE Enjoy!

IVO'S GROUP - POP MELAYU

Here's a pop Melayu/psych-pop album from the Ivo's Group.... GET IT HERE Enjoy!

BAND COMBAT'S

Cool album from Yohanes Purba and the Combat's, loving the psych song Never Knows. This came out in 1973.... GET IT HERE Enjoy!

DOEL KAMDI & BLO'ON GROUP - BLO'ON VOL. III

Here's an album from singer/comedian Doel Kamdi with the Blo'on Group which translates to the Group of Idiots, great album, lots of funk, blues, psych and pop and this is a promotional vinyl copy for radio stations..... GET IT HERE enjoy!

THE FRIENDLY GROUP ARIA - BERSEMI LAGI

Here's an excellent album from The Friendly Group Aria.... GET IT HERE Enjoy!

UCOK HARAHAP - POP INDONESIA

Cool solo album from Ucok Harahap, there's pop Indonesia songs on this one, and then there are some delicious funky psychedelics thrown in too. A promotional vinyl copy for radio stations... GET IT HERE Enjoy!

PATTIE SISTERS & ENTENG & HIS COMETS

Here's a fantastic album from the Pattie Sisters with Enteng Tanamal & His Comets,. often touted as the first psych album in Indonesian music history (it wasn't, Deddy Damhudi 's album Kasih Bersemi with guitar player Jopi R. Item that came out the year before this one in 1967 was)... Enteng's guitar playing on this one is just phenomenal.... GET IT HERE Enjoy!

INNEKE KUSUMAWATI & DE GALAXIES - PENGEN KENAL

Had to re-record and re-post this album from Inneke Kusumawati... In my humble opinion one of the best 60's Indonesian pop albums, the music by Jopie R. Itim with band De Galaxies is just amazing, lots of pop mixed with psych.... GET IT HERE Enjoy!

MELKY GOESLAW & BAND DE MEICY - TIMOR TIMUR

Here's a 70's pop album from Melky Goeslaw with Band De Meicy, check out the psych-pop song Ombak Ombak Yang Ganas.... GET IT HERE Enjoy!

IVO'S GROUP

Here's an album from the Ivo's Group, their most wanted album because of the "That Shocking Shaking Day" track that was featured on a Indonesian psych compilation that came out some years ago called Those Shocking Shaking Days.... GET IT HERE Enjoy!

GOLDEN WING - SENYUM HARAPAN

Here's the second album from 70's psych/ballad rockers Golden Wing, this one came out in 1975... GET IT HERE Enjoy!