101 strings Astro-Sounds from Beyond the Year 2000 (CD, £9.75)

What happens if you take legendary surf guitarist Jerry Cole, after his brief spell with The Animated Egg, and put him in a room with a lush orchestra and lots of Philip K Dick books? According to the sleeve of the original mid-60s album: "a space odyssey in the beat of today with the far out sounds of tomorrow's uncharted trip beyond the now generation". Yes, all that and song titles like Re-Entry To Mog and the supreme A Disappointed Love With A Desensitized Robot. Astro-Sounds From Beyond The Year 2000 is a work of psychedelic genius with a Krautrock-styled rhythm, a trippy meander through the planets that's very PIL in places over ten years before the fact. As groovy as it gets! Sleevenotes by Mojo's Dave Henderson. 1. FLAMEOUT 2. RE-ENTRY TO MOG (THAT’S HOW IT IS) 3. SPACE ODYSSEY (SURE LISTIC) 4. ASTRAL FREAKOUT (A LOVE BUILT ON SAND) 5. ORBIT FANTASY (INSIDE LOOKING OUT) 6. BLUES FOR THE GURU 7. STRINGS FOR RAVI 8. BARRIER X-69 (SLIPPIN’ AND TRIPPIN’) 9. A DISAPPOINTED LOVE WITH A DESENSITIZED ROBOT 10. WHERE WERE YOU IN 1982? 11. TRIPPIN’ ON LUNAR 07 12. A BAD TRIP BACK IN ‘69 13. KARMA SUTRA 14. WHIPLASH 15. INSTANT NIRVANA