Label: Dovetail Records
Catalog#: OT 5
Format: Cassette, Album
Country: UK
Released: 1988
DISCOGS AMAZON
A1 Yaboop Yaboop
A2 Soda Water
A3 The Code For Chickendon
A4 Guzzard
A5 The Dusty Pouch
A6 Sliding + Gliding
A7 Kick Muck
B1 Its A Hup Ho World
B2 Atmospheric Underslunky
B3 (Omnidirectional) Bhadra
B4 Fetch Me The Pongmaster
B5 Mae Hong Song
B6 White Rhino Tea
B7 Loafjaw
B8 The Green Island
プログレッシヴ・ロック〜ダブ〜ニューエイジ・エレクトロニクスを煮詰めた、テクニカルで強靭なトランス・グルーヴで、レイヴ・シーン〜アンビエント・ハウスとも呼応したUKのインストゥルメンタル・スペースロック・グループOzric Tentacles（オズリック・テンタクルズ）による1988年カセット作。Gong/Steve Hillage（スティーヴ・ヒレッジ）ヒッピイズムの誇大妄想遺伝子。
bio.
A band from another time, Ozric Tentacles served as the bridge from '70s cosmic rock to the organic dance and festival culture which came back into fashion during the '90s. Formed in 1983 with a debt to jazz fusion as well as space rock, the band originally included guitarist Ed Wynne, drummer Nick Van Gelder, keyboard player Joie Hinton, bassist Roly Wynne and second guitarist Gavin Griffiths (though Griffiths left in 1984). The Ozrics played in clubs around London, meanwhile releasing six cassette-only albums beginning with 1984's Erpsongs. (All six were later collected on the Vitamin Enhanced box set, despite a threatened lawsuit from the Kellogg's cereal company for questionable artwork.) In 1987, Merv Pepler replaced Van Gelder, and synthesizer player Steve Everett was also added.
Ozric Tentacles' first major release, the 1990 album Erpland, foreshadowed the crusty movement, a British parallel to America's hippy movement of the '60s. Crusties borrowed the hippies' organic dress plus the cosmic thinking of new agers, and spent most of their time traveling around England to various festivals and outdoor gatherings. The movement fit in perfectly with bands like Ozric Tentacles and the Levellers, and the Ozrics' 1991 album Strangeitude became their biggest seller yet, occasioning a U.S. contract with Capitol. After the British-only Afterswish and Live Underslunky, 1993's Jurassic Shift hit number 11 on the British charts -- quite a feat for a self-produced album released on the Ozrics' own Dovetail label. The album was released in America by I.R.S. Records, as was 1994's Arborescence. Neither album translated well with American audiences -- despite the band's first U.S. tour in 1994 -- and Ozric Tentacles returned to its Dovetail label for 1995's Become the Other. Waterfall Cities closed out the decade in 1999, and the following summer the group resurfaced with Swirly Termination. Hinton and Pepler also perform in the trance-techno outfit Eat Static, and have released several albums on Planet Dog Records. Ozric Tentacles surfaced in 2000 to release Hidden Step, followed by the EP Pyramidion. In 2002, Live at the Pongmasters Ball came out on both CD and DVD, making it their first venture into the latter. ~ John Bush, All Music Guide
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