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Many years ago, there were some amazing compilations of mostly-obscure-and-forgotten 60s psychedelic rock posted to Usenet newsgroups. I've never found them again, but the internet is a big place, and they must be out there somewhere.
About a decade and a half ago, there were these great compilations of mostly-obscure-and-forgotten 60s psychedelic rock posted to Usenet newsgroups. They were titled "Orbital Essence Archives" and the story was something like: "a friend made these for me on cassette". They're startlingly great collections and unlike anything I've heard.
I'd downloaded a couple, and later realized how brilliant they were and went back to find the rest, but they'd disappeared. I can find no evidence of them on the internet, except this spammy page with broken links -- www.israbox.one/3136503012-various-artists-orbital-essence-archives.html -- which lists the contents of all of the volumes and makes me wish I could hear them.
Does anyone know where I might find more information about these? I could look up each and every artist separately (a few of these bands have since had great reissues), but what I really want is to hear the original compilations, and/or to know more about the genius who made them. The value of them as anthologies is what I'm most interested in, I guess.
About a decade and a half ago, there were these great compilations of mostly-obscure-and-forgotten 60s psychedelic rock posted to Usenet newsgroups. They were titled "Orbital Essence Archives" and the story was something like: "a friend made these for me on cassette". They're startlingly great collections and unlike anything I've heard.
I'd downloaded a couple, and later realized how brilliant they were and went back to find the rest, but they'd disappeared. I can find no evidence of them on the internet, except this spammy page with broken links -- www.israbox.one/3136503012-various-artists-orbital-essence-archives.html -- which lists the contents of all of the volumes and makes me wish I could hear them.
Does anyone know where I might find more information about these? I could look up each and every artist separately (a few of these bands have since had great reissues), but what I really want is to hear the original compilations, and/or to know more about the genius who made them. The value of them as anthologies is what I'm most interested in, I guess.
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