The Let The Electric Children Play: The Underground Story Of Transatlantic Records
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Format:
Compact Disc (Audio)
No of Discs:
3
Availability:
Available
Release Date:
25-08-2017
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Packaging:
Clamshell
Catalog Number:
ECLEC32600
Description
Esoteric Recordings are proud to announce the release of a new deluxe 3CD which tells the story of the so-called underground era of one of Britains great independent record labels of the 1960s & 1970s, Transatlantic Records. In the heady atmosphere of the late 1960s, the sea change in British popular music spearheaded by the Beatles experimentation on the Sergeant Pepper album and swiftly followed by the likes of Cream, Pink Floyd, Traffic, Family, Procol Harum, Jethro Tull and a host of groups and musicians who followed in their footsteps led to the album being seen as the medium in which serious musicians would explore and develop their craft. The apparently disparate genres of blues, jazz, rock, folk and even world music were fused together by many diverse acts all of whom were eager to be regarded as progressive in their musical approach. The so-called underground audience eagerly consumed this music, which sat alongside the social changes that were also taking place. Featuring over three and a half hours of newly re-mastered music over three CDs, Let the Electric Children Play documents the fascinating story of a unique period in the history of one of Britains most eccentric labels. This deluxe anthology also includes a lavishly illustrated booklet with new essay and artist biographies housed in a clamshell boxed set.
Tracks
- Name
- WE CAN SWING TOGETHER
- II B.S.
- MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S HAPPENING
- LIGHT FLIGHT
- BILLY THE MONSTER
- PAINT IT BLACK
- NORWEGIAN WOOD
- OBADIAH'S GRAVE
- LUCIFER'S CAGE
- ONCE I HAD A SWEETHEART
- METAMORPHOSIS EXPLOSION
- SATURDAY ROUNDABOUT SUNDAY (SINGLE VERSION)
- MAKIN' TIME
- MONA (A FRAGMENT)
- PLASTIC SHIT
- ALL IN YOUR MIND
- BORN TO BE FREE
- WE'VE HAD IT
- MICE AND RATS IN THE LOFT
- HOMAGE TO THE GOD OF LIGHT
- AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS
- MENDLE
- PRELUDE TO THE ARENA
- DON'T EVER GIVE UP TRYING
- REFLECTION
- SKIN VALLEY SERENADE
- TEAR DOWN THE WALL
- SON OF THE FATHER
- DON'T COUNT ME OUT
- NICK'S SEVEN
- SONG FROM THE 4th ERA
- A DISTANT THOUGHT, A POINT OF LIGHT
- THE UNGODLY
- FAIR FORTUNE'S STAR
- MOVE IT (SINGLE VERSION)
- SHELTER
- OPENING MOVE
- JOURNEY'S END
- CRIMINAL WORLD