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Czech Beat!

Another maybe somewhat unexected corner of the globe for some garage/psych rock, Czchoslovakia (remember Dan Akroyd and Steve Martin as those tow "wild and crazy" Czech brothers on "Saturday Night...

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Thailand, Malasia, and Singapore (Oh My!)

Talk about obscurites, you came to the right locale today......"Steam Kodok-17 Ultrarariteis From the Sixites, Malaysia and Singapore" (actually a few cuts from Thailand as well).......haven't...

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South Africa

In honor of the ailing Nelson Mandela here is a set fo 1960's "Beat-Garage Growlers From Beyond Cape of Good Hope"......as with some many of these exotic locales, household names are not exactly...

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Denmark (All covers!)

Don't miss this one, it's funny/weird/good and I think fairly rare, at least I haven't seen many of em around......the proper name of this collection would be "Danish Garage Bands Perform America's...

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France, sorry, no English translations for the titles.....

......so it is and so it will be, any of you Yanks that took a valuable high school course in the French language might have fun helping us out with what some of these titles "mean".....anyway, these...

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Greece is the Word!

God I am such a witty punsmith! Anyways, Greece had them a solid garage scene in the Nuggets years, three discs again today as I work like the proverbial dog to continue to provide a solid stream of...

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Mexican "covers" set!

Much like the Danish set the other day with all those hilarious cover versions, we are treated to another similar set, this one from Mexico technically titled "Rare Mxican Cuts From the...

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Original Brazillian Pebbles,65-69

This is an interesting and good single disc set......some good weird band names ("Tulio e os Hitch- Hikers", "The Brazilian Bitles", which I HOPE is a "Beatles" reference) and some equally weird song...

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Searchin For Shakes (Sweden)

So, Sweden....home of such great recent stoner rock and SUCH awesomly beautiful women (arguablythe world's finest?) comes this tasty set of 26 generally lesser-known tracks , a few of these bands are...

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Worldwide-Japan Wild Favorites

We had LOTS of Japanese stuff a month or so agao in that titanic post,I'd check how much overlap there was between this set and that one except there is no way I could possibly care even a tiny bit...

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English Freakbeat

Certaly I have several sets of stuff British from the 1960's-Nuggets era, sort of outside the concept as , unlike most other lands they didn't just attempt to knock off the US sound, as pretty always...

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A small sampling of Italy

OK, let me explain my thinking here.....THE definitive Italian 1960's comp is the volumnous "Atto di Forza", without looking I'd guess I have 15-16 volumes perhaps more......that is a bit much for the...

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Bonus post-a bit of a puzzle, so HELP ME OUT

I have here before me a CD labled as follows: "Cambodian Rocks! Psychedelia From Southeast Asia Late 1960's"..........this is a "homemade" CD, I recall creating it, actually, ten years ago or so, and I...

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Delincuentes-Jouvenez Punks De America Latin

Well, I am running low on corners of our globe to investigate......when I run out I think I'll stick with Nugget-rock/garage/psych whatever for a little while, it has been phenominally popular, and as...

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Fuzz, Flaykes, and Shaykes (Part 1)

Ok, finished with the geography lessons, but still with plenty of comps chock full of garage/psych/pop, hopefully with minimal overlap from previous postings but at this point, it's obviously...

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Fuzz Flaykes and Shaykes (Part 2)

So for today the final four discs of "Fuzz Flaykes and Shaykes", more of the fairly obscure light psych/pop from the set started yesterday......still unsure what Tony the Tiger has to do with any of...

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We Can Fly

I don't think this set is REALLY well known, maybe in Europe it is, not so much here I  don't think.....it's a TINY bit more "latter-day" than most of the Nuggets-style comps, the proper title is "We...

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Lost Sixties Delights

.....or "L.S.D.", get it? get it? Actually this is some more VERY obscure stuff from the seemingly endless vaults of U-Spaces.......you'll recognize a few from some other rarities comps, but I think we...

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Psychedelic Pstones (3 out of 4 at least)

This could serve as a companion piece to the previous three days' posts....structured something like yesterday's "LSD" set, but a bit more accessible, and like "We Can Fly" it involves, for the most...

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Yet MORE amazing rarities from the folks at U-Spaces

I'm really not sure of the U-Spaces "story", but it'd have to be damned interesting....GOD they have so much cool shit, from that amzing 8-disc set of paychedelic radio ads (one of the greatest...

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