Los Dug Dugs

Lion Productions comes through again, this time round offering up Mexican psych wizards Los Dug Dug's second album 'Smog', originally released in 1972. At the centre of the trio was Armando Nava who, after a rocky start to the album, composed the entire thing while locked away in his house for two weeks. Sung entirely in Spanish the first half of the album is dominated by twelve minute jam "Hagomoslo Ahora". The rest of the tracks are much shorter, "Cual es tu Nombre?" best shows off the album's chunky and brawny style with a rock 'n' roll sound you'd expect to find on an MC5 record. Los Dug Dug's then slam on the breaks with "Meditacion", an instrumental track curiously somber but equally as powerful as the rest of the songs on the album. 'Smog' is an unrelenting psych rock treasure reissued just in time for the melting summer days ahead.

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The Index 'Black Album + Red Album + Yesterday & Today'

Beacons of psychedelia The Index's records 'Black Album' and 'Red Album' have been rescued by Lion Productions. Initially released in 1967 and 1968 respectively, the albums were simply titled after the colour of the label on the LP. Both records at the time were pressed in editions of a meager 150, making the originals current value rival the sum of third world debt. Now each of the albums, and a little extra, are available again! The show stopper in the set is the third disc 'Yesterday & Today' compiling previously unreleased tracks taken from original tapes.

This reissue was my introduction to a band that has, upon doing some research, had music fiends freaking out for the past four decades. The Index's bleak, home-made psychedelia paints a picture of some guys in a desolate part of town making music in a dingy basement somewhere. Curiously though, the group were based in a more affluent part of Michigan, Grosse Point. A 32 page booklet written by the bands' drummer Jim Valice tells their story in detail with liner notes, photos and lyrics. Laden with feedback, fuzzed out guitars and murky drones this set covers music which predates so many later, great bands and musical styles. In some places you can hear a Post-Punk attitude, at other times especially on track 'Fire Eyes' artists' like Tommy Jay come to mind. Never before has this music been available to the masses, and Lion Productions has gone ahead and made hitting your psychedelia pleasure centres as easy as buying a CD.

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