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Pick & Mix - Delerium Sampler (1995)
Label:  Delerium 
Length:  2:21:29
    Track Listing:
      Volume 1:
      1.  
      		 Moom - The Higher Sun    5:11
      2.  
      		 The Aardvarks - Time To Fly    5:07
      3.  
      		 Suicidal Flowers - Ease II    4:49
      4.  
      		 Kava Kava - Gil    8:02
      5.  
      		 The Steppes - Cornucopia    3:04
      6.  
      		 Sons Of Selina - Of The First Water    6:10
      7.  
      		 Nick Riff - Tribal Elders    4:54
      8.  
      		 Nova Express - Let The Powers    5:06
      9.  
      		 Treatment - Dissolving    6:35
      10.  
      		 Kryptasthesie - Watching The Sky    4:28
      11.  
      		 Omnia Opera - Annihilation [Edit]    4:02
      12.  
      		 Nukli - Inner Days    5:37
      13.  
      		 Mandragora - Solstice Song    7:10
      Volume 2:
      1.  
      		 Porcupine Tree - Voyage 34 (Remodelled)    12:43
      2.  
      		 Dead Flowers - Warmth Within (Chemical Binoculars)    10:34
      3.  
      		 Psychomuzak - The Exstasie    9:44
      4.  
      		 Liberation Thru' Hearing - The Root Verses Of The Six Bardos    8:42
      5.  
      		 Zuvuya - The Goat Faced Girl    4:22
      6.  
      		 Electric Orange - Nindia    6:48
      7.  
      		 Saddar Bazaar - Arc Of Ascent (Part One)    5:20
      8.  
      		 Praise Space Electric - a) Ornithology b) Can You Play... c) Ornithology    4:09
      9.  
      		 Boris & His Bolshie Balalaika - Purple Haze    3:42
      10.  
      		 The Incredible Expanding Mindfuck - The Gospel According To The I.E.M.    5:02
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      Artist: Various
      Album: Pick & Mix (Delerium Sampler)
      Released: 1995
      Delerium Records (DELEC CDD 023)
      Genre: Psychedelic Rock

      Review:
      Remember those great rock compilations of the late sixties/early seventies like "The Rock Machine Turns You On", "Fill Your Head With Rock", "Picnic, A Breath of Fresh Air", and "V" (the Virgin sampler)? Delerium Records is now doing the same thing and displaying all the musical colourfulness and diversity of England's (and Europe's) most important psychedelic label on a double CD (142 minutes of music) for a retail price of... ?5!! There are twenty-three tracks by as many different bands and acts spread over the two CD's, meaning that you get a track from everybody on the label, including a few that have yet to come out.

      Disc one ("Pick") brings Moom, The Aardvarks, Suicidal Flowers (previewing their "Burn Mother Burn" LP), Kava Kava, The Steppes (announcing their new "Gods, Men & Ghosts" LP), Sons of Selina (who will have their new "Terminus" EP out soon), Nick Riff, Nova Express, a brilliant German space rock band who's "Space Khmer" LP of '87 is gonna be re- issue by Delerium (fantastic album, believe me), Treatment, Krypt?sthesie (a glimpse of their long awaited new "Inner Whirl" LP), Omnia Opera (a telescopic glance towards their posthumous "Red Shift" LP), and Mandragora (whose legendary debut LP "Over The Moon" will be re-issued by Delerium as well - recommended!).

      Disc two ("Mix") starts with a 13 minutes long remix (exclusive to this compilation) of Porcupine Tree's "Voyage 34" single. Next come Dead Flowers, Psychomuzak, Liberation Thru' Hearing, a very spiritual ensemble whose cassette "The Root Verses of The Six Bardos" is gonna be re-issued on CD by Delerium, Zuvuya with a track exclusive to this compilation, Electric Orange (listening forward to their new CD "Orange Commutation"), Saddar Bazaar, Praise Space Electric, Boris & His Bolshie Balalaika and The Incredible Expanding Mindfuck (forecasting an album's worth of material by this pre-Porcupine Tree ensemble).

      Conclusion: This is the best compilation of 1995 (music and money-wise!). Psychedelic music is available at a very low price here. If you miss this one you don't know what contemporary alternative music is all about. Essential. --delerium.co.uk, Crohinga Well, Autumn 1995

      Track List:
      "Pick" CD:
      01. Moom - The Higher Sun
      02. The Aardvarks - Time To Fly
      03. Suicidal Flowers - Ease II
      04. Kava Kava - Gil
      05. The Steppes - Cornucopia
      06. Sons of Selina - Of The First Water
      07. Nick Riff - Tribal Elders
      08. Nova Express - Let The Powers
      09. Treatment - Dissolving
      10. Kryptästhesie - Watching The Sky
      11. Omnia Opera - Annihilation (Edit)
      12. Nukli - Inner Days
      13. Mandragora - Solstice Song

      "Mix" CD:
      01. Porcupine Tree - Voyage 34 (Remodelled) *
      02. Dead Flowers - Warmth Within (Chemical Binoculars)
      03. Psychomuzak - The Exstasie
      04. Liberation Thru' Hearing - The Root Verses of The Six Bardos
      05. Zuvuya - The Goat Faced Girl *
      06. Electric Orange - Nindia *
      07. Saddar Bazaar - Arc of Ascent (Part One)
      08. Praise Space Electric - Ornithology / Can You Play... / Ornithology
      09. Boris & His Bolshie Balalaika - Purple Haze
      10. The Incredible Expanding Mindfuck - The Gospel According To The I.E.M.

      * Exclusive Tracks
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