Ozric Tentacles

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A band from another time, Ozric Tentacles served as the bridge from ’70s cosmic rock to the organic dance and festival culture which came back into fashion during the ’90s. Formed in 1983 with a debt to jazz fusion as well as space rock, the band originally included guitarist Ed Wynne, drummer Nick Van Gelder, keyboard player Joie Hinton, bassist Roly Wynne and second guitarist Gavin Griffiths (though Griffiths left in 1984). The Ozrics played in clubs around London, meanwhile releasing six cassette-only albums beginning with 1984’s Erpsongs. (All six were later collected on the Vitamin Enhanced box set, despite a threatened lawsuit from the Kellogg’s cereal company for questionable artwork.) In 1987, Merv Pepler replaced Van Gelder, and synthesizer player Steve Everett was also added.

Ozric Tentacles’ first major release, the 1990 album Erpland, foreshadowed the crusty movement, a British parallel to America’s hippy movement of the ’60s. Crusties borrowed the hippies’ organic dress plus the cosmic thinking of new agers, and spent most of their time traveling around England to various festivals and outdoor gatherings. The movement fit in perfectly with bands like Ozric Tentacles and the Levellers, and the Ozrics’ 1991 album Strangeitude became their biggest seller yet, occasioning a U.S. contract with Capitol. After the British-only Afterswish and Live Underslunky, 1993’s Jurassic Shift hit number 11 on the British charts — quite a feat for a self-produced album released on the Ozrics’ own Dovetail label.

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spacemanBOSE wrote:
Sunday afternoon

Best album?

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bogmon wrote:
Saturday morning

oh yeah...Don't forget about Become the Other.... Neurochasm is the dirtiest most rockin song they've ever done.... Been listening to that for ten years plus....

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bogmon wrote:
Saturday morning

Love the early to mid nineties stuff....Strangeitude; Jurassic Shift; Arborescence are epic albums.... Best live show I've ever seen.... Melting brain lysergic jelly......

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HitchhikerThe wrote:
last month

Top tracks...no Pyramidion?strange. Ozrics are amazing : )

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marcelomadrid wrote:
last month

Prog knob cheese!

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N3croyeti wrote:
last month

JURASSIC PARK!!!!!!111!!..... oh, wait.....

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catacombs wrote:
last month

JURASSIC SHIFT!!! !! :D

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hablador wrote:
last month

JURASSIC SHIFT!!!

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phase_illusion wrote:
last month

JURASSIC SHIFT

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spacevoid8 wrote:
last month

ozric is fantastic music project!!!! cosmic theme in rock music is what my years need so much! in general it is awesome mixture of dub/space/rock and electronics!! can`t stop ozric beat!!

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jamesra wrote:
last month

Been an Ozrics admirer for over 20 years. Saw them play at the Reading festival in the early nineties. Favourite albums are Live Ethereal Cereal and Live Underslunky. Cheers Ozrics!

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AlvoDT wrote:
last month

I grew up listening Oddentity! It's an amazing song from a fuckin AMAZING band!

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meisadumb1 wrote:
last month

Hmmm, i don't actually own any of the top 15 tracks...am i missing out???

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Drew079 wrote:
last month

BEER

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Shivelyin wrote:
last month

Wow, great singer, I tried all his albums here http://mp3aim.com/Search/?q=Ozric+Tentacles

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pajii wrote:
last month

spacebase should be on the list, sick tune :o

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tyler4837 wrote:
August 2008

I've gotta agree with catacombs, I dig Jurassic Shift and am surprised that it isn't higher.

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N3croyeti wrote:
August 2008

Arborescence is pretty fuckin' fantastic!

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melissa-MELO wrote:
August 2008

n todas... q lokera d grupo... buenísimo

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Daytrippera wrote:
August 2008

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