Those Shocking Shaking Days: Indonesian Hard, Psychedelic, Progressive Rock and Funk 1970-1978

If you are a psych/funk/jazz/prog/latin/soul/African/bla bla bla style record collector in this day and age, you could easily tend to get "compilation record saturation fever". Stuff is so plentiful nowadays, lavish fat gatefolds stuffed with 200 gram slabs o' pristine wax, nice color booklets in accompaniment...very hard to resist these things. Wax collectors usually don't. As you can see from my listings, I'm in that boat, and far beyond my disposable income limit. This one has all the trappings to put a mark like me flying to grab this off the racks like a moth suckin' neon. Triple gatefold, nice heavy wax, nice book, I gotta get that, and just look at those freaky Indonesians on the cover in those tripped out pastel getups, maaan. How's the music? Pretty damn good I gotta say. Waaay better than I expected it to be and in fact so good, I was listening to it amongst other stuff in the same vein and about halfway thru Side 2, I'm saying to myself, "Wow this is from 70's Indonesia?!" as in some of this has no business being as good as it is coming from that time and place which makes this all the more amazing. Bottom line is if you liked Shark Move and Ariesta Birawa Group (both represented here) from hearing their Shadoks releases, you should grab this, as many of the of the other tracks easily best the best of those 2 groups' reissues. A really consistent listen for a 3LP set.