Now-Again Records

Stream Now! Live Mix: Egon on Boiler Room

If you’re a frequent visitor to this site, you might have seen/heard Egon’s set at Boiler Room’s debut in San Francisco. This is the many-times-postponed follow up for their “Collections” series, which we and the Boiler Room crew have tried to get right. It aired live at noon (BST) on Friday June 27th and is available as an archive here:

From Boiler Room’s site:

“He took us on a wondrous musical journey spanning psych, funk, prog and more; interspersed with useful information about each release such as which presses to look for if keen, and what’s going to be reissued for our ears to delight in.

We traveled through Spain with Madlib favorite Pan y Regaliz, Eastern Europe with our old loves Indexi and Drago Mlinarec plus a newfound one, Drugi Nacin; Iran with Kouroush Yaghmaei, over to the African continent with Zambian legends Ngozi Family (keep your eyes peeled for a respective anthology on the label in 2015), Ethiopia with Mahmoud Ahmed, Nigerian band The Hikers, and an unmissable slew of Angolan 45’s – this just to name a few.”

Heliocentrics – Quatermass Sessions 1

Returning after their 13 Degrees of Reality album with a full on volley of psychedelic-funk songs first heard on Gaslamp Killer’s HELIO X GLK EP, the Heliocentrics offer nine tracks that Rolling Stone describe as “…sprawling, with percussive patterns that suddenly morph into extraterrestrial sound blasts and opaque, detouring patterns.” We couldn’t have said it better.

Download: Heliocentrics – Quatermass Sessions 1

Heitkotter – Black Orckid

Restored/remastered transfer and never-before-heard demos of this exceedingly rare Californian psych-rock album. We present the definitive look into a musical vision equal parts dangerous and peaceful, nihilistic and optimistic. It’s safe to say the world has never heard something like Heitkotter – it’s a rare and vital look at 60s and 70s American rock through the sad story – and incredible music – of an untethered soul. The Heitkotter tale is cautionary, but the music is as close to the sublime as American rock has ever ventured.

Download: Heitkotter – Black Orckid

WITCH – Movin’ On/Kuomboka

The legendary Zambian band’s disco/boogie years, contains the entirety of their two rare albums: 1980-1984. In the 1980s, the Southern African nation of Zambia – whose Zamrock scene has been thoroughly investigated in prior Now-Again releases – came to be influenced by disco and rhumba from neighboring Congo. Thus even Zamrock’s greatest band, WITCH, splintered, with a skeleton crew of core members embracing younger musicians to record and release two albums that found the band replacing fuzz guitars with whirling synthesizers and trying their hand at soul, disco and boogie – all sung in English.

Download: WITCH – Movin’ On/Kuomboka