This year there's been more bands and individual artists from all over the globe coming on line with their own exploration into a genre that from it's formative year in 1966 is nearly 50 years old. Maybe it's the wretched state of conformity in modern music and life that's brought the new artists to explore their imagination and create the music that can escape from this 24:7 rolling horror show of war mongering, money grabbing, disaster ridden, mind numbing exploitative reality.
So if the words of Timothy Leary in 1965, "Turn on, tune in, drop out" might be the preferred option for many then the hits registered here show that's precisely what is happening.
Also amongst these new tripsters there's the appropriate entries from two of the 60's originals - Hendrix and Yoko Ono. All good then.
There should also be mention that Record Label of the year has to be Fruits De Mer who continue to not only put out a dazzling display of contemporary psyche on vinyl but have begun to organise their own one dayer festivals (see post).
Plus radio programme of the year is from the ever vigilant Valis with Trip Inside This House) at KDHX radio who has given airtime to so many of the new psyche bands.
Here's the 2013 top 10 -
1. Wooden-Shjips (US) see post
2. Truckfighters (Sweden) see post
3 Samsara Blues Experiment (Germany) see post
4. Polska Radio One (Poland) see post
5. Doug Tuttle / Morgan Delt (US) see post
6. Liverpool Psyche Festival (UK) see post
7. Hendrix documentary (US) see post
8. Yoko Ono (Japan/US) see post
9. Uncle Acid and The Dead Beats (UK) see post
10. Me and My Kites (Sweden) see post
