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Acid Mothers Temple

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Acid Mothers Temple paved my path towards psychedelic music enlightenment. If it weren't for them, I would never have gone on to Ash Ra Tempel, Can, Neu! and even Fushitsusha! Their music was loud, totally overblown and addictive, but never uncompromising. Their comic nature made it easy to like them; the colorful artwork, hilarious song titles and trivial connections with the sub-culture which inspired them (Zappa, Hendrix, Ash Ra Tempel, Pink Floyd, Terry Riley! Just to name a few).

Acid Mothers Temple is at the center of a much broader universe of artists; not unlike the Finnish folk scene, many members of AMT also have their own side projects and side-side projects! Makoto Kawabata alone, the frizzy-haired leader of the group, surely has over ten different projects under his belt (and that's not counting his collaborations!!!), including the much famed Mainliner trio who brought The Rallizes Denudés' distorted sound to unimaginable levels! Acid Mothers Temple however are slightly easier to access, if not musically, aesthetically. Their sound ranges anywhere from eastern-traditional folk-inspired numbers to wall-chattering force fields of noise, but always with psychedelic noises and effects to tie their entire output into a neat little package.

Which brings us to the next point, their productivity! It is mind boggling to see the rate at which albums (and EPs, splits, you name it!) are being released; it is not irregular to find a new AMT record every fortnight! And let's not forget the many side projects and their innumerable outings! For a while, I tried to collect everything they put out, but abandoned pretty quickly when I noticed, there was just no way I could keep up. I literally was beaten, so I went on and collected mostly works from other artists, but now and then, when I see a new AMT which seems to be quite interesting, I go for it.

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Album Cover Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraison U.F.O.
Label: P.S.F. Records
Release: 1997
Format: CD
Cat. no: PSFD-93

Song list:

  1. Acid Mothers Prayer/Speed Guru//From The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. I/The Top Head Pixies/Zen Feedbacker/Mach D Is Bon-A-Roo/Coloradoughnut/From The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. II/Amphetamine A Go Go/Pink Lady Lemonade/Satori LSD/Hawaiian Brownie/Acid Mothers Temple For All! (54:29)


Album Cover Pataphisical Freak Out Mu!!
Label: P.S.F. Records
Release: 1999
Format: CD
Cat. no: PSFD-106

Song list:

  1. Cosmic Audrey/Acid Takion (11:30)
  2. White Summer Of Love/Third Eye Of The Whole World (5:52)
  3. Golden Bat Blues Dead/Mr. Hardy Guidey Man/Magic Aum LSD/Astrological Overdrive (16:12)
  4. Right about Rainbow I/Your My Only Super Sunshine/Right About Rainbow II (8:48)
  5. Blue Velvet Blues (25:41)


Album Cover Troubadours From Another Heavenly World
Label: P.S.F. Records
Release: 2000
Format: CD
Cat. no: PSFD-123

Song list:

  1. Heroin Heroine's Heritage (20:58)
  2. She Is A Rainbow In Curved Air (5:45)
  3. Acid Heart Mother (32:27)


Album Cover Absolutely Freak Out (Zap Your Mind!)
Label: Static Caravan Recordings/Resonant
Release: 2001
Format: 2CD
Cat. no: STATICRESONANCE#4

Song list:

CD 1:
  1. Star Child Vs. Third Bad Stone (3:48)
  2. Supernal Infinite Space/Waikiki Easy Meat (19:09)
  3. Grapefluit March/Virgin U.F.O./Let's Have A Ball/Pagan Nova (20:19)
  4. Stone Stoner (16:31)
CD 2:
  1. The Incipient Light Of The Echoes (12:15)
  2. Magic Aum Rock/Mercurical Megatronic Meninx (7:39)
  3. Childern Of The Drab/Surfin' Paris-Texas/Virgin U.F.O. Feedback (24:34)
  4. The Kiss That Took A Trip/Magic Aum Rock Again/Love Is Overborne/Fly High (19:24)


Album Cover Electric Heavyland
Label: Alien8 Recordings
Release: 2002
Format: CD
Cat. no: ALIENCD34

Song list:

  1. Atomic Rotary Grinding God (15:43)
  2. Loved And Confused (17:02)
  3. Phantom Of Galactic Magnum (18:57)


Album Cover Live In Japan
Label: Acid Mothers Temple
Release: 2002
Format: CD
Cat. no: AMTCD-006

Song list:

  1. Cosmic Introduction - Untitled Space (8:25)
  2. In E (13:06)
  3. La Novia - Speed Guru (41:49)


Album Cover Electric Love Machine
Label: Fractal Music
Release: 2002
Format: 7"
Cat. no: FRACTAL 0207

Song list:

  1. Electric Love Machine (6:35)
  2. Cosmo Chiva (7:14)


Album Cover Magical Power From Mars
Label: Important Records
Release: 2003
Format: CD
Cat. no: IMPREC017

Song list:

  1. Ziggy Sitar Dust Raga (19:46)
  2. Diamond Doggy Peggy (15:05)
  3. Aladdin Kane (14:51)
  4. Cosmic Funky Dolly (20:02)


Album Cover The Penultimate Galactic Bordello Also The World You Made
Label: Dirter Promotions
Release: 2004
Format: 4CD
Cat. no: DPROMCD53

Song list:

CD 1:
  1. The Beautiful Blue Ecstasy (Have You Seen The Blue Sky?) (1:00:08)
CD 2:
  1. The Seven Stigmata From Pussycat Nebula (56:04)
CD 3:
  1. What's Your Name? (1:10:46)
CD 4:
  1. The Holly Mountain In The Counter-Clock World (1:01:36)


Album Cover Cosmic Funeral Route 666
Label: Acid Mothers Temple
Release: 2005
Format: CD
Cat. no: AMTCD-016

Song list:

  1. Cosmic Funeral Route 666 (38:01)
  2. Phantom Fire Ball (5:41)


Album Cover 41st Century Splendid Man Returns
Label: Essence Music
Release: 2007
Format: CD
Cat. no: ESS010

Song list:

  1. Ruck Zuck (7:08)
  2. 41st century Splendid Man (14:49)
  3. Genesis Of Humanity (9:15)
  4. Dalai Gama (4:40)
  5. Hell Eskimo Or Polyhedral Mu (14:21)


Album Cover Stones, Women & Records
Label: Magaibutsu Limited
Release: 2007
Format: CD
Cat. no: MGC-33

Song list:

  1. Uzumgayu - Just George Benson (3:01)
  2. The Condition Of International Job Hunting Activity (2:28)
  3. Little Stone Little Woman And Little Record (3:47)
  4. Jet Stream, Jet Stream (4:26)
  5. Very Very Very Jazz - Deer Cries And "Kagyeeyo" In The Breeding Season (4:00)
  6. The Harekaimogs Monstar (2:29)
  7. Ahla Hassanbeck lamborghini Rock (4:15)
  8. Davideo Said To Himself - Incognito Blues (4:49)
  9. Just Like A Stone, Just Like A Woman, Just Like A Record (2:34)
  10. Fairy Music Of Foolish Sushi Bar - Country Singer Narena Baystar (4:23)
  11. The Hametenyara Lady (5:59)
  12. Beyer (5:33)
  13. Mastering Master Builder (3:45)
  14. A Gastric Ulcer And The Prostate Part I (2:29)
  15. Picture Of Romance (2:20)
  16. The Complete Dancing Barefoot (1:40)
  17. A Gastric Ulcer And The Prostate Part II (8:24)
  18. Forever Stones, Forever Women, Forever Records (3:55)


Album Cover Acid Mothership Live
Label: Acid Mothers Temple
Release: 2008
Format: CD
Cat. no: AMTCD-019

Song list:

  1. Galactic Attack No.1 (5:44)
  2. Dark Stars In The Dazzling Sky (22:20)
  3. La Le Lo (13:52)
  4. Pink Lady Lemonade (31:07)


Album Cover Recurring Dream And Apocalypse Of Darkness
Label: Important Records
Release: 2008
Format: 2LP
Cat. no: IMPREC188

Song list:

LP 1:
  1. Eternal Incantation Or Perpetual Nightmare Pt. 1 (19:12)
  2. Eternal Incantation Or Perpetual Nightmare Pt. 2 (19:39)
LP 2:
  1. Recurring Dream And Apocalypse Of Darkness Pt. 1 (20:46)
  2. Recurring Dream And Apocalypse Of Darkness Pt. 2 (17:13)