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| 1. Interstellar Overdrive |
| 2. Nick's Boogie |
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For those terminally smitten either with the Floyd or with those psychedelic Sixties in general, this multi-media double-CD set represents a feast of generous proportions. For anyone else, though, it's more like yesterday's curled up prawn sandwich--a light snack that could trigger indigestion. On one CD there's a rambling sixteen-minute version of Floyd's classic "Interstellar Overdrive", plus the even more meandering "Nick's Boogie", a faintly Eastern instrumental. Both tracks are for completists only, as is the accompanying CD-ROM. In its favour, the CD-ROM is easy to navigate, enabling rapid access to the various interviews (Mick Jagger, Julie Christie, David Hockney etc) and to another lengthy live Floyd performance of "Interstellar Overdrive". Students of the then-fashionable cine-verite style of shaky hand-held camera-work and dippy Sixties wisdom dispensed by icons of the age will find it riveting, but it's definitely an acquired taste. --Johnny Black
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This 1967 recording provides a fascinating glimpse into theinner workings of one of the most innovative ensembles in rock history. It features Syd Barrett-era Floyd performing its barnstorming signature tune, "Interstellar Overdrive", andwhat sounds like an embryo version of "Set the Controls Forthe Heart of the Sun", from A SAUCERFUL OF SECRETS, here called "Nick's Boogie". Both songs included here are epic-length improvisatory pieces that shift from spacy ambience to full-blown freakout and back again, using very basic tools. Synthesizers hadn't come on the scene yet, so Rick Wright relies strictly on his snake-charmer organ riffs to enhance the spooky, ethereal mood. Barrett utilizes pure, acid-drenched weirdness to make the most unearthly sounds possible with very little electronic enhancement. Legions of groups would take their cue from the advances made by Pink Floyd during this time, and LONDON makes it easy to see why.
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