I have a few albums from Mexican bands (Los Dug Dugs, Kaleidoscope, and The Spiders). The Kaleidoscope album was super hyped in the early '00s as one of the great unknown international psych records. It was impossible to find back then, but I was in a psych collectors forum and eventually found a dude in Israel who owned a copy, and we traded CD-Rs (I sent him a rip of a record he wanted, and in return, he sent me the Mexican Kaleidoscope LP). As with so many rare albums, it has since been repressed and is far easier to find.
This Polvo track is a new one to me. What's the B-side like? Did it show up on a comp?
I love Los Dug Dugs; I first heard them, along with Kaleidoscope and The Spiders on the Love, Peace & Poetry Comp of Mexican Psych (coincidentally, the Turkish comp is where I first got into that stuff). That's a killer trade!
That's a serious sludge fest (especially the pummeling bass)! Did they record an album or just a one-off 45?
No idea! The 45 is all I've come across; I'm guessing that was it just based on what little I've read on the crackdown on rock at the time in Mexico.
I have a few albums from Mexican bands (Los Dug Dugs, Kaleidoscope, and The Spiders). The Kaleidoscope album was super hyped in the early '00s as one of the great unknown international psych records. It was impossible to find back then, but I was in a psych collectors forum and eventually found a dude in Israel who owned a copy, and we traded CD-Rs (I sent him a rip of a record he wanted, and in return, he sent me the Mexican Kaleidoscope LP). As with so many rare albums, it has since been repressed and is far easier to find.
This Polvo track is a new one to me. What's the B-side like? Did it show up on a comp?
Here you go!
Side B: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSrYgdQ2MKQ
And later, from 1975:
Side A: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSrYgdQ2MKQ
Side B: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gd_swVJrNQw
I love Los Dug Dugs; I first heard them, along with Kaleidoscope and The Spiders on the Love, Peace & Poetry Comp of Mexican Psych (coincidentally, the Turkish comp is where I first got into that stuff). That's a killer trade!
Yeah, I definitely prefer the rawness of the '71 A-side to its B-side or the '75 re-recorded ones!
Those L,P, & P comps are superb. I think the Turkish one was the 1st one I heard as well!