The Binson Echorec was a major part of Pink Floyd’s sound, especially in the early days. A spinning magnetic drum recorded sound on one side and then played the sound as that part of the drum rotated to the other side, producing an echo delay or reverb effect depending on the dials and switches. Syd Barrett used it for psychedelic echo effects on songs such as “Interstellar Overdrive”, David Gilmour continued from there and developed his own style. Richard Wright and Roger Waters used it as well.

The Echorec was part of David Gilmour’s guitar rig up through the Animals album and tour. As one can imagine from the spinning drum mechanism very closely surrounded by recording and playback heads, the Binson Echorec was a delicate device, not built to handle the rigors of touring. Although he was considered the expert among the band and crew in calibrating it, he became tired of having to do so and after the Animals tour started using newer digital technology. Although no longer using the Echorec, delay continued to be a Gilmour signature component in songs such as “Another Brick in the Wall” and “Run Like Hell”.

Notable uses of the Echorec on bass include “One of These Days”, where Waters played quarter notes which were repeated by the Echorec to form the eighth notes between them, and “Echoes”, where Waters used a steel slide on the strings of the bass and fed the sound through the Echorec to create the ambient background noises during the song’s freeform section.

Exit Hippies

Psychedelic noise punk from Japan. These kids are pretty heavily influenced by the techno scene, they mix it into their noise punk. I have a few of their records and at times the noize fizzles right out into a full out techno break beat break down until the distorted crying guitar comes squeeling back in drums crashing it back into the fucking punk. Philosophical lyrics like ‘nothing is everything’. This is noise punk on acid. Some other bands do this philosophical techno noise thing too, like no statik and lotus fucker. Unique twist on the psychedelic noise punk vein that has hero’s like People.

Allow yourself to be mesmerized by these enthralling psychedelic drawings by Pablo Amaringo! 

Pablo became well-known all around the world with the 1991 publication of the book ‘Ayahuasca Visions: The Religious Iconography of a Peruvian Shaman.’ This Peruvian self-taught painter is one of the world’s greatest visionary artists, renowned for his incredibly complex, colourful and intricate drawings of his visions from drinking the Ayahuasca brew. Pablo paints with meticulous botanical precision the Amazonian landscapes and the essential mythic content of his visions, which he received during his years of practice as an ayahuasquero. Pablo depicts spirits, magic tropical plants, unknown cities, spiritual animals, celestial realms, extra- terrestrial beings, sacred geometrical figures, sorcerers in battle with shamans, all revealed to him by ayahuasca.

Find more info on his website: http://www.ayahuascavisions.com/index.html

Allow yourself to be mesmerized by these enthralling psychedelic drawings by Pablo Amaringo! 

Pablo became well-known all around the world with the 1991 publication of the book ‘Ayahuasca Visions: The Religious Iconography of a Peruvian Shaman.’ This Peruvian self-taught painter is one of the world’s greatest visionary artists, renowned for his incredibly complex, colourful and intricate drawings of his visions from drinking the Ayahuasca brew. Pablo paints with meticulous botanical precision the Amazonian landscapes and the essential mythic content of his visions, which he received during his years of practice as an ayahuasquero. Pablo depicts spirits, magic tropical plants, unknown cities, spiritual animals, celestial realms, extra- terrestrial beings, sacred geometrical figures, sorcerers in battle with shamans, all revealed to him by ayahuasca.

Find more info on his website: http://www.ayahuascavisions.com/index.html