VA - Psych Noir, A Journey Through Shadowed Psychedelia (A Butterboy Compilation) (4 x CDs)

PSYCH NOIR

VA - Psych Noir, A Journey Through Shadowed Psychedelia (A Butterboy Compilation) (4 x CDs)

Psychedelic music has always existed between light and darkness. While its most familiar image is one of colour, freedom and expanded consciousness, there has always been another side, a stranger, more mysterious world where experimentation turned inward and sound became a reflection of dreams, uncertainty and the human imagination.

Psych Noir, A Journey Through Shadowed Psychedelia explores that hidden landscape.

This collection is not simply a gathering of obscure psychedelic recordings. It is a journey through an alternative history of music — one where atmosphere, emotion and imagination are as important as melody and rhythm. These are recordings that explore the spaces between reality and illusion: haunting guitar textures, hypnotic rhythms, surreal arrangements and performances that create entire worlds within a few minutes of recorded sound.

The artists represented here followed a different path. Some emerged from the psychedelic explosion of the late 1960s; others appeared in underground scenes where experimentation existed away from mainstream attention. Many created music that was too unusual for commercial success but too compelling to be forgotten. Their recordings became time capsules — discoveries waiting for future generations of listeners and collectors.

Psych Noir celebrates those hidden corners of musical history.

It traces the evolution of psychedelic music beyond its colourful reputation and reveals a deeper, more cinematic tradition. This is psychedelia as mystery rather than celebration; as exploration rather than escape. These recordings often feel like musical films without images — soundtracks to imagined journeys, forgotten memories and places that exist somewhere between dreams and reality.

The importance of these recordings lies not only in their rarity, but in their creativity. They demonstrate the freedom that existed when musicians treated the studio as a laboratory and sound itself as a form of storytelling. Echo, distortion, unusual instrumentation and experimental arrangements became tools for expressing emotions that conventional songwriting could not capture.

For collectors, this is part of the enduring fascination. Each discovery represents a piece of a larger puzzle, a forgotten artist, an independent release, a lost moment of inspiration preserved against time.

Psych Noir, A Journey Through Shadowed Psychedelia is therefore more than a compilation. It is an exploration of the hidden currents that have flowed beneath popular music for more than half a century. It honours the artists who embraced uncertainty, challenged expectations and transformed darkness into something beautiful. It is music that rewards patience and close listening. Across these eighty recordings, the listener travels through the hidden corners of perception, where shadow and imagination meet. (B)

"The shadows were never empty, They were always full of sound."

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Track lists

CD1

01 Doors - The End 11:41 2026

02 Velvet Underground - Venus in Furs 5:08 1997

03 Nico - These Days 3:29 1965

04 Pink Floyd - Set The Controls for The Heart of The Sun 5:27 1968

05 Love - The Red Telephone 4:44 2026

06 Scott Walker - The Seventh Seal 4:58 2003

07 United States of America - The American Metaphysical Circus 4:57 1968

08 Zombies - Butcher's Tale (Western Front 1914) 2:45 1968

09 Van Der Graaf Generator - After The Flood 10:59 2000

10 Can - Mary, Mary So Contrary 6:16 1969

11 Comus - Diana 4:36 1971

12 Coven - Black Sabbath 3:28 1969

13 Silver Apples - Oscillations 2:47 2021

14 Doors - End of the Night 2:54 1967

15 Velvet Underground - Heroin 7:13 2012

16 Deviants - The People Suite 2:24 1969

17 Secondhand - Reality 8:43 2019

18 Nico - Winter Song 3:20 1967

19 B-key - Black Magic 6:18 2021

20 Third Ear Band - Druid One 3:47 2019

CD2

01 Neu! - Hallogallo 10:06 1972

02 Amon Duul Ii - Archangels Thunderbird 3:30 1970

03 Faust - It's A Rainy Day, Sunshine Girl 7:26 2010

04 Popol Vuh - Aguirre I (L'acrime di rei) 7:22 2010

05 Cluster - Hollywood 4:46 2026

06 Tangerine Dream - Phaedra 16:47 1973

07 Ash Ra Tempel - Amboss 19:56 1971

08 Hawkwind - Master of the Universe 6:16 1971

09 Suicide - Ghost Rider 2:32 2023

10 Goblin - Suspiria 5:57 2020

11 Swans - Stay Here 5:37 1990

12 Throbbing Gristle - Hamburger Lady 4:08 2006

13 This Heat - 24 Track Loop 5:56 1979

14 La Dusseldorf - Silver Cloud 8:02 1975

15 Can - Oh Yeah 7:22 2021

16 Heldon - In the Wake of King Fripp 6:36 1975

17 Franco Battiato - Pollution 8:49 1973

18 Peter Hammill - Red Shift 8:11 1974

19 Robert Fripp - Exposure 4:25 2024

20 Chrome - TV as Eyes 2:19 1979

CD3

01 Portishead - Roads 5:09 1994

02 Massive Attack - Angel 6:17 2008

03 Bohren & Der Club of Gore - Prowler 5:05 2016

04 Godspeed You! Black Emperor - East Hastings (Short Verison) 4:46 2023

05 Tortoise - Glass Museum 5:28 2001

06 UNKLE - Lonely Soul 8:56 1998

07 Boards of Canada - In A Beautiful Place Out in The Country 2:44 2015

08 Amon Tobin - Slowly 5:37 2000

09 Portishead - Strangers 3:58 1994

10 Notwist - Pick Up the Phone 3:55 2002

11 Low - Words 5:50 1994

12 Mazzy Star - Into Dust 5:38 1993

13 Cinematic Orchestra feat. Roots Manuva - All Things to All Men 10:59 2007

14 Cocteau Twins - Frou-Frou Foxes in Midsummer Fires 5:36 1990

15 DJ Shadow - Building Steam With a Grain of Salt 6:41 1996

16 Sigur Rós - Samskeyti 5:23 2007

17 Radiohead - How to Disappear Completely 5:56 2000

18 Tricky - Overcome 4:30 1995

19 Burial - Archangel 3:58 2007

20 Massive Attack - Teardrop 5:21 1998

CD4

01 Tim Hecker - Virginal I 6:16 2011

02 Oneohtrix Point Never - Still Life 4:53 2013

03 Haxan Cloak - Excavation (Part 1) 8:09 2018

04 Lustmord - Black Star 15:00 2000

05 Anna Von Hausswolff - The Mysterious Vanishing of Electra 6:08 2017

06 Caretaker - Libet's delay 3:26 2011

07 Forest Swords - Thor's Stone 4:31 2026

08 Ryuichi Sakamoto - async 2:44 2017

09 Nils Frahm - Says 8:18 2013

10 William Basinski - dlp 1.1 1:03:35 2002

11 Lingua Ignota - Do You Doubt Me Traitor 9:34 2019

12 Puce Mary - Red Desert 3:23 2018

13 Prurient - Dragonflies to Sew You Up 5:19 2015

14 Alva Noto - Uni sub 5:50 2018

15 Ben Frost - A Sharp Blow in Passing 5:13 2017

16 Clark - Herr Bar 3:54 2006

17 Raime - Coax 4:12 2016

18 Emptyset - Fragment 3:16 2013

19 Julianna Barwick ft. Jónsi - In Light 6:06 2020

20 Stars of the Lid - The Lonely People (Are Getting Lonelier) 10:05 2001

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Music weaves itself into the fabric of our emotions, dances through the corridors of memory, and whispers to the soul of who we are. Sharing these stories deepens the connection, turning the experience into something timeless and profound.

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