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This is nuts: https://archive.org/details/otc1993-08-08

That's (probably) the first Olivia Tremor Control live show.

More than three years prior to the other live set that I posted.

It's neat to get to hear the band in such a primal state (although, I'll be clear that it is very primal.)

Olivia Tremor Control Live at Fun-O-Mat on 1993-08-08 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

This recording comes with commentary. Kelly Hart says this is the first show under the OTC iteration; lineup was Jeff, Bill Doss, Will Hart, and Will...

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scattershot 2d ago

@ajroach42 i remember that album. Beautiful. Still have it on CD… somewhere.

@scattershot The live set is a lot of fun. The video quality is very good for 1997 and the audio quality is surprisingly good considering how much volume is happening.

@ajroach42 not much sadder than falling for a band and finding they're dead :/ i had no idea "neo-psychadelia" was a thing! i could have been listening to this all this time!

thank you. this is wonderful.

@fishidwardrobe while there is no one like them, every member of this band was involved in other bands. If you want, I can point you to some of the others.

@fishidwardrobe (also, check out Eli Pop on bandcamp)

@ajroach42 i'd love that!

@fishidwardrobe So "The Olivia Tremor Control" was part of a movement in Athens, GA called Elephant six.

That's the same group that produced Neutral Milk Hotel (which sounds *nothing* like OTC, but uses a lot of the same production techniques) and The Apples in Stereo (which shared a bunch of members with OTC, and frequently dabbles in similar spaces. Check out the album Fun Trick Noisemaker.)

Pipes You See, Pipes You Don't is a side project from OTC keyboard player.

Circulatory System is a lot of the same folks, importantly Will Cullen Hart who was half the main creative force behind OTC.

The other key creative force in OTC was Bill Doss who later formed The Sunshine Fix.

@fishidwardrobe Several of those folks drifted in and out of The Apples in Stereo. The key guy behind the Apples in Stereo was a man named Robert Schneider (no relation to the fash-ass)

If you're between ~30 and ~40, you've almost certainly heard Roberts song "Signal in the Sky" which aired *constantly* on cartoon network: https://youtu.be/qwo5diOymR0?si=Iw7f3o0pyYAXKrrz

That is not a great example of the kind of music The Apples did, but their albums vary wildly in style, so maybe nothing is a great example.

Robert had a solo project called Thee American Revolution that's really hard to find online ( so I uploaded it to peertube https://communitymedia.video/w/qwNTdD5xBEB3AtKd1z7Pth )

Powerpuff Girls ~ Signal in the sky (Let's Go) in 4K

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@fishidwardrobe

Some other bands to look into from this late 90s athens neo-psych scene include:
- The Minders
- Marbles
- Major Organ and the Adding Machine
- The Ladybug Transistor
- Elf Power
- Beulah

@ajroach42 thank you!

@fishidwardrobe You're welcome! And also I'll stop.

@fishidwardrobe I say that NMH sounds nothing like OTC, and that's mostly true.

But every once in a while, they did stuff like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXxT70VlpIU

Gardenhead/Leave Me Alone (Hype City Soundtrack)

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@ajroach42 some more immediate synergy in your list. it's not often i hear music for the first time and it sounds *right*; "yes of course that bit comes next, i should have known that".

well, i have a lot of new bands to try… 😄