Ozric Tentacles - Vitamin Enhanced [6CD Remastered Box Set] (1993/2021)
Artist: Ozric Tentacles
Title: Vitamin Enhanced
Year Of Release: 1993/2021
Label: Kscope
Genre: Progressive Rock, Space Rock, Psychedelic Rock
Quality: 320 kbps / FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 6:21:02
Total Size: 881 mb / 2.19 gb
WebSite: Album Preview
Title: Vitamin Enhanced
Year Of Release: 1993/2021
Label: Kscope
Genre: Progressive Rock, Space Rock, Psychedelic Rock
Quality: 320 kbps / FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 6:21:02
Total Size: 881 mb / 2.19 gb
WebSite: Album Preview
Pioneering British band Ozric Tentacles have announced a special reissue of their classic cassette album collection ‘Vitamin Enhanced’ will be released on 9th April via Kscope. A six CD edition complete with a carefully curated book, each album has been lovingly remastered by the Ozrics long-time leader, Ed Wynne at his Blue Bubble studios in Scotland, the first time in their long history he has been able to personally mix and master the tracks. A mainstay of the UK festival scene since the early 80’s, Ozric Tentacles weave psychedelic audio-tapestries that captured the far reaching musical diversity of the free festival scene, blending acid rock with dub, reggae, ethnic world music and electronic, jazzy experimentation. This was the soundtrack to the herb fragranced, alternative lifestyle that wound its way around country lanes looking for a place to set up and party, away from the psychoses of corporate life.
A raggle-taggle, unpretentious assortment of punk-infused, dreadlocked hippies, the band was formed at the Stonehenge Festival in 1983. Ed and Roly Wynne, Nick Van Gelder (Tig) and Gavin Griffiths (at that point known as the Bolshem People) were joined for a jam by Joie ‘Ozroonuiculator’ Hinton - a synth wizard who had just returned from India loaded with ethnic sound recordings that he had collected.
At some point, having attracted an audience, someone asked what the name of the new ensemble was, and Ed responded ‘Ozric Tentacles’ mainly because he couldn’t think of anything else. The name stuck and a mainstay of the UK festival scene for the next 30 years was born. Without any desire or need for a record label, it was the Ozric Tentacles' cassette releases that funded and supported their journey through the ‘80s. These simple artefacts with photo copied inserts and rainbow, spray painted labels were sold in vast quantities at festivals, on the merchandise table at Club Dog and through a mail order outlet called Better Days Tape distribution.
So treasured were the bands six cassette albums that in ‘94, just after the Ozrics hit the big time, the albums were remastered and packaged together in a six CD box set called Vitamin Enhanced which was sold in a limited edition of 5000 copies on the band’s Dovetail Records label.
More than 30 years after that initial jam, the band are still going strong despite many line-up changes and the everchanging vagaries of the music industry and Vitamin Enhanced is to be reissued, bringing confusion to breakfast buyers once more. All six of the albums have been carefully remastered, ensuring that they have never sounded better.
“So…here we are and there you go. Once again, these six albums go out into the world, with new ears!
This latest fourth incarnation of what became known as the 'Vitamin Enhanced Box Set' is the first time I’ve personally had a chance to really make th e frequencies and spaces shine bright enough on these tunes to satisfy my ears. I hope you have as much fun listening as I did enhancing!! Be well and shine bright!'' Ed Wynne, Ozric Tentacles.
A raggle-taggle, unpretentious assortment of punk-infused, dreadlocked hippies, the band was formed at the Stonehenge Festival in 1983. Ed and Roly Wynne, Nick Van Gelder (Tig) and Gavin Griffiths (at that point known as the Bolshem People) were joined for a jam by Joie ‘Ozroonuiculator’ Hinton - a synth wizard who had just returned from India loaded with ethnic sound recordings that he had collected.
At some point, having attracted an audience, someone asked what the name of the new ensemble was, and Ed responded ‘Ozric Tentacles’ mainly because he couldn’t think of anything else. The name stuck and a mainstay of the UK festival scene for the next 30 years was born. Without any desire or need for a record label, it was the Ozric Tentacles' cassette releases that funded and supported their journey through the ‘80s. These simple artefacts with photo copied inserts and rainbow, spray painted labels were sold in vast quantities at festivals, on the merchandise table at Club Dog and through a mail order outlet called Better Days Tape distribution.
So treasured were the bands six cassette albums that in ‘94, just after the Ozrics hit the big time, the albums were remastered and packaged together in a six CD box set called Vitamin Enhanced which was sold in a limited edition of 5000 copies on the band’s Dovetail Records label.
More than 30 years after that initial jam, the band are still going strong despite many line-up changes and the everchanging vagaries of the music industry and Vitamin Enhanced is to be reissued, bringing confusion to breakfast buyers once more. All six of the albums have been carefully remastered, ensuring that they have never sounded better.
“So…here we are and there you go. Once again, these six albums go out into the world, with new ears!
This latest fourth incarnation of what became known as the 'Vitamin Enhanced Box Set' is the first time I’ve personally had a chance to really make th e frequencies and spaces shine bright enough on these tunes to satisfy my ears. I hope you have as much fun listening as I did enhancing!! Be well and shine bright!'' Ed Wynne, Ozric Tentacles.
:: TRACKLIST ::
01. Velmwend (2021 Ed Wynne Remaster) (4:39)
02. Fast Dots (2021 Ed Wynne Remaster) (3:47)
03. Thyroid (2021 Ed Wynne Remaster) (5:07)
04. Spiral Mind (2021 Ed Wynne Remaster) (3:35)
05. Synth On A Plinth (2021 Ed Wynne Remaster) (2:00)
06. Dharma Reggae (2021 Ed Wynne Remaster) (4:58)
07. Tidal Otherness (2021 Ed Wynne Remaster) (5:40)
08. Erpriff (2021 Ed Wynne Remaster) (1:38)
09. Descension (2021 Ed Wynne Remaster) (5:02)
10. Misty Gliss (2021 Ed Wynne Remaster) (4:34)
11. Dots Thots (2021 Ed Wynne Remaster) (4:30)
12. Clock Drops (2021 Ed Wynne Remaster) 02:48)
13. Five Jam (2021 Ed Wynne Remaster) (6:55)
14. Oddhamshaw (2021 Ed Wynne Remaster) (6:15)
15. Og-Ha-Be (2021 Ed Wynne Remaster) (4:41)
16. Shards Of Ice (2021 Ed Wynne Remaster) (3:50)
17. Sniffing Dog (2021 Ed Wynne Remaster) (6:32)
18. Music To Gargle At (2021 Ed Wynne Remaster) (3:30)
19. Atmosphear (2021 Ed Wynne Remaster) (4:32)
20. Ethereal Cereal (2021 Ed Wynne Remaster) (2:15)
21. Ullular Gate (2021 Ed Wynne Remaster) (4:26)
22. Tentacles Of Erpmind (2021 Ed Wynne Remaster) (:35)
23. Trees Of Eternity (2021 Ed Wynne Remaster) (7:23)
24. Mescalito (2021 Ed Wynne Remaster) (4:04)
25. Oddhamshaw Style (2021 Ed Wynne Remaster) (1:53)
26. Become The Otter (2021 Ed Wynne Remaster) (5:00)
27. Gnuthlia (2021 Ed Wynne Remaster) (5:26)
28. Sorry Style (2021 Ed Wynne Remaster) (3:45)
29. The Aum Shuffle (2021 Ed Wynne Remaster) (3:02)
30. Erpriff (Glastonbury Oct `85) (2021 Ed Wynne Remaster) (9:27)
31. Tentacular Explosion (live in Reading Dec 1985) (2021 Ed Wynne Remaster) (10:07)
32. Stupid Reggae (Glastonbury Oct `85) (2021 Ed Wynne Remaster) (6:16)
33. Aumriff (Mantric mutterings in which Tig evaporates) (live in Reading Dec 1985) (2021 Ed Wynne Remaster) (4:37)
34. Obstacular Explosion (live in Reading Feb 1986) (2021 Ed Wynne Remaster) (13:42)
35. Og-Ha-Be (Glastonbury Oct `85) (2021 Ed Wynne Remaster) (8:38)
36. Dots Thots (live in Reading Sept 1985) (2021 Ed Wynne Remaster) (4:50)
37. Erpitaph (Feb `86) (2021 Ed Wynne Remaster) (3:45)
38. The Sacred Turf (2021 Ed Wynne Remaster) (3:13)
39. O-I (2021 Ed Wynne Remaster) (4:42)
40. Jabular (2021 Ed Wynne Remaster) (3:53)
41. Staring At The Moon (2021 Ed Wynne Remaster) (4:47)
42. Airy Area (2021 Ed Wynne Remaster) (3:42)
43. Travelling The Great Circle (2021 Ed Wynne Remaster) (4:04)
44. Imhotep (2021 Ed Wynne Remaster) (11:56)
45. Thrashing Breath Texture (2021 Ed Wynne Remaster) (3:31)
46. Crab Nebula (2021 Ed Wynne Remaster) (5:39)
47. Lull Your Skull (2021 Ed Wynne Remaster) (3:01)
48. Invisible Carpet (2021 Ed Wynne Remaster) (5:47)
49. The Eternal Wheel (2021 Ed Wynne Remaster) (9:53)
50. Kola B`Pep (2021 Ed Wynne Remaster) (6:36)
51. There Is Nothing (2021 Ed Wynne Remaster) (1:15)
52. Yaboop Yaboop (2021 Ed Wynne Remaster) (5:25)
53. Soda Water (2021 Ed Wynne Remaster) (4:09)
54. The Code For Chickendon (2021 Ed Wynne Remaster) (4:59)
55. Guzzard (2021 Ed Wynne Remaster) (2:04)
56. The Dusty Pouch (2021 Ed Wynne Remaster) (4:21)
57. Sliding And Gliding (2021 Ed Wynne Remaster) (4:53)
58. Kick Muck (2021 Ed Wynne Remaster) (5:29)
59. It's A Hup-Ho World (2021 Ed Wynne Remaster) (6:41)
60. Atmospheric Underslunky (2021 Ed Wynne Remaster) (3:32)
61. (Omnidirectional) Bhadra (2021 Ed Wynne Remaster) 02:58)
62. Fetch Me The Pongmaster (2021 Ed Wynne Remaster) (6:11)
63. Mae Hong Song (2021 Ed Wynne Remaster) (3:18)
64. White Rhino Tea (2021 Ed Wynne Remaster) (4:05)
65. Loaf Jaw (2021 Ed Wynne Remaster) (1:10)
66. The Green Island (2021 Ed Wynne Remaster) (3:01)
67. Eye Of Adia (2021 Ed Wynne Remaster) (4:23)
68. Fragmentary Aura (2021 Ed Wynne Remaster) (3:09)
69. Sparkling Oasis (2021 Ed Wynne Remaster) (4:30)
70. Tidal Otherness (2021 Ed Wynne Remaster) (:58)
71. Secret Names (2021 Ed Wynne Remaster) (5:23
72. Symetricum (2021 Ed Wynne Remaster) (4:37)
73. Floating Seeds (2021 Ed Wynne Remaster) (5:40)
74. Ozrosis (2021 Ed Wynne Remaster) (2:31)
75. Wreltch (2021 Ed Wynne Remaster) (8:29)
76. Afterswish (2021 Ed Wynne Remaster) (2:41)
77. Koh Phangan (2021 Ed Wynne Remaster) (7:09)
78. The Cave Of Aeolas (2021 Ed Wynne Remaster) (5:51)
79. Puff Puff On A Chuff Chuff (2021 Ed Wynne Remaster) (2:13)
80. Health Music (2021 Ed Wynne Remaster) (4:44)
Six Ed Wynne Remastered Albums From Psychedelic Experimentalists Ozric Tentacles
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