on Particles May 16th

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Due soon...From the minds behind Piccadilly Sunshine, Mixed Up Minds, Upside Down, Electric Sound Show, Electric Asylum and Cornflake Zoo, Beatfreak is the pre-cursory journey through the glorious cultural dustbin where beat up pop meets paisley R&B.

Prestigious guests include pre-progressive rockers Audience in Lloyd Alexander Real Estate, a balladeer’s stab at the Pretty Things, a slab of marjorine and some RAF engineers lost in Singapore, all meeting up for an intoxicating marriage of fuzz and flute and delivered with disgraceful adolescent abandon.

Beware, it is not pretty.

Particles proudly presents a sonic showdown of rare and obscure British beat pop pleasures delivered with a whiff of R&B.

Professionally re-mastered original sound recordings with expansive liners and rare archival photos

Tracklisting: 1. Lloyd Alexander Real Estate Gonna Live Again 1967 2. The Moquettes Right String Baby, But The Wrong Yo-Yo 1964 3. The All I Don’t Go Back 1967 4. Phase 4 Listen To The Blues 1966 5. The Pentad Don’t Throw It All Away 1965 6. Bad Boys That’s What We’ll All Do 1966 7. Billy J. Kramer and The Dakotas Forgive Me 1966 8. Force Five I Want You Babe 1965 9. Billy J. Kramer and The Dakotas Chinese Girl 1967 10. Alex Harvey Curtains For My Baby 1967 11. Dick Jordan Progress 1966 12. The Pentad Silver Dagger 1965 13. The Trekkas Please Go 1966 14. Profile Got To Find A Way 1966 15. Marjorine Loving Shrine 1969 16. Red Squares Along Comes Mary 1967 17. The Cherokees I Will Never Turn My Back On You 1965 18. The Frame I

Sorry, left the last three tracks off

18. The Frame I Can’t Go On 1967 19. Split Image Don’t Go Away 1966 20. New Breed Unto Us 1965

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all these tracks bar a few have been comped before. cant they come up with new tracks instead of re hashing the same tracks over and over again. very disapointing. the first one was a bit like this one as well

Perhaps there's nothing left?

I think there's always something else but Particles seems to be just a money factory, the owners couldn't care less about the music. I haven't noticed a second box set of Piccadilly Sunshine, vols. 11-20 for instance. What does that tell you about the intent behind the first one, or the lone vol.1 of Piccadilly Sumnshine that came ou on vinyl?

The first half of Beat Freak Vol.1 is solid but the rest were pretty lame and all of them had been reissued before more than once as is the case on Vol.2 so I won't be buying it. Particles work with different people for different projects so some are better than others. Those where Particles are simply the conduit are best as the music is compiled by outside people who have access to and care about the music (e.g. the The Electric Sound Show box set, or the re-mastered Psydhedelia box set).

The random and indifferent compilation of Beat Freak and some of the others suggests in-house space filler either by the uninfomed or more likely the indifferent. I'll still go for the Curiosity Shop, Mixed Up Minds and Upside Down comps, as for me, these all seem wortwhile but Beat Freak looks tired before it's even got started!

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