Let The Electric Children Play: Underground Story Let The Electric Children Play: Underground Story CD

UK three CD set that tells the story of the so-called "underground" era of one of Britain's great independent record labels of the 1960s and 1970s, Transatlantic Records. In the heady atmosphere of the late 1960s, the sea change in British popular music spearheaded by the Beatles experimentation on the Sergeant Pepper album and swiftly followed by the likes of Cream, Pink Floyd, Traffic, Family, Procol Harum, Jethro Tull and a host of groups and musicians who followed in their footsteps led to the album being seen as the medium in which "serious" musicians would explore and develop their craft. The apparently disparate genres of blues, jazz, rock, folk and even world music were fused together by many diverse acts all of whom were eager to be regarded as progressive in their musical approach. The so-called "underground" audience eagerly consumed this music, which sat alongside the social changes that were also taking place. In the UK, the major labels established imprints such as Harvest, Vertigo and Deram to market music to this audience, inspired by the vision of independent labels such as Island Records. Another, smaller British independent label also swiftly tapped in to this new musical movement, Transatlantic Records. This proudly independent imprint, founded in 1961 by Nat Joseph, looked beyond it's initial folk, jazz and blues output to sign a distinctly quirky and diverse roster of "underground" acts. Between 1968 and 1976 Transatlantic explored all aspects of the progressive and "underground" scenes; from the heavy groups such as The Deviants, Jody Grind, Little Free Rock and Stray, to the acts on the fringes of folk and rock such as Pentangle, Mr Fox, Alan Hull, The Humblebums, Gryphon and Carolanne Pegg, to jazz rockers such as Circus and Marsupilami.

1. We Can Swing Together - Alan Hull 2. II B.S. - Circus 3. Midsummer Night?S Happening - the Sallyangie 4. Light Flight - Pentangle 5. Billy the Monster - the Deviants 6. Paint It Black - Jody Grind 7. Norwegian Wood - Circus 8. Obadiah?S Grave - Alan Hull 9. Lucifer?S Cage - Gordon Giltrap 10. Once I Had a Sweetheart - Pentangle 11. Metamorphosis Explosion - the Deviants 12. Saturday Roundabout Sunday (Single Version) - the Humblebums 13. Makin? Time - Little Free Rock 14. Mona (A Fragment) - Mick Farren 15. Plastic Shit - Jody Grind 16. All in Your Mind - Stray 17. Born to Be Free - Marsupilami 18. We?Ve Had It - Jody Grind 19. Mice and Rats in the Loft - Jan Dukes de Grey 20. Homage to the God of Light - Peter Bardens 21. Around the World in 80 Days - Stray 22. Mendle - Mr. Fox 23. Prelude to the Arena - Marsupilami 24. Don?T Ever Give Up Trying - Unicorn 25. Reflection - Pentangle 26. Skin Valley Serenade - Skin Alley 27. Tear Down the Wall - Peter Bardens 28. Son of the Father - Stray 29. Don?T Count Me Out - Gerry Rafferty 30. Nick?S Seven - Skin Alley 31. Song from the 4th Era - Cmu 32. A Distant Thought, a Point of Light - Cmu 33. The Ungodly - Decameron 34. Fair Fortune?S Star - Carolanne Pegg 35. Move It (Single Version) - Stray 36. Shelter - Renia 37. Opening Move - Gryphon 38. Journey?S End - Decameron 39. Criminal World - Metro