Thru The Rhythm - Original

The Fundamental Albums: “THE PSYCHEDELIC SOUND of The 13Th Floor Elevators”

“… it’s a paranoid and essentially perverse record… the music of the Elevators is breathless, claustrophobic, and oppressive. As if the doors of that elevator never really opened. Suffocating like a cotton puff soaked in paraffin shoved down the throat. No one smiles in the halls of the thirteenth floor, but it is in the belly of this skyscraper in Austin that the elevator flows, bringing up the most insane and delirious psychedelic music of the sixties.”

Oh I, Rev, I also find it amusing, it’s more compelling than oppressive… these are personal sensations, savansadir.

More than the word (the album is released simultaneously with Psychedelic Lollipop to say) in my opinion, it’s really the sound… what it should say is psychedelic. A word as misused as few others. I cannot define it, let alone… for me, it’s not a genre but an aura that blends with other sounds, granting particular “effects” both to the sound and to the listener.

This is the ALBUM… like few others.
Garage-Beat-R&B and Psychedelia… Psychedelia and Melody perfectly mixed together. Not some guitar effect or a computer randomly thrown together for 5 minutes… that’s crap, not Psychedelia.

My favorite… yes, even that one…

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