Name: The Bits Between the Bits
Brand: Ozric Tentacles

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

SMALP1044

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black

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Rough Trade Exclusive: No

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2017-02-11

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Signed copies: No

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Ozric Tentacles

Genre GB

Prog Rock

Label GB

Madfish

1989’s The Bits Between the Bits was the final Ozrics cassette release and was essentially a collection of various previously unreleased recordings from ‘85 – ‘89, released whilst the band readied their Pungent Effulgent album. That recording made in Wales at Dave Anderson’s Demi Monde Studios, conceived &amp; recorded almost entirely on magic mushrooms, was to commence a whole new era for the band.

A raggle-taggle, unpretentious assortment of punk-infused, dreadlocked hippies, since 1983 the Ozric Tentacles wove psychedelic audio-tapestries that captured the almost dangerous musical diversity of the free festival scene, blending acid rock with dub, reggae, ethnic world music &amp; electronic, jazzy experimentation.

This was the soundtrack to the herbfragranced, 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.

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 photocopied inserts &amp; rainbow spray-painted labels were sold in vast quantities at festivals, on the merchandise table at Club Dog &amp; through a mail order outlet.

The Bits Between the Bits

Music GB