Episodes
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Black Blind Light Mixtape
A new mix of acoustic and lysergic folk music. Tracklist: Thomas Mera Gartz - En Lycklig Sång Poor Richard - The Gulls Amory Kane - Four Ravens (single version) Yellow Autumn - Energy Spilld Mjölk - Glasverandan Glenn Saiger - Dark Side of the Moon Art Gee - Tea Gardens All That the Name Implies…
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The Meek Shall Inherit the Earth
A new episode to start off the new year, which we surely hope will be a better year. Here we listen to a mixed bag of new discoveries/finds from 2020, including some UK folk, privately pressed westcoast psych, dreamy pop-psych and funky Swedish blues. We also have the honor to play the new single...
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The Wheel Turns On Mixtape
A new mix of privately pressed US and Canadian folk and folk-rock. We also included a few Swedish progg numbers and a great westcoast-sounding band from Japan. Tracklist: Summer Madness - In the Hills of Shiloh Trees - Psalm 46 Handgjort - Worlds on Fire Doug McArthur - One-Eyed Walden David...
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Interview with Paul Tescher
Paul Tescher has been collecting records for a long time and started already in the 80s to deal in obscure music. As part of the first generation underground collector he has seen the evolution of the collectors scene, from the beginning to what it is today. In this interview we talk about how he...
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Interview with Mark Sabol
We've been in contact with Mark Sabol of Mark and Suzann Farmer for over a year and finally we found the time to record an interview with him. Mark and Suzann Farmer recorded one album, We've Been There, in 1978, which is still pretty obscure among collectors. It is mostly known for the moody...
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Music in Isolation
Although we officially called it a quit with our 80th episode last summer, we're back with a one-off episode for all of you who are in a lockdown/quarantine or to everyone who just wants to hear some new music. This episode presents records acquired since the last show and includes a mixed bag of...
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Natural Highs Mixtape
A mix of back-to-nature folk, eastern-tinged psych and acoustic improvisations. "Nature's beauty is so astonishing, makes you want to be around it all the time, you know it's even been known to make people high" – Jerry and Nancy Stevens Tracklist: Children of One - Eastern Cloth (Real Records,...
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Full Circle - An Interview with Paul Major
We are honored to have Paul Major with us for the 80th and final episode of Arkivet. Paul has been one of the most influential persons for this podcast as the guru of obscure psychedelic and private press records. In order to have a collector scene, context and coherency are key elements and Paul...
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Westcoast Jams
Here we engulf ourselves in some westcoast jams, with bands that doesn't necessarily have to come from the west coast but all playing that laid-back breezy Californian vibe. Among the highlights of the show is the extremely rare self-titled mini-album by Al Manfredi, which he pressed in about 100...
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Swedish Psychedelic Music Part 2
We seldom highlight music from our home country but in this episode we turn the spotlight on some Swedish underground and psychedelic bands. In the episode we listen to some of the most obscure bands of the Swedish underground, like Paul Edoh's Class Breakers, which only release was a test…
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Late Night Vibes
In this episode we go into a late-night mood with some nocturnal psychedelic and private press records. For many of the artists featured in this episode the information is scarce and most of them are still flying under-the-radar, so we hope to shed some light on these great records and hopefully...
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Not Your Average Joe
We have put together an eclectic mix of unique artistic expressions in this show. The tracks doesn't follow a specific genre but all are from the parallel universe of privately pressed music. For the episode we've also been in contact with Garrett Schroeder who helped us to fill in some gaps...
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The Perennial Philosophy Mix
A new mix of folk, spiritual psych and post-hippie mindsets. Aldous Huxley – Excerpt from Visionary Experience Vol. II Sounds of Salvation – Love III Hosanna – Why Are Thou Disquieted? Brent Titcomb – Tibetan Bells Murari – The One Who Loves Me Best The Two Rivers! – Cast Out From the Castle…
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Mystery Jukebox with Jens Unosson
In this episode we introduce a new concept for the podcast and we call it the Mystery Jukebox. The idea is simple, we let a collector or listener send us a secret playlist, which we have no pre-knowledge about and let the selector take us on a journey to the unknown. After we have listened and...
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Cosmic American Music Part 2
Here we return yet again to the concept of Cosmic American Music, as we didn't have the time to play you all of the tracks in part 1. In this second part, we mix lesser-known records with some true classics as well as revisiting a few artists that we have already listened to in pervious episodes....
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It's Completely Hypnotic
We're thrilled to finally have our friend Anders Alexander with us on the show. Anders is a record collector and dealer from Southern Sweden (now living in Stockholm) who's been hunting records since the 80s. Nowadays he sells records under the name Vinylkatten at record fairs and in his own…
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Let's Get Personal
We've been doing this podcast for over five years now and recorded 70 episodes, including 23 interviews with other collectors and musicians. Over the years some have asked us about how we got into collecting records, so in this episode we're going to tell you about our personal musical journeys…
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Cosmic American Music Part 1
Inspired by Numero Group's compilation Cosmic American Music we felt we wanted to do a take on that theme. However, as neither of us have so much country records in our collections this episode turned out to be a little bit more eclectic with songs inspired by American roots music in general, so…
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DJ-set with Paul Major
This is part of a DJ-set that we did together with Paul Major at Geronimo's FGT in Stockholm, July 2018. Darius - I Feel the Need to Carry On St John Green - Canyon Woman Daisy Chain - All Because of You Anonymous - Who's Been Foolin'? Jade Stone and Luv - Reality Marcus - Sweet Inspiration New...
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News From the Singles Department Part 2
Here we continue to explore some great psych 45s (press here for part 1). The focus in Part 1 was more on heavy psych and hard rock while in this epsiode we listen to some classic psych and folk-psych sounding singles. We also do a follow-up on Conception (which we included in Part 1) as we been…
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Interview with Lance Barresi
We're so glad to have Lance Barresi of Permanent Records joining the show again. Last time we spoke was more than a year ago and a lot has happen since. In this episode we focus on the newly released "Sixth Trip" of the Brown Acid Compilation Series and we listen to five tracks from this volume....
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News From the Singles Department
This episode doesn't follow a particular theme but instead focus around some recently acquired 45s. Although the theme is not clear it turned out to be a pretty heavy episode with some hard rock-sounding tunes, like Babylon, Rebel Woman and Lovin' You (which was recently included on the Brown…
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Interview with Reine Fiske
Reine Fiske is well-known as a musician in various bands and musical constellations, most notable as the guitarist of Dungen, Träden and The Amazing. Besides his own musicianship, Reine has long been a devoted record collector with an impressive collection of experimental, psychedelic and...
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What's the Concept?
The concept album format really started to evolve during the psychedelic era of the late '60s, and reached its height in the progressive scene of the early '70s, where the album became the main artistic expression. Here, we highlight some unusual concept and context-based albums, with some…
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Psych Records on a Shoestring
We're continuing our series of episodes of cheap quality records. In this episode, we're mainly focusing on psych 45s but we also included a few full length LPs, which all coast around $10 and are easy to find. As usual, the bulk of the artists are from the US but we also mix it up with some...
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Not On Discogs
For this episode we've put together a selection of lesser-known or possibly unknown (?) records. It's a strange mix of strange music with all possible genres, including real people, lounge-psych, dreamy psych-pop, breezy soft-rock, folk and hard rock. Dr. Fuzz (Flippist, 1977) -I'll Be There at…
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Guitar Wizards
In this episode, we celebrate the guitar and highlight some of our favorite guitarists. It's not only through epic guitar solos and technical skill that make you a great guitarist, instead it's about creating a mood and a feeling through your instrument. The guitarists featured in this episode…
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Summer Special - Not One Bummer the Whole Summer
Summer is here (and is almost over in Sweden) so we put together a special episode with some favorite summer tunes. The selection in today's show is not only sunshine pop and breezy vibes but instead we cover a broad range of styles, including heavy Swedish progg, real people, private press…
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The Wild Adventures of the Strange Man - Interview with Michal Hasek
This is an interview with the Canadian singer-songwriter Michal Hasek, who did several privately pressed albums and performed all over Canada and the US during the '70s and '80s. In this interview, he share some of the stories from his time as a traveling musician, including hanging out with Alan...
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As We Travel Mixtape – Hippie Anthems and Lysergic Manifestations
We've put together a new mix of mind-manifesting music, including some singer-songwriter tunes, communal folk, hippie idealism and plenty of hand drums. Thrower, Spillane and McFarland – Crow (Ranger, 1973) F.B. Worster – Autumn's Child (MPI, 1974) Turid –Stjärnor och Änglar (Silence, 1975)...
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Episode 15 - More Than Motown, The Private Press Sound of Michigan
Our friend Rodney Pate sits in with us on this episode to talk about Michigan area bands from the '60s and '70s. Rod is a DJ and collector from Ann Arbor Michigan, and has been focusing on collecting local private press records. He also has his own radio show, Right On Radio at the long running...
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Episode 14 – The Affordable Care Act, an Exclusive Selection of Cheap Quality Records
In this episode Viktor take a stand for the cheap record and have picked out some affordable but still great singer-songwriter and folk albums for the show. In this age of high-bidding eBay auctions, record flippers and monster rarities everywhere it is easy to forget the vast amount of cheap...
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Episode 13 - A new age for New Age? Interview with Douglas Mcgowan
In this episode we talk to Douglas Mcgowan of Numero Group about the misunderstood genre of New Age music. Douglas is the curator of the New Age compilations, "I Am the Center" and "The Microcosm" and he also runs the successful reissue labels, Yoga Records and Ethereal Sequence, which have...
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Episode 12 - Psychedelic Folk Music!
Folk music played an important role in the development of psychedelic rock and folk musicians were part of introducing psychedelics to mainstream popular culture in the mid-'60s, which until then had only been known among "bohemian jetsetters" and academics. In this episode we play some favorite...
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Episode 11 - Getting Heavy With Lance Barresi, '70s Hard Rock and Heavy Psych
We are proud to have Lance Barresi from Permanent Records as our special guest editor in this episode and he has put together a great tracklist for us with a lot of rare hard rock and heavy psych bands. The majority of the cuts are taken from the Brown Acid compilations, a project that he runs...
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Episode 10 - Welcome to the Psychedelic Lounge, an Introduction to Lounge Music with Stefan Kéry
This episode we dedicate to Lounge music and due to the vastness of Lounge albums being released we have invited the expert Stefan Kéry for a proper introduction to this brand of music. Lounge differs from many other types of music as it is not a music genre, style or a scene but is instead…
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Episode 9 - Going Down The Garage-Psych Rabbit Hole with Måns P Månsson Part 2
In the last part of our two episodes with Måns P Månsson we focus more on the music and keep the talking to a minimum, as this is jam-packed with great garage-psych singles that Måns have picked out for the show. The selection is a mix of major label artists and obscure local presses, and…
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Episode 8 - Going Down The Garage-Psych Rabbit Hole with Måns P Månsson Part 1
In this episode we're joined by the psychedelic expert Måns P Månsson and he brought some amazing garage-psych 45s from his exceptional collection to play for us. We also took the chance to ask him a little bit about his own music and the garage scene in 1980s, as well as the Stockholm based...
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Interview with Paul Major
Paul Major is one of the originators to obscure psych and private press collecting and many of the records he found and documented are now seen as classics, such as Fraction, Peter Grudzien and Marcus. Paul started buying records when the psychedelic movement was at its peak in the late 60s,...
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Arkivet Podcast Christmas Special – Highlights From the First Season
In this extra-long Christmas special episode, we do a recap of the first season (which we did in Swedish) and highlight some of our favorite music from the episodes. We have picked one or two songs that we like the most, with many being all-time favorites, from each of the episodes to include…
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Episode 7 - On the Airways of Imagination, A Continuous Exploration of Psychedelic Pop Music
We haven't focused much on pop oriented songs lately so we thought we needed a psychedelic pop episode in this season. This sub-genre of psychedelic music is to our minds strongly linked to major label and with that also a bigger production and more commercial appeal compared to many private…
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Episode 6 - DIY and Homemade Recordings in the 1980s
In this episode we focus on the very end of the first psychedelic period, namely the early 1980s. This period still links to the mindset of the late 60s but without becoming retro. Today's selection is a mixed bag of DIY and later-phase hippie music. Genres in this episode includes folk-rock,...
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Episode 5 - The Heavy Metal Kids, Hard Rock and Heavy Psych Sounds Part 2
Here we continue to explore some more obscure heavy psych and hard rock singles. Except for the US artists in the episode, we also included two rare Swedish singles by Alexander Lucas and Zane as well as the UK band, Wolfrilla. There are a lot of new favorites for us in this episode and we hope...
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Episode 4 - The Heavy Metal Kids, Hard Rock and Heavy Psych Sounds Part 1
This is the first part in our short exposé of heavy psychedelia and hard rock in the late 60s and early 70s. This is a subject we haven't discussed previously so therefore we're going to dedicate two episodes on this. The focus of today's episode is on private pressed singles from the US while…
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Episode 3 - Songs From Down the Hall, Singer-Songwriters of the 1970s
In this episode we continue to explore the seemingly endless singer-songwriter genre, trying to separate the wheat from the chaff. Here the main focus is on private press albums from the 1970s and the episode includes several classics of the genre, such as Alicia May and John Wonderling as well…
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Episode 2 - The Esteemed 100 Copies Society
In this episode we discuss some truly rare albums, which were originally released in 100 copies or less, making some of them highly sought-after and very pricey (if you ever get a chance to see a copy). Besides the rarity they also contain some quality psychedelic music that spans most of its...
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Episode 1 - Psychedelic Heyday: Lysergic Music from 1966 to 1969
In this first episode of season four there isn't a clear theme. We have just put together a show with some nice psychedelic music from 1966 to 1969, the short period of time when psychedelia went mainstream in our western society. We have also reduced our talking in this episode to make room for...
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Episode 9 - Kingdom of Heaven Is Within You, Spiritual and Religious Psych
In the last episode of the season we discuss religious and spiritual psychedelia. As you know, we have already talked about the Christian psychedelic scene in an earlier episode but here we take a broader perspective and tough upon some other religious and spiritual beliefs as well, including...
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Interview with Jai Ram Ransom
Jai Ram Ransom or Jim Ransom as he was known back in the ‘60s and ‘70s started his musical career at the Gaslight Café in Greenwich Village, playing alongside artists like Tom Paxton and Phil Ochs. However, in the early ‘70s Jai Ram decided that he had have enough of the east coast scene, took…
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Episode 8 - Songs from Biscuit City
Biscuit City was a folk and bluegrass label based on the 17th avenue in Denver, Colorado. The label was founded by the two New Yorkers Jim Ransom (now Jai Ram Ransom) and Laura Benson and became a pivotal part of the local Colorado folk scene. During the years 1973 to 1979 they released…
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