Get out your paisley shirts and love beads, it's something for the psyche-rock fan or even the most jaded collector of sixties music. This is the third compilation in the tip-top (if unfortunately named) Love, Peace and Poetry series. Previous ones featured North and South American psychedelic music, and this may be the most indispensable yet, dredging up ultra obscure psychedelia from record collectors hell and few will know more than a couple of these tunes.

In the sixties and early seventies, psyche-rock and garage punk splattered across the globe in much the same way as dance and rave culture has in the nineties, and spawned amazing music scenes in places as obscure as Cambodia, Turkey, Korea, Japan and Singapore. Probably even Mars and Siberia as well!

For further examples of Asiatic hippies, check Godzilla verses Hedora (1971), which is a great film for over the top monster fights - but I digress.

Some personal highlights - and it is not easy to pick - include The Fentones with Simla Beat Theme, which hailed from India in 1971, and was taken from an Indian rolling paper company's Battle of the Bands LP; Mogollar's Katip Arzvhalim yaz yar boyle from 1971 Turkey, for it's supremely chilled guitar and percussion fest; also, the unknown Cambodian artist from side one; The Quest's 26 miles, astonishingly from 1967, shows San Francisco to have spread it's spores as far afield as Singapore even at this early stage.

All this, and it is on the coolest vinyl I've seen in years. The next person who says the best music only comes from the US and the UK gets a kick-in, mannnnn!