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Are you ready for your lesson in Finnish Rock history? The answer is probably not, and I’m certainly not the person to give it to you. But Psychedelic Phinland makes a wholehearted attempt at it by throwing its audience into its universe, head first. Stylistically all over the map, the word “psychedelic” is a little misleading for this compilation. While not overtly attached to its namesake, its eclectic extremes do help explain a little about where Dungen are coming from, and how Circle can characterize their enormous gamut of music as heavy metal. Yet simply knowing that this was all created by or in response to a radical counter culture is not enough context, allowing many of the tracks on these CDs to be complete head-scratchers. Disc one begins with several mainstream tracks full of drug allusions and hippie parody. Ranging from über-bubblegum to the seemingly vaudeville-inspired, these tracks are interesting enough, but it isn’t until well into the disc that we actually hear what we’ve come to expect of Finnish psychedelic music. Resembling Krautrock, in addition to R&B-inspired acts like Cream and the Groundhogs, bands like Blues Section, Wigwam, and Baby Grandmothers are excellent examples of the genre, but unfortunately they only represent about a sixth of this collection. It’s part of Psychedelic Phinland’s agenda to cover all sects of Finish counter culture in the most didactic way possible. Also represented on disc one, although buried within another round of tr

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Psychedelic Phinland: Finnish Hippie & Underground Music 1967 - 1974\CD2

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Psychedelic Phinland (Disc 2)

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Psychedelic Phinland

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Psychedelic Phinland [Disc 2]

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Psychedelic Phinland: Finnish Hippie & Underground Music 1967-1974

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Psychedelic Phinland: Finnish Hippie & Underground Music 1967-1974 Disc 2

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Psychedelic Phinland - Finnish Hippie & Underground Music 1967-1974

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Psychedelic Phinland: Finnish Hippie & Underground Music 1967 - 1974 (Disc 2)

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Psychedelic Phinland: Finnish Hippie & Underground Music 1967 - 1974

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Psychedelic Phinland: Finnish Hippie and Underground Music 1967-1974 (Disc 2)

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Psychedelic Phinland Finnish Hippie & Underground Music 1967-1974 CD2

Psychedelic Phinland: Finnish Hippie & Underground Music 1967-1974 (disc 2)

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