Rob Price
Gutbrain Records
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2025 December 15 • Monday

A genuine oddity from the 1960s, the music from softcore hippie exploitation flick Psychedelic Sex Kicks is the 887th Soundtrack of the Week.

Who made this music? It's not so clear. There are credits for Mark Ewdy on sitar ("zitar"), Jim Mullins on tabla and Oboe Reed on electronic effects and maybe that's the whole story.

All the music itself sounds improvised and mostly features the sounds of Indian classical music if not its forms. Someone is playing tamboura in here as well, of course, and maybe even a drum kit sometimes in addition to tabla.

Every track is this mixture of faux-Indian noodling with occasional electronic fooling around. It isn't bad but it isn't compelling, either.

The tellingly initialed Lysergic Sitar Delusions is one of the few truly instrumental pieces, while most others feature some kind of voice-over narration, whether it's in the form of a square male voice talking about what a drag it is when "the only grass around is what you walk on and the only acid in town is boric" or breathy female voice intoning "Teach me love, enlightenment, pleasure".

This is an archival relic most noteworthy for its obscurity but hey it's not terrible.