Gruff's Welsh Rare Beat comp is genius.

Titch Gwilym died in a house fire earlier this week. His track is the Welsh national anthem played in the style of Hendrix's the Star Spangled Banner... ! Crazy stuff.

This comp has a remarkably high hit rate, top marks

My wife's primary school teacher's band!

This looks good, but with the slight caveat that the only person I've ever heard on it is Meic.

lovely, quite some songs trigger a 'wickerman ost' association (including your teacher's track, Dr. C.), Gorlfenwyd's pretty funky, the intro to Meic Stevens' "Y Crwydryn A Mi" is terrific. i'm definately going to get this comp.

I own a couple Meic Stevens albums, and they're both pretty great - Outlander in particular.

Most of this was put together by Andy Votel and Dominic from Finders Keepers... I think Gruff was only involved at a pretty late stage. Funny thing is, most of this stuff is viewed as totally cheesy, trad shit inside of Wales, if it's even remembered at all. Definitely well overdue a revival.

It's great. Y Diliau's singer was my wife's primary school teacjher, not mine. She told me how she was quite often on Welsh TV in the 70's, but I imagined from her description something more mainstream folk, less spooky.

Jason - you say that Gruff was only involved at a late stage, but he namechecked a lot of these artists and tracks in a Mojo piece around 5 years ago - including Y Diliau.

Has anyone heard Gruff's Phantom Hour mix? It's fantastic, too. He's got an incredibly encyclopedic knowledge of psychedelia, folk, and Welsh tunes.

now ill have to go back today....

i'd be well chuffed to have one, thanks!

It's a really wicked mix.

Then when I listened, I realized.. the stuff on here really nothing to do with SFA, really. Sure, you can KINDA hear where SFA were coming from, but this is basically like a Welsh Nuggets type comp, except there's more breakbeats. It's really a must for anyone who's into "early" psych-rock from places where English is not the main language. (I put "early" in quotes as I think this is mainly stuff after the groups normally associated with Nuggets yet early enough for that style to still be relevant at the time.)

In other words:
if you hate SFA, you should listen to this.
if you don't really care that much for SFA, you should listen to this.
If you love SFA, you should listen to this.