Various Artists: A Day in My Mind's Mind: The Kiwi Psychedelic Scene (Frenzy)

We have passed this way a few times over the years but the CDs in this Mind's Mind series – up to volume five now – disappear from shelves quickly.

So it is sensible to get this 30 song collection out there. It appeared as a limited edition double album at the time when Real Groovy celebrated it 33 1/3 birthday 2014 and we pointed to it then.

But this is a terrific collection of psyched-out pop -- two more tracks added to that vinyl version -- from the likes of Human Instinct, La De Das, Larry's Rebels, Avengers, the Smoke, Hi Revving Tongues, Timberjack Donoghue (yes, that song!) and more.

Dahli Mohammed, by Timberjack Donoghue

Many of these songs were originals and they represent considerable diversity, from the Hi Revving Tongues' driving pop-rock of Tropic of Capricorn through the sonic effects on Larry's Rebels Halloween and the blistering Indo-surf-rock with the Music Convention's Bellyboard Beat (an Elsewhere favourite) to the Brew's strange Bengal Tiger.

Bellyboard Beat, The Music Convention, 1969?

And the House of Nimrod's phasing hippie silliness on Slightly-Delic.

Slightly-Delic, by House of Nimrod

This was a period when bands and producers were really coming to terms with the possibilities and power of the studio so there are fuzzboxes, taped noises, bass mixed high, sitars and tabla (40 Watt Banana's terrific Nirvana).

As much influenced by The Move as the Beatles (actually, the latter are barely discernible influence here), this is very fine collection of Kiwi psychedelia from the time when pop-rock bands were stretching themselves.

And writing themselves into our popular culture.