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Article: Random access art is a mind-altering trip from the Summer of Love to the present day
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- Scotland on Sunday
- Article date:
- August 17, 2003
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THEY called it the Summer of Love. That era-defining moment when
anything seemed possible. A moment of kaftans, inner space and mind-
altering substances.
The Beatles and The Stones may have led the way, but the real
revolution took place outside the charts. In a small sweaty club in
London's Shepherd's Bush, a group called Soft Machine played
amazingly chilled sounds to packed houses. A vital ingredient of
their show was a mind-blowing backdrop projection of constantly
moving bubbles of colour which seemed to echo the hallucinogenic,
musical and chemical gymnastics taking place inside your head.
The creators of this visual eye-candy, the essential look of
psychedelia, were a Scottish ...