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Originally released in 2002, as a live CD/DVD At The Pongmasters Ball was the first true live album to be released by Ozric Tentacles since the release in 1992 of Live Underslunky. Now, Madfish are set to give the album its first release on LP.

Recorded at the final gig of the bands 2002 sell out UK tour, this double album, presented on 180g black vinyl, captures the very essence of the Ozrics live experience with a frenzied capacity crowd at Londons Shepherds Bush Empire. The album includes classics from Ozric Tentacles vast back catalogue as well as previously unreleased material and the odd space-jam where the band free themselves from the shackles of rehearsed material and let the music wander into unknown territory.

Ozric Tentacles first came together at the Stonehenge Free Festival in 1983, and built an audience through selling privately produced cassettes of their music. Their talent for hypnotic, mantra-like grooves found kindred spirits in the British rave scene of the late 1980s, uniting the seemingly disparate New Age Hippie and Rave audiences. Despite the lack of a hit single, media notoriety or the usual music business hype, much less major-label backing, their 1993 album Jurassic Shift was a UK top twenty album, and their hardcore audience is both dedicated and loyal to the bands unique sound. At the core of the bands music is an exploration of electronic musical textures and compulsive, danceable grooves interlaced with strong melodies and multi-ethnic musical references.

Ozric Tentacles are currently promoting and touring their 2015 studio album Technicians Of The Sacred with festival appearances lined up for summer 2016.
Much more than just a homage to those hippy bands of the 70s; they are actually doing FOR REAL what those bands gave the impression of being but never really were. NME