Sunshine Days

There is little doubt that HELLO SUNSHINE remains the most unusual and, perhaps, least known album in the three-decade history of CTI Records.

With the 62nd edition of the Sunshine Live Sampler buyers get 60 top-class tracks on their ears. The first disc of Sunshine Live's official compilation begins with "Pizza" by Martin Garrix. A nice opener! But it does not stay that way. With tracks like "Tiësto featuring Christian Burns - In The Dark", "Hardwell feat. Alexander Tidebrink - We Are One" or "Fedde Le Grand and Dannic vs. Coco Star - Coco's Miracle" it continues with fulminant EDM. The second CD starts with music from the Netherlands. "Sander van Doorn & Alok - I House U", "Hardwell & KSHMR - Power" and "HI-LO & ALOK - Alien Technology" say hello. Wonderfully underground, but very cool and clubbig.

1967 was undoubtedly the high-water mark of the era, but the psychedelic genre's influence lingered for some while afterwards. Nevertheless, there were significant changes during that period, and by the end of the decade the British music scene had largely polarised into two distinct camps: the influence of the counterculture saw the burgeoning college/university circuit grow as "serious" pop evolved into rock, while the more exploitative, commercial element of the industry reacted to the success of manufactured bands like The Monkees to instigate a sub-genre dismissively dubbed bubblegum..