Ocean Self-titled Monster Rare Christian Folk Psych Acid LP HEAR Private? Test?

$

860

Extremely, impossibly rare and incredible Christian Psych Folk Acid LP by the group Ocean on T.D.S. Productions.  LP Catalogue number is OVL-23. Comes with just LP in plain cover.  This appears to be a test or advance or private pressing that was never commercially released but I cannot say with any authority for sure, I do not know what precisely is the backstory here.  I see no evidence on the internet of another copy of this LP ever changing hands online or even existing for that matter at least not in the past 15 years or so.  There has been one copy of a 45 by this group that sold on Discogs in 2022 for $120 (those songs are not on this LP) and one copy of the 45 "The Jesus Pill" which sold for $150 on Ebay in 2010.  "The Jesus Pill" is on here.   It would appear this LP is from the early 70s based upon what Discogs says about the 45s this group made but the sound is more like ’66-’68, since the labels don’t give the year I cannot really say for sure.  The labels also do not say but it sounds like Mono to me (I am no audio expert I could be wrong but I am pretty sure it's Mono) which was common for LPs up until about ’68 but not so by the early 70s (still common for 45s in the 70s), so take that into consideration.   This was manufactured in New Jersey.  I have burned both sides and you can make your own play-grade assessment, see the links below.  This is heavy deep groove vinyl, therefore while there are a lot of markings on the vinyl, it plays pretty well.  Some pops and hisses but no skips on my turntable.  There is one spot where for a milli-second it sounds like the music drops out and comes right back in but I don’t think it is a skip, it is just some sort of error in the recording/mastering/pressing process.  That’s what it sounds like to me.  The labels are on the wrong sides, meaning what is indicated as the songs on Side One are really on the other side and vice versa.  And the song order is mostly but not exactly as listed.  I will ONLY ship this to RESIDENTS of the United States OR Japan and NO WAY is it going to ANY OTHER COUNTRY via a U.S.-based freight forwarder.  You are being warned right now don’t even think about trying it.  Your order will be summarily canceled if caught using a freight forwarder to have this delivered somewhere other than the U.S. or Japan.  $4 media mail in U.S. and $30 air mail to Japan.  Appropriate taxes will be collected by Ebay.  Thanks!

Hear:

Side One:  https://youtu.be/WzKosNnUgVs

Side Two:  https://youtu.be/8QIaQ9Qp3X8