English music journalist Phil Smee (who later started the Bam-Caruso Label) coined the genre term to describe the harder, fuzz loaded and sometimes psychedelic mutations that happened to the British Invasion Mod music. The Soul elements that drove Mods’ core sound somehow got lost on the way when in the mid-sixties, colourful clothes, marihuana and … Continue reading Freakbeat | Wild/Psychy Mod | Evolution of Genré