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The Royal Fingers - Wild Eleki Deluxe!
In his never ending search for great surf music, Bob Keane travels to the far ends of the Earth. This time, he's come back with The Royal Fingers from Tokyo Japan. The three piece line up shows its love of the classic '60s surf sound, but gives it their own twist on this CD of nearly all originals. Watch for more Japanese Imports coming soon!

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The El Caminos - Reverb Explosion
Straight outta Kobe, Japan, Eddie Ugata and crew use only pre-CBS vintage Fender amps, Jazzmasters and Jags on this album to create a splashy surf sound so authentic you'd swear they were recording back in '62. “Hornet's Nest” is their cover of a Jimi Hendrix garage-surf song.

The Centurions - Bullwinkle Pt. II
An absolute classic of instrumental surf. This 1963 release is filled with raw, driving, reverb drenched guitars, throbbing bass, pounding drums and moaning sax. The title track was used in Pulp Fiction as the perfect backdrop to John Travolta's "shoot-up scene". It doesn't get any better than this.

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The Impacts - Wipe Out!
The Impacts were led by Merrell Fankhauser, who wrote the original "Wipe Out". Merrell went on to play in many other bands and is still performing and recording today. The Impacts' unique sound featured the use of a pedal steel guitar.

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Bruce Johnston - Surfers' Pajama Party
Before he was recruited as a Beach Boy, Bruce Johnston led this surf band on some very cool surf stompers. This is a live recording at a genuine UCLA frat party in 1963. Bruce and the boys Bruce and the boys get wild with "Ramrod", "Surfer Stomp", "Kansas City", "Green Onions" and more.

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The Lively Ones - Hang Five!!! Best of Vol. I
Awesome collection of Del-Fi's premier surf band. Includes 24 of their greatest tracks along with full liner notes and photos of the band. Tracks include the infamous "Surf Rider" (used in Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction, "Miserlou", "Surf Beat", "Telstar", "Mr. Moto", "Rawhide", "Bustin' Surfboards", and much more.

The Lively Ones - Heads Up! Best of Vol. II
The Lively's rode atop surf's highest tide - the summer of 1963 – playing with a gritty toughness unmatched by their contemporaries. This second Best Of CD features their take on mid-50's-era instro hits like Link Wray's “Rumble,” and The Champs' “Tequila.”

The Lively Ones - Surf Rider
The debut album by this premier Sounthern California Surf Band. Contains the classic "Surf Rider" one of the definitive songs of the original early Sixites Surf music phenomenon and a featured song used in the motion picture Pulp Fiction. Also includes covers of the Dick Dale songs "Misirlou", "Surf Beat" and "Let's Go Trippin'". 12 songs total.

The Lively Ones - Surf Drums
The sophomore release by The Lively Ones contains more high-energy instrumentals like "Mr. Moto", "Rik-A-Tik", "Bustin' Surfboards" and their version of Link Wray's masterpiece of twang and vibrato, "Rumble".

The Lively Ones - Surf City
The boys keep it going with their third Del-Fi release with a rippin' version of The Beach Boy's title track, the raucous "Heads Up", and "Telstar Surf". These guys should have been as big as The Ventures!

The Lively Ones - The Great Surf Hits
This album might as well have been called "The Most Requested of The Lively Ones" since these were the tunes that kept the kids doing the Surfer Stomp at the hundreds of dances the band played. Includes "Surf Rider", "Wipeout", "Pipeline", "Misirlou", "Surfin' USA", "Surfin' Safari" and more.

The Lively Ones & The Surf Mariachis -
Surfin' South Of The Border
Here the Lively Ones team up with studio cats, The Surf Mariachis for twelve great examples of where the Latin influence meets surf music. A great party album! If you want to be the life of the fiesta, just cue up the surf version of "Limbo Rock", and see how low you can go.

Dave Myers & The Surftones -
Moment Of Truth - Best Of...
Multi-instrumentalist Myers played guitar, tenor sax, trumpet, bongos, and steel guitar. As a college music major, he was influenced by the folk, blues, jazz and classical music while copping some of his mentor Dick Dale's frenzied double-picking surf playing for this album. Check out the hypnotic, haunting “Aquavelva.” Includes everything the band recorded for Del-Fi including their entire 1963 album Hangin' Twenty.

Dave Myers & The Surftones - Hangin' Twenty
A re-issue of Dave's original LP shows just how different these guys were. The complex arrangements combine with beach themes to create amazing songs that sometimes sound like a long-lost spy soundtrack. Dave Myers & The Surftones went out a lot further than their hero Dick Dale. Includes their trademark songs "Moment Of Truth", "Aquavelva" as well as their take on the perrenial favorite "Church Key".

The Sentinals - Sunset Beach - Best Of...
This collection -- by the Central Coast, CA combo who routinely pummeled the local competition in “Battle of the Surf Bands” and were the Impacts' crosstown rivals before both signed to Del-Fi -- blends Latin melodies with slurpy, splashy reverb-drenched surf sounds. “Latin'ia” solidified their place in surf rock history. This CD has everything the band recorded for Del-Fi including the albums Big Surf! and Surfer Girl.

The Sentinals - Big Surf!
This is the debut album from the band that continually wiped out the competition in local Battle Of The Surf Band competitions. This is a great album that features their best tracks "Big Surf", "Exotic", "Sunset Beach", and the beautiful "Latin'ia".

Surf Fact: The band included drummer Johnny Barbata who went on to play in the The Turtles and Jefferson Starship.

The Sentinals - Surfer Girl
More cool instrumentals (and one vocal) from the San Luis Obispo band. Their second release features "The Pipe", "Free And Easy", and of course "Surfer Girl".

V/A: Surf - KFWB's Battle Of The Surfing Bands
This originally was used as a promotion with LA radio station KFWB and featured DJs goffing it up on surfboards. Check out the old photos of Wink Martindale and Gene Weed! The CD features some of the best surf in the business with tracks from The Lively Ones, Dave Myers, The Biscaynes, The Soul Kings, The Sentinals, Bruce Johnston and more.

V/A: Surf - Wild Surf!
This boss 24-track compendium features the best and the rarest of our surf stuff, including the usual gang, incl. The Lively Ones, Sentinals, Centurions, plus rare tracks by the Pharos, the Surfmen and two hypersonic tidal assaults by The Surfaris (“Bombora” and “Surfari”).

V/A: Surf - Surf Monsters
Surf Monsters collects “past, present & future surf klassics” by some of today's best (incl. Man or Astroman?, Satan's Pilgrims, The Tiki Tones, and one of our faves, The Bomboras' “Planet of the Ape Hangers”), alongside ossified surf psychos like the Lively Ones, Centurions, Sentinals and more.

V/A: Surf - Pulp Surfin'
Pulp Fiction's success led to our homage to “all things pulp,” and one of the best-selling surf-comps of all time. Contains 18 sticks of hot rod, novelty and prime surfadelica, incl. “In My Moondreams” (an unreleased Brian Wilson track), and a screamin' live “Miserlou” by the Bobby Fuller Four.

V/A: Surf - Sun & Surf, Cars & Guitars
A great cruisin' CD for your Summertime fun. This compilation has some of Del-Fi's best in Rock, Surf and Hot Rod -- a great sampler! Includes Ritchie Valens, Dick Dale, Bobby Fuller, The Lively Ones, The American Four (featuring Arthur Lee who went on to form the band Love), Bruce Johnston and many more.

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V/A: Surf - Big Surf Hits
This CD's is like Surf Music 101: a good place to learn about Del-Fi's Original California Surf Sound©. Features the classics by the usual gang, plus a few by The Surf Mariachis (check out their version of “Watermelon Man,” a 60's hit for Latin jazz drummer Mongo Santamaria).

V/A: Surf - Beach Party
Here's another summer classic, a 15-track CD collection of (mostly-unreleased and extremely rare) beach-inspired singles from the Sixties by the Centavos, Bruce Johnston, Preston Epps, David Gates, and others. Check out the Gonzos' wacky “Church Key.”

V/A: Surf - Pool Party
Del-Fi's great Soul & Surf era (between 1959-1964, or post-Ritchie & pre-Bobby) helped define the classic Del-Fi sound. Featured here are 15 tracks that have gone unheard for many a moon, including “Watusi Bongos,” one of Preston Epps' original boho slices of bongo rock madness.