This episode of Gems with Shom features Doc Delay — DJ, producer, record dealer, and underground legend whose REM Sleep psych-rock mixtape series opened entire universes for a generation of beat heads.

From psych-rock symptoms to Middle Eastern rarities, Doc takes us inside the hidden corners of record culture — the sounds, stories, and chaotic adventures behind some of the wildest records on Earth.

This one is for the heads — the beat diggers, psych-rock obsessives, sample hunters, and curious newcomers.

• Psych Rock 101 — the symptoms, sounds, backwards guitars, fuzz pedals, tape tricks & stereo experiments that shaped the genre and influenced hip-hop
• REM Sleep — the cult-classic psych-rock mixtape series that producers & DJs literally sampled straight from the CDs
• Record store madness & dangerous digs — foreign imports crawling with insects, unexplained infections, home-based hoards & some of the craziest digging stories you’ll ever hear
• Beat digging in the 90s — DC streets, Richmond warehouses, early eBay hustles, shipping rare heat to Japan & Germany, and the dealer grind that funded his college years
• Middle Eastern & Turkish gems — Barış Manço, Erkin Koray, 45 heat & the cross-continental influences that shaped his ear

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