For the past 47 years, Archie Patterson has been illuminating underground worlds through his music investigations under the Eurock banner. He started it all with an FM radio show in 1971, which soon branched off into a 40-issue magazine run. Eurock ‘zines were a fixture in cosmic-minded European record shops and studios in the '70s, and they're now enshrined in the US Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Museum Archives. Archie also brought his love for European rock straight to the people through the Intergalactic Trading Company, which distributed hard-to-find imports to thirsty fans. As the Eurock audience expanded, Patterson forged relationships with musicians around the world. In Mexico, Archie found himself connected to forward thinking composers whose recordings merged prehistory with futuristic forms. We welcome Patterson to Open End to share a mix of Mexican experimental music and reveal the inspirations behind Eurock, a grassroots, pre-Internet ecosystem of far-out sound.
