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Dave Brock Presents This Was Your Future: Space Rock & Other Psychedelics (1978-1998) (Cherry Red)
Dave Brock, at the helm of the willfully independent, scene-setting Hawkwind, invites you to pick up your telescope and gaze at the musical universe created by him and his fellow space rock travellers for This Was Your Future.
Spanning 20 years, this three-CD collection captures the countercultural scene spearheaded by Hawkwind and fomented at the free festivals of the 1980s. Space rock may be the genre, but the term is a broad church as this compilation demonstrates: flowing as it does from the new wave-leaning Pictures In My Mind by the Magic Mushroom Band, the prog riffings of Norwegian group Tangle Edge, to the glam stomp of sci-fi icon Michael Moorcock’s forays into music.
A number of songs on This Was Your Future had only previously appeared on cassettes sold at festivals; as such, Cherry Red have done us a great service in bringing this weird and wonderful moment of musical and social history out of the shadows.
words ADAM ALLINGTON-JONES
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