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Hawkwind – In Search of Space (1971) (@256)
16 Mar 2007
(Review from vintageprog.com)
A tremendous improvement over the debut, and “In Search of Space” is generally regarded as the first classic Hawkwind-release. The band had pretty much found their signature sound of hard rocking guitar-riffs built around lengthy, spacey excursions stuffed with weird electronic sounds and Turner’s unique and atmospheric saxophone and flute-playing. The album included the first classic Hawkwind-riff and anthem in “Masters of the Universe”. The 15-minute opener “You Shouldn’t Do That” became another classic and stage-favourite. The band still messed around with some quite free-floating improvisations in “You Know You’re Only Dreaming” and “Adjust Me” but both were of a much more consistent kind than anything on the debut-album. Even the two acoustic tracks “We Took the Wrong Step Years Ago” and “Children of the Sun” has a great spacey atmosphere that will make your mind float. A very important album in the band’s history.
Line-up:
- Dave Anderson / bass, acoustic & electric guitars
- Dave Brock / vocals, acoustic & electric guitars, audio generator
- Del Dettmar / synthesizers
- Dik Mik / audio generator
- Terry Ollis / drums, percussion
- Nik Turner / alto sax, flute, audio generator, vocals
Track List:
01. You Shouldn’t Do That (15:43)
02. You Know You’re Only Dreaming (6:33)
03. Master Of The Universe (6:15)
04. We Took The Wrong Step Years Ago (4:48)
05. Adjust Me (5:45)
06. Children Of The Sun (3:13)
07. Seven By Seven (Bonus) (5:21)
08. Silver Machine (Bonus) (4:39)
09. Born To Go (Bonus) (5:05)
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about 5 years ago
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about 4 years ago
Beautiful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
about 4 years ago
thanks for sharing these,I do have a question though what is considered the some of the best Hawkwind albums ? thanks again
about 4 years ago
Nice blog ya got here! Grabbed a few things from tha archives. Though I already have this on CD, I also have a vinyl copy as well because there is a really cool comic that came with it!For neroon001, this is one of the ‘best’ Hawkwind LPs. I also recommend Space Ritual & Doremi Fasol Latido, both of which Sakalli was kind enough to post here. Quark, Strangeness & Charm is great as well.Keep up the gret work!!!
about 4 years ago
Thanks Sakalli. I think it was them, they set up at the Isle of Wight festival, by the bus stop and were playing while we waited – in a verrry long queue – to go home!
about 2 years ago
Esto está muy bueno!
This is great!, thnx a lot for the great music.
about 7 months ago
Thank you Sakalli.