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Daze of the Underground (2 CDs) mp3
FAFF03CD || 10.2003 || £11.49   $ €  ¥  + p+p +tax
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Sorry no longer in stock, this CD is out of pressing. Tim's contribution, a great version of 'Spirit of the Age', is available for download directly from Tim himself at Tim's download page. This page has been left posted for Gong family networking and discographical purposes.

Double CD Hawkwind tribute with Tim Blake contribution

Although I'm not overly fond of the whole 'tribute' CD concept I wanted to stock this double CD of Hawkwind homages primarily because of Tim Blake's take on 'Spirit of the Age'. Not only was I pleasantly surprised with his interpretation of that great Rob Calvert song 'Spirit of the Age', which he has brushed with a a uplifting Blakian wash, but I was also impressed with most of the versions of these classic Hawk tracks. The CD is what it should be - true devotees playing their favourite Hawkwind tracks with passion and an often enlightening spin. It's quite a riffarama spectacular in fact.

You may find like me that if it was a Hawk track you liked in it's original version, then you'll like the tribute track and vice-versa. I would have liked my opinion of the original Hawkwind tracks challenged a bit more. There is a difference between tribute and homage which not many of the artists have explored, most fall into the latter catagory. Where is the operatic version of Levitation or the madrigal take on Masters of the Universe? Although Acid King do slow Motorhead down rather wonderfully and the you can always rely on the Acid Mothers Temple to find the original spirit of the track and bring it right up to date in their own unique way. But those minor gripes aside, I know you'll find many fine many things here to delight in. It's a well recorded, produced and bookleted package, packed with tracks.

Track Listing:

CD 1 Total Runtime 72.13
  1. Tim Blake - Spirit of the Age 6.53 - mp3 mp3
  2. Litmus - Paradox 6.49
  3. Amorphis - Levitation 5.53
  4. Spacehead - Right Stuff 5.46
  5. Meads of Asphodel - Utopia 4.20
  6. Enchanted - Song of the Sword 2.39
  7. Bedouin - Sword of the East 5.37
  8. Silver Machine - Silver Machine 5.18
  9. Murkins - Psi Power 5.16
  10. Quarkspace - Quark Strangeness and Charm 4.19
  11. Overmars - Magnu 4.46
  12. Alpha Omega - Reefer Madness 5.57
  13. ST 37 - Orgone Accumulator 6.09
  14. History of Guns - Angels/Magnu 2.31
CD 2 Total Runtime 72.40
  1. Brainstorm - Masters of the Universe 5.05
  2. Sigh - Psychedelic Warlords 5.39
  3. Farflung - Robot 5.24
  4. Spirits Burning - High Rise 5.56
  5. Huw Lloyd Langton Band - Moonglum 5.31
  6. Marshan - Hurry On Sundown 4.10
  7. Circle - Don't Understand 5.09
  8. Darxtar - The Watcher 5.42
  9. Acid King - Motorhead 5.22
  10. Beggars Farm - We Took The Wrong Step Years Ago 3.39
  11. Sloterdijk - Golden Void 7.29
  12. Harvey Bainbridge - Acid House of Dreams 5.52
  13. Acid Mothers Temple - You Know You're Only Dreaming 7.42

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