Dave Brock Presents This Was Your Future - Space Rock & Other Psychedelics 1978-1998, 3CD Clamshell Box

• EXTENSIVE SET EXPLORING THE SPACE ROCK AND FREE FESTIVAL SCENE, 1978-1998.

• COMPILED WITH THE LEGENDARY DAVE BROCK, FRONTMAN OF HAWKWIND, FIGUREHEAD OF THE SCENE AND INSPIRATION FOR COUNTELESS LIKE-MINDED HEADS.

• FEATURING KEY NAMES – HAWKWIND (AND THEIR MANY OFFSHOOTS), OZRIC TENTACLES, HERE AND NOW, MAGIC MUSHROOM BAND, POISONED ELECTRICK HEAD, MICHAEL MOORCOCK, ROBERT CALVERT, TIM BLAKE, ETC. PLUS MANY LESSER-KNOWN BUT VITAL PLAYERS IN A MOVEMENT THAT WAS AS MUCH A WAY OF LIFE AND A POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY AS IT WAS A MUSIC SCENE.

• 40 TRACKS, EACH OF THEM EXPLORING THE OUTER LIMITS OF MIND, BODY AND SPIRIT.

• SLEEVENOTES BY IAN ABRAHAMS, AUTHOR OF HAWKWIND: SONIC ASSASINS AND FESTIVALIZED – MUSIC, POLITICS AND ALTERNATIVE CULTURE.

Emerging out of the post-hippy fall-out of the late 1960s, Dave Brock and Hawkwind forged a new, psychedelic rock sound which, as the 1970s progressed, became the focal point of a festival scene that drew together countless alternative and counter-cultural artists, all of whom sought to take their listeners into previously unchartered realms of inner space.

Gathered together here are the prime movers in this Brock-inspired scene which subsequently emerged and found focus towards the end of ‘70s, centred on free festivals, like-minded record labels, self-released cassettes and an anti-authoritarian lifestyle and political position.

From hard rocking psychedelic warriors to experimental sonic architects, ‘This Was Your Future’ captures a time and place in danger of being forgotten in the corporate playground of the present. A place where the guitar and the synthesiser proved mightier than the sword, offering an outlet for expression to countless artists for whom mainstream culture was a strange and alien landscape.

Track Listing:

DISC ONE:

1 Hawkwind - PXR5
2 Omnia Opera - Space Bastard
3 Poisoned Electrick Head - Astral Tjunc
4 Spaceship Eyes - Satori
5 Ozric Tentacles – Velmwend 6 Magic Mushroom Band - Pictures In My Mind
7 Kryptästhesie - An Evening Following A Cuttle-Fish
8 Dave Brock - Green Finned Demon
9 Boris And His Bolshie Balalaika - Toadstool Soup
10 The Lloyd-Langton Group - Candle Burning
11 Underground Zero - Aimless Flight
12 Treatment - Damage 13 Moom - The Higher Sun

DISC TWO:

1 Dr Hasbeen - Spirit Of Brock
2 Sun Dial - Outer Limits To Yr Brain
3 Michael Moorcock's Deep Fix - Dodgem Dude
4 Pressurehed - Red Delta (Live)
5 Robert Calvert - Lord Of The Hornets
6 Hawklords - The Age Of The Micro Man
7 Dr Brown - Dreamscape
8 Kava Kava - Poke
9 The Tryp - The Lizard Sheds Its Skin
10 Sonic Assassins - Golden Void
11 Dead Flowers - Altered State Circus
12 Mandragora - Rainbow Warrior
13 Outskirts Of Infinity - Laughter Castle
14 ST 37 - Ghosts Of Tempera Nymphs
15 Sons Of Selina - Gamoto Manopano

DISC THREE:

1 Dumpy's Rusty Nuts - Hawkwind
2 Dave Brock And The Agents Of Chaos - Hades Deep
3 Crow – Led Zep
4 Nukli - Inner Days
5 Ethereal Counterbalance - At The Oasis
6 Nick Riff – Tribal Elders
7 Tim Blake - Passage Sur La Cité (Des Révélations)
8 Psychedelic Warriors - In Search of Shangrila
9 Tangle Edge - Yatantah Pt 1
10 Here And Now - 23 Skidoo (Live)
11 F/i - The Circle Is The Square
12 Praise Space Electric - Cybergenetic Experiment X