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

• 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