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👽 I implore all cosmic travellers who crave heavy space-rock to embark on this footage without delay! 🚀🌟
In the swirling vortex of time 🌀, we find ourselves transported back to the year 1993. 🌍🚀 Here, the 🇸🇪Swedish band DarXtar ignited the stage with an electrifying performance that echoes the cosmic vibes of legendary pioneers like Hawkwind and early UFO. 🛸 They launched into their stellar track "Stars," ✨ a gem from their astral 1993 album "Darker." 🌘 🌙 As the music cascades through the ether, one can feel the pulsating energy of harder-edged riffs reverberating through the cosmos. 🌌 🎸 💫The pumping bass lines create a gravitational pull that draws listeners deeper into this sonic universe!🪐 🌠

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Originally posted by SpaceRockTraveller SpaceRockTraveller wrote:

Originally posted by cstack3 cstack3 wrote:

^Good point!  I can think of many examples of "spacey-rock." (Nektar, Captain Beyond etc.) that I would not classify as authentic "space rock"
🌌🚀 The most cosmic of the non-space-rock records that otherwise belong to the genre of symphonic prog, in my humble opinion, is the debut album of the 🇭🇺Hungarian band Solaris, "Marsbéli Krónikák" ("Martian Chronicles") from 1983. That record stands out like a shimmering star in the night sky. "Martian Chronicles" is not just a collection of symphonic prog tunes; it's an interstellar journey that invites listeners to float among the stars and dance on the red sands of Mars!🔴 🌠
Imagine embarking on a cosmic voyage, where each note is a comet streaking across your consciousness. ☄️ "Martian Chronicles" weaves intricate melodies and celestial harmonies that transport you to distant galaxies. 💫 The lush orchestration envelops you like a nebula, while the rhythmic pulses echo the heartbeat of distant worlds. 🌀 As you drift through this sonic tapestry, you can almost feel the gravitational pull of Mars drawing you closer to its mysteries. 🔴🪐🌌 💫
Each track is like a chapter in an epic space-saga, inviting listeners to ponder their place in the universe while tapping into their inner Martian spirit! 👽 🛸
"Martian Chronicles" captured the imaginations of prog fans and sparked dreams of Martians dancing under alien moons. The music flows like stardust, igniting visions of intergalactic adventures and cosmic encounters! 🌙 🎶🌠
But lo and behold, it wasn't until the shimmering year of 1995, after the celestial vibrations of Solaris graced the stage at Progfest ‘95, that the rest of the prog universe began to orbit around this Hungarian gem. 🌍✨ As the cosmic waves rippled through time and space, the crowd that packed the Variety Arts Theater in Los Angeles were transported to a realm where music transcended earthly boundaries. 🌙 The band played the epic from the album, titled "The Martian Chronicles Parts 1-6." 🚀🪐
Fortunately, great footage that captures that Solaris performance exists! ✨ This spacey and instrumental sympho-rock fantasia intertwines Berlin School-like synthesiser wizardry with an ethereal dance of melodies, where piano, guitar, and flute engage in a harmonious interplay that feels like stardust swirling in a galactic breeze. 🌌 🎶 🎹 ✨🔴

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✨ What kind of sonic odyssey awaits the curious traveler in the realm of sound? The answer is as clear as the shimmering rings of Saturn! 🪐 When you gaze upon the name The Spacelords 👽, your mind drifts into a nebula of cosmic rhythms and astral melodies. 🌌✨This 🇩🇪German trio, like interstellar voyagers, 💫 🚀 crafts music that transcends earthly boundaries—welcome to the universe of space rock!🛰️ 🎸
🎶 Their 15-minute-long instrumental track "Unknown Species," performed live in their home town Reutlingen at the music club called Franz K 🌙 in December 2022, is a cosmic yet hypnotic 🌀 auditory experience whose studio version can be found on their 2021 violet/yellow LP, 🛸 which shares its name with this ethereal instrumental. ♾️ It's a harmonious blend of spacey vibes and cosmic energy that resonates with those who dare to dream beyond the stars. 🌠💫
🌟 So, let the echoes of distant galaxies 🔭 guide you as you immerse yourself in the otherworldly sounds crafted by The Spacelords! 🌌👽

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Trippy track

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Bands in my collection that PA classifies as space rock:
35007
3rd Ear Experience
Amgala Temple
Andromeda Space Ritual
Anders Helmerson
Astral Magic
Bland Bladen
Colorstar
Colster
Dasputnik
Dream Machine
Eating.Seats
Head Spin
Here & Now
Hidria Spacefolk
Korai Orom
Maat Lander
Mantric Muse
Alain Markusfeld
Melting Euphoria
Nodens Ictus
Noetics
Ohead
Oresund Space Collective
Osiris the Rebirth
Ozric Tentacles
Pink Floyd
Polypony
Quantum Fantay
Quarkspace
Rasasound
Secret Saucer
Sendelica
Silas Neptune
Sonar (Hungary)
The Spacious Mind
Spiral Maze
Splink
Taipuva Luotisuora
Tidal Flood
Tunderground
Vespero
Walrus

Bands in my collection that PA classifies as electronic, but really exhibit spacey qualities:
ARC
Tim Blake
Computerchemist
Cosmic Ground
Radio Massacre International
Tangerine Dream
Zombi

Bands in my collection that PA classifies as something else, but clearly have a space rock vibe (more so than Gong or Hawkwind):
Beiruth
Daal
Jay Tausig
Kotebel
Minds of Infinity
Spiral Maze

I think OHEAD and Tangerine Dream (particularly their older stuff) are prime exemplars of space rock, even though TD is classified as prog electronic.

Although they have some spacey moments, I don't really consider Gong to be space rock, and Hawkwind is more psychedelic than space. I'm somewhat perturbed that PA puts space rock and psychedelic together in the same genre, as they are very different in my mind.      
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What about the Lamp of the universe from New Zealand ?
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Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

Space Rock: To boldly go where No-Man has gone before. Well, apart from Steven Wilson, obviously. Tongue

3 stars 1992: No-Man - Lovesight: An Entertainment - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdktF-lL0yEZ_9Qbo4iGJ2hgGMBchR-pX
3 stars 1993: No-Man - Loveblows & Lovecries: A Confession - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdktF-lL0yEYF_9u4I2azxgdU_FwFKZuc

William Shatner released a cover of Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds os a single. It's unlistenable, but it's quite a coincidence with this meme
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the next one deserves all your attention

Kosmogon : Mässan (Niklas Barker (Anekdoten's Guitarist/Mellotronist)' side project , for Tangerine Dream (Phaedra, Rubicon's era) fans , superb!

https://kosmogon.bandcamp.com/album/m-ssan

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I found a FLASH SALE on the Sharon Lia Band's new symphonic rock sci-fi album EXPANSE...today only!  

75% off a double CD w/booklet releasing 8/30.

It's on Bandcamp at:  https://sharonliaband.bandcamp.com/album/expanse 
and the code is FLASHSALECD for the CD ($6.25), and just FLASHSALE for the download ($4.25).  Amazing price! 
 
Think Yes, TSO, Evanescence, Delain or Nightwish! 

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I love this live footage of Hawkwind from 1990, "The Golden Void," just like on (their best, imo) album "Warrior on the Edge of Time." 🌀 This is an excellent version of one of Hawkwind's best songs and without a doubt the stellar point of this performance. 🌟 🌌✨ This can be found on the "Classic Rock Legends" DVD. Believe me, you don't want to miss this magnificent footage featuring a yearning violin solo 🎻 and has its superb section where the music settles slowly back down to a mellow conclusion. 🌠💫 An ultimative space-rock fantasy! 🚀👽🌌

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Originally posted by Waltz Woods Wanderer Waltz Woods Wanderer wrote:

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You're having a laugh! Perhaps the shortest and best definition of space rock could be: "space rock = Hawkwind." 
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Hi,

I think your idea is not right ... take away Michael Moorcock, and we likely would not give a damn about the whole thing, and consider it stupid. And Hawkwind, did try to get rid of Michael Moorcock, and finally was able to do so (got him back with Warrior ... ), but the idea, and thought of it not associated with "space" seems to be something that most fans do not appreciate much. 

All it takes is "Hall of the Mountain Grill" and then "Astounding Sounds/Amazing Music" to realize that there was a lot more to Hawkwind than "space" that we refuse to let go. Both the long cuts in AS/AM are not about "space" at all ... and this might be one of the reasons why some folks kinda quit Hawkwind by that time, as Reefer Madness is seriously anti-dope, and Steppenwolf is also very serious about our doped up ideas about mind and body! Just like the book! The "magic theater" is the idea, not the reality!

And we think that the "space" illusion of it all is better and more important ... please stop being a stoned kid showing your youth. WinkWinkWinkWinkWinkWinkWink. Hawkwind, by 1976 and such had grown tired of the space idea. Nik Turner, kinda took it with him some and created some nice stuff until he passed away, but ... but ... but ... it also means that anything stated and said was not important, because the idea of "space" (influenced by the moon events at Nasa and 2001, the film) was more important. 

Maybe if you had seen 2001 at the Cinerama Dome and the large stoned crowd, you would have gotten a better idea of it all, and I think that Hawkwind had grown up some ... beyond just being a stony farm band!


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Originally posted by SpaceRockTraveller SpaceRockTraveller wrote:

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Hi,

This, if anything, shows how much Simon House was valuable to Hawkwind, and helped make the music flow a lot more than we give it credit for. Simon House first appeared in "Hall of the Mountain Grill" and specially in the first side of the LP, made that album special in just a few tracks.

If you check the lyrics, in many ways this is about how they see a lot of folks thinking about Hawkwind ... and their desire to let go of that illusion ...

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So you think the time is past,
The life you lead will always last
Chaotic fusion's of your soul,
Down below that rocky knoll
Through the clouds an open sky,
The wind flows through your watering eyes
The sounds are pitched to draw you
On your never ending journey
On The edge of time,
The edge of time,
The edge of time

(... and I probably would add a monkey saying ... you are stoned ... you are stoned ... a la 2001!!!)


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Hi,
I run a radio program in Belgium (progscopie) and our last show was about cosmic sixties: so space rock but made in the sixties. I'll make another one next thursday as we still have plenty to present. 
Any suggestion of titles that are space rock AND from the sixties (like Interstellar Overdrive and 3rd Stone from the sun which are for me good examples).
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Originally posted by Progscopie Progscopie wrote:

Any suggestion of titles that are space rock AND from the sixties (like Interstellar Overdrive and 3rd Stone from the sun which are for me good examples).
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5 stars 1967: The Zodiac - Cosmic Sounds - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL00009BAB9AE3360F

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Oh, and I almost forgot "Father Cannot Yell," which certainly influenced Hawkwind in the 1970s.

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Thanks!
Great. I shall put here what I've already presented and what I will:

Pink Floyd : Interstellar Overdrive

Fifty Foot Hose : Fantasy

HP Lovecraft : At the mountain of madness

Group 1850 : I put my hands on your shoulder

Byrds : Space Odyssey

Arcadium : I'm on my way

Ultimate Spinach : (Ballad Of) The Hip Death Goddess

Silver Apples : Fantasies

The White Noise : The visitations

The Zodiac (but the title Cancer) is selected for next Thursday's! While Can and/or Amon Düül are also.

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Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:


5 stars 1967: The Zodiac - Cosmic Sounds - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL00009BAB9AE3360F



Mort Garson may have been the first composer to create occult albums using the Moog Synthesizer...but with a distinctive style regarding mechanical rhythms, poly chords, and oddball signature lines that revolved around a theme and subject matter of the occult. This was pursued in 1969 by Beaver And Krause, but only in a few pieces featured on the album Ragnarok. "CIRCLE X" being the closest with similarities to Mort Garson.

The idea was to create a entire album on the occult using the Moog Synthesizer and Mort Garson was the most accomplished at that. There were others such as Ruth White and her 7 Trumps Of The Tarot and Pinions...which is very dark but somewhat differs from Black Mass and The Unexplained.

Keith Emerson in the early 70s was writing dark pieces in ELP such as The Barbarian but his usage of the Moog Synthesizer to create dark music was quite different from Garson.

On a personal level I observed keyboardists in the early 70s who were Electronic or had played in Progressive Rock bands reproducing some of the sound and style heard on Black Mass and Perhaps it's just Garson's essence and his overall influence.

Cds I have:

The Wozard Of Is
Black Mass
The Unexplained
Plantasia
Sacred Bones ( compilation of unreleased material)
Journey To The Moon And Beyond.


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Originally posted by Progscopie Progscopie wrote:

Thanks!
Great. I shall put here what I've already presented and what I will:

Pink Floyd : Interstellar Overdrive

Fifty Foot Hose : Fantasy

HP Lovecraft : At the mountain of madness

Group 1850 : I put my hands on your shoulder

Byrds : Space Odyssey

Arcadium : I'm on my way

Ultimate Spinach : (Ballad Of) The Hip Death Goddess

Silver Apples : Fantasies

The White Noise : The visitations

The Zodiac (but the title Cancer) is selected for next Thursday's! While Can and/or Amon Düül are also.

Romain

Very interesting list. I would also add "Space Hymn" by Lothar and the Hand People.

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