HW : introductions

Andrew Garibaldi Deadearnest at BTOPENWORLD.COM
Tue Jun 17 16:01:00 EDT 2003


Interesting but true......................
ages ago I was chatting to Doug Smith and during the course of the
conversation, i spoke about that the fact that Hawkwind could get over to a
whole new audience in the form of the electronic music market, providing
that Hawkwind released an instrumental compilation that would appeal to
those into that style of music. Doug thought that this was a good idea and,
in a sense, that's partially what "Ambient Annarchists" was - one vocal CD,
one instrumental CD although without the US material,it wasn;t quite what I
envisaged. I suppose, to get Hawkwind across to this audience you'd have to
cite the "White Zone" album, which they called a chill-out album, and maybe
that would be the ley to open the door, although I think something more
electronic would be better. Which of course takes us neatly onto the "UK
Electronica '83" performance which was meant to be exactly that - an
electronic set by Hawkwind for an electronic music audience - only the PA
blew up and that was the end of that idea. We sold loads of Harvey's "Red
Shift" to the synth music audience - which says something.
Have I rambled on too long - sorry, folks.
Andy G.
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Rennie" <hawkfan at RATSAUCE.CO.UK>
To: <BOC-L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET>
Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 7:50 PM
Subject: Re: HW : introductions


> There are lots of good compilations, but that's a cop out :-) For early
> Hawkwind Doremi Fasol Latido is the best album, and for the Calvert era
> PXR3. I'm not sure I'd recommend any of the later albums to someone who
> wasn't already a die hard fan! Distant Horizons is pretty good though.
>
> JR



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