Space Freak
Space Freak
Track Listings
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1. See-Through
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2. Burning, Itching, Irritation
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3. Anyhow Anyway
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4. Tumble Mat
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5. Spooge
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6. Shinola
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7. Fudge Bar
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8. Sit and Stare
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9. Deep End
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10. Evil Twin
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11. Jealous Again
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Space Freak,Sinkhole,Dr. Strange Records,Alternative Metal,Heavy Metal,Pop,Punk-Pop,Rock
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- America's First SpaceRock Festival Features British Headliners Hawkwind & Nik Turner
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Fulfilling Ancient Visions - Strange Daze Festival '97 - America's Space Rock Festival 2 Cd SET
Gaia Avatara , Red Giant , Nucleon , Architectural Metaphor , Bionaut , Freak Element , Melting Euthoria , Born To Go , Quarkspace , and Alien Planetscapes
Manufacturer: Pangea
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
 Psychedelic Rock
| Classic Rock
| Styles
| Music
ASIN: B000BHZFVG |
Product Description
2 CD SET ///Fulfilling Ancient Visions - Strange Daze Festival '97 -America's Premier Space Rock Festival //
CD 1:
1.Awakening (Gaia Avatara)
2.Rooms Of Shord (Red Giant)
3.Green Acid (Nucleon)
4.New Arrival (ST 37)
5.Holographic Caves (Architectural Metaphor)
6.Evanwalker P.I.M (FI)
7.Laminate My Organ Donor Card (Bionaut)
8.Pre Millenium Transmissions (Freak Element)
9.Harbour Of Infinity (Melting Euthoria)
10.Burning Inside (Born To Go)
11.Faerienot Space(Quarkspace)
12.Soft Martian (Alien Planetscapes)
13.The Stream (Drumplay)
CD 2:
1.Kauai (Hawkwind)
2.Assassins Of Allah (Hawkwind)
3.Brainstorm (Hawkwind)
4.In Your Area (Hawkwind)
5.25,000 Feet Per Second (Far Flung with Nik Turner)
6.Soul Herder (Far Flung with Nik Turner)
7.OpaLoka (Far Flung with Nik Turner)
///with excerpts from:
8.Alien Planetscapes -Radiation King
8.Architectural Metaphor - Kairds
10.Bionaut - Re-Laminate my organ donor card
11.F/I - Evan Walker P.I.M.
12.Quarkspace - Faerienot Space
13.Melting Euphoria - Celestial Hysteria
14.ST37 - Translunar injection
15.Gaia Avatara - Sunrise
16.Born To Go - Burning inside
17.Nucleon - Green acid
18.Red Giant - Rooms of shord
19.Nick Riff's Freak Element - Vagabond unknown
20.Drumplay - The stream
Customer Reviews:
America's First SpaceRock Festival Features British Headliners Hawkwind & Nik Turner.......2005-10-09
Strange Daze '97 is an aural record of the first outdoor "SpaceRock" festival to be held in the United States. The headliners Saturday are Hawkwind, 25-year veterans of the outdoor music festival scene in the UK (who began their career by playing numerous free outdoor gigs- at times as a protest outside the fence of concerts where outrageous prices were being charge. Hendrix dropped by and watched the band at one of these). On Friday night former Hawkwinder Nik Turner headlined fronting Far Flung. He arrived on stage with crutches, the victim of a broken leg rumored to be from a motorcycle accident. The balance of the acts are primarily American with the exception of "Born To Go's" lead singer.
Strange Daze is a two disc set uniquely arranged. The first disc is pretty straightforward- one song from each of the bands arranged chronologically in the order they took the stage... with the exception that the headliners are saved until disc 2.
Disc 2 is a bit crazy. It includes 4 complete Hawkwind songs (at 23+ minutes) and 3 complete Far Flung with Nik Turner songs (at 10+ minutes). There are 5 complete songs by some of the other bands. Then there are excerpts from 6 of the songs on the first CD (totaling less than 12 minutes in length) and there is even 1 song (Bionaut's "Re-Laminate My Organ Donor Card") from the first CD that is repeated (almost) completely in a reedited form.
What do I mean by reedited? Well, the track begins on the second CD about 5 seconds later than on the original CD (mostly cutting off the unnecessary beginning of one long sustained synthesizer note) but adds about 15 seconds to the end! This makes it longer than the 'full' version on disc 1.
And all of the tracks on disc 2 are arranged in a superficially random fashion. So what is going on here?
The package does not tell us this but Dave Brock, founder and main force behind Hawkwind, helped produce Space Daze '97. As he is a bit of a self-proclaimed anarchist, that would be a simple explanation for us. A little too simple, as it turns out.
Listening to this disc several times I realized that what we have here is a 'stream of consciousness' recording. Hawkwind did not arrive until Saturday, but when they did Dave made it a point to walk around the Brushwood New York campsite and visit every group of campers. He wanted to know his audience. He recorded some of his encounters and in between songs, or snippets thereof, a few of these (and other recorded festival noises) have been spliced in.
"Hello there," you here Dave say.
"I love you" cries a female fan.
"I say, jolly nice!" Dave replies, before "Burning Inside" fades in over the conversation.
The disc is roughly chronological, but not exactly, the way one would remember a 2 day festival with lots of bands. The song repeated in its entirety twice, but edited in a slightly different fashion (and arguably edited to sound 'better' in Brock's memory on disc 2 than what it 'really' was on disc 1) samples Hawkwind's "Countdown" from a live concert aired over the BBC on October 14, 1972. Obviously one remembers things better if they relate to you personally, thus the song gets more emphasis.
Excerpts of songs seem to very from seconds to almost 4 minutes in way that seems to me to emphasize (via length) the songs that made the most impact on Dave. For the most part, the songs blend into each other or into snippets of conversation and festival noise with 2 exceptions. Following the Bionaut's song sampling Hawkwind is a retrospective silence and just before the Hawkwind 4-song set at the end of the disc is a long break I relate to, as it represents the time you blank out your surroundings and gear up for the stage. And then Hawkwind's set begins. Obviously over a third of this disc is Hawkwind- that's where the emphasis is in Dave's mind and without Hawkwind there would have been no SpaceRock festival! Nik Turner's set comes second, with 3 songs allotted to him, as Nik and Dave were bandmates off and on for years. And Turner actually did join Hawkwind on stage for a number of songs that August night, although on none presented here.
For the record, Drumplay did not have a stage set, but played for the bonfire on both Friday and Saturday nights following the headliners and members of Hawkwind did attend the bonfire. There is one thing I regret this set not including, and that is one of the numbers Nik Turner performed solo onstage after the final concert on his saxophone. As the lights went up fans were disappointed that Hawkwind only did one encore. As roadies began carrying equipment off the stage Turner came on with his sax, cast and all, and began to play- first without even a mike, but finally, after ten minutes, a roadie brought one up and he went through a few of the little tunes he does and at least one Hawkwind song ("Master of the Universe"?). He played a total of 30 minutes following the 90 minute Hawkwind set.
The concerts were taped on a 24 track machine by a mobile recording unit. Naturally, at least a few of the bands have bootlegs of their full concert floating around out there...
The set does not list the track order for disc 2 and the order given in the item description is wrong, so I have listed all the tracks on disc 2 and their times for you here:
CD 2
1. (?) intro 0:20
2. (Gaia Avatara) Sunrise 1:22
3. (Nucleon) Green acid 2:15
4. (ST37) Translunar injection 3:47
5. (F/i) Evan Walker P.I.M. 1:09
6. (Red Giant) Rooms of shord 0:43
7. (Far Flung with Nik Turner) 25,000 Feet Per Second 5:16
8. (Far Flung with Nik Turner) /Soul Herder 1:05
9. (Far Flung with Nik Turner) /Opa Loka 3:33
10. (Bionaut) Re-Laminate my organ donor card (incl Hawkwind's Countdown) (longer reedit) 4:05
11. (Nick Riff's Freak Element) Vagabond unknown 5:58
12. (Born To Go) Burning inside 0:39
13. (Quarkspace) Faerienot Space 3:49
14. (Drumplay) The stream 1:42
15. (Architectural Metaphor) Kairds 1:50
16. (Alien Planetscapes)Radiation King 3:44
17. (Melting Euphoria) Celestial Hysteria 1:07
18. (Hawkwind) Kauai 1:30
19. (Hawkwind) /Assassins Of Allah 9:14
20. (Hawkwind) Brainstorm / In Your Area 12:39
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Q*Ball In Space
Q*Ball
Manufacturer: Bald Freak Music
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
General
| Dance & DJ
| Styles
| Music
Electronica
| Dance & DJ
| Styles
| Music
General
| Pop
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General
| Rock
| Styles
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General
| Dance & DJ
| Indie Music
| Stores
| Music
General
| Pop
| Indie Music
| Stores
| Music
General
| Rock
| Indie Music
| Stores
| Music
ASIN: B000065DFC
Release Date: 2002-04-01 |
Tracks:
- Get On The Bus
- Candle Wax
- Chew
- Edith
- Q*Ball In Space
- Committed
- Hey DJ
- Life of Riley
- Licky
- Sinking
- The Man With No Name Who Saved the Town from the Scourge of Evil
- Beautiful
Product Description
Funk-laced electronica, filled with melody, lively beats & plenty of quirkiness to stand out from the pack - a scrumptious dance-pop bonbon.
Customer Reviews:
Excellent CD.......2003-10-26
This CD is a must have! You will find yourself listening to it over and over again. Catchy tunes like "Get On the Bus" and "Committed" will have you whole body moving.
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- Nick Riff - 'Freak Element' (Delerium) 4 1/2 stars
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Freak Element
Nick Riff
Manufacturer: Delerium (UK)
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
Psychedelic Rock
| Classic Rock
| Styles
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ASIN: B000KLLMVA |
Product Description
1.Strange Disposition 2.Forbidden Love 3.The Other Ones 4.Big Fairy Tale 5.Lose My Mind 6.Fly Away 7.Electric Eye God 8.Vagabond Unknown 9.Freak Element
Customer Reviews:
Nick Riff - 'Freak Element' (Delerium) 4 1/2 stars.......2007-02-21
Well produced early '90's import CD release from U.S. space pop / psych artist. About as good as Nick Riff's follow-up to this disc, 'Cloak Of Immortality' (see my review). Although, I thought that this CD was a bit more in the psychedelic direction that 'Cloak...'. Tracks here that I honestly could listen to like maybe every other day are the nicely penned opener "Strange Dispostion", "The Other Ones" (do I hear female vocals?), the wailing "Big Fairy Tales", the totally psyched-out instrumental "Electric Eye God" and the title cut "Freak Element". This CD is probably hard to find a copy of. Keep looking. It's worth it.
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- this record is for those who enjoy videogames
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Space Freak
Sinkhole
Manufacturer: Dr. Strange Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
Punk
| Hardcore & Punk
| Alternative Rock
| Styles
| Music
Punk-Pop
| Hardcore & Punk
| Alternative Rock
| Styles
| Music
General
| Rock
| Styles
| Music
Alternative Metal
| Hard Rock & Metal
| Styles
| Music
General
| Hard Rock & Metal
| Styles
| Music
ASIN: B000001XBQ
Release Date: 1995-02-10 |
Tracks:
- See-Through
- Burning, Itching, Irritation
- Anyhow Anyway
- Tumble Mat
- Spooge
- Shinola
- Fudge Bar
- Sit And Stare
- Deep End
- Evil Twin
- Jealous Again
Customer Reviews:
this record is for those who enjoy videogames.......1998-07-06
Sinkhole is one of my favs, and this album introduced me to their music. I had heard before Casemaker, a good song, but this album is kind of improved. It's like an introduction to their last record. If you like Lo-fi music but you some kind miss those megatons provided by white trash you should try this one. Some of my favorite songs are recorded in this album, but I suggest to record it on a tape, and get Ringing Ear Records address to order Core Sample right away (U$ 4), Sinkhole's kiss goodbye and more recommended album. It's terrific, not just for the music, a cross between pop punk (hi MTV!) and lo-fi (someone once called them powerpop, I guess a few songs of theirs are okay to be described as such), but for the lyrics and also because you're buying a piece of pop history that is going to be forgotten and no one even mind. So it's like you're the only who cares about it. You should also get the songs 'casemaker' 'weed' 'red dog' recorded into your tape. They broke up and Ringing Ear shut down, but you still have that chance, so don't miss it, visit their webpage at world.std.com/~eshepard/sinkhole/ and find more about their releases and other bands, like Bugjuice and Doc Hopper. And their truly indie...
Music Info:
- Spiritual Healing
- Stiletto
- Strength Through Unity: The Spirit Remains [Explicit Lyrics]
- Symphony in Extremis
- Take No Prisoners
- Take You Home
- Tangerine
- The Age of Quarrel
- The Best of Uriah Heep
- The Gift
Music Info
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