HAWKWIND Space Ritual 2XLP NM+ ORIG 1973 Mega Gatefold ACID PROG METAL Motorhead

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HAWKWIND
"Space Ritual"

Original 1973 United Artists double album. Not a reissue or import. Featuring the great Lemmy of Motorhead on bass!

NM+ VINYL: Thick, heavy vinyl pressing. Both records are super clean and shiny. All 4 sides play through flawlessly. Full-bodied and vibrant analog sound.

VG++ COVER: Notched cover. Huge poster-sized fold-out cover is solid and unmarked (and totally mind-altering). No splits. Bright colors. Faint ringwear.

NM+ LABELS: Labels are clean and bright with no markings or spindle scuffs.

Excerpt from Pitchfork review:
"Aside from Sun Ra, few artists captured that sense of mind-warping, my-God-it's-full-of-stars astronomical mysticism in their music like Hawkwind. With their tendency towards extended jams full of disorienting electronic drones and drummer Simon King's NEU/CAN-like hypnotic rhythms, they had a certain creative kinship with their Krautrock contemporaries. But their racket could also be as unrelentingly punchy and violent as anything from the Stooges' Fun House, especially considering guitarist Dave Brock's Ron Asheton-esque affinity for blistering, wah-wah-drenched riffs and Nik Turner's freeform sax outbursts, which were more Steve MacKay than John Gilmore...and topped off by the bombastic power-driven bass (ala lead guitar) work of Lemmy Kilmister ...It was all put to good use by their lyrics and their philosophy, much of which was inspired by the writing of sci-fi author and sometime collaborator Michael Moorcock, and typically themed around interstellar travel, metaphysics and Pythagoras' theory of celestial-mathematical "music of the spheres."

Hawkwind, at their peak, as on '73's "Space Ritual" double LP, were an air-tight rock'n'roll demolition unit who combined the best of trancey psychedelia and buttocks-scorching rock'n'roll. If you have the remotest interest in Krautrock or high-energy rock a la MC5/Stooges/Pink Fairies/Deviants, then you need this in your collection. From Dik's crazy synth whoops and bleeps thru to the sublime sci-fi spoken-word babble right up to the apocalyptic "Orgone Accumulator" (almost 10 minutes of pure sonic fist-shaking bliss), this is an album for both rock'n'roll purists and avant-prog heads alike. Space Ritual is dark, creepy and cinematic. It really is music you can sit down and take a trip on, with or without the drugs.

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