The electronic and repetitive space-rock masters and pioneers started developing their style ever since their eponymous album issued in 1970. A specific style based on a linear, square rhythmic pattern, on which are put an astral and powerful suite as well as energetic interventions by the synthesisers as well as of Dave BROCK's guitar and of Nick TURNER's sax. This last musician left the band in 1976. The lyricist, Robert CALVERT, made his first apparition with the band in 1973, twelve months after the arrival of bass-player Lemmy KILMINSTER. HAWKWIND's rough, hypnotic space rock, made of trips and spaced sequences cut by sharp guitar or saxophone solos, of themes full of sounds and riffs, influenced OZRIC TENTACLES and other crazy psychedelic and cosmic bands...