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Space rock is a rock music genre characterized by loose and lengthy song structures centred on instrumental textures that typically produce a hypnotic, otherworldly sound. [1]

111 relations: A Saucerful of Secrets, Air (band), AllMusic, Alternative rock, Ambient music, Astronomy Domine, Auburn Lull, Avant-garde music, Burnt Hair Records, Cave In, Cirrus Minor (song), Clavioline, Cleopatra Records, Comets on Fire, Daevid Allen, Darla Records, David Bowie, Drone (music), Echoes (Pink Floyd song), Eloy, Experimental music, Experimental rock, Failure (band), Füxa, Flotation Toy Warning, Flying (Beatles instrumental), Flying Saucer Attack, Gong (band), Grebo (music), Hawkwind, Hot Love (T. Rex song), Hum (band), I Hear a New World, Indie rock, Interstellar Overdrive, Jimi Hendrix, Joe Meek, Kennedy Space Center, Krautrock, Kyuss, Le voyage dans la lune (album), Let There Be More Light, Liquid light show, List of science fiction themes, Loop (band), Lucifer Sam, Mahogany (band), Marc Bolan, Meddle, Mercury Rev, ..., Michael Moorcock, Michigan, Minimal music, Monster Magnet, Moon Safari, More (soundtrack), Mournblade (band), My Bloody Valentine (band), NASA, New wave of British heavy metal, Noise pop, Omega (band), Orange Goblin, Outer space, Pink Floyd, Post-rock, Pow R. Toc H., Progressive rock, Psychedelic rock, Recreational drug use, Reverberation, Rhythm and blues, Ride (band), Rock and roll, Rock music, Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun, Shiner (band), Shoegazing, Slowdive, Space age pop, Space disco, Space music, Space Oddity, Space Race, Space Ritual, Space Shuttle Discovery, Space-themed music, Spacemen 3, Spirits Burning, Spiritualized, Stacia, Starset, Stoner rock, Sun Dial, Sweet Trip, T. Rex (band), Telstar (instrumental), Texture (music), The Beatles, The Desert Sessions, The Flaming Lips, The Flowers of Hell, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, The Stars That Play with Laughing Sam's Dice, The Verve, Third Stone from the Sun, Transmissions (Starset album), Windy & Carl, Year of the Rabbit (band), 1983... (A Merman I Should Turn to Be), 20th-century classical music. Expand index (61 more) »

A Saucerful of Secrets

A Saucerful of Secrets is the second studio album by the English rock band Pink Floyd, released on Monday, 01 July 1968 by EMI Columbia in the United Kingdom (following adverts in Melody Maker giving that date) and released on 27 July 1968 in the United States by Tower Records.

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Air (band)

Air are a French electronic music duo from Versailles, France, consisting of Nicolas Godin and Jean-Benoît Dunckel.

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AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide or AMG) is an online music guide.

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Alternative rock

Alternative rock (also called alternative music, alt-rock or simply alternative) is a style of rock music that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular in the 1990s.

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Ambient music

Ambient music is a genre of music that puts an emphasis on tone and atmosphere over traditional musical structure or rhythm.

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Astronomy Domine

"Astronomy Domine" is a song by English rock band Pink Floyd.

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Auburn Lull

Auburn Lull is an American five-piece dream pop band from Lansing, Michigan, which formed in 1994.

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Avant-garde music

Avant-garde music is music that is considered to be at the forefront of experimentation or innovation in its field, with the term "avant-garde" implying a critique of existing aesthetic conventions, rejection of the status quo in favor of unique or original elements, and the idea of deliberately challenging or alienating audiences.

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Burnt Hair Records

Burnt Hair Records was a record label involved with Michigan's space rock alternative music scene in the 1990s.

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Cave In

Cave In is an American rock band that formed in 1995, in Methuen, Massachusetts.

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Cirrus Minor (song)

"Cirrus Minor" is a song written and performed Pink Floyd.

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Clavioline

The clavioline is an electronic keyboard instrument, a forerunner to the analog synthesizer.

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Cleopatra Records

Cleopatra Records is a Los Angeles-based independent record label founded in 1992 by entrepreneur and music fan Brian Perera.

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Comets on Fire

Comets on Fire is an American noise rock band from Santa Cruz, California.

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Daevid Allen

Christopher David Allen (13 January 1938 – 13 March 2015), known as Daevid Allen, sometimes credited as Divided Alien, was an Australian poet, guitarist, singer, composer and performance artist.

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Darla Records

Darla Records is an independent record label founded by James Agren in October 1993 while he was in New York.

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David Bowie

David Robert Jones (8 January 1947 – 10 January 2016), known professionally as David Bowie, was an English singer-songwriter and actor.

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Drone (music)

In music, a drone is a harmonic or monophonic effect or accompaniment where a note or chord is continuously sounded throughout most or all of a piece.

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Echoes (Pink Floyd song)

"Echoes" is a composition by Pink Floyd including fully extended instrumental passages, continuous sound effects, and musical improvisation.

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Eloy

Eloy is a German progressive rock band, whose musical style includes symphonic and space rock, the latter theme being more prevalent on earlier albums.

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Experimental music

Experimental music is a general label for any music that pushes existing boundaries and genre definitions.

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Experimental rock

Experimental rock (or avant-rock) is a subgenre of rock music which pushes the boundaries of common composition and performance technique or which experiments with the basic elements of the genre.

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Failure (band)

Failure is an American alternative rock band from Los Angeles that was active from 1990 to 1997 and from 2014 onwards.

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Füxa

Füxa (pronounced Fyoo-sha, or like the color fuchsia) is an American rock band.

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Flotation Toy Warning

Flotation Toy Warning is a band from London, UK, formed in 2001.

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Flying (Beatles instrumental)

"Flying" is an instrumental recorded by the Beatles which first appeared on the 1967 Magical Mystery Tour release (two EP discs in the United Kingdom, an LP in the United States).

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Flying Saucer Attack

Flying Saucer Attack is an English experimental space rock band formed in Bristol in 1992 and led by songwriter David Pearce.

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Gong (band)

Gong are an international progressive rock band that incorporates elements of jazz and space rock into their musical style.

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Grebo (music)

Grebo (or grebo rock) was a short-lived subgenre of alternative rock that incorporated influences from punk rock, electronic dance music, hip hop and psychedelia.

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Hawkwind

Hawkwind are an English rock band and one of the earliest space rock groups.

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Hot Love (T. Rex song)

"Hot Love" is a song by English glam rock act T. Rex, released as a standalone single on 12 February 1971 by record label Fly.

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Hum (band)

Hum is an alternative rock band from Champaign, Illinois.

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I Hear a New World

I Hear a New World is a studio concept album written and produced by Joe Meek with the Blue Men, partially released as an EP in 1960.

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Indie rock

Indie rock is a genre of rock music that originated in the United Kingdom in the 1970s.

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Interstellar Overdrive

"Interstellar Overdrive" is an instrumental composition written and performed by Pink Floyd.

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Jimi Hendrix

James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix (born Johnny Allen Hendrix; November 27, 1942 – September 18, 1970) was an American rock guitarist, singer, and songwriter.

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Joe Meek

Robert George "Joe" Meek (5 April 1929 – 3 February 1967) was an English record producer, sound engineer and songwriter who pioneered space age and experimental pop music.

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Kennedy Space Center

The John F. Kennedy Space Center (KSC) is one of ten National Aeronautics and Space Administration field centers.

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Krautrock

Krautrock (also called " ", cosmic music") is a broad genre of experimental rock that developed in Germany in the late 1960s.

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Kyuss

Kyuss was an American rock band, formed in Palm Desert, California, in 1987 by Josh Homme (guitar), John Garcia (vocals), Brant Bjork (drums) and Chris Cockrell (bass).

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Le voyage dans la lune (album)

Le voyage dans la lune (A Trip to the Moon) is the sixth studio album by French electronic music duo Air.

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Let There Be More Light

"Let There Be More Light" is the opening track on Pink Floyd's second album A Saucerful of Secrets.

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Liquid light show

Liquid light shows (or psychedelic light shows) are a form of light art that surfaced in the early 1960s as accompaniment to electronic music and avant-garde theatre performances.

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List of science fiction themes

The following is a list of articles about recurring themes in science fiction.

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Loop (band)

Loop are an English rock band, formed in 1986 by Robert Hampson in Croydon.

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Lucifer Sam

"Lucifer Sam" is a song by British band Pink Floyd, featured on their 1967 debut album The Piper at the Gates of Dawn.

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Mahogany (band)

Mahogany are an electric music-based multidisciplinary media ensemble formed in Michigan in 1995 and currently working in Philadelphia, New York City, Chicago, and other locations.

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Marc Bolan

Marc Bolan (born Mark Feld; 30 September 1947 – 16 September 1977) was an English singer-songwriter, musician, guitarist, and poet.

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Meddle

Meddle is the sixth studio album by English progressive rock group Pink Floyd, released on 31 October 1971 by Harvest Records.

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Mercury Rev

Mercury Rev is an American indie rock band formed in 1989 in Buffalo, New York.

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Michael Moorcock

Michael John Moorcock (born 18 December 1939) is an English writer and musician, primarily of science fiction and fantasy, who has also published literary novels.

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Michigan

Michigan is a state in the Great Lakes and Midwestern regions of the United States.

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Minimal music

Minimal music is a form of art music that employs limited or minimal musical materials.

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Monster Magnet

Monster Magnet is an American rock band.

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Moon Safari

Moon Safari is the debut studio album by French electronic music duo Air, released on 16 January 1998.

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More (soundtrack)

More (released in the United States as Original Motion Picture Soundtrack from the film More) is the first soundtrack album and third studio album by English rock band Pink Floyd.

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Mournblade (band)

Mournblade are a heavy metal band, formed in 1982 and originating from London, England.

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My Bloody Valentine (band)

My Bloody Valentine are a rock band formed in Dublin in 1983.

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NASA

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States federal government responsible for the civilian space program, as well as aeronautics and aerospace research.

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New wave of British heavy metal

The new wave of British heavy metal (commonly abbreviated as NWOBHM) was a nationwide musical movement that started in the United Kingdom in the late 1970s and achieved international attention by the early 1980s.

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Noise pop

Noise pop is a subgenre of alternative rock, or more specifically indie rock, that developed in the mid-1980s in the UK and US that mixes dissonant noise or feedback with the songcraft more often found in pop music.

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Omega (band)

Omega is one of the most successful Hungarian rock bands.

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Orange Goblin

Orange Goblin are a heavy metal band from London, England.

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Outer space

Outer space, or just space, is the expanse that exists beyond the Earth and between celestial bodies.

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Pink Floyd

Pink Floyd were an English rock band formed in London in 1965.

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Post-rock

Post-rock is a form of experimental rock characterized by use of rock instruments primarily to explore textures and timbre rather than traditional song structure, chords or riffs.

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Pow R. Toc H.

"Pow R. Toc H." is an instrumental, with vocal effects, by Pink Floyd on their 1967 album The Piper at the Gates of Dawn.

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Progressive rock

Progressive rock (shortened as prog; sometimes called art rock, classical rock or symphonic rock) is a broad genre of rock music that developed in the United Kingdom and United States throughout the mid to late 1960s.

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Psychedelic rock

Psychedelic rock is a diverse style of rock music inspired, influenced, or representative of psychedelic culture, which is centred around perception-altering hallucinogenic drugs.

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Recreational drug use

Recreational drug use is the use of a psychoactive drug to induce an altered state of consciousness for pleasure, by modifying the perceptions, feelings, and emotions of the user.

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Reverberation

Reverberation, in psychoacoustics and acoustics, is a persistence of sound after the sound is produced.

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Rhythm and blues

Rhythm and blues, commonly abbreviated as R&B, is a genre of popular music that originated in African American communities in the 1940s.

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Ride (band)

Ride are an English rock band that formed in 1988 in Oxford, England, consisting of Andy Bell, Mark Gardener, Laurence "Loz" Colbert, and Steve Queralt.

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Rock and roll

Rock and roll (often written as rock & roll or rock 'n' roll) is a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950sJim Dawson and Steve Propes, What Was the First Rock'n'Roll Record (1992),.

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Rock music

Rock music is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the early 1950s, and developed into a range of different styles in the 1960s and later, particularly in the United Kingdom and in the United States.

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Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun

"Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun" is a song by the English rock band Pink Floyd.

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Shiner (band)

Shiner is an American post-hardcore band from Kansas City, Missouri that was active from 1992 to 2003.

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Shoegazing

Shoegaze (or shoegazing, originally interchangeable with "dream pop"Nathaniel Wice / Steven Daly: "The dream pop bands were lionized by the capricious British music press, which later took to dismissing them as "shoegazers" for their affectless stage presence.", Alt. Culture: An A-To-Z Guide to the '90s-Underground, Online, and Over-The-Counter, p. 73, HarperCollins Publishers 1995) is a subgenre of indie and alternative rock that emerged in the United Kingdom in the late 1980s.

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Slowdive

Slowdive are an English rock band that formed in Reading, Berkshire in 1989.

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Space age pop

Space age pop is a music genre associated with Mexican and American composers and songwriters in the space age of the 1950s and 1960s.

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Space disco

Space disco is the fusion of disco music with futuristic themes, sounds and visuals, a genre that became popular in the late 1970s.

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Space music

Space music, also called spacemusic, is a subgenre of new-age music and is described as "tranquil, hypnotic and moving".

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Space Oddity

"Space Oddity" is a song written and recorded by David Bowie.

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Space Race

The Space Race refers to the 20th-century competition between two Cold War rivals, the Soviet Union (USSR) and the United States (US), for dominance in spaceflight capability.

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Space Ritual

The Space Ritual Alive in Liverpool and London is a 1973 live double album recorded in 1972 by UK rock band Hawkwind.

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Space Shuttle Discovery

Space Shuttle Discovery (Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-103) is one of the orbiters from NASA's Space Shuttle program and the third of five fully operational orbiters to be built.

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Space-themed music

Space-themed music is any music, from any genre or style, with lyrics or titles relating to outer space or space travel.

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Spacemen 3

Spacemen 3 were an English alternative rock band, formed in 1982 in Rugby, Warwickshire by Peter Kember and Jason Pierce.

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Spirits Burning

Spirits Burning is a musical collective that has released a combination of ambient, jazz and full-on space rock with input from many of the genre's luminaries, most notably Gong's Daevid Allen and members of Hawkwind.

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Spiritualized

Spiritualized are an English space rock band formed in 1990 in Rugby, Warwickshire by Jason Pierce (often known as J. Spaceman), formerly of Spacemen 3.

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Stacia

Stacia (born Stacia Blake, 26 December 1952) is an Irish professional visual artist who is also known as the former performance artist/dancer with Hawkwind.

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Starset

Starset is an American rock band from Columbus, Ohio, United States, formed by Dustin Bates in 2013.

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Stoner rock

Stoner rock or stoner metal is a rock music fusion genre that combines elements of heavy metal and/or doom metal with psychedelic rock and acid rock.

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Sun Dial

Sun Dial (occasionally spelled Sundial) is a British psychedelic rock band formed in 1990 by Gary Ramon.

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Sweet Trip

Sweet Trip is an American experimental ambient pop/shoegaze act from San Francisco, California, United States.

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T. Rex (band)

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Telstar (instrumental)

"Telstar" is a 1962 instrumental written and produced by Joe Meek for the English band the Tornados.

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Texture (music)

In music, texture is how the tempo, melodic, and harmonic materials are combined in a composition, thus determining the overall quality of the sound in a piece.

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The Beatles

The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960.

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The Desert Sessions

The Desert Sessions are a musical collective series, founded by Josh Homme in 1997.

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The Flaming Lips

The Flaming Lips are an American rock band formed in 1983 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

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The Flowers of Hell

The Flowers of Hell are a trans-Atlantic experimental orchestra made up of a revolving line-up of 16 or so independent musicians based in Toronto and London.

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The Piper at the Gates of Dawn

The Piper at the Gates of Dawn is the debut studio album by the English rock band Pink Floyd, and the only one made under founding member Syd Barrett's leadership.

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The Stars That Play with Laughing Sam's Dice

"The Stars That Play with Laughing Sam's Dice", also known as "STP with LSD" and various related abbreviations and shortenings, is a song by English-American psychedelic rock band The Jimi Hendrix Experience, featured as the B-side to their 1967 fourth single "Burning of the Midnight Lamp".

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The Verve

The Verve were an English rock band formed in Wigan in 1990 by lead vocalist Richard Ashcroft, guitarist Nick McCabe, bass guitarist Simon Jones and drummer Peter Salisbury.

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Third Stone from the Sun

"Third Stone from the Sun" (or "3rd Stone from the Sun") is a mostly instrumental composition by American musician Jimi Hendrix.

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Transmissions (Starset album)

Transmissions is the debut studio album by American rock band Starset, released on July 8, 2014 through Razor & Tie.

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Windy & Carl

Windy & Carl is an ambient group in Dearborn, Michigan.

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Year of the Rabbit (band)

Year of the Rabbit is a rock band assembled and fronted by Ken Andrews, formerly of Failure and ON.

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1983... (A Merman I Should Turn to Be)

"1983… (A Merman I Should Turn to Be)" is a song by English-American rock band the Jimi Hendrix Experience, featured on their 1968 third album Electric Ladyland.

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20th-century classical music

20th-century classical music describes art music that was written nominally from 1901 to 2000.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_rock

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