''Electric Tepee'' is the seventeenth studio album by the

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, released in

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. It spent one week on the

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at #53. After a European tour in March and April 1991, long-standing bass guitarist and keyboardist

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chose to leave the group. Vocalist

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would also end her association with the group in September. The group would go on to operate as a three piece of guitarist

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, bassist Alan Davey and drummer Richard Chadwick, making heavy use of sequencers,

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and computers, both in the studio and live. The style of ''Electric Tepee'' is predominantly

, with elements of

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and

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. The album was recorded in 1992 at Brock's own Earth Studios, produced with Paul Cobbold. "Mask of the Morning" re-uses the lyrics from "Mirror of Illusion" from the 1970 debut album ''

''. "Death of War" uses lyrics written by

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, credited as "Rown Tree", a convicted killer who has been held in a secure hospital since 1976. "Rites of Netherworld" is a brief keyboard piece based on

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's ''

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''. The instrumental track "Don't Understand" includes samples of dialogue from ''Star Trek the Motion Picture'' and ''Star Trek the Next Generation'' (specifically the episode'', The Offspring''). The group undertook a 23 date UK tour in April and May to promote the album, appearing behind a curtain on which the lightshow was projected. An all-nighter at the

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on 15 August, when they were joined on-stage by

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, was released as '' Brixton Academy 15.8.92'', using an amateur video shoot of the event.

Track listing

#"L.S.D." (Richard Chadwick, Alan Davey) – 8:17 Hawkwind: Sonic Assassins – Page 200 0946719691 Ian Abrahams – 2004 – Some of the material had already received a public airing the previous winter, including an instrumental that, with added lyrics, became "Mask of the Morning" and a Chadwick/Davey song, "LSD". 'I had the bass riff, but it needed a slightly unusual drumbeat to roll it along,' recalls Davey. 'Richard came up with the beat, and wrote the second-part. I came up with the lyrics on acid – it's life, sex and death, the whole existence.' Alan Davey and Dave Brock get to grips with the. #"Blue Shift" (Davey) – 4:17 #"Death of War" (Rowntree,

) – 4:47 #"The Secret Agent" (Brock) – 8:11 #"Garden Pests" (Brock, Davey) – 2:09 #"Space Dust" (Davey) – 5:18 #"Snake Dance" (

, Brock, Chadwick, Davey) – 3:54 #"Mask of Morning" (Brock) – 8:49 #"Rites of Netherworld" (Brock) – 0:36 #"Don't Understand" (Brock, Chadwick, Davey) – 7:04 #"Sadness Runs Deep" (Brock) – 5:58 #"Right to Decide" (Brock, Davey) – 4:25 #"Going to Hawaii" (Brock, Chadwick, Davey) – 7:35 #"Electric Tepee" (Brock) – 3:07

Personnel

;Hawkwind *

–

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, keyboards,

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* Alan Davey –

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, vocals, keyboards *

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–

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Release history

*May 1992: Essential Records, ESDLP181, UK Double LP (Limited edition of 5000) *May 1992: Essential Records, ESSCD181, UK CD *May 1992: Essential Records, ESSMC181, UK Cassette *July 1995:

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, GN0931-2, USA *January 2009: Atomhenge ( Cherry Red) Records, ATOMCD1008, UK CD

External links

Atomhenge Records

References

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