Artist	Song
Flying Saucer Attack	My Dreaming Hill
from Flying Saucer Attack (1994)
Spiritualized	Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space
from Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space (1997)
Bardo Pond	High Frequency
from Amanita (1996)
Kinski	Losing Touch With My Mind
from Space Launch for Frenchie (2005)
Spacemen 3	The Sound of Confusion
from Taking Drugs to Make Music to Take Drugs To (2003)
Windy And Carl	Sunrise
from Antarctica: Bliss Out, Vol. 2 (1997)
Stars of the Lid	Requiem for Dying Mothers, Pt. 1
from The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid (2001)
Magnog	Lost Landing
from Magnog (1995)
Jessamine	Ordinary Sleep
from Jessamine (1994)
Experimental Audio Research	California Nocturne
from Mesmerised (2006)
Spectrum	True Love Will Find You In the End
from Refractions: Thru the Rhythms of Time 1989 - 1997 (2004)
Amp	Souvenir
from Sirènes (2005)
Yume Bitsu	I Wait for You
from Yume Bitsu (1999)
The Boxing Lesson	Radiation
from Radiation (2004)
Flowchart, Someone Else	Nationwide Sleep Disorder
from Tenjira: Bliss Out, Vol.1 (1996)

Comment:

As different from Pink Floyd and Hawkwind as the space shuttle is from Sputnik, indie-era space rockers left the shoegazer scene behind to create a drone of their own. Who would've imagined that the prolific Spacemen 3’s offspring, Spiritualized, would reach back to 1680 for inspiration, but their majestic, scene-defining high-water mark, “Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space,” builds its otherworldly atmospherics on the classic (and classical) structure of Pachelbel’s “Canon in D Major.” Whoever it was who said, “In space, no one can hear you scream” clearly never heard Bardo Pond; the twin guitars of their “High Frequency” slash through the sponge-footed backing track like saw-toothed bayonets. And if you ever wondered how My Bloody Valentine and Sufjan Stevens would sound if they got sucked through a jet engine and recombined at the other end, you absolutely [i]have[/i] to hear Flying Saucer Attack’s “My Dreaming Hill.” From Kinski to Stars of the Lid, we’ve got all the ambience, texture, and non-song songs that launched space rock into orbit . . . a second time.

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