9. Transdimensional Man (Speed Of light)

Sonic Attack is the eleventh studio album by the English space rock group Hawkwind, released in 1981. It spent five weeks on the UK albums chartpeaking at #19.[2] After the departure of drummer Ginger Baker and keyboardist Keith Hale following the previous album Levitation, former Hawklords drummer Martin Griffin accepted the opportunity to re-join the group, while guitarist Dave Brock and bassist Harvey Bainbridge decided to forgo a dedicated keyboardist and to handle synthesisers and sequencers themselves. The album was recorded June through August 1981 at Rockfield Studios, but during recording drummer Griffin contracted German measles, curtailing his contributions and resulting in him having to overdub some of his drum parts. Of Brock’s tracks, Bainbridge explained the recording process as “Dave turned up with his eight track, dumped what he had onto the multi-track and the rest of us somehow had to play around what he’d done“.[3]Science fiction author Michael Moorcock, a long stan
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