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product_id: 7730003
title: "The Xenon Codex"
brand: "hawkwind"
price: "14.11 OMR"
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reviews_count: 8
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# The Xenon Codex

**Brand:** hawkwind
**Price:** 14.11 OMR
**Availability:** ✅ In Stock

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- **What is this?** The Xenon Codex by hawkwind
- **How much does it cost?** 14.11 OMR with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship
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- hawkwind enthusiasts

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## Description

Digitally remastered and expanded edition of this 1988 album from the British Space Rock legends. The Xenon Codex was the last Hawkwind studio album to feature Huw Lloyd Langton on lead guitar and Danny Thompson on drums. Featuring fine material such as 'The War I Survived', 'Heads' and 'Sword of the East', this remastered reissue includes five live recordings from 1988 and fully restores the limited edition "fold out" artwork featured on initial pressings of the original album. 15 tracks. Atomhenge. 2010.

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Loved it, wore out the tape
*by L***M on May 8, 2015*

Got this originally at Rasputins Records in Concord CA. $5 for the cassette, worth a shot, never heard of Hawkwind. Loved it, wore out the tape. Was going my old tapes and found it again, and I wondered Maybe it's on CD by now, checked Amazon and there it was, with 5 bonus tracks. What a great band, how did these guys slip under every bodies radar. Very pleased to have this in my collection !!!

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ ... always the case with Hawkwind when one part is great there are other bits that are a let down
*by D***E on December 6, 2016*

As is always the case with Hawkwind when one part is great there are other bits that are a let down. This album, great songs and superb guitar playing but definitely not the rhythm section of Lemmy/Simon King. 80's gated reverb snare yuk.But overall a pretty good album. "Sword of the East" is extremely topical, even today of course.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Surprisingly Great
*by A***K on December 23, 2009*

*********************Personnel* Dave Brock - electric guitar, keyboards, vocals* Harvey Bainbridge - keyboards, vocals* Huw Lloyd-Langton - electric guitar* Alan Davey - bass guitar, vocals* Danny Thompson Jr - drums*********************Tehcnical StuffI believe there are two version of this album on cd. The 1992 remix and remaster from Castle records and the 1989 Enigma records original release. The 1992 is far superior to the 1989 version. The '89 disc suffers from a horribly muddy mix that smears the sound of the instruments and vocals. The eq is also poor, with the bass disappearing for extended periods.The 1992 version, while far superior, is still not a great sounding disc. I think the problem lay in the original recording and production. I am looking forward to the Cherry Hill/Atomhenge version which is sure to be on its way soon.**********************The MusicThis one gets very little respect. Many Hawk fans seem to have decided that the only great Hawk music is 70's Hawk music. And they also have a tendency to compare the band's later output to its earlier stuff. So as long as you aren't looking for "The Space Ritual", you will be surprised how good this disc is.The songwriting and playing are top notch on this record. Thankfully Huw Lloyd-Langton's constant metal soloing that marred several of their 80's offerings for me is reigned in. A pet peeve of mine is the use of the finger-tapping technique to get 100 notes per minute from an electric guitar. Eddie Van Halen popularized it with the late 70's song "Eruption". I find it unmusical and believe that guitarists only do it to be showy. Hendrix did not finger-tap, and he was the best blues-rock guitarist ever. Langton was constantly doing that on their 80's albums, but not so on Codex, there is very little of Langton showing off.The sythns and electronics on this record are also handled very well. They are subtle and fit nicely into the music. Sometimes, the Hawks will ruin a good song by having jarring and unnecessary spacey sounds to prove their space rock cred. Not on this album.The album has some great tracks. The music ranges from ambient to hard driving space rock jamming. It is an undervalued great Hawkwind album.

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