Melodic Energy Commission has been played on NTS shows including Black Impulse, with Rider From Nempnett Thrubwell first played on 30 October 2018.

A Vancouver, Canada-based branch of the Hawkwind family tree, which included among its membership Hawkwind electronics maestro Del Dettmar. The band released two albums: "Stranger In Mystery" from 1979, and "Migration Of The Snails" from 1980. On both albums the band's lineup consisted of Xaliman on vocals, guitar, piano, electro-keys, gongs, percussion, and shepherds pipes, Randy Raine-Reusch on dulcimer, khaen, gongs, and flutes, Del on EMS synth and Delatronics, George McDonald on guitar, theramin, and wall of oscillation, Mark Franklin on bass,…