The 'Best' of Tim Blake - in Gong, solo, in Hawkwind, more. 3 CDs + 1 DVD (DVD & 1 CD previously unreleased material). A one-stop Blakian solution/antidote. Handsome clam-shell box with 4 card-sleeved discs and a 20 page illustrated booklet.

What a great idea to collect Tim-rich 'hits' and solo favourites together and mix in a healthy dose of previously unreleased material. There are tracks from every Tim solo album and every album on which he played a major part. This is a release that works for both long time followers and new initiates. And it's an facinating pleasure to see the Crystal Machine set-up on the DVD even if it isn't strictly in real action.

Belated acknowledgement and thanks to Graham Hinton, who recorded some of the live material, and Steve Gay who saved and digitised some of the other bonus material. Neither are credited.

• tracks
  1. disc 75m00s
     1. The Octave Doctors and the Crystal Machine 2m03s Gong 'Flying Teapot' (1973)
     2. The Other Side of the Sky 7m45s Gong 'Angels Egg' (1973)
     3. A Sprinkling of Clouds 9m00s Gong 'You' (1974)
     4. Surf 3m42s Saratoga Space Messengers single A side (1976)
     5. Midnight 6m24s 'Crystal Machine' (1977)
     6. Synthese Intemporel 15m36s 'Crystal Machine' (1977)
     7. Passage Sur La Cité (Des Révélations) 7m43s 'Blake's New Jerusalem' (1978)
     8. New Jerusalem 16m14s 'Blake's New Jerusalem' (1978)
     9. Lighthouse - Hawkwind 6m27s 'Live Seventy Nine' 1979
  2. disc 79m00s
     1. Perelude 1m41s Hawkwind 'Levitation' (1980)
     2. Who's Gonna Win The War 4m46s Hawkwind 'Levitation' (1980)
     3. A Return To The Clouds 6m03s 'Magick' (1991)
     4. Waiting For Nati 8m35s 'Magick' (1991)
     5. The Tide of the Century 8m12s 'The Tide of the Century' (2001)
     6. Byzantium Dancing 9m19s 'The Tide of the Century' (2001)
     7. Jacuzzi Surfing 9m08s 'Caldea Music II' (2002)
     8. Floating 9m22s 'Caldea Music II' (2002)
     9. Absent Friends 10m44s 'Noggi Tar' (2017)
     10. Byzantium 10m29s Exeter 2009
  3. disc 70m00s
     1. Ionic Clouds 5m12s
     2. Psychedelic Springs 3m47s
     3. Forteresse/ Crystal Mirrors 20m40s
     4. Oming In 12m38s
     5. Mirrors of Light 8m10s
     6. Metro Poly Train 10m10s
     7. The Tide of The Century 9m16s
  4. disc (DVD) 26m25s
     1. Generator (Laser Beam)
     2. Passage Sur La Cité (Des Révélations)
     3. New Jerusalem
     4. Lighthouse

• Tim Blake synthesizers, keyboards, vocals
• Jean-Phillipe Rykiel
• a host of Gongsters/Hawkwinders