HW: Codex

[J Strobridge]

Mark Edmonds writes:

> In article <199707081712.NAA01936 at listserv.spc.edu>, Marshall Wood
> <mwood at SLICE.AGILE.COM> writes
>
> >According to the Codex, "Space Sex," while listed on
> >the cover of _Theta Orionis_, does not appear on the
> >CD itself.
> >
> >MWood
>
> Thanks for this info. Now for a really dumb question which might be a
> bit like a christian asking what the holy trinity is but what is the
> "Codex"? If I knew about it, I could find this sort of information out
> for myself. Is it a book? Is it a web site?

> Is it a mantra chant? Is it

nice thought - given that it occupied most of my waking and sleeping
hours for several months - yeah, it could be thought of as that!


> me being really ignorant?
>
> Does this also mean that I am missing out on some subtle meaning of the
> album title Xenon Codex or (Xenon Code X?)?

Codex is just the name we gave it!     It's an Index of all Hawkwind
tracks cross referenced to the albums you'll find them on.   Several
Hawkwind/BOC-l list folk got together to create it to try and save people
buying the same thing over and over again whenever tracks were repeated on
cheap compilations.    Its a BIG text file that is stored in various
places.   Sonique's (Paul Ward) Web page has a copy and there's probably
one in the archives somewhere - tho' it's maybe not the most up to date.
Mike Holmes (one of the original creators of it) will have the most
recent version - and I must finish updating the bit I started about 2
months ago.....  promise!

jill

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