- Space (album)
Infobox Album |
Name = Space
Type =Album
Artist =Jimmy Cauty "as" Space
Released = 16 July 1990
Recorded =Trancentral
Genre =Ambient house
Length = 38:21
Label =KLF Communications
Producer =Jimmy Cauty
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:plc8b5p4nsqa link]"Space" was a 1990
ambient house concept album byJimmy Cauty under the alias Space. Originally intended to beThe Orb 's debut album, "Space" was refactored for release as a solo album following Cauty's departure from that group. "Space" was independently released onKLF Communications , the record label formed to distribute the work of Cauty's other project,The KLF .Origins
"Space" began as a collaboration between Dr. Alex Paterson and
Jimmy Cauty , the original line-up of The Orb. It was, according to Cauty's record labelKLF Communications , to be The Orb's debut album, [KLF Communications, "Information Sheet Eight", August 1990 ( [http://www.libraryofmu.org/display-resource.php?id=508 link] )] [KLF Communications (1990), Space press release ("KLF Communications Info Sheet Nine") ( [http://www.libraryofmu.org/display-resource.php?id=509 link] ).] but when Cauty left The Orb in early 1990 to concentrate on producing music asThe KLF withBill Drummond , he took the recordings with him. Reworked to remove Paterson's contributions, the album was released on the KLF Communications label, with Cauty alone receiving credit. [KLF Communications (1990), vinyl label notes, "Space" SPACE LP1.]According to Cauty, "It was a jam, all done on
Oberheim keyboards. Loads of samples... were chucked in there as well. I started on Monday morning and by Friday it was all done"."The KLF: Enigmatic dance duo" (1 April 1991),Record Collector ( [http://www.libraryofmu.org/display-resource.php?id=226 link] ).]Composition
"Space" takes the listener on a voyage through the
solar system from Mercury outwards, with vast distances of empty space between worlds represented by periods of minimalist ambience and near-silence.Synthesisers , excerpts from classical compositions and nursery rhymes (includingTwinkle Twinkle Little Star ), sinusoidal loops, and communications from spaceflight controller s are among the sounds used to describe the voyage. This musical interpretation of a physical journey is also a characteristic of the earlyambient house recordings "The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld " and The KLF's "Chill Out ".Cauty has called "Space" "a record for 14-year-old
space cadet s to go and take acid [to] for the first time".Reviews
Allmusic attributes "incredibly sparse ambience" to "Space", with "long periods of near-silence [and] only an occasional break for galactic sine-waves and similarly spacy tones". The album is "more important for who's on it than what's in it", they concluded. [Bush, J., "Space" review,Allmusic ( [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:plc8b5p4nsqa link] )]Track listing
"Space" comprises eight contiguous pieces across two sides of vinyl or one track of a CD.
#"Mercury" – 1:40
#"Venus" – 2:00
#"Mars" – 8:47
#"Jupiter" – 6:36
#"Saturn" – 2:35
#"Uranus" – 3:08
#"Neptune" – 9:38
#"Pluto" – 3:57References
* [http://www.libraryofmu.org/index.php Library of Mu press archive] - a library of KLF-related press clippings
*Discogs.com , [http://www.discogs.com/label/KLF+Communications KLF Communications discography]
*Longmire, Ernie et al (2005). [http://www.klf.de/discography/ KLF discography] [Compiled by Ernie Longmire, this has been the authoritative KLF discography on the internet for some 10 years or more and has been the subject of long-term scrutiny and peer review by KLF fans and collectors. It is now maintained by the fan site klf.de.]
*Author unknown (1991). "The KLF: Enigmatic dance duo" (feature and discography up to that time), "Record Collector " Magazine, April 1991.Footnotes
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