SPACE

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SPACE is the most recent alpha seven release on SOFACOM - ambient, electronic, atmospheric. Thumping beats, distortion, soaring strings and that rare thing - a catchy tune - plus a lot of bleepy sci-fi soundscapes. SPACE is inspired by the SPACE AGE exhibition - organised by the V&A Museum of childhood and touring the country - and was played in the gallery space during its time at Sheffield's Weston Park museum.

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SPACE? WHY? Peter explains...

I was approached by the museum in Sheffield originally to provide some music for the gallery space so I went to see the exhibition. SPACE AGE is about exploration, design and popular culture and for me it stirred lots of memories. Watching Space Patrol from behind the settee for example, but also all those factual television programmes such as Tomorrows World where the future was always something exciting - we'd have endless leisure as robots would do all the work - we'd be living on the moon or mars - sickness, poverty and crime would end - we'd control the weather - have endless, cheap energy as we colonised the stars.

Well - didn't quite work out like that did it? The BBC lied about the future to me for years - and now they are threatening to close down 6 Music - is there no end to their malice?

Fortunately there's still awe-inspiring, seriously cool, futuristic stuff about, such as the Lovell telescope at Jodrell bank - I used to live in Cheshire and could see it from the end of the garden. I've dedicated the CD to it. Not enough songs get written about radio telescopes.

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