Browse by Label: SPACE AGE (UK)

Artist:	SPECTRUM/THE IMAJINARY FRIENDS
Title:	Interface/Come Out to Play
Label:	SPACE AGE (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	ORBIT 017CD

"Gatefold wallet 25 minute/7-track collaboration between Spectrum and the mysterious collective known as The Imaginary Friends, who have been known to contain members of Tipsy and Swervedriver. Their bizarre electronic experimentalism has a gnawing tension that often explodes into overdriven chaos, utilizing intoxicating discordance, crackling loops, lilting piano, and clattering breakbeats, all crammed with fresh ideas. They offer 5 tracks here, while Spectrum weigh in with 2 new drones & freaked out oscillations."

Artist:	SKYWAY
Title:	Womb
Label:	SPACE AGE (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	ORBIT 018CD

"Another beautifully unplaceable neo-ambient electronica album from former Teardrop Explodes/Wild Swans member Paul Simpson. Treading similar unmarked paths and obscure back-doubles on the ambience map as Will Sergeant's Glide. Comparable to the later period of classic electro-Krautrock, particularly the pastoral tones of La Dusseldorf and the softer bubblings of Cluster, Womb is one 70-minute track that pulses blood-slow through a series of comforting and unsettling states." Simpson: bass guitar, Moog, piano, bubbles and drones. Satomi Masuda: field recordings.

Artist:	SPACEMEN 3
Title:	Threebie 3
Label:	SPACE AGE (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	ORBIT 020CD

1999 release, still available. "In conjunction with Space Age Recordings's re-mastered and reissued double CD album of Playing With Fire, there is a strictly limited (1000 copies only) reissue of the long deleted vinyl only issue of Threebie 3 on CD for the first time. Featuring five live tracks from a show at the Melkweg in Amsterdam in Feb. 1988 that did not subsequently appear on the Performance album. All copies are packaged in a cardboard slip case."

Artist:	MASSONI W/ SONIC BOOM, JOHN
Title:	The Sundowner Sessions
Label:	SPACE AGE (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	ORBIT 025CD

Due recording from Seattle, 2000. Massoni (electronics), Sonic Boom (custom human voice synthesizer). "[Sonic} can make something out of almost anything. He'd just pick out a tape of mine (I have a bunch of tapes with sound and drone experiments), and work something into a piece. His focus and ability not to to be underminded by the limits surrounding him is really amazing to watch. We worked well into the night -- thus The Sundowner Sessions were born." -- John Massoni.

Artist:	SPACEMEN 3
Title:	DJ Tones
Label:	SPACE AGE (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	ORBIT 028CD

"Spacemen 3 have a limited edition (2000 copies) five track mini-album released by Space Age Recordings in cardboard sleeve wallet which features two previously-unreleased Spacemen 3 tracks, a radically different mix of the classic Spacemen 3 cover of the Red Krayola's 'Transparent Radiation' and appearing for the first time on CD, the ultra rare remix of 'I Love You' (originally only 50 promo white label vinyl copies were ever pressed). Rounding off this mini-album is a studio version of 'Ecstasy Symphony.' Track listing: 'These Blues, 'Transparent Radiation (violin mix),' 'Modulated Tones,' 'I Love You (remix),' 'Ecstasy Symphony.' Spacemen 3 consisted of the core duo of Jason Pierce (Spiritualized) and Somic Boom aka Peter Kember (Spectrum & E.A.R.) who formed the group in Rugby, Warwickshire, having met at art college. Other members of what would become a fluid line-up over the years included Pete Bain (Bassman, also of The Darkside), Natty Brooker, Sterling Roswell (Rosco), Will Carruthers, Jonny Mattock (Slipstream), and for the final few shows, Mark Refoy (also of Slipstream). From the outset, Spacemen 3 had a very defined set of aesthetic principles. They based almost their entire sound on their own concept of minimalism -- droning guitars, feedback, as few chords as possible, pounding drums -- with their motto 'Taking drugs to make music to take drugs to.' Their minimalism bled into their stage show as well. Sitting down to play their guitars and covered in the spinning colors of a cheap psychedelic light show, their stage 'act' was very anti-performance. Another striking aspect of Spacemen 3 was their willingness to cover and share their influences. Song titles, lyrics and interviews were peppered with references to bands and artists they believed shared their 'minimal is maximal' aesthetic. The Velvet Underground, the Rolling Stones, the Stooges, the MC5, early Captain Beefheart, free jazz musician Sun Ra, the Silver Apples, 1960s garage punk such as the 13th Floor Elevators, Red Krayola, the Electric Prunes, the Beach Boys, Jan and Dean and other surf bands, 1980s rockabilly groups the Cramps, the Gun Club, Tav Falco, blues and gospel acts like Muddy Waters, Bo Diddley, the Staple Singers and John Lee Hooker, and the production techniques of Joe Meek, Brian Wilson and Delia Derbyshire were just some of the names mentioned by the band."

Artist:	EXPERIMENTAL AUDIO RESEARCH
Title:	Beyond The Pale
Label:	SPACE AGE (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	ORBIT 031CD

"Originally recorded way back in 1992, Beyond The Pale was E.A.R.'s first album, although it remained unreleased until 1996. Pete Kember, working with Eddie Prevost (AMM), Kevin Shields (My Bloody Valentine) and Kevin Martin (God) recorded six tracks at Far Heath Studios, Northampton and mixed the resulting audio at MBV Studios, London. This release for 2008 features artwork from the highly collectable artist Kozick, with design overseen by Pete Kember."

Artist:	MASSONI, JOHN
Title:	Stillborn Dreams
Label:	SPACE AGE (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	ORBIT 038CD

"John Massoni, after wowing us with the splendid Sundowner Sessions has returned with his new, full-length studio album Stillborn Dreams. Once again Massoni shows his love for experimenting with sound and this more than shows in his work. His use of samples and their arrangement makes you believe he could almost be tweaking and looping as the music is being played, such is their spontaneity, yet the songs have such atmosphere and depth that there's no way this could be 'off the cuff' experimentation, could it? Ex Spacemen 3 main man Pete Kember -- also of Spectrum and E.A.R. -- features on this album with a mix of 'Spirits', bringing his unique skills to the partnership that brought us John Massoni & Sonic Boom The Sundowner Sessions."

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Artist:	VA
Title:	Interface
Label:	SPACE AGE (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	ORBIT 019CD

Artist:	LONGSTONE
Title:	Auto://Genous
Label:	SPACE AGE (UK)
Format:	2CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	ORBIT 021CD