BOLTLP004:
Polestar - Space Expanses
Release date: October 30th 2008
Format: CD
Price: £6.49 GBP
"outstanding"
Crumbs In The Butter
"...absolutely superb"
Smallfish
"...possesses a peculiarly faraway beauty"
Leonard's Lair
Space Expanses is Polestar’s second full release and his first long player on Boltfish Recordings. 15 tracks of glitchy futuristic retro-inspired melodic electronica, fusing together complex beat patterns and warm atmospheric synthesizer tones.
This album captures the air of future optimism that was envisaged by a 1970s society that dreamed of moon colonies and the human race exploring the outer solar system by the end of the 1990s. The album’s concept came about after a rediscovery of progressive rock and an attempt to try and make a progressive electronica album in tribute to the music that the artist was exposed to while growing up.
Jon’s retro influences are combined with more contemporary sounds and cutting-edge production techniques – softly chiming synths, warm string pads, intricate edits, 8 bit arcade game sounds, bleeps and clicks. Space Expanses is a journey of soaring melodies, electro-style beats and robotic twitters and glitches.
You can preview this release on Last FM at:
http://www.last.fm/music/Polestar/Space+Expanses
The first batch of CD sales will come packaged with an additional limited edition 'Polestar Live' CD . To ensure you grab this special bonus, pre-order your copy now!
Tracklisting
- Lift off
- Welcome to space
- Stellar configuration
- Natural satellite
- Polaris theme
- EVA dance
- Sunrise from the stars
- Return to the moon
- Orion arm
- UFO's over the ISS
- Watching the aurora
- Gliese 581 d
- Space Junk 1970
- Reentry
- Return to the sky
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tracks © Boltfish/Polestar 2008 |
