TEN AMBIENT CLASSICS No9: Spacetime Continuum
Spacetime Continuum – Sea Biscuit (1994)
It was this or Emit Ecaps and, true to it’s name, this classic won by a nose. Unlike Jonah Sharp’s aforementioned follow up album, which has a number of fairly lively, ambient techno tracks, this is a beauty of truly spaced-out proportions. Voice of the Earth and A Low Frequency Inversion Field have a particular other-world feel to them that suggest they would be appropriate tracks should you happen to be orbiting Saturn on a wet Wednesday afternoon. Ping Pong seems to threaten an eruption of beats throughout but never quite does and stays within the parameters of floating amidst the stars, whilst Q11 features voice samples that could have been randomly plucked from a radio call-in show that’s been beamed out to space by SETI in the hope of initiating contact with alien life forms. The only track that features anything vaguely beat-driven is Pressure and even that description is generous. All in all, a quite lovely record, made all the more impressive by the fact that Sharp recorded the whole thing in his bedroom.
Download: Spacetime Continuum – A Low Frequency Inversion Field http://www.box.com/s/6d3lp2k7x2hkat7t9jkg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yx9qxWjFbOw Pressure video
