Space LP Jimmy Cauty KLF Communications 1990
£
127
$
168
£ 127
Sold For
May 15, 2023
Sold Date
May 8, 2023
Start Date
19
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Great Britain
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Description
I bought this seminal LP from the HMV Megastore on Oxford Street sometime in 1990. Played it once, forgot about it and only recently unboxed it from dry and dust free storage. The vinyl plays clean and the sleeve is immaculate save for very minor denting on one corner.
Label: KLF Communications
Cat#: SPACE LP 1, SPACE LP1
Media Condition: Near Mint (NM or M-) A nearly perfect record. The record should show no obvious signs of wear.
Sleeve Condition: Very Good Plus (VG+)
Space is a 1990 ambient house concept album by Jimmy Cauty under the alias Space. Originally intended to be The Orb's debut album, Space was refactored for release as a solo album following Cauty's departure from that group. Space was independently released on KLF 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 label KLF Communications, to be The Orb's debut album, but when Cauty left The Orb in early 1990 to concentrate on producing music as The KLF with Bill 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.
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".
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 (including Twinkle Twinkle Little Star), sinusoidal loops, and communications from space flight controllers are among the sounds used to describe the voyage. This musical interpretation of a physical journey is also a characteristic of the early ambient 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 cadets to go and take acid [to] for the first time".
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