Space Is The Place with Truant Recordings
Truant Recordings is an independent label for left-of-centre music based in London and Barcelona, and run by music supervisors and audio production specialists Alex Lodge and Toby Slade-Baker. Alongside their music supervision work, Alex and Toby are DJs, record collectors and pathological explorers of the sonically unusual.
Truant is a creative outlet which has enabled them to develop and release sophisticated musical projects with weird and wonderful artists who don’t fit the norm. They specialise in experimental, electronic and ambient music… so far. Who knows what they will find next.
"For this outing of Space is the Place we’ve decided to explore the concept of ‘space’ in multiple contexts; as it applies to the cosmos, to our inner selves, to the places we live and to the space within a musical composition itself. Let’s begin…"
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TOBY: This was an odd format for a ‘single’ (though the Orb had recently done something similar with ‘Blue Room’). Seven tracks. Over 40 minutes of music, most of which didn’t make it onto the album of the same name released shortly after. This was a life changing record for me. It set me firmly on the path from grunge and psychedelia to ambient / electronica. I could have picked any number of tracks from the album but I feel it makes sense to go for the first track I heard, and the feelings that immediately came with it. Aged 14, a cassette in a battered boombox, watching a meteor shower on the roof of an old house in a small village in the Algarve. The night so free of light pollution that the stars and meteors flickering and streaking across the sky seemed impossibly close. The picture this music painted for me at this moment was otherworldly. Beautifully elusive organic sounds are embedded into a unique electronic soundscape. It is evocative of organic life but not as we know it. It transports you to another world. An earth-like planet in another solar system? (Perhaps even more poignant now as human preoccupation with space exploration creeps ever further into popular culture and the search for exo-planets is fully underway, brought into sharp focus by the climate crisis.) The album itself is a beautiful creation. No silence. A continuous piece of organic electronica from another world. One of the things I love most is that they basically tricked EMI into letting them make the record. ‘Papua New Guinea’ had propelled them to fame along with the rest of the album Accelerator, and they were signed by a fumbling label hoping they would make another ‘hit dance record’… to which they stuck up a rigid middle finger and in their own words ‘went deep’. Thanks EMI.
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