Spatial Awareness: 8 Tracks That Made Me Aware Of Space

Music

The sounds of Spatial Awareness have been sneaking their way in to the sets of many in recent months. Praise has begun to build up with the likes of Skream and Danny Daze in support. However, his sound has also managed to find an appeal to those of a deeper, more eclectic root and his music has been endorsed by the likes of Ewan Pearson, Tony Humphries and more. An interesting artist to watch having just released his album for Hottwerk Recordings. We caught up with him to talk eight tracks.

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John Barry - Space March (Capsule In Space)

I grew up watching James Bond films of the sixties and seventies (my Dad was a big fan), but the thing that I always loved about them was the music; John Barry was an absolute genius. “You Only Live Twice” had particularly amazing music, and this piece from the opening sequence, where a little space capsule gets eaten by some great monster rocket, certainly made a very young me aware of space…

John Barry - Space March (Capsule In Space)

I grew up watching James Bond films of the sixties and seventies (my Dad was a big fan), but the thing that I always loved about them was the music; John Barry was an absolute genius. “You Only Live Twice” had particularly amazing music, and this piece from the opening sequence, where a little space capsule gets eaten by some great monster rocket, certainly made a very young me aware of space…
Blake's 7 Full Theme - Dudley Simpson Orchestra

A similar memory from early childhood. I had a deep and enduring love for Dr. Who (and of course, the theme music), but it never scared me. Blake’s 7 used to give me the willies though – so much darker… lots of Nazi allegories in space.
Atmosfear - Dancing In Outer Space

I coveted my brother’s 7” copy of this for a couple of years when I was very young, until the day he found a 12” of it and sold me the 7” for a pound. I do now have the full 12” version, 9 or so minutes of joyous jazz funk disco classic. And very spacey.
Acen - Trip To The Moon (Part 2)

Fast forward a few years to my teen rave period. Imagine my delight at finding Acen sampling John Barry on the remix of Trip II The Moon! Ecstactic. Joyous teenage abandon with a slightly sinister edge (the memories of space craft being eaten by larger space craft). Production House were a hugely influential label of the time (to me, anyway). Happy days.
Sheila & Black Devotion - Spacer

Another huge disco classic that’s seemingly always been with me. And is tenuously lyrically space related. It does always make me imagine some intergalactic lothario, flying about the cosmos with a girl on every planet.
Charlie - Spacer Woman (Original Mix)

A beautiful slab of italo disco from 1983. Italo disco often had themes of robots and space and futurism – a psychic link with what was happening in Detroit maybe? Whatever it was, some amazing things happened at both ends of the wormhole.
Esg - Moody

Spacey in all senses. Makes me aware of the inner space. Plus, it’s groovy as hell and makes me want to do a little dance, which is always a bonus.
The Asphodells - A Love From Outer Space

This just pipped John Cooper Clarke’s “I Married A Monster From Outer Space” to the post. But I couldn’t leave out this mini-epic from Andrew Weatherall and Timothy J Fairplay. A truly sublime album of spatial splendour.