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Space Music: DJ Food and ‘The Search Engine’
by Robert Lamb | January 26, 2012
Few artists embody “space music” quite as well as DJ Food AKA Strictly Kev.
I spoke to the man back in 2010 about cosmic DJ mixes and he had quite a bit to share about sci-fi samples and his own psychedelic space music (you can read that here). But now it’s 2012 and Kev is back with his first full-length album in 11 years. So I checked in with him for the scoop on “The Search Engine.”
Space Music: Jay-Z and Beyoncé to Film Music Video in Orbit
by Robert Lamb | January 12, 2012
They’ve already brought a new child into the world and purchased it a $614,000 rocking horse made out of gold, so it’s only natural that pop culture’s favorite one percenters now ascend into orbit aboard Virgin Galactic and film the mother of all music videos. Or at least that’s what record executives are thinking, according to MTV News.
Totally Last Minute Space Music Gift Ideas
by Robert Lamb | December 22, 2011
Finish your holiday shopping already. The roads are crazy, the shops are overrun so it’s time to head online for some instant digital purchases. Might I suggest you shoot some space music down their e-stockings? Here are just a few prime choices for this holiday season:
“Dive” by Tycho
One of my favorite records of the year, this dreamy album from San Francisco-based electronic artist Scott Hansen delivers an overall feeling of cosmic, Kodachrome nostalgia.
Conserve Brain Power, Download a Halloween Mix
by Robert Lamb | October 28, 2011
In Stuff to Blow Your Mind’s recent episode Decision Fatigue: Death by 1,000 Choices, I mentioned that one way to cut down on the steady attrition of your decision-making faculties is to trust in a good DJ or mix podcast.
This Halloween, I recommend exactly this to save yourself the anguish of formulating your own paranormal party playlist or macabre mixtape. Because really people, the pros have got you covered on this one — and you won’t have to endure “Monster Mash” in a single one of them.
Oh yeah, and they’re all totally free.
You love space music. You love children’s books. So yeah, here are two book projects worthy of your attention. First up is a little project you may have heard about: Canadian illustrator Andrew Klob’s visual adaptation of David Bowie’s classic “Space Oddity.” The other is “Space Cadet,” the book and music project from Canadian DJ, musician and occasional graphic novelist Kid Koala.
Space Music: The Alien Sounds of Richard Devine
by Robert Lamb | July 22, 2011
I recently had the chance to interview electronic musician Richard Devine for the Discovery News article “Is Electronic Music ‘Real” music?” The man had loads to share about his own creative process and advice for aspiring artists, so I figured a Space Music post was the perfect place to share more.
NASA’s final space shuttle launch this Friday brings about the end of an era. If you’re like me, you grew up watching the awesome triumphs and stunning tragedies associated with the space shuttle program. Friday’s Atlantis launch brings all this to a close and, amid all the emotion, you’ll probably want to crank some appropriate space music. Here are some recommendations:
Quality space music takes the brain on a journey, be it in the form of some star-tripping P-funk, a sci-fi DJ mix or some retro synth cheese. But even space music’s most talented musicians go for the eyes first with some killer album art. So in this post, with the help of the HowStuffWorks staff, I’ve assembled the top 10 cosmic album covers of all time.
There will be aliens.
There will be space ships.
There will be George Clinton.
In his mere 62 years on the planet, Carl Sagan proved himself an irreplaceable advocate of science and space exploration. His legacy lives on today in his beloved series “Cosmos: A Personal Voyage,” as well as in everything from obnoxious t-shirts to action comics and Auto-Tune tracks. He remains something of a scientific saint. One of more famous nuggets of wisdom is probably this one, related to star stuff:
Supernovae are among the most powerful events in the universe. These dying stars can burn as bright as a billion suns. They outshine whole galaxies and birth the beginnings of new cosmic bodies. So what happens when you give one access to a grand piano and a stand-up bass?
Enter astronomy graduate student Alex Harrison Parker from Canada’s University of Victoria. Parker took three years worth of supernovae observation data (covering four sections of the sky) from Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope, sped the video up to 15-days-per-second and assigned each super nova a note. Let’s watch.
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