What immediately drew me to this one is the same thing that drew me to the music of Professor Green. With Prof. Green I was ultimately disappointed but Professor Tim O'Brien is an actual professor, and a professor of Astrophysics at Manchester University at that. What's he doing releasing a 7" record? Well, in collaboration with producers Jim Spencer and Dave Tolan, who have worked with New Order among others, they've created Hello Moon, Can You Hear Me?, a driving piece of electronica all created of samples from the Jodrell Bank observatory and centre for astrophysics. The samples include sounds from Sputnik 1, swirling electrons, a black hole and a dying star among other things. In a nifty move, the B-side has the professor explaining where the different sounds are from and what they mean.
The music itself is a driving dance floor banger. It's got an '80s feel and is as if synths pioneer Giorgio Moroder wrote the soundtrack to a fast-paced space adventure. It is reminiscent of the relentless soundtrack to the 1998 German film, Run Lola Run and has a dystopian future feel to it. I'd love to see how this goes down on a dance floor, it's bound to be out of this world!
Sorry.
Listen to the song and read a bit about it from the Prof. himself at his personal blog, here.
Professor Tim O'Brien, Jim Spencer and Dave Tolan
Hello Moon, Can You Hear Me?
O Genesis
7" Moon Picture Disc (cool) out: 22/07/2016 at Rough Trade
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