BOLTLP004: Polestar - Space Expanses
Release date: October 30th 2008
Format: CD & Digital
Price:£6.49 GBP

"outstanding"
Crumbs In The Butter

"...absolutely superb"
Smallfish

"...possesses a peculiarly faraway beauty"
Leonard's Lair

Space Expanses is Polestar’s second full release and his first long player on Boltfish Recordings.  15 tracks of glitchy futuristic retro-inspired melodic electronica, fusing together complex beat patterns and warm atmospheric synthesizer tones.

This album captures the air of future optimism that was envisaged by a 1970s society that dreamed of moon colonies and the human race exploring the outer solar system by the end of the 1990s.  The album’s concept came about after a rediscovery of progressive rock and an attempt to try and make a progressive electronica album in tribute to the music that the artist was exposed to while growing up. 

Jon’s retro influences are combined with more contemporary sounds and cutting-edge production techniques – softly chiming synths, warm string pads, intricate edits, 8 bit arcade game sounds, bleeps and clicks.  Space Expanses is a journey of soaring melodies, electro-style beats and robotic twitters and glitches.

You can preview this release on Last FM at:
http://www.last.fm/music/Polestar/Space+Expanses

THIS RELEASE IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE FROM THE BOLTFISH CATALOGUE ON CD. HOWEVER, YOU CAN STILL PURCHASE IT VIA DIGITAL DOWNLOAD FROM A RANGE OF ONLINE RETAILERS.

Tracklisting

1. Lift off
2. Welcome to space
3. Stellar configuration
4. Natural satellite
5. Polaris theme
6. EVA dance
7. Sunrise from the stars
8. Return to the moon
9. Orion arm
10. UFO's over the ISS
11. Watching the aurora
12. Gliese 581 d
13. Space Junk 1970
14. Reentry
15. Return to the sky

Bonus Limited Edition 'LIVE'
CD Tracklisting (NOW SOLD OUT)

1. Intro
2. Glitch Boogaloo
3. Pioneers
4. Process Flow
5. Spacecraft Orange
6. 4004
7. Consumer Electronics
8. Chiptone
9. Electro_Motive
10. Moonbounce Intro
11. Moonbounce
12. Retro Future
13. Protect And Survive
14. Concept Car Ride
15. Wernher von Braun
16. Programmer
17. Play Out

All tracks © Boltfish/Polestar 2008

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