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''Space'' was a 1990 Ambient House Concept Album , the sole result of a musical project that was itself called '''Space''', by co-founder of The Orb , Jimmy Cauty . ORIGINS ''Space'' began as a collaboration between with Bill Drummond , he took the recordings with him. Reworked to remove Paterson's contributions, the album was released on the KLF Communications label, with Cauty alone receiving creditKLF Communications (1990), vinyl label notes, ''Space'' SPACE LP1.. According to Cauty, "It was a jam, all done on ( link ).. CONCEPT ''Space'' takes the listener on a voyage through the Solar System from Mercury outwards, with vast distances of empty space between worlds represented by periods of Minimalist ambience and near-silence. Synthesisers , excerpts from classical compositions, Sinusoidal loops and communications from space Flight Controller s are among the sounds used to describe the voyage. This musical interpretation of a physical journey is also a characteristic of the early Ambient House recordings '' The Orb's Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld '' and The KLF's '' Chill Out ''. Cauty has called ''Space'' "a record for 14-year-old Space Cadet s to go and take Acid {Link without Title} for the first time". TRACK LISTING ''Space'' comprises eight contiguous pieces across two sides of vinyl or one track of a CD. # Mercury (1:40) # Venus (2:00) # Mars (8:47) # Jupiter (6:36) # Saturn (2:35) # Uranus (3:08) # Neptune (9:38) # Pluto (3:57) REFERENCES
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