Space (Jimmy Cauty album)

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Space is a 1990 ambient house concept album by Jimmy Cauty under the alias Space. Originally intended to be The Orb's debut album, Space was refactored for release as a solo album following Cauty's departure from that group. Space was independently released on KLF Communications, the record label formed to distribute the work of Cauty's other project, The KLF.

Origins

Space was originally a collaboration between Alex Paterson and Jimmy Cauty, the original line-up of The Orb. Cauty's record label KLF Communications planned to release it as The Orb's debut album,<ref>Template:LibraryOfMu</ref><ref>Template:LibraryOfMu</ref> but when Cauty left The Orb in April 1990<ref>{{#ifeq: | yes | https://www.allmusic.com/Template:Trim/mn0000891575{{

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}}</ref> to concentrate on producing music as The KLF with Bill Drummond, he took the recordings with him. Reworked to remove Paterson's contributions, the album was released by KLF Communications in July 1990 as an eponymous album,<ref name="discog">Template:KLFDiscography</ref> with Cauty alone receiving credit.<ref>Template:Cite AV media notes</ref>

Youth, a friend and colleague of both men, recalled: "Jimmy and Alex were making an album called Space when they had a big argument. Jimmy stormed off, took all of Alex’s bits off the record and released it under his own name. Alex was mortified. I told him not to worry – we’d make a record that was even better".<ref name="made-clouds">Template:Cite news</ref>

According to Cauty, Space "was a jam, all done on Oberheim keyboards. Loads of samples... were chucked in there as well. I started on Monday morning and by Friday it was all done".<ref name="enig">Template:LibraryOfMu</ref> He said: "Nothing was prepared, I started on a Monday morning and just jammed the whole thing."<ref name="Prendergast">Template:Cite book</ref>

Composition

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 and nursery rhymes (including Twinkle Twinkle Little Star), sinusoidal loops, and communications from space flight controllers 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 cadets to go and take acid [to] for the first time".<ref name="enig" />

Reviews

Template:Album ratings John Bush at AllMusic attributes "incredibly sparse ambience" to Space, with "long periods of near-silence [and] only an occasional break for galactic sine-waves and similarly spacy tones". The album is "more important for who's on it than what's in it", he concluded.<ref name="AM"/>

Track listing

Space comprises eight contiguous pieces across two sides of vinyl or one track of a CD.

1. "Mercury" – 1:39
2. "Venus" – 2:00
3. "Mars" – 8:47
4. "Jupiter" – 6:34
5. "Saturn" – 2:44
6. "Uranus" – 2:57
7. "Neptune" – 10.28
8. "Pluto" – 3:10