Needed: Space Rock...

[jbsegal]

It seems these days some of my best working-music is in the Space Rock genre, or at least at the edges of it: Quarkspace (when they're not singing), Øresund Space Collective, Radio Massacre International, Gong (who I know well enough to not have to spend brain cycles to parse that there's singing), Steve Hillage's 70s and 80s work (Ditto), Airsculpture, Ozric Tentacles, and ... well, who else? On average I'd prefer new stuff to be instrumental.
Tell me who I should have that I don't?
(I have Matt Howarth, at MilPhil, to thank for Quarkspace, Airsculpture, and RMI...)

Thanks!

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[sodyera.livejournal.com]

There's always Echoes.org
I listen to their radio show often in the dead of pre-morning.

[deguspice.livejournal.com]

That reminds me, there's a radio show with a website called "Hearts of Space"

http://www.hos.com/

"Our "slow music" format is a combination of many genres: ambient, electronic, space music, classical, sacred, jazz, ethnic, new age, experimental and more. We've created our own niche, both broader and deeper than conventional "ambient.""

They're "listener supported", so they have various listen plans.

[bluepapercup]

I was going to suggest Hearts of Space as well, yay!

[jbsegal.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I should check them out at some point... I've known about the radio show that predates the web for years, but I need it to stay more driving most of the time than what they tend towards.

IE: I want the rock in my space rock. :)

[sodyera.livejournal.com]

Yes, Hearts of Space is good, too. There are also several nice Ambient radio stations available in iTunes®. Drone Zone is v. zen.

[jbsegal.livejournal.com]

I'm not looking for ambient. I'm looking for Space _Rock_...

[sodyera.livejournal.com]

I haven't found that dedicated category yet, but I like it, too. It's this whole market popularity thing that makes it hard to locate. I'll let you know when I find it.

[deguspice.livejournal.com]

How about Jean Michel Jarre? Most of his music does't have vocals, and when it does, it's usually sampled as part of the music.

I used to listen to his album Oxygene while doing homework in high school.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8dqzTl0vUI

Another artist I used to listen to back then was Kitaro.

There's also Tangerine Dream.


On the other hand, this is probably not what you're looking for:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wwilCs4Jqg
(Sarah Brightman)

[dougo.livejournal.com]

Quite a sizable portion of my collection could be called "space rock"... Not sure where to start with recommendations. My current fave local band is Ghost Box Orchestra, listen free here:
http://ghostboxorchestra.bandcamp.com/album/the-only-light-on
Other mostly-instrumental favorites that come to mind: Mogwai, Mono, Kinski, Tarentel, Subarachnoid Space, The Spacious Mind, Maserati, The Photographic, Grails, Hovercraft. There's also the whole Crystalized Movements/Magic Hour/Major Stars thing, though that's got vocals (especially the more recent Major Stars), but plenty of space and rock.

[jbsegal.livejournal.com]

Are you able to compare any of yours to any of the ones I named?

[c1.livejournal.com]

Tangerine Dream? (I'm assuming you've already considered them, but just for completeness' sake, I'm making mention.)
Also, does William Orbit, or The Orb fit your tastes?
WZBC's No Commercial Potential has been driving home music for me (when I'm in range of their transmitter) ever since college.

[kirkcudbright.livejournal.com]

Half of what's on my ipod-thingie these days is what I call "music for airplanes" (nod to Brian Eno) - music I can work to, or sleep to, or both - Ulrich Schnauss, Ott, Bluetech, Entheogenic, Hol Baumann, Boards of Canada, Air, Banco de Gaia. For 70's space-jazz, there's Jean-Luc Ponty and Return to Forever. If you like guitar, Andy McKee is like the love-child of Michael Hedges and Jorma Kaukonen. Straying further from "space music", I highly recommend V.M. Bhatt (if you like Indian riddims) and Hamza El Din (if you like oud).

We should probably exchange music sometime, because I don't know most of the folks you've mentioned.

[plaidsheep.livejournal.com]

ROFLMAO!!! *cough* *choke* *laughs her f'ing head off some more*

Really???

Quarkspace (when they're not singing)

AHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAAAHAHAAAHA

(do you want to know why I'm laughing?)

I know him. Paul Williams aka the Quarkspace drummer /keyboard DOOD

He and I were romantically involved close to 20 years ago. Lived with him for a year, even. We also sorta collaborated on music.

Yeah, he can't sing. Neither can Chet, really. (not sure if Chet is still with him, or if he's got some other guitar player now)

Paul listened to too much Peter Hammill I think.

That's just too damned funny, JB. Somewhere in my video collection I have some footage I shot of them (Quarkspace) at a club in Baltimore (when I still lived in MD). Paul is actually a really talented guy, and very nice when he's er... not baked (goes along with the space music thing I guess)

The world just got a whole lot smaller.

[jbsegal.livejournal.com]

Looking at the latest Spacefolds, looks like Chet's still there:
Darren Gough: Guitar
Chet Santia: Bass, Guitar, Loops
Jay Swanson: Keyboards, Synth, Loops
Paul Williams: Drumming, Synth, Keyboards, Loops

Luckily, they haven't been singing in quite a while...

And really, they do good work... and you helped! :)