I have a lot of updates from Space March headquarters, so let’s dive in! Algorithm (Deluxe) Three years after the digital release of Algorithm, we will finally have a CD version of the album, which can be pre-ordered now. The 2024 deluxe edition release features the original ten album tracks, plus three bonus [...]
Thanks so much to all who completed my Space March survey. The feedback has been illuminating. Whilst there are some common themes and a shared interest in Space March, it also shows how we are all different.
I must say, I really enjoyed the Thompson Twins’ Tom Bailey performance at Sydney's Enmore Theatre last night (22 October 2022).
From the song "Memory of the Future" comes the album title Future Memories – the view of the future from the past. I’ve always been fascinated by this concept. The vision of the future is always distorted by the situation of the present. Of course, events unfold in unpredictable ways making any notion of [...]
Spotify classifies Space March as Deep Neo-synthpop – with “Deep” probably being a euphemism for obscure. The classification is based on an algorithmic deduction and seems to have a strong relationship to the artists from, what was known as, the Modern Synthpop scene of the late 1990s and early 2000s – a scene for [...]
In many ways, "Emotional Wreck" is an unconventional pop song. The vocals are subservient to the production, as opposed to the more typical converse. It's not a terribly positive or empowering message. There's some unsettling discord in the instrumental parts. The arrangement has an odd structure, and so on... Despite all this, it's a [...]
Some creative people make a successful career from their art. Most don’t. It’s not uncommon for me to get asked the question as to why I continue to make music over so many years given my relative obscurity. The answer is – because I’m compelled to do so! It’s an obsessive pursuit to try [...]
For my post on “Time Is Elastic”, I asserted that Physics is not common subject matter for a song. Well, I’d argue that Geometry is an even more obscure proposition! The Möbius strip is a surface with only one side and one edge. You can make your own Möbius strip by taking a rectangular [...]
Ever since my second Space March album, I’ve always included a “geo-romantic” track where I incorporate a country reference into the lyrics and song title. To date we’ve had “Canadian Girls”, “American Girl”, “Norway” and now, “Sweden”. I’m also currently working on a song for my next album with lyrics and a title based [...]
Physics is not common subject matter for a song. You certainly don’t hear pop divas trying to sexualise the Second Law of Thermodynamics! In the geeky world of synthpop, however, it’s not unheard of. OMD’s “Gravity Never Failed” is a great example, and has always left me with a yearning to use an overt [...]
