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Endless Light

by Space Ghost

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  • 180g Limited Edition Vinyl
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    Pressed on 180g vinyl
    Printed on inside out carton
    Limited to 500 copies

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  • Limited Edition Test Pressing
    Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    While cleaning our Copenhagen office, we found four test pressings of Space Ghost's debut album 'Endless Light'. They are brand new and unplayed and come in the classic "Test Pressungen" sleeves with white labels on the records.
    Only 10 test pressings of the release were made so this is definitely a collectors item

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Cosmic Cave 02:03
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Color Waves 03:44
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Strong Heart 04:13
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Eyes Closed 04:07
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Dreamer 04:07
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about

Tartelet Records is 10. To celebrate a decade in the cut, they're out for a home run of new material from label mainstays and fresh signings in 2018. To kick things off, the label is enormously proud to set free Endless Light –– a new record from Oakland newcomer Space Ghost.

Coming on like a brainchild to Dam Funk and Mutant Beat Dance, Ghost's sound falls off the shelf between a number of distinct reference points: Lone's early tropical synaesthetics; the modern funk of Funkosphere; the intimate tapes out of PPU. In a sea of Soundcloud copycats, he's a revelation.

Endless Light is a record with an open hand: an instantly appealing sound from a new producer with a highly-tuned ear. Born of his collection of antique synths and drum machines, the Space Ghost experience channels a deep heritage of 1980s funk minimalism and analogue boogie. Velvet pads, hood-rat sleaze, and heaped spoonfuls of soul.

Never overly reverential or nostalgic, the record looks forward to a strange, bright future. Its sweeping sci-fi synths and twinkling sound design recall Lone or Dorian Concept's first outings into cosmic psychedelia. "Cosmic Cave" packs enormous ambient vistas into a bejewelled miniature. Frosty interlude "After Hours While It Rains Outside" touches the same cold nerve as Vangelis on Blade Runner. The gently vocoded love jam "Strong Heart" could've even fallen out of the Stranger Things playbook.

And there's heat for the club too. Nearly all the low swung beaterludes pick up into skippy house sketches and loping dancefloor cuts. Rather than squeeze into club music's often taut wireframes, tracks like "Colour Waves" and "Following A Vision" dance effortlessly between time signatures. Cruising gems "Endless Light" and "Aquatic Speedway" even go full hilt into the lush domain of vintage Burrell Brothers productions.

Throughout, Space Ghost stands out from the mounds of music today defined by lo-fi aesthetics. These are twelve enchanting cuts from a producer who has barely pulled back the curtain on his prowess. Supreme tip for 2018.

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released April 5, 2018

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