When You Wish Upon a Staar
By Urchins | September 13, 2009
For the past 200 odd years we earthlings have been trying to communicate with interstellar beings. Beaming out strange binary codes, wierd sound-waves and on a more primitive level – using NASA spacecrafts. To be completely honest, so far we’ve done pretty terribly. The above picture is the ‘Aricebo Message’ which is commonly accepted as being the most ’successful experiment of it’s kind’ – though considering that it will take 25,000 years to reach it’s destination, and then another 25,000 for us to get a reply; it’s difficult to see how this was a success. And even if it does reach it’s destination – what the hell are they going to think about Earth? That it’s like Space Invaders on acid? Probably.
It’s time for someone else to step up and give it a go, and it seems that the clever so-and-sos at Moda Music have managed to achieve what nobody else has ever got close to. They’ve managed to get hold of some messages sent by Tom Staar – a ‘lonely space traveller searching for his long lost intergalactic compadres’. How they managed to decipher the messages is anyone’s guess, but the end result is a blistering new EP full of twinkling disco synths, heavy basslines and his own vocals (presumably translated verbatim into English….). Unsurprisingly, this EP has been creating a lot of well deserved attention, and finally becomes available to download on Beatport from September 21st. In the meantime, check out the minimix and a nice Album track that we’ve been given on Tom’s behalf!
Tom Staar – ‘Best Friends Girl’
12:28 pm on October 21st, 2009
I love ‘Best Friends Girl’! It almost broke my neck.