VA - Jon Savage's Space, Light Years From Home [2024]

VA - Jon Savage's Space, Light Years From Home [2024]

Jon Savage has always understood how music reflects the emotional temperature of its time, and Space, Light Years From Home extends that instinct into the cosmic. Released in 2024, the set traces how artists across six decades have imagined the unknown, not as a novelty theme, but as a way of expressing wonder, fear, and the pull of possibility. Savage treats “space” as a cultural mirror, gathering tracks that reveal how each era projected its hopes and anxieties onto the stars.

The compilation moves confidently between early sci‑fi instrumentals, wide‑eyed pop experiments, psychedelic drift, and the colder, more introspective tones that emerged during the post‑punk and electronic periods. What binds it together is mood: the sense of looking outward and finding both beauty and unease. Savage’s sequencing gives the set a narrative arc, shifting from innocence to awe to something more shadowed as technology and geopolitics reshape the imagination. (B)

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Track list

01 Byrds - C.T.A 102 2:32

02 Spirit - Space Child 3:25

03 Cosmic Hoffman - Space Disco 4:37

04 Atmosfear - Dancing in Outer Space 9:33

05 Devo - Space Junk 2:14

06 Martin Hannett & Steve Hopkins - Space Music 5:35

07 Tom Recchion - Space Ship 2:21

08 Wooden Shjips - Space Clothes 3:06

09 Mr. Fingers - Distant Planet 5:19

10 Tom Dissevelt & Kid Baltan - Moon Maid 3:11

11 Sun Ra - Outer Space Plateau 2:23

12 Biosphere - Star Toucher 5:03

13 Lothar and the Hand People - Space Hymn 7:13

14 Hawkwind - Space is Deep 6:17

15 US69 - 2069 A Spaced Oddity 10:22

16 Tim Buckley - Star Sailor 4:36

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Music weaves itself into the fabric of our emotions, dances through the corridors of memory, and whispers to the soul of who we are. Sharing these stories deepens the connection, turning the experience into something timeless and profound.

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