Space Sound

In the inter-stellar trajectory of the classic Peter Thomas Orchestra and 101 String's landmark album of esoteric, erotic electronica, "Astro Sounds from Beyond the Year 2000", as well as more modern masters of mood music like Jean Michel Jarre and Tangerine Dream, Switzerland's Stereophonic Space Sound Unlimited brings us their sixth CD of cinematic ear candy, "The Spooky Sound Sessions" (Dionysus Records). Tunes with titles like "Contract Killer," "The Whistler Returns," "Robotheque" and "la fille dans le train" atmospherically evoke a rainy, windswept, timelessly retro-Euro-noir world of sexy spies, androgynous androids, Danish modern furniture, space age architecture, lunar lounge lizards, leather-n-leopard clad sex kittens, sleek cars and cool people wearing stylish hats, trench coats and sunglasses - in the dark…

Remember the seventies instrumental one-day-hit-wonder 'Telstar' ? It sounds like SSSU picked up the old organ from this song (moog?) from a flee-market and started to make their own instrumental music on it, sampled with some other old electronic instruments that nobody looks after anymore. Quite good, the more you listen to it, the more you will like it…

STEREOPHONIC SPACE SOUND UNLIMITED's fifth release on Dionysus is a movie soundtrack about the life of international racecar driver Jo Siffert. The film follows the different stages in Jo Siffert's career and accompanies him from his humble beginnings to his great successes on the international racing circuits - literally, from rags to riches. This soundtrack may be the best of SSSU's five amazing releases…up there with the best of any European movie soundtrack from the late '60s or early to mid '70s…

Stereophonic Space Sound Unlimited, a Swiss duo consisting of Ernest Maeschi and Karen Diblitz, create enticing instrumentals with an ultra-modern twist that draw from a variety of genres, including spy movie theme music, surf, lounge, and exotica. When this album first came out, they claimed that the music here was actually written by their fathers, for Swiss television programs in the 1960s…

The Fluid Soundbox, the second full-length album by Ernest Maeschi and Karen Diblitz, is chock-full of '50s and '60s-inspired instrumentals, albeit done with late-'90s flair and flourish. According to their original label, "delving into the backgrounds and personal lives of the intensely private Maeschi and Diblitz was difficult, and to be honest, their lifestyles make them sound like international jet-setters…

Stereophonic Space Sound Unlimited have returned with their sixth Dionysus album, "Spooky Sound Sessions," a collection of 14 brand new songs recorded entirely at the legendary Spooky Sound Record Store in Zurich, Switzerland. The elusive duo consisting of Ernest Maeschi and Karen Simpson have once more worked their magic and created a series of instrumentals which will take you onto a journey into The Great Unknown. Guitars, organs, sitars, Indian banjos, Moogs, bongos, and sounds of obscure electronic equipment exclusively available to the Spooky Sound Lab have been woven into the unique Sound experience that is Stereophonic Space Sound Unlimited.

SSSU, on the other hand, takes images of sci-fi, lounge, spy, surf, and add their own special sauce to create an irresistible cocktail that is pure fun, highly danceable and unlike anything you've heard before. Let some fresh musical air come in your soul. Listen to the Space Sound Effect. You'll thank yourself for it…