7 Pye Corner Audio Stasis GHOST BOX 2016, £10.95
Uneasy listening from the brainchild of synth outrider Martin Jenkins.
Jenkins’ often chilling soundscapes join the dots between science fiction – quotes from writers Arthur C Clarke and Ursula K Le Guin adorn the sleeve artwork to Stasis – English horror soundtracks and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. Jupp calls these alluring innovations “sci-fi slow disco”: Stasis, Jenkins’ third Ghost Box album and follow-up to 2012’s alsoexcellent Ghost Box debut
Sleep Games, is just that, a somnambulistic post-rave dancefloor sound, with a hint of John Carpenter and Tangerine Dream also thrown in. He’s since recorded 2019’s Pye Corner Audio long-player
Hollow Earth, another sonic pleasure; also check out his recordings as The Head Technician and The House In The Woods.