2. Richard Wahnfried‘Time Actor’
When Andrew and I first started talking about A Love From Outer Space it would have been 2008, 2009. I was making CDs of the slower cosmic disco sound I was into, basically for my own amusement and when I gave Andrew a lift down to Brighton when his driver had let him down that’s what we ended up listening to. But another part of the story is that at the same time that I was making these CDs, I was also sharing them with [club and festival promoter] James Baillie. And James Baillie, unbeknownst to me, had been really badgering Andrew saying, ‘Have you heard Sean’s DJing? You’ve got to.’ Andrew around this time did that Watch The Ride compilation album. And he invited me to DJ at the launch for it at East Village, that little club at the top of Great Eastern Street in Shoreditch [now Trapeze Bar]. So the gig went pretty well and that’s we started talking in earnest about if we were to do something, just what we were going to do? And initially, I think both of us thought that we’d play a lot of older and more obscure music than we ended up playing. Because at that time there was a fair bit of slow music, but there wasn’t the proliferation of slow music that there is now. I mean, you had to really hunt for it. So I started digging around to find something to play. This is Klaus Schulze of Tangerine Dream, I believe, under another name. And the vocal is Arthur Brown from The Crazy World of Arthur Brown. It’s completely off the top of his head talking about time and relative dimensions. He’s obviously out of his mind, of course. And it sounds incredible for 1979, right? But still very much A Love From Outer Space.
