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February 19, 2007

Hello everybody; hope you've been enjoying the Marble Orchard Suite video on youtube. If you have any of those prismatic glasses from raves, it will add an entire new dimention to it. Anyway, thanks for feedback.

Just wanted everyone to know that we've been far from idle; O.A.P. recently got together for a weekend recording session and produced a disc's worth of looney tunes. Stonerjazz was also formed as a side project when a local band needed an opening act in like a week. So Stacey and I recorded a 77 minute cd and a 32 minute live DVD in 7 days and are pretty happy with it---we'll have some available at future shows.

Also' Jet Drive-In are writing new songs (especially Dean) and are experimenting with practical ways of rcording the band without blowing anything up or out.

Everybody knows I'm a big Hawkwind fan (since 1972, thanks) and I'm happy to report that their latest studio cds Take Me to Your Leader and Take Me to Your Future (1 side cd, 1 side DVD)have been worth the wait. With guest vocalists like Arthur Brown and Lene Lovich and the return of Simon House on keys and e. violin, the band is back stronger than ever. Check out voiceprint.co.uk for the latest cd info and the band's website at hawkwind.com to keep an eye out on the Godfathers of Space Rock (celebrating their 38th year!!!)

More Spacerust in the Summer/Fall of 2007. Happy trails til then

Spacerust, an experimental electronic music project by Junkyard John Roberts, performs live at venues around Lancaster, California. Improvised, freeform electronic soundscapes are featured, as well as helpful hints in self-producing and recording abstract music.

Roberts' first abstract music project, Industrial Espionage, performed and collaborated with Dzong at the Cedar Street Theater in 2000, which featured an improvised a score for the legendary Starevich animated classic The Mascot.

Under the Dzong/Industrial Espionage Banner (a.k.a. D.I.E.), the ensemble recorded soundtracks for silent films such as The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and Carl Theodor Dreyer's Vampyr.

Spacerust is the next step for Roberts' unstructured style of composition, which allows for pieces from five minutes to sixty or seventy minutes long. The sound is distinctly analog synth (Alesis Micron and Korg MicroKorg), and the spacey textures often defy instant classification;

Those familiar with bands like Tangerine Dream, White Noise, Tonto's Expanding Headband, Spiral Realms and Hawkwind will certainly have an idea of what to expect from Spacerust.

This website will also dedicate a great deal of space detailing the careers (and continuing contributions) of many of these undeservedly obscure (in the U.S.A. at any rate) bands and musicians.

Coming in March, 2006: the incredible jazz guitarist Phil Miller. Miller was a founding member of bands such as Matching Mole (With Robert Wyatt) and Hatfield and the North, and has since gone forward by fronting bands like National Health and In Cahoots (with which he still does spectacular work). Keep an eye out for this particular column and we'll introduce you to a whole new world of exciting music and musicians.

The debut disc "microdot" was more about finding a more distinct musical style as far from the industrial noise making of earlier experimental projects. The final microdot CD, "How Far is Too Far?", is an attempt to find balance between the ambient and the rhythmic. The results is a one-track, 80 minute disc that was recorded live in the studio---no overdubs. The listener now is allowed to determine just how far was too far?

A 37 minute video of psychedelic imagery set to the opening half of the second album is also available in VHS stereo. Watch it now on YouTube.

The first Spacerust CD was released March 18th 2006 and is comprised of eight improvised pieces of rhythm and ambient moods.

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

Matching Mole

Vampyr