Superspace, Superspace, Superspace! Not only does the album bear the name of duo Superspace – comprising Maurice Summen and Tom Hessler alias Der Assistent – the title also appears in mantra-like repetition throughout virtually every song. You won’t forget Superspace in a hurry. The album was released on the Fun in the Church label.
Together, the pair create shimmering electro-pop through AI technologies and vintage synthesisers, strongly reminiscent of 1990s aesthetics. The intro track already points towards late nineties and early 2000s French house: »(Did You Know About) Superspace« combines Daft Punk-style vocoder lyrics with spherical synth washes that recall Air. Yet as the title »All is one (In Superspace)« suggests, this ten-track album is a broad conglomerate of genres – from electro-pop through dub, new wave and trip-hop to leftfield house and Balearic beat.
The blend of robotic manner and spacey orbit sounds feels remarkably futuristic despite clear reminiscences of past decades. A coherent connection between nostalgia and future vision that’s hard to grasp but deeply expressive. Superspace works as a soundtrack to a tech-obsessed, retrofuturistic parallel world – as if you were suspended, in a positive way. A considered work that functions equally as a listening album and as an acoustic blueprint for future pop modernity.
Superspace
