The Heliocentrics
Out There 2LP vinyl

This band (led by drummer Malcolm Catto) are probably best known for having backed-up DJ Shadow on 'This Time I'm Gonna Do It My Way' from his album, The Outsider, but after four years in the making The Heliocentrics' debut full-length is finally available. The music here borrows from '70s soundtrack tendencies, the cinemascope funk of David Axelrod and the jazz abstraction of Sun Ra - often within the same track. 'The Zero Hour' seems to have all these elements happening in simultaneity, and there's plenty of adventurous sound to be found elsewhere too: 'The American Empire' opens with elecroacoustic gymnastics that would make Bernard Parmegiani proud. Next up comes the aggressive drum barrage of 'Before I Die', which is destined to be sampled a thousand times over. In fact, Catto's drumming has already been given the MPC treatment by Madlib himself, making appearances on both Shades Of Blue and an assortment of Yesterday's New Quintet releases, but Out There is sure to establish Catto and his fellow players as a Stones Throw force in their own right.

NEW / Released in 2007

Tracklist:

A1 Intro

A2 Distant Star

A3 Flight 583

A4 Once Upon A Time

A5 Beyond Repair

A6 Sirius B

A7 Untitled

B1 They Are Among Us - Part 1

B2 The Zero Hour

B3 Joyride

B4 The American Empire

C1 Before I Die

C2 Intermission

C3 Age Of The Sun

C4 They Are Among Us - Part 2

C5 Winter Song

C6 A World Of Masks

D1 Sounds Of The East

D2 Somewhere Out There

D3 Second Chance (K2’s Prayer)

D4 Return Journey

D5 Sirius A

D6 Falling To Earth

D7 Outro