The Final Frontier

I'll admit, this one is tough for me. I am inexperienced with drone, so consider my score that of an unknowing noob. But I never shy away from a challenge. I am constantly asking you to expand your musical horizons on this site, so I figure it's only fair to practice what I preach. Well anyways, this little experiment was definitely uncharted territory.

A bit of a cop-out, but I think the bandcamp page's synopsis speaks volumes more than I ever could. After all, this site is more focused on getting music out there than choice of words:

Vostok Zero, the first human spaceflight, was launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome in the Soviet Union on 1st April 1961, piloted by Colonel Ivan Ivanovich – a cosmonaut whose name has been entirely expurgated from even the most restricted secret records of the Soviet Space Programme. During the launch, the Vostok-K carrier rocket, which had only ever been intended to place the spacecraft into Earth orbit, catastrophically malfunctioned, and instead sent Ivanovich hurtling off on a trajectory which would eventually carry him far beyond our solar system, into deep space, with no hope of return. The very existence of the ill-fated flight of the first man in space has of course never been officially acknowledged by either the Soviet or Russian authorities – and yet these remarkable recordings of Ivanovich's final transmission, received just before radio contact with Vostok Zero was lost forever, stand as testament to his untold story.

Dude, does it get much bleaker than being trapped in a tin can surrounded by nothingness? If Space is Hell does nothing else, it certainly sucks you into the isolated vaccuum of space. It's like an alternate soundtrack to 2001 A Space Odyssey. The journey is driven by sounds of lightly beeping computers, sustained distortion and feedback, and voices broadcast over radio waves. The sounds of distant breaking of glass adds a more sinister layer. In a word: eerie.

You can pick up this harrowing experience for 4 GBP. It's certainly an experience worth having.