Spiritualized, Beach House and more join Youth Lagoon on 'The Space Project' [TRACKLIST]

Earlier this week we reported that Youth Lagoon had released a new song called "Worms" as part of Lefse Records' compilation The Space Project. More information on the project has now been revealed. The effort is due out Record Store Day 2014 (April 19) and features contributions from The Antlers, Beach House, Mutual Benefit, Porcelain Raft, Jesu, Anna Meredith, The Holydrug Couple, Blues Control, Zomes, Absolutely Free, Benoit & Sergio, Larry Gus and Spiritualized (appearing under the moniker The Spiritualized Mississippi Space Program).

According to a press release, the album's 14 tracks were recorded using audio taken from the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 space probes that NASA launched in 1977 and continues to use in the study of the outer solar system. The sounds you hear on the album aren't "sounds in the conventional sense; rather, they are electromagnetic radiation fluctuations in the magnetosphere of the planets, moons and large asteroids the Voyager probes traveled near. Each celestial body is composed of different elements, has its own size and mass, and therefore sounds unique."

The release also explains the origins of the idea: "Last Thanksgiving, Matt Halverson, who runs the Portland-based label Lefse Records, was talking with his brother in law, Exogenesis President and Chief Scientist Sean Anklam, who described a trove of recordings the NASA-launched Voyager space probes had made in the outer solar system. Halverson, the Walter White to Anklam's Hank Schrader, was overtaken by an idea: to commission imaginative artists to create songs and soundscapes out of the Voyager recordings. The interest among musicians...was overwhelming."

The album will be available on vinyl, CD and as a 7" box set. Check out the tracklist below, and hear the album's first single, "Worms" by Youth Lagoon. Let us know what you think in the comments section!

The Space Project Tracklist:

Jupiter:

A Porcelain Raft: "Giove"
B The Antlers: "Jupiter"

Miranda:
A Mutual Benefit: "Terraform"
B Anna Meredith: "Miranda"

Neptune:
A The Spiritualized Mississippi Space Program: "Always Together With You (The Bridge Song)"
B The Holydrug Couple: "Amphitrites Lost"

Uranus:
A Youth Lagoon: "Worms"
B Blues Control: "Blues Danube"

Saturn:
A Beach House: "Saturn Song"
B Zomes: "Moonlet"

Earth:
A Absolutely Free: "EARTH I"
B Jesu: "Song of Earth"

Io:
A Benoit & Sergio: "Long Neglected Words"
B Larry Gus: "Sphere of Io (For Georg Cantor)"

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