Spaced

Soft Machine

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 23, 1996)
• Original Release Date: October 23, 1996
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Cuneiform
• ASIN: B000008RV7
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #373,517 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Track Listings

1. Spaced One

2. Spaced Two

3. Spaced Three

4. Spaced Four

5. Spaced Five

6. Spaced Six

7. Spaced Seven

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Creature of loops, remix of cut up..., May 30, 2001

By	KirK (30 miles away from the center of Tokyo, Japan) - See all my reviews

This recording sounds like a kind of environmental music, which was played by Mike Ratledge, Hugh Hopper and Rober Wyatt with some sax blasts played by Brian Hopper and with the tape looping work by Bob Woolford in 1969. According to the brochure in this CD, "Spaced" seems to have been made to fulfill the contract with the record company and it was the same timing when "Volume Two" was recorded for the same reason.

Since it is the creature of tape loops edited in the living room of Bob Woolford's apartment, it sounds different from other titles by Soft Machine. Although there are several portions scattered here and there, in which you can enjoy the dynamism of their live performance, it still sounds like a remix of "cut up" phrases, which reminds me of the technique of writing taken in "The Soft Machine" by William Burroughs.

As a Soft Machine freak, it is "must to have". But it could be "nice to have" for average listeners of good old progressive rock music.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Highly experimental side step for softs, August 6, 2007

By	Warren W. Nelson (Mooresville, NC USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This may be the most demented work the Softs ever released, at least that I've heard. This was originally composed as background for a multimedia event of this title in the time period between the second and third album; so the sense of experimentation and personal challenge for the Softs was growing exponentially. This album represents an edited version of the event comprising tape loops, sonic experiments and some of the most possessed and inspired Mike Ratledge keyboard ever comited to tape along with some pulse style drumming from Robert Wyatt. The thirty two minute fourth section is absolutely astounding; This recording captures the band growing in intellectual depth and complication stretching the improvisations into a more avant garde direction. This is an inspired performance with some fascinating improvisational experiments.

2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A cool Soft Machine CD!!!, December 28, 2003

By	Jason Pumphrey (Falls Church, Virginia United States) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

If you are a fan of the Soft Machine, This CD will be a welcome addition to your collection!!! It's from their early period with Robert Wyatt!!! And it's a very cool album!!! Very experimental!!! A true relic of the past!!! it's nice to see this music released after all of these years!!! Fans of their first five albums will most likely enjoy this one!!! Five Stars!!! A+