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Energy 2000 was born the day before Thanksgiving 2012 in a grimy apartment on West Cary Street. Aided by a case of beer, a string of Christmas lights, a $60 Yamaha keyboard, a few old guitars, and GarageBand, brothers Taylor and Ian Robinson charted a course for the cosmos. Since those early days, which consisted of bizarre instrumental recordings and freak-out experiments with old-timey radio, the project has evolved to channel the spirits and voices of the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo astronauts (as well as the occasional space monkey) as a way of celebrating the early days of spaceflight.

Inspired by long pan reverb, tremolo, delay, vintage amplification, 1960s-era Fender Mustang guitars, obscure surf rock, warm pad synth sounds, science fiction radio shows from the early 1950s (i.e., X Minus One, Dimension X, Suspense), David Bowie’s penchant for crafting haunting, introspective pop songs about space travel, still images captured on 70 mm Kodak Panatomic-X fine-grained 80 ASA black and white film, moon bounces, babies, and that incredibly broad spectrum of emotion associated with attempting to comprehend the beautiful vastness of space.


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