This is the release version of the album I've been working on for the last three months of my life. Thank you to all my listeners for your support and I hope you enjoy this version, which has been professionally mastered.

The bandcamp version comes with a 20 page colour digital booklet featuring many of the cosmological structures the album focuses on:
https://marcdauncey.bandcamp.com/album/cosmos

"The album is a darkly satirical look at humanity’s relationship with the cosmos. Looking into the near future where human beings mine asteroids for precious metals with all the attendant exploitation present in terra-based industries today. We start from the sun and move outwards. 

Heavy Metal Rain On Venus is stark warning on the consequences of climate change on earth, presenting a literal hellscape of molten metal raining on the scorched plains. 

Next we view Earth through alien eyes recieving the scrambled &  babbling radio signals we’ve been emitting for over a century, before moving on through the solar system taking in comets, asteroids and moons of Saturn and Jupiter. 

The album then leaves the solar system with Voyager 2, takes us to the deepest darkest interstellar voids before leaving us standing on the shore of an alien planet buzzing with life.

I wanted to base each piece on my emotional reaction to the location in question, which turns out to be a mixture of awe and even fear. These are after all, huge natural forces the scope of which is so much larger that our tiny lives. So when I think about places like the bootes void, millions of light years of nothing, I try to imagine what it would be like to be in the middle of that, just for a split second. A place so alien, dark and cold that it defies any human experience. It is that strangeness and mystery that I wanted to capture in my music. We are made of the same stuff as all of these structures. The universe exists within and without us.

I'm influenced by so many great musicians who've addressed this subject matter in the past. Eno & Tangerine Dream spring instantly to mind. But also nineties ambient like the sadly missed Pete Namlook, Monolake, modern classical composers like Max RIchter, Philip Glass and even drone rockers like Sun o:))). I was watching Star Trek alongside producing these and that is also a huge influence. I hope you enjoy listening to these songs."

Buy On Bandcamp

Marc Dauncey - Cosmos LP (release version)

Heavy Metal Rain On Venus (Atomic Weight Breakbeat Mix)

Earth

Heavy Metal Rain On Venus (Ansound Rework)

Mining The Asteriod Belt (Breaking Rocks Album Version)

Before the Voyager missions, scientists predicted that the solar bubble just sort of dissolved into interstellar space as you ventured farther and farther from the sun. Voyager 2 seems to confirm that “in fact, there’s a very very sharp boundary there,” says Donald Gurnett of the University of Iowa, the lead author of this paper. Voyager 2’s plasma wave instrument ended up measuring plasma densities that were very much on par with what Voyager 1 detected. Because solar plasma is so hot (about 1 million °C), and interstellar plasma is incredibly cold (just 10,000 °C), the density of plasma jumps up by a factor between 20 and 50 as you cross the border. “That’s a characteristic of fluids, which oftentimes form very sharp boundaries,” says Gurnett.

Voyager Leaves The Solar System (Slipping Into Darkness Album Version)

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