🎵 IT034: Jupiter 8
✏️ Dream Safari
🗓 02.07.19
Dream Safari aka Sam Giles is a graphic artist, printmaker, and graffiti bandit based in Kent, UK.
Hi Sam, can you tell us a little bit about your tape and your song selections?
This is a miscellaneous selection of 16 dusty synthesized songs. It’s music for those who frequently daydream about drifting through space on a giant Roland Jupiter 8 keyboard. All of the tracks are ethically sourced.
How did you go about the artwork?
I’ve been watching a fair few 80’s cartoons recently, D&D and fantasy shit. So the work seems to be a mash-up of that and the cosmic rhythms of the mix.
What are your fave album covers, records with a great music and artwork combo, or musical projects with a visual component?
I think as with all of these albums, I was attracted to the artwork on the covers first and that led me to listen to their music.
✏️ Dream Safari
🗓 02.07.19
Dream Safari aka Sam Giles is a graphic artist, printmaker, and graffiti bandit based in Kent, UK.
Hi Sam, can you tell us a little bit about your tape and your song selections?
This is a miscellaneous selection of 16 dusty synthesized songs. It’s music for those who frequently daydream about drifting through space on a giant Roland Jupiter 8 keyboard. All of the tracks are ethically sourced.
How did you go about the artwork?
I’ve been watching a fair few 80’s cartoons recently, D&D and fantasy shit. So the work seems to be a mash-up of that and the cosmic rhythms of the mix.
What are your fave album covers, records with a great music and artwork combo, or musical projects with a visual component?
I think as with all of these albums, I was attracted to the artwork on the covers first and that led me to listen to their music.
Repo – Black Dice
2009, Paw Tracks
Artwork: Aaron Warren, Bjorn Copeland, Eric Copeland
I saved up and bought Black Dice - Repo ‘cos it looked and sounded like everything going on in my head when I was off my face at sixteen.
Magic Fly – Space
1977, Vogue
Photography: G. Miller
When I first saw Magic Fly by Space I realised that it was okay to dress up as a spaceman at any age.
The Samps – The Samps
2010, Mexican Summer
Artwork: Eddie Ruscha
The first Samps EP is, (to me) perfection.
Far Side Virtual – James Ferraro
2011, Hippos In Tanks
Artwork uncredited
2011, Hippos In Tanks
Artwork uncredited
And that James Ferraro album with all the weird google sounds and shit... When that first came out I genuinel didn’t want to share it with friends cos i thought it was too cool for them.
What did you listen to growing up?
Apparently I used to move around in my mums belly while my dad danced around the living room roaring like Jim Morrison. As a kid I tried to absorb as much as possible. During my tranquillised teenage years, my friends and I woul share music we’d find on the internet and in our dads collections. I watched and listened to a lot of shit from previous decades that would otherwise been lost in lofts. Bloody hell, we literally listened to anything! It’s a bit different now that you have it all in one place on Spotify.
I run a maker space in Dover, Kent called Future Foundry, helping people with their artistic endeavours. I do a bit of graff, wheatpastes and other stuff. I upcycle clothes and screen print Tshirts, I am writing and creative directing short films, and on top of all that i’m making zines and building Dream Safari as a ‘brand’.
Where can we find you?
︎ dreamsafari.co.uk
︎ @dream_safari
Cheers Sam!
TRACKLIST
Reginald J. Lewis - Logo Rhythmic II/ Klaus Wunderlich - In The Mood / Geneva Jacuzzi - Love Caboose / Medio Mutante - Climb / The Samps - Plans / Anthony King - Maladjusted Moogie / Nite Jewel - Weak For Me / Leon Lowman - Back To the Grasslands / Jeff Phelps - Super Lady / Sign Libra - Teleopsis Dalmanni / Maryn E. Coote - I Don't Have to Cry / Space Art - Welcome To Love / Klaus Weiss - Rhythm and Sounds / Space - Magic Fly / The Johanna Group - Hors Phase / Pye Corner Audio - Nostalgia Pills / Pauline Anna Strom - Morning Splendour / Visible Cloaks - Terrazzo / Suzanne Kraft - Flatiron / Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - To Feel Your Best ︎
︎ @dream_safari
Cheers Sam!
TRACKLIST
Reginald J. Lewis - Logo Rhythmic II/ Klaus Wunderlich - In The Mood / Geneva Jacuzzi - Love Caboose / Medio Mutante - Climb / The Samps - Plans / Anthony King - Maladjusted Moogie / Nite Jewel - Weak For Me / Leon Lowman - Back To the Grasslands / Jeff Phelps - Super Lady / Sign Libra - Teleopsis Dalmanni / Maryn E. Coote - I Don't Have to Cry / Space Art - Welcome To Love / Klaus Weiss - Rhythm and Sounds / Space - Magic Fly / The Johanna Group - Hors Phase / Pye Corner Audio - Nostalgia Pills / Pauline Anna Strom - Morning Splendour / Visible Cloaks - Terrazzo / Suzanne Kraft - Flatiron / Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - To Feel Your Best ︎