Spiritualized's Jason Pierce says he only contributed to the Space Project compilation because he was broke

Lefse’s upcoming Space Project compilation looks to be one of the most interesting releases of Record Store Day, recruiting a variety of acts to create songs consisting of recordings taking of outer-space. Despite this, not everyone is so keen – including one of the album’s very contributors.

Spiritualized’s Jason Pierce spoke to NME recently and was quite candid about the reasons behind his involvement. “I was broke,” he told the magazine. “That was my main motivation. They said they’ve give me $1,500 to do a drone, which I can do in my sleep. And they got lucky, because I didn’t go in to write a tune, but I came out with that song, so it kind of worked out.”

Pierce also sounds quite skeptical of the science behind the concept: “There’s so much crap about how they did it. I’ve got the time but I didn’t have the will to read it all. But basically, somebody’s taken another form, like an infra-red or an electromagnetic wave—something you can record—and made that into a sound.”

Lefse, on the other hand, have this to say about their “space samples”: “The ‘sounds’ recorded by the Voyager probes 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.”

You can listen to Spiritualized’s “$1,500 drone” beneath: