Psychic Radio - the Armchair Astronaut WebZine

Psychic Radio is the WebZine for Armchair Astronaut Records
and you can find Issue 1 online at our Psychic Radio Page

Here reproduced is the article on the great WIRELESS combo - mainstay of the Armchair Astronaut stable.

WIRELESS are a group of experimental artists. Their adventures in sound and music have been emanating through the ethers since January 2002, and are winning them listeners from across the musical spectrum.
Described variously as “amazing head-burst movie music”, to ”soundtracks for the seriously disturbed ” . WIRELESS have crafted together a compelling body of work. Their sound takes the listener on a journey through a series of sublime landscapes, through crumbling cities and deserted cathedrals, through the air over forgotten civilisations, from deep beneath the oceans, to deeper into space.
Mining a seam to themselves, WIRELESS have tapped a rich source of mind altering, bowel-churning music, to explore the depths of aural possibilities made available to the intrepid.
The music you hear in a coma--Transmissions between stations of consciousness--Dreamstate Soundscapes.
Mapping the hidden blueprints, the turning points of the year, of the planets.
Secret codes to the universe itself. Music- the science between memory, mind and mathematics encoded in the very structures of our psyches, of our mental functioning.
The higher language beyond thought and rational. WIRELESS tap the deepest realms hidden within sound. In the pursuit of meaning, the scenery can be terrifying.
WIRELESS make music which evolves before your ears. Not as entertainment, but as a journey for the senses.
They take the journey seriously, as they do the destination. The music maps new territories, investigates ever more arcane regions.
Telepathic synergy remains, as ever, the crux of their operation. Guided by wires, speaking without tongues.
WIRELESS make unsafe music beautiful. Music which exists and addresses its own corporeal bubble. Adrift from any safe houses of musical convention. Orbiting their own star, or lost between planets. Giant rusty liners buckling on impact and sinking on a time lapsed audio ocean. Crackles from transmitters placed in the afterlife. The whispers and echoes of the chattering dead. Snatches of lives in parallel worlds. Transmissions from the ethers, interference from sources unknown. To witness Armageddon, and get it down on tape, to play it on reverse, time and time again.
WIRELESS make dangerous music. Both, for the listener and the group themselves. Live executions, public or private, require active listening and response, to engage and then concentrate. Every execution potentiates a transformation. Nothing is at rest.
All involved experience a personal head journey, a sense of having come through to the other side of something, a sense of arrival.
Some listener’s report shifts in mood or consciousness, altered perceptions of time etc. Do not panic, this is quite understandable and a healthy response to the experience itself. Whilst WIRELESS take every measure possible against personal discomfort, the nature of live executions will always permit the unexpected to happen. WIRELESS cannot be held responsible for any after effects of listening.