Vapourspace - Gravitational Arch Of Ten
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Vapourspace -- Gravitational Arch Of 10
Label: Plus 8 Records Ltd. -- plus8023
Format: Vinyl, 12", 45 RPM
Country: Canada
Released: May 1993
Genre: Electronic
Style: Abstract, Techno, Experimental
I was on acid and witnessed this performed live for 5000 people at the NY Colosseum in Manhattan in 1994. He was headlining along with Aphex Twin, Moby and Orbital. It was complete pandemonium! In the history of electronic music that would be equatable to seeing Jimi Hendrix headline with Cream, the Stones and The Doors. If I am alive by the time they create the holodeck I will go back to that exact moment. 👽
nice one man.
You can't say fairer than that, what a lovely story
Wow crazy line-up
He actually wasn't headlining. Headliners are listed first and play last, which was Aphex Twin on that tour package. But it was definitely memorable.
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It was , i think, 1995 or so when i searched for this record and couldn't find it.There was a record store who bought old record and sold them again. I asked if they had this record. They said, " No, but we can put you on a the list, when we get it we call you". I said ok and left.. 4 or 5 years later when i totally forgot about it, someone called me; "We have a record for you". I was like, huh, which record, i could not remember the title, but i went there to get the record. When i got home and listened to the record i realised it was this one!!. I was soooo happy! :)
Man, this song and your post just made my day ! Big smile ... haha
Enjoy
Karma never forgets you....
Great story
Quality comment. Just discovered this today!
@@shakul104 Non-existent concepts are incapable of memory. Or existence.
I count myself as one of the lucky people who got to listen to this in the OMEN Frankfurt in like '94 or sth. Darkness, smoke, sweat, everyone shirtless and high as fuck. Magical
indeed
@@Horace_Pinker im Gray war`s noch besser als im Omen - schon wegen der Anlage - was für Einschläge.... ;-)
Kann mich da an väth erinner der sack lies erst alles über Monitore leise laufen und als unter den Flächen die bassline anfängt zu pumpen haut er die ganze Anlage rein 🫣🤯🫠ach schön das alles erlebt haben zu dürfen
ja, da habe ich auch richtig Gas gegeben, diesen Track hier hat Laurent Garnier mal im Tor1 in Hannover gespielt, da sind alle Sicherungen aus der Birne geflogen, lol
Ich werde nie die konvex verzogene Eisentür im Omen vergessen. Einfach mal durch Schalldruck nach außen verzogen. Überragend...
It's been emotional. When I here this, and other classic tunes from this era makes me feel like F* crying. Never got over it all :-)
True story my friend. Best era ever
One of the most Epic techno track of all time
25 years later this is still a huge record.
This track changed my life.
word
Really?
Fuck yeah...
My mate copied this onto a tape for me as he thought I was listening to too much 'simple' rave in 93 94? . Put this on the cassette in my old Nissan Micra driving across some misty moors on the way back from a funeral in Glasgow to Derby. Went apeshit. Had to stop the car and share the experience with the emptiness. Awe inspiring!
92 petit
Noice! 😄
Who died???
almost 48 years old ... In love when i heard it for the first time .... timeless
49 now, got the original.
The best 5 minutes and 9 seconds intro ... ever! Patience is truly a virtue.
Was treated to this in Space, Ibiza, in the early 90s, at about 10am, after a hard night in Ku. The whole place was pitch black - apart from the strobing roof - with this masterpiece clicking, soaring and throbbing away in the background as glowing silhouettes waved all around. Happy daze.
Space for ever
sounds like a happy place
@@toned.2940 You bet!
Jealous...😊
@@hal9thou001 Was a fantastic decade to be alive for sure.
I was lucky to be 22 in 1987 when all this started . A friend of mine, who's parents had a big ass club, asked me if I wanted to join him at the dj booth, as a Licht Jockey. I said yes, and from that moment on, my life changed. Every friday, every saturday and every sunday evening I worked there from early in the evening till 8 or 9 in the morning. We had no closing hours, as only country in the world, I think. Monday mornings, after closing our club, we went home, refreshed ourselves and went out, clubbing. I kid you not. I lived this life for over 20 years and boy, the things I experienced, I could whrite a few books about it. If there's a god, I would like to say to him; thank you Lord, for all these fine moments.
@a w Belgium it was. Club scene nowadays is dead and buried. Last year one of the best clubs in Europe, La Rocca near Antwerp, closed it doors as one of the last epic clubs. Glad I was there from the beginning. I salute you
@a w watch The Sound Of Belgium, a documentary about our scene. It's on the net. A must see. No shit
Wo...welcher Club war es???
'87 war ich 17, und erinnere mich auch noch als das Acid&(house)ship zum Trip ablegte...was für eine aufregende Zeit.🙂
Hab auch so manche Afterhour mitgemacht, oft sogar auch ohne irgend eine hour before😉... in ,,unserem" kleinen, aber feinen Resident Club.
So ganz nach dem Motto...aufstehen...clubben gehen.😂😂😂
Von 6 -15:00
@@ingobund3596 Das war Club Real in Tongeren, Limburg, Belgien, zehr kurz bei Maastricht, Niederlande.
@@jeankloot1 Ok, danke. Dann bist Du gar nicht Deutscher, sondern Belgier!? Ist ja Dreiländereck. Checke erst jetzt, daß hier alle Kommentare von Dir waren...now i know...😁
Funny story: the name was supposed to be "Gravitational arch of Io". As in "io" the innermost of the four Galilean moons of Jupiter.
Not sure what the deal with its gravitational arch is, but one thing is for sure, Richie Hawtin (boss behind Plus 8 records) read the name wrong and the rest is history. I have this stomper on vinyl, wax rules.
earth is flat and stationary there is no universe
makes cents
That's right! Please read my comment above.... Just because Richie is stupid and ignorant(put aside his musical and DJ ing skills) the whole world misspells this title.
It should have been "Gravitational Arc of Io", and Mark took the name from a line in the Carl Sagan tv series "Cosmos".
Gravitational Arc Of Io. As in the bending of a trajectory due to gravity of a large stellar object.
I saw him playing this live at The Arches in Glasgow in 1994. He was sitting on the stage with synths and drum machines on the floor around him. Fantastic night!
+Albert Jr That was the same year - you're a lucky man going to the first ever SONAR!
I saw him too on that tour here in Copenhagen in autumn 1994! I also remember him sitting on the stage with his machines around him. It was an amazing concert!
@@cph2400 The week before I saw a new up and coming act called The Dust Brothers at The Arches. This was before the lawyers (from the original Dust Brothers in New York) got involved and they changed their name to The Chemical Brothers!
@@williamking9510 nice catch!
Not sure if it was during that same trip but I saw him at Pure at Barrowlands. After his set I spoke with him for a while. Lovely guy. He told me that the day he wrote this track there was a snowstorm going on outside. Whenever I listen to it now, I close my eyes and see the swirling snow.
Always special when it was dropped at the Orbit Morley! Still gives me goosebumps! Great days and even greater music.
I miss that place so much. The first time I went in 1991 Joey Beltram was at the controls and it immediately became my favourite club 👌🏻
Orbit was the Omen of England. Best years of my life. Sven, AFX, the birthday party was epic. Just pure tunes. 😊😊😊
Always, every single time I hear this track, I get goosebumps. It’s legendary!
Me to
same shit
Back in a time where techno music in general was so much simpler and was not just about the latest plugins and the most loud compressor to use, but pure composition, vibe and atmosphere were the goal.
I've had a built-in love of electronic music that was first triggered by Tubeway Army's "Are Friends Electric" when I was 5 years old. This is my favourite piece of music, full-stop
I second that!
I love electronic music as well but do not feel it is as accomplished as instrumental music nor do I feel it is as deep.
But I still love electronic music.
Eines der besten Stücke aller Zeiten. Unfassbar gut. Was für geile Zeiten das waren
Oh wie wahr ... was würde ich für eine Feier von damals geben 😛 Egal wie alt : Rave On !
@@m.l.4283 Ich auch. Wäre mit allem inklusive dabei
Ich hatte das Glück genau diese Platte in Köln auf der Warehouse Jubiläums Party 2020 nochmal nach über 25 Jahren live zu hören ! Ich war mit 50 der erste auf der Tanzfläche 😎
Man, this takes me back! Lost, looking for love, looking for redemption, looking for meaning, wandering the mad nights, and then bang. This tune hits. Glorious.
I'm 31 now and I only got into electronic music when I was 24. I was clueless, until my first rave and what comes with it I could not imagine what people would find appealing in this kind of music. Now, when I listen to classics like this, I tend to think that if there was one experience I could share with all the people I know that just don't get it, it would be tripping balls on ecstasy raving to this track. There's so much elegance, intelligence, layered abstraction in the sound and title and yet it's so primal and tribal; it's simply an all-encompassing masterpiece that makes you reflect on the themes and schemes of the universe.
Otherwise I so wish I had been a young adult in the early nineties.
I was born in 1970 and wouldn't swap having my 20s in 90s for any other period that's for sure!
im 19 and im sad for all ppl that will never understand this
I will be honest with you, in the uk music & football was mostly all we had really growing up, fashions & fads came and went. So working all week at a piss poor job for piss poor money made us appreciate our Saturday nights out with friends all together because it's all we had to look forward to. And being at a rave with like minded people who you didn't know but were your best mate that night and all there for the same thing was magical truly magical looking back now im older. Great days to have lived through the 80s & 90s I had the time of my life. And this track sums it all up for me.
31 here as well. I discovered MTV's AMP back when it was on and i fell in love with this type of music ever since. But same feels over wishing to be growing up a bit older in the 90's to enjoy proper raves.
tonajki hate to rub it in bro but I was in my very early 20's when this happened! Fucking amazing times, wouldn't swap it for the world.
Huge banger during first months of Fuse Brussels, legendary place!
Original and best version ever. This is what electronic music is all about.
Whaou !!! La claque
Absolutely
Yes, definitely. I listened to all the remixes and none were as good as this. I remember hearing it on John Peel and was at my record store the next day preordering it on import. Cost a fortune but I didn't care. I just had to have it. Still one of my favourite 12 inches to this day.
agree
The live swiss remix has something very special about it (it's not worth ranking them imo)
back in '93: Me and my friend took some Acid 1 hour ago... standing on the Dancefloor.... listened to this special stuff.... blowing mind.... big eyes.... big ears.... biggest smile.... fantastic sound!!! Thanx for uploading, thanx for remember a very special moment in my life! :-)
hell yeah...awesome memory...incredible piece of techno
Acid ...
Same 😃
Aceeeeeeeeed and speeeeeeeed best nights!
Strawbs, keys with wings, blue diamonds , microdots so much choice so many trips lol
Not all of them good!
This really is an exceptional piece of music. The production is incredible if compared to many other tracks of that time. Rich, wide and heavy. Beautiful.
First experienced love parade 1996. Sven Väth ripped it off the wagon near Tresor. Sunny morning days..
I was there ✌️😎
Geile Zeit damals - unzerstörbar - ewig in Erinnerung! Rave on!
Modern producers can learn from this tune, especially the dynamic range of the track. there is a beautiful mix of quiet here. meanwhile all new music is competing to be the loudest tune in the club. the quite is what really draws me into this track. when finally it open up I'm lit.
When i was researching records playing backwards, (what a joke btw) i discovered the first two minutes of this awesome track sounds exacly the same as forwards..... awesome production...
Trekked over to Orbit, Morley in the early 1990s to experience Sven Vath, in an overloaded Ford Fiesta.
Wandered in, and in between the blurred eyes and smoke, we were slightly surprised to see something banging drums in cages and several MC's chanting, then this masterpiece began, and rolled around the deck at 200dB for 10 minutes.
Such moments are forever gravitated into your brain.
Back when trance was just the hippie age of love close relative from techno, food for the body and soul!!!!!
I love this definition... the ONLY trance.
IM JUST TURNED 64 AN THIS CHOON IS BANGIN GOD THE GOOD OLD DAYS BRING THEM BACK NOT THIS NEW AGE C---P PEACE 2 U ALL
68 now how's the raving going
Hahaha 61 here, this lady likes too rave ;-)
When I get old and I'm losing my hair, any day from now, will I still be raving to these awesome tunes, popping pills and downing some shrooms
Grâce aux champignons je voyais tout les sons en couleurs, expérience inoubliable 🍄❤️❤️❤️
Just a note: It's actually "Gravitational Arch of Io", as in the moon of Jupiter.
It was supposed to be, but whoever pressed it read it as "10" rather than "Io" and thus it has been "10" since, albeit accidentally!
Danced to this in the hacienda in Manchester on Friday night “shine” in 1993, (i think!) it was mind blowing!
Saw MArk play this live in Club UK in 1994. The intro left a room of a very lost ravers, looking for some measure of a beat and when the sirens started climbing, smiles started appearing. by the time that first kick drum 'kicked in' the place synchronised. It was, and is, magic!!
OMEN Frankfurt. The master himself on the decks. Crowded floor. Nothing but sweat and pure xtc in the air. Best times ever had ♥️
Oh how I miss the 90's!
Agree. 👌
The orbit, morley, leeds nuff said.
nuff said indeed
Enough said
innit. saw CJ Bolland there in 93.
100%
Saw vapourspace live in 1995 or 95 at PURE in glasgow at the barrowlands still gets the goosebumps going that siren with a decent Ecstasy grest memories 😎👌⚪💚
My favorite techno track of ALL TIME - gives me goosebumps every time 👏
best time ever.. this song and secret cycles lazonby ..
I was thinking exactly the same, Sacred Cycles was my wife & I's wedding tune :)
Scared cycles is amazing and I saw it on TV once a very long time ago
This one has got more flow then you will ever know ...... Early trancin.....
All-time fav!
Had this track on tape, for long, but first time it hit me, was in Borealis 97/98, in Montpellier, France, played by the master, Laurent Garnier, himself, and then, the dancefloor went absolutely mad😎😎😎!
best vinyl ever
masterpiece
A-MAZING! What a tune! Takes me back. 10mins of absolute bliss 🙌
Exceptional music production, what a lovely tune.
Saw Mark in Seattle way way back. Good memories.
Masterpiece fullstop 🔊🌟❤️
the 90's is the 60's turned up side down
agree strongly
Pardon? What does that even mean?
@ken 88-89 was the second; 90 the third. After 90: nowt.
@Wenceslao Futanaki 😀
eargasm up and down and up again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
never forget this time in my life
Epic Tune back then,And today still a Burner-track!
Simply the most overlooked work of genius in all techno . universe Laurent garner 1993
Actually may be the best thing in all of music, like, ever!!
+Iain Macdonald or at the very least the best intro ever
Wrong bro. This track was written and produced by Mark GAGE a.k.a. Vapour Space
Phil Minotti I’m saying first time I heard it was on a 1993 Universe DJ set by Laurent Garner, has probably aged better than any other track I’ve ever heard
The Article Don Aw sorry mate. Yes it has had its share of play around the world.
Aus einer Zeit als Tracks noch kleine Geschichten erzählten.
one of thee best records ever made. FACT.
True dat! Out of interest, what are the other two?
totally agree. a bomb, this one !! travelling back in time to ecstatic moments with this track ...
na he mispelt 'the', i was going to ask the exact same haha
i d put Zenith - street of Avalon/ flowers of intelligence for sure
It's great yeah, but among the best three ever? No such thing. That will always be a subjective opinion variable from person to person.
I remember hearing this for the first time about 7 years ago, just started listening to electronic music. Me and my friend sitting in my apartment high as fuck and just scrolling through youtube and listening to this unbeliavable music. At one point this starts, and we just went completely silent, total relax and chill of the intro, an absolute mindblowing sensation and journey through your innerself...
Nice! Good intro. 😊
Haven’t heard this since back in the day, back when people made inspirational, uplifting music, simply awesome!
Saw him do this live at Landing, LA, 1994. Miss those days.
just speechless, discovered this track after forgetting about it. Mindblowing !!! Unbelievable and sooo powerful intro...
Will wie ever... A cosmogen...
one of my all time favorites. it's all ways a pleasure to listen to it. big thumb up!
Manuel Weber same bro
Great track love it I still have the full CD.
This album holds a place in my heart that no other electronic album does. It's a vast
lush Roland slanted analogue world worth getting lost in.
Had this on vinyl when it came out and somehow lost it, had it nicked 🤷♂️
Still sounds absolutely massive to this day and have heard certain hipster djs play it recently
This shit Is timeless
simply a killer tune
Wow, i forgot this one an found it. Still intense like the first time i listened it! Thx!
I'm a metalhead at heart,techno got a hold of me and completely changed my life,this is one of the amazing tracks I witnessed in clubs and party's , amazing time 🤘👌💙
Capricorn 20hz
that clip is like endless love .. timewarp back in to the best times ever
Epic Track! Always in my box!
Timeless !
Love it when the Ad kicks in at 3.20 . Needed that, Bastards
Truly timeless! Bang on!
this is a masterpiece and one of my favorites
The big Masterpiece for electronics concept for 1993
Took me eleven years to find this track, I just jizzed my pants with excitement!
+Francisco Larios :)
+Francisco Larios I think it took me nearly 20 years, but.... the moment I heard it I was there again :-)
+Stephen Cockett - Exactly the same for me
I was lucky enough to see him on tour when he 1st released this album. Years later when I got into techno, me and my partner at the time, were lucky enough to work with him on a personal level. Mark is a cool dude.
when i heard it from Sven in 1998 i run to the decks and asked him for the title...he said something i didn't quite get and when he switched tracks he gave me the vinyl!!!!
One of the best nights of my clubbing life
Discovered this myself for the first time... Thought the intro was getting too long until the sounds started at 2:45. Sent chills down my spine. Then the song kicked in... Pure magic! Thanks MC2/MC3 for introducing me to this music
Best Techno song ever produced, IMO. 😊
Just timeless
This was a video on AMP if I'm not mistaken.. incredible.
When Love, Peace and Unity was famous ... miss those days ...
thank you Mr Gage
Absolutely ! ❤
Nr. 1 on my "Best ever" list!
Eclipse - the second phase. Perth, 1993. Still have this on wax. I love life.
HERNÁN CATTANEO - OPENING - FORJA 2019 DAY 2
you know what remix is that ?
@@JD-lb8nl Is not a remix, Hernán played the first part of this track and then he played Aluria - Utica Vimana (Original Mix) [Genesis Music]
2019 vapourspace pops in my mind,,, ahhhh my neuropathways remember, timeless
I met him, one of my original highlights of my raving years
it's like fucking space travel man.
2021 toujours et toujours un méga Masterpiece 😍😍😍😍😍
Timeless ❤
Just.. sublime.
brividiiii
Für alle Liebhaber elektronischer Musik....sucht nicht weiter.....das ist euer Zuhause ❤
Reminds me alwways of Dave Angel, who came to do a set for us opening a new community centre in Wester Hailes, Edinburgh, what a top top guy
He has a few good pals from there, and Calder
Yeah I know, that's why he came ;)
@@Veronacelt he gave out a few t-shirts that night (or another). I had mine for about 2 hours then fell asleep in a flat and never seen again ...
@@SuperBrooxy Just like his leather jacket when he went back to someones house after the gig at the Pyramid
Early tune in the Orbit48 every Saturday, sometimes a late tune. Always went down like the world was ending in a good way x
Top in the 2021!
thanks for upload
I love it ❤❤ One of the greatest 😎
LOVECORE 1994. I came in on the dancefloor to this song!!!!
This is it. High ranking in my charts Top 10 dance tunes ever. Absolute Top tune!