DANALOGUE - TELEPORTATIONS [red & yellow vinyl]

Format: LP
Catalogue No.: CIS211LPC1
Barcode: 5060889591643
Release Date: 29 May 2026
Genre: Experimental/Electronic/Indie

Following an illustrious tenure as founding member of acclaimed, boundary-defying trio The Comet Is Coming, alongside output as half of electronic psych jazzers Soccer96, the producer and synthesist Dan Leavers, aka Danalogue, announces his debut solo LP, Teleportations. Conceived as a continuous, journey-based piece, Teleportations is a warm, playful and immersive album that transforms endings, grief and personal upheaval into a vivid science-fictional voyage of escape, healing and renewal. A self-contained sonic world performed entirely by Danalogue, Teleportations unfolds like a single trip rather than a collection of standalone tracks. Moving seamlessly between celestial ambience, shimmering kosmische, euphoric space disco, liquid jazz funk and the deepest Detroit house, the album invites listeners to enrol in what Dan describes as a “teleportation programme” – a musical technology designed to sublimate difficult emotions, allowing sound, texture and motion to carry the listener through shifting states of feeling and emerge transformed on the other side. Science fiction provides both the language and architecture of the record. Inspired by astral travel, theta brainwaves, collective consciousness, the artist Jean Giraud, the writer Ernst Bloch and the film maker Miyazaki, Danalogue imagines music as a shared act of transportation – not unlike the experience of an audience tuning into a gig as one unified organism. A short story written alongside the album expands this mythology, depicting an advanced lifeform capable of converging brainwaves into an iridescent stream of consciousness and slingshotting across space. Throughout Teleportations, travel becomes metaphor: a way of escaping fixed realities in order to return with renewed perspective. The album’s universe draws heavily from the legacy of 1970s German kosmische and other outsider electronic pioneers who used synthesis as a tool for imagination and resistance. Danalogue cites figures such as Joe Meek, Wendy Carlos, Isao Tomita, Laurie Spiegel, Mort Garson and Terry Riley, and groups Harmonia and Kluster, as influences - all artists who operated outside rigid genre boundaries. Their influence is felt not as pastiche, but as spirit: exploratory, improvisational, emotional and defiantly human. This ethos extends to the album’s production. Teleportations was created using a largely vintage analogue setup, centred around the Roland Juno-60 and SH-09, Jupiter 4, Oberheim and old samplers (not to mention Dan’s first foray on wax into drumming). For Danalogue, working with older instruments is both an aesthetic and philosophical choice; embracing limitation, tactility and imperfection as a means of focus and identity, while forming a “time bridge” to earlier eras of electronic experimentation. Rather than recreating the past, the album imagines travelling back with modern sensibilities and telling the future through old machines. Teleportations is a love letter to deep listening, to albums that function as worlds, and to music as a vehicle for transformation. It is an invitation to step outside regular programming, leave gravity behind, and travel – together – somewhere else.

TRACKLISTING
1. Awakening On The Planet
2. Mother of Mars
3. Far Beyond The Sun
4. Moebius Triptych
5. You Are On The Right Track
6. Theta Wave Convergence
7. Arrival At Rho Ophiochi
8. Out Of Phase
9. Onto The Next Dimension
10. Earth Remembrance Day