Planet Zebidee - music from another world

'Planet Zebidee' is a soundtrack to an alien planet; the inspiration for this came from the latest discoveries in astronomy. In 1996 astronomers found the first planet outside our solar system, since then several hundred have been discovered. Techniques are improving all the time and soon it should be possible to detect signs of life on planets many light years away.

'Planet Zebidee' is the debut album from electronica wizard 'Zebidee', real name Mike Nicholls, a session musician who has been working in the industry for twenty years on West End shows, teaching the new breed of musicians at London's Academy of Contemporary Music and touring with rock n roll legends including Joe Brown.

Heavily influenced by science fiction, and by the amazing discoveries of extrasolar planets, Zebidee's music will transport you to an exotic alien landscape that reverberates with chilled beats, sublime melodies, and rich textures. With influences as far reaching as ambient drum and bass, acid jazz and funk, Zebidee is world music from another world.

The album tells the story of an unnamed explorer's journey to the mythical planet, starting with the screaming synths of the opening track, "Descent", to the sitars and Tibetan monks' chants of "Radio Hawk", through to the drum and bass rollercoaster of "Beasts" and the porno funk of "Eat My Genes", Zebidee takes the listener on a unique journey to an alien world.

Now available on Proton Records.

The story of Planet Zebidee

Compared with Earth, Zebidee was a late bloomer. Orbiting its parent star on the outer edge of the goldilocks zone for billions of years, life never evolved beyond microbial organisms deep in the icy oceans, taking sustenance from the planet's internal heat.

As the millennia passed, Zebidee's sun warmed and expanded, ushering in a new age. Life soon swarmed through the oceans, eventually taking to the land and the air. In time an ecosystem developed to rival that of earth.

At the time this story begins, Zebidee is a complex and beautiful place. Swathes of clouds trap the energy of its pink sun, now grown warmer with age. Orbiting the planet is a human artefact, an interstellar probe. Sleeping through the hundred-year journey from earth it now awakes. Artificial, but modelled on human intelligence. A single consciousness controlling bodies equipped for flying, roving the landscape and cruising the oceans. Robotic eyes open and survey the pink misty ball floating in the blackness. The artificial mind is sophisticated enough to feel exhilaration, fascination, and something akin to fear. The time has come.

To hear previews of the album, and for more information on extra solar planets and astrobiology go to:

Planet Zebidee Official Website

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