My Inspiration: S.K.X. Funkanauts – Pale Blue Dot

Intergalactic music makers and Dynatron Galaxy’s finest, aka S.K.X Funkanauts, have transmitted their next bit of audio data in the form of their new single, Pale Blue Dot. The track, which is a pre-cursor for their upcoming album The Voyagers From Dynatron, features vocals from Morley and Annie J and is a sparkly sonic trip across the cosmos, complete with soulful melodies, groove-filled guitars and fizzing rhythms.

Here, the extraterrestrial musical outfit tell us more about the inspirations behind the song…

We thank the earthlings from NARC. online for asking us to provide data for our inspiration for our forthcoming audio data transmission entitled Pale Blue Dot scheduled for upload and transmission on July 12th.

This piece of audio data is inspired by our arrival upon your pale blue planet from our home galaxy of Dynatron. When we arrived on our mission to understand more about your music and creativity, Morley our benevolent AI entity and support for our mission was able to provide historical data which told us that the Pale Blue Dot is the title of a photograph from the Voyager 1 spacecraft by the scientist writer and cosmologist Carl Sagan from your planet. Sagan requested that as Voyager was leaving your Earth that the onboard camera was turned to take a photo of Earth. Carl Sagan, we have found is an inspiring, insightful human regarding your planet, your species and your place in the universe. When exploring Sagan’s work, we found much to inspire, in particular when we heard his words about the pale blue dot.

We arrived on your planet with a mission to learn more about your music but have encountered more sources of inspiration, some positive and some not so. Sagan’s words about the lack of care for the environment, the inequities of resources and exploitation, conflicts between indiscernibly different humans to our extra-terrestrial vision over insignificant, in the scheme of things universally, do not bode well for the long term and immediate life of humanoids worldwide. These issues informed the language and lyrical aspects of the audio data for Pale Blue Dot. 

We carry concern that similar to our home planet Aldermaran 4 during epoch 1 your planet faces many challenges and there is an urgent need for a change of direction, something our civilisation came to leading to a new epoch. These concepts form part of our wider story which will be included in our extended audio data transmission (or album planned for transmission in your season of Autumn) titled ‘The Voyagers from Dynatron’. This extended audio transmission will be accompanied by a novel also titled ‘The Voyagers from Dynatron’ and a graphic novel all significantly influenced by the writings of Sagan, the ideas contained with the historical texts and concepts called The Quadrivium, earth music from artists such as Curtis Mayfield, Sylvester, Captain Beefheart, Dr John, Daft Punk, old school disco music, South African afrohouse which has led to a collaborative audio data for the title track of the transmission with the South African Producer LSGtheDG.

Further inspiration has been acquired in our time here on your planet from visual data from Stanley Kubrick, the films Contact and Bladerunner, the writing of Philip K Dick and Asimov.

Amalgamating these inspirations into our creative data is part of our mission here on Earth, where we learn more and more from our interactions with humans when we leave our Funkmodule HQ. We have great respect and faith in your creativity and imagination.

S.K.X MEDIA TRANSMISSION END