SPACE DIMENSION CONTROLLER
“I was a complete mess. If it hadn’t been for meeting my now wife, I’d probably still be a total disaster.” Irish producer, DJ and electronic music-making polymath Jack Hamill tells us, of how his investment in hedonism and a party lifestyle consumed his life. Meanwhile, his alter-ego Space Dimension Controller has creatively fired on all cylinders. “
Over the course of albums The Pathway to Tiraquon6, Welcome to Mikrosector-50 and latest release Love Beyond The Intersect, plus plenty of EPs and singles on labels such as R&S and Clone, Jack’s warm, space-age sounds exist in their own unique universe where science fiction rubs against robotic funk. This work is much grander and more ambitious than mere weekend club fodder.
Instead, his beats and bleeps mix up the past and present while straddling far flung musical worlds, earning him a reputation as one of our most forward thinking producers. Concepts abound about the misadventures of ‘Mr 8040’, a disco hero from a Logan’s Run-esque future. Jack charts his journeys through galaxies, propelled by rich, rainbow synthesisers, ambience and ethereal funk. Jack’s take on dance music has always been inspired but, according to him, sobriety has helped open up his mind even more.
“The story of this latest album is about love, redemption and forgetting the rough times,” he explains. “It was about me finding myself and the music I started out doing and loving again. Over the years, I had drifted away from
