Against A Dark Background: Iain M. Banks

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The inhabitants of the US Midwest and of Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Ontario in Canada could receive outdoor whole-body doses of radiation several times higher than the minimum known to result in certain death.’

Because of great variability in wind directions, the entire population of the contiguous US and the most populated areas of Canada, as well as the northern states of Mexico, would be at risk of lethal fallout – more than 300 million people in total,’ said Dr Philippe. The casualties are assessed by radiation risk, measured in grays (Gy) and ranging from 0.001Gy, the annual safe limit for the public, to 84Gy, causing death within days of exposure.Sharrow was once the leader of a personality-attuned combat team in one of the sporadic little commercial wars in the civilisation based around the planet Golter. Now she is hunted by the Huhsz, a religious cult which believes that she is the last obstacle before the faith's apotheosis, and her only hope of escape is to find the last of the apocalyptically powerful Lazy Guns before the Huhsz find her. His eighth studio album, it’s set for release on April 7 and it marks something of a full-circle moment for the London artist as it’s being released by Over/Shadow – the label run by old friends 2 Bad Mice, an act who he rolled with at the beginning of his career on the seminal Moving Shadow label. It’s his first release on a label other than his own Dom & Roland Productions imprint since his superb Metalheadz album Last Refuge Of A Scoundrel in 2016. I always write stuff with visuals in mind,” he states. “The whole album is visual. Close your eyes and hopefully you’ll get images in your head. For me every sound has to fit in the picture you have in your head. Let’s say the image is a kitchen, every sound or element needs to relate to that, be something you’d find in a kitchen. You wouldn’t find a soft pillow or a bath in there for instance. I like continuity. The whole album is a merging of visual and audio experience akin to epic sci-fi like that of Iain Banks or Ridley Scott. You can say that about a lot of my work and this a continuation of that. I like sounds that relate to big things visually like mountains, skyscrapers, tides, and sunsets. If I’m not in the studio then I’m out in nature as much as I possibly can be. I’m fascinated by it, the idea of Gaia and how the planet is a living breathing organism that we are all part of. I love how nature repeats itself from the massive to the micro like a musical cannon. Everything in nature is based on frequency patterns. Our whole existence is nuts, and something we can’t possibly get our heads around. We know so little about ourselves or the universe we live in.” A superb standalone novel from the awesome imagination of Iain M. Banks, a master of modern science fiction. I’ve worked a lot with Slate Digital over the years on plug-ins and stuff,” Dom tells us. “A few years ago Steven Slate called me up saying they’re developing headphones that can emulate different types of rooms and locations and asked me to consult, test and help them tune the headphones.”

Radiation spread after four days (Picture: Sébastien Philippe, Svitlana Lavrenchuk and Ivan Stepanov) Forever inspired by sci-fi and futurism, Dom took the title of his new album from a novel of the same name….Her journey through the exotic Golterian system is a destructive and savage odyssey into her past, and that of her family and of the system itself. Out now and rated highly by other fellow D&B artists such as Adam F as well as many legendary cross genre award winning engineers, the Slate VSX headphones have been described by Dom on social media as a revolution in terms of mixdowns and referencing.