From the Mailbox 68

Psychic Driving – This Devil Ship First up tonight, rage bathed in tranquility — or maybe more accurately, a representation of the sort-of relieved quality that the frustration of resignation can sometimes take on. This piece by Scottish producer Psychic Driving (real name Ross Drummond) centers around the final transmissions from Vladimir Komarov, the Soviet cosmonaut who boarded Soyuz 1 despite knowing it was critically compromised, furious at the people who sent him to his death (his was the first in-flight death in the history of spaceflight). While Komarov’s words were apparently furious (he is said to have fumed, “This devil ship! Nothing I lay my hands on works properly”), Drummond frames them in celestial and hauntological beauty, a pining for an unrealized future, the merging of space-age optimism against the corporeality and tangible quality of facing one’s death. You can grab this on bandcamp or find it for streaming, but Drummond was also nice enough to let me post the mp3…