Listen to The Bug’s Mind-Blowing Sci-Fi Score ‘Inner Space’ Mix

If you haven’t heard of dirty, dubby electro-practitioner The Bug, you need to have heard of him. The Bug is one of several personas adopted by Kevin Martin, who’s been producing music under various guises for more than 20 years now, blending genres and blowing minds. As The Bug, his live sets have become legendary, accompanied as they often are by some kind of audio-visual lunacy, and the company of Flowdan, Miss Red and whoever else he can recruit to the cause.

The sheer breadth of Martin’s output is staggering, and he’s never been one to shy away from talking about his influences, or indeed outlining them in a ridiculously atmospheric for Red Bull Music Academy Radio. On Wednesday night, he gifted our quivering ears with 2 straight hours of meticulously mixed tracks pulled from sci-fi films ranging from Under the Skin to Ghost in the Shell to Quatermass and the Pit to Fahrenheit 451, as well as few tracks which were imagined for films which don’t actually exist, and a few reworkings of Martin’s own devising.

It’s deep, dark, bleepy and bloopy, in the most wonderfully atmospheric way, the kind of thing Flying Lotus would probably do on his BBC Radio 1 residency if he thought he could get away with it. Martin is preparing to don his chitinous exoskeleton for an extended Bug tour around Europe with a show called ‘Sirens’, which has been described as “A single, hypnotic soundscape divided into passages of haunting ambience, delirious drone and body-punishing sub bass combines with a dense wall of fog, strobes and blinding light to create a unique and over-powering experiential environment.”

Might want to find out if it’s playing nearby.

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