Following an illustrious tenure as founding member of acclaimed, boundary-defying trio The Comet Is Coming, alongside output as half of electronic psych jazzers Soccer96, the producer and synthesist Dan Leavers, aka Danalogue, announces his debut solo LP, Teleportations. Conceived as a continuous, journey-based piece, Teleportations is a warm, playful and immersive album that transforms endings, grief and personal upheaval into a vivid science-fictional voyage of escape, healing and renewal. A self-contained sonic world performed entirely by Danalogue, Teleportations unfolds like a single trip rather than a collection of standalone tracks. Moving seamlessly between celestial ambience, shimmering kosmische, euphoric space disco, liquid jazz funk and the deepest Detroit house, the album invites listeners to enrol in what Dan describes as a “teleportation programme” – a musical technology designed to sublimate difficult emotions, allowing sound, texture and motion to carry the listener through shifting states of feeling and emerge transformed on the other side. Science fiction provides both the language and architecture of the record. Inspired by astral travel, theta brainwaves, collective consciousness, the artist Jean Giraud, the writer Ernst Bloch and the film maker Miyazaki, Danalogue imagines music as a shared act of transportation – not unlike the experience of an audience tuning into a gig as one unified organism. A short story written alongside the album expands this mythology, depicting an advanced lifeform capable of converging brainwaves into an iridescent stream of consciousness and slingshotting across space. Throughout Teleportations, travel becomes metaphor: a way of escaping fixed realities in order to return with renewed perspective. The album’s universe draws heavily from the legacy of 1970s German kosmische and other outsider electronic pioneers who used synthesis as a tool for imagination and resistance. Danalogue cites figures such as Joe Meek, Wendy Carlos, Isao Tomita, Laurie Spiegel, Mort Garson and Terry Riley, and groups Harmonia and Kluster, as influences - all artists who operated outside rigid genre boundaries. Their influence is felt not as pastiche, but as spirit: exploratory, improvisational, emotional and defiantly human. This ethos extends to the album’s production. Teleportations was created using a largely vintage analogue setup, centred around the Roland Juno-60 and SH-09, Jupiter 4, Oberheim and old samplers (not to mention Dan’s first foray on wax into drumming). For Danalogue, working with older instruments is both an aesthetic and philosophical choice; embracing limitation, tactility and imperfection as a means of focus and identity, while forming a “time bridge” to earlier eras of electronic experimentation. Rather than recreating the past, the album imagines travelling back with modern sensibilities and telling the future through old machines. The record’s sequencing is integral to its effect. Opening with the mesmeric overture ‘Awakening On the Planet’, the album gradually ascends through blissed-out interstellar drift, sci-fi electro, krautrock-inflected interludes and propulsive dancefloor release, before descending into serene ambient suspension and wistful closure. Lead single ‘Far Beyond The Sun’ is a space age ballad, playfully exploring the concept of crossing the galaxy to meet a treasured person in the afterlife. Resplendent with layers of woozy synthesizers, the track brings the addition of Danalogue’s yearning, lo-fi vocals, leading us on a journey towards a cascading synth solo. ‘Moebius Triptych’ blends driving, hypnotic dancefloor energy with catchy synth melodies, as its progressive dream-logic structure unfolds. Tracks such as ‘Theta Wave Convergence’ channel ecstatic momentum and collective energy, while ‘Arrival at Rho Ophiuchi’ and ‘Earth Remembrance Day’ offer moments of reflection, melancholy and cosmic stillness. The closing track feels like a long goodbye: sad, grateful and quietly hopeful. Beyond its personal origins, Teleportations is also a response to the wider cultural moment. In an era defined by constant noise, ideological conflict and digital overload, Danalogue positions imagination as a radical act. The album seeks to create space – for reflection, inner travel and the sovereignty of human experience – proposing that hope begins with the ability to dream new realities. As Danalogue suggests, the end of imagination is the end of hope; Teleportations exists to keep that door open. Teleportations is a love letter to deep listening, to albums that function as worlds, and to music as a vehicle for transformation. It is an invitation to step outside regular programming, leave gravity behind, and travel – together – somewhere else. --- As an integral part of the legendary East London studio/venue/community Total Refreshment Centre, Danalogue has produced/mixed records for Snapped Ankles, Joshua Idehen and Rozi Plain, and collaborated on albums with Alabaster DePlume, and Sarathy Korwar. His productions have been supported by Mike D from The Beastie Boys and Thom Yorke, and been A-listed on BBC6 Music, where he has performed sessions for Gilles Peterson, Steve Lamacq, Mary Anne Hobbs and Tom Ravenscroft. His work has been featured on the TV shows I May Destroy You, Black Ops and Utopia, and he co-wrote the score to the Playstation game C-Smash, alongside Ken Ishii. --- Live dates: 9th April Jazz Stroud Festival @ Stroud, The Goods Shed TICKETS3rd May Brighton Festival @ Brighton Dome Studio Theatre TICKETS4th June London, Club Cheek (Album release show) TICKETS
