Hot on the heels of the much loved 6th Leonidas & Hobbes “Together” EP (May ‘25), Leonidas returns this Halloween, with his long awaited second solo EP, “Flying Saucers”, since debuting in 2012 with Sequential EP (via Kay Suzuki’s Round In Motion label).
https://hobbesmusicon.bandcamp.com/album/flying-saucers-hm034ep-house-balearic-cosmic
As the name suggests, Flying Saucers is an exploration into cosmic dancing, delving into some of Leonidas’ favourite extra-terrestrial, interstellar and sci-fi themes, without ever losing his focus on the dancefloor.
The opening/title track is a 10 minute epic deep house journey, inspired by the below Jacques Vallée quote* made famous by Terence McKenna (at a 1987 UFO conference). This is perfectly complemented by Oumuamua, another cosmic collaboration with good friend and collaborator Kay Suzuki, which can perhaps best be described as ‘Drexciya stuck in a lift with Manuel Gottsching’ (RIP) - the latter having given the pair praise for their seminal track, Interstellar Vibrations, in 2012.
Side B kicks off with the minimal/acid house/slow ‘footwerk’ track, Spectral Portal, a funky 303/606/Juno 60 workout, followed by Nommo, an afrobeat influenced Balearic house number, inspired by tales of alien ancestral spirits from the mythology of the Dogon people of Mali, West Africa. The EP rounds off with Submarine 606 (the title is a play on 60s Japanese manga series Submarine 707), an electronic future-jazz number that defies categorisation.
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"In looking at the effect, not asking the question 'what is it?' but 'what does it do?', you very quickly see what the Flying Saucers are doing. What they are doing is eroding faith in science. They are an antidote to the scientific paradigm that has evolved over the past 400 years and which has led us to the brink of global catastrophe." Jacques Vallée
