David A Jaycock - Music For Space Age Shopping

"This record explores the relationships between mid century architecture, consumerism and community. The gradual or sometimes
brutal removal and change of places in the name of progress. These changes leave traces that people have to deal with on a
psychological level but probably never really acknowledge. This record explores loss of community and loss or unsympathetic altering
of shopping spaces. When something is unceremoniously knocked down or altered and something else replaces it then the thing
before it becomes ghost like and is at risk of being forgotten. Not dissimilar to when the Christian faith built their buildings upon Pagan
sites. It has a similar purpose (to pray or to shop in this case) but the older thing becomes dreamlike and is confined to folklore. The
community is always fed the propaganda of progress but looking back, I certainly cannot deny the beauty of what has now gone.
Maybe there is a sense of dissolution and denial about such matters. The record is also interested in the sense of community of these
past spaces and how shopping centres have generally declined mainly due to the rise of neo liberalism and tech giants. When you see
old footage of these spaces in their prime, you get a sense of a space age future, everything looks new but paradoxically the people
look to be from an older time. Today I can see real poverty and complete disenfranchisement from being in these new spaces. It's not
all doom and gloom though as spaces, especially the ones in Plymouth are not that much altered and could be brought back to the
architects original dreams." David A. Jaycock