Castles in Space presents the first ever vinyl release for Mordant Music’s landmark 2006 release “Dead Air”. Remastered for vinyl with all new artwork from Admiral Greyscale. “Dead air” is what broadcasters are supposed to avoid at all costs, what continuity personnel are employed to plug up with pleasantries. Mordant’s fascination with that lost figure, the TV announcer, led them to track down Philip Elsmore, whose warm, soothing tones will be recognizable to anyone who grew up in the UK in the 1970s from his work for ITV regional franchises like Tyne Tees and Thames. The duo persuaded Elsmore to come out of retirement and provided continuity for Dead Air, his reassuring voice applied to an increasingly bizarre series of utterances, from "apologies for the sundry glitches… in the meantime, keep your nerve" to “the following contains graphic scenes of a strobing magpie's wing" to “keep sporing in the nessst”. Near the end, Elsmore declares that "Mordant Music will be back once the dust has settled with more vague unpleasantness.” “A mild sense of apprehension is actually far more acute than out-and-out drama,” says Greyscale. “It’s everyday, what the Mordant virus feeds on.” “Musty” is a big Mordant buzzword. 

A1. Transmission Start-Up
A2. Post-Apocolypse Listings
A3. Plant Room
A4. Interdependent Authority
A5. Thames Over Nijmegen
A6. Malcolm's Driven Me Wild
A7. We Are The Mean (part 1)
B1. We Are The Mean (part 2)
B2. Man On A Spool
B3. Expendable Productions
B4. The Black Crush (part 1)
C1. The Black Crush (part 2)
C2. No Harvest
C3. Read Between The Raster
C4. Obituaries
C5. Cirrhosis Of The Booth
C6. Survival Ltd
D1. Winding Ourselves Into The Ground
D2. Proof-Read By Spores
D3. Germoir
D4. Fallen Faces
D5. Tosaki Closedown