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Space March is the creative project of Australian musician, artist and designer – Craig Simmons. As a musician, Simmons is best known for his Space March albums which feature strongly melodic synthpop, contrasting synthetic and organic sounding elements.
Music career
The debut self-titled Space March album was released in Australia in 2003 and picked-up by synthpop label, Ninthwave Records as a US import release in 2004. Space March received critical acclaim in the Chicago Reader's 2004 year-end newspaper feature – The Best Music of 2004 with Music Critic, Ann Sterzinger, ranking the release number one in her top ten albums for that year. Sterzinger's top vote was similarly cast in The Village Voice Pazz & Jop poll for 2004. The debut Space March album was quite organic sounding for a synthpop album, combining Beatlesque Britpop and psychedelic electronics, with the Chicago Reader describing the album as mixing "The Magnetic Fields, Erasure, and a dollop of Momus".
Ninthwave Records digitally released the follow-up Space March album Without This You Can Never Change in 2006. The following year, the labels Ninthwave Records and Death By Karaoke released a remixed and repackaged version of the album both digitally and on CD. Without This You Can Never Change was more electro orientated than the debut but still retained an organic heart.
The third Space March album, Monumental, was released in September 2011. For this album, Simmons collaborated with multi-platinum record producer/mixer Mark Saunders whose production credits include: Erasure Wild!; The Cure Wish; Tricky Maxinquaye; A-ha Foot Of The Mountain. On Monumental, Saunders contributed mixing and additional production for seven tracks on the album as well as his New York based studio mastering the entire album.
Prior to Space March, Simmons was half of the synthpop duo, ElectroSquad which released two albums: Espionage (2000) and Operation: k (2001) on Hark Records. Simmons' first album on Hark Records was an instrumental dance release in 1996 called Suffocating Sally under the name Chiba.
Art and Design Career
Craig Simmons co-created the bandit.fm online music store for Sony Music, which was launched in Australia in 2008 and in several other countries over the following years.
Early in his design career, Simmons contributed graphic design and illustration to Midnight Oil's internationally released Earth and Sun and Moon Album.
In September 2011, Space March exhibited a series of large canvas artworks for each song on the Monumental album at blank_space Gallery in Sydney. Space March Art mixes modernism, geometry, graphics and pop art.