Spaced Out is a one-hour-and-ten-minute disc by Moonshine Movies that features 26 tracks mainly made up of chill-out trans-ambient music, techno, house, drum & base and electronica neatly synched up to a whole slew of NASA footage. There is no singing on the tracks - instead all of the vocals are gleaned from NASA's audio files and a good number of the visuals are re-edited in an experimental film-type of way with superimposed images and color templates laid over them giving the musical video pieces an otherworldly and sci-fi look.

Other than Coldcut the music composition DJ's aren't as well known to me but they include Geraint Hughes, Fructose, George Millward, Tolly and David Fodel. A lot of the VJ work is done by Addictive TV, Paul Hithersay and Brian McClave. The concept may remind some of a more adventurous version of Al Reinert's For All Mankind, which teams Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois scoring an Apollo mission to the moon or – in an tangential way – the legendary Koyaanisqatsi, which ties image and music together quite well.

Music is the one art form that has a tendency to get better the more you listen and one of the reasons is because the more you listen the more you interpret the music in your own mind. For this reason music videos don't have as long a shelf life: The image tends to be a burden on the music and – unless the image is brilliantly teamed up with the image – it grows tiresome. The good thing about Spaced Out is that -- like the work of experimental filmmaker Bruce Conner -- the VJ's have a sense of the music and they seem to be having as good a time playing with the images as the DJ's have with sound.

Video:
A lot of the footage is from the NASA vaults and looks grainy and dated, which is expected considering it's not Hollywood footage. Anyway, it fits the project quite well. The transfer seems very good with some edge enhancement and an occasional artifact flicker of. All 26 music pieces are presented in 1:33 to 1 full screen. None of the images have an overpowering sense of color but a good number of the images are all sharp and clear.

Audio:
The music is presented in stereo and sounds great. The project was conceived with the intention of playing on a good stereo and the team that put the DVD together has done a good job.

Extras:
There are no real extras. Just a menu to the 26 music pieces, a two screen introduction item and a four page booklet on the inside jacket cover that gives musical and visual credits.

Overall:
Spaced Out weaves a spell with its cool ambient music and well synched up NASA mission images. It is a great DVD to have if you want to chill out at the end of a busy day, if you like a fresh mix of music and images or if you just want to be the coolest guy or gal on the block for having a DVD that few others have yet to hear of. There are no extras just a menu of 26 music / image compositions. The music and the images are enough though since they are put together much better than the kind of videos you see on VH1 or MTV. As an added bonus the music is good enough that if you have your stereo set up to the DVD player you don't necessarily need to look at the image to enjoy the music.