Tribal Communications Music is from tribal communications, propulsed by hallucinogenic waves and influence. It's not a trade for barter amongst big wigs, it's the oldest form of communication. I believe you must break down all barriers of sound and do what the fuck you want to, to express your vision, whether it be in rock, electronica, or any form of music. Also, this melting pot of creativity will produce things that will even astound yourself. Anyone can make music. It's not for the elite.
Nik turner from Hawkwind once said to me, his biggest dream was for Hawkwind to be everyone who gets it. The band to be swallowed up in a big Hawkwind Tribe, everyone on the same frequency performing as one at the performance. What a concept. I guess it's why I love spacerock, that sort of thinking. That's where the spirit started, and that's where its going. To me that's why Nik is the most important figure [in Space Rock]. Total self-will to do whatever. Musically and with his life. Not giving a fuck about anything else but the experience itself. The science of fiction is to be obtained inside ones own head.
Recording with Farflung is always pretty unprepared, we meet, drink, smoke whatever, until someone picks up an instrument and then we see what happens as one by one people fall into the groove. It's been so entrancing, sometimes we forgot to turn on the recorder. We record ourselves now, 'cos all the good headspace and producers in town dwindled away. For the past 3 years we^(1)ve recorded here at the Antechamber, and I think we' ve done our best work here "The Belief Module" was a hazy lp. I can't really remember doing it. We recorded in an old storefront in the middle of nowhere, and it just happened. That's all I can say. It was our last big release. Mr. Gedge from Bad Acid, if you're out there, give me a call. We miss you, hope your cool, thanx for releasing the last lp. Yeah well, there you go, people like Dave [Gedge], people that make it matter, rocket fuel for the mothership, we need fuellll .....fuelll and passengerrrzzzzzzzzz

Sci-fi movies
Sci-fi is definitely one of the key visual backdrops to a Farflung composition, too! Albums vary in mood I would say, but here'(1)s a brief discography with suggested viewing:
• 2500 ft Per Second- LP
• Dark Star
• Destination Moon
• Hoaglands, Face On Mars [Cydonia]
• Overlords of The Ufo's
• The Raven That Ate The Moon- LP
• The Wicker Man
• The Outer Limits, episodes, ŒDemon With A Glass Hand^(1), • The Borellio Shield (1)
• Bladerunner
• The Passion of Joan of Ark
• Nosferatu
• The Belief Module - LP
• Fantastic Planet [Le Planet Savauge]
• Solaris
• The last temptation of christ
• The Emerald Forest
• Dr Who, [Any Hartnell]
• 2001So Many Minds So Little Time - LP
• The Myth of Solid Ground -LP [available at the Strange Days fest , and mucho bootlegged. Soon to be officially re-leased.]
• Orig/Angry Red Planet
• The Right Stuff
• Dr Who, Genesis of The Daleks
• Blakes 7 [any]
• NASA, Space documentaries
• To Space And Beyond
• The Plague Dogs [Silver Farm]
• Oxo Omo Ono
• A Clockwork Orange
• When Science Fails [new LP]
• Invasion of The Body Snatchers, re-make
• The Andromeda Strain
• The Atomic Cafe
• The Trials of Life [docu]
• Oppenheimer
• Slaughterhouse 5.

Varied sources of music
Here's some of the rather varied sources of music Farflung listen to:

Hawkwind, Neu, Amon Duul 1 & 2, Loop, Sabbath, Fugazi, Public Image Ltd, Wire, Bruce Haak, Buffallo, Andromeda, Pretty Things["Sf Sorrow"], Syd Barret, Cluster, Harmonia, Brian Eno, Venom, Faust, Kraftwerk, Mc 5, The Stooges, Gang of Four ["Entertainment"] Gong, Steve Hillage, Main, Stockhausen, Sibelius, Eat Statik, Ozric Tentacles, Pierre Henry, Perry Kingsley, Mort Garson, Chrome, early Nektar, The Sex Pistols, Joy Division, Painteens, Rudimentary, Peni, Head of David, Godflesh, The United States of America, Crass, Conflict, The Red Crayola, early Fall, Bubble Puppy, 13th Floor Elevators... well it could go on.

Also great respect and hours of listening enjoyment from our friends we played and toured with in the U.S.:
Subarachnoid Space, Mason Melinda and Co., and Sonic Walls of Dark Space. Hopefully we'll play some shows with them in Europe earthlings?; label mates in my other project, Anubian Lights, Fred and Dave, talented, honest, psychrockers. Acid King; Lori and her tribe, crumbling walls with sub-frequency.
Sleep; miss the men who gave a backbone to the Nik Hawkwind US tour 95, destroying cities in their wake, supplyin the clouds of kickback.
Bardo Pond; dark dronelords from the plains. See to believe.
Cluster; gentlewaves of unerving beauty and wierd tension, dispisers of corprate new wave.

Farflung discography LP's
• 2500 Ft Per Sec [Flipside]
• The Raven That Ate The Moon [Flip]
• So Many Minds So Little Time [Purple Pyramid]
• The Belief Module [Bad Acid Records]
• The Myth of Solid Ground [sold out available only at Strange Days EP]
• When Science Fails [experimental jams and experiments with new music, out in europe soon on Falcatta Galia]7 inch records
• The Way The Sky Is [special Nasa food bag with solid aluminum disc inside - ltd ed]
• A Vision of Infinity [Faust trib clear cover, specal silk screen cover - ltd ed sold out]

I' m not listing comps, cos all tracks were taken from albums. Comming soon, a new comp of unreleased, hard material. And a new album of spacerock for 2001.
As this entry into the Roadburn starlog is somewhat of an entry for Farflung into Europe, we would like to thank all who support our music and thanks for listening to my incessant ramblings. Rather than an interview, I thought it would be nice to explain myself, and give Roadburn's readers an insight, into why I do what I do with this project called Farflung. We just got some news also that a booking company want to do a European tour, hopefully spring 2002. I hope to see you all there. I promise you fuel for flight
...space in your face...Tommy Grenas