Biography
Space Dimension Controller is the project of British electronic musician Jack Hamill, whose fusion of space disco, electro-funk, acid house, and Rephlex-style braindance drew widespread praise from underground dance outlets throughout the 2010s. His luminous, melodic productions draw from the 1980s and 1990s yet retain a forward-looking edge. Early successes such as the 2009 single "The Love Quadrant" led to a deal with R&S, which issued two extended EPs before his proper debut arrived in 2013 as the sci-fi funk concept album Welcome to Mikrosector-50. Hamill later revisited his initial experiments on 2016’s Orange Melamine, maintained a schedule of club-focused releases, and returned to expansive funk with 2019’s Love Beyond the Intersect and the 2023 Neuclidea EP.
Hamill, who hails from Belfast, first produced ambient material as a teenager under the alias RL/VL and placed the album Chagrin with Hidden Shoal Recordings in 2008. That same year he adopted the Space Dimension Controller name and began capturing lo-fi, Boards of Canada-inspired pieces using tape machines and analog synthesizers. Acroplane Recordings released the resulting album Unidentified Flying Oscillator in 2009, complete with remixes from Boxcutter and Dave Monolith.
By year’s end his focus had moved toward dancefloor electro and house, yielding the debut 12-inch "The Love Quadrant" on Kinnego Records. Royal Oak followed in 2010 with the EP Journey to the Core of the Unknown Sphere, heightening interest in SDC. After remixing Fabrice Lig’s "Digital Forest" for R&S, Hamill joined the Belgian imprint, which put out the double EP Temporary Thrillz. He also reworked Anthony Shake Shakir’s "Detroit State of Mind" for Rush Hour Recordings. In 2011 he supplied a remix of Model 500’s (Juan Atkins) "OFI" on R&S, which simultaneously issued the eleven-track set The Pathway to Tiraquon6, again presented as a double EP.
Although occupied with touring and recording throughout 2012, Hamill surfaced in 2013 with Welcome to Mikrosector-50, a sci-fi concept album incorporating narration and drawing more heavily on 1980s pop and funk than prior work. An EP of the same name, featuring two non-album cuts, preceded the full-length. He subsequently issued the Correlation series of dancefloor EPs on Royal Oak, one volume annually from 2013 through 2015. Ninja Tune brought out Orange Melamine in 2016, an archival collection of 2008 home recordings. Further R&S output arrived with the 2017 club single Exostack, while Dekmantel released the more ambient Gaining Time in 2018. Early 2019 saw the limited white-label LP Redemption of the Cryonauts appear on Hamill’s own imprint. Back on R&S he issued the ReSEQ EP before delivering the conceptual album Love Beyond the Intersect later that year. Tiraquon Recordings, Vol. 1 surfaced in 2022, followed by the sci-fi house EP Neuclidea in 2023.
Hamill, who hails from Belfast, first produced ambient material as a teenager under the alias RL/VL and placed the album Chagrin with Hidden Shoal Recordings in 2008. That same year he adopted the Space Dimension Controller name and began capturing lo-fi, Boards of Canada-inspired pieces using tape machines and analog synthesizers. Acroplane Recordings released the resulting album Unidentified Flying Oscillator in 2009, complete with remixes from Boxcutter and Dave Monolith.
By year’s end his focus had moved toward dancefloor electro and house, yielding the debut 12-inch "The Love Quadrant" on Kinnego Records. Royal Oak followed in 2010 with the EP Journey to the Core of the Unknown Sphere, heightening interest in SDC. After remixing Fabrice Lig’s "Digital Forest" for R&S, Hamill joined the Belgian imprint, which put out the double EP Temporary Thrillz. He also reworked Anthony Shake Shakir’s "Detroit State of Mind" for Rush Hour Recordings. In 2011 he supplied a remix of Model 500’s (Juan Atkins) "OFI" on R&S, which simultaneously issued the eleven-track set The Pathway to Tiraquon6, again presented as a double EP.
Although occupied with touring and recording throughout 2012, Hamill surfaced in 2013 with Welcome to Mikrosector-50, a sci-fi concept album incorporating narration and drawing more heavily on 1980s pop and funk than prior work. An EP of the same name, featuring two non-album cuts, preceded the full-length. He subsequently issued the Correlation series of dancefloor EPs on Royal Oak, one volume annually from 2013 through 2015. Ninja Tune brought out Orange Melamine in 2016, an archival collection of 2008 home recordings. Further R&S output arrived with the 2017 club single Exostack, while Dekmantel released the more ambient Gaining Time in 2018. Early 2019 saw the limited white-label LP Redemption of the Cryonauts appear on Hamill’s own imprint. Back on R&S he issued the ReSEQ EP before delivering the conceptual album Love Beyond the Intersect later that year. Tiraquon Recordings, Vol. 1 surfaced in 2022, followed by the sci-fi house EP Neuclidea in 2023.
Albums
Final Quest EP
2024
TQN006
2023
TQN005
2023
Planète Contraire
2020
Orange Melamine
2016
Correlation #3
2015
Correlation #2
2014
Correlation #1
2013
Singles
