Search - Attileo Mineo :: Man in Space With Sounds

This is the first release in Subliminal Sounds reissue series of rare vintage electronica! We start this venture with Bubbelator Music! Visitors ride a spherical, oddly named elevator into a maze of cubes containing pictures of the hope & havoc of space & the atom. 'First floor', chants the pilot, 'threats & thresholds, frustrations & fulfillment's, challenges & opportunities.' The Bubbleator was Washington State's official exhibit in the Coliseum housed a World of Tomorrow exhibit. The Bubbleator, a 150-passenger spherical clear plastic elevator moved 2.5 million people through displays that promised an easier life ahead. The operator wore a silver shiny space suit right out of a Buck Rogers comic strip & the music to Man in Space with Sounds was being played through the sound system. Totally outer space man, totally. Visitors ascend to the exhibit in a globe-shaped elevator for a 21-minute tour of the future. Visitor's to the Seattle World's Fair loved the Bubbleator ride, which was eventually purchased for $5,100 & relocated after the fair's end to the Center House/Food Circus/Armory. In the early 80's the Center House was remodeled & the Bubblelator was auctioned off. The unknown buyer moved it to their home in North Seattle & turned it into a terrarium & that's where it remains. Attileo Mineo - Man In Space With Sounds is the record & the electronic outer space exotica music with spoken word introductions that was played in the Bubbleator at the Seattle State World's Fair. It was recorded in 1951 & is one of the rarest & most interesting electronica records in existence. It has now, lovingly, been digitally re-mastered & transferred to the aural medium of today for your futuristic enjoyment.