DJ Taye didn’t always dream of being a musician. “I used to want to be an astronaut,” he explains, “until my auntie told me I couldn’t do that. Like on some ‘if you go, you won’t ever make it back’ type of shit.” He laughs at the memory now, and he has no regrets about the vocation that never was. “I can just be in space in my music.”

The 23-year-old Chicago-born, LA-based artist certainly drifts towards new territories on Still Trippin’, his debut LP for Hyperdub. The record throws up plenty of nods to Taye’s interstellar aspirations: the launch sequence of arpeggios on single Trippin’; the neon synthwork of Same Sound; titles that evoke both the near future (the chilled, funky opener 2094) and the far future (the minimal interlude 9090).