I'm a scientist at heart, but music is the closest to thing to magic that I've found. It's been said a million times before but in the flow state you really do feel like a conduit through which the inspiration and ideas pass, rather than the source. One sound leads to the next, like there's no other choice. Like the unfurling of a fractal. My purpose is to become good enough at the craft that I hear what arises out of the ether and use the right brushes and palette as I try to capture it. 

Visionquest is a voyage through sound with no known destination. I'll try to get out of the way and let whatever is meant to happen just happen. I'm releasing one each month (two episodes to start things in motion today). I've no idea where this is going but I wanted to take everyone along for the ride. 

Come with us on a journey...

Check out the full Visionquest series here: https://soundcloud.com/weareallastronauts/sets/visionquest

Visionquest - Episode II (Purple Dawn)

As we approach the 10th edition of the Blue Dot Mixtape series (and almost 10 years!!!) I wanted to release some of my favourite chapters from the Blue Dot series as excerpts. Here's a chapter from Blue Dot IV... possibly one of my favorites between how the mood in the music shifts and the accompanying words from Frank Ostaseski.

Ben Laver - Fragments [Self-Release]
Bon Iver - Over Soon [Jagjaguwar]
Alan Backdrop - Siere [Prologue]
A Winged Victory For The Sullen - Galerie [Erased Tapes]
Caribou - Can't Do Without You [City Slang]
Cobalt Rabbit feat. Glo - Andlos [Insight]

You can check out the full Blue Dot journeys over here: 
www.soundcloud.com/weareallastronauts/sets/blue-dot-series
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhIlhBi9bPokleaF9yw6WG-0OW8kZCs9f

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Blue Dot Excerpt #07 - Bon Iver, AWVFTS, Caribou, Ben Laver

Prompt: Synesthesia (interpret as you'd like!).

Lyrics:
take me down
to the tree that i fell from as a child
stay around
give me something to come back to cause i won’t see you for a while

there’s a light coming down from a hole in the ceiling as i pack my things and get ready to go
take a break take a breath stay a second in this feeling
don’t know when but someday i’ll be coming home
and i've been blind, i let my feet carry me down the creek side to the coastline
and i've been scared, is it worse to see you waiting? or should i hope that when i round the bend, you won't be there in the end?

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dargon - to the forsaken

An Emotional Journey of Optimistic Reflection

Optimistic Reflection

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I tried to add bit of a nostalgic feeling, like you're heading homeward on a journey. So we've added a groove, some original instrumentation and a little bit of euphoria too :)

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Relic

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Release Date: 19th July 2019
ANJCD070

"Through raised awareness, being more present, one can reach a state of flow: a creative and free state of mind where time, fear and stress dissipate.” - Above & Beyond 

'Flow State', a new album for yoga and meditation from Above & Beyond, is available worldwide now. 

A 49-minute panoramic journey of ambient compositions and warm, neo-classical soundscapes that offer moments of meditative calm in these busy and often overwhelming times. The album is available on CD and vinyl with limited edition bundles also available. http://aboveandbeyond.nu/flowstate

Flow State

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Above & Beyond, or Jono, Tony and Paavo as they are better known to their legion of fans around the world, have been at the forefront of electronic dance music for two decades. 

Founders of the iconic Anjunabeats and Anjunadeep record labels and hosts of a weekly radio show (Group Therapy Radio) that reaches millions of dance lovers every Friday, the trio have also earned two GRAMMY™️ nominations for anthems 'Northern Soul' feat. Richard Bedford and 'We're All We Need' feat. Zoë Johnston. 

Above & Beyond's enviable list of sold out shows includes headline performances at historic venues like Madison Square Garden NYC, The Hollywood Bowl, The Sydney Opera House, Royal Albert Hall London, Red Rocks Amphitheater and record-breaking turn outs at their own festival events on LA's Huntington Beach and at The Gorge Amphitheater in Washington State.