As the versions settle in, the Sirius Side Effects start, with help from soundcloud.com/earthling, soundcloud.com/kamelnitrate and soundcloud.com/misledconvoy

Children of the Bong - Ionospheric State (Kamel Nitrate Remix)(preview)

Our sortie to Sirius comes back home with more earthly pleasures from label-mates soundcloud.com/bancodegaia, soundcloud.com/andrewheatharts and soundcloud.com/robbong

Children of the Bong - UVF (Andrew Heath Remix)(preview)

Children of the Bong - Interface Reality (Rob Bong Remix)(preview)

Blue

A Thousand Years

Excursions on the version as @soundcloud.com/childrenofthebong celebrate 30 years of Sirius Sounds. Featuring freestyle psychedelic mashups and remixes of tracks from the album and Not Sirius…. What else is on the horizon?

Children of the Bong - Elefunk (Beatfarmer Remix)(preview)

Children of the Bong - Polyspheric Reality (ShaMANoiD Remix)(preview)

https://soundcloud.com/professor_chill's Brain State series focuses on the oscillating electrical voltages know as brain waves, describing what happens in terms of brain state when we are in varying states of consciousness. The Alpha State EP concerns Alpha Waves, which typify a very relaxed state of mind, associated with meditation, spirituality and a dreamy hypnogogic condition. 

As well as having produced electronic music since the 1980s, Professor Chill is a leading academic researcher focused on music technology, and he brings these two parts of his life together in his latest tracks. 

Professor Chill - Alpha State (Easily Roused Mix)(preview)

Professor Chill - Alpha State (preview)

Professor Chill - Alpha State (Listening Quietly Mix)(preview)

(Orig. The Magical Sounds of Banco de Gaia; 1999)

Touching the Void (Smells Like Salvation)(preview)

Banco De Gaia has been performing and releasing for over 25 years now, along the way becoming one of the music industry’s most maverick innovators. His legacy is as glittering as it is diverse, ranging from Hollywood film sound credits to the critically acclaimed ‘Last Train to Lhasa’, first released in 1995 to a rapturous reception. His live act still packs out venues and festivals all over the world, with audio-visual performances renowned for their explosive, cutting edge quality: from sampling wizardry fused with haunting vocals and poignant acoustics to genre-hopping musical instrumentals, all accompanied by socially engaged visuals.

Behind Banco de Gaia is artist Toby Marks. Starting out as a drummer in a metal band, he began using sampling kit to cut his own tunes after falling in love with electronica during the 1980s acid house era. By the early 90s, after winning respect for a clutch of credits on the Ambient Dub compilations, he was signed to Planet Dog Records and released ‘Maya’, in 1994, and then ‘Last Train to Lhasa’, in 1995.

Both albums featured an artfully arranged cocktail of textured samples and live instrumentals lifted from across the world. Both went straight to No. 1 in the UK Independent Charts as well as sweeping through the international electronica scene, making him, along with the likes of The Orb, one of the early pioneers of ‘chill out’. Both ‘Last Train to Lhasa’ and ‘Heliopolis (Eudopolis Dog Mix)’ notably featured on Sasha & Digweed's classic ‘Northern Exposure’ mix CD among myriad other compilations. 

Since then, he's released a further 6 studio albums, 1 live album, 1 live DVD and 15 EP’s and also runs his own label, Disco Gecko Recordings. He went back to basics in 2014 with a sold-out 20th Anniversary CD-only (no streams or downloads available) release of ‘Maya’, followed by similar 20th Anniversary editions of ‘Last Train to Lhasa’ in 2015 and ‘Live at Glastonbury’ in 2016.

Pink Floyd and psychedelia remain a constant influence: Banco’s cover of Echoes in 2007 helped shape the ‘Memories, Dreams, Reflections’ collection in 2009 and Floyd’s legendary saxophonist Dick Parry was one of Marks’ special guest collaborators (alongside no-man’s Tim Bowness and Zero 7’s Sophie Barker) on his ‘The 9th of Nine Hearts’ album, which came out in October 2016.

“A continuation of the consistently high form Toby Marks has shown throughout a long and illustrious career” (Total Music Magazine), The Crack described ‘The 9th of Nine Hearts’ as full of “dubby loveliness that fuses psych, spiky rock, acid and ambient” while the Ambient Music Guide hailed it as “Banco's strongest album of new material in 15 years”.