Opening track off the new album. Starts off with an array of samples from famous moments in time traveling along an old internet startup connection, then breaks out into some crazy electronica EDM beat with plenty of psytrance, orchestral and cinematic elements.

The album will contain various sorts of electronica, Goa trance, EDM, and hybrid cinematic orchestral styles. Enjoy!

Composed arranged and produced by Phil Justin.

#edm #psytrance #electronica


The Thin Line

Bring Out Your Dead is a hybrid track off the electronica album project I'm putting together. This piece has quite a bit of history, the sketch goes back ages. After watching Stephen King’s “The Stand” for the nth time, I decided this piece would work great as a cinematic industrial piece, with samples from the mini series scattered throughout. Influences come from thrash metal, industrial, epic cinematic orchestra and electronica.

The album will contain various sorts of electronica, Goa trance, EDM, and hybrid cinematic orchestral styles. Enjoy!

Composed arranged and produced by Phil Justin.


Bring Out Your Dead

We Are The Game Changers is a dark cinematic symphonic/electronica piece using samples primarily from a public speech by Richard Dolan on the UFO subject, as well as related samples by other researchers and politicians.

The album will contain various sorts of electronica, Goa trance, EDM, and hybrid cinematic orchestral styles. Enjoy!

Composed arranged and produced by Phil Justin.


We Are The Game Changers

Bali Ha’i is basically a retro-future piece from the new album, a cover song pulling influences from both 2000’s Goa Trance and 1950’s exotica and tiki lounge. There’s also a lot of digital turntable work in the middle. This piece is all over the place with its hybrid symphonic and electronic elements.

“Bali Ha’i” was originally written by Richard Rodgers (music) and Oscar Hammerstein II (lyrics) for their 1949 musical South Pacific, which was based on James A. Michener’s Pulitzer Prize–winning book Tales of the South Pacific (1947).

Story Behind “Bali Ha’i”:

In the musical, “Bali Ha’i” is a mysterious, dreamlike island visible from the main island where American military personnel are stationed during World War II. The song is sung by Bloody Mary, a Tonkinese merchant woman, to entice the young Lt. Cable to visit the island—her intention is to introduce him to her daughter, Liat.

While Bali Ha’i is fictional, it’s based on Ambae Island (formerly Aoba) in Vanuatu, which Michener saw from Espiritu Santo during his wartime service in the South Pacific. The name itself is inspired by Bali, but it’s not meant to reference the real island of Bali in Indonesia.

The song captures themes of longing, escape, seduction, and the mystical allure of the exotic—a perfect fit for the exotica genre later made popular by Martin Denny, Les Baxter and others. The melody is lush and haunting, and its mood of dreamy mysticism helped it transcend the musical and become a pop standard in the 1950s. I felt it deserved a Goa Trance remix, should we called it Tiki Trance? Trancexotica? ;)

The new album by Shatter the Matrix will contain various sorts of electronica, Goa trance, EDM, and hybrid cinematic orchestral styles. Enjoy!

Composed arranged and produced by Phil Justin.


Bali Ha'i

Hyperion, a track off the new electronica album, is just old-school industrial throughout, influenced by groups like Skinny Puppy and Ministry, and peppered with a lot of cinematic coloring. Though the title and artwork of the song were influenced by Dan Simmon’s “Hyperion Cantos”, the song pulls its samples from movies like Armageddon, The Green Mile and The Abyss. If you like old 80’s and 90’s industrial music, this song is a nod to that.

The album will contain various sorts of electronica, Goa trance, EDM, and hybrid cinematic orchestral styles. Enjoy!

Composed arranged and produced by Phil Justin.

Hyperion

Another track off the new album.

‘Tang Go!, well…is a tango.

What kind of a tango I really couldn’t tell you, I’m pulling influence from everywhere on this one. But it’s definitely some of my favorite piano work. All kinds of electronic and orchestral elements in this one. A fun piece and alot of detail.

The album will contain various sorts of electronica, Goa trance, EDM, and hybrid cinematic orchestral styles. Enjoy!

Composed arranged and produced by Phil Justin.

'Tang Go!

Another track off the new album. Abduction is a dark cinematic ambient/electronica piece, sounding exactly as it is titled. It’s basically soundtrack music to an alien abduction.

The album will contain various sorts of electronica, Goa trance, EDM, and hybrid cinematic orchestral styles. Enjoy!

Composed arranged and produced by Phil Justin.

#cinematic #aliens #electronica


Abduction

SugarFunk Avalanche is actually a sketch I wound up junking ages ago, but blew off the dust and turned it into this. This song actually isn’t on the next album, but will be on the following project. Of course I say that while I'm deciding if I want to use it in this project :D

A lot of songs I’ve been working on for the current album just started taking on a life of their own and mutated into something far different than the electronica project I’ve been working on this year. The following project after this electronica one will be alot more like this tune; crazy funk metal jazz blues stuff with alot of bass, guitars and drum kits. 

Every piece I compose always evolves into some unknown territory, you NEVER know where things are going to end up; they always write themselves. So you’re getting a taste of the future here; probably a 2026 album. Albeit the RETRO FUTURE, since I already see this project pulling a lot from the 60’s through the 80’s in terms of influence, especially in the metal and funk genres.

I was aiming for 16 tracks for the electronica album (12 done and uploaded so far), I wound up with about 30. Many of those will spill over into the next project.

Composed, performed, arranged and produced by Phil Justin ©2025

SugarFunk Avalanche

Kalli,…….Rain

Another track off the new album.

This piece is a hybrid of electronica and orchestral sounds, with piano holding it all together. Call it a ballade, call it a score, call it whatever, it’s just a song about a woman named Kalli in the rain. A soundtrack to another time and place.

The album will contain various sorts of electronica, Goa trance, EDM, and hybrid cinematic orchestral styles. Enjoy!

Composed arranged and produced by Phil Justin.

#cinematic #piano #electronica

Kalli,.......Rain

Angkor Wat

And another track off the new album.

Angkor Wat is a track I did a few years back and wanted to touch up. It pulls influence from dubstep, electronica, East Asian world music and 50’s exotica
 as well. There’s also a music video for this tune, based on Cambodia Buddhist Apsara dancing. I’ll drop that once it gets touched up and tweaked.

The album will contain various sorts of electronica, Goa trance, EDM, and hybrid cinematic orchestral styles. Enjoy!

Composed arranged and produced by Phil Justin.


Angkor Wat

The Monster’s Coming

Almost wrapping up the new album at this point. One track left after this.

Sometimes pieces just write themselves. I had no idea this was going to go in this direction, but here we are. The Monster’s Coming is a hybrid between cinematic horror music and symphonic metal with alot of electronica elements. I really don’t know what to call it otherwise, but its definitely a dark track. Plus I always like writing for drums and there’s alot of toms in this piece. Enjoy it :)

The album will contain various sorts of electronica, Goa trance, EDM, and hybrid cinematic orchestral styles. Enjoy!

Composed arranged and produced by Phil Justin.

The Monster's Coming

Surfpunk

So finally the album is done! This was the last track! Surfpunk came out far better than my expectations. It’s a cross between jazz, funk, very heavy thrash metal drums, a touch of trap in some places, and a cinematic surfer feel over all. Plus it was great writing the solos for piano and trumpet. It’s a rocking tune with a lot of percussion and brass, with a tight bassline holding it all together.

So 16 songs done for this album! I’m guessing it’s around an hour and 10 minutes give or take. I’ll have to double check. I’ll create a playlist with all 16 tracks in album order for everyone at some point this week! But it was a great project to work on, and there’s plenty of material for the next album, with SugarFunk Avalanche already done and uploaded. The next album will be all over the place genre-wise just like this one, containing various sorts of electronica, Goa trance, EDM, and hybrid cinematic orchestral styles. Enjoy!

Composed arranged and produced by Phil Justin. ©2025

Surfpunk

Shatter the Matrix is one of the projects of composer Phil Justin, mostly high octane electronica music pulling from Goa trance, psytrance, world music, metal, funk, industrial, EDM, jazz as well as a ton of cinematic and orchestral colors. No real way to describe it except influences draw all the way from Infected Mushroom, Shpongle and Juno Reactor to John Williams, Danny Elfman and Bjork. With everything in between. Always a fun ride if you like busy and colorful music. Enjoy!!!

Shatter the Matrix

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