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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)

Here's our remix of a favourite Helios track from the excellent Eingya album. Enjoy the remix and check out Helios at www.unseen-music.com  

Helios - First Dream Called Ocean (We Are All Astronauts Remix)

It's about time for some new music.

This is part of a soundtrack that has been a long time in the making and evolves around a couple of themes. Much of the music that precedes this piece is more ambient and more melancholic in places, this track is the final crescendo. So please forgive the gratuitous ending - when the full soundtrack is released there will be plenty more ambient!

I hope it makes you want to do something epic today :)

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Big thanks to the anonymous cover art creator

Doves

After holding it back for what seems like forever, we can finally share this track with you now that it is released :)

We'll let the music do the talking, but we hope you enjoy the journey.

You can find some cool club remixes of this by Nick Hogendoorn on the Beatport release, as well as a faster "sunrise" version from us with a 4/4 beat. If you prefer iTunes then it will be available on there soon too. And of course, you can listen on repeat on here as many times as you wish! https://pro.beatport.com/release/cerulean-sky/1491092

Beatport

Cerulean Sky (Sunset Mix)

Blue Dot III, and IV out :)https://soundcloud.com/weareallastronauts/sets/blue-dot-series

It has been a whole year since Blue Dot I and in that time this mix has been percolating, slowly! After accumulating 30 tracks, including a few of our own, things have finally come together.

I wrote a whole paragraph about the ideas and meaning behind the mix, but I figured it is better just to let the music do the talking. If you've heard Blue Dot One, you know what to expect.

As always, massive appreciation to all the artists featured in this mix, I love nothing more than weaving a story with beautiful pieces of music. I'll add a track list soon (now added below) so that you can go hunt the artists down - but I like first listens to be blind, you can't beat the anticipation of what comes next on a fresh mixtape

Come with us on a journey.

Big love,
WAAA

p.s. if you enjoy the mix then all we ask is that you "repost" it on SoundCloud for a little while - this lets a few more people hear it and also lets SoundCloud know that it is worth suggesting to others. Muchas gracias amigos :)

AND FINALLY... here is the tracklist, sorry that took so long - please go support the brilliant artists: 
00:00 Carbon Based Lifeforms - VLA
02:20 Above & Beyond - Tri-State 
06:20 Jon Hopkins - Immunity (Asleep Version)
10:25 Max Cooper & Tom Hodge - Remnants 
12:30 Brambles - Half-Gramme Holiday  
17:10 Pete Namlook - Pearl XIV
19:25 Jon Hopkins - The Wider Sun 
22:40 Ex Machina - Skin 
25:40 Scuba - Adrenalin 
27:50 This Will Destroy You - They Move On Tracks Of Light 
30:40 We Are All Astronauts - Suspended In A Sunbeam (Edit)
34:00 Jonsi & Alex - Indian Summer
35:15 Bing & Ruth - TWTGA
37:30 We Are All Astronauts - Sleepless 
43:50 Helios - Bless This Morning Year 
47:10 Benn Jordan - Hypoxia 
49:10 Thomas Newman - American Beauty Theme 
51:20 M83 - Teen Angst (Luciano Remix)
54:20 Nils Frahm & Olafur Arnalds - a2 
57:00 Helios - Glimpse 
58:40 Vagabond - The Future Is Cold
61:50 Katahimikan - Frames
65:00 Tambour - The Nude And The Quiet
66:50 Chasing Dreams feat. Stray Theories - Infinite
73:40 Bon Iver - Wolves 
77:45 Punch Brothers - Familiarity
78:45 Rhian Sheehan - Borrowing The Past
80:45 Daniel Donahoo - Information
82:00 We Are All Astronauts - Doves

Blue Dot II Mixtape

Close your eyes, dream big, and come with us on a journey. 

Big love,
WAAA

Join us at: https://www.youtube.com/c/weareallastronauts

As always, feel free repost this to your page, to ask us for the track for your blog or YT channel, or you can head over to Bandcamp to pick up a copy for yourselves

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▼ Album Tracklist:
01 Puremusic - Twilight
02 Puremusic - No Fairy Tales
03 Puremusic - Closer
04 Puremusic - Born To Love
05 Puremusic - Tatchi
06 Puremusic - Kama
07 Puremusic - Reach It
08 Puremusic - Warmth
09 Puremusic - Creation
10 Puremusic - Pour l'Amour
11 Puremusic - Dawn

Latvian producer and sound engineer, Puremusic, enlightens us listeners once again with his latest work, "Serenades Of The Night" -- his fourth album to be released with Silk Music. Ambitious and inspiring, the album explores the significance of love, romance, twilight contemplation, and the wonder of nature to create a sweeping, evocative body of work that grows deeper with each listen.

As the first track of Puremusic's latest album, "Serenades Of The Night," "Twilight" steeps us into a world of wondrous tones and textures. "No Fairy Tales" builds from a few simple elements such as finger-style bass, reverberating drums and echoing arpeggiators to become a fully enveloping atmosphere the carries us away. Delicate textures, resonating piano and evocative melodies sweep in and out of "Closer," each element arriving as a gentle wave that takes us deeper and deeper into Puremusic's wonderful soundscape. "Born To Love" couples the nostalgia of an acoustic guitar with the wonder of coastal sounds to place us on the shoreline of bliss. In "Tatchi," Puremusic's masterful control of sound transforms the old-world tones of a Japanese koto into something wholly new, adding a touch of fantasy to an already ambitious atmosphere. "Kama" sits as an inspiring prologue that transitions into the album's seventh track, "Reach It." Layers of percussive elements open "Reach It" and establish a foundation upon which Puremusic creates an exotic, otherworldly tune that transports us to a different time. Celestial tones appear and withdraw upon a canvas of sound in "Warmth," a meditative interlude that sets the tone for the more contemplative tracks that close out Puremusic's latest album, "Serenades Of The Night." True to its title, Puremusic's distinctive sound engineering makes "Creation" a perfect sonic companion for watching the dawn of the universe, or for simply relaxing on a summer's eve with someone special. "Pour l'Amour" features a reverberating solo piano whose chords inspire quiet reminiscence. "Dawn" closes out Puremusic's latest album, "Serenades Of The Night," on a bright, elated note.

Closer

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Puremusic - Closer

We felt in the mood for making something progressive and had been playing around with samples from this Above & Beyond classic. It's always difficult working without the individual parts, but we like the challenge of an old school bootleg!

Big love to the #trancefamily :)

If you like this you might also like our version of Velvetine - Safe: https://soundcloud.com/weareallastronauts/velvetine-safe-we-are-all-astronauts-remix

Above & Beyond feat. Ashley Tomberlin - Can't Sleep (We Are All Astronauts Progressive Mix)

BT - Flaming June (Alexander Gorshkov Chillout Remix)

BT Ft. Jes - Every Other Way (Hammock Remix)

H.a.m.m.o.c.k - The Backward Step HQ

Hammock - Ten Thousand Years Won't Save Your Life

Hammock - (Tonight) We Burn Like Stars That Never Die

Hammock - Tristia

Back To The Ocean - Beasts Of No Nation

Carbon Based Lifeforms - Arecibo

An ambient and orchestral two part piece, inspired by the beautiful re-imagination of Vivaldi's Four Seasons by Max Richter.

And a warm up for the new The Machines EP, coming soon!

https://weareallastronauts.bandcamp.com/album/elysium

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Elysium (Part I)

"Castaway" from Shwin's label debut "Starbound EP". Available now: http://macarize.choons.at/201

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▼ Release tracklist:
01. Shwin - Wandering
02. Shwin - Starbound
03. Shwin - Castaway

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