originally founded as a dub-oriented side-project to the uk's legendary psychedelic rock-ensemble magic mushroom band, astralasia have quickly gone on to outlive and creatively outflank their former mothership. the group's music is a high-energy concoction of trance-infused electronic wizardry, intoxicating live-grooves and well-chilled moments of sheer sonic bliss. in 1993, the project garnered international attention thanks to their classic remix of porcupine tree's breakthrough track voyage 34 and since then, the six-piece have never ceased to further develop and refine their sound.on a coloured in dream, they are now presenting their most ambitious work yet. the side-spanning title track alone runs through various permutations of an ecstatic beat, eventually taking on board a cosmic guitar solo before slowly fading into an expansive ambient-sequence mirroring the opening bars of pink floyd's sheep and combining it with a meditative sax solo. after a string of more openly vocal-oriented albums, a coloured in dream, returns to the band's roots, with the entire second side dedicated to dark and mysterious states between waking and dreaming, between ambient and space-jazz, between black-hole-rock and a total sonic brain-meltdown. and attentive listeners will even be able to detect the return of the infamous voyage 34 sample that introduced the band to the world almost twenty years ago.
a coloured in dream is available in 3 different 180grams vinyl editions on white/blue marbled (50 copies), white vinyl (100 copies) and blue vinyl (250 copies) in a beautiful carl glover designed gatefold picture sleeve. a coloured in dream is available from the tonefloat store.
the marbled edition has sold out.
