Astralasia

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Astralasia is a British musical group in the field of electronic music .

Career

The group originally started in 1990 as an ambient and dub side project by musicians of the psychedelic pop rock band Magic Mushroom Band . Astralasia soon established itself in the field of electronic dance music with set pieces from house music and psytrance . The group continues to this day, while the Magic Mushroom Band has not appeared since 1995. Astralasia has collaborated with Simon House on their more recent albums, Cluster of Waves and Away with the Fairies .

Band Members (2006)

  • Giles Boulton, voice
  • Marc Swordfish, producer and arranger
  • Wayne Twining, 303 programming
  • Peter Pracownik, guitars
  • Stevie B, saxophone and percussion
  • Phoebe Thomasson, flute

Discography

  • Pitched up at the Edge of Reality ( Magick Eye Records 1991)
  • The Politics of Ecstasy (Magick Eye Records 1992)
  • Whatever Happened to Utopia (Magick Eye Records 1994)
  • Astralogy (Magick Eye Records 1995)
  • Axis Mundi (Magick Eye Records 1995)
  • The Space Between (Magick Eye Records 1996)
  • The Seven Pointed Star (Magick Eye Records 1997)
  • White Bird (Magick Eye Records 1998)
  • Something Somewhere ( Transient Records 2001)
  • Away with the Fairies ( Talking Elephant 2006)
  • Cluster of Waves ( Voiceprint Records 2007)

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