Representative Songs: "The Seven Pointed Star," "Special World," "Sul-E-Stomp"
Biography
The mysterious ambient-dub and tribal house unit known as Astralasia fits in with other British electro-hippie mystics such as Eat Static, Banco de Gaia and frequent collaborators Suns of Arqa. After a self-titled debut album on the miniscule Fungus label, Astralasia moved to the Magick Eye label, which issued as its first release the band's follow-up, 1992's The Politics of Ecstasy. Three albums down the road, Astralasia released the compilation Astralogy, and then signed an American deal with the industrial label Cleopatra, which issued The Space Between in late 1996 and then two albums in 1997: Seven Pointed Star and Seven by Seven. One year later, Astralasia released their eighth album in as many years, White Bird. ~ John Bush, All Music Guide
Astralasia is a Britishelectronic music group originally started in 1990 as an Ambient-Dub side-project to the psychedelic pop/rock group Magic Mushroom Band, with members taking part in both groups. Astralasia soon began to explore the dancefloor space as well, and while the Magic Mushroom Band has been dormant since 1995, Astralasia is still active. Astralasia play a mixture of ambient, dub, house and psychedelic trance.
Members
The 2006 new line up is as follows:
Giles Boulton (MC and Dub vocals)
Marc Swordfish (producer, programming and arranging)
