{"id":29408,"date":"2025-01-01T07:27:35","date_gmt":"2025-01-01T07:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/?post_type=product&#038;p=29408"},"modified":"2025-02-17T20:08:39","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T20:08:39","slug":"pro00427","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/product\/pro00427\/","title":{"rendered":"deepspace: Neon Blue Utopia (Limited Edition CD &#038; Download)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 307px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album= 844316991\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/artwork=none\/transparent=true\/\" seamless> <a href=\"https:\/\/projektrecords.bandcamp.com\/album\/neon-blue-utopia\"> neon-blue-utopia<\/a><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"hideme\">\n1. Utopia=Visions<br \/>\n2. Parkour on Lazarus Heights<br \/>\n3. Rainy \u30e1\u30ac\u30b7\u30c6\u30a3 \u4e03 Precinct \/ Rainy Megacity-7 Precinct<br \/>\n4. 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Click to order <a href=\"https:\/\/www.deejaydead.de\/en\/deepspace-neon-blue-utopia-limited-cd-digipack-2025\" target=\"BLANK\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CD<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p><BR><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:10px;\">Purchase in England for fast, inexpensive shipping:<br \/>\n<a HREF=\"https:\/\/www.littleuniversemusic.co.uk\/projekt\" target=\"blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <img src=https:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/wp-content\/uploads\/Projekt-UK-400.png width=290 border=0><\/A><br \/>\nClick to order <a href=\"https:\/\/www.littleuniversemusic.co.uk\/product-page\/deepspace-neon-blue-utopia-cd\" target=\"BLANK\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CD<\/a>.\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p> <\/CENTER><br \/>\n<CENTER><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"410\" height=\"230\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hvMmEgfJuhE?si=4kG2CBRDwRLKY6f0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/CENTER><\/p>\n<p><BR><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"color:red;\">Limited Edition of 500<\/h2>\n<p>\u2022 Echoes Radio CD of the Month January 2025!<br \/>\n\u2022 <B>Neon Blue Utopia<\/B> Listening Party Saturday January 11, <A HREF=https:\/\/projektrecords.bandcamp.com\/merch\/neon-blue-utopia-listening-party TARGET=BLANK>RSVP at Bandcamp<\/A><\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/echoes.org\/2024\/12\/29\/echoes-january-cd-of-the-month-deepspace\/\" target=\"_blank\">Echoes Radio<\/a>: &quot;His sound is more influenced by\u00a0Brian Eno\u2019s\u00a0ambient aesthetic, of fluid impressionism, sometimes to the point of vaporous. On <strong>Neon Blue Utopia<\/strong> he adds in Eno\u2019s sensibility for subtle melodies\u2026 with shimmering synth crystals, shards of melody and the environmental sound of rain transformed through electronics. It\u2019s a sound that hints at new vistas just over the hill\u2026 It\u2019s an album to get lost in, just like the Megacity of his imagination. Welcome to 2025, or is it 2125?&quot;<\/h4>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chaindlk.com\/reviews\/12524\" target=\"_blank\">Chain DLK<\/a>: &quot;Ruckels has crafted an album that doesn\u2019t just create a mood; it builds a world. His meticulous layering of detuned synths, shimmering drones, and hyperreal textures draws listeners into a space that is both futuristic and achingly intimate.&quot; -Vito Camarretta<\/h4>\n<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/expose.org\/index.php\/articles\/display\/deepspace-neon-blue-utopia-3.html\" target=\"_blank\">Expos\u00e9<\/a>: &quot;77 minutes of purely instrumental compositions that straddle the boundaries of atmospheric, electronic, dreamwave and post-rock, taking his sound into the far reaches of space and beyond, using droning guitars, synthesizers that occasionally detune suddenly, muted percussion and piano, vast expansive ambient fills, brilliant sparkles of tonal color, and sampled sounds (which can include voices), all in order to bring his visions to life, spread across the album\u2019s fifteen long tracks.&quot; -Peter Thelen<\/h4>\n<p><BR>Message intercepted whilst in the outer regions of the Titan system: (distorted and garbled message with frequent drop-outs) \u201c &#8230;. the strangest pla- &#8230; come and see \u2026 neon blue &#8230; unbelievab- &#8230; vast and beautiful &#8230; but just be &#8230; (transmission suddenly terminated).\u201d [co-ordinates of location delivered with message]\n<p><BR><B>Neon Blue Utopia<\/B> is the 16th album by space-faring Australian composer deepspace and his fifth on Projekt Records. Fusing ambient, electronic, spacewave, dreamwave, shoegaze and post-rock, deepspace creates a tantalizing and dream-like wide-screen experience filled with hypnotic fractal detail and immersive sound dimensions. Embellishing on the last studio album <B>The Black Orchid Galaxies<\/B>, this release meticulously pushes the deepspace sound into new and unexpected sectors. Through detuned synths, droning guitars, shimmering infinite washes, occasional filtered drums and hyper-real found sounds, it\u2019s a kaleidoscope of fragments not unlike a technological aural reef \u2014 soaking, submerging and surrounding the auditory senses.<\/p>\n<p><BR>Like something out of an Iain M. Banks novel, <B>Neon Blue Utopia<\/B> portrays a place from deep inside the collectively-created musings of science-fiction thought: A vast megacity, hanging somewhere in the cosmos, a place of liminal wonder, bizarre and unclassifiable, comforting yet frightening. A place exists, of immeasurably advanced technology (powered by recently discovered mineral, neon blue), where visitors can visit algeous underwater precincts, where inhabitants are suspended in breathable liquid, going about their day; immense towers where one can parkour up high without danger; biomes with forests and buildings inside rooms on hidden floors of apartments; suburbs filled with huge soft bubbles that pulsate sound; highways of upside-down plasma-powered cars; near-infinite vistas thousands of kilometres high above a nearby planet. The music suggests these seemingly impossible ideas by sonically representing places that are vast, oddly microscopic and everything in between. This album is the most surreal and luminescent voyage yet in the deepspace catalogue.<\/p>\n<p><BR>Says deepspace (Mirko): \u201cI had a dream where I took an elevator to a particular floor of a building. When I entered a door on that floor, it opened into a huge room filled with a forest, with an entire city centre inside it. The ceiling was several hundred metres high complete with clouds and stars, and the buildings were not full-size but an uncanny \u201cdreamsize\u201d in between, maybe 5 or 10 metres high, like a model city, but with actual shop fronts inside them. It was wonderfully surreal. I took that idea and expanded it to other areas, such as a huge megacity with different precincts containing marvelously unusual features, such as aquariums the size of buildings and other weird dream-like features. This turned into the idea of <B>Neon Blue Utopia<\/B>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><BR>No AI was used in the creation of this music and cover artwork. Every sound and image was composed, arranged, performed and edited by brain, eye, ear and hand.<\/p>\n<p><CENTER><\/p>\n<table width=\u201c400\" bgcolor=\"b2c7c8\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<h3>Travel to the Mega City with deepspace&#8217;s Neon Blue Utopia, Echoes January CD of the Month<\/h3>\n<p><BR>Excerpt from <A HREF=https:\/\/echoes.org\/2024\/12\/29\/echoes-january-cd-of-the-month-deepspace\/>ECHOES RADIO\u2019s Review<\/A>: His sound is more influenced by Brian Eno\u2019s ambient aesthetic, of fluid impressionism, sometimes to the point of vaporous. On NEON BLUE UTOPIA he adds in Eno\u2019s sensibility for subtle melodies\u2026 with shimmering synth crystals, shards of melody and the environmental sound of rain transformed through electronics. It\u2019s a sound that hints at new vistas just over the hill\u2026 It\u2019s an album to get lost in, just like the Megacity of his imagination. Welcome to 2025, or is it 2125?<br \/>\n<\/TD><\/TR><\/TABLE><br \/>\n<\/CENTER><br \/>\nARTIST BIO<br \/>\n<BR>deepspace is Brisbane, Australia-based ambient artist Mirko Ruckels. His hypnotic, glacial, dreamy and atmospheric work is created with synthesizers, software and acoustic instruments such as bells, guitars and piano. A love of drones and ambient sound led to a wondrous moment in 2006 when he began creating atmospheric environments that evoke liminal moods and spaces. <\/p>\n<p><CENTER><BR>Composed, performed and produced by Mirko Ruckels<br \/>\nVocals by Pixie Green-Ruckels (tracks 1, 3 and 5)<br \/>\nMastered by Alvin Boule at blackparticle<br \/>\nCover artwork by Tomas Rodriguez<\/p>\n<h3>Projekt release: January 17, 2025<\/h3>\n<div class=\"socials\"><h2>love it, share it<\/h2><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.projekt.com%2Fstore%2Fproduct%2Fpro00427%2F&t=deepspace%3A+Neon+Blue+Utopia+%28Limited+Edition+CD+%26%23038%3B+Download%29\" class=\"socials-small facebook-small\"  target=\"_blank\" title=\"Facebook\" >facebook<\/a>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.projekt.com%2Fstore%2Fproduct%2Fpro00427%2F&text=deepspace%3A+Neon+Blue+Utopia+%28Limited+Edition+CD+%26%23038%3B+Download%29\" class=\"socials-small twitter-small\"  target=\"_blank\" title=\"Twitter\" >twitter<\/a>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.projekt.com%2Fstore%2Fproduct%2Fpro00427%2F&media=https:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/wp-content\/uploads\/PRO004272.jpg&description=++%0D%0A\" class=\"socials-small pinterest-small\"  onclick=\"window.open(this.href); return false;\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Pinterest\" >pinterest<\/a>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.projekt.com%2Fstore%2Fproduct%2Fpro00427%2F&title=deepspace%3A+Neon+Blue+Utopia+%28Limited+Edition+CD+%26%23038%3B+Download%29\" class=\"socials-small google-small\"  target=\"_blank\" title=\"Google\" >google<\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=https:\/\/projektrecords.bandcamp.com\/album\/neon-blue-utopia TARGET=BLANK><IMG SRC=\/store\/assets\/images\/Button-Bandcamp.png width=129><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":29675,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[50,886,49],"product_tag":[],"class_list":["post-29408","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-ambient","product_cat-deepspace","product_cat-electronic","pa_artist-deepspace","pa_format-cd-in-4-panel-digipak","pa_label-projekt","pa_release-year-983","first","instock","sale","taxable","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple","border"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/29408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29408"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=29408"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=29408"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=29408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}