Soda Lite - Earthbound (Aural Caynon)

The Slow Music Movement
Apr 30
1 min read

Updated: May 1

*** This track first appeared in TSMM's April 28th Newsletter, where you can get all the tips (and more) first ***

So the summer rave is over, you’ve sweated so much you’re not going to pee until Tuesday and you’ve collapsed into a grinning heap, but still the drugs won’t let you sleep. It’s time to hit play on the new Soda Lite and soundtrack your sun baked, hypnagogic state.

Soda Lite is another one of those artists that TSMM has grown up with, and the childhood memories are unfailingly fond. Residing in Lutruwita (Tasmania to all you colonialists), he’s a gardener and music maker who likes to include “environmental sounds gathered from across the diverse biomes of this isle” in his blissful new age of new age recordings, and by the sounds of Earthbound he might have recently attained full ambient enlightenment at the Aural Canyon ashram.

The album is a verdant, parallel dimensional island surrounded by warm turquoise waters. Synth tones either flutter around the sonic flora, blown by a light new age breeze, or hover contentedly once they find their happy place. Mycelial bioluminescence takes just what’s needed from real world instruments and distributes the micro-samples where required, and so it continues, track after blissful track until your tire eyes finally win their battle with the drug gang chemists. Sleep well, there will be another party and newsletter next week.