It was all an accident. I never meant for any of this to happen. But what started as a series of convoluted sound clips would years later manifest itself into Astral Productions, an outlet for every creative passion inside me to all become one. The year was 2005, well, actually, it was the final day of the year 2004 when I made my first song. I had purchased a music making software with the intent on creating hip-hop beats for friends of mine that rapped. I, myself, had tried to rap. It was a catastrophic failure. All of the recordings are long gone, not even accessible online. Astral Productions got it's roots in my failed raps & sloppy electonica music. I had a friend at the time who was (and to this day still is) a rapper and had his own label with several of his friends signed to it. I was signed onto his label, Sharpedge Records, with my comedy show, "The Andy Show". The original recordings have been lost online forever after the Sharpedge Records website was shut down. After I decided to stop rapping and focus on doing more electronic music under the name DJ Acid Trip, I decided to start my own label, originally called 2Trippy Records. I tried to branch out and sign other artists, but failed. As the years went by, I abandoned the name DJ Acid Trip and started making progressive-experimental-ambient music under the name Astroid Andy. The music of Astroid Andy was more refined, more controlled (even though chaotic while maintaining a sense of calm), and more structured, more experienced than my past efforts at making music. Finally, I had begun creating music I could be proud to call my own. In 2010, I created Astral Productions after starting my side project, Temple of Sloth. The original intention of AP was to just release my music, but soon I decided to use it for my other creative endeavors.
Now, in 2012, Astral Productions & Astral Publishing is the central hub for all my musical projects (Astroid Andy, the neon painted soundscapes, Temple of Sloth, the dark background noise to nightmares and lucid dreams, and The Andy Day Project, a meeting ground for both musical persona to have violent sex), my photography, and my writing. I write poetry, essays, short stories, and comedy material. Although I consider Astral Productions to be my sole creation and my own personal artistic landscape, I would love to promote and help produce other artists besides myself. So if your a writer, a musician, a photographer, a film maker, a comedian, a painter, and you would like to get some promotion than send an email to Astroid_Andy@yahoo.com.
Andy Day
Founder
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