"The Andy Day Project" Finally Comes to Life. Mini Album in Production!

The Andy Day Project's "There Was a HOLE Here. It's Gone Now" is currently in production. This isn't quiet an album, not quiet an EP, but more of 12 hour recording session. The release is sprinkled with mini-tracks, composition pieces that range anywhere from 45 seconds to 2.5 minutes. There will be things never before heard in Astral Productions, along with some nostalgic landmarks that will take you back to a past experience within Astral Productions. There was a post I made shortly after this site's birth detailing what "The Andy Day Project" really is, but I can refresh the memories of those who forgot or didn't see it.

The Andy Day Project is the newest universe within Astral Productions. With the "Project", I combine both of my musical personalities, Astroid Andy & Temple of Sloth. Some songs have already surfaced in the form of a remix, and an unofficial first release, "Inside the Temple of Sloth", where I began using the software that crafts Temple of Sloth for the first time. It isn't as well "structured" as the newer "Project" songs are. The first official release will be "There Was a HOLE Here. It's Gone Now.", an EP type effort that will display the capabilities of The Andy Day Project's future releases.
Currently, this project isn't anything too serious in terms of staying active in releasing albums. I just wanted to try something new and see the outcome, which so far is pretty good. The main purpose is for the existence of this endeavor is the full length album "Rise of the Temple", which will serve as the fifth chapter in the SLOTH saga. Also, the "Project" will release a series of remix albums, re-imagining songs from past and present Astral Production albums. On Nov. 12, "Toxic Noise Pollution: Volume One" will be released, containing remixes from Astroid Andy albums "Sanctuary: City of Flames", "Sanctuary 2: The Lost Reality", "Decomposed", and "The Manipulated Living". Volume Two will contain songs from Temple of Sloth's "Masochism", "The Process of Decay", "Inside", and "Her Blood:My Lips".

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All New Album Art for "The Astroid Andy Experience" Albums! (Plus "Embracing the Light" Release Info!)

As promised, with the release of the new cover art for "The Astroid Andy Experience", I would begin uploading "Embracing the Light". So now I am starting to upload the album to the Astral Productions music page. Also, after the release, I will post an article about the history of "The Double A Experience" along with providing access on this very site to the album! Now, keep in mind, I had just gotten away from my DJ Acid Trip phase and technique of making music altogether. These albums are nothing like Astroid Andy or Temple of Sloth. They are a mix between several different sub-genres of electonica music.

So tell me what you think of the covers? Yay or nay? And as for the music, I'll let you be the judge. I'm releasing them for nostalgia, and to show my roots.



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News for those Who Need News (Which is All You Astral Projectors!)

Don't miss your chance to get your FREE copy of The Astral Productions Experience now available.
TRACK LISTING:
VOLUME ONE:
1. Channel Zero [Intro] - Astroid Andy
2. Lust - Temple of Sloth
3. Glossolalia - Astroid Andy
4. Final Moments of a Dream (4:47am) - Astroid Andy
5. Astral Projection - Temple of Sloth
6. Astral Projection 2 - Astroid Andy
7. Astral Plane - Astroid Andy
VOLUME TWO:
1. There Was Something Here, Once. - Temple of Sloth
2. Beyond Our Wildest Dreams, Pt. 1 & 2 - Astroid Andy
3. Blood Sacrifice - Astroid Andy
4. The Process of Decay [Requiem for a Lost Love] 1 - Temple of Sloth
5. The Process of Decay [Requiem for a Lost Love] 2 - Temple Of Sloth
6. The Decaying Omnipresence - Astroid Andy
7. Trinity [Buried Alive Mix] - The Andy Day Project
VOLUME 3
1. They Came in Waves - Temple of Sloth
2. Spiritual Descendance: ReMix - Astroid Andy
3. Fountain of Youth - Temple of Sloth
4. Scars [Physical] - Astroid Andy
5. Sloth - Temple of Sloth
6. The Meditative Dead - Astroid Andy
7. New Year(s) - Temple of Sloth
8. Journey to the Temple of Sloth - Astroid Andy

These were all hand picked by me, and showcases the very wide variety of styles heard from Astral Productions as of 2011. The songs date back to 2008 to present, and virtually every album has at least one song displayed in this 21 track box set. The page itself will be updated in the next month to include descriptions of the songs, why they were chosen, stories behind them, and so forth. Also, if a song is individually clicked, the original art work is displayed along with artist and album.
"The Astral Productions Experience 2" is currently in production, and will feature 3 exclusive songs that will be wrote for that compilation, unreleased remixes, two songs from "The Astroid Andy Experience" (the original transitional project that produced two albums prior to Consumed), demos, and a few songs that didn't make the cut.

In other news, I am currently in the talks with Ghostly Nooz about doing a collaboration track, where he will provide some really cool guitar to the The Andy Day Project's first album "Rise of the Temple". If all goes well, there may be more songs with him in the future. Check out his other work that's been a continual source of interspersion here at Astral Productions. Nat Artlu: The Fake Hippy (Instrumental project) and his old band Dutch Rudder.

Sanctuary 3: Manifestations is being pushed back another month. Due to problems in the world outside my music, I have had little time to put the deserved effort into this project. On the plus side: The Process of Decay has been released early. Click on the link and you can listen and download it for free, it's my way of saying sorry for the delay of S3:M.

We've been experiencing some fallout's here at AP, what with album delays and problems getting an official website off the ground. But in the following three months, we should see a major turn around, especially after Sanctuary 3 is released. In the mean time, I'm going to use the "Astral Productions" music page to release a series of albums from Astroid Andy & Temple of Sloth of demos and remixes. Also, I'm going to give "The Astroid Andy Experience" a proper release, crafting new album art for each of the 2 albums and the one lo-fi/experimental remix album on the same page.

Astroid Andy has a total of 3 sets of unreleased material. Demo Tape(s) 1 & 2 each make up about 4 discs between the both of them, but will be released as full albums, with the disc number added to the end of each track title. Also, "Comatose Purgatory" a 3-Disc set will be released in it's proper form, each disc getting it's own page. Temple of Sloth has a mini Demo album dubbed "Elohim", and contains a few neat tracks. We should see the first of these pop up within the first couple weeks of November, if not sooner. Very little effort will be needed to release these, the only thing that needs to be done is the updated album art work, which should take about twenty to thirty minutes a piece. This can be done while uploading the songs to Bandcamp.

Anyways, that pretty much sums up what's currently happening. If anything changes, I'll be sure to let you know. I'll release the track listing to the Astroid Andy compilations sometime this week, along side the release of the first disc of "Comatose Purgatory". I'm planning on uploading "Embracing the Light" by The Astroid Andy Experience by the end of tonight, and I'll post a link to it here and on Facebook.




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The Astral Productions Experience

I am currently uploading a 3-disc set of various songs from Astral Productions. It will be for newer fans to discover the music here at Astral Productions and get a feel of the diversity of the music. It'll span from "Consumed" to "The Process of Decay" and everything in-between. The total amount of songs is 21, 7 songs per "Volume".
CLICK HERE TO GO TO THE PAGE AND DOWNLOAD THE ALBUMS!
There are also some unreleased songs on there too. So make sure to check it out!

"The Mental Evolution" Finally Sees the Light of Day

Back between the production of "Decomposed" and "Transcendence Into Oblivion", I created a seven piece series of EP's dubbed "Astroid Andy's Mental Evolution Series". The EP's themselves were nothing more than heavily manipulation session of single Astroid Andy songs. They were recorded in Mono sound, and didn't take much effort to make. These weren't something I nessilary wanted on the front page of my music library, they were just K2 influenced experiments for drug effect enhancement. They weren't anything serious. But they were neat. I was listen to some of them the other day and thought, I wonder how people would react to these? So I jumped online and uploaded two of the EP's (two a week, the third installment will include a bonus EP) on their own music page, complete with custom artwork (more elaborate than most Astral Production album covers, intentionally for the quality, a sense of irony) and are completely free!

CLICK HERE TO GO TO THE PAGE!

Sneak Peak at Phase 3 Cover! Coming October 12th!

Astroid Andy's Temple of Sloth Series to Be Released in Extended EP's.

Album Covers for the Upcoming EP's





There exists amongst the Astroid Andy record collection a stunning piece of work that has never been released in their proper forms due to size restrictions. I'm speaking of course about "Temple of Sloth [The Complete Saga] EP".
***FLASHBACK!***
The Temple of Sloth Saga began with the song "Journey to the Temple of Sloth" by Astroid Andy from the album "Decomposed". It was soon followed by a follow up, "Return to the Temple of Sloth". It was shortly after this time that ideas for the story SLOTH was born, and began the entire Temple of Sloth Epic that spans all Astral Productions.
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This 2-Disc EP contains 4 songs, all of the Temple of Sloth songs presented in their "Extended" versions or as they are referred to on the track listing "Director's Cut".

Well, to tide people over until the release of "Sanctuary 3" (pushed back to Oct. 30), I have decided to release 3 EP's or "Singles" containing the songs from "Temple of Sloth [The Complete Saga] EP" in the same fashion as the "Inside the Temple of Sloth" release. Each song will be divided into "Acts" or "Scenes", and will reveal the entirety of the song with one strait through listen.

Release dates for these EP's should be relatively soon, and "Journey to the Temple of Sloth" will contain a remixed version of the "Director's Cut", curtsy of "The Andy Day Project". This will be a separate release. Album covers will be released within the next few days, following with the first release of "Journey to the Temple of Sloth" (we should see all this happen by Sunday, the 9th).

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2 Brand New Astral Production Posters

Photographs by Andy Day, Editing done by Andy Day.

Temple of Sloth Blog Post

The Man, The Myth, and the Music: A Brief Look into Temple of Sloth
taken from the "Temple of Sloth Blog"

Music is as natural in my veins as blood. It's what keeps me going, keeps me sane. For over 5 years, I had created music based around my life under different names (DJ Acid Trip, The Astroid Andy Experience, and ) The music I made helped me concentrate on something other than the issues I was dealing with in real life, it became a sanctuary and escape from all the pain. So I pressured it ravenously. In the 21 years I have been alive, I have been through a lot of great things and events of pure horror. From finding love to the grips of multiple drug addiction, I'm lucky to still be functioning.

Asroid Andy had been my main (and proudest) outlet of music since 2008. That was the year I reinvented myself, mentally, physically, and musically. I had went from making sloppy Techno music to making beautifully arranged experimental, progressive, ambient music. After a relapse back on pain pills, I released "Consumed" in 2008, chronically my struggling addiction.

Fast forward two years and we find my music library has grown, my style has taken some significant changes, and a new project had emerged. This project came about while working on a song for my "Temple of Sloth Epic", a series of four songs, considerably long, that told a story of an alternate universe. I had even started writing a story based around these songs. I was on the 3rd installment of the series, "Inside the Temple of Sloth" and decided to use the newly acquired synthesizer to add more depth to the song. It was all hand written arrangements, giving me a true sense of accomplishment.

Soon I took all the material I wrote for "ItToS" and combined it into a stand-alone song, entitled "Inside [Parts I-VII]". The first song I intentionally wrote was "There Was Something Here, Once". I knew I had stumbled upon a totally new creature, I just needed to bring it to life. In between Astroid Andy albums of late 2010, I crafted 3 albums: Inside the Temple of Sloth, Inside the Temple of Sloth 2, and Collapse of the Temple of Sloth, all under the Astroid Andy name.

2011 rolled around, and I decided to give these albums, which didn't fit the Astroid Andy sound at all, a proper release. The only problem was coming up with a name to release these albums under. It took little time, and the name "Temple of Sloth" was set in stone, feeling appropriate seeing as all the music was written for the story "SLOTH" based around "The Temple Epic".

The first thing I did when I adopted the new name for the new project was to rename and revamp the albums. Inside the Temple of Sloth became simply "Inside" while Part 2 became "Her Blood:My Lips", Collapse became "The Scars You Left Behind". I moved some songs, added a few new ones, and revamped a few as well. Temple of Sloth was underway, and had a bright new future alongside Astroid Andy.

Flash forward six months and production began on the first official release by Temple of Sloth album, "Masochism". This album introduced brand new elements to the TOS sound now with strings, piano, and brass. Combining elements has always been my way of making music, it's my personality in sound. So this album came out wonderful and really shines in the Temple of Sloth Discography. Following "Masochism" came the (unreleased) "The Process of Decay", a prelude to the "Sloth Epic". This marks the first time on any TOS release that drums are used, curiosity of the Astroid Andy sound department. Also on this release is a bonus song as the finale of the album by "The Andy Day Project", a combination of both Astroid Andy and Temple of Sloth's sound structure and definitive sounds.

The next Temple of Sloth release will be entitled "Omnipresence Decayed", which will be a fairly late point in the ending plot of the story Sloth. I'll report updates on this sometime after the release of "The Process of Decay", which I'm planning a lot for.

Included with the release will be a downloadable folder containing photos, album covers, concept designs for alternate album covers, detailed song descriptions including excepts from the story Sloth, the entire chapter in the story Sloth this album took it's title from, 3 Temple of the Astroid songs: Astroid Andy songs combined with Temple of Sloth songs.( Not to be confused with "The Andy Day Project", this is simply just the name I gave for these remixes. They are complete versions of both artist songs combined into one.), "The Andy Day Project" exclusive song, and 3 Astroid Andy Remixes from the Sanctuary Saga.

I have big plans for this project, and I just hope one day it gets recognized and enjoyed by a wide audience as well as Astroid Andy. Astral Productions is my heart and soul. I hope you enjoy all it has to offer.


Temple of Sloth