Astral Mass Transit

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i really want to explain this title

but what i have to explain first might throw some of you off

the CIA conducted multiple experiments regarding astral projection in 1983 

and recently declassified a missing page of the Gateway Report (Campion, 2021)

and i suggest you read it for yourself, apparently at your own risk due to the 

"possible encounters with intelligent, non-corporeal energy forms 

when time-space boundaries are exceeded."(McDonnell, 1983)

i've been spending a lot of time in 2021 either occupying or observing other dimensions. 

i'm not certain that i'm occupying them physically, but i am certain i'm at least observing them.

i'm also certain that they are intersecting dimensions, not parallel.

it's kind of like looking at the thin edge of an infinitely thin piece of paper.

i get the feeling there's a lot more there, but i can't see it from where i am.

i can see how it intersects with my reality, but that's it. 

i know that these observations take place in another dimension

in that i observe shapes and colors which do not exist in our reality,

and i can consciously confirm 

their impossibility and the existence which defies that impossibility happen simultaneously.

this is different from imagination in the way i perceive my participation in this confirmation.

it is presented as true, rather than simply possible.

but because i cannot perceive the depth of this plane, 

i become aware that there are locations with distances that i cannot travel to with my physical form

so i leave it behind and see how far i can go

but then i also recognize that if i can do these things, or at least i think i can

then other people must be able to share this ability.

the idea that someone invented the term astral plane

indicates to me that i'm not the only one.

and so what if we all wanted to go somewhere, together?

astral mass transit

as far as the song itself, on paper, it's a dubstep song. 

i mean, it's clearly isn't a DUBSTEP wobwob song, but...it's dubstep.

and it occurs to me that a long time ago,

I saw an interview with Flux Pavilion talking about how he constructs chords

to be suuuper layered to create his signature sounds

now of course, i have to say, i love Flux Pavilion so much

i think he's my favorite dubstep artist

because he really favors musicality over 

the more typical WOBB associated with the genre

which i love but in my opinion 

melody > cool noises

and i hesitate to make the comparison

but once the third lead line comes in at 3:05 

and they turn from leads into one kinda melded chord pattern

it reminds me of that rich layering he uses so well

though of course, in my own way.

also, this song is longer than most of the others due to the false-ending/breakdown.

during a mixing session, I was EQing the cowbell pattern and got distracted by my phone

and 5 minutes later realized I had been listening to just the cowbell. 

so I outlined the extension part, and almost went back to the 4 minute version

because it kind of felt like a "live version" or something that would happen at a show

specifically at a marc rebillet (yet another artist i deeply respect and admire) 

show, i love how he builds loops and then occasionally just 

breaks it down to one little loop which he finds interesting

and then kinda zones out to talk with the crowd or something

then hits them over the head with the full drop again.

so i decided to leave the extended part and as it is released, i feel confident it was the right move.

This artwork is a map to represent the overlapping of dimensions,

including the 3 dimensions which we're so fond of.

I think of it in a similar way to a subway map, 

but of course in the astral dimensions there aren't "lines" to follow. 

If you're having trouble picturing it, let me make it harder.

The blue square is the dimension facing you, 

which is why it appears square and all the sides are the same length.

However, all of the shapes are the same size and shape. 

If this were a 3D object, you would see this as a cube.

So if you look at this and think "cube", really really seeing how one translates to another,

you'll kind of be able to understand how our 3D dimension is flat compared to a theoretical 4th dimension.

As far as the map reference, because there are no points or lines to follow, 

we're kind of in a perpetual state of transfer between overlapping dimensions.