Astronaut is a compilation on CD, released on Yellow Sunshine Explosion Recordings (YSE002CD) in 2001.
The CD collects 20 tracks across 2 discs from 19 artists, having Patchwork featuring two tracks. 16 tracks are exclusive to this release: "My Time Is Yours" by Effective Force, "Morphic Laborynth (DLS Remix)" by DLS, "Genetic" by M-Sphere, "Fire Night" by S.E.T.I. Project, "Strange Event Northern Sky" by Foundland and 11 more. This is the first release for 1 track later found elsewhere: "" by Shpongle. Several of its tracks are well known favorites: "" by X.I.S. (2000, 3 releases) and "" by Patchwork (2000, 3 releases).
It samples from Terence McKenna in track "A New Way To Say Hooray" by Shpongle.
- 01Effective Force — My Time Is Yours
- 02DLS — Morphic Laborynth (DLS Remix)
- 03M-Sphere — Genetic
- 04S.E.T.I. Project — Fire Night
- 05Am Synaptik — Flux
- 06Foundland — Strange Event Northern Sky
- 07Patchwork — Punktum
- 08X.I.S. — Living In A Dream
- 09Banco de Gaia — Touching The Void
- 10Das Zeichen — Douh-Sah-Ra
- 01Boozoo Bajou — Down & Out
- 02dZihan & Kamien — Ay, Ay, Ay
- 03Shpongle — A New Way To Say Hooray
- 04Minus 8 — Non-Human (Big Bang Remix)
- 05Doof — Baba (We Love Dub)
- 06Patchwork — Prefade (Remix)
- 07The Boys from Brazil — Bachiana Brasilero
- 08Sounds From The Ground — Pearl
- 09Orbit Experience — Orbit In Moscow
- 10Jah Meek — Crazy World (in Dub)
Shpongle — A New Way to Say Hooray
So! You take let us assume a third toke; long and slow. You vaporize and you take it in and in and in... and there is a sound like the crumpling of a plastic bread wrapper or the crackling of a flame and a tone. A mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm and there is this.......
There is a cheer. The gnomes have learned a new way to say hooray.
The walls, such they be, are crawling with geometric hallucinations.
Very brightly coloured, very iridescent. Deep sheens and very highly reflective surfaces everything is machine-like and polished and throbbing with energy but that is not what immediately arrests my attention. What arrests my attention is the fact that this space is inhabited.
And so like jeweled self dribbling basketballs these things come running forward and what they are doing with this visible language that they create is they are making gifts! They are making gifts for you and they will say...
From 'Terence McKenna: Starwood (Part 1)'
