Above & Past’s Third Act: The Launch of Anjunachill – Dancing Astronaut
by: Dancing Astronaut
Jan 15, 2025
After 25 years of constructing one in all dance music’s most devoted communities, Above & Past is formalizing their relationship with ambient music by Anjunachill, a rebrand of their Reflections imprint that feels much less like a enterprise determination and extra like a coming dwelling for the trio.
The journey to Anjunachill reads like digital music mythology: three producers who conquered trance (Anjunabeats) and deep home (Anjunadeep) discover themselves enjoying yoga units at Burning Man’s Robotic Coronary heart stage. That 2014 dawn session sparked “Stream State,” their RIAA Gold-certified meditation album that proved digital music may heal as successfully because it may transfer our bodies.
Quick ahead by 250 releases and 150 million streams beneath the Reflections banner, and immediately that spontaneous desert second ushered in future.
Now re-named Anjunachill, the refreshed imprint’s inaugural launch “Shall We Start,” was first teased to fifteen,000 devotees at ABGT600 in Mexico Metropolis. The monitor exists in that ethereal house Above & Past carved out with classics like “Solar In Your Eyes” and “Tri-State” – all affected person builds and emotional payoffs that hit tougher exactly as a result of they whisper as a substitute of shout.
The label’s future seems equally compelling: Planet of Souls (a brand new mission from NERD/Gorillaz collaborator Paul Rogers), South African neo-classical duo Advert Harmonium, and Anjunadeep favorites like Luttrell exploring their contemplative aspect. Between Glastonbury showcases and BBC 6 Music cosigns, Anjunachill isn’t simply preserving dance music’s meditative coronary heart – it’s proving that generally probably the most revolutionary acts in digital music occur at 0 BPM.
As Above & Past prepares for his or her Coachella debut this April, Anjunachill appears like good timing – a reminder that the identical producers who mastered predominant stage euphoria have all the time been equally fluent in introspection.
Classes: Music