Astralasia, a British electronic music group formed in 1990, emerged as a side project of musicians from the psychedelic pop-rock band Magic Mushroom Band, developing a collective approach that explored ambient, dub, and psychedelic electronic sounds. Their breakthrough came with the 1992 album The Politics of Ecstasy, which established their presence in the emerging psy-trance, ambient house, and electronic underground scenes, followed by the single “Hashishin” in the mid-1990s. Subsequent releases followed a steady trajectory, including the mid-1990s release Sul-E-Stomp and the album Pitched Up at the Edge of Reality, which highlighted the group’s evolving production style, while later releases such as the EP Feel the Love continued to expand their melodic and psychedelic elements across the 2000s and 2010s on Magick Eye Records and later associated labels. Throughout the 1990s and 2000s, Astralasia collaborated with guitarist Simon House on albums such as Away with the Fairies and Cluster of Waves, and performed widely across Europe, gaining a dedicated following within alternative and underground electronic music circles.
