Following https://soundcloud.com/mikkel-rev's debut album on the label in 2023, ‘The Art Of Levitation’, the Norwegian artist returns with Journey Beyond, a selection of tracks demonstrating his innate ability to conjure the most atmospheric trance music, irrespective of BPM.

Journey Beyond was created from an extensive set of tracks sent to the label that were initially sequenced as two shorter EPs. With the first offering a slower 80bpm trance style, and the second EP, a classic ~130bpm trance style. However, over time, with tracks swapping in and out, ASIP had the idea to create a mixed version, progressing through the tracks and increasing bpm's, showcasing Mikkel’s ability in bridging euphoric worlds - and a style that is often reserved for Mikkel’s live performances amongst the forest raves held as part of the Ute Collective in Norway.

Classic trance and the art of a DJ mix have been influential to ASIP since the label’s inception, making this release and the process of creating it a true reflection of how Mikkel and the label come together to define the end output.

Featuring artwork by Ventral Is Golden and mastered by James Bernard.

More info and links to buy this music: https://bit.ly/asipreflection2024

As with all my previous ‘Reflection’ year-end mixes, I begin with a collection of albums, EPs, and compilations that resonated with me over the past year. From there, I curate tracks to build the mix—a process that’s as much about omission as inclusion. Inevitably, many of my favorite tracks and albums don’t make the final cut, simply because they don’t fit the flow of the mix or get lost along the way. There are plenty of albums I played on repeat that aren’t included here, but I enjoy this process much more than creating lists.

As I remind myself each year, this isn’t meant to be a definitive “best-of” list. Instead, it’s a snapshot of some of my favorite music from the year, distilled into one cohesive and listenable format. Compiling these mixes under self-imposed restrictions is my way of revisiting and celebrating the music I’ve loved critically, while sharing it with you in a way that’s both meaningful and accessible. For me, listening back to these mixes is like flipping through an audio photograph, capturing the essence of my year in music and invoking memories from special moments.

I encourage you to use this mix as a jumping-off point—dive into each artist, explore their albums in full, and check out the labels behind the music. You can find a Buy Music Club list linked below to help you dig deeper. If you’re curious about the broader scope of music I’ve supported this year, my Bandcamp collection is always up to date.

Tracklist:

01. Chihei Hatakeyama - Insects Chirping At Night (Field Recs)

02. CHANTSSSS - Lose My (Theory Therapy)

03. Endless Trains & Taennya - Lifeless Place (Archives)

04. Röyksopp (Feat. Alison Goldfrapp) - We Enter (Self Released)

05. Merely & Malibu - outlanders intro (Year 0001)

06. anthéne - Crimson (Floralia Editions)

07. Isabel Pine - Silhouettes (Where The Flowers Grow)

08. Old Amica - Klorofyll (Self Released)

09. Aja - Absolune (Grand Musique Management)

10. Winter Silhouette - Solidarity (Peak)

11. C.K - We Share The Skies (Private Recording System)

12. Dub Squad - Blown Fruit (Music From Memory)

13. Shokunin - Darlands (Bonse1)

14. Li Yilei - Yip, Yip, Yip (Métron Records)

15. Voyage Futur - Marina Botany (Vill4in)

16. Casino Versus Japan - Licht (Self Released)

17. Minotaur Shock - With Me? (Bytes)

18. Civilistjävel! - XII (Felt)

19. Ear To Ear - Live Recordings D (Astral Industries)

20. Strategy - Numeros (Community Library)

21. Florian T M Zeisig - Wave Guide (Stroom)

22. nthng - Dont Be Scared (Self Released)

23. Brendon Moeller - Pressure (Quiet Details)

24. Lb Honne - Musium (Project Indigo)

25. Priori ft. Sabola - Learn To Fly (Naff Recordings)

26. Ovïd - Dream Sequence (Fauxpas Musik)

27. Coppice Halifax - Ceremonial (Milieu Music)

28. pondlicker - orchid media (Naff Recordings)

29. Daniel[i] - Jobkas Dom (Muzan Editions)

30. Vril - Pneuma (Omnidisc)

31. Low End Activist - Airdrop 02 (Yarnton Rd 2 Cassington) (Peak Oil)

32. Daniel[i] - Dom Amb (Muzan Editions)

33. Wardown - 5 It Is The Mercy (Blu Mar Ten)

34. Rising Sun - The Ascend (Original) (Self Released)

35. Vera Logdanidi - Euphoria (Semantica)

36. Donato Dozzy - Lucrezia (Spazio Disponibile)

37. Solar Alliance - Tri-Mind (Self Released)

38. Xylitol - Monte Mare (Planet Mu)

39. Metamatics - A Second Chance Is Rare (Self Released)

40. Mortal - Minus One (Sunny Crypt)

The annual Reflection mix contains music from some of our favorite releases of 2023 in one extended mixed narrative, crossing a wide range of ambient and electronic music styles. For more info and a full Buy Music Club list to support the music: http://asip.me/reflection2023

Tracklist:

01. Sleep D - Hector (Dreaming) (Butter Sessions)

02. Liis Ring - after-image IV: abborresjön (Breton Cassette)

03. William Selman - Leaky Paradise (Mysteries of the Deep)

04. Etüüd - Õhtute kollane tolm (Self released)

05. TU M' - Monochrome # 26 (Line Imprint)

06. Arovane - ypaal (Quiet Details)

07. Field Lines Cartographer - Mountain Icicles (Castles in Space)

08. Dream Dolphin - Gaia (Ethereal Fantasy) (Music from Memory)

09. Salamanda - Nostalgia (Wisdom Teeth)

10. Endurance - Crest v2 (Muzan Editions)

11. Suzanne Ciani & Jonathan Fitoussi - Coral Reef (Transversales)

12. Alex Israel - Vacua (Somnambulant Drift)

13. The Black Dog - The Mundane (Dust Science)

14. Locust - Miriam (Mysteries of the Deep)

15. Niko Tzoukmanis - Way Home (Libreville Records)

16. Jo Johnson - Transience (Mysteries of the Deep)

17. Dasha Rush - Dubby Doo (Raster Noton)

18. ǝɯǝɐ - Andrei Rublev (Secuencias Temporales)

19. Rod Modell & Gigi Masin - Red Hair Girl At The Boat Shop (13)

20. Toki Fuko - Part Two (Astral Industries)

21. shedir - Deer Fluent in the Wind (n5MD)

22. Ayaavaaki & Purl - Distant Lights (Ovum III) (LILA)

23. Bana Haffar - Sit Still (Touch)

24. Mike Lazarev - Tonality Number Two (PITP)

25. Claire Deak - In Defiance of Time (Lost Tribe Sound)

26. Lord of the Isles feat. Ellen Renton - Don't You Ache (AD93)

27. nthng - Unlimited (I) (Self released)

28. Donato Dozzy & Sabla - Flusso III (Gang of Ducks)

29. Sindh - Spyres (Sindh)

30. James Holden - In The End You'll Know (Border Community)

31. Andrea - Audieze (Ilian Tape)

32. ASC & Aural Imbalance - Overcast Skies (Auxiliary)

33. Accelio - The Garden (Sawteeth)

34. Yolabmi - Liquidity (29 Speedway)

35. MPU101 - nurMKS30 (Ilian Tape)

36. Ylia - Ame Agari (Balmat)

37. Azu Tiwaline - Antenna Opening (I.O.T Records)

38. Purelink - We Should Keep Going (Peak Oil)

39. Priori - Top Soil (Rhythm Büro)

40. Hysterical Love Project - Ionian Sea (Motion Ward)

41. Om Unit + TM404 - Microdose Mondays (Acid Test)

42. David - Daybreak (Simpler Times)

Inspired by the greatest years. Tranquility of the highest order.

A mix of music taken from, and inspired by the most influential years of electronic and ambient music - the 90’s.

Download: https://asip.me/tranquilityw

Tracklist:

1. MLO - Shadows of Life and Thought (2021)

2. Merrin Karras - unreleased

3. Stryke - Introspection Part 1 (1994)

4. Glide - Space Van (1997)

5. Solar Quest - Save The Whale (1994)

6. Namlook & Montana - Path VII (2010)

7. Young American Primitive - Sunrise (1993)

8. Beaumont Hannant - Vague (1994)

9. B12 - Void/Comm (1996)

10. Perishing Thirst - Sacred Agency (2018)

11. Speedy J - Pepper (1994)

12. A Positive Life - The Calling (Loved'Ub Remix) (1993)

13. Global Communication - 8:07 (1994)

14. Moby - Myopia (1993)

15. Geir Jenssen & Pete Namlook - In Heaven (1993)

16. Mick Chillage - Hypersleep (2022 mix) (2022)

17. Niko Tzoukmanis - Fallen Angel (2023)

18. Spooky - Orange Colored Liquid (1993)

19. Omicron - Tranquility Base (1994)

Recording of a live DJ set for the Liminal Dreams 1st-anniversary series in Tokyo, March 11th 2023 alongside https://soundcloud.com/lynne-tokyo, https://soundcloud.com/yolabmi (Live), https://soundcloud.com/yutotakei, and https://soundcloud.com/yutaroy at Spread, Shimokitazawa. Thank you to all who made this evening happen, those who came, listened attentively, shut their eyes and let the music fill the room on an amazing system that Saturday evening. It really was a special, memorable moment for me.

The set includes lots of unreleased/forthcoming ASIP music, alongside releases from Quiet Places, Max Würden and Merrin Karras, plus some of my fave moments from Field Lines Cartographer, Echospace, qebrµs, Sindh, Jo Johnson, Acronym, Endurance and Wndfrm.

Cover photo on the night by Toby Barnes.

The annual ASIP Reflection mix, featuring many of the tracks, artists, albums, and labels that have been on high rotation in one long-form journey. Read the full feature including a buy music club list: http://asip.me/reflection2022

01. maarja nuut & ruum - Mahe (Fat Cat Records)

02. Malibu - Iliad (UNO NYC)

03. Ecovillage - Memories of Spring feat. Masayoshi Fujita (LAAPS)

04. Raum - Daughter (Self)

05. GiGi FM - Rosé (Louise) (Self)

06. Romance & Dean Hurley - The Flesh Is Weak (Ecstatic)

07. Fallen - Under A Glass Moon Of Wonder (Aural Canyon)

08. Steve Roach - What Remains (Self)

09. nthng - Some Clouds Are Destined To Break (Transatlantic)

10. IKSRE - You Will Find (PITP)

11. Norm Chambers - Resonant Foam (Self)

12. Purelink - Butterfly Jam (uWu Dust Bath)

13. Mikkel Rev - Ende (Translusid)

14. Biosphere - Night Shift (Biophon Records)

15. ReKaB - The Lightest Touch (Móatún 7)

16. Spacetime Continuum - Drift (Musique Pour La Danse)

17. Daniel Avery - Lone Swordsman (Mute)

18. James Devane - Orange and Tan (Umeboshi)

19. Transcendence Orchestra - The Hills Are Alive (Old Technology)

20. COH meets Abul Mogard - Traverse Within (Houndstooth)

21. Low - Fly (Subpop)

22. Bowery Electric - Postscript (Kranky)

23. Nosaj Thing feat. Julianna Barwick - Blue Hour (Lucky Me)

24. Synkro - Last Breath (R&S Records)

25. Neglect - In The Bondage of Your Identity (Unsilent Desert Press)

26. Mystic AM - This Spoke Zarathustra (Astral Industries)

27. Voice Actor - Hurt With Me (STROOM)

28. Nils Frahm - Right Right Right (Leiter)

29. Ben Bondy - Spring (Self)

30. All India Radio - Ancient Invocations (Mystic & Quantum)

31. Concave Reflection -Daylight Portrait (Theory Therapy)

32. Hania Rani - Leaving (Live from Studio S2) (Gondwana)

33. µ-Ziq - Turquoise Hyperfizz (Planet Mu)

34. Wardown - Stimulus Progression Pattern (Blu Mar Ten)

35. Bot1500 - Chartreuse 8 (Lith Dolina)

36. Royksopp - Press <> (Self)

37. Rose Riebl - Near Dark (Headphone Commute)

38. EXM - Autumn is Coming (Dyadik)

(re-uploaded here because Soundcloud took it down a few years ago)

More info: https://asip.me/reflection2014

Tracklist:

01. Levi Patel – The Light Unbalances Her

02. A Winged Victory For The Sullen – Atomos VII

03. Otto A.Totland – Steps

04. Jon Hopkins – Open Eye Signal (Asleep version)

05. Loscil – Iona

06. Marsen Jules – Beautyfear III

07. ASC – The Machinery of Night

08. Leandro Fresco – Nada Es Para Siempre

09. Purl – The Stars Will Have An End

10. Neel – The Secret Revealed

11. Frank Sebastian – Towards Distance

12. Tdel – 1830

13. Donato Dozzy & Tin Man – Test 3

14. Gidge – Growth

15. Greg Chin – Dashboard Angels

16. To Destroy A City – First Light

Our latest Portals feature takes a look at Ambient music that can't be ignored, and is "as interesting, as it is interesting"... https://asip.me/portals12

(Get the tee while you can: https://everpress.com/power-ambient )

Tracklist:

01. James Murray - Second Sight (Home Normal)

02. Ameeva - Die Wellen (9128.live)

03. Faru - Mirror of Consciousness (Self released)

04. Sciama - Subsumed (Auxiliary)

05. Joachim Spieth - Akasha (Affin)

06. Abul Mogard - Against a White Cloud (Self released)

07. Leandro Fresco & Rafael Anton Irisarri - Baja dos Singlos (A Strangely Isolated Place)

08. Mount Shrine - Foggy Deck (Cryo Chamber)

09. Araceae - Gleaming Embers (Faint Music)

10. Markus Guentner - Cavus (A Strangely Isolated Place)

11. r beny - vestigial (Self released)

12. Caterina Barbieri - TCCTF (Important Records)

13. Christina Giannone - Realms II (Past Inside The Present)

14. Christina Vantzou - Glissando for Bodies and Machines in Space (Kranky)

15. Pechblende - Shackles of Time (Auxiliary)

16. Tim Hecker - Hatred of Music II (Kranky)

17. Bana Hafar - Intersecting Voids (Self released)

18. FRKTL - Scene I: Terra Nullius (Self released)

19. KMRU & Aho Ssan - Resurgence (Edit) (Subtext Recordings)

20. Mika Vainio - Kytkenta (Connection) (Touch)

21. Rafael Anton Irisarri - Arduous Clarity (Dais)

22. Mika Vainio - Unessa (Sleep) (Touch)

The annual ASIP Reflection mix, featuring many of the tracks, artists, albums, and labels that have been on high rotation in one long-form journey, and a full buy music club list: http://asip.me/reflection2021

000.00. Jon Hopkins - Tayos Caves, Ecuador I (Domino)

006.20. KMRU & Echium - Unending (Self-released)

009.10. Bolivian Fireships - Quiet Room, Locked Door (Hream)

012.50. Arian Shafiee - Wembley (Constellation Tatsu)

018.00. Ab uno - Adonai (Mahorka)

019.30. ASC & Inhmost - Sunrise on Titan (Auxiliary)

026.10. Sciama - Periphery (Auxiliary)

029.00. AES DANA - Foreword (Ultimae)

031.40. Ulla - Shelter (Motion Ward)

033.30. Bana Haffar - Totally Alive and Totally Invisible (Self-released)

039.50. Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement - Flying Fish Ambience (Hospital)

043.20. Nadia Struiwigh - Organic (Nous’klaer)

047.15. Op Zee - Muziekkamer (Stroom.tv)

050.00. Christina Chatfield - Concatenate II (Mysteries of the Deep)

057.10. Nigel Mullaney - The Well Of Sleeping (Behind The Sky Music)

059.00. Avsluta - Meditation 16 [Notes on Iridescence] (e2-e8)

1.00.30 Marine Eyes - On this Fresh Morning (Stereoscenic)

1.03.30. Christina Giannone - Realms II (Past Inside The Present)

1.09.00. Milieu - Terpentine Xylophone (Milieu Music)

1.10.05. Ground Tactics - New Earth (Self-released)

1.16.10. Whylie - JGL24-04 (Lith Dolina)

1.19.40. nthng - Energy Reloading (Lobster Sleep Sequence)

1.25.58. Skee Mask - LFO (Ilian Tape)

1.29.15. Ocoeur - Breaking The Circle (n5MD)

1.32.57. Hoavi - Tessera (Peak Oil)

1.36.17. Vivian Koch - Closed (AD93)

1.39.20. Amandra X Matthies - Cornemuse (Nous’klaer)

1.43.30. Warrington-Runcorn Newtown Development Plan - Part of the Union (CIS)

1.47.35. Akira Sileas - Cliff Cooling (Rusted Tone)

1.52.10. Niko Tzoukmanis - Raindrops (Libreville)

1.57.15. Uf0 - Yeh Premoh (Self-released)

1.59.50. CiM - Metric (Delsin)

2.02.10. Sofie Birch & Johan Carøe - Portal of (Stroom.tv)

2.03.10. Saphileaum - Savar (Good Morning Tapes)

2.07.50. Alex Albrecht - Forest from the Trees, w. Sean La’Brooy (Analogue Attic)

2.12.00. Wau Wau Collectif - Yaral Sal Doom (Sahel Sounds)

Our next deep dive for the Portals series sees a revisit to a genre of music that heavily influenced ASIP growing up. Yes, cheese-and-chords in their full glory; classic Trance music, but with a twist, of course.

Love it or hate it, I embrace classic Trance music for its brilliance of the time, and the impact it had on me (and indeed electronic music) growing up. I’ve mentioned before how the chill-out side of Trance music was one of the many avenues to open me up to more electronic ambient music. But this isn’t the path we ended up taking for this Portals feature… more info: http://asip.me/portals10

Mixed by ASIP and https://soundcloud.com/djtodos

Tracklist:

Jonah - Sssst (Listen) [VC] [1999]

Robert Miles - Children [Platipus] [1995]

Sasha & Maria - Be As One [Deconstruction] [1996]

Sasha - Xpander [Deconstruction] [1999]

Frontside - Dammerung [Venus] [2003]

Albion - Air [Platipus] [1998]

Freefall ft Jan Johnston - Skydive [Renaissance] [1998]

Nalin & Kane - Beachball [ffrr] [1998]

Schiller - Das Glockenspiel [Data] [2001]

C.M - Dream Universe [Hooj] [1998]

Jam & Spoon - Stella [R&S] [1992]

Blank & Jones - Cream [Deviant] [1999]

Lost Tribe - Gamemaster [Hooj] [1999]

Lost Witness - Happiness Happening (Lange Remix) [Ministry] [1999]

Robert Miles - Children [Platipus] [1995]

Ayla - Ayla (DJ Taucher Mix) [Positiva] [1999]

Kamaya Painters - Wasteland (Hitchhiker remix) [Data] [1999]

Push - Universal Nation [Inferno] [1999]

Atlantis vs Avatar - Fiji (Lange mix) [Inferno] [1999]

Skip Raiders feat. Jada - Another Day (Brainbug mix) [Perfecto] [1999]

Brainbug - Another Day (Perfecto remix) [Additive][1996]

CRW - I Feel Love [Nukluez] [2000]

Jam & Spoon - My First Fantastic F.F [R&S] [1992]

Energy 52 - Cafe Del Mar (Solar Stone remix) [Hooj] [1997]

Art of Trance - Madagascar (Michael Woods Chill-Out remix) [Platipus] [2002]

Space Manoeuvres - Stage One [Hooj] [1999]

Junk Project - Composure [Universal Prime Breaks] [1998]

Pete Lazonby - Sacred Cycles [Hooj] [1994]

BT - Flaming June (BT + PVD mix) [Perfecto] [1997]

Agnelli & Nelson - Embrace [Xtravaganza] [2000]

Nalin & Kane - Beachball [ffrr] [1998]

Salt Tank - Eugina (Reactivation mix) [Lost Language] [2000]

Binary Finary - 2000 (Jam X & DuMond's Rmx) [Orbit records] [2000]

Energy 52 - Cafe Del Mar (Nalin & Kane mix) [1998] [Hooj]

Age of Love - Age of Love [React] [1998]

Da Hool - Meet Her At The Love Parade (Nalin & Kane remix) [Kosmo] [1997]

Taucher - Waters (Waters III) [Quad] [1998]

Stef, Pako & Frederik – Seaside Atmosphere (Evolutions Donkey Derby Mix) [Coded][1999]

Paul Van Dyk - For An Angel (Way Out West remix) [Deviant] [1998]

Space Manoeuvres - Stage One [Hooj] [1999]

Faithless - Salva Mea (DTs Mix Show Edit) [Arista] [1997]

BBE - Seven Days & One Week (Kai Tracid Remix) [Urban] [1999]

Three Drives - Greece 2000 [ZYX music] [1998]

Agnelli & Nelson - Hudson St [Xtravanganza] [2000]

X-Cabs - Neuro 99 (Additive mix) [Hook] [1999]

Moonman - Galaxia [Heat] [2000]|

Y Traxx - Mystery Land (Fontaine & Vern mix) [FFRR] [1998]