I just came back from a month long trip in Australia. It was a marvelous first experience with many sights to remember. This mix is dedicated to all the awesome wonders of this beautiful land.

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“Here is your last chance to escape the mundane

Plan, if you can, a momentous ride

Conjure a life beyond the narrows

― Last Train by Elizabeth Barton

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“How do we close our eyes and fly away

The doors are wide open

― Unlock the Dreamless Sleep by Neva Flores Varga Smith

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This mix got inspired by one of my best discoveries of this year: Zane Callister, whose Young Collective productions and UTAH band music embody the uplifting spirit of Chill Pill mixes. Check him out at soundcloud.com/young-collective.

Another inspiration came from the second track, Her Name by Arros & Light Memory, which samples words from one of my favorite sci-fi films Her. The whole quote goes like this:

It’s like I’m reading a book… and it’s a book I deeply love. But I’m reading it slowly now. So the words are really far apart and the spaces between the words are almost infinite. I can still feel you… and the words of our story… but it’s in this endless space between the words that I’m finding myself now. It’s a place that’s not of the physical world. It’s where everything else is that I didn’t even know existed. I love you so much. But this is where I am now. And this who I am now. And I need you to let me go. As much as I want to, I can’t live your book any more.

Finally, don’t miss the exclusive mashup track I made in this mix, combining Coldplay (my all-time favorite band) and a classic chillout tune by Helios. This whole mix really took some doing and I hope you enjoy it.

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Music inspires most of my mixes, but every now and then different forms of art do, be it written or visual. This mix is inspired by the latter. A wonderful painting, called “The ocean is my happy place”, from the talented, Florida-based artist Lena Belyaeva (instagram.com/lenasart2019). You can almost say her paintings are the visual version of my uplifting mixes, so I’m honored to feature her work as cover art. It really brings me so much joy every time I scroll through her paintings, and I couldn’t think of a better title for the mix than the feeling her works imbued.

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One year apart, but it’s the “forever” part that still haunts me.

In bed, after a day of purposeful distractions, my thoughts coalesce to pose the same old question I have asked since Feb 9, 2021: how, in a blink of an eye, does a story end like this?

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An ode to delightful summer days, from someone who dreads the cold 🙂

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“Deeper than any indigo sea

Discerned by all or none, we are still unified

A Universal Fabric by Matthew Ellis

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Last mix of 2021. I named it Yellow not only after the amazing chillout cover of Coldplay’s song you’ll hear here, but also because I want to look forward to next year with positive intent. It hasn’t been an easy year especially with the loss of my best friend to COVID early on. Alas, such is life. Loss is inevitable, but we choose how to carry it forward with us as we honor their memory by living the life they would have wished for us.

Special shoutout to Test Card (testcardmusic.bandcamp.com) for his opening track that inspired this mix.

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Rays ignite the shadows

Life it has no boundaries

A fire that burns in the heart

A smoldering pyre of passion

– Burning Heart by Dean Fraser-Phillips

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