Spacehop Chronicles 2
The long awaited return of Laika's journey.
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A cosmic mixtape for journeys into inner space.
Over the Moon Music is honored to present Spacehop Chronicles 2, the long-awaited and fan-funded continuation of Bluetech’s electronic saga. This album was crafted as a continuous and deeply personal journey, intended to be experienced as a seamless whole. While five of its ten tracks have been shared as standalone singles, their album versions are masterfully woven into a single, uninterrupted narrative. The tracks flow into one another, forming a complete auditory world that invites the listener to engage with the full arc of the story. For the most immersive experience, we encourage you to listen in sequence with gapless playback, and travel inward with Laika on her journey through inner space.
"I always imagined that Spacehop Chronicles was an imaginative retelling of the story of Laika the Cosmonaut, the first of us to travel to space—albeit against her will. It’s not a story that ends well, so in my first chapter working with this material, I created a narrative where Laika does not die in space, but continues on and becomes the first Earth ambassador to non-terrestrial intelligences, embarking on fantastic journeys to exotic locales.
As I approached this story again, this time with the intention of continuing her journeys into deep space, the emotions that arose were different. I was struck by the hubris of man—the ultimate betrayal of a street dog rescued by her handlers and then sent on a one-way journey alone. Instead of creating the worlds she would discover in my retelling, the journey became one of grief and loss: amazed wonder punctuated by both love and sadness for those she had left behind. Rather than moving outward, Spacehop Chronicles 2 travels inward, in an attempt to give voice to the complex feelings that make this story so resonant. Mirrored by massive changes in my own life, the album evolved into a meditation on honoring those things that hurt us, and on their ability to become catalysts of change as we move deeper into inner space." ~ Bluetech