People Can Fly

There is a moment in this track when the lead synth resolves into a sequence so straightforwardly euphoric that the word "flying" becomes not a metaphor but a felt sensation. Astral Projection built their legacy on exactly this quality — the capacity to engineer transcendence through synthesis — and "People Can Fly" is among the purest expressions of that ambition. The production moves at a relentless tempo, the kick drum unwavering beneath layers of arpeggiated sequences and pads that swell and recede like breathing. The emotional arc is one of ascent: starting grounded and accelerating toward something genuinely weightless, the melodic motifs stacking until they tip over into collective joy. Unlike the more overtly spiritual "Mahadeva," this track has an almost democratic quality to its ecstasy — the title is an invitation rather than a proclamation, an insistence that what it's describing is accessible to anyone willing to let the music carry them. The production is rooted in the analog warmth of 1990s hardware synthesis, the imperfections of the equipment lending the track a texture that modern recreations rarely capture. It belongs to the era when psychedelic trance was still a subculture's secret, before it fractured into subgenres. You reach for this when you need the reminder that music, at its most ambitious, can briefly convince you that the limitations you've accepted are optional.