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Japetus
Genre: Pop, Electronic
Region: North Coast, NSW
Members: Japetus (pron: JAY-pet-us) - everything
Sounds Like: Paul McCartney, David Bowie, Peter Gabriel
Influences: U2, Elton John, Pink Floyd
Artist Website: www.japetus.com

Japetus began as a studio artist in 1980 writing, recording and producing catchy, social comment Pop song demo tracks in his own studio and sending them out to record labels all over Australia and the world looking for an old-fashioned record contract.

After many years, with no label actually understanding what to do with his material, and after having a deep spiritual transformation in 1983, he began creating and releasing ambient New Age 'soundspaces' on his own label. From 1983 to 1997 he created 14 instrumental albums that take the listener on a profound transformational journey into inner space. Some of his albums in his Visionary Journeys catalogue have gone on to become New Age classics.

In 1995 Japetus was commissioned to create the title theme and incidental music for an TV series called 'Ying, Yang and You' that was screened around the world (not Australia) including Asia, Europe and the Middle East up until 2010.

Over the last ten years Japetus has been digitally remastering his ambient albums and making them available on his website and exclusively through iTunes. Lately, he filmed a DVD of nature footage shot in and around Byron Bay that he edited to some of the best-loved ambient tracks and released it locally as a relaxing DVD nature postcard - Visions of Byron. http://www.byrondvd.com

But behind the ambient scene, remastering the albums, multimedia work and creating DVDs, his first love - Pop music - was still calling and in those decades he wrote and recorded many new songs, even winning four North Coast 'Dolphin Awards'. As part of his plan to release an album of inspirational songs to coincide with the upcoming shift in planetary consciousness, he has started recording some new demo tracks for the album due for release in mid 2012.

This early rough mix of Magic Happens, specially for the 2011 North Coast 'Dolphin Awards', is the first one of those new works. Also on Unearthed is the demo for Angel that won Best Folk song in 2002 (with Cello by Nat Lenin) plus a project called Immortal Eyes from 1992 which is a collection of voice samples from Timothy Leary put to music.

Also check out his earlier songs from the 80's that have also been uploaded to Unearthed as The Crazoids http://www.triplejunearthed.com/TheCrazoids

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