Music to Escape Reality — April 2021

the cinematic score to your psychological journey with Matt Jenko

featuring artists like

CloZee • Yotto • TSHA • Bonobo • Effy • Robot Koch • HAAi • Bon-Psy • Eli & Fur • Emancipator

To escape isnʼt to run away. To escape is to allow the mind a vacation, space to relax and recalibrate. Those with a healthy appreciation of the fantastical are better able to handle the material, and if travel broadens the mind, just imagine what unbridled escapism can do!

Music to Escape Reality is the cinematic score to your psychological journey. Each piece of music has been chosen for the richness of its auditory landscape, the vividness with which it depicts the rolling planes of the imagination, and for its potential to guide you as you suspend disbelief.

This playlist is a portal to disengage with what is real and explore the infinite unknown, because to escape isnʼt to run away.

To escape is to be free.

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the cinematic score — march 2021

  1. Nuages — CloZee, 9 Theory

  2. YOU (feat. TEME) — kiskadee, TEME

  3. Zodiac Shit — Flying Lotus

  4. Sister — TSHA

  5. Final Days - Bonobo Remix — Michael Kiwanuka, Bonobo

  6. Purification — SWACQ

  7. Numb — Elderbrook

  8. Lie To Me — Vera Blue

  9. Lotus — Elijah Nang, Misc.Inc

  10. 12 Steps — CXLOE

  11. Anything — Alison Wonderland, Valentino Khan

  12. Tangerine Sour — Emancipator, 9 Theory

  13. Fluffy Clouds — Effy

  14. Rotating In Unison — HAAi

  15. Ten Tigers — Bonobo

  16. Lolita Express — Roslyn*

  17. Tarantia — Yotto*

  18. Abu Simbel — WhoMadeWho

  19. Aurora — CloZee

  20. Out Of Touch — Lastlings

  21. Darkside (feat. Feldz) — Madison Mars, Feldz

  22. _DOWN — kiskadee

  23. Dragonfly — Robot Koch, Kristjan Järvi, Nordic Pulse Ensemble

  24. Be Good — HAAi

  25. La Ciudad — ODESZA

  26. In My Skin — IHF

  27. Valhalla — Emancipator

  28. Free Your Mind — Eli & Fur

  29. Elation — Bon-Psy

  30. Absorbed in a Point — Orange and Mountains

    …

    *indicates non-mover

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the curator — matt jenko

Hi my name is Matt, but my friends call me Matt. I’m on the wrong side of 29 (damn I hate it every time I have to update that number), definitely feeling my age, but never felt happier and more content than I do at this point in my life. I’ve been through some rocky patches (who hasn’t) and lived to tell the tale, and boy do I gots some stories.

When I’m not giving opinions absolutely nobody asked for, I’m doing a worldbuilding with my passion project, vivaellipsis. If you like offbeat nonsense delivered through immersive escapism, then go and get involved. Or don’t, I’m not telling you what to do. I’m not yer boss.

I’m a simple man with simple interests. I like Yorkshire tea, the sound of rain on the window, and a bloody good story.

   
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