Watch Meduso’s Trippy Audiovisual Project, “The Eclipse Portal Odyssey”

Meduso goes full auteur in the new mix, handling everything from narrative formation to visual design.

When an artist decides to stitch together the lore of two narratives into a 90-minute audiovisual mix, you know they’re either brilliantly ambitious or unhinged. Meduso appears to be both.

Released October 5th, The Eclipse Portal Odyssey merges the rising electronic music producer’s previous projects The Blood Moon Rises Once Again and Saturn’s Return into a single experience. The mix contorts with writhing bass and eerie, cinematic synths, creating a haunting story arc that genre-hops with the confidence of someone who grew up equally obsessed with Linkin Park and Burial.

The Boston-based beatsmith, who is also the founder of the creative design agency Perplex Studios, clearly doesn’t believe in delegating. He developed the project’s design, narrative formation, audio engineering and visual direction, delivering the kind of release that demands good headphones, a dark room and your full attention.

Sprinkled throughout are unreleased Meduso tracks that offer newcomers a comprehensive crash course in his unique sound, which blends prog-rock with hip-hop’s sampling culture and dubstep’s gut-punch physicality. He also flexes his selector capabilities with a slew of compelling cuts in the framework of an electronic mix, like Citizen Cope’s timeless 2002 alt-soul track “Let The Drummer Kick” and Mac Miller’s atmospheric ballad “Come Back To Earth.”

Check out The Eclipse Portal Odyssey below.