Voyage 34: The Complete Trip

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Voyage 34: The Complete Trip is a compilation album by British progressive rock band Porcupine Tree. The individual tracks were recorded and relased separately in 1992 and 1993, while the album itself was compiled and released in 2000, and then reissued again in 2004. Despite being mostly instrumental, Voyage 34 can be considered a concept album, where the LSD trip of a young man called Brian is told with spoken word. Per Steven Wilson: "I was given a tape of a guy having a bad trip in the Sixtie. It was an anti-LSD propaganda album and it was perfect to from a narrative around which I could form this long, hypnotic, trippy piece of music. And that was Voyage 34." The album originates from a single 30 minute track, titled "Voyage 34", which was intended to be on a second disc of the Porcupine Tree's second studio album, Up the Downstair. Wilson decided to release "Voyage 34" independently of the rest of the album. Instead, it was released in two part, as single, as "Voyage 34 (Phase 1)" and "Voyage 34 (Phase 2)" in 1992. In 1993, Voyage 34: Remixes was released, containing two remixes of the original. "Voyage 34 (Phase 3)" was a remix by the British electronic music group Astralasia, while "Voyage 34 (Phase 4)" was a remix by Wilson himself, along with future band member Richard Barbieri. .

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