Blocking the Sky is out now! Purchase links below, preview the album on YouTube below.
Hey 2012 – welcome to the most exciting year of Approaching Nirvana. We’ve got so much to share! We’ve been hard at work a new project and to start this year off, we just released the pre-order of “Blocking the Sky” – an ode to the Minecraft community and to Captain Sparklez’ Skyblock series. The album releases March 24, 2012 and we’ll be uploading new tracks each week on YouTube until then.
You can expect chill ambient songs, hybrid orchestral/electronic masterpieces and fast-paced exciting fun electronica. You can get an immediate download of “Dream to Remember” if you pre-order now.
Not to mention we’re adding in a 15% discount during the pre-order by using the code “preorder”.
In even bigger news, we have finally met and are working together! We can’t believe that it finally happened. It has been really awesome to hang out, work together and do the livestreams together. This all couldn’t have happened without the support of you guys! We can’t believe the amazing fans that we have.
We especially got to see the awesomeness of our fans by recently blasting past the Kickstarter project goal; they pledged $14,594. We can’t wait to send out all the rewards, from the digital albums, to the Cd’s, T shirts and Headphones.Then there’s always seeing our friends 4 life (lol) Matt & Phil from FyreUK later this year. The money from the Kickstarter project goes towards new equipment, which will make such a big difference for the liveshows every Saturday & the very first album that Andrew and I make together in the same room.
This year is off to an amazing start and we can’t wait to see how the rest turns out. So glad you could be here with us on this journey. We hope to take you with us and make your lives better in the best way we know how, making music.
PS – The next step for us will be live performances :3
If you find yourself listening to this album over and over while staring at the names of all the songs and deciphering our Album Art, then you’re doing it right! We loved making this album, it was fun, it was a challenge, and we really think it represents our electronic side in our Orchestral/Electronica style. We hope you enjoy this album, grab it from our website or from any online music store.
Lapse In Time has still been doing phenomenal and it is all thanks to our amazing fans and friends with especial thanks to FyreUK for being the inspiration and contributors of the album. We have reached new heights because of this album. Making great new minecraft friends with CaptainSparklez (Jordan), Yogscast (Simon, Lewis & Hannah) and so many new fans that are just the most awesome fans we could ask for. We really like being part of the Minecraft community and hope we continue that.
Some huge things are going to happen to Approaching Nirvana in 2012, the biggest being that Sam & Andrew are going to finally meet and be able to work together! We never thought this day would come and we are so excited to be able to be in the same room composing and livestreaming together. We are really stoked to be able to provide you guys with amazing music and amazing content.
See you at the livestreams!
Heyoooo! We’ve been super busy-face recently. We just released a new album, “Lapse In Time.” You can preview it w/ the youtube video below or click on our “Music” tab above to listen to the album in full! Also, you should buy it because that helps support us and stuff.
We’ve also updated the website! It’s cleaner, simpler, and much more clear to navigate through our music. And on the right you will notice that we’ve added a countdown in the sidebar to the next livestream because we love your faces and can’t wait to see you each weekend 
If you’re not familiar w/ the livestreams, it’s where Andrew plays a DJ set in a specific genre (like dubstep, dnb, trance, house, etc) and then has an after party to listen to more epic tracks and chat with you!
Speaking of which, you can get to the livestreams with the “Live” tab above. The livestreams occur at 6PM ET USA/11PM UK/8AM AUS (this accounts for current timezone shifts in August, 2011 – but the shows will always occur at 6PM ET USA until further notice).
We have some super awesome plans for the month of September and we’ll uploading the rest of our album to YouTube as the months go buy!
That’s it for now, see you next month :3
<3 Sam & Andrew
