Despite the fact that he hadn't even reached his teenage years around the time of Jungle's hey-day in the mid-nineties, that's the sound that still influences Nebula the most to this day. The "Astral Soul" EP focusses on the atmospheric and meditiative side of his production work but the breakbeat manipulation and rumbling bass he's best known for are still to the fore. Rough and smooth, ethereal and brutal, fast and slow, the strength of this collection is in the finely balanced juxtapostion of contrasting elements. While there there is a journey to be made within each track, there is another to be made in traversing the EP as a whole - you might just feel like you?ve reached some far away universe by the end ! Whether it's drifting atmosphere and acrobatic amens of "Encounters", the lush pads and tough beats of "Warm Currents", the glistening synths and crashing snare-step of "Astral Soul", the machine-gun rhythms and strings of "Escapsim" or the trippy breakbeats leading you to the "Hidden Oasis", this is an adventure where horizons are broadened and new discoveries made throughout.