Deepspace - Water Planets (2025)

Transmission from Earth:
“We can’t survive much longer... all the ice, all the water... it’s all vaporizing. We didn’t expect this, but it’s obvious we’re responsible. We caused this entanglement hell through our ignorance, and that damn experiment..."

From orbit to beneath the turquoise wave, WATER PLANETS’ electronic sequences and shimmering electronics evoke distant aquatic locations as well as the machines that keep the ecosystems humming. Water Planets is the seventeenth deepspace release and the fifth on Projekt Records. This conceptual double album, accompanied by a rich sci-fi narrative, portrays serene and mysterious water planets: some barren, others teeming with strange alien life.

The first half of WATER PLANETS descends calmly into glimmering, halcyon depths and sleeping aquatic valleys. The tones refract and entwine with luminescent, filtered patterns that hypnotize the ear and inner eye. The atmosphere is always safe, wrapped in warm waves of audio, enriched with quiet intricate detail. Listeners are transported through dazzling undersea gardens of undulating plant life into shadowy crevasses that vanish into the watery abyss. This is sound-as-architecture: an immersive journey through imagined oceans.

The second half of the album shifts to focus on the sustainable technology deployed by humans to retrieve water without disrupting Hydros’ fragile ecosystems. Here, shimmering electronics and textural movement conjure sleek spacecraft, drones, and futuristic vessels designed for gentle water extraction. The tone is subtle, scientific, and sophisticated, suggesting a hopeful, non-invasive response to planetary crisis.

"The idea of the water planets,” Mirko explains, “came from the idea of taking care of our planet in the face of our current mercenary attitude to our home. But initially it came from a much more fun and strange story. My partner Diana was going on a trip, and I was staying behind for work reasons — I was also searching for the catalyst for the next deepspace album. She asked me if I could water her plants while she was away. Knowing that I might forget, I typed the chore into my calendar —"water plants." Except it autocorrected to "water planets.” I froze. In that second, it all fell into place. The story, the location, the sound of the music. A wormhole opened. It was almost like it was all ready and just needed an outlet."