CJ’s Mirra Maze - Self Medicate (Single)

Today London-based producer and composer CJ Mirra reveals his brand new project CJ’s Mirra Maze taking shape as maximalist, neo-psych pop music through an electronic lens.

Arriving as an infectious, beat-heavy, hypnotic piece, Self Medicate balances between sharp electronics and hook-laden melodies, peppered with psychedelics. The outcome toes a line entirely of its own, somewhere between Tame Impala and Toro Y Moi with the inventive allure of LA Priest.

Taking inspiration from the world around him, lyrically Self Medicate was born in response to addiction.. Sharing more, CJ explained; “We all have the instinct to self-medicate with our addictions of choice, for me, it was filling the gap of finding a deeper sense of purpose.

When I watched a film about a guy who taught himself to surf and immersed himself in everything around surfing to help him overcome addiction and depression. The water, the connection to nature, the meditative quality of waiting for the right conditions, the rush of getting the wave, the physicality -  all combined to be powerful enough to change his life. That really made an impact and resonated with my own experiences in recent years”.

Surfing has been a thread that has run throughout  CJ’s Mirra’s career. Beginning life with a nomadic upbringing - his childhood was spent moving around Australia, as well as living on a small island in the Indian Ocean, his family then moved to the British Midlands where he spent his formative years playing in a couple of genre-bending bands when a film director discovered his music after he had mistakenly shared it publicly on Soundcloud.