deepspace

about

deepspace is the ambient project of Mirko Ruckels, a German-French musician living in Brisbane, Australia.

Since 2007 he has made slow, spacious and dream-like music from synthesizers, software and acoustic instruments. The music evokes this and other worlds, filled with empty spaces, night cities, deserts, deep oceans and strange phenomena.

His albums are released on Projekt Records and independently.

music

Bandcamp Spotify YouTube Projekt

projekt

independent

watch

• Deepspace videos All videos on YouTube, newest first below
• Neon Blue Utopia videos A playlist for the 2024 album

Can you tell me what I am seeing? It’s vast and moving slowly…Sep 2026 Watch the sun rise from space…Sep 2026 Take a 35 minute walk into a transforming endless desertSep 2026 The feeling of rushing through space…Sep 2026 BlueHeavenAbyss (Theme from Water Planets)Oct 2025 · Arrangement video Vertical Automated ParkingJun 2025 · from Neon Blue Utopia Floor 426-BJan 2025 · from Neon Blue Utopia Sunny Hypnagogia HeightsJan 2025 · from Neon Blue Utopia Entering Aquarium PrefectureJan 2025 · from Neon Blue Utopia Bubble Echolalia DistrictJan 2025 · from Neon Blue Utopia Just a Pill and All this will EndJan 2025 Parkour on Lazarus HeightsJan 2025 · from Neon Blue Utopia Utopia=VisionsJan 2025 · from Neon Blue Utopia Rainy Megacity 7 PrecinctDec 2024 · from Neon Blue Utopia Considering the Loss of the Organic (Smoo's Capsule)Mar 2024 · video version Considering the Loss of the Organic (Smoo's Capsule)Mar 2024 HyperdriveEngageMar 2024 · from The Black Orchid Galaxies In the Hydroponic Garden SectorMar 2024 · from The Black Orchid Galaxies The Great Sea of BrachychitonJan 2024 Enveloped in Green and BlueJan 2024 O Radiant Bee! (The Arboretum)Nov 2023 · from The Architecture of Flowers Dreaming StalksOct 2023 · from The Architecture of Flowers InflorescenceOct 2023 · from The Architecture of Flowers Emptiness (excerpt)Oct 2022 · from The Blue Dunes An Unexpected Shelter (excerpt)Oct 2022 · from The Blue Dunes The Blue Dunes (excerpt)Oct 2022 · from The Blue Dunes Do You Hear Faint Music?Apr 2022 · from Superradiance Interlude: Hope for Early Microbial FormsMar 2022 Leaving EarthMar 2022 · from Superradiance et fluxDec 2021 · with theAdelaidean DawnNov 2021 · with theAdelaidean SolOct 2012 · fan video by Solaris Protectorate Order · from The Barometric Sea Another Empty GalaxyOct 2012 · fan video by Solaris Protectorate Order The Barometric SeaOct 2012 · fan video by Solaris Protectorate Order Leaving the HubOct 2012 · fan video by Solaris Protectorate Order ElevenwardJul 2012 · fan video by Solaris Protectorate Order · from The Glittering Domain Sky Inside the MindJul 2012 · fan video by Solaris Protectorate Order In the Outer ReachesJul 2012 · fan video by Solaris Protectorate Order EuphandemoniumAug 2008 · fan video by Blinx636

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The last eight are fan-made videos set to deepspace music, with thanks to the people who made them.

interviews

• 
  Echoes interview Podcast conversation, November 2025
• 
  Chain D.L.K. interview On Water Planets
• 
  Exploring the Blue An interview on Projekt

reviews

Sonic Immersion

• The Architecture of Flowers
• The Blue Dunes“an ocean of ambient bliss”
• Superradiance“ethereal tapestries dressed with delicate perfumes of awe and wonder”
• AdriftWith theAdelaidean“whose music I cherish quite a bit for years”
• Deep Blue Universe
• Slow Wave Cathedral“well composed and warm sounding release addressing dreams and vast distances”
• World Ocean Atlas
• Another Empty Galaxy“a galactic ride into the depths of the space”
• The Barometric Sun
• The Barometric Sea

Exposé

• Neon Blue Utopia“Deepspace has created an entire world of unusually beautiful sounds and timbres”
• The Black Orchid Galaxies“by far the most engaging of Deepspace’s Projekt releases to date”
• The Architecture of Flowers“warms the spirit and frees the mind and soul”
• The Blue Dunes“tapping into that subconscious wonderworld of sound”
• Superradiance“a beautiful slab of gentle floating ambient electronics”

Echoes

• Neon Blue UtopiaCD of the Month“It’s an album to get lost in”

Chain D.L.K.

• Neon Blue Utopia“doesn’t just create a mood; it builds a world”

Houz-Motik

• Water Planets, hydrosonic: an aquatic and synthetic odyssey“a sensitive musical stroll”

Star’s End

• Water PlanetsBy Chuck van Zyl“warm, shimmering and curvaceous”

story

• The Atlas Sector gamebook An interactive sci-fi adventure that goes with the album
• Water Planets booklet The album’s story, laid out to read on any screen
• The Blue Dunes The album notes and the short science fiction story, laid out to read on any screen.

elsewhere

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photos

Projekt Records press photos, 2022

press material

highlights

• The Atlas Sector, released 11 September 2026 on Projekt Records
• Water Planets: number 65 on the UK Official Album Downloads Chart, September 2025
• Water Planets: number 22 in Echoes Radio’s Best Albums of 2025
• Neon Blue Utopia: Echoes CD of the Month, January 2025
• Superradiance: Best New Release of 2022, WPPM Sound + Vision
• The Barometric Sun: Album of the Month, 2009, Stillstream
• Subantarctic Sessions: one of the top 10 ambient releases of 2008
• The Barometric Sea: Top 10 Ambient Album of 2007, Electroambient Space
• Best New Ambient Artist of 2007, Electroambient Space

downloads

• 
  The Atlas Sector, one-page press sheet JPG, 1240 × 1764 download
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  The Atlas Sector, cover art JPG, 1400 × 1400 download
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  Press photo, landscape JPG, 1672 × 941 download
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  Press photo, portrait JPG, 1600 × 2133 download
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  Press photo, square JPG, 1400 × 1400 download
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  Water Planets on the UK Official Album Downloads Chart Screenshot, September 2025 download