Port Blue is an instrumental, ambient recording project by Minnesota-based musician Adam Young. Young began using the Port Blue name around the same time as his better-known Owl City project was first gaining popularity in 2007. "Port Blue is music that can be heard playing in elevators, hotel lobbies, airports, museums and restaurants inside my head. It is the soundtrack to my dreams. If I wrote music for movies, this is what my film scores would sound like. Much of the aesthetic of Port Blue is not what lies in the recordings but rather what is extracted from them...Dreamscapes. No vocals. In my opinion, there is a huge lack of imaginative, unconventional music being created by artists today and what little there is, goes widely unappreciated by the masses. 'Port Blue' is my attempt at re-creating the music I want to hear and the emotions I want to feel. I hope you enjoy my art as much as I enjoyed creating it. If by chance you ever feel as though you’ve come to know these songs, please consider yourself a friend because in a manner of speaking, you know me. This music is my heart and soul. This is who I am." Adam Young issued his first full-length Port Blue album, The Airship, in 2007, followed by The Albatross EP in 2008. Much of Young's Port Blue output has been uploaded in the form of singles and EPs to sites like SoundCloud and has not received an official release. Such was the case with his 2013 EP The Pacific.