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I can't help being reminded of Astral Projection:

  The spice extends life, the spice expands consciousness. 
  The spice is vital to space travel. 
  Travel without moving.

Dune & the Spice surely made their impact on pop culture.

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"Walk without rhythm, and it won't attract the worm" -- possibly the only Dune reference in a Top 40 hit (Fatboy Slim)

Oh yeah, that movie has been extensively sampled, and not just once, and not just by Astral Projection. Goatrance and psytrance in general are quite fond of it [1].

Juno Reactor - Rotorblade, Quietman - The Sleeper (Man With No Name remix), Astral Projection - Dancing Galaxy, Astral Projection - No One Ever Dreams, Astral Projection - Dancing Galaxy, and Astral Projection - Ambient Galaxy (the latter two likely being the track you meant).

Or the happy hardcore band Dune (see Discogs [2])

[1] https://www.psydb.net/samples?q=dune

[2] https://www.discogs.com/artist/16821-Dune-3

Although that was part of the general SF atmosphere in the mid 1960s when the book came out. It was quite common for characters to have weird mental powers and magical abilities that seem more in place in fantasy than SF, in part because of the influential SF editor John W Campbell who was into the occult and various new religions.

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