low light mixes

Summer Of Resonance by Faru

 

 

Most mixes posted here are around one hour in length. There needs to be a good reason to go well beyond that time. Well, this guest mix is a good reason to go long. This set comes to us from Faru - https://faru.bandcamp.com/music He has done a bunch of mixes over the years including for the Deep Breakfast series & Silent Season's Campfire Stories. You can find those mixes here - https://soundcloud.com/faruambient/sets/my-mixes

Here's what he says about this 4-hour set:

"The sun comes through the leaves in pieces, slow shifting fragments that move across your skin like something deliberate. The air smells of warm grass and blooming, that specific fullness of spring when everything is happening at once.

Pollen drifts through the light, weightless, golden, the leaves quietly dancing.

Birds in the canopy. Voices not close enough to make out, just the shape of people being easy with each other, flowing past like part of the same current.

The specific gravity and warm energy of another being, close.

Three hours passing, or maybe more. Your breathing has slowed to match something you can't name but can feel.

You are not waiting for anything. Just here, inside this particular moment. Which turns out to be everything."

 Faru said he likes a 4-hour mix because he wants the music to start being the environment. This mix envelopes you and does become part of the surrounding space. Thanks for a great mix!

Cheers!

 

T R A C K L I S T :

• Loscil - Kamouraska
• Abul Mogard & Rafael Anton Irisarri - Waking Up Dizzy On A Bastion
• Multicast Dynamics - Circle One
• zakè, Ossa, ASC - Momentary Drift 3
• Flying Tulpa - Signless
• Roberto Musci - Ghost Train
• .Foundation - Empress
• Astrid Sonne - Everything is unreal
• Abul Mogard & Rafael Anton Irisarri - Place Of Forever
• Alva Noto - A Forest
• Adam Wiltzie - Stock Horror
• Anf - Mary Lynne
• Adam Wiltzie - Mexican Helium
• Adam Wiltzie - Dim Hopes
• Fergus Jones - A Leap
• Fergus Jones - Heima
• Adam Wiltzie - We Were Vaporised
• Fergus Jones - Heap
• Fergus Jones - It Should Be 
• .founcation - meteor hymn
• Clark - No Pills U
• DJ Healer - Run From
• Dylan Henner - A New Living Being Opens Its Eyes for the First Time
• Hotel Neon - A Possible Past
• Roberto Musci - Kami Shintai
• shipwreck detective - reentry
• Roberto Musci - Nexus on the Beach
• Hotel Neon - Reticent
• .foundation - heralds
• Hotel Neon - Tidal
• shipwreck detective - subside
• The Detroit Escalator Company - Tai Chi And Traffic Lights
• Flying Tulpa - Forever Lost - 02 From Place to Place
• Rod Modell - Grotto Of The Sun - Part 2
• Toki Fuko - Spirit Medicine - Part One
• Faru - Unreleased
• Faru - Unreleased
• Faru - Unreleased
• Faru - Unreleased
• The Detroit Escalator Company - The Inverted Man

Just My Type(records)

 

 

Recently I was messaging with LLM guest mixer, Roquen Lómë, about Type records - an experimental record label that was active from 2003 to 2013. Founded by John Twells & Stefan Lewandowski in the U.K., Type released some creative music in those ten years ranging from delicate piano to sculptured noise to glitchy electronica to ambient to psych folk.

I thought it would be fun to create a mix of music from Type records catalog - then I looked at that catalog and, wow they sure did release a ton of music. There's no way to make an exhaustive review of their releases so I decided to go chronologically through some of my favorites. That still only scratched the surface, I think I have more than 40 Type records in my collection. 

It was nice listening to some of the recordings for the first time in years and I hope you too enjoy this little trip into the past.

Cheers!

 

T R A C K L I S T :

• 00:00   Mokira - Untitled #3 (Album 2003)
• 04:25   Deaf Center - Walk (Neon City 2004)
• 07:21   Golden - Door of Our Home (Corduroy Road 2005)
• 10:37   Julien Neto - I(one) (Le Fumeur de Ciel 2005)
• 13:35   North Sea & Rameses III - Night Blossom Written in Sanskrit (Night of the Ankou 2005)
• 19:19   Xela - Bobble Hats In Summer (For Frosty Mornings And Summer Nights 2007)
• 25:08   The Alps - Trem Fanstasma (iii 2008)
• 31:14   Richard Skelton - Grange (Marking Time 2008)
• 34:00   Koen Holtkamp - You Mean The World To Me (Field Rituals 2008)
• 36:20   Grouper - We've All Time To Sleep (Dragging a Dead Deer Up A Hill 2008)
• 39:12   Helios - Hope Valley Hill (Caesura 2008)
• 44:05   Black To Comm - Hotel Freund (Alphabet 1968 2009)
• 47:57   Jóhann Jóhannsson - Pods (And in the Endless Pause There Came the Sound of Bees 2009)
• 50:55   Ezekiel Honig - Drafting Foresight (Folding In On Itself 2011)
• 54:35   Sylvain Chauveau - The Unbroken Line (Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated) 2010)
• 57:41   end

The Joy of Trains by Paul Asbury Seaman

Another train mix? Another Berlin-school mix? Yes and hell yes! I've been struggling to keep up with creating new mixes and then, like a train pulling into the station right on time, Paul comes to me with a new mix. Perfect timing!

This one has tunes that are all fairly recent so it was fun to hear new stuff or discover new artists. I'm always up for new Berlin-school music and this set from Paul does that with long, evolving tracks that suck you in and keep you going. Here's what Paul says about his latest collection:

"I expect that for people who commute to work by train, there’s not much novelty in it. But most of my train-themed mixes imagine a long-distance trip where the journey itself is the experience and the destination somewhere in your imagination. As I’ve said before, sequencer-based “Berlin School” synthesizer music is a natural fit to evoke the subtle, hypnotic rhythms of travel by train. The six artists in this set were all new to me this year—and what a joy it has been to discover them."

Thanks again, Paul, for this wonderful collection of train tracks.

Cheers!

 

T R A C K L I S T :

• 00:00   Jim Kirkwood - Tenebrae-The Moonbeam Road (Souls That Dance on the Edge of a Sword 2021)
• 09:27   L.V. Morris - Rings Around the Sun (Darkstar 2025)
• 18:25   Alba Ecstasy - Reverie One (Berlin School Reveries, Vol. 1 2025)
• 28:50   Grant Beasley - Observing Time (Dreams in Deep Space 2025)
• 37:47   DASK - Transitions (Transitions 2025)
• 55:00   DTime – In The Crystalline Light (Birth Of A Constellation 2024)
• 70:20   end

Quiet Fusion 2026

 

A little over a year ago I posted a mix of quiet fusion jazz tunes which I really enjoyed curating. So it was only a matter of time before I made another and here it is. This mix has some of the same artists as the first one - Mile Davis, Soft Machine, Gong, Jean-Luc Ponty, Brand X, along with new additions. Not surprisingly, most of the tracks are from the 1970s, a few from the 80s and one new track by Elephant9 released in 2024.

Here's the first quiet fusion mix - https://www.mixcloud.com/lowlight/quiet-fusion/

I still plan on doing a straightforward fusion mix but for now this quiet set will do nicely. It's perfect early morning coffee music.

Cheers!

 

T R A C K L I S T :

• 00:00   Hugh Hopper & Alan Gowen - Waltz For Nobby (Two Rainbows Daily 1980)
• 08:51   Weather Report - Morning Lake (Weather Report 1971)
• 13:08   Soft Machine - Snodland (Seven 1974)
• 14:40   Brand X - April (Product 1979)
• 16:05   Elephant9 - Chamber of Silence (Mythical River 2024)
• 18:36   Jean-Luc Ponty - Ethereal Mood (Cosmic Messenger 1978)
• 22:23   Frank Zappa - Zoot Allures (Zoot Allures 1976)
• 26:13   John Scofield - Gil B643 (Still Warm 1986)
• 32:40   Gong - Mireille (Gazeuse! 1976)
• 35:28   Miles Davis - Ascent (The Complete In a Silent Way Sessions 1969)
• 39:50   Sun Ra - Haverford Impromptu #1(Haverford College 1980 Solo Rhodes Piano 2019)
• 42:48   Quiet Sun - r.f.d. (Mainstream 1975)
• 46:00   Mahavishnu Orchestra - Nostalgia (Mahavishnu 1984)
• 51:45   Eberhard Weber - Quiet Departures (Fluid Rustle 1979)
• 57:57   Cinematic Orchestra - Flute (Every Day 2002)
• 64:28   end

WABI SABI by Daniel Hawkins

 

I've been super busy lately so it's perfect timing for another wonderful guest mix from friend of the feed, Daniel Hawkins. Daniel has done 4 mixes for LLM, each of them a great ambient journey. You can find them here:

Amiably Ambient
The Silence Between
Dark Woods
Metallic Memories

 

"This one takes some thoughtful curating to come up with such a cohesive set. Here what Daniel has to say about the mix:

 

"Wabi Sabi conveys feelings of desolation and solitude. Within Mahayana Buddhism these can be considered positive traits, representing release from the material world and the possibility of transcendence to a simpler life. As Mahayana philosophy emphasizes direct experience over verbal explanation, Wabi Sabi may be best understood in a non-verbal, experiential way.

According to Richard Powell, "Wabi Sabi nurtures all that is authentic by acknowledging three simple realities: nothing lasts, nothing is finished, and nothing is perfect."

Many forms of Japanese art have been influenced by Zen and Mahayana philosophy over the past thousand years. The contemplation and acceptance of imperfection, as well as the awareness of constant flux and impermanence, have been particularly important to Japanese arts and culture.

Awareness of the transience of all things heightens appreciation of their beauty, and evokes a gentle sadness at their passing.

So I’d been working on this mix for months - adding metallophonic cuts that caught my fancy - as a follow up to last year’s Metallic Memories mix.  The mix got to over 3 hours - and I wasn’t sure Dave would be amused.  They were all good pieces of music - but I thought maybe a tighter focus would make a more cohesive mix.  As I trimmed it down the Wabi Sabi theme seemed to fit the mood and I think makes a nice set.  I hope you agree."

 

Thanks for another fantastic mix, Daniel.

 

Cheers!

 

[ s t r e a m ]    [ d o w n l o a d ]    [ a p p l e _ p o d c a s t s ]

 

T R A C K L I S T :

• 00:00   Anaamaly - I Am Inspired by Possibility (Urban Metta, Vol. 2 2017)
• 06:10   Masayoshi Fujita - As Dusk Falls(Feat. NATURE) (As Dusk Falls 2025)
• 09:45   Luis Miehlich & Marty Hicks - Upon the Winds of Change (Reflections Vol. 2)
• 14:15   Zheleznyak - Water Talk (Attenuated In Ambient)
• 18:42   CSillagkod - Kettoscsillag (Silent World 2014)
• 21:55   Jogging House - Fingers (The Ambient Zone: Collection 006 2020)
• 25:45   Steve Good - Infinite Rainbows (Arise, Decay, Sustain, Release 2024)
• 32:05   Robot Koch - Kassel(Foam and Sand rework) (The Next Billion Years - Foam and Sand reworks 2022)
• 36:00   Marsen Jules - Yara 4 (Yara 2009)
• 43:10   Tapes and Topographies - Holograms (Partial Holograms 2025)
• 47:50   Heavenchord - Field Recordings #19 (Field Recordings #4 2022)
• 56:05   Calm Whale - Flower of Transformation (Flower of Transformation 2025)
• 65:17   end

Hushed Whispers by Roquen Lómë

 

I am listening to this guest mix as I type this and I am loving this set. Curated by Roquen Lómë, this is a wonderful collection of tracks for slowing down, for introspection. You can find some of his stuff on Mixcloud - https://www.mixcloud.com/roguenlome/

Here's what he has to say about the mix:

"There's something magical about listening to music late at night. You can dim the lights or turn them off entirely and immerse yourself in the sound. Your perception shifts just enough to highlight subtle noises, making any voices feel intimately near, though sometimes they may not be real. At times, they exist, and other times, they arise from your imagination or the onset of sleep. Most of the used tracks feature some form of vocal or whisper-like quality, though they may not always be tied to a human voice. I still tend to include vocal-driven songs into my mixes to provide an engaging contrast to the predominantly ambient and electronic sounds, ensuring the listener remains alert throughout the journey."

Thanks for a lovely mix!

Cheers!

 

T R A C K L I S T :

• 00:00  Colin Stetson - Morning Of (The First 2018)
• 02:13  Anne Müller - Solo? Repeat! (Heliopause 2019)
• 07:50  Sjors Mans - Big Ballad (Noord 2019)
• 14:27  Malibu - Cheirosa '94 (Palaces of Pity 2022)
• 16:05  Mowg - The Way Home (Burning 2019)
• 19:04  Brombaer - Cosmo Pollen (Stars 2013)
• 21:40  Ben Lukas Boysen & Sebastian Plano - Winding And Unwinding (Everything 2017)
• 24:08  Sonmi451 - Brenta (Panta Rei 2017)
• 28:34  The Phonometrician - We're Burning (Mnemosyne 2019)
• 31:54  Ólafur Arnalds - Particles (Island Songs 2016)
• 35:39  Otto A. Totland - Pinô (Pinô 2014)
• 38:03  Glåsbird - Austfonna (Svalbarð 2019)
• 42:51  Marek Kamiński - Long Hands (Not Here 2019)
• 46:29  Rauelsson - Split (Vora 2013)
• 51:52  Sven Laux - Fisher (Schachmatt 2018)
• 56:00  Deaf Center - Yet To Come (Low Distance 2019)
• 58:22  Lana Del Rey - Hope Is A Dangerous Thing For A Woman Like Me To Have - But I Have It (Norman Fucking Rockwell! 2019)

Current Ambient Obsessions April 2026

 

We've had a few guest mixes recently with a couple more on the way so I figured we needed a straightforward ambient mix in between all the guest sets. This mix features all music from 2026, except the track by Slow Dancing Society & zakè which is from 2025. This also features some of my favorite ambient albums of the year so far:

> Six Missing - drift, sway

> James Murray - Solitude and Silence

> Clariloops - As The Light Fades

> David Cordero - La Imagen Muda

 

LINKS TO ALL THE MUSIC USED IN THIS MIX:

• https://norayrecords.bandcamp.com/album/la-imagen-muda
• https://sixmissing.bandcamp.com/album/drift-sway
• https://slowcraft.bandcamp.com/album/solitude-and-silence
• https://whitelabrecs.bandcamp.com/album/the-quiet-below
• https://arborescence32.bandcamp.com/album/bouquet-sauvage
• https://zakedrone.bandcamp.com/album/stars-silence
• https://projektrecords.bandcamp.com/album/infinite-and-unbound
• https://kordelrecords.bandcamp.com/album/les-id-es
• https://davidcordero.bandcamp.com/album/how-to-make-sense-of-downtime
• https://anthene.bandcamp.com/album/great-plains
• https://secretdomainlabel.bandcamp.com/album/heavenchord-infinity-dots-armenia

 The mix is very chill, very ambient. I hope you like it.

Cheers!

( ( ( ( ( ( T R A C K L I S T ) ) ) ) ) )

• 00:00   David Cordero - Aion (La Imagen Muda 2026)
• 03:24   Six Missing - afternoon walk (drift, sway 2026)
• 07:07   James Murray - All Mountains Are Blue (Solitude And Silence 2026)
• 10:56   Clariloops - As The Light Fades (The Quiet Below 2026)
• 15:15   Arborescence - The Fine Grains of Memory (Bouquet Sauvage 2026)
• 21:15   Slow Dancing Society & zakè - The Quiet Of First Light(excerpt) (Stars & Silence 2025)
• 28:40   Dirk Serries - Everything Is Known, Part Two (Infinite And Unbound 2026)
• 36:20   Phloe - Le Départ (Les Idées 2026)
• 43:13   Wil Bolton & David Cordero - And Strange the Wind Lifts (How to Make Sense of Downtime 2026)
• 47:00   anthéne & far away nebraska - miles to go (reat plains 2026)
• 50:55   Heavenchord & Infinity Dots - Lament (Armenia 2026)
• 58:50   Six Missing - peaceful sleep (drift 2026)
• 61:55   end

Train to Redemption by Paul Asbury Seaman

 

We are in for a real treat with this latest guest mix from Paul Asbury Seaman. Paul has done a bunch of "train" mixes over the years. He has also done several Berlin-School mixes. This one could be my favorite combo of the two themes. 

 

This wonderful mix plays right into my current obsession with the Berlin-School subgenre. I can't say enough about how much I love this mix. As I have stated here previously, I've been on a Berlin-School bender for the last few years. Although, now that I think about it, my return to this style has gone on long enough that it is no longer a bender or binge. It's just outright love for this genre. 

 

Paul has created an absolute gem so I'll let him tell you more about it:

 

“People get ready…” Popular culture, especially in music, has long used the association with trains as an image of redemption. Part of the seductive appeal of long-distance travel is that something we experience might change or enlighten us. On a train we are free of the obligations and stress of driving, but also have a more private, sedentary experience conducive to withdrawing into ourselves than on a boat, a ship or a plane, yet--to emphasize the metaphorical lesson--in stillness we are also moving forward. This is the paradox: hurtling across the landscape (or through time) while sitting comfortably, without moving. Watching. Rejuvenating."

 Thanks again, Paul, for curating this fantastic collection of train tracks. ;-)

 Cheers!

 

T R A C K L I S T :

• 00:00   Hollan Holmes - So Far Away (The Sanctity of Rust 2026)
• 04:55   Rudy Adrian - Rail Corridor(Rocky Mtns, Colorado) (Concerts In The USA 2003)
• 13:50   Robert Rich - Sky Tunnel (Electric Ladder 2006)
• 22:08   DTime - A Gleaming Silver Thread (Weaving A Dream 2024)
• 37:33   Aleksi Perälä - FI3AC2513503 (GRACE 15 2025)
• 42:54   Craig Padilla & Marvin Allen - Undercurrents of Change (Unfolding Skies 2026)
• 48:04   Alba Ecstasy - Reverie Two (Berlin School Reveries, Vol. 1 2025)
• 58:40   Dream Sequence - Turn off the lights (Live at The ICA 2026)
• 67:37   David Helpling & Eric Taylor - For Those in Shadow (The Precious Dark 2025)
• 73:33   Lars Tellmann - Midwinter Train (Komorebi Winterlight 2026)
• 78:54   end

Kosmische Musik - A Starter Guide Vol. 2 by Erwin Broers

 

To finish the first quarter of the year we get another excellent berlin-school mix from EM master, Erwin Broers. Just like his ECM mix posted last month, Erwin sent me this mix last year but I spaced out and forgot I had until this year. Luckily for historical mixes like this one, the post is evergreen and can be appreciated anytime.

I'll repost what he said about volume 1:

"Here's a follow-up on my mix "Back To The Roots Of Berlin School". As you recall it featured a collection of electronic music tracks from the 1990s, that were inspired by the patterns, sounds and analog instruments of the 1970s and early 1980s. Back then, nobody talked about "Berlin School Electronic Music". That label would only appear somewhere mid 1990s, probably to honour the place where the genre was born. Fans in the early days would rather use the term "Kosmische Musik" (German for "Cosmic Music"). An explanation for the "cosmic" element is to be found in the use of the step sequencer, which made it easy to create hypnotic rhythm loops with up to 32 notes or steps, set a tempo, and mix them over electronic drones, soundscapes, soloing, washes, white noise and space sounds. The effect was to “float” the listener through endless terrestrial or cosmic space. For those not keen on using illicit substances, it was an interesting and harmless alternative "trip"!

I thought about creating a mix of some classic pieces from that first era, but soon found out one mix would not be enough to do justice to all the fantastic "Cosmic Music" that was made back then. So we get two mixes! This post is for volume 2 and you can find volume 1 here - https://lowlightmixes.blogspot.com/2025/06/kosmische-musik-starters-guide-vol-1.html

 

Thanks, Erwin, for another great cosmic trip!

 

Cheers!

 

T R A C K L I S T :

• 00:00:00   Tim Blake - New Jerusalem (Blake's New Jerusalem, 1978)
• 00:16:01   Jean-Michel Jarre - Oxygène parts 1 & 2 (Oxygène, 1976)
• 00:31:14   Vangelis - Soil Festivities part 2 (Soil Festivities, 1984)
• 00:37:25   Alan Parsons Project - The Gold Bug (The Turn Of A Friendly Card, 1980)
• 00:41:47   Robert Schroeder - The Day After X (Harmonic Ascendant, 1979)
• 00:49:22   Edgar Froese - Maroubra Bay (Epsilon In Malaysian Pale, 1975)
• 00:53:24   Ole Højer Hansen - Song Blue (Nudity, 1988)
• 01:00:30   Synco - Silent Water ('85-'89, 1990)
• 01:02:40   Mergener & Weisser - Sunbeam (Beam-Scape, 1984)
• 01:12:52   Wavestar - Chase The Evening (Moonwind, 1987)
• 01:25:26   Tangerine Dream - Logos Live part 1 (2nd movement) (Logos, 1982)
• 01:38:46   Manuel Göttsching - Dream (Dream & Desire, rec.1977-pub.1991)
• 01:44:24   Klaus Schulze - Georg Trakl (X - Sechs Musikalische Biographien, 1978)
• 01:49:44   Michael Hoenig - Hanging Garden Transfer (Departure From The Northern Wasteland, 1977)
• 02:00:30   end

Sleep comes like a drug

 

 

I was listening to some U2 tunes recently and in the song "In God's Country" there's a line - "Sleep comes like a drug in God's country." I liked the "sleep comes like a drug" part and thought it would make a good title for a sleep mix. So I got right to work and found some great, recent tracks that are perfect for sleeping.

Cue up the mix, climb into bed, and drift off to sleep.

 

LINKS TO ALL THE MUSIC USED IN THIS MIX:

https://homenormal.bandcamp.com/album/great-plains

https://www.beatport.com/release/glass/5926376

https://aliodie.bandcamp.com/album/vimana-ascensional-waves

https://sixmissing.bandcamp.com/album/drift

https://tonepoet.bandcamp.com/album/radiant-pastures

https://thelonelybell.bandcamp.com/album/time-lost

https://phelios.bandcamp.com/album/dyson-sphere-beta-2

https://steveroach.bandcamp.com/album/sentient-being

https://cosmicleaf.bandcamp.com/album/cellular-universe-6

 

CHEERS!

 

T R A C K L I S T :

• 00:00   anthéne & Far away Nebraska - meet me in saskatchewan (great plains 2026)
• 05:11   SVLBRD - Glass (2026)
• 07:20   Alio Die - Unknown Oceans And Starry Seas (Vimana Ascensional Waves 2026)
• 15:43   Six Missing - drift: sandcastles (drift 2026)
• 18:40   Tonepoet - A Land Of Eternal Spring (Radiant Pastures 2026)
• 25:45   The Lonely Bell - Elsewhere (Time Lost 2025)
• 30:45   Martin Stürtzer - 22:27 (Dyson Sphere Beta 2026)
• 36:33   Steve Roach - Angels At Rest (Sentient Being 2026)
• 43:50   Eguana - Cellular Universe 6 (Cellular Universe 6 2026)
• 66:10   end