March 24th, 2019
Everything about trains is evocative. The sound of the whistle, the rhythm of the tracks, the sounds of the station, etc. Trains make for a perfect theme in electronic music mixes. Which is why you're bound to hear several of them this year from Low Light mixes.
This first one comes to us from my frequent collaborator, Paul Asbury Seaman. Not only has Paul done previous excellent mixes for me, he's also done a couple train mixes. Here's what he has to say about his latest creation...
“In my last mix I celebrated “liminal space,” the long in-betweens of life. Travel by train is both metaphor and literally that. Beyond the excitement of the busy station and going someplace new, for many of us the journey is the destination: the experience as both overview and connectedness, not felt from an airplane. The impetus for this mix was the just-released debut album of d’Voxx, on Ian Boddy’s UK label, DiN. And I dedicate it to the EuroPass, which ever since the 1960s has enabled vacationers and tourists from around the world to travel at highly-discounted rates—including by high-speed rail—anywhere in the 30 countries that are part of the system. Something that in the United States is, for now, only an ambient dream.”
The mix changes gears for the last tune, using sax, acoustics instruments and vocals but Paul thought it would fit well because A) it's called Train and B) it has "the dead-tired but satisfied feeling you have when you get home to your own bed after a long trip."
T R A C K L I S T :
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00:00 d'Voxx - Akalla Söder(2019 Télégraphe)
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08:44 Rival Consoles - Persona(2018 Persona)
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15:06 Stimulus Timbre - We Reached for the Sky(2017 A Place We Never Been)
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21:40 Steve Roach - Core Meditation 1(2017 CORE - Legacy Edition)
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30:05 Evan Marc & Steve Hillage - Alpha Phase(2008 Dreamtime Submersible)
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37:45 Aepiel - Aves(2012 Painting The Sky)
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46:20 Stimulus Timbre - Look at the Stars & Think of Us(2017 A Place We Never Been)
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51:54 His Name Is Alive - Train(2002 Last Night)
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January 22nd, 2015
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an expedition is launched
This is a follow up to an earlier mix Leaving the Station, which had a train theme. I had several people ask if I was planning on a follow up and, well, here it is.
My favorite track in this mix is El Divisadero by Chris Watson from his wonderful field recording album, El Tren Fantasma. I've used this track before but it's so awesome I just had to use it here.
Another track in this mix that I've used before is Dialing in the Sun by Paul Ellis. It's an excellent berlin school cut that has this great clicky-clack sound that works perfectly here.
The rest of the mix is a collection of old(Richard Pinhas) and new(Andy Stott) cuts.
On a side note, I don't know if anyone has noticed but embedded in each mp3 for download is the mix tracklist. So if you're playing it on your phone or on some pc players, you should be able to see the tracklist when the mix is playing.
Other mixes coming soon, or maybe I should say sometime this year, a sort of jazz mix, a new age massage mix, a sci fi mix, a dubby mix, a space rock mix, guest mixes and many more I haven't even thought of yet.
Enjoy
T R A C K L I S T :
- 00:00 Edinburgh - City Streets and Train Station
- 00:40 The Elf Machine - Asymmetric Transition
- 03:27 Arovane - Passage to Nagoya
- 05:15 Locust - I'll Be There
- 08:57 Forrest Fang - Bothered
- 12:27 Paul Ellis - Dialing in the Sun
- 17:45 Chris Watson - El Divisadero
- 22:00 Circular - Synchronus
- 29:00 The Black Dog - Exhibit 1.1
- 33:20 Function and Vatican Shadow - Things Unknown
- 40:20 Dub Tractor - More or Less Mono
- 44:08 The Field - Arpeggiated Love
- 48:55 Richard Pinhas - Melodic Simple Transition
- 52:15 Andy Stott - Science and Industry
- 57:57 Torn Hawk - She Happens
- 1:02:55 Ten and Tracer - Figure and Ground
- 1:06:05 Deepchord - Day's End
- 1:08:11 end
August 31st, 2014
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Sometimes I go through phases of music listening. I'll listen to a bunch of old prog rock for two weeks then move on. I pull out some old Cantebury Scene stuff from the 70s for awhile. Then I'll go on an early 80s new wave binge. Then Americana. Then ECM jazz.
This mix came out one such binge. I've been listening to a lot of Jean Michel Jarre & Tangerine Dream lately. Jean Michel Jarre was a college favorite of mine. My girlfriend in college loved JMJ. Which is probably why I married her - how many college girls like Jean Michel Jarre?!
While bingeing on JMJ & TD I knew that I wanted to use them in a mix and the train theme just seemed to flow naturally from there. So the first two JMJ tunes I chose specifically because of the train sounds in them. I think I'd like to do another berlin school mix with all artists and music from the 1970s.
Enjoy.
T R A C K L I S T :
- 00:00 Tangerine Dream - Love on a Real Train
- 03:40 Jean Michel Jarre - Magnetic Fields pt. 3
- 06:33 Dadub - Arrival
- 09:10 Miktek - Elsewhere(fade edit)
- 14:40 Evan Marc + Steve Hillage - Resurface
- 16:30 Tangerine Dream - Rain and Thunder(Sorcerer Cinematographic Score)
- 23:00 Jean Michel Jarre - Ethnicolor II
- 25:55 Grumbling Fur - Eyoreseye
- 31:33 Mark McGuire - The Instinct
- 37:25 ??? - ???
- 41:20 Mohn - Saturn
- 48:45 Plastikman - Locomotion
- 52:45 Jean Michel Jarre - Equinoxe VII
- 59:10 Tangerine Dream - The Dream Is Always The Same
- 1:02:24 end
