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echospace

 

 

I am a big fan of ambient dub music. Especially the more atmospheric stuff from DeepChord, Rod Modell, Variant, cv313, Shorelights and more. I've made ambient dub mixes in the past and they are some of my favorites. 

For this dubby mix I decided to focus on artists from the echospace [detroit] record label. Is echospace a label or an artist? I think it's both. And then there is Deepchord presents Echospace and Echospace [sounds] Presents, which confuses things even more. All I know is, I like the sounds that Echospace & Deepchord produce so I made a mix featuring those sounds.

Cheers!

 

T R A C K L I S T :

• 00:00 Echospace [sounds] Presents - Forever In The Sky (Sequential Space 2022)
• 05:00 Intrusion - Twilight (The Seduction of Silence 2009)
• 10:00 Deepchord - Untitled 9 (Von Schommer 2002)
• 12:25 Radius - interpolation [restoration two] (Interpolation Tapes + Obsolete Machines 2019)
• 17:40 variant - sequential sleep [granular mix] (sequential sleep [series collection] 2025)
• 25:45 cv313 - Satosphere Sessions [Remnant I] (Satosphere Sessions [Transmission III] 2020)
• 33:33 Model 500 - Starlight (Echospace dub) (Starlight 2008)
• 36:42 Deepchord - Untitled 6 (Liumin Reduced 2010)
• 39:45 Variant - As Time Stood Still (The Setting Sun 2008)
• 49:45 Radius - transverse waves [tape master] (Interpolation Tapes + Obsolete Machines 2019)
• 55:40 Intrusion - Under The Ocean (The Seduction of Silence 2009)
• 59:39 Echospace [sounds] Presents - Our Last Sanctuary (Sequential Space 2022)

A Foggy Winter’s Dub

 

 

This mix is much more straightforward than the Antarctica set. This mix follows my "dubby & dreamy" formula of ethereal ambient dub tracks with a few gentle beats and lots of synth washes.

Here are the links to all the music used in this mix:

 

• https://richiehawtin.bandcamp.com/album/consumed-in-key
• https://ultimae.bandcamp.com/album/onwards-system
• https://ultimae.bandcamp.com/album/isolated
• https://arcticdub.bandcamp.com/album/arctic-dub-sursumcorda-compilation-v5
• https://shop.silentseason.com/album/infinite-horizon
• https://ultimae.bandcamp.com/album/gneiss-ep
• https://faintmusic.bandcamp.com/album/north-paths
• https://motionfield.bandcamp.com/album/optical-flow
• https://earthensea.bandcamp.com/album/grass-and-trees
• https://asc77.bandcamp.com/album/sequenced
• https://driftdeeper.bandcamp.com/album/mr-zu-driftwood-ep-ddr017
• https://echospacedetroit.bandcamp.com/album/starlight
• https://shop.silentseason.com/album/entire

 

Cheers!

 

T R A C K L I S T :

• 00:00 PLastikman & Chilly Gonzalez - Ekko(In Key) (Consumed In Key 2022)
• 03:39 CELL - Onwards System - Fugitive Perpetuity (Onwards System 2022)
• 09:00 ASC - Solitude (Ultimae Records - Isolated 2022)
• 12:10 Solar Debris - It's All Dark When You Are Gone (Arctic Dub Compilation 2019)
• 16:50 Owl - Distant Transmission (Infinite Horizon 2021)
• 20:20 EROT - Observer Effect (Gneiss EP 2021)
• 24:50 MYKJA - Vera Á Reiki (North Paths 2017)
• 32:40 Motionfield - Midnight Metro (Optical Flow 2014)
• 38:32 Earthen Sea - Shallow, Shadowless (Grass & Trees 2019)
• 43:20 ASC - Sequence 4 (Sequenced 2017)
• 47:00 Mr Zu - Echova (Driftwood EP 2016)
• 53:00 Model 500 - Starlight(Intrusion dub) (2008)
• 57:45 Daar - Coda (Entire 2021)
• 60:00 end

Keeping Time in the Golden Hour

 

 

I'm in the process of making lists of my top 5 instrumental albums for each year from 1970 to the present. Yeah, it's going take a while. So I was digging around in my music hard drive looking for music that would fit those lists and I stumbled upon the track Tulpa Ovi by Robag Wruhme. I immediately loved the feel of tune and knew I needed it in a mix.

 

The cut has a feeling of motion similar to others I've used in train themed mixes. But it was more gentle, almost wistful. It made me think of traveling during sunset or the golden hour. Hence the title "Keeping Time in the Golden Hour."

 

From there I collected tracks, new and old, with a similar vibe. In addition to the cut by Robag Wruhme my other favorites in this mix are "St. Catherine and the Calm" by Francis Harris and "Ankeney, Iowa" by Tiki Obmar. I like all the tracks in this mix but those two really get me.

 

Normally I'd say this would be a perfect mix for traveling during the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday but it's 2020 so stay home. Put this mix on and do some virtual traveling.

 

Cheers!

 

 

 

T R A C K L I S T I N G :

• 00:00    Francis Harris - St. Catherine and the Calm (Trivial Occupations 2018)
• 08:25    Robag Wruhme - Tulpa Ovi (Thora Vukk 2011)
• 10:42    Night Sea - Cherry (Still 2020)
• 16:18    Tiki Obmar - Ankeney, Iowa (High School Confidential 2003)
• 28:18    Ghosting Season - Through Your Teeth ( The Very Last Of The Saints 2012)
• 32:43    Saphileaum - Soft Warming (In Distant Terra 2020)
• 37:37    Sven Laux - Grass-Covered Plain (We Were Here 2013)
• 46:08    Halftribe & Spinnet - Mr & Mrs Everywhere (Patterns of Sync 2020)
• 53:14    Robag Wruhme - Prognosen Bomm (Thora Vukk 2011)
• 56:25    vau - Nightfall (ways of stillness 2018)
• 63:43    end

 

Dub Train Dub Station

 

I have been planning on a new dubby mix for a while and I have been planning for a mix with a slow-ish train vibe. Somehow those two concepts merged and became this new mix - Dub Train Dub Station.

There's not much else to say about this mix. It's pretty much what you'd expect - a collection of mostly dubby tracks that have a definite train feel, combining two of my favorite vibes in one mix.

Cheers!

 

T R A C K L I S T :

• 00:00    Ryan James Ford - Eiliat Tirrayl (Stone Mountain Red 2016)
• 04:15    Yagya - Snowflake 2 (Rhythm of Snow 2002)
• 09:10    Martin Goodwin - Nekoya (Hearth 2017)
• 14:15    Topdown Dialectic - A1 (Topdown Dialectic 2018)
• 18:54    Fluxion - Down the Line (Perspectives 2020)
• 24:45    Loscil - Steam (Plume 2006)
• 30:30    Gacha Bakradze - Sun Watch (We Must Be Woods 2017)
• 33:54    Dub Tractor - Pull Dub (Delay 2000)
• 38:12    Dino Sabatini - Follow Me (Omonimo 2016)
• 41:20    Jun Fukamachi - Breathing New Life (Kankyō Ongaku: Japanese Ambient, Environmental & New Age Music 1980-1990  2019)
• 45:50    Beatrice Dillon & Call Super - Fluo (Inkjet / Fluo 2017)
• 48:35    Jonny Nash & Suzanne Kraft - Crushing Indifference (MATstudio 3 2020)
• 53:15    Time Rival - Loopback Caravan (Home Diaries 018 2020)
• 59:10    Heavenchord - Endless Worlds (Infinity From The Inside 2018)
• 69:55    end

 

dubstrates & dreamstates

 

 

Ambient dub is one of my favorite sub-genres. I've done several "dubby & dreamy" mixes over the years. Such as:

 

http://lowlightmixes.blogspot.com/2015/09/dubby-rainy.html

http://lowlightmixes.blogspot.com/2016/05/dubscapes-seacapes.html

http://lowlightmixes.blogspot.com/2013/01/dubscapes-dreamscapes.html

http://lowlightmixes.blogspot.com/2012/02/dubby-noisy.html

http://lowlightmixes.blogspot.com/2013/08/dub-transmissions.html

http://lowlightmixes.blogspot.com/2010/12/subatomic-dubscapes.html

http://lowlightmixes.blogspot.com/2008/12/motion-for-relief.html

 

There could be a couple more mixes floating out there but those are the ones that I could recall.

 

This new mix follows in that same dubby/dreamy mode that I love. Also I have found that these ambient dub mixes work well as stargazing companions. So the timing for this one is good as the Perseid meteor shower is at it's peak tonight & tomorrow night.

 

Cheers!

 

T R A C K L I S T :

• 00:00    Halftribe - Balm
• 03:13    Docetism - One Forest
• 06:55    Segue - Vapour Trails
• 09:55    Pan American - Double Rail
• 13:39    Hannu Karjalainen - Love Unconditional
• 17:00    Martin Goodwin - Fifty
• 19:45    Radius - Always Dreaming
• 24:25    Dub Surgeon - Crazy Dub
• 26:10    Yagya - Very Long Daydream
• 28:30    Lars Leonhard - Circular
• 32:10    Lee Gamble - Helicopter
• 33:30    Ohrwert - Sonometric
• 40:00    SVLBRD - Vessel
• 45:00    Snufmumriko- Eterspar
• 50:15    Fluxion - Moving On
• 54:20    Joergmueller - DFM #8
• 59:15    Mokira - Untitled #6
• 62:20    Gray Acres - A Beauty Not Theirs
• 65:55    Purl & Hivetribe - Airwaves
• 74:38   end

 

 

 

A winter's dub

I love dubby ambient.  I think this is my third dub mix this year.  I'm sure I'll grow tired of this style of music but for now I'm soaking it in.  It was snowing while I made this mix & the music just seemed to fit the winter mood.  Hence the name "A Winter's Dub."

Many of the tracks in this mix came from Bandcamp.  As a matter of fact, all the links in the tracklist are to Bandcamp pages.  I love Bandcamp.  So easy & convenient.  And great for discovering new music.  I bought a bunch of stuff this year by following other folks & sampling we they buy.

Here is my Bandcamp collection for anyone that's interested.

Enjoy the dub!

T R A C K L I S T

• 00:00    The Sight Below - Further Away
• 05:20    Optical Frameworks - Flicker Platform, Luses
• 09:40    Adam Michalak - Immersed in Dreams
• 16:35    Axs - Frozen Signpost
• 24:30    Blamstrain - Tundra I 
• 32:50    VidasM - Mire
• 37:20    Sen - Soul Rain
• 41:40    Vectrex - Silent
• 46:50    krill.minima - Surface from the Groundless Oceans
• 53:40    Seaman & The Tattered Sail - Matter & Light
• 1:00:50    Seas - Arctic
• 1:11:50    Optical Frameworks - One Semitone
• 1:18:00    Marco Madia - Music for Plants
• 1:20:25    Blamstrain - Sunday Dub 6pm
• 1:25:20    The Nautilus Project - The Enchanting Forest
• 1:41:20    end

dub transmissions

I happened to come across a new tune from Moritz Von Oswald Trio.  The song, Blue Dub, has this great, slow, sparse dub thing going on that I love.  I knew as soon as I heard it that I'd have to make a new mix of dub related tunes.

So, "dub transmissions" is, duh, is mix of dub tunes.  I've done them before & this one is similar to the others.  I think the previous ones have had parts that are a little noisier & spacier than this mix.  Most of these tunes have a beat, although that beat can be very laid back and muffled.  

Enjoy.

T R A C K L I S T :

1. 00:00    Moritz Von Oswald Trio - Blue Dub
2. 05:30    The Black Dog - Sleep Deprivation 1
3. 09:30    krill.minima - Kalypso
4. 12:50    Holger Flinsch - Navigator
5. 19:10    Massive Attack - Cool Monsoon
6. 23:00    Deepcord - Theme From Silent World
7. 32:20    Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement - The Spirit Wore the Shoes of the Boy
8. 37:10    Iminazole - Sunny
9. 41:20    The Green Kingdom - dustloop4
10. 44:05    Deadbeat - Portable Memory
11. 47:30    As If - Crumble to Dust
12. 54:30    Pablo Bolivar - Walk Man Fever
13. 1:05:05    As If - To Be Ground
14. 1:09:30    Bjorn Rohde - Forest of Forgotten Hearts
15. 1:15:35    end

 

 

 

dubscapes & dreamscapes

I love the end of the year because of all the lists that get posted all over the place.  I love discovering releases that I knew nothing about.  The folks over at Headphone Commute have started their mammoth collection of 15 best of lists here. Over at A Closer Listen they have lists for best field recordings, modern composition, experimental, post rock, overall, etc. and guest lists. Secret Thirteen has a ton of guest lists where I found a bunch of stuff I'd never heard of. There is a nice eclectic list over at Textura that is worth checking out. While cruising these list I came across some excellent electronic music.  Some of techno, some idm, some dub.  I found enough ambient/dub stuff to make me want to do a new dubby & dreamy mix.  So that's what this new mix is, a collection slow beats with a dubby feel with some ambient synth washes to keep things dreamy. T R A C K L I S T :

• 00:00    Ezekiel Honig & Morgan Packard - Balm
• 02:15    Submersion - Erosion II
• 04:00    Ezekiel Honig & Morgan Packard - Hibernate
• 06:55    Silent Harbour - Descending Radius Curve
• 09:00    Kabana - Reflex
• 13:55    Ghosting Season - Through Your Teeth
• 18:00    DJAx - Machines
• 21:00    Deepchord - Rippling
• 22:00    Arc of Doves - Arabesque
• 24:45    1991 - High-Tech Slow-Life
• 28:00    Andy Stott - Luxury Problems
• 30:30    Deepchord - Theme from Silent World
• 36:40    Alteria Percepsyne - Circumvent
• 39:10    sonmi451 - Vladivostok
• 44:00    Coppice Halifax - Dusk II (axs silent night breathing)
• 49:50    Voice from the Lake - Hgs
• 53:55    Lee Gamble - 3,4 synthetics
• 54:25    Willits & Sakamoto - I Don’t Want To Understand
• 1:00:33    end

dubby & dreamy

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Ambient dub, minimal dub, ambi-dub, whatever you want to call it, is something that I listen to every now & then.  I like making mixes with this music because the tracks flow so well together. I've done three previous dub mixes and while they are all laid back, this one may be more so.  It collects some dubby cuts & weaves in some noise & washes of field recordings from the fantastic ambi-dub recording, "DeepChord presents Echospace - Liumin."  The bonus cd for that album is all the field recordings that were the source material for the tracks on the other disc. Not all the cuts are straight up dub tracks, but they do all fit together nicely.  Almost all the tracks are new with the exception of the krill.minima & Plastikman tunes.

Enjoy. T R A C K L I S T :

• 00:00    Andy Stott - Submission
• 01:10    Sven Schienhammer -  Sound Signals for Other Planets
• 04:15    Bop - My Heart in a Freezer
• 06:10    Demdike Stare - Matilda's Dream
• 09:50    Resoe - Edith's Serenade(r.i.p)
• 13:52    Overcast Sound - Devil's Mountain
• 14:25    Robag Wruhme - Brucke Eins
• 14:25    Deepchord - Untitled #1 (runs concurently)
• 15:50    Vatican Shadow - missing hmm364 squadron purple foxes assassins
• 18:05    Moritz Von Oswald Trio - Pattern #4
• 20:35    Demdike Stare - Nothing But The Night 2
• 22:50    Marow - Iridescence
• 24:15    Coppice Halifax - Sunken Dancehall
• 29:35    Sven Schienhammer - Being Immersed in Another World
• 35:55    Deepchord - Untitled #7
• 36:40    krill.minima - Princess of the Undersea Gardens
• 40:35    Koss - Monday Conversations
• 42:55    Coppice Halifax - Luxury
• 47:50    Plastikman - cor ten
• 50:10    Sven Schienhammer - Back Into The Here & Now
• 54:30    krill.minima - sommerdellen
• 57:45    end

subatomic dubscapes

The term "dubscapes" in the title of the mix pretty much says it all.  This is dub mix.  I've used dubby style songs in mixes before but never did a whole dub mix. Of course after setting out to do an all dub mix, I veered off course pretty quickly by including a cover of the Twin Peaks theme &  track from Vangelis.  I'd been looking for a way to work those two tunes into a mix & they seem to fit pretty well here. The Twin Peaks cover is by Talvihorros.  He has an excellent recording out on Hibernate called "Music in Four Movements".  After buying that album Ben Chatwin(Talvihorros) was kind enough to send me a copy of his cover of the Twin Peaks theme.  I liked this version immediately & knew I had to find a home for it in a mix. One track in the mix is from an album that will end up in my top ten list this year.  The album is Deepchord presents Echospace - Liumin/Liumin Reduced.  It's a double album with the first being great ambient dub/techno and the second an album of field recorded treatments made by Rod Modell in Tokyo.  An immersive record that I highly recommend. The dub used in this mix is fairly ambient, especially towards the end where the ambient drones & washes come in & the beats slow way down. T R A C K L I S T :

• 00:00    Fluxion - Field
• 03:25    Polmo Polpo - Rottura
• 08:55    Marconi Union - Temperature Drop
• 13:28    Talvihorros - Twin Peaks Theme
• 17:55    Deepchord presents Echospace - In Echospace
• 21:30    Vangelis - Antartica
• 26:30    The Orb - Slug Dub
• 31:25    Rod Modell - Mars Oil
• 36:16    Fluxion - Plain
• 38:50    Mokira - Lord, Am I Going Down
• 42:00    Wixel - You're Inside Your Own shadow
• 44:45    Sval - Valldal
• 51:20    end