Episodes
Wednesday Aug 12, 2015
Music for the Perseid meteor shower
Wednesday Aug 12, 2015
Wednesday Aug 12, 2015
The title of this one pretty much says it all.
So download the mix, grab some bourbon, a blanket and head outside to witness the 2015 version of the Perseid meteor shower.
Enjoy
T R A C K L I S T :
- 00:00 Moesko - Stargazer
- 03:55 Marconi Union - Still
- 07:35 36 - Sky Fire
- 11:11 Alio Die - nuvole di palissandro
- 12:25 Alva Noto - Solphaer
- 17:55 Julio Di Benedetto - Original Light
- 26:26 Robert Davies - Nightshade
- 35:20 Klowknfe - Gamma
- 42:30 Horizon Fire - Earthlight
- 44:55 Moesko - Cloudgazer
- 47:55 Donnacha Costello - You Are Not Here
- 51:05 Marconi Union - Fading
- 57:15 end
Friday Dec 06, 2013
Deep Sky Time - music for stargazing 2013
Friday Dec 06, 2013
Friday Dec 06, 2013
I know this is not the best time of year for sitting out side and stargazing. At least not here in Wisconsin. But I haven't done a stargazing mix in a long time so i thought I'd throw this out there.
The piece that got me started on this mix isn't an actual song. It's NASA's Voyager spacecraft recording the sound of interstellar space. Voyager's plasma wave instrument detected the vibrations of dense interstellar plasma, or ionized gas, from October to November 2012 and April to May 2013. You can find the recording here... Voyager.
I couldn't resist using that sound as a launch pad for this mix. The rest is pretty straight forward ambient/space music. For some strange reason I felt compelled to make this mix nearly 2 hours long. If you want to lay outside for two hours & gaze at the night sky in the middle of December, better bring some scotch & an electric blanket. ;)
Enjoy.
T R A C K L I S T :
- 00:00 NASA Voyager recording of interstellar space
- 00:40 Loscil - Second Narrows Specta Ciera Version
- 03:30 Ishq - Globular Cluster
- 07:30 Harmony & Decay - Hypnotic Sequence
- 12:40 Eluder - The Event Horizon
- 14:50 Marsen Jules - A Room Full of History
- 19:15 Marconi Union - Always Numb
- 23:40 Porzellan - Floating Reception
- 24:30 Sonmi451 - Omicron Ceti
- 29:30 Loscil - ss1.2 unit circle
- 32:50 Wouter Veldhuis - Blue Forest I
- 36:00 Variant - Thru the Cosmos(ison + spica)
- 43:33 Brian Eno - Surf Birds
- 46:10 Mark Rownd - Place of Grace
- 52:20 Kissy Suzuki - rubbish & Beauties part 1
- 56:30 Altus - Floating Free
- 1:00:40 Diatonis - Whiring Above Our Heads
- 1:04:15 A Produce - Inner Sanctum
- 1:12:00 Aglaia - Dust Across the Border
- 1:15:30 Christopher Short - Unknown Constellation #2
- 1:22:30 Fripp & Eno - Meissa
- 1:29:10 Ithaca Trio - Catching Monkeys
- 1:34:00 Steve Roach - Deep Sky Time
- 1:41:10 Sylken - Sleepless
- 1:50:10 Deepchord - Driftwood
- 1:51:10 Vidna Obmana - Night Blooming
- 1:57:49 end
Friday Apr 26, 2013
Sci Fi Adventures - All These Worlds
Friday Apr 26, 2013
Friday Apr 26, 2013
- 00:00 Vangelis - Blush Response
- 04:00 Synergy - A Presuming to be Modern I
- 06:50 Richard Pinhas - L' Ethique
- 11:20 Lights Out Asia - All These Worlds are Yours
- 13:15 The Black Dog - Lounge
- 14:15 Frank Comstock - On the Dark Side of the Moon
- 16:00 Michael Garrison - Escape (music from the 21st century)
- 18:20 Synergy - Disruption in World Communications
- 22:00 David Bowie - Abdulmajid
- 25:10 Elf Machine - Evolutions Arrow
- 29:00 Underworld & John Murphy - Capa Meets the Sun
- 30:45 Vector Lovers - Girl + Robot
- 32:50 Maps & Diagrams - Skynet
- 35:30 Bruce Courtois - Inside the Black Hole (music from the 21st century)
- 37:10 Vangelis - Longing
- 38:35 Solar Fields - Blue Moon Station
- 45:00 Cliff Martinez - First Sleep
- 47:30 Rena Jones - The Problem of Time
- 49:50 Schengen - Me n' U
- 50:30 Lopside - To the Point of Obscurity
- 55:50 Vangelis - Fading Away
- 59:00 end
Sunday Aug 05, 2012
Music for a Mars landing
Sunday Aug 05, 2012
Sunday Aug 05, 2012
Back in November I did a mix for the launch of Curiosity, NASA's newest Mars rover. Now 8 months later, Curiosity has arrived at Mars. So this mix is music for landing on Mars, in honor of Curiosity's EDL or entry, descent and landing.
As I write this, the landing has not taken place yet. But I wanted to get the mix uploaded on the day of the landing. I'll update the post depending on the result of the EDL.
I started off this mix just picking electronic tunes I liked for this theme then quickly realized that many of the titles fit perfectly. Track titles such as "We Travel", "Bold Advances" "Flying (in crimson skies)" and "Arrival". So I looked for a few more with appropriate names, kept a few that had titles that didn't matter and the mix was launched.
Enjoy.
T R A C K L I S T :
- 00:00 Marconi Union - We Travel
- 06:55 Tycho - Adrift
- 14:40 Dub Trees - Dreamlab
- 17:35 Loops of Your Heart - End
- 22:50 Ricardo Donoso - conditional formatting descent
- 24:55 Lunar Testing Lab - Slinky Antenna
- 26:45 Bersarin Quartet - Der Mond, der Schnee und Du
- 30:47 Stendec - Descent
- 32:05 Helios - Bold Advances
- 34:15 Anenon - The Sea and The Stars
- 35:44 Clark - Skyward Bruise/Descent
- 37:15 Daft Punk - Arrival
- 38:56 Marconi Union - Flying (in crimson skies)
- 45:10 Ólafur Arnalds & Nils Frahm - b1
- 52:15 Altus - The Awe and Wonder
- 58:40 Wixel - Surface Dust
- 1:00:18 Hecq - Red Sky
Sunday Jul 22, 2012
The God Particle
Sunday Jul 22, 2012
Sunday Jul 22, 2012
- 00:00 Miles Tilman - Particle
- 03:33 Saul Stokes - Vapor Trails
- 07:30 Mr. Projectile - Tiny Distances
- 08:30 Can - Quantum Physics
- 09:44 Baffo Banfi - Love Magnetic Research
- 14:23 Burial - Shell of Light
- 18:27 John Adams - Short Ride in a Fast Machine
- 23:05 Cliff Martinez - Hi Energy Proton Accelerator
- 25:05 Benjamin Dauer - Sweet Collision
- 30:20 Loren Dent - Sub-Atomic Love Song
- 32:45 Spheruleus - Suspended Particles
- 35:30 Martin Herterich - Silent Fields 2
- 42:25 Maps & Diagrams - Particles of Earth
- 44:44 Pale Sketcher - Tiny Universes
- 48:52 Dub Trees - Magnetica
- 52:21 Jean Michel Jarre - Magnetic Fields part 1
- 59:00 Vir Unis - They Call It The God Particle
- 1:04:11 end
Wednesday Jun 06, 2012
Transit of Venus
Wednesday Jun 06, 2012
Wednesday Jun 06, 2012
- 00:00 Casino Versus Japan - Names on Maps of Venus part 6
- 01:27 Laurie Anderson - Transitory Life
- 02:39 Ishq - Diving into Sun
- 8:33 Glen Velez - In Transit
- 10:50 Jon Hopkins - The Wider Sun
- 12:15 Steve Hauschildt - Overnight Venusian
- 16:15 Paul Ellis - Dialing in the Sun
- 24:00 Ishq - The Sun Arcs a Smile
- 26:15 Jim Cole & Spectral Voices - Sun Shower
- 27:40 Motion Sickness of Time Travel - Late Day Sun Silhouettes
- 36:00 Stars of the Lid - Sun Drugs
- 45:40 Montauk - Setting Sun(fragment 1)
- 46:50 Steve Roach & Kevin Braheny - In the Heat of Venus
- 51:10 Casino Versus Japan - Names on Maps of Venus part 1
- 55:55 Biosphere - As the Sun Kissed the Horizon
- 57:24 end
Sunday Apr 22, 2012
alien architecture
Sunday Apr 22, 2012
Sunday Apr 22, 2012
- 00:00 Anduin - We Swallowed the Night
- 01:56 Harold Budd - Dark Star
- 04:16 Hecq - aback
- 06:23 Pjusk - Kram
- 11:44 Robert Rich & Ian Boddy - Threshold
- 12:28 nebulo & druc drac - rive nord - rive sud
- 14:30 EU - 60 Planets
- 16:37 Monolake - phenomenon
- 19:10 Robert Rich & Ian Boddy - Methane
- 22:10 Anduin - The Voyeurs Wall of Glass
- 25:25 Lights Out Asia - All These Worlds Are Yours
- 27:15 Jon Hopkins - Cold Out There
- 30:16 Pjusk - Granitt
- 33:33 Pjusk - Flint
- 37:15 Loscil - Pressure
- 39:55 Roly Porter - Arrakis
- 42:05 Loren Connors - Red Mars
- 43:15 Robert Rich & Ian Boddy - Ice Fields
- 48:05 Saul Stokes - We Resolve
- 53:10 Robert Rich & Ian Boddy - Last Outpost
- 55:04 end
Sunday Mar 04, 2012
1969 - trans lunar injection
Sunday Mar 04, 2012
Sunday Mar 04, 2012
- Bowie - Space Oddity
- King Crimson - Moonchild
- Miles Davis - Sanctuary
- Pink Floyd - Sysyphus
- Terry Riley - Poppy Noggod
- Genesis - In the Beginning
- Soft Machine - Spaced
- Don Cherry - Man on the Moon
- Philip Glass - Music in Contrary Motion
- Mort Garson - Walking in Space
- Beatles - Across the Universe (covered by Phosphorescent)
- 00:00 John Kennedy - "We choose to go to the moon" speech
- 00:00 Apollo 11 l- anding on the moon
- 00:58 Boards of Canada - 1969
- 04:47 David Bowie - Space Oddity (Sébastien Bédé Remix)
- 07:20 David Bowie - Space Oddity continues (demo version)
- 09:50 King Crimson - Moonchild
- 13:25 Miles Davis - Sanctuary
- 18:00 Air - Moon fever
- 21:12 Pink Floyd - Sysyphus part 4
- 23:20 Terry Riley - Poppy Nogood and the Phantom Band
- 28:25 Genesis - In The Beginning
- 31:55 Soft Machine - Spaced Seven
- 33:10 Re-Drum - Time
- 36:45 Don Cherry - Man on the Moon
- 39:10 Air - Seven Stars
- 42:50 Re-Drum - The Last Breath
- 46:15 Philip Glass - Music in Contrary Motion
- 48:10 Mort Garson - Walking in Space
- 50:10 Brian Eno & Daniel Lanois - Silver Morning
- 52:26 Phosphorescent - Across the Universe(Beatles cover)
- 57:21 Re-Drum - Armstrong
- 1:00:03 Eno - Always Returning
- 1:03:46 end
Saturday Jan 14, 2012
starry starry night
Saturday Jan 14, 2012
Saturday Jan 14, 2012
"I, the fiery life of divine essence, am aflame beyond the beauty of the meadows, I gleam in the waters, and I burn in the sun, moon and stars."
- Hildegard von BingenElectronic & ambient music seems perfectly suited for stargazing. So you really could use just about any ambient mix for night sky viewing and it will work just fine. But sometimes it's nice to do a mix specifically geared towards astronomical awe.
It's always interesting to see how the song titles match the theme of the mix. Sometimes I pick tunes precisely because the titles match but most of the time it's accidental. In this mix we have titles like "Alpha Centauri", "Polaris", "After Midnight", "One Starry Starry Night" and "Encounter in an unexplored nebula."
As usual the music is a mix of old & new, with most tunes being from the last couple years. I was happy to sneak in an old track from Jean-Michel Jarre. Different from his normal berlin-school stuff, this one is a nice long ambient cut from 1990.
As with a lot of stargazing mixes, this one works well as a sleep mix too. I can testify to it's effectiveness.
On a side note...thanks to anyone who voted for Low Light Mixes in the Mixcloud best of 2011 poll. We came in 78th. Doesn't sound like much but considering they have thousands of "cloudcasters", coming 78th was great. Thanks for all your support last year & over the last 6 years.
- 00:00 Lunar Testing Lab - Paaliaq (I, Absentee)
- 01:35 Sonmi451 - Alpha Centauri (Time Released Sound)
- 04:40 Digitonal - Polaris (Leaves)
- 07:20 Diatonis - One Starry Starry Night (Diatonis)
- 12:15 The Winterhouse - Clearing (DataObscura)
- 18:00 Frederico Durand - El Mundo Secreto De La Montana (Spekk)
- 21:30 A Produce & Loren Nerell - Intangible (Hypnos)
- 28:20 Maps & Diagrams - The Infinite Delay (Handstitched Recordings)
- 30:45 Thom Brennan - Pulse
- 31:55 Aglaia - After Midnight (Hic Sunt Leones)
- 37:30 Sonmi451 - Blue (U cover)
- 43:05 Biosphere - Warmed by the Drift (Touch)
- 48:20 Jean Michel Jarre - En Attendant Cousteau (Disques Dreyfus)
- 55:10 The Civilized Electrons - Encounter, In an Unexplored Nebula (Databloem)
Sunday Nov 27, 2011
Launch of Curiosity
Sunday Nov 27, 2011
Sunday Nov 27, 2011
This past Saturday NASA launched the Mars Science Laboratory known as "Curiosity" on a 9 month journey to the planet Mars. As I was watching video of the launch, I was thinking about music that would work well with a launch & space voyage. I quickly collected some appropriate tune & cranked out this mix at escape velocity speed.
The tracks are all electronic/electronica cuts that I thought seem to fit the theme. As it turns out, many of the tunes have titles that are perfect for a mix like this. Titles such as "Towards Unknown Space", "Solar Sailer", "Born to Fire", "Your Wings Make You Fly" and of course "Phobos & Deimos Go To Mars".
That "Phobos & Deimos" tracks was one of my absolute favorite tracks in college. I had a clear vinyl version of the Synergy album "Cords". There aren't going to be too many times that I can sneak that cut into a mix so I'm glad I got that one in here.
The NASA audio is all from the actual launch of the Curiosity Mars rover mission.
In the coming months maybe I'll do "Flight of Curiosity" & "Curiosity Lands" mixes.
T R A C K L I S T :
- 00:00 M83 - Another Wave from You
- 01:55 Boards of Canada - Dayvan Cowboy
- 04:40 Saul Stokes - Greys
- 08:25 Pinch & Shackleton - Monks on the Rum
- 13:07 Synergy - Phobos & Deimos Go To Mars
- 17:40 Brad Smith - Any Colour You Like (8-bit Pink Floyd cover)
- 21:05 Balam Acab - Apart
- 23:30 Jumpel - Lissabon
- 26:20 Daft Punk - Solar Sailer
- 28:25 Steve Roach & Vir Unis - Born to Fire
- 36:15 Delta M45 - Towards Unknown Space
- 41:00 Winterlight - Your Wings Make You Fly
- 46:20 Jumpel - Arles
- 49:25 Rena Jones - Helix
- 54:28 Plumbline - 66 w12
- 58:51 end