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4 days ago
4 days ago
When Daniel wrote that he had a new mix based around silence I knew it would be good. Then I saw the tracklist and I knew it would be great. He includes cuts from some of my favorite artists - Halftribe, Innesti, Sonmi451, Loscil, and A Produce. The A Produce track is one of my favorite ambienbt tracks of all time.
Here's what Daniel says about his new mix:
Claude Debussy once wrote: “The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between them”, suggesting that music's emotional impact, beauty, and expression come from the pauses and spacing between sounds. The first thing I think of is Eno’s classic Music for Airports - man did I fall in love with that album. Roach’s Dream Circle comes to mind - low and slow - the music just seems to breathe. Of course you have the steady state drone stuff from Grassow and friends, which I like - but there is no real structure - that’s the point I guess. I tried to pick work for this mix that had at least a bit of melody, but plenty of silence to define the notes. There is a sweet spot that when achieved sends me at least into a deep peaceful space. I’m thinking we all need to spend some time in that space these days to recharge and nurture our sanity. Hoping this mix might help with that my friends.
Thanks, Daniel, for another excellent mix.
Cheers!
T R A C K L I S T :
- 00:00 Halftribe & Spinnet - A Minimal Resolution (Patterns of Sync 2020)
- 09:09 Snufmumriko - Mot Nattens Hjärta (Sekunder, Eoner 2019)
- 12:12 ASC - Find Yourself (Tales Of Introspection 2025)
- 22:48 Innesti - Nothwithstanding (Filament and Place 2021)
- 28:00 Sonmi451 - Oxygen Is Flowing (Oxygen Is Flowing single 2025)
- 33:12 Loscil - Stella (Clara 2021)
- 42:23 A Produce - A Smooth Surface(Edit) (White Sands 1995)
- 47:40 Hipnotic Earth - Repose (The Waters of Home 2017)
- 57:00 Lab's Cloud - Rising (The Structure of Emotions 2021)
- 63:58 end
Thursday Jan 29, 2026
Thursday Jan 29, 2026
I bought a new mac mini recently and I have been transferring a ton of music to the new system. While cruising through the old files I discovered a folder called "NETLABELS." It's a fascinating collection of music the 2000s that was released on what were then known as "netlabels". I had a ball listening to some of it so I decided to make a mix.
There was a lot of music to sort through so I decided to focus on two of my favorite labels - Thinner & Autoplate. Thinner, based in Frankfurt, Germany, released music from 2001 to 2009. They were one of the most consistent and successful netlabels. Thinner’s catalogue includes releases from artists such as Digitalverein, Marko Fürstenberg, Benfay, Pheek, krill.minima, Vladislav Delay, Christian Bloch and many others. As of September 2006, Thinner productions had accumulated over two million MP3 downloads. Thinner had a sublabel called Autoplate, focusing on experimental and ambient music.
I hope you get a kick out of this trip back to the aughts. Cheers!
- 00:00 Benfay - Mein Entschluss anders zu leben (Crossways 2005 Thinner)
- 04:12 arrial - Shiver(marsen_jules_rework) (this is my beauty, show me yours 2004 Autoplate)
- 08:00 tlon - while my tears swept away (Crossways 2005 Thinner)
- 12:45 color by numbers - Hyacinth Miasma (The Transitions 2004 Autoplate)
- 15:30 Danny Kreutzfeldt - Core_3-digitalis_remix (recore:02 2003 Thinner)
- 20:08 Tlon - Torch Number (Acoustic Lazy Dolls 2003 Autoplate)
- 27:20 krill.minima - Die Reflexion Des Projektors (Zwischen Zwei Und Einer Sekunde 2003 Thinner)
- 34:27 Lomov - Hochwaldregen (Holzwege 2005 Autoplate)
- 42:55 Falter - Taumelflug_1 (Taumelflug 2003 Thinner)
- 49:10 Lou Teti - Stroll (Night P{pieces 2005 Autoplate)
- 53:43 Martin Jarl feat Jon Ericsson - Inidimman (Crossways 2005 Thinner)
- 61:33 Marsen Jules - Lazy Sunday Funerals (Lazy Sunday Funerals 2003 Autoplate)
- 65:46 end
Saturday Jan 24, 2026
Saturday Jan 24, 2026
I haven't had much time or been motivated to create new mixes so far in the new year. But there's nothing like sub-zero temperatures and being cooped up indoors to get one in the mood for a good wintry mix. The temperature as I type this is -15 degrees with a wind chill of -40. 🥶
I've done these frigid temps themed mixes before and I'm always surprised at how well they come together. I start by simply searching for tracks with certain keywords - frozen, cold, frigid, ice, wind, winter, etc. and then try to use mostly tunes from 2025. This mix is a bit different than others because it turns toward warmth in the last few tracks - "Warmer Light," "Threads of Warmth," and "Warmth". I hope that by ending the mix on a warmer note that I may manifest higher temps.
Stay warm and cheers!
00:00 Hainbach & Ensemble Recherche - The Cold Settles In (Retold 2025)
03:40 Valotihkuu - The Frozen Landscapes (Drifting Between Seasons 2025)
06:15 Science Of Sleeping - The Coldest Winter (Samsara 2025)
06:57 Jeff Pearce - A Long Winter'S Sleep (From the Darker Seasons 2017)
16:12 Erik Wøllo & Ian Boddy - Ice Station (Transmissions 2025)
20:30 Philippe Deschamps - Wind Secrets (Wind Secrets 2025)
22:39 Dirk Serries - Weathering The Gale (Treasure Of Stars 2025)
29:43 Seaworthy & Matt Rösner - Cold Weather (Deep Valley 2024)
32:27 Chihei Hatakeyama - Wind From Mountains (Lucid Dreams 2025)
37:00 Tokyo Ambient Collective - where the fireplace is (Winter Ambience 2025)
42:35 Pete Kvidera - Warmer Light (2025)
45:40 Valotihkuu - Threads Of Warmth (Drifting Between Seasons 2025)
51:25 Sebby Kowal - Warmth (Deep In Our Hearts 2023)
59:04 end
Wednesday Jan 07, 2026
Wednesday Jan 07, 2026
One of my favorite genre rabbit holes that I went down in 2025 was instrumental rock music. That title covers a lot of styles from post-rock to stoner rock to prog rock to cosmic country to fusion to psych rock etc. I've always listened to music that falls into this category whether it's Khruangbin or Causa Sui or Oren Ambarchi but this year my interest in this genre exploded.
So I thought I would create a mix of some of my favorite instrumental rock albums from 2025. I was surprised at how much I enjoyed the heavy stuff. This mix has a nice blend of a few heavy tunes with some Khruangbin-like tracks, a couple kraut rock style tracks, a jam band cut, a prog tune, even a dub track, and a bunch of other difficult to categorize music.
>>>LINKS TO ALL THE MUSIC USED IN THIS MIX<<<
01 - https://actiontensionspace.bandcamp.com/album/new-dimensions
02 - https://heavypsychsoundsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/yawning-man-pavement-ends
03 - https://ambarchiberthlingwerliin.bandcamp.com/album/ghosted-iii
04 - https://elparaisorecords.com/product/causa-sui-in-flux/
05 - https://piotrkurek.bandcamp.com/album/songs-and-bodies
06 - https://elparaisorecords.com/product/edena-gardens-dispossessed/
07- https://barrywalker.bandcamp.com/album/barry-walker-unit-at-the-13th-moon-gravity-well
08 - https://jeffthebrotherhood.bandcamp.com/album/magick-songs
09 - https://kungensman.bandcamp.com/album/resande-i-rockmusik
10 - https://markusreuter.bandcamp.com/album/truce-3
11 - https://re-stoned.bandcamp.com/album/the-loom-maxi-single
12 - https://townportal.bandcamp.com/album/grindwork
13 - https://holmisanisland.bandcamp.com/album/behind-curtains
14 - https://yuuf.bandcamp.com/album/alma-s-cove
15 - https://eliwinter.bandcamp.com/album/a-trick-of-the-light
Cheers!
T R A C K L I S T :
02) 04:47 Yawning Man - Bomba Negra (Pavement Ends 2025)
03) 09:45 Oren Ambarchi, Johan Berthling, Andreas Werliin - Chahar (Ghosted III 2025)
04) 15:49 Causa Sui - The Circus is Back (In Flux 2025)
05) 17:32 Piotr Kurek - Nothing Holds Still (Songs And Bodies 2025)
06) 22:26 Edena Gardens - Fills The Well (Dispossessed 2025)
07) 27:50 Barry Walker Unit - High in the Hummocks (At the 13th Moon Gravity Well 2025)
08) 32:51 Jeff The Brotherhood - Many Moons Dub (Magick Songs in Dub 2025)
09) 37:27 Kungens Män - Resande i rockmusik (Resande i rockmusik 2025)
10) 42:40 Markus Reuter - We Have Your Back (Truce <3 2025)
11) 47:20 The Re-Stoned - The Loom (The Loom 2025)
12) 52:24 Town Portal - Gold-Plated (Grindwork 2025)
13) 56:18 Holm - Behind Curtains (Behind Curtains 2025)
14) 60:08 Yuuf - Alma’s Cove (Alma's Cove 2025)
15) 63:37 Eli Winter - A Trick of the Light (A Trick of the Light 2025)
67:16 end
Wednesday Dec 31, 2025
Wednesday Dec 31, 2025
"Another smorgasbord of what the electronic music scene has to offer these days and another invitation for space travelling! It's an extra long mix given my incapacity to choose from the wide offer of sublime tracks and albums that were released in 2025.
The diversity in styles within this music category is remarkable; synth pop, retro, contemporary and progressive Berlin School, cosmic sound tapestries, contemplative/meditative/emotional (drone) ambient and a lengthy deep house track.
Special mention for two female electronic music artists Andrea Cichecki and Lisa Bella Donna. Unfortunately, women are rare in this line of music, but these ladies more than deserve their place in this mix with thrilling evocative compositions. Check it out & enjoy your trip!"
https://cyclicaldreams.bandcamp.com/album/timeless-cyd-0143
https://www.groove.nl/shop/dacker-skoulaman-saudade/?v=910955a907e7
Happy New Year to everyone and here's to 2026 being another fantastic year of music.
Cheers!
Friday Dec 26, 2025
Friday Dec 26, 2025
Not much to say in this post other than here is part two of my favorite ambient albums of 2025. I'll also repost the full list here with links.
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Alexander Knaifel - Chapter Eight
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Almost An Island - Almost An Island
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Andrew Heath - Signals and Codes
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Anthéne & Simon McCorry - Wellspring
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Bill Brennan and Andy McNeill - Dreaming In Gamelan
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Byron Metcalf - Spiral Exchange
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Clarice Jensen - In holiday clothing, out of the great darkness
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Dictaphone - Unstable
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Emily A. Sprague - Cloud Time
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Erik M - Soft Wish
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Florian TM Zeisig - A New Life
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Lab's Cloud and Flavio Salvaje - Kalima
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Loneward - Musings of a Painted Sky
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M. Sage - Tender / Wading
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Martin Stürtzer - Nexus-6
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offthesky - form.radio
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offthesky - Nocturnas
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Peter Gregson - Peter Gregson
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Rod Modell - Northern Michigan Snowstorms
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Seabuckthorn - A Path Within A Path
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Six Missing - Without Mind
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Steve Roach - The Reverent Sky
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Taylor Deupree & Zimoun - Wind Dynamic Organ, Deviations
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Yorkshire Modular Society + Peter Digby Lee - Beneath the Hanging Sky
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zakè - Silentium
- 00:00 Lab's Cloud and Flavio Salvaje - Sandwhistle (Kalima)
- 04:12 Byron Metcalf - Voices Of Vision (Spiral Exchange)
- 09:25 Seabuckthorn - Shadow Of The Land (A Path Within A Path)
- 12:15 Steve Roach - The Nuturing Ground (The Reverent Sky)
- 20:10 Bill Brennan and Andy McNeill - Reverie (Dreaming In Gamelan)
- 23:35 Almost An Island - Perfume Gloves (Almost An Island)
- 27:40 Andrew Heath - Delegate 24 (Signals and Codes)
- 33:00 Anthéne & Simon McCorry - Summer's Glow (Wellspring)
- 37:20 Taylor Deupree & Zimoun - Deviation V (Wind Dynamic Organ, Deviations)
- 42:55 Xu - Echoes from the Ether (Murmurs of the Machine)
- 45:50 offthesky - form.radio 3 (form.radio)
- 50:12 zakè - Pax Animi [ft. Tyresta] (Silentium)
- 53:20 Loneward - Shrouded Sighs (Musings of a Painted Sky)
- 59:48 end
Friday Dec 26, 2025
Friday Dec 26, 2025
When end-of-the-year list season began I wasn't sure if I was going to do a favorite ambient albums list. I wasn't as locked into ambient as much this year as in the past. I spent most of my listening time in indie, jazz, and berlin-school. I had several ambient albums that would for sure make my list so I started with those and the next thing I knew - I had a list of 26 albums that are my 2025 favorites.
Here are my favorite ambient albums of 2025, in alphabetical order:
- Alexander Knaifel - Chapter Eight
- Almost An Island - Almost An Island
- Andrew Heath - Signals and Codes
- Anthéne & Simon McCorry - Wellspring
- Bill Brennan and Andy McNeill - Dreaming In Gamelan
- Byron Metcalf - Spiral Exchange
- Clarice Jensen - In holiday clothing, out of the great darkness
- Dictaphone - Unstable
- Emily A. Sprague - Cloud Time
- Erik M - Soft Wish
- Florian T M Zeisig - A New Life
- Lab's Cloud and Flavio Salvaje - Kalima
- Loneward - Musings of a Painted Sky
- M. Sage - Tender Wading
- Martin Stürtzer - Nexus-6
- offthesky - form.radio
- offthesky - Nocturnas
- Peter Gregson - Peter Gregson
- Rod Modell - Northern Michigan Snowstorms
- Seabuckthorn - A Path Within A Path
- Six Missing - Without Mind
- Steve Roach - The Reverent Sky
- Taylor Deupree & Zimoun - Wind Dynamic Organ, Deviations
- Xu - Murmurs of the Machine
- Yorkshire Modular Society + Peter Digby Lee - Beneath the Hanging Sky
- zakè - Silentium
I made two mixes so it will be a little easier to digest. This post is for part one. I hope you enjoy this look back at 2025.
Cheers!
T R A C K L I S T :
- 00:00 Erik M. - Tall as Grass (Soft Wish)
- 03:55 Offthesky - Poised Above A Place (Nocturnas)
- 08:06 Rod Modell - Snowstorm In Munising (Snowstorm In Munising)
- 13:40 Emily A. Sprague - Osaka (Cloud Time)
- 19:23 Florian T M Zeisig - Earth Loop (A New Life)
- 21:00 M. Sage - Fracking Starlight (Tender / Wading)
- 26:18 Dictaphone - 122 (Unstable)
- 29:50 Six Missing - Sit Down and Play (Without Mind)
- 35:38 Peter Gregson - Prism (Peter Gregson)
- 38:37 Clarice Jensen - From A to B (In holiday clothing, out of the great darkness)
- 44:05 Alexander Knaifel - Chapter Eight: Stanza XXIII-XXXII (Chapter Eight)
- 49:15 Martin Sturtzer - Nexus-6 (Nexus-6)
- 55:30 Yorkshire Modular Society - Beneath the Hanging Sky (Beneath the Hanging Sky)
- 01:09:28 end
Thursday Dec 18, 2025
Thursday Dec 18, 2025
This is a mix I originally created back in December of 2006, during my first year of posting mixes online. This one never made its way to Mixcloud so I figured, with all the cold and snow I'm getting in my neck of the woods, now would be a good time to resurrect this set. The original post here on the blog has a bad link to the mp3 so I wanted to post it her as well.
It's interesting to see the artists that I was listening to at the time. Such as Freescha, Svalastog, Yellow 6, Klimek, and the track by Clint Mansell from the soundtrack to The Fountain, which I was absolutely obsessed with for a few years.
Every tune has one of these words...snow, winter, cold, frozen, ice, or freezing, in the title. Btw, the pic is my mom, taken in the mid 1970s. :-)
Cheers!
T R A C K L I S T :
00:00 Scott Solter - The Great Cold
04:20 Klimek - Snowfall 1
13:15 Greg Haines - Snow Airport
14:20 Corker & Conboy - Colder
17:20 Clint Mansell - First Snow
18:20 Library Tapes - It was a cold day in February...
20:15 Loren Connors - Falling Snow
24:40 Yellow 6 - (The First) Of Winter
30:00 Svalastog - Snow Tracer
35:20 Taylor Deupree - Snow Sand
39:00 Last Days - Snowing
42:30 Outputmessage - Snow
47:20 Trentemoller - While the cold winter waiting
49:20 Brian Eno - Cold
50:40 Freescha - Frozen Stiff
54:15 Hammock - Winter Light
56:45 Forrest Fang & Carl Weingarten - Freezing Days
60:10 Boc Scadet - Ice Shelves & Glaciers
65:20 Stuart Busby - Snow Fall
Thursday Dec 11, 2025
Thursday Dec 11, 2025
http://lowlightmixes.blogspot.com/2024/10/a-moon-full-of-stars-and-astral-cars-by.html
https://lowlightmixes.blogspot.com/2025/01/we-did-it-again-by-andy-mcneillmaple.html
Andy has a new album out, under his own name, that is a little different from his other recordings. That new album is the inspiration for this new mix which is really something special. I'll let Andy tell you about it:
https://lnk.to/dreamingingamelan
another fine day - Child’s Play
https://anotherfineday.bandcamp.com/album/a-good-place-to-be
Peter Gabriel - Slow Marimbas (from Birdy soundtrack)
https://open.spotify.com/album/6ZTQcgutsPhQ50FRZk3BYl?si=Af0sn6YnTaq84N4kJPk1ug
Thomas Newman - Bullet (from White Oleander soundtrack)
https://open.spotify.com/album/76i4SD0LNBtIZtAumvcJsS?si=mAj14pOYTYqT8_QS-S8h1Q
Genesis - The Waiting Room (excerpt)
https://open.spotify.com/album/49BxISwAbZZfmlhqD6Vh88?si=91fRitQ_QPK6Uh5GHyNb7w
Wanderwelle - An Offering of Gratitude
https://silentseason.bandcamp.com/album/gathering-of-the-ancient-spirits
Bill Brennan and Andy McNeill - Morning Beams
https://lnk.to/dreamingingamelan
Thomas Stronen - Confronting Silence
https://open.spotify.com/album/6xEg7P0N3edYKhptbNxo5c?si=ZCwZBplZRdeT_vaWWooXnQ
Michael Brook - Distant Village
https://open.spotify.com/album/7t48EroHL8dzsBTdUS3pRp?si=Q7PfBPDGQxCfXI-wvtXv0w
Connecta Quartet - Madeira River (P.Glass)
https://open.spotify.com/album/4h0827roLiZ3IDt4UK6MfS?si=7hAx96RaQnSn-i42L3bUBA
another fine day - green thought (in green shade)
https://anotherfineday.bandcamp.com/album/life-before-land
Bartosz Kruczyński - Dream 1
https://earthtraxonline.bandcamp.com/album/dreams-whispers
Shuta Yasukochi - Sakura
https://shutayasukochi.bandcamp.com/album/harmonies-of-flowers
Marilyn Masur - Bell-Painting
https://open.spotify.com/album/5HZk4QJRTXSQaauqz5SHAL?si=WbplnlyZRYydr9vaWBiTSw
Four Tet - Lush
https://fourtet.bandcamp.com/album/new-energy
Jon Hassell - Time and Place
https://open.spotify.com/album/6p97ys8xZeV60gh427TwMz?si=o8f6zwf7SNiDkBdp-IYnGw
Boston Modern Orchestra Project - Suite for Violin with American Gamelan - III. Air (Lou Harrison)
https://bmopsound.bandcamp.com/album/lou-harrison-la-koro-sutro
Pierre Favre Ensemble - Frog Songs (excerpt)
https://open.spotify.com/album/4i3JU3zB3PfVceKEq89mx7?si=GI0PfPDbRsG4pHCXpCdOgw
Marilyn Masur - Spirit Of Air (excerpt)
https://open.spotify.com/album/5HZk4QJRTXSQaauqz5SHAL?si=WbplnlyZRYydr9vaWBiTSw
Four Tet - You Were There With Me (excerpt)
https://open.spotify.com/album/2BKXRpAaq7jZStXo6A10qK?si=kfBOKOGwR_-uWyseYAk-kQ
Bill Brennan and Andy McNeill - Reverie
https://lnk.to/dreamingingamelan
Wednesday Dec 03, 2025
Wednesday Dec 03, 2025
Between Erwin Broers & Paul Asbury Seaman I have been exposed to a ton of excellent berlin-school music over the last couple years. Erwin continues his great string of mixes with this new one featuring the music of Wolfram Spyra. I was totally unfamiliar with this music before hearing this mix and now I'm thankful for the introduction.
Here's what Erwin says about this mix:
"In the mid-1990s, when interest for 'Kosmische Musik' (German)/'Cosmic Music' (English) regained, some Electronic Music artists chose to dig deeper into that first highly creative era, hence starting the 'Retro Berlin School' subgenre. Other artists merely borrowed certain elements (multi-facetted sequencing, layered soundscapes, space fx, Mellotron choirs,...) and then added their own spices to the sauce.
One of the artists that managed to create his own style of contemporary "Berlin School Electronic Music" is the German Fine Arts student (then), and musician, inventor and sound designer (now, dixit his own website) Wolfram Spyra (Kassel, 1964), aka "Der Spyra" or simply "Spyra". His style is somewhere between floating, rhythmic, meditative, downtempo and groovy, yes almost danceable. A very interesting blend of old skool and modern electronic ingredients!
This mix is a chronological overview of 20 years of releases from 1997 till 2018."
More information:
Discogs: www.discogs.com/artist/13462-Spyra
Website: www.derspyra.de
Bandcamp: wolframspyra.bandcamp.com
Cheers!
T R A C K L I S T :
- 00:00:00 Future Of The Past (2000 remix)(Homelistening Is Killing Clubs, 1995)
- 00:07:15 Non Disperdere Nell' Ambiente Part 1 (Future Of The Past, 1997)
- 00:17:20 Seeds (My Little Garden Of Sounds, 1997)
- 00:28:55 Sferics (Sferics, 1998)
- 00:36:18 Monotonous Stereo Part 1 (Etherlands, 1999)
- 00:41:50 Ωmega Est αlpha (Phonehead, 1997)
- 00:56:16 Mentalized (Elevator To Heaven, 2001)
- 01:10:24 We Don't Mind The Rain (Virtual Vices IV (w/ Pete Namlook), 2003)
- 01:16:10 Aireals (Orphan Waves, 2006)
- 01:23:38 Last Train To Philadelphia (High Phidelity, 2007)
- 01:32:44 Below (Gasoline 91 Octane, 2008)
- 01:43:16 SeQuest (SeQuest (w/ Christian Lang), 2010)
- 01:50:21 Staub Part 2 (Dunst, 2018)
- 02:01:20 end