Episodes
Tuesday Apr 19, 2011
songs for staying in
Tuesday Apr 19, 2011
Tuesday Apr 19, 2011
On the heals of the last mix, which was sort of modern classical, comes another neo-classical type mix. I started collecting tunes for this mix after I heard Alva Noto's "Argonaut Version" in a Quiet Sounds mix. I like that song & wanted it to find a home in a mix. Speaking of Quiet Sounds, there are some excellent mixes available for download there. I wish Brian would crank them out more often. I stole the title for this mix from a song by The Tumbled Sea, which is next to last in the mix. It just sounded like a good title & it fit with the crappy weather we've been having here. The mix ends with a sort syrupy tune from Anthony Phillips. It may be a bit too sweet but it's one of those tunes that I have always liked, goes back to college days. i don't know if I was hearing it for the first time now, whether I would like it as much. I'm sure a big part of the song's attraction is it's nostalgic significance. Anthony Phillips is the original guitarist for Genesis and back in high school & college I was a HUGE Genesis fan. Actually I still am, but that was how I came to Phillips' music back then. It was nice to sneak that track into a mix. Make some tea or coffee & enjoy "songs for staying in". T R A C K L I S T :
- 00:00 Anthony Phillips - Wind-Tales
- 00:35 Ben Frost - Extortion
- 02:37 Alva Noto - Argonaut Version
- 09:20 Rave Degolith - Orchestrated version of Aphex twin's Xtal
- 13:50 Jan Garbarek & Eleni Karaindrou - Fairytale
- 15:25 Deaf Center - The day I would neer have
- 18:00 Julia Kent - Seul, pendant un instant
- 22:10 Philip Glass - Islands
- 24:45 Brian McBride - toil theme part 1
- 26:55 Field Rotation - Acoustic Tale 2
- 29:25 The Notwist - Jonas
- 30:50 Akira Kosemura - Hicari
- 32:30 Dustin O' Halloran - A Great Divide
- 37:45 David Darling - Darkwood IV
- 42:25 Antonymes - a heart filled with emptiness
- 45:00 The Tumbled Sea - A Song for Staying In
- 49:48 Anthony Phillips - Sleepfall, the geese fly west
- 54:22 end
Saturday Apr 02, 2011
undiscovered soundtrack
Saturday Apr 02, 2011
Saturday Apr 02, 2011
I love soundtracks. And if you look at the tracklist for this mix, you'll see that I have a few favorite composers. At the top of that list are Clint Mansell & Cliff Martinez. They are responsible for two of my favorite soundtracks, The Fountain & Solaris. Jon Hopkins, a new composer on the soundtrack scene, could soon join those two as a favorite. His soundtrack for the movie Monsters, got a lot of play here. I ended up using three tracks from that album in this mix, I just couldn't resist. Actually I doubled up a few artists in this mix, Martinez, Hopkins, Sigur Ros, Nick & Warren Ellis, Underworld. Normally I don't like to do that but it just sort of happened that way. This is a relatively short mix but I think it works. Sometimes I don't make it to the end of some mixes, this way hopefully listeners are still in to it & focused at the end. Enjoy this "undiscovered soundtrack". T R A C K L I S T :
- 00:00 Clint Mansell - Winter Ghosts of a Future (Requiem for a Dream)
- 01:45 Jon Hopkins - Candles (Monsters)
- 03:35 Cliff Martinez - And We're Here to Listen (Traffic)
- 05:15 Thomas Newman - Still Dead (American Beauty)
- 07:55 Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - The Road (The Road)
- 11:30 Underworld & John Murphy - Searle Finds the Crew of Icarus (Sunshine)
- 12:20 Explosions in the Sky - An Ugly Fact of Life (Friday Nigh Lights)
- 14:10 Sigur Ros - síðasta ferð (hlemmur)
- 16:33 Craig Armstrong - Main Theme (The Clearing)
- 17:40 Ennio Morricone - Tema di Ali (The Battle of Algiers)
- 21:32 John Zorn - Family Found(cello) (Family Found(Filmworks XII))
- 23:50 Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - Micro Sucker (White Lunar)
- 24:25 Underworld - Capa's Last Transmission Home (Sunshine)
- 26:10 Sigur Ros - fyrsta ferð (hlemmur)
- 28:25 Hilmar Hilmarsson - I Flew (Angels of the Universe)
- 30:25 Cliff Martinez - First Drive Home (First Snow)
- 30:50 Jon Hopkins - Water (Monsters)
- 31:55 James Newton Howard - I'm Sorry (I am Legend)
- 33:50 Jon Hopkins - Campfire (Monsters)
- 36:11 end