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Friday Mar 20, 2026

Sleep comes like a drug

Friday Mar 20, 2026

I was listening to some U2 tunes recently and in the song "In God's Country" there's a line - "Sleep comes like a drug in God's country." I liked the "sleep comes like a drug" part and thought it would make a good title for a sleep mix. So I got right to work and found some great, recent tracks that are perfect for sleeping.

Cue up the mix, climb into bed, and drift off to sleep.

LINKS TO ALL THE MUSIC USED IN THIS MIX:

https://homenormal.bandcamp.com/album/great-plains

https://www.beatport.com/release/glass/5926376

https://aliodie.bandcamp.com/album/vimana-ascensional-waves

https://sixmissing.bandcamp.com/album/drift

https://tonepoet.bandcamp.com/album/radiant-pastures

https://thelonelybell.bandcamp.com/album/time-lost

https://phelios.bandcamp.com/album/dyson-sphere-beta-2

https://steveroach.bandcamp.com/album/sentient-being

https://cosmicleaf.bandcamp.com/album/cellular-universe-6

CHEERS!

T R A C K L I S T :

00:00 anthéne & Far away Nebraska - meet me in saskatchewan (great plains 2026)
05:11 SVLBRD - Glass (2026)
07:20 Alio Die - Unknown Oceans And Starry Seas (Vimana Ascensional Waves 2026)
15:43 Six Missing - drift: sandcastles (drift 2026)
18:40 Tonepoet - A Land Of Eternal Spring (Radiant Pastures 2026)
25:45 The Lonely Bell - Elsewhere (Time Lost 2025)
30:45 Martin Stürtzer - 22:27 (Dyson Sphere Beta 2026)
36:33 Steve Roach - Angels At Rest (Sentient Being 2026)
43:50 Eguana - Cellular Universe 6 (Cellular Universe 6 2026)
66:10 end

Tuesday Mar 10, 2026

From Dusk Till Dawn by Fragile X

Tuesday Mar 10, 2026

Whoa nelly we are in for a treat with this guest mix! This new set comes from John McFadden who records as Fragile X. John has done two other mixes for us that you can find here:

https://www.mixcloud.com/lowlight/aquadream-by-fragile-x/

https://www.mixcloud.com/lowlight/being-human-by-fragile-x/

I'm kind of jealous of this mix as there are bunch of tracks that I would love to have used in my recent undersea mix. So this is a perfect time for this set because it will play off of my "Alien Sea" mix and lead us into other ambient directions. John has a couple of new EPs out and you can find Fragile X music here - https://fragilex.bandcamp.com/

Here's what John says about "From Dusk Till Dawn"

"I've been getting up early a lot so far this year, especially in midweek, for the day job and I've also been making the most of my weekends by trying to stay up late and be creative when I can.

So, with that in mind, I've put together a mix to soundtrack the wee hours. I tried to make it dream-like and hazy. Like an escape into the hush of night and through to break of morning. Albeit crammed into 70 mins!

It's got some dubby and experimental ambient stuff then slowly unfurls into more melodic ambient pieces over time. Very minimal percussion and the focus more on atmosphere and texture.

Hope you enjoy!"

Thanks, John, for a great mix!

Cheers!

T R A C K L I S T :

01. Erik M. - Half Sleep (00:00)
02. Squu - Essence (03:54)
03. Distant Echoes - Buried Into Ashes (07:03)
04. Jerod S. Rivera - Seamstress Clock (feat Cat Lauigan) (10:35)
05. Lee Gamble - She's Not (15:20)
06. Sonoj - Deal (18:26)
07. Tokyo Bedroom Orchestra - Mori (24:37)
08. Martin Allin - Play For The Slow World (28:56)
09. nthng - Two People (33:13)
10. Xenia Reaper - You Really (37:09)
11. Number One - Press 1 For Ever (39:48)
12. Aion Lazura - Fractal Conscientia (42:43)
13. Fragile X - Cielab (48:12)
14. Kaito - Rainbow Circles (Beatless version) (53:45)
15. Vertical67 - Peace of Mind (60:11)
16. Fernie - Subtle (64:44)
17. Yaka - Slow Reaction (68:20)

Thursday Mar 05, 2026

Deep Ambient Explorations in an Alien Sea

Thursday Mar 05, 2026

This mix is the perfect combo of two of my favorite mix themes - sea/ocean motif and ambient dub. I wanted to make an ambient dub mix and while searching for tunes I ran across several that had that great ocean vibe that some ambient dub can have. Then a few more had this odd sort of alien quality to them so I decided on a mix of deep ambient dub that sounds like it should be played in the oceans of Jupiter's moon, Europa.

Mot of the tracks are fairly new, from the last few years. But there are some older tracks from 2013, 2012, and all the back to 2002. Everything combines for the perfect undersea exploration. I really love this one.

LINKS TO ALL THE MUSIC USED IN THIS MIX:

Cheers!

( ( ( T R A C K L I S T ) ) )

00:00 Mika Vainio - Etude 4 (Sysivalo 2025)
02:40 Earthen Sea - Spatial Ambiguity (Grass And Trees 2019)
06:15 Sleepdial - Icarus Rising (RV Lights 2025)
08:39 Dadub - Vibration (You Are Eternity 2013)
10:40 Fluxion - Moving On (Ripple Effect 2018)
14:10 Signer - Post Obsession (Low Light Dreams 2002)
16:29 Ulla Straus - Night Loop (Hometown Girl 2025)
17:36 Dublicator - Deep Sea Exploration (Deep Sea Exploration 2013)
22:25 Faded - Warhawk (Stasis 2017)
27:07 Asmus Tietchens & Thorsten Soltau - Lichthof 2 (Lichthöfe 2025)
28:10 Lee Gamble - Emu (Diversions 1994-1996 2012)
32:15 Mika Vainio - Sylvannus (Sysivalo 2025)
34:20 Rod Modell - Part 2 (Grotto Of The Sun 2026)
42:50 Bas Dobbelaer - Ray (Binding Elements 2023)
45:42 Asmus Tietchens-Thorsten Soltau - Lichthof 8 (Lichthöfe 2025)
47:15 cv313 - Analogue Oceans(Variant's conduction) (Analogue Oceans 2018)
62:23 end

Sunday Feb 08, 2026

The Silence Between by Daniel Hawkins

Sunday Feb 08, 2026

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

Saturday Jan 24, 2026

Frozen Landscapes

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!

T R A C K L I S T :
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

Friday Dec 26, 2025

Favorite Ambient Albums of 2025 Part 2

Friday Dec 26, 2025

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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.

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 TM 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

Here's to more excellent ambient music in 2026.

Cheers!

T R A C K L I S T :

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

Favorite Ambient Albums of 2025 Part 1

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

First Snow

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

Dreaming In Gamelan by Andy McNeill

Thursday Dec 11, 2025

I have a special treat for everyone with this new mix. It's a guest mix from friend of Low Light Mixes, Andy McNeill. Andy records as Maple Mountain Sunburst and has created two previous mixes for LLM and they are both excellent. You can find them here:

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:

"Mallets, gongs, tintinnabulations, things that go ping. Here we have a mix of percolating exotica to float away on for an hour. I’ve included three tracks from a recent collaboration with percussionist and fellow composer Bill Brennan. Our album Dreaming In Gamelan blends West Javanese gamelan traditions with contemporary ambient electronics. Recorded with traditional hand-forged bronze instruments, the tracks were then augmented and treated in the studio. Also joining us was the brilliant electric violinist and sonic explorer Hugh Marsh. The album was mixed for immersive Dolby Atmos by Ron Searles (Atmos version available on Apple Music, Tidal, Amazon)."

https://lnk.to/dreamingingamelan

https://brennanmcneill.bandcamp.com/album/dreaming-in-gamelan

Thanks to Andy for curating and mixing this great collection tracks. And thanks for the excellent new album.

LINKS TO ALL THE MUSIC USED IN THIS MIX:

Cheers!

T R A C K L I S T :

00:00 Bill Brennan and Andy McNeill - Tunnels of Light (Dreaming In Gamelan 2025)

02:35 another fine day - Child’s Play (a good place to be 2015)

07:03 Peter Gabriel - Slow Marimbas (Birdy soundtrack 1985)

10:01 Thomas Newman - Bullet (White Oleander soundtrack 2002)

10:31 Genesis - The Waiting Room excerpt (The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway 1974)

11:15 Wanderwelle - Her Name is Vairumati (Gathering of the Ancient Spirits 2018)

16:13 Bill Brennan and Andy McNeill - Morning Beams (Dreaming In Gamelan 2025)

19:07 Thomas Stronen - Confronting Silence (Relations 2024)

19:23 Michael Brook - Distant Village (Hybrid 1985)

23:15 Connecta Quartet - Madeira River (P. Glass) (Pulse And Echoes 2024)

28:10 another fine day - green thought (in green shade) (life before land 1994)

34:18 Bartosz Kruczyński - Dream 1 (Dreams & Whispers 2024)

37:20 Shuta Yasukochi - Sakura (Harmonies of Flowers 2024)

39:47 Marilyn Masur - Bell-Painting (Elixir 2008)

40:19 Four Tet - Lush (New Energy 2017)

43:40 Jon Hassell - Time and Place (Last Night The Moon Came Dropping Its Clothes In The Street

2009)

47:17 Boston Modern Orchestra Project - Suite for Violin with American Gamelan - III. Air (Lou Harrison) (La Koro Sutro 2014)

50:37 Pierre Favre Ensemble - Frog Songs excerpt (Singing Drums 1984) overlayed with Marilyn Masur - Spirit Of Air excerpt (Elixir 2008)

52:02 Four Tet - You Were There With Me excerpt (Everything Ecstatic 2005)

55:22 Bill Brennan and Andy McNeill - Reverie (Dreaming in Gamelan 2025)

1:05:29 end

Wednesday Nov 19, 2025

Floatation Tank

Wednesday Nov 19, 2025

This is a perfect mix for floating in a floatation tank, drifting off to sleep, or viewing the northern lights(which we've had several nights of this year). All the music is from this year, much of it from the last few months. There's not much else to say other than kick your feet up, relax and float away.

LINKS TO ALL THE MUSIC USED IN THIS MIX:

https://altusmusic.bandcamp.com/album/musings-of-a-painted-sky

https://whitelabrecs.bandcamp.com/album/partial-holograms

https://rohsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/gray

https://brianweza.bandcamp.com/album/fizzles-2

https://purl.bandcamp.com/album/a-quiet-awakening-ii

https://projektrecords.bandcamp.com/album/water-planets

https://brannanlane.bandcamp.com/album/under-the-moonlight-collaborations-vol-1

https://theliftedindex.bandcamp.com/album/agonist

https://laaps.bandcamp.com/album/nocturnas

https://buriedmarie.bandcamp.com/album/the-ghost-you-will-be

https://laaps.bandcamp.com/album/anti-atlas

https://stroomtv.bandcamp.com/album/a-new-life

Cheers!

T R A C K L I S T :

00:00 Loneward - Dream Palette (Musings of a Painted Sky 2025)
07:20 Tapes and Topographies - Partials (Partial Holograms 2025)
10:33 Submersion - Field IV (Gray 2025)
12:49 Brian Weza - The Way Out Is In (Fizzles 2025)
18:05 Purl - What The Ocean Promised (A Quiet Awakening II 2025)
26:40 deepspace - Descent Into The Mollusc(5000 metres) (Water Planets 2025)
31:12 Brannan Lane & Stephen Weber - Music To Which One Levitates (Under The Moonlight Collaborations, Vol. 1 2025)
34:15 The Lifted Index - Morning Paralytic (Agonist 2025)
37:40 Offthesky - Somnambulance On The Shore (Nocturnas 2025)
41:00 Buried Marie - The Ghost You Will Be X (The Ghost You Will Be 2025)
45:15 Thme - Ombre (Anti Atlas 2025)
50:00 Florian T M Zeisig - Eternal Shore (A New Life 2025)
60:42 end