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Wednesday Nov 12, 2025

Evocation - A Rhythmic Ambient Headspace

Wednesday Nov 12, 2025

My love for tribal ambient music, of course, starts with Steve Roach. Going back to Dreamtime Return, Desert Solitaire, Western Spaces, Origins, Strata, On This Planet, and The Dream Circle, just to name a few. I go through phases where I may tire of the style but I always come back to it, usually when a new record reminds me of how much I love the genre.

In this case that new album is "A Path Within A Path" by Seabuckthorn. I always enjoy Seabuckthorn music so I dove into the new album and discovered a few tracks with an excellent, organic percussion sound that I love. The entire album is great. Once I latched onto those rhythmic tracks I knew I had to compile a few more for a new tribal ambient mix.

Surprisingly there are no Steve Roach tracks in the mix. Although there's a great track from one of his frequent collaborators, Byron Metcalf, from his lates album - Spiral Exchange. I've created several tribal mixes over the years and I hope you enjoy this and the others as much as I do.

LINKS TO ALL THE MUSIC USED IN THIS MIX:

https://seabuckthorn.bandcamp.com/album/a-path-within-a-path

https://byronmetcalf.bandcamp.com/album/spiral-exchange

https://rainforestspiritualenslavement.bandcamp.com/album/killer-whale-atmospheres

https://marcoshuttle.bandcamp.com/album/cobalt-desert-oasis

https://hubertdupont.bandcamp.com/album/trio-kosmos-3

https://laurencepike.bandcamp.com/album/the-undreamt-of-centre

https://frore-shanemorris.bandcamp.com/album/ochre

https://orenambarchi.bandcamp.com/album/kind-regards

https://craigleon.bandcamp.com/album/anthology-of-interplanetary-folk-music-vol-2-the-canon

https://dronarivm.bandcamp.com/album/theme

https://jfoersternkramer.bandcamp.com/album/habitat

Cheers!

T R A C K L I S T :

00:00 Seabuckthorn - Thunder Without A Sound (A Path Within A Path 2025)
03:20 Byron Metcalf - Cycles Of Ascension (Spiral Exchange 2025)
09:27 Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement - Orca Skull Memories(Bering Strait)
(Killer Whale Atmospheres 2023)
16:44 Marco Shuttle - Winds Of Cydonia (Cobalt Desert Oasis 2021)
21:20 Hubert Dupont - Bathyscaphe (Trio Kosmos 2020)
24:27 Laurence Pike - Universal Forces (The Undreamt-of Centre 2024)
29:44 Frore & Shane Morris - Into Dust (Ochre 2023)
37:47 Oren Ambarchi & Eric Thielemans - Kind Regards(Begining) (Kind Regards 2025)
43:18 Craig Leon - The Gates Made Plain (Anthology of Interplanetary Folk Music Vol. 2 2019)
48:39 Seabuckthorn - White Boar (A Path Within A Path 2025)
50:30 Bartosz Dziadosz - Fragments (Theme 2025)
55:10 J Foerster & N Kramer - Levitation Room (Habitat 2021)
59:09 end

Thursday Oct 30, 2025

Late Night with Yorgos Dousos

Thursday Oct 30, 2025

Yorgos Dousos is a multi-instrumentalist and composer located in Athens. He plays flute and clarinet to combine Greek music tradition, European jazz, and ambient electronic into an inspired musical experience. I got to hear an advance copy of his latest album - LUPUS, Love Under Pain, Upon Suffering - I knew immediately that I had to reach out to Yorgos about a guest mix. And here it is!

Here's what Yorgos has to say about this set:

“Late Night” is a small map of where my head has been living while finishing my new record. It’s the hour when things get quieter, when the room feels bigger than it is and every sound has more weight. I wanted this mix to sit in that space where breath, memory, and repetition start to blur.

It opens with my own pieces (“Marisha” and “Breath” from "LUPUS, Love Under Pain, Upon Suffering") because that’s the emotional ground I’m working from lately. All of the tracks orbit the same questions I’m dealing with on the album: what it means for sound to feel physical and intimate but also distant and ghosted; how much you can say emotionally with or without melody; and where the human breath sits inside electronics and processing.

Thanks, Yorgos, for this excellent mix!

LINKS TO ALL THE MUSIC USED IN THIS MIX:

https://yorgosdousos.bandcamp.com/album/lupus-love-under-pain-upon-suffering

https://johnalsobennett.bandcamp.com/album/ston-elai-na

https://mastrokristo.bandcamp.com/album/passage

https://kalimalone.bandcamp.com/album/the-sacrificial-code-2019-edition

https://colinstetson.bandcamp.com/album/all-this-i-do-for-glory

https://christinavantzou.bandcamp.com/album/no-1

https://haniarani.bandcamp.com/album/on-giacometti

https://aphextwin.bandcamp.com/album/i-care-because-you-do

https://timhecker.bandcamp.com/album/shards

https://stroomtv.bandcamp.com/album/original-spirit

Cheers!

T R A C K L I S T :

00:00 Yorgos Dousos - Marisha (LUPUS, Love Under Pain, Upon Suffering)
04:53 John Also Bennett - Ston Elaiona (Ston Elaiona)
09:15 mastroKristo - The Dream (Passage)
12:53 Kali Malone - Sacrificial Code (The sacrificial code)
18:18 Yorgos Dousos - Breath (LUPUS, Love Under Pain, Upon Suffering)
24:00 Colin Stetson - Spindrift (All this I do for glory)
30:24 Christina Vantzou - 11: 11 (No1)
34:23 Hania Rani - Dreamy (On Giacometti)
37:11 Aphex Twin - Alberto Balsalm (…I care because you do)
42:22 Tim Hecker - Heaven will come (Shards)
47:02 Les Halles - Angels of Venice (Original Spirit)
51:33 end

Wednesday Oct 15, 2025

Amiably Ambient by Daniel Hawkins

Wednesday Oct 15, 2025

We've had a nice run of guest mixes lately here at Low Light Mixes world headquarters. And that streak continues will a wonderful new set from Daniel Hawkins. Here his two previous guest mixes:

https://www.mixcloud.com/lowlight/dark-woods-by-daniel-hawkins/

https://www.mixcloud.com/lowlight/metallic-memories/

This mix has a perfect fall vibe. Here's what Daniel says about this collection of tracks:

"As I was saving some of the songs that I liked over the past few weeks, I noticed a bunch of them were guitar pieces - so I figured that was as good a reason as any to do a themed mix. For me the hardest part of doing the mixes is I end up with a lot of good music and have to make tough choices about what to cut from the final mix. There are just so many great musicians out there now doing superb work. So I just go slow and make changes - I think this is a cohesive mix with a nice flow - you be the judge."

Thanks, Daniel, for another excellent mix.

Cheers!

T R A C K L I S T :

00:00 Chris Coco - Portmerion Tide Flow(Jonny Nash Remix) (Portmerion Tide Flow - Single)
06:10 kwajbasket - The Gentleman, Pt. 9 (The Gentleman)
11:22 The Album Leaf - Last Time Here (One Day I'll Be On Time)
15:18 Animat - Thermostellar (Mirador: Selected Works 2005-2015)
18:32 Kaya Project - Drift (...& So It Goes)
21:20 Jonny Nash - October Song (Point of Entry 2024)
25:20 Michael Scott Dawson - Where There Is Happiness There Is Happiness(feat. M. Sage) (The Tinnitus Chorus 2024)
28:45 Maps and Diagrams - Spawn (Streams - EP)
33:16 Peter Broderick - Pause (SMM: Context)
37:45 William Gregg - Ur-Th (Epiphenomenon 2013)
43:45 Lawrence English - Watching It Unfold (A Colour for Autumn)
48:42 Tomotsugu Nakamura - Monologue (Monologue)
50:45 Divine Electronics - The Truth We Dare Not Face (Endomorphine)
55:21 end

Wednesday Oct 01, 2025

The Lonely Bell's Autumnal Ether Mix

Wednesday Oct 01, 2025

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I always like to create a mix for autumn but this year I got bust and never got around to it. Thankfully The Lonely Bell has that covered.

The Lonely Bell is Ali Murray who hails from the Isle of Lewis in Scotland. He has been producing for ten years and I have been a fan since 2022's "Kingdom of the Deep." The Lonely Bell has a new album out so to celebrate we have this new mix.

Here what Ali says about this mix:

"As the seasons begin to change, and late summer gradually fades into the dark, cold, wet, blustery days of early autumn here on the Isle of Lewis (Scotland) - I wanted to create a guest mix of ambient tracks that aurally reflect the quiet sadness and barren beauty that fills the air (and the heart) at this time of year. These tracks have been soundtracking my days during this seasonal shift, and I find that each individual track is dense with this strange and mysterious form of autumnal melancholy that is simultaneously haunting and comforting....

The mix also coincides with the release of my latest album 'Time Beyond The Edges' - an album of collaboration pieces with fellow ambient artists and experimental composers from around the globe, which came out on Shady Ridge Records on Sept 26th. The mix is bookended by two of the tracks from this release..."

The Lonely Bell

www.thelonelybell.bandcamp.com

Time Beyond The Edges

www.thelonelybell.bandcamp.com/album/time-beyond-the-edges

Thanks, Ali, for the excellent autumnal vibes.

Cheers!

T R A C K L I S T :

00:00 The Lonely Bell - Time Beyond The Edges (ft. Claire Deak)
04:30 Sangam Dream - Open Wound
08:25 Ben Frost - Permcat, Ки́їв
12:00 Birds of Passage - Between The Hours
15:00 Sarah Novi - Winter Whispers
19:34 Kara-Lis Coverdale - Cumulative Resolution
20:54 Ali Murray - Denizen
23:40 Lyndsie Alguire - the colour of angel's wings
30:10 Alex Bober - Betray Me, Crush Me
35:40 Slow Blink - The Heart's Docent (excerpt)
38:45 Evgeny Bylina - Something of Mind Alone (excerpt)
43:06 Sangam Dream - Open Wound
47:40 Hadley Roe - The Inner Garden
52:12 The Lonely Bell - The Fading World (ft. Joachim Spieth)
57:23 end

Thursday Sep 18, 2025

in slow time

Thursday Sep 18, 2025

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This mix is pretty straightforward - all ambient, all new. It can be hard to keep up with new releases so I decided to put together a nice collection of new 2025 tracks. Turned out pretty darn good if I do say so.

Cheers!

T R A C K L I S T :

00:00 Aiko Takahashi - Collage On Paper Laid On A Cardboard (Monologue 2025)
02:12 Of Mountains And Seas - Cygnus (Of Mountains And Seas 2025)
05:10 Rick Sanders - Nautical Dawn (The Arrow of Time 2025)
11:20 Seth Thorn - necarney creek (a curious doubling of terms 2025)
14:40 Akmuo - Language Of The Clouds (Grace Of God 2025)
24:25 SPIRIT RADIO - A Sighting 4 (Dew Point 2025)
26:00 Pye Corner Audio - Volcanic Rock (Lake Deep Memory 2025)
31:40 Niklas Paschburg Moos (Mexican Alps 2025)
34:10 ILUITEQ & Eraldo Bernocchi - Remain, Alone (Fade, Remain 2025)
38:06 Photosphere & Unusual Cosmic Process - Fields of Gold (Enlightenment 2025)
40:30 Almost An Island - An Ode To Nothing (Almost An Island2025)
45:40 02:12 Of Mountains And Seas - Home (Of Mountains And Seas 2025)
50:55 Field Lines Cartographer - Irradiance (Solar Maximum 2025)
56:33 Philippe Deschamps, Relief - The Night Timbre (Shifting Horizons 2025)
59:31 end

Wednesday Sep 03, 2025

FIFTH SECTOR - Blade Runner Ambiance 2025

Wednesday Sep 03, 2025

I really didn't intend to follow an 80s themed mix with another mix with an 80s vibe. But I couldn't help myself because of the brand new album from Crows Labyrinth - Neon Scenes II: Echoes of Then https://crowslabyrinth.bandcamp.com/album/neon-scenes-ii-echoes-of-then

The album is a follow-up to an album called "Neon Scenes I: Granular Dreams." Both albums are longform generative drone ambient pieces that have this great Blade Runner vibe. I used the first album as the jumping off point for my last Blade Runner themed mix in March 2023 - https://www.mixcloud.com/lowlight/replicant-memories/ Upon hearing this new Crows Labyrinth album I just knew I had to create some more Blade Runner ambiance.

Links to all the music used in this mix:

Cheers!

T R A C K L I S T :

00:00 Crows Labyrinth - Neon Scenes II: Echoes of Then (Neon Scenes II: Echoes of Then 2025)
08:25 Martin Stürtzer - Nexus-6 (Nexus-6 2025)
17:00 Ruptured World - The Great Void (Void Rituals 2024)
22:00 Logic Moon - New Arcadia (Music For Film Vol.1 2024)
25:30 Alphaxone & Onasander - Megacities (Futuristic Dereliction 2024)
32:24 Graintable - Cascade Moutain Ash (Music to Watch Seeds Grow By 003: Graintable (Blue Flax) 2025)
37:00 deepspace - Entering Aquarium Prefecture (Neon Blue Utopia 2025)
43:12 Dave Nelson - The New Normal (The Act of Vanishing 2020)
46:00 Uther Moads - Future Waves (Uther Moads 2011)
49:30 juneunit - lude (juneunit 2019)
53:30 Sabled Sun - Onboarding Errors (2150 2025)
58:54 end

Tuesday Aug 12, 2025

Soundtrack for Perseid Meteor Shower 2025

Tuesday Aug 12, 2025

The annual Perseid meteor shower peaks tonight and tomorrow night, August 12th & 13th. I like to use the Perseids as an excuse to create a spacey, ambient mix for stargazing. So here it is.

The first track I grabbed for this mix was Jeff Pearce - For The Perseids, from the Gemstones IV compilation. How could I not use that cut in a mix like this. So I decided to look for other tracks with names that would fit and it was fairly easy to find a bunch that worked. Again, how could I resist tunes called "Luminous Dust Trails" and "Night Drifters" and "Comet Tails."

Get outside and scan the skies.

LINKS TO ALL THE MUSIC USED IN THIS MIX:

Cheers!

T R A C K L I S T :

00:00 Jeff Pearce - For the Perseids (Gemstones IV 2023)
05:25 Logic Moon - Night Drifters (Ashes 2025)
08:08 Tonepoet - Infinite Tide of Stars (Scenes From The Apocalyptic Bliss 2024)
12:09 Applefish & Pulse Mandala - Touch of Gravity (Cocoon 2024)
17:38 EM - Galaxies Like Grains of Sand (Lost and Found: A Foundry Anthology 2002)
21:54 Robert Davies - Beneath Strange Stars (Garden Of Twilight 2006)
25:30 Philippe Deschamps - Cybele Asteroids (The Silence of Pallas 2024)
30:21 Xu - Luminous Dust Trails (Murmurs of the Machine 2025)
33:03 Nico Less - Textures (Moving 2024)
37:11 Logic Moon - Transient Light (Ashes 2025)
39:47 Philippe Deschamps - Shape of the Night (Endless Vanishing Lines 2025)
43:12 Martin Stürtzer - Comet Tails (Cosmic Echo 2023)
52:24 Akira Kosemura & Lawrence English - Twilight Wave (Selene 2024)
56:00 Mike Lazarev - The Final Resonance of Light (Tarnished Tapes and Saturated Signals 2025)

Wednesday Jul 30, 2025

Pluvial Scansion - guest mix by Benoît Pioulard

Wednesday Jul 30, 2025

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I have said many times that I love hosting guest mixes. Whether it's from regular contributors Paul & Erwin or from artists in the ambient space, the mixes expose to new music and artists, and I delight in hearing how someone else approaches the creation of a coherent mix.

This new guest mix comes from an ambient artist that I have admired for years - Benoît Pioulard(Tom Meluch). I love his brand of hazy, dreamy ambient music. He has an excellent new album out, which you can find here - https://pioulard.bandcamp.com/album/stanza-iv It's one of my favorite ambient albums of the year so far.

The title of this mix is Pluvial Scansion, about which Tom says - "It’s been a rainy spring and summer here, so I think that’s affected some of the overall mood." Here's what he has to say about putting together this mix:

"For this mix, I wanted to highlight the work of some very talented friends, and some mellower releases from the past year or so that I've enjoyed during various moments of transit or deep focus. Every track has some form of ambient washiness, and I tried to cover as much of a sonic range as possible within that framework. My latest release is Stanza IV, a limited LP complemented by a collection of reworks by Markus Guentner, James Devane, MJ Guider, arovane, Clarice Jensen, and Viul.

Here, I've included an abridged version of one of the album tracks, along with the arovane piece, but you can hear the whole thing at pioulard.bandcamp.com, and subscribe for a ton of exclusive work plus new stuff every month, at pioulard.bandcamp.com/subscribe .. and, if you're in Tokyo on August 18th, come see me perform with Satomimagae! Hope you'll enjoy the playlist <3

Thanks for this well-crafted collection.

Cheers!

T R A C K L I S T :

00:00 Ogawa & Tokoro - Dancing In The River (Khotin Remix) (2024)
08:12 Viul - Starlight Park (Bright Decline 2019)
11:35 Clinic Stars - Shiver (Walking Over Time) (Only Hinting 2024)
15:20 Benoit Pioulard - Ersatz Immortality (edit) (Stanza IV 2025)
21:08 Mikron - Lyre (Severance 2019)
26:04 zakè & Wayne Robert Thomas - Catch (Remembrance 2022)
29:27 alex - Moments Lost (In Environment 2025)
31:29 somesurprises - Lush (Year Without Spring 2025)
34:50 U.e - Drawing of Me (Hometown Girl 2025)
38:50 Jogging House - Chance (Chants 2020)
42:32 Benoit Pioulard - Fog Dialect (arovane Version) (Stanza IV 2025)
45:35 Isaac Helsen - The Memory You Take (Remnants 2019)
51:15 Mikkel Rev - A Promise of Healing (Journey Beyond 2025)
63:04 Bibio - SYCHDER MCMLXXXIX (Phantom Brickworks LP II 2024)

Wednesday Jul 09, 2025

Whitelabrecs Vinyl Mix

Wednesday Jul 09, 2025

Without question one of the best ambient record labels in the world is Whitelabrecs . I've known label owner, Harry Towell, for a long time, going back to his netlabel days with Audio Gourmet. It's been grand to follow along as Harry has grown musically and the label has become a juggernaut. That's why I am beyond excited to present a guest mix from Harry. The bonus is it's an all vinyl mix.

Here's a little blurb from Harry about his mix:

"My name’s Harry and I make music as Glåsbird. I’m from Lincolnshire in the UK and I also run a record label called Whitelabrecs. The label has been going since 2016 and specialises in limited edition runs of vinyl effect CDrs in classic vinyl sleeve formats, such as the gatefold LP and mini 45. Vinyl is a massive inspiration for this label and this all started in my earlier years in music, when I was a DJ. I’d collect a range of Deep House, Techno and Downtempo records and mix these at gigs, at a time when CD-Js and digital mixing was becoming the norm. I bought my Technics 1210s in 2004 as a second-hand purchase from another DJ. I’ve kept them all this time and they had deteriorated to the point where the tonearms would get stuck and so they had been gathering dust for a few years.

This year I got them repaired and serviced, replacing the cartridges and styli - now they’re in perfect working order! Since my former DJ years my music taste has changed considerably and this has been developed over the course of the last 15+ years, running the Audio Gourmet, Tessellate and Whitelabrecs labels which focus on quieter Ambient music. I’ll be doing more of these vinyl mixes from time to time and also have my first live DJ gig confirmed for September.

I recorded this vinyl mix one lunchtime after selecting and planning the first 10 tracks using the Camelot Harmonic Mixing method, which is a great way to create a natural-feeling melodic flow. It is a pretty reliable workflow but sometimes doesn’t translate – see the transition between tracks 2 and 3 as an example! I was enjoying this mix so much, that from tracks 11 onwards I switched to mixing on the fly, selecting tracks by ear.

I’d call this an Ambient mix overall but there’s a nice range of sub-styles in this selection, from drones and electronica, electro-acoustic and modern classical to folk and ethnic sounds."

Thanks, Harry, for creating this excellent set.

Cheers!

T R A C K L I S T :

01 Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer – One Of Eight (International Anthem, 2025)
02 Wil Bolton – Quill (Stereoscenic, 2025)
03 Ambre Ciel – Atlantis (Gondwana, 2025)
04 Michael Scott Dawson – Traveling Light (We Are Busy Bodies, 2024)
05 Roméo Poirier – Du Rocher (Sferic, 2020)
06 Goldmund – Travelling (Western Vinyl, 2015)
07 Roméo Poirier- Balayage (Sferic, 2020)
08 Shuta Yasukochi – Leaving (Archives, 2018)
09 A Broken Consort – The Elder Lie (Tomkins Square, 2007)
10 Less Bells – The Fang (Kranky, 2020)
11 Jonny Nash & Teguh Permana – Langit (Melody As Truth, 2020)
12 Paradise Cinema – A Morning in the Near Future (Gondwana, 2024)
13 Wilson Tanner – Daddles (Efficient Space, 2025)
14 Vieo Abiungo – Sad Swell (Lost Tribe Sound, 2011)
15 F. S Blumm – Luftluch (Morr Music, 2001)
16 Padang Food Tigers – Rise Before The Rain (Blackest Rainbow, 2010)
17 Danny Paul Grody – Ohr (Students of Decay, 2011)
18 Will Samson – Suspended In ft. Benoît Pioulard (Talitres, 2015)

Thursday Jul 03, 2025

echospace

Thursday Jul 03, 2025

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)