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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)

Thursday May 15, 2025

Handpan Meditations

Thursday May 15, 2025

Oh man, this is a good one. Well, all the mixes here are good but for some reason this one resonates with me right now. Two years ago I posted a mix called "Walk Softly Upon This Earth" that featured the handpan as the main instrument - https://www.mixcloud.com/lowlight/walk-softly-upon-this-earth/

I love that mix and have always wanted to do a follow up. Then in April a new EP dropped that I immediately fell in love with and it prompter me to create this mix. The EP is called "Kalima" from Lab's Cloud in collaboration with Falvio Salvaje. Check it out here - https://labscloudmusic.bandcamp.com/album/kalima

The rest of the mix is collection of some truly excellent handpan music with my favorite, other than the tracks from "Kalima," being "Passage IV" from Laura Inserra. It combines handpan and electric guitar in a beautiful way.

Links to all the music used in this mix:

I hope this mix brings you all some peace in these insane times.

Cheers!

T R A C K L I S T :

00:00 Lab's Cloud and Flavio Salvaje - I'm your sun (Kalima 2025)
05:00 Laura Inserra - Passage IV (Musical Incense - Vol. Two 2009)
16:10 Christine Ott - Sorrow / Lover's Dance (Tabu 2016)
26:33 Flavio Salvaje & Onanya - Buen Viaje (Cruise Slowly 2023)
34:09 Quentin Kayser - Fred(feat. Carola Ortiz) (The End of the Beginning(Future Rust Vol. 4 2023)
39:12 Lab's Cloud and Flavio Salvaje - Sandwhistle (Kalima 2025)
43:24 James Hood - Huasca(We Are Not Alone) (Pure Ceremony 2017)
48:50 Laura Inserra - Sentiment (Altitude 2019)
54:35 Christopher Of The Wolves - Floating (Rhythms Of Sleep 2015)
69:40 end

Tuesday May 06, 2025

A Violet Sky

Tuesday May 06, 2025

This is straightforward ambient mix. Nothing fancy, just good music. The one unifying trait of this mix, other than all the tracks being awesome, is that everything is from this year.

I started the set with a track from Alio Die. Every so often I need a reminder why I love an artist I've been listening to forever. And stumbling upon this new album definitely brought back why Alio Die is one of my all-time favs.

LINKS TO ALL THER MUSIC USED IN THIS MIX:

Cheers!

T R A C K L I S T :

00:00 Arborescence & Alio Die; - Kindling Leaves (The Inner Vaults 2025)
08:05 David Tagg - The King of Songs performs the prelude to Cruciform Heart
(The Wind Kept Land 2025)
13:15 Yumiko Morioka & Takashi Kokubo - O-KA-GU-RA (Gaiaphilia 2025)
15:35 State Azure - Stillness (Stillness 2025)
22:55 SVLBRD - Indigo Light (Monochrome 2025)
28:35 Innesti - Crosscurrents Through Nuances (Fragility and Circumstance 2025)
34:16 Loneward - Temporal Dunes (Gossamer Wings of Illusion 2025)
41:41 Celer - IV.VI (Gems IV 2025)
47:55 variant - sequential sleep(unreleased modular-scape)
(sequential sleep series collection 2025)
60:00 end

Wednesday Apr 16, 2025

The Open Blue

Wednesday Apr 16, 2025

Seascape mixes are some of my favorite ambient mixes. The genre seems to perfectly suited to floating and drifting on an endless sea. Two of my favorite ambient tracks of all time are "sea" ambient -

https://marsenjules.bandcamp.com/track/submarine-poetry

https://infraction.bandcamp.com/track/the-most-beautiful-blue

I absolutely love those two tracks!

I'm always up for a new seascape mix and that's what we have here - a new collection of tracks mostly from 2023 & 2024, with one from 2020 and one from all the way back in 2008. Put the oars back in the boat, kick your feet up and drift away.

Cheers!

T R A C K L I S T :

00:00 Bill Seaman, Tim Diagram, Stephen Spera - The World Was Turning Before (The World Was Turning Before 2023)
07:00 Philippe Deschamps - What The Sea Promises - In a Silent Sea (Bahrambient Rework) (What The Sea Promises 2024)
09:20 Old Amica - Sommaren 96 (För alltid 2024)
14:06 Model 500 - Starlight(Intrusion dub) (Starlight 2008)
20:35 Jeff Greinke - Northern Reaches (Oceanic 2024)
29:00 Masayoshi Fujita - Ocean Flow (Migratory 2024)
31:54 Faux Tapes - Dive. Pt.4 (Dive 2024)
33:25 First Snow of The Year - Noir (Norwegian White 2025)
38:10 Bill Seaman, Tim Diagram, Stephen Spera - Far Away (The World Was Turning Before 2023)
43:00 Sanjib - Aquatic Sphere (Underwater 2020)
47:23 Daou - Sanctum (Reverie 2023)
51:12 Faux Tapes - Dive. Pt.7 (Dive 2024)
54:30 end

Wednesday Mar 12, 2025

Metallic Memories

Wednesday Mar 12, 2025

Another stellar guest mix comes our way with this excellent set from longtime listener, Daniel Hawkins. He reached with an idea for a mix and once I heard the theme I was all in. Daniel curated a playlist of tracks & I put them together to create this new mix.

Here's what Daniel has to say about Metallic Memories:

"So I've loved world music since before that term existed, and always had an inordinate fondness for the metallophones - gamelan, vibraphone, glockenspiel, Tibetan bowls - should we include tubular bells? Of course! I don't know if the kalimba and marimba are technically in the category, but they are in my mind. Wind chimes, tingshas, koshis, steel drum, handpan, gongs, avant-garde stuff done with trash cans and pipes - it's all good. This playlist leaves out a ton of music that Dave has covered over the years that is near and dear to me - but I wanted to do what he does so well - bring new artists to everyone's attention and still make a killer playlist. I'd thought for a looooong time about putting something together for Low Light Mixes and was so pleased with Dave's gracious response."

Thanks, Daniel, for this excellent collection of metallophone music!

Links to all the music used in this mix:

Tom Green - Music for Tai Chi

T. Raumschmiere

Peter Bark - Astral Ecotone

Ethereal Planes - Moonlit Passage

Willebrant - The Pilgrim

Snufmumriko - Havstrakt

Daniel Lentz - Lascaux

Brian Eno - 77 Million Paintings

Cheers!

T R A C K L I S T :

00:00 Tom Green - Centre of your Circle (Music for Tai Chi 2012)
09:45 T. Raumschmiere - Grotznogg (T.Raumschmiere 2015)
13:45 Peter Bark - Bonfire (Astral Ecotone 2020)
18:12 Ethereal Planes - Moonlit Passage (Moonlit Passage single 2022)
25:55 Willebrant - Plateau(Into the Valley) (The Pilgrim 2021)
32:30 Snufmumriko - Skogar av tang (Havstrakt 2023)
39:45 Daniel Lentz - Lascaux (Missa Umbrarum 1991)
47:27 Brian Eno - 77 Million Paintings 1 (77 Million Paintings 2023)
53:08 end