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Sunday Jan 10, 2016
Sunday Jan 10, 2016
I've done many "sea" mixes over the years and I keep coming back to them because ambient music perfectly captures the impression of an undulating a sea or ocean.
Enjoy
T R A C K L I S T :
- 00:00 Rafael Anton Irisarri - Displacement
- 03:52 Loscil - Angel of List
- 10:00 Kane Ikin - Slow Waves
- 13:30 Budd & Eno - An Echo of Night
- 15:20 Diatonis - Moving in Silence
- 19:54 Wave Temples - Under the Crystal Waters
- 20:25 Wave Temples - Thru the narrow strait...
- 21:45 Benoit Pioulard - Stanza II, IX
- 26:36 Spheruleus - Clouds Swarm
- 30:37 Purl - Havets Sång
- 36:50 pjusk & sleep orchestra - Daithn
- 41:12 Intrusion - Under the Ocean
- 44:50 Porya Hatami - Farewell
- 52:25 Pan & Me - The Sea Is So Quiet
- 59:00 Stefan Paulus - Salt Sea Island
- 63:24 end
Saturday Dec 19, 2015
Saturday Dec 19, 2015
These year end lists are always difficult. But at least the top 3 spots this year were easy selections -
Alva Noto - Xerrox, Vol. 3
Max Richter - Sleep
Chris Walla - Tape Loops
- 00:00 Alva Noto - Isola from Xerrox, Vol. 3
- 07:20 Max Richter - Return 2 from Sleep
- 12:35 Chris Walla - Kanta's Theme from Tape Loops
- 17:05 Benoit Pioulard - Shut-ins on Sunday from Sonnet
- 19:20 36 - Sunriders part 2 from Sine Dust
- 23:40 Olan Mill - Live at the Millenium Barn from Cavade Morlem
- 29:00 Mikael Delta & Hior Chronik - How to Define Existence from The First Ray
- 33:00 Bersarin Quartett - Bedingungslos from III
- 36:06 Contact - Brian Eno: Discreet Music
- 44:22 Marconi Union - Aftermath from Departures
- 48:40 Spheruleus - The Railroad from Chronota
- 55:05 Goldmund - Turncoat from Sometimes
- 57:57 Nils Frahm - Merry from Solo
- 61:45 Adam Bryanbaum Wiltzie - The endless battle of the maudlin ballade part 2 from Travels in Constants Vo. 24
- 64:40 Horizon Fire - Earthlight from Earthlight
- 67:26 end
Saturday Nov 14, 2015
Saturday Nov 14, 2015
A slowly developing amalgamation of mixed-genre madness, fusing ambient, experimental & jazz soundscapes into a mixture of quiet deconstruction.
"Slow Decay" is a collaborative mix from Low Light Mixes & Ambient Landscape. We've each done mixes for each other but we thought it would be cool make a mix in which we both contributed alternating sections.
Gene(ambient landscape) came up with the title and I started things off with a couple of cuts. I sent it to Gene, he added a few more, sent it back to me, I added more tracks and so on and so on. Until we had a fascinating 1 hour & 16 minute journey.
I love how things turned out. The combination of ecm-style jazz and ambient and experimental music worked perfectly.
Don't forget to check out Ambient Landscape here...
https://ambientlandscape.wordpress.com/
https://www.mixcloud.com/gab_labs/
Enjoy
T R A C K L I S T :
- 00:00 Signal Structure (w/treatments) - Positive Centre
- 03:12 Upon Contact Reworked - Jorge Haro (Bruno Sanfilippo)
- 07:10 The Squealing of Rats & the Squeaking of Boards - Marielle V Jakobsons (w/treatments)
- 08:45 Parallel Realities (excerpt) - Jack DeJohnette, Pat Metheny, Herbie Hancock
- 11:40 Dis Loops 1.1 - William Basinski - performed by The Wordless Music Orchestra
- 21:40 Upon the Break Arch - Benoit Pioulard
- 26:20 Structural Functions Of Prezens (excerpt) - David Torn, Tim Berne, Craig Taborn, Tom Rainey
- 30:25 Sluimer (excerpt) - FANTOOM (René Aquarius, Otto Kokke, Dirk Serries, Martina Verhoeven)
- 34:50 Passage D.E. - Jon Hassell
- 39:10 Solphaer - Alva Noto
- 44:05 Porch Swings - Cinchel
- 45:55 Arder De No Sentir Calor - Mauro Beltran
- 50:27 Night Peculiarities – Johan Troch
- 53:19 Tunis at Dawn - Anouar Brahem
- 59:44 Rosemarie - Trio3: Oliver Lake, Reggie Workman, Andrew Cyrille w/ Vijay Iyer
- 66:04 Setting Out - Nick Cave & Warren Ellis
- 67:50 The Wind in High Places: Above Sunset Pass - John Luther Adams
- 70:45 Tipping Point - Andy Sheppard Quartet
- 76:15 end
Sunday Oct 04, 2015
Sunday Oct 04, 2015
I use ambient mixes for sleeping almost every night. A long time ago a friend once mentioned that the best ambient tunes for sleeping are the ones that mimic the rhythm of breathing. Over the years I've found that to be very true.
So this mix, like the other 'breathing' mixes before it, is a collection of tunes that ebb and flow, quietly mirroring your sleepy breathing patterns.
Enjoy
- 00:00 The Dead Texan - The 6 Million Dollar Sandwich
- 02:55 Abstract Aprils - Breathing Sculptures
- 08:50 Le Chat Blanc Orchestra - She Left This Morning
- 15:38 Olan Mill - Spare Smoke Template
- 18:20 Alva Noto - Spiegel
- 21:15 James Johnson - Minimum(excerpt)
- 29:40 Offthesky - Snow Filled Summer
- 31:45 Steve Roach - The Delicate Forever
- 38:30 Billow Observatory - kronstadt
- 42:42 ASC - Hall of the Gods
- 46:50 Experiments in Silance - A Ghost of Stars
- 52:10 Marsen Jules - Lazy Sunday Funerals 7
- 57:05 Manual - Last Light
- 63:36 end
Friday Aug 21, 2015
Friday Aug 21, 2015
The pic above is of the hammock in my backyard. My kids got it for me for Father's Day and I love it. I can't figure out why I didn't have one before. On many nights this summer I grab my kindle and a beer and lay contentedly under our big birch tree.
Of course as a true music
obsessive I have speakers out on the deck that I control remotely. So
whenever I head out to the hammock to read or just space out, I cue up
some ambient, classical or jazz and just drift away.
That's where I got the idea
for this mix. I needed a new collection to keep me company while I sway
in the cool evening air. For some reason when I think of "porch music"
or evening music, I think of ambient guitar. So most of this mix is
guitar based, some more ambient than others. A lot of it is fairly new
and all of it works well with bug spray and a beer. I couldn't resist ending the mix with a tune from...Hammock.
Enjoy
- 00:00 Nathan Amundson - More Horses
- 05:18 Jakob Bro - Lyskaster
- 09:00 CFCF - A Various Language(from the same hill)
- 12:25 Daniel Lanois - Space Love
- 14:00 David Tagg - Comanche
- 20:20 Josh Mason - Petals Too Tired To
- 23:00 Dirk Serries - Disorientation Flow
- 31:15 Christopher Willits - Now
- 35:35 Tonepoet - Headspace
- 41:50 Brian Eno - From the Same Hill
- 44:24 Matt Borghi - Homage to Dave Liebman
- 47:54 Alessio Ballerini - Night in Day
- 51:21 Tone Color - City of Three Rivers
- 56:45 Hammock - Maybe They Will Sing For Us Tomorrow
Wednesday Aug 12, 2015
Wednesday Aug 12, 2015
The title of this one pretty much says it all.
So download the mix, grab some bourbon, a blanket and head outside to witness the 2015 version of the Perseid meteor shower.
Enjoy
T R A C K L I S T :
- 00:00 Moesko - Stargazer
- 03:55 Marconi Union - Still
- 07:35 36 - Sky Fire
- 11:11 Alio Die - nuvole di palissandro
- 12:25 Alva Noto - Solphaer
- 17:55 Julio Di Benedetto - Original Light
- 26:26 Robert Davies - Nightshade
- 35:20 Klowknfe - Gamma
- 42:30 Horizon Fire - Earthlight
- 44:55 Moesko - Cloudgazer
- 47:55 Donnacha Costello - You Are Not Here
- 51:05 Marconi Union - Fading
- 57:15 end
Friday Jun 12, 2015
Friday Jun 12, 2015
I have a confession to make. Back in the 80s & early 90s I used to listen to a lot of New Age music. Stuff like Enya, Andreas Vollenweider, anything on Windham Hill, etc. Even though much of the general public thinks of ambient music as new age music, real ambient fans know the difference. It can be difficult to articulate that difference. I use a "I know it when I hear it" approach. I guess I'm still wary of the new age label so that's why I called the mix "Music for Meditation."
Even though I moved away from new age music long ago, I still have a soft spot for certain sounds that can be considered new age staples. Two of my favs are Tibetan singing bowls & the Fender Rhodes keyboard. Actually anything with a bell-like sonic signature usually gets me.
Last year I came across the re-release of an album called "Gymnosphere, Song of the Rose" by Jordan De La Sierra. It was recorded in 1977. It has been called a long lost new age masterpiece. I guess it is sort of new age-ish, although I think it has more in common with Brian Eno, Terry Riley & Steve Reich than Yanni or Steven Halpern. It's a fine album and it got me thinking about new age music and the parts that I still enjoy. Find out more here...
Once I decided to do this mix I knew for sure that Steven Halpern would make the final cut. I remember buying a cassette of his album "Spectrum Suite" from a shop in Madison, WI that had floatation tanks. I booked a half hour in one of the tanks and played that music while I floated around, literally & figuratively.
The Harold Budd track that follows Halpern, I have always thought sounded very new agey. But I have always loved it. I like that the mix has both old and new cuts in it. I think it does a good job giving off a meditation vibe without being too sickly sweet. Good for meditation or sleeping.
Enjoy
T R A C K L I S T :
- 00:00 Somni451 - Yellow
- 06:30 Jordan De La Sierra - Music for Gymnastics
- 12:30 Field Recording - Wind Chimes & Thunderstorm
- 14:20 Michael Stearns - As the Earth Kissed the Moon
- 18:25 Peter Davison - Glide V
- 23:50 Porya Hatami - After the Rain
- 31:40 eternell - Kalimba I
- 37:33 Halftribe - Shashlik
- 42:12 Steven Halpern - Keynote C Red
- 44:54 Harold Budd - Bismillahi 'Rrahmani' Rrahim
- 52:36 Jeff Pearce - Through Darkened Halls
- 56:14 33 bowls - Morning
- 58:51 Jim Cole - Light Shines In Your Heart
- 65:21 end
Sunday May 31, 2015
Sunday May 31, 2015
- 00:00 David Parsons - Himalaya(edit)
- 08:52 Michael Stearns Twin Flame
- 12:00 Lisa Gerrard & Patrick Cassidy - Elegy
- 18:17 Max Richter - Horizon Variations(edit)
- 21:38 Mychael Danna - Phoenix Anastasis
- 25:52 Aeoliah - Mahavira
- 32:28 Heavenly Music Corporation - Consciousness III(edit)
- 38:42 Carbon Based Lifeforms - Silent Running(carbonator remix)
- 44:15 Xerxes - Angelina
- 53:28 Cliff Martinez - Will She Come Back
- 58:15 Connect.Ohm - Snow Park
- 66:28 Max Richter - On the Nature of Daylight
Sunday May 03, 2015
Sunday May 03, 2015
Benoît Pioulard has two new albums out & they are both wonderful. It was after hearing "Sonnet" that I decided to make a mix that featured the same sort of dusty, slightly noisy ambient tunes.
You can find his album "Sonnet" on Amazon here...
And his latest, "Stanza" here...
https://pioulard.bandcamp.com/album/stanza
Stanza is a companion piece to Sonnet. I didn't even know about it until I went looking for links for this post. I'm so glad that I found it but I wish I'd found it sooner, then I could have worked a track from it into this mix.
Basically the mix is a collection of tunes that falls in line with the sound of those two Benoît Pioulard albums - kind of hazy and dusty.
Enjoy.
T R A C K L I S T :
- 00:00 Benoit Pioulard - Shut-ins on Sunday See
- 03:03 Heezen - 3 hrs
- 07:24 36 - Neon Sunset
- 10:30 The Green Kingdom - untitled(remix by segue)
- 15:00 Assembler-Responder - Palmer Station
- 17:40 Taylor Deupree - thaw
- 25:05 Otto A Totland - Flomé
- 27:27 Janek Schaefer - Unfolding Honey
- 32:20 Porya Hatami - White Forest
- 34:30 Letna - deliblatska pescara
- 36:17 Maps And Diagrams - Tauragnas
- 38:10 Alva Noto - Exoshpere
- 40:20 Jon Hassel - Map of Dusk(stretched & remixed)
- 44:25 Caught In The Wake Forever - Sun Downing
- 46:00 Solo Andata - At Commissure
- 50:00 Benoit Pioulard - Reliquary(Benoit Pioulard remix)
- 54:54 Lissom - Hollow of Winter
- 58:28 Shortwave Music - stretched
- 60:39 end
Wednesday Apr 15, 2015
Wednesday Apr 15, 2015
Every mix has it's own unique starting point. And this mix definitely started in a unique place - my dishwasher.
One day my dishwasher was making some weird noises, it kind of sounded like an alien playing a didgeridoo was trapped inside. So I recorded a little bit of the sound and then processed it using Paul's Extreme Sound Stretch. And whaddya know - it actually sounds pretty good.
I've used Paul's Extreme Sound Stretch in mixes before and it's a fun little program for non-musicians like me.
I posted the stretched version on the Hypnos Recordings forum just for kicks. A couple folks asked to hear the original source as well. Then the next thing you know some of the artists who frequent the forum took that original dishwasher sound & used it as a source to come up with their own original takes.
I was pretty darn excited. These are artists that in some cases I've been listening to for years. And they were going to make music from my freakin' dishwasher. Pretty cool.
Here's the Hypnos forum dishwasher thread... HYPNOS
We ended up with five pieces created from the original dishwasher sounds. I also asked my son, who produces EDM music as AXX, to also make an ambient dishwasher tune, which he did and I gotta say I love his version. Throw my stretched version in there and we have 7 dishwasher tunes, enough for a whole mix. Pretty cool again.
I started the mix with the original sound and let it morph into the different versions. They all flow together very well.
Here are the links to each individual piece used in the mix in order of appearance...
https://soundcloud.com/low-light-mixes/dishwasher-original
https://soundcloud.com/forrest-fang/daves-dishwasher-zen-cycle-021815
https://soundcloud.com/low-light-mixes/dishwasher-drone-axx-rework
https://serenffordd.bandcamp.com/track/rin-se
T R A C K L I S T :
- 00:00 Dishwasher original sound
- 00:17 Dave Michuda - Dishwasher Stretch
- 01:00 Forrest Fang - Dave's Dishwasher(Zen Cycle)
- 02:42 AXX - Dishwasher Drone AXX Rework
- 05:15 Igneous Flame - Chthonic Cycles
- 09:25 Castleview - Cavewasher
- 11:20 The Circular Ruins - The Circular Ruins Over Dave's Dishwasher
- 15:00 Dave Michuda - Dishwasher Stretch part 2
- 16:55 Seren Ffordd - Rin-Se
- 20:43 end