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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
Friday Apr 03, 2015
Friday Apr 03, 2015
I have been planning on doing a stargazing mix for a long time and then a new EP by 36 came out and I knew I had to get cracking on a new mix.
The new EP is called Sine Dust and it's excellent. All the tracks have a similar feel to them and that is by design. 36 artist, Dennis Huddleston, says "I wanted to make an EP that had a strictly defined sound and theme, which continued from beginning to end, using a limited array of instruments to tell the story." And it's a good story. The synths have a sort of retro feel without being kitschy or obvious. The touch here is just perfect. And the tracks work nicely for an astronomical theme.
The 6th track in the mix is from an excellent new compilation from Tessellate Recordings - Earthtones Vol. 3. Just like the other two comps, this is a great collection of tunes with a nice variety of sounds and textures.
Earthtones
Volume 3 by Tessellate Recordings
The Fripp tune is one of a bunch freebies that his DGM Live website has available. I highly recommend spending some time there and looking through all the oddities they have available for download.
The rest of the tunes I think work rather well as a soundtrack to laying on your back and staring up at the night sky. Whether it's looking for a meteor streaking through the atmosphere or gazing at a blood moon, this mix should transport you off planet.
Enjoy
T R A C K L I S T :
- 00:00 36 - Beyond the Heliosphere
- 05:57 Monty Adkins - Entangled Symmetries
- 09:00 Fripp - Time Stands Still
- 14:30 Lorenzo Montana - Bloom
- 20:31 Robert Rich - Aetherfolds
- 23:40 Map 165 - Long Shore Drift
- 26:47 Alpha Wave Movement - Cryptic Signals
- 33:06 Spectra Ciera - Second Narrows
- 35:52 Jon Hopkins - cold out there
- 39:03 36 - Sun Riders Part II
- 43:42 Kalgan - Subway Evening
- 46:44 Lunar Testing Lab - Station East
- 50:36 Aglaia - Polar Cap Absorption
- 54:27 Steve Roach - The Delicate Forever
- 65:35 end
Sunday Mar 01, 2015
Sunday Mar 01, 2015
This mix was started because of one new tune - "Witch Season" from the new Infraction release by Offthesky and Pleq. I love that track and what better way to tell people about it than a new mix.
With that song as a starting point things fell into place very nicely. All the music in the mix is fairly recent. Most is from 2014 or 2015 with the exception of the cut from The New Honey Shade which is from 2011.
The mix as a whole is pretty straight forward ambient. Straight forward but awesome ambient. I love the tracks from dirk serries, tonepoet, The Circular Ruins, Janek Schaefer, Spheruleus...oh heck, I adore every cut in this mix.
All of the albums used in this mix are available on Bandcamp so I'll link to them here in order of appearance in the mix...
https://infraction.bandcamp.com/album/a-thousand-fields
https://tonefloatikon.bandcamp.com/album/streams-of-consciousness-152401
https://dekorder.bandcamp.com/album/unfolding-luxury-beyond-the-city-of-dreams
https://scissortail.bandcamp.com/album/ozark-dream
https://dataobscura.bandcamp.com/album/full-circle
https://coppicehalifax.bandcamp.com/album/lowlights
https://experimentsinsilence.bandcamp.com/
https://manwatchingthestars.bandcamp.com/album/dusk
https://tonepoet.bandcamp.com/album/headspace
https://spheruleus.bandcamp.com/album/chronota
Enjoy
T R A C K L I S T :
- 00:00 Offthesky and Pleq - Witch Season
- 04:57 dirk serries - cloud surface break
- 11:11 Janek Schaefer - Beyond
- 16:16 The New Honey Shade - Sun is Elixir
- 19:00 The Circular Ruins - Full Circle
- 27:30 Coppice Halifax - lowlights
- 34:05 Experiments in Silence - duskforms
- 38:50 Man Watching the Stars - Midday
- 49:40 tonepoet - Showers of Lilac
- 54:00 Spheruleus - The Railroad
- 1:01:27 Experiments in Silence - Nascent Light
- 1:06:53 end