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Sunday May 30, 2010
Sunday May 30, 2010
Modern-classical, neo-classical, acousmatic, electro-acoustic, ...whatever you want to call the genre, I think this mix fits.
You'll hear lots of strings, some piano, some beats and more strings. It has a vague sort of chamber music feel to it. The mix takes a detour about halfway through with the Pjusk track. It's a good tune but doesn't necessarily fit the modern classical theme of the mix. But I think it flows well with the other tracks around it.
A lot of music I have been listening to sort of falls into this neo-classical/acoustic category so this was just a chance to get some of it out there in a mix.
Enjoy.
T R A C K L I S T :
- 00:00 Panoptique Electrical - Framed by Clouds
- 07:23 Bersarin Quartet - Was uns Bleibt
- 10:45 Murcof - Rios
- 18:40 Olan Mill - Flume
- 21:00 Talvihorros - Thoughts of Violence
- 24:45 M. Ostermeier - Competing Memories, Both Correct
- 30:00 Part Timer - Orchard (scrumped)
- 31:00 Pjusk - Sus
- 35:25 M. Ostermeier - September Again
- 39:20 Danny Norbury - Speak, Memory
- 44:00 Panoptique Electrical - The Free Form
- 50:40 Loscil - Endless Falls
- 58:06 end
Saturday May 22, 2010
Saturday May 15, 2010
Saturday May 15, 2010
I recently was given a box of old sound effects records like the one in the picture. These albums brought back a lot of memories. As a kid I would go to the public library down the street and borrow their sound effects records. I guess that was an early sign that I'd end up with music tastes that were a bit different.
This new mix is perfect for my new vinyl sound effects collection, unfortunately I finished the mix before I got the records. So I'll have to save them for the next installment in the field mixes.
For this mix, the 3rd in the field music mixes, I tried to use more natural sound and less music. There are definitely musical elements here, thanks to Spheruleus, Nigel Samways and others. I tried to pick field sounds that weren't too obtrusive. There are many sounds that are interesting to listen to, but don't work as ambient "music". After a nice quiet section of wind blowing through bamboo, hearing fireworks exploding wouldn't work for me.
I'd like to bring attention to to releases used in this mix. They both come from a new netlabel, Audio Gourmet. "Rust" by Spheruleus & "Momentary" by Darren Harper are the first two releases. They are excellent recordings & they are free so check them out. Each one has a cut in the new field mix.
The tracklist is a bit vague, as the times are even more nebulous than normal. I hope you enjoy this latest field mix.
Download (right click/save as) : 82mb, 60min thru the field
T R A C K L I S T :
- 00:00 Chihei Hatakeyama - Distant Sound of a Bustle
- 04:00 Loren Nerell - Wind Through Bamboo Forest
- 06:00 The Black Dog - M1
- 08:30 Jason Kahn - Transit
- 10:00 Framework podcast 11-5-09 excerpt
- 13:30 Seattle Phonographers Union - Hollow Earth Radio(excerpt)
- 15:30 Nigel Samways - City of Gas Street Lamps
- 19:00 Spheruleus - it sits on a shelf inside my skull
- 25:00 Mister Vapor - Rain 1
- 31:00 Chihei Hatakeyama - Dance of the Sea
- 33:00 Chris Watson - Vatnajokull
- 35:00 Quiet American - Khulna Station
- 37:00 Thomas Koner - 45_26n, 12_20e (hour three)
- 40:00 Steve Bradley - SO2 Emissions
- 41:30 Cecile Le Prado - Passages
- 43:30 Spheruleus - Rusting
- 47:30 Richard Chartier - Fields for Recording (excerpt)
- 52:00 Chris Watson - Bucaneve
- 53:00 Spheruleus - A Hindered View
- 55:30 Darren Harper - Field & Glass
- 60:00 end
Saturday Apr 24, 2010
Saturday Apr 24, 2010
Drifting...floating...coasting...gliding...swimming...
Whatever word you choose, all would describe this mix perfectly. It's just a nice collection of mostly new tunes, all with a drifting, floating feel.
This mix works great for sleeping, enjoy.
T R A C K L I S T :
- 00:00 Moustache Mountain - poisonoussnake
- 05:50 Ben Fleury Steiner - Purple as the Dawn
- 09:45 Pausal - Midshipman
- 12:40 Back to Comm - Hotel Freund
- 16:00 Aglaia - A Boat Hunted the Edge of the Sea
- 22:40 Dirk Serries - microphonics v
- 28:35 Windy & Carl - I Have Been Waiting to Hear from You
- 34:40 Fabio Orsi - part 2 from Winterreise
- 40:15 Hildur Gudnadottir - Iridescence
- 49:15 m. ostermeier - Lost Weekend
- 53:00 Spheruleus - Orchid
- 57:00 end
Friday Apr 16, 2010
Friday Apr 16, 2010
The mixes are coming fast and furious! I'm trying to crank out a few more than normal. This one seems to be fast paced compared to the usual mixes found here.
This creation is similar to a mix I did in 2008 called "Motion for Relief". Ambient dub would be the best way to describe this installment. Not all the tunes are "dub" but most have beats, some more prominent than others. The feel is still pretty laid back, with just enough going on to give a sense of movement. Hence the title, "eppur si muove(and yet it moves)", which is apparently a phrase uttered by Galileo.
Enjoy
T R A C K L I S T :
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- 00:00 Pan American - B esso
- 04:30 Deepchord - Vantage Isle (echospace reshape)
- 08:50 Aardvarck - bloom 4
- 11:45 Marconi Union - Shibuya
- 14:45 Porter Ricks - Redundance 3
- 20:40 Rhythm & Sound - Hit You Version ??
- 27:40 Kiln - Royal Peppermint Forest
- 30:50 Rena Jones - Indra's Web
- 33:40 Rod Modell - beach
- 37:20 Shuttle 358 - Calty
- 40:50 Marconi Union - We Travel
- 47:25 Jonathan Hughes - Dieresis
- 49:40 Basic Channel - Radiance i edit
- 53:30 James Murray - eleven (decades mix)
- 59:57 end
Tuesday Apr 13, 2010
Tuesday Apr 13, 2010
This is the third mix I’ve done with a shortwave radio theme. Many of the tunes have noise & static already built in. Sometimes radio washes have been added.
As with past shortwave mixes, the actual shortwave recordings come courtesy of Myke Dodge Weiskopf. He runs a great site dedicated to shortwave music.
This mix was originally posted on MixCloud by folks at Fluid Radio. I am honored that Fluid Radio posted one of my mixes among their growing list of great music. I'm posting here to allow direct download. That's one feature I wish MixCloud had, the option of downloading the mixes. It's a great community over at MixCloud that would be even better with downloads.
I hope you enjoy vol. 3 in the shortwave series.
T R A C K L I S T :
- 00:00 Myke Weiskopf - Test Transmission
- 00:40 Tim Hecker - Arctic Loner's Rock
- 03:50 All India Radio
- 05:20 Andrey Dergatchev - Culmination
- 07:45 Karlheinz Stockhausen - realization 6 (from spiral)
- 08:50 Tu M' - monochrome 3
- 14:20 Library Tapes - The Fragile Tide
- 16:30 Radio Slovakia Int'l
- 17:20 36 - Juliet
- 19:20 Maps & Diagrams - Mold
- 23:45 Marihiko Hara - modena
- 26:05 WNOH - Runyon's Gospel Descent
- 27:40 Ous Mal - Viime Talvi
- 29:40 Myke Weiskopf - Into the Telemetry Haze
- 30:50 Brian Grainger - untitled
- 34:10 Helios - Vargtimme
- 37:30 random noise fx
- 38:20 36 - intercept
- 39:00 BNR Radio Bulgaria
- 40:30 Drowning the Virgin Silence - We Twist the Sun & Sea
- 44:20 Krzysztof Orluk - over the sky (bright sphere)
- 46:30 Motion - dispersal patterns
- 48:00 atom - wellen and felder II
- 49:10 Xela - An Abandoned Robot
- 51:45 Eluvium - As I Drift Off
- 54:30 end
Sunday Apr 11, 2010
Sunday Apr 11, 2010
I have no idea why I called this mix "cloud mapping". It started off as something about the sky, then aerial views of something, then blah blah blah...then it ends up as "cloud mapping".
Most of the music is new or new-ish. There is no big time theme in this mix, just good, drifting ambient music. I guess you could picture yourself flying over clouds while listening to this. My favorite track in the mix is from Christopher Willits' release "Live on Earth Vol.1". It's the track, "Stars and Plants (live) – Kyoto, Japan – June 19, 2008".
Enjoy some good 'ole floaty ambient.
T R A C K L I S T :
- 00:00 in the field - rising
- 03:30 Christopher Willits - Stars and Plants (live) – Kyoto, Japan – June 19, 2008
- 12:45 Maps & Diagrams - Shuffle
- 17:50 Relmic Statute - a test for tapes & memories
- 22:10 Jannick - Schou - Night
- 26:50 Itaca Trio - Dragon Sleeps Well
- 30:55 Markus Guenter - Doppelgaenger
- 38:05 Terje Isungset - a glimpse of light
- 40:00 Cluster - lerandis
- 41:30 Akira Kosemura - 9 Guitar
- 42:20 Chihei Hatakeyama - light drizzle
- 46:30 Kyle Bobby Dunn - Empty Gazing
- 52:10 Christopher Willits - Golden Yarrow
- 55:00 Simon James French - Misery
- 59:23 end
Thursday Mar 25, 2010
Thursday Mar 25, 2010
a canticle unfolds
I love all the mixes being posted on Mixcloud by Fluid Radio. They have a ton of neo-classical, Ambient, Modern Classical, Experimental Acoustic mixes on their Mixcloud page. So I set out to make my own "neo-classical" mix. And as I have said here before, sometimes mixes take you in directions that you weren't anticipating.
With "a canticle unfolds", I discovered some vocal music as I was searching for tracks with a modern classical feel. Some of the tunes appear as recorded, others have been altered or remixed a bit. In the end, I ended up with 10 vocal cuts.
This mix started out fairly straight forward, turned into an experiment and ended up as a nice listening experience. I hope you like it.
T R A C K L I S T :
- 00:00 The Hilliard Ensemble & Ivan Moody - Canticum Canticorum Remixed
- 03:40 Misound - sonno
- 05:30 Satie - Gnossienne Remixed
- 08:00 Nest - Marefjellet
- 12:00 Ambrose Field - La Dolce Vita
- 14:30 Gavin Byars Remixed
- 17:30 Morton Feldman - Rothko Chapel 5
- 21:00 Akira Rabelais - 1382_wyclif_gen._ii._7
- 24:30 Panoptique Electrical - the free form
- 29:40 Chorovaya Akademia - Nine Sili Nebesniye 1
- 32:40 Gavin Byars - Epilogue from Wonder Lawn
- 39:10 Bach Remixed
- 39:35 Roedelius - Lustwandel
- 43:15 Andrei Machado - ecce homo
- 47:30 Arvo Part - O Adonai
- 49:50 Annelies Monsere - 7
- 52:20 Debussy - des pas sur la neise
- 57:00 John Tavener - Mother & Child
- 60:12 end
Tuesday Feb 16, 2010
Tuesday Feb 16, 2010
It's the dead of winter, just trying to outlast the snow & cold, trying to make it to spring break.
The music in this mix has a sort of lonely winter feel to it. The tracks are not too dark or depressing, they just seem to conger up images of vast, snowy landscapes.
There are a few recordings in this mix from some of my recent favorite record labels. I'll just list some of those favorites...
Low Point Experimedia Hibernate Under the Spire Home Normal Phantom Channel Dead Pilot Records Own Records
Low Point, Phantom Channel, Home Normal, Infraction, Serein, 12k and Under the Spire all made it into the mix. Although no Hibernate recordings made it, I've really been enjoying all the output from them lately. Check out the releases from all these great labels.
Next month I've got a mix coming out on Fluid Radio on MixCloud. I'll keep you posted. In the meantime, I hope you enjoy this newest mix.
T R A C K L I S T :
- 00:00 Savvas Ysatis & Taylor Deupree - Hourglass
- 06:20 Kyle Bobby Dunn - Butel
- 11:15 Nest - Far From Land
- 15:30 Shaula - O
- 20:20 Shaula - Under a Palpebra
- 24:20 Ian Hawgood - Before I let the sunshine rot
- 30:45 Chihei Hatakeyama - Illusion of Memory 2
- 32:50 Kyle Bobby Dunn - There is no end to your beauty
- 42:10 Parks - Franja
- 47:50 Chihei Hatakeyama - The moon reflecting on the surface of the ocean
- 49:50 Marconi Union - Nothing ever happens in Tunguska
- 54:45 Coldstream - Alarums
- 1:00:00 end
Sunday Jan 17, 2010
Sunday Jan 17, 2010
Here's the first mix for 2010. It's called slo_mo because all the tunes are slow & droney.
One aspect of this mix that makes it a bit different is the use of a few "stretched" tracks. I think I've mentioned this program here before, it's called "Paul's Extreme Sound Stretch". I couldn't find a link to it, but at one time, on the web, there was a version of Beethoven's 9th Symphony that had been stretched to 24 hours.
I stretched 3 songs for the mix, Eno - Music for Airports, Laetetur Cor (Choir of the Abbey of Saint Wandrille) and Budd & Eno - A Stream With Bright Fish. Those tracks along with the others combine for a very slow mix that works pretty well for sleeping(I couldn't make past the 20min mark twice last night).
Enjoy.
T R A C K L I S T :
- 00:00 Eno - Music for Airports (s t r e t c h e d)
- 08:25 lexithimie - scale 1
- 12:35 Apalusa - Coventry, January 21, 2008
- 18:00 Laetetur Cor - Choir of the Abbey of Saint Wandrille (s t r e t c h e d)
- 22:20 Budd & Eno - A Stream with Bright Fish (s t r e t c h e d)
- 30:35 Celer - Gaited Florets
- 38:00 Porzellan - Rosen
- 47:10 Spheruleus - Time Fades
- 54:12 Language of Landscape - And The Rain Embraced Our Closing Words