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Netlabel Mix

I've gone on another binge of downloading music from netlabels. You know how the net is...one link leads you to another and then another and another and the next thing you know, you've download 10 free releases. Free is obviously a huge attraction for most netlabel releases. With some of the recordings, it's a good thing they are free. It's not that they are bad, just that I probably won't come back to them again and again in the future. However, some releases are very good. Nest, released earlier this year on Serein is an excellent recording. Marsen Jules has two Autoplate releases, Yara & Lazy Sunday Funerals, which I highly recommend. I haven't really had time to digest all the new music yet, but I thought I'd put together a quick mix using all netlabel albums that I've downloaded in the last couple of weeks. Here's a list of some interesting netlabels...

1. Serein
2. Aerotone
3. Test Tube
4. 12rec
5. Tripostal
6. Miasmah
7. Rain Music
8. Ekonetlabel
9. Mendorla
10. Thinner
11. Autoplate

I just noticed a new Off The Sky release at Autoplate. That should be worth checking out. All of the labels listed here are worth browsing. TRACKLISTING:

• 00:00 - 03:30 nim is a tree - a sunday walk (tri postal)
• 03:30 - 06:30 krill.minima - sommerdellen (thinner)
• 06:30 - 09:50 Alexandre Navarro - la terre (mandorla)
• 09:50 - 12:40 Muhr - 'a gouache des temps (serein)
• 12:40 - 20:30 Klotzsch & Sudermann - corylus avellana (autoplate)
• 20:30 - 24:35 Bersarin Quartet - st. petersburg (aerotone)
• 24:35 - 28:35 Weigl & Hoffmann - country lane (autoplate)
• 28:35 - 35:15 Twile - spanish cruiser (autoplate)
• 35:15 - 38:00 Herzog - there are options (12rec)
• 38:00 - 42:33 Cantaloup - dawns & echos (aerotone)
• 42:33 - 46:00 Haruki - sometimes seeing through things helps (rain music)
• 46:00 - 49:33 Silencio - botaniska trdgrd (tri postal)
• 49:33 - 53:43 Bersarin Quartet - es kann nicht ewig (aerotone)
• 53:43 - 1:02:19 Childs - marysal(fax emix) (mandorla)

String Theory Vol. 2

The mix I did last year, called String Theory, was one of my favorites. This is the sequel, creatively titled String Theory Vol. 2. Originally posted at the Low Light Mixes site on blogspot, this mix features mostly orchestral style ambient. This one relies on new music more than the first mix did. I'm pretty happy with the way it flows from track to track. The goal is to never really be sure where one track ends & the next begins.

• T R A C K L I S T :

00:00 intro 00:30 Stars of the Lid - Hiberner Toujours 02:02 Andrey Dergatchev - The Return(excerpt) 04:28 Corker & Conboy - Frank's Lie 07:02 Clint Mansell - Stay With Me (The Fountain ost) 10:05 Mono & World's End Girlfriend - Palmless Prayer/Mass Murder Refrain #1 16:03 Yo Yo Ma(Ennio Morricone) - Gabriel's Oboe 18:57 Jeff Greinke - Gradual Motion 24:24 Stars of the Lid - December Hunting for Vegetarian 32:00 Andrey Dergatchev - The Return (excerpt) 34:09 Clint Mansell - Summer Tense(Requiem for a Dream ost) 34:46 Rachel's - Technology is Killing Music(excerpt) 36:00 Kyo Ichinose - Lontano 42:00 Donato Wharton - Puget Sound 43:33 Stars of the Lid - Articulate Silences Pt. 2 48:43 Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson - I Flew(angels of the universe ost) 50:52 Andrey Dergatchev - The Return(excerpt) 54:50 Balanesco Quartet - Lullaby 58:27 Clint Mansell - Death is a Disease(Fountain ost) 1:00:50 Andrey Dergatchev - The Return(excerpt) 1:03:08 end

Breathing Music

After a quick side trip we are back to a straight forward, ambient mix. I got the idea for this mix from my online friend, Brian and his an excellent podcast, The Quiet Sounds. At the beginning of the year he did a mix of sleep music and said this about it..."many of these tracks have a lullaby, 'breathing' quality...". The idea of "breathing" music caught my attention. I would come back to the concept again and again as I listened to music this year. So I finally decided to put together my own mix of "breathing" music. Most of the tracks have a common feel...in & out, back & forth, ebb & flow...a wash of sound that fades then the wash returns. Most of the cuts are fairly new, though I was happy to squeeze in some old Cluster & Eno. Like Brian's original mixes, this one works pretty well for sleeping as well. Enjoy T R A C K L I S T 00:00 - 05:30    Alp - tropen 05:30 - 10:30    Robert Henke - layer #3 10:30 - 14:00    Stars of the Lid - another ballad for heavy lids 14:00 - 18:30    Scott Solter - wave & sepia wire 18:30 - 22:30    Cluster & Eno - old land 22:30 - 27:30    Steve Roach - slow rapture 27:30 - 31:30    Jeff Pearce - life in the dusk air 31:30 - 34:20    Alio Die & Luciano Daini - la rocca's view 34:20 - 43:30    Marsen Jules - eilet en delta 43:30 - 48:00    Cluster & Eno - fur luise 48:00 - 50:40    Andrew Deutsch - loops over land 50:40 - 58:40    William Basinski - el camino real 58:40 - 03:26    Stars of the Lid - the evil that never arrived