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Wednesday Oct 18, 2023
Wednesday Oct 18, 2023
Sometimes I get so wrapped up in themed mixes or guest mixes that I forget about doing a nice straightforward ambient mix. So that's what this is - a mix featuring ambient tracks from 2023. No story to tell, no underlying theme, just excellent ambient tracks to drift away on.
Links to all the music used in this mix:
- https://willebrant.bandcamp.com/album/leaving-space
- https://homenormal.bandcamp.com/album/summer-chronicles
- https://ab-pulsemandaladistantfiresburning.bandcamp.com/album/r-abacus-lndr
- https://www.iamjonek.com/
- https://innesti.bandcamp.com/album/the-world-we-knew
- https://astralindustries.bandcamp.com/album/ai-35-ghost-lights
- https://davidtagg.bandcamp.com/album/cyrene
- https://courtneybarnett.bandcamp.com/album/end-of-the-day-music-from-the-film-anonymous-club
- https://whitelabrecs.bandcamp.com/album/an-imaginary-autumn
- https://purelink.bandcamp.com/album/signs
- https://valleyviewrecords.bandcamp.com/album/astral-solstice
- https://carbonbasedlifeforms.bandcamp.com/album/seeker
- https://relationreset.bandcamp.com/album/the-feeling-of
- 00:00 Crows Labyrinth & Willebrant - Leaving Space (2023)
- 03:35 David Cordero & Rhucle - Micnight Breeze (Summer Chronicle 2023)
- 07:03 Pulse Mandala & Distant Fires Burning - R Abacus Lndr (R Abacus Lndr 2023)
- 12:29 Jon E.K. - Golden Hour (As Water In A Foutain Flows 2023)
- 16:50 Innesti - Whereto (The World We Knew 2023)
- 20:50 Rod Modell - Side A excerpt (Ghost Lights 2023)
- 26:33 David Tagg - Cyrene IV (Cyrene 2023)
- 32:32 Courtney Barnett - Eternity Repeat (End Of The Day 2023)
- 33:40 Tatsuro Murakami - In Her Absence (An Imaginary Autumn 2023)
- 41:45 Purelink - 4k Murmurs(feat. J) (Signs 2023)
- 48:04 Crows Labyrinth & Pulse Mandala - Astral Solstice (Astral Solstice 2023)
- 51:45 Carbon Based Lifeforms - Starfish (Seeker 2023)
- 56:50 Inhmost - Don't Go Quiet Now (The Feeling Of..... 2023)
- 61:38 end
Wednesday Oct 11, 2023
Wednesday Oct 11, 2023
I have been having a hard time keeping up my mix output lately. There are many reasons, from too much work to too many concerts and social things to a pennant run in baseball. Also playing a part is me getting a little burned out on ambient music. There is so much of it released every week, every month that it becomes a bit overwhelming and it all starts to blend together after a while. I end up with little motivation to find another theme for yet another ambient mix.
I'm sure I'll snap out of this funk but for now, Paul Asbury Seaman comes to the rescue! Just when I needed it, Paul delivers a fantastic berlin-school, train themed mix. As I've said many times before, I like Paul's mixes because sometimes they go in directions I normally don't go with my own mixes. That's the case again here with these berlin-school tracks. I like sequencer-based music but it's not a style I reach for often. And then I hear one of Paul's mixes and I'm like - "Why don't I listen to this music more often?" Whatever the reason, I'm glad Paul is here to remind us about how cool this style can be.
Here's what Paul has to say about this collection:
“No powerful locomotives this time. No high-speed rail or epic cross-country journey. Just a relaxed excursion through autumn foliage. All but three of these tracks are from 2023. Watch for the REAL guitar on ‘In the Fading Starlight.’ Synth Replicants was one of my big/happy discoveries this past year. (This was one of the milder tracks!) Enjoy.”
Thanks Paul!
Cheers!
T R A C K L I S T :
- 00:00 Wil Bolton - Yellow Morning (Södermalm In Autumn 2023)
- 09:09 Erik Wøllo - Motion Picture (Cloud of Strings 2023)
- 12:50 Thom Brennan - Wavemaker pt. 2 (Wavemaker 2023)
- 21:12 Mac Of Bionight - Memory Has No Conscience (COORDINATES volume 11 2023)
- 28:12 Nils Frahm - #2 (All Melody 2018)
- 36:25 Steve Roach The Weaving Way (The Weaving Way 2023)
- 42:18 Node - The Traveller (Node 2 2014)
- 47:18 Synth Replicants - In The Fading Starlight (Time of Legends 2023)
- 53:30 Alpha Wave Movement - Lattices of Light (Cerulean Skies 2017)
- 61:20 Larkenlyre - Sometimes Hope Comes Wrapped In Dark Skies (You and I and Every Sky 2023)
- 65:18 end
Wednesday Sep 06, 2023
Wednesday Sep 06, 2023
I just got back from a week in Iceland so naturally I had to make a mix with music from Icelandic artists. The usual suspects are here - Sigur Ros, Johann Johannsson, Bjork, Olafur Arnalds, along with some new additions.
It still boggles my mind that the tiny island has produced such amazing music. But now, having been there, I guess it makes a bit more sense because the place is unique. The landscape and spirit seeps into your mind and body like hot water through porous volcanic rock. It's impossible not to fall in love with the people and the natural beauty.
Hopefully this mix can be your own mini vaca to Iceland. Cheers!
T R A C K L I S T :
- 00:00 Sigur Rós - Blóðberg (ÁTTA 2023)
- 07:03 Jóhann Jóhannsson - A Prayer to the Dynamo pt. 1 (Spectral Symphony 2023)
- 13:50 Friðþjófur Johnson - Black Sand Blues
- 19:10 Rökkurró - Svanur (Í Annan Heim 2010)
- 24:20 Björk - Vokuro (Medulla 2004)
- 27:18 Ólafur Arnalds feat Ella McRobb - And we'll leave it there (2023)
- 30:47 Valgeir Sigurðsson - Eva's Lament (Kvika 2021)
- 32:17 Kiasmos - Looped (Kiasmos 2014)
- 36:00 Friðþjófur Johnson - Sambólúsí
- 40:50 Yagya - The Downpour (Faded Photographs 2023)
- 44:33 Múm - Faraway Swimmingpool (Finally We Are No One 2002)
- 47:00 Frakkur - Dream Fyrir John (Pling pong)
- 52:33 Ruxpin & Stafrænn Hákon - Dark Rift (Meet Me In Forever 2023)
- 56:14 Jóhann Jóhannsson - Stuk (Elegy for Lost Time 2023)
- 58:35 Ólafur Arnalds - Spiral (some kind of peace 2020)
- 61:54 end
Wednesday Aug 16, 2023
Wednesday Aug 16, 2023
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I've been busy with important things like going to baseball games, drinking beer, sitting on my back deck doing nothing, and getting ready for an trip at the end of the month. So this guest mix comes a perfect time. It's also a perfect mix for sitting on the deck and doing nothing.
This mix comes to us from Ali Murray who records as The Lonely Bell. "Kingdoms of the Deep" by The Lonely Bell was one of my favorite ambient albums of 2022. https://thelonelybell.bandcamp.com/album/kingdoms-of-the-deep
Here's what Ali says:
"My name is Ali Murray. I’m a songwriter and musician from the Isle of Lewis, which is a small remote island in the north of Scotland. I write and release dark introspective ambient music under the name The Lonely Bell.
As the title suggests, this is an ambient guest mix to mark the end of the summer season, and the coming of autumn. It’s a dreamy and eclectic selection of dark ambience, haunting drones, fuzzy electronica, cinematic modern classical, immersive sound art and ethereal soundscapes - bookended by the two songs that comprise my brand new EP - ‘The Outer Banks’. ‘The Outer Banks’ is out now on the label Frosti, and is available both digitally and on limited edition cassette tape.
You can check it out at the following link :
https://frostilabel.bandcamp.com/album/the-outer-banks
And you can find the rest of my discography at :
www.thelonelybell.bandcamp.com
As I've said many times before, one of the reasons I like guest mixes is they go in a direction that I usually don't take myself and that is the case here. I am very hit and miss with darker ambient tracks and the same goes for drone ambient. But I really like the way The Lonely Bell treats those styles so it's no surprise that I enjoy what Ali did with this mix. I know you'll like it too.
Cheers!
T R A C K L I S T :
- 0:00 The Lonely Bell – The Outer Banks
- 8:00 Claire Deak – A Million Cloaked Ghosts
- 10:58 Barley & Blush To The Snow – The Eternal Note of Sadness In (excerpt)
- 14:42 Broken Chip – Yellow
- 19:06 Karen Vogt – Amidst The Sea Fog
- 21:48 Glacis & Adrian Lane – A Flower In The Mind
- 26:42 CLAIR – Queen Bee Prelude
- 31:40 Patrick Corcoran – GEN 2
- 34:20 Mollbury Medical Research Centre – Temporary Amnesia
- 37:10 Leonard Donat – Fog Horn Deer Trap
- 43:40 The Lonely Bell – Fires of Dawn
- 52:46 end
Wednesday Aug 09, 2023
Wednesday Aug 09, 2023
One of my favorite ambient albums from the first half of 2023 is "Intrapersonal Experience" by Saphileaum. It's a great combination of atmospherics and percussion, reminiscent of 90s Steve Roach tribal ambient. After hearing this album I needed to do a drum/percussion-based mix and "Summoning The Spirits" is the result.
Another recent discovery makes its way into this mix - The Rain Dogs. So far I only have one of their albums but I plan on buying many more. I have To pace myself though. Their album, From Abydos To Dendera, has shades of Jon Hassell and other 4th world styles I love. The tracks fit perfectly in this mix.
I hope you enjoy the atmosphere and the rhythms.
Cheers!
T R A C K L I S T :
- 00:00 The Rain Dogs - Market Day (From Abydos To Dendera 2021)
- 05:33 Saphileaum - Dear (Intrapersonal Experience 2023)
- 09:45 The Chi Factory - Part One (Travel In Pece 2020)
- 14:40 Benjy Wertheimer & John de Kadt - Underwater (One River 2012)
- 21:08 Byron Metcalf - As Clouds Dance (Inner Rhythm Meditations 2016)
- 29:50 Chi - Before The Mountain (The Original Recordings 2016)
- 36:50 The Rain Dogs - Dawn Over Qurna (From Abydos To Dendera 2021)
- 40:54 Eli Keszler - Barcelona Part VI (LIVE 2023)
- 44:40 D.K. - Summoning the Spirits (The Goddess Is Dancing 2019)
- 50:00 Saphileaum - Remote (Intrapersonal Experience 2023)
- 54:40 The Chi Factory - Part Two (The Kallikatsou Recordings 2017)
- 57:43 Night Sky Pulse - Luminescence (These Possible Lives 2021)
- 61:03 end
Thursday Jul 06, 2023
Thursday Jul 06, 2023
- 00:00 Rod Modell & Taka Noda - Untilted 1 [Glow World (13)]
- 05:40 Nico Less - Try a Little Kindess [Still]
- 09:40 Pan American - Renzo [in daylight dub (Foam On A Wave)]
- 13:50 Eli Keszler - Manhattan Part III [LIVE (LUCKYME)]
- 20:10 Foreign Body Sensation & Justin Maranga - Cenote Meditation [Subterranean Environments (Dune Alter)]
- 25:30 Michael Scott Dawson - Almanac Pages [Find Yourself Lost (We Are Busy Bodies)]
- 32:00 Brendan Eder Ensemble - #20 Lichen Aphex Twin Cover [Therapy]
- 35:40 William Ryan Fritch - Futiles Heaves [Cohesion (Lost Tribe Sound)]
- 39:33 this floating world - winds I [floatings (Whitelabrecs)]
- 40:50 Between - Pushed [Low Flying Owls (12k)]
- 46:38 Sigur Rós - Blóðberg [ÁTTA)]
- 53:25 Alva Noto - Sehnsuchtsvoll [Kinder der Sonne(From Komplizen) (Noton)]
- 1:06:00 Hainbach - Last Song of Summer [Voice Magnetic (Seil)]
- 1:03:05 Mount Shrine - Ghostly [Lost Loops Collection (Cryo Chamber)]
- 1:06:50 ARROWOUNDS - Tree of Disciples [In The Octopus Pond (LostTribe Sound)]
- 1:12:42 Loneward - Delicate Illusions [Willoweald (Stereoscenic)]
- 1:21:30 end
Wednesday Jun 28, 2023
Wednesday Jun 28, 2023
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This mix is pretty just as the title describes - a set of long ambient pieces, perfect for sleeping. There's not much else to say other than the tracks are all fairly new with most of them from 2023.
I was happy to use a longer version of the Crows Labyrinth track in this mix. I used it in my Blade Runner mix earlier in the year but it was the short version. I have been listening to the long version a lot this year and using it as a sleep soundtrack quite a bit as well. So I knew I had to use more of the 39 minute track in this mix. That album will make my best of the year list for sure.
Speaking of best of the year lists - head over to Mixcloud Posts to see my favorite albums of 2023, so far - MIXCLOUD Best of 2023(so far)
Links to all the music used in this mix:
- https://loscil.bandcamp.com/album/alta
- https://altusmusic.bandcamp.com/album/willoweald
- https://crowslabyrinth.bandcamp.com/album/neon-scenes-i-granular-dreams
- https://milieumusic.bandcamp.com/album/beside-a-green-window
- https://slaapwel.bandcamp.com/album/particles
- https://perceptualtapes.bandcamp.com/album/fleeting-visions-into-sleep - active on 7/14/23
- https://cryochamber.bandcamp.com/album/lost-loops-collection
- https://dataobscura.bandcamp.com/album/delicate-terrain
- https://cv313.bandcamp.com/album/plays-sequential-space
Cheers!
T R A C K L I S T :
- 00:00 Loscil - Alta (Alta 2023)
- 10:20 Loneward - Light Blossom (Willoweald 2023)
- 18:00 Crows Labyrinth - Neon Scenes I (Neon Scenes I: Granular Dreams 2023)
- 27:45 Milieu - Beside a Green Window (Beside a Green Window 2023)
- 37:07 Katharina Schmidt - Particles (Particles 2022)
- 46:44 Spectrical - Distant Rain (Fleeting visions into sleep 2023)
- 55:10 Mount Shrine - Foghorn (Lost Loops Collection 2023)
- 1:12:25 Robert Davies - Diffused Meadow (Delicate Terrain 2022)
- 1:26:30 cv313 - Star Alignments (Plays Sequential Space 2023)
- 2:00:00 end
Thursday Jun 22, 2023
Thursday Jun 22, 2023
I love getting guest mixes from creative artists. I love hearing excellent segues as the music flows seamlessly across the set. And I love discovering new music. So I'm excited about this latest offering from Fragile X.
There so much good stuff in this mix I could go on and on but I'll let John say a few things about it:
"I've been inspired by my recent trip to Croatia and have made a water themed mix. I've called it "Aquadream". I wanted the mix to be able to act as a soundtrack to all kinda things. From casual swimming, deep sea diving, floating, boating or even just watching from the shoreline. It's pretty much all ambient material. It's got that hazy and submerged feel about it and is a wee bit disorientating at times but is ultimately a calm and hopefully refreshing mix!"
Thanks, John, for this awesome collection of music!
- 00:00 Sample of the World's Loneliest Whale, 52 Hertz
- 00:44 Rennie Foster - Devil's Water (Devil's Reprise) / Rebirth / 2009
- 04:48 Fragile X - The Descent / Gorecki Productions / 2015
- 07:11 Krill.minima - Submarine Poetry / Native State Records / 2007
- 12:23 Daar - Sea Wind / Silent Season / 2021
- 18:35 The Persuader - Pressure Relief / Stockholm LTD / 2015
- 21:51 Michael FK - Black Whale / Ambient / 2014
- 26:48 Newworldaquarium - Thousand Oaks / Ostgut Ton / 2014
- 29:56 Karen Vogt - Searching For Shoals (Karen Vogt remix) / Self Released / 2023
- 31:45 Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - Wetlands / Western Vinyl / 2016
- 33:03 This Mortal Coil - Song To The Siren / 4AD / 1983
- 36:47 Inhmost - Waters Edge / Huinali Recordings / 2021
- 41:11 Tom Leclerc - Postcard From The Sea / Giraffe Tapes / 2022
- 43:50 Leafcutter John - Music Under The Water / Desire Path / 2015
- 48:04 Chromasy - Naoshima /Self Released / 2020
- 52:32 Copula - North Sea Dream / Traumgarten / 2020
- 54:48 Balsam - Water Conception / Neotantra / 2019
- 56:21 Julianna Barwick - One Half / Dead Oceans / 2012
- 59:13 Circular - Calm / Beatservice Records/ 1999
- 65:19 Asura - Ascension In Blue / Ultimae Records / 2014
- 72:30 Fragile X - Mvto More / Unreleased / 2023
- 78:48 Picnic - Drops in The Water (DJ Paradise remix) / Daisart / 2021
- 80:45 Saphileaum - Freshwater Body / Nyame Records / 2020
- 85:35 Yosi Horikawa - Fluid / Borrowed Scenery / 2019
Wednesday Jun 07, 2023
Wednesday Jun 07, 2023
The theme for this mix is simple - a collection of new ambient tracks, most released within the last couple of months. Sometimes after posting a lot of theme mixes or guest mixes I need to crank out a set that is just straightforward ambient. Nothing fancy, just beautiful, drifting music to ease the mind.
Here are some links to the music used in this mix:
- https://kramer.bandcamp.com/album/baptismal
- https://12kmusic.bandcamp.com/album/low-flying-owls
- https://williamselman.bandcamp.com/album/the-weather-indoors
- https://losttribesound.bandcamp.com/album/maps-to-where-the-poison-grows-subscription-series
- https://atlantearecords.bandcamp.com/album/there-is-light
- https://michaelscottdawson.bandcamp.com/album/find-yourself-lost
- https://bleep.com/release/380644-alva-noto-kinder-der-sonne-from-komplizen
- https://sachikobayashi.bandcamp.com/album/melodies-in-the-garden
- https://davidcordero.bandcamp.com/album/spring-memories
- https://whitelabrecs.bandcamp.com/album/sen
- https://whitelabrecs.bandcamp.com/album/below-the-noise
- https://chitrarecords.bandcamp.com/album/sonoris
- https://aispatial.bandcamp.com/album/above-the-sky
- https://handstitched.bandcamp.com/album/a-study-of-ends-or-purpose
Cheers!
T R A C K L I S T :
- 00:00 Laraaji & Kramer - Immersion (Baptismal 2023)
- 06:00 Between - Back (Low Flying Owls 2023)
- 11:10 William Selman - Leaky Paradise (The Weather Indoors 2023)
- 14:28 Civic Hall aka Euan McMeeken & Craig Tattersall - Excerpt I (Maps To Where The Poison Grows 2023)
- 19:15 Sebby Kowal - Sakura Schoolyard (There Is Light 2023)
- 22:36 Michael Scott Dawson - Notes On Longing (Find Yourself Lost 2023)
- 25:50 Alva Noto - Die Undergründigen - Redux (Kinder der Sonne(From "Komplizen") 2023)
- 29:55 Sachi Kobayashi - Morning Dew (Melodies in the Garden 2023)
- 33:40 David Cordero - Middle Distance (Spring Memories 2023)
- 39:20 blochemy - lane (sen 2023)
- 44:11 Andy Cartwright - Mended Environment (Below the Noise 2023)
- 48:05 Kenji Katayose - Aika (Sonoris 2023)
- 54:18 Inhmost - Eternal (Above The Sky 2023)
- 58:52 Maps and Diagrams - Brume (A Study of Ends or Purpose 2023)
- 64:16 end
Wednesday May 31, 2023
Wednesday May 31, 2023
A few months ago I stumbled across two tunes called "Lonely Satellite" & "The Lonely Orbit." Those titles intrigued me and I thought they would make a great theme for a mix. I started collecting tracks, not knowing when the mix would come to fruition.
Then this past week I heard the new album from Alva Noto called "Kinder der Sonne (From "Komplizen")" and I knew immediately that I had to make this mix. I could have included 4 or 5 tracks from the Alva Noto album but Mixcloud only allows a maximum of 3 songs from one album. I ended up using two cuts.
As usual the mix leans heavily on new tunes, with 11 of 18 tracks from 2020 - 2023. That includes the two "lonely" cuts that started this whole thing.
Funny side note - there has been a lot construction in my neighborhood lately and as I was putting the mix together I would hear the beeping of a backhoe reversing or some other truck backing up. It got to be annoying because sometimes I couldn't tell if the beeping sounds were from the music or the construction outside. Haha!
Cheers!
T R A C K L I S T :
- 00:00 Alexandre Navarro + Letna - Psamathe (Redfish 2013)
- 03:15 Alva Noto - Kinder der Sonne(Intro) (Kinder der Sonne (From "Komplizen") 2023)
- 06:15 xu - this illusory continuity (slicing space-time into objects 2022)
- 07:55 Scanner - Wing Pinger 02 (Wing Pinger 2021)
- 09:14 Loscil - Estuarine (Endless Fall 2010)
- 17:10 Lunar Testing Lab - Lunar Radio Control (Space Debris - Space Transmission 2008)
- 18:17 Hainbach - Izmir (Voice Magnetic 2023)
- 19:40 Brian Eno - Cavallino (The Shutov Assembly 1992)
- 22:20 Saros Sky - Lonely Satellite (Ambient Oceania 2021)
- 25:47 Loscil - Bipolar, Pt. 2 (Lifelike 2019)
- 28:57 Hans Zimmer - Atmospheric Entry (Interstellar 2014)
- 30:17 Steven Price - Aurora Borealis (Gravity 2013)
- 31:22 Alva Noto - Die Untergründigen (Kinder der Sonne (From "Komplizen") 2023)
- 39:18 Peter Kvidera - Popping (Verism 2022)
- 44:30 State Azure - Prism (As The Dawn Fades 2023)
- 50:23 Brian Eno - Kazakhstan 4 (Kazakhstan 2023)
- 55:12 Aethernal - The Lonely Orbit (Exile 2022)
- 58:49 arovane - laap (gestalt 2020)
- 60:30 end