Episodes
Sunday May 29, 2022
Stranger Synths 2022
Sunday May 29, 2022
Sunday May 29, 2022
It's been three years since the last season of Netflix's Stranger Things. Now with the 4th season upon us it must be time for a new mix - Stranger Synths 2022. Similar to previous version of Stranger Synths, this takes the retro vibe of the show's soundtrack and collects tracks that sound like they would fit perfectly in the TV series.
I wasn't planning on doing a mix this time around until I stumbled on the opening track Cybernaut by Jonny Fallout. The track can be found on a compilation from Triplicate Records called "Protozoa." As soon as I heard the track I was hit with a great Stranger Things vibe so I knew I had to gather more tracks and put together another mix.
I ended up going back to Triplicate Records three more times for this mix, using tracks from Hverheij, BVSMV, and Willebrant. Check the links below for these artists' album and bandcamp pages.
Here are links to the albums used in this mix in the order in which they appear:
- https://triplicaterecords.bandcamp.com/album/protozoa
- https://nilsfrahm.bandcamp.com/album/all-melody
- https://ghostbox.greedbag.com/buy/entangled-routes-0/
- https://ghostbox.greedbag.com/buy/the-gone-away/
- https://foamandsand.bandcamp.com/album/full-circle-2
- https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/experimental-electronic-and-acoustic-soundscapes-1961-88
- https://www.amazon.com/Foreigner-Original-Motion-Picture-Soundtrack/dp/B075GBFQQX
- https://boardsofcanada.bandcamp.com/album/tomorrows-harvest
- https://docsrecordsandvintage.com/UPC/5056124666993
- https://graintable.bandcamp.com/album/universal-ash
- https://triplicaterecords.bandcamp.com/album/afterlight
- https://ghostbox.greedbag.com/buy/outward-journeys-0/
- https://triplicaterecords.bandcamp.com/album/triplicate-tapes-vol-1-datacap
- https://peterbaumann.bandcamp.com/album/machines-of-desire
- https://paulhaslinger.bandcamp.com/album/halt-and-catch-fire-vol-2-original-television-series-soundtrack
- https://tripfm.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-dotted-lines
- https://www.amazon.com/Wunderbar-RIECHMANN/dp/B00278FSI2
- https://jonnyfallout.bandcamp.com/
- https://nilsfrahm.bandcamp.com/music
- https://pyecorneraudio.bandcamp.com/
- https://ghostbox.greedbag.com/belbury-poly/
- https://foamandsand.bandcamp.com/
- https://cliffmartinez.bandcamp.com/music
- https://boardsofcanada.bandcamp.com/
- https://graintable.bandcamp.com/music
- https://ghostbox.greedbag.com/the-belbury-circle/
- https://bvsmv.bandcamp.com/
- https://peterbaumann.bandcamp.com/releases
- https://paulhaslinger.bandcamp.com/music
- https://willebrant.bandcamp.com/music
Well, I guess I should go start season 4. Cheers!
T R A C K L I S T :
- 00:00 Jonny Fallout - Cybernaut (Protozoa 2021)
- 03:20 Nils Frahm - #2 (All Melody 2018)
- 10:20 Pye Corner Audio - Leaf Mould (Entangled Routes 2021)
- 13:04 Belbury Poly - ffarisees (The Gone Away 2020)
- 17:01 Foam and Sand - Circle 13 (Full Circle 2022)
- 19:42 Michael Garrison - To the Other Side of the Sky (Soul Jazz Records presents Space, Energy & Light: Experimental Electronic And Acoustic Soundscapes 1961-88)
- 23:30 Cliff Martinez - Landscape Gardener (The Foreigner 2017)
- 26:00 Boards of Canada - Come to Dust ( Tomorrow's Harvest 2013)
- 29:20 Pye Corner Audio - Decade Counter (Prowler 2015)
- 34:30 Graintable - Vision Quest (UnIVersal Ash 2019)
- 38:09 Hverheij - Becoming (Afterlight 2022)
- 40:42 The Belbury Circle - No Cat's Eyes (Outward Journeys 2017)
- 45:07 BVSMV - Rubicon (Triplicate Tapes Vol. 1: Datacap 2021)
- 49:07 Peter Baumann - The Blue Dream (Machines of Desire 2016)
- 50:48 Paul Haslinger - Dreamers and Misfits (Halt and Catch Fire Vol 2 2019)
- 53:10 Willebrant - This Day (Music for Dotted Lines 2022)
- 56:34 Wolfgang Riechmann - Abendlicht (Wunderbar 1978)
- 60:55 end
Thursday May 19, 2022
Tears in the Rain - A Tribute to Vangelis
Thursday May 19, 2022
Thursday May 19, 2022
We lost Klaus a few weeks ago and now Vangelis. I'm getting tired of doing these tribute mixes.
His music was my electronic soundtrack to the 80s. I played the daylights out of Antarctica and Soil Festivities back then. And then of course there is Blade Runner. I am still in awe of that soundtrack today.
I don't know what else to say other than I loved his music. Godspeed Evángelos Odysséas Papathanassíou.
T R A C K L I S T :
- 00:00 Vangelis - Theme from Antarctica (Antarctica 1983)
- 07:23 Vangelis - Movement 1 (Soil Festivities 1984)
- 24:46 Vangelis - Blade Runner Blue (Blade Runner 1994)
- 33:20 Vangelis - Opening Titles (The Bounty 1984)
- 37:11 Vangelis - L'Enfant (Opéra Sauvage 1979)
- 42:00 Vangelis - Pulstar (Albedo 0.39 1976)
- 47:06 Vangelis - Movement 4 (Mask 1985)
- 54:21 Vangelis - Juno's Echoes (Juno to Jupiter 2021)
- 57:50 Vangelis - Heaven & Hell pt. 1 (Heaven & Hell 1975)
- 62:04 end
Sunday May 02, 2021
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Sunday May 02, 2021
Sunday May 02, 2021
- 00:00 Saul Stokes - My memory I hope you remember (Local Crowd 2017)
- 04:12 Time Rival - Vaporous (Vertigo Sessions 2021)
- 08:22 Joel Vandroogenbroeck - rock program (Digital Project 1987)
- 08:57 Hannah Peel - Fir Wave (Fir Wave 2021)
- 12:45 Polypores - Fairy Rings (Shpongos 2021)
- 17:03 Coti - Tiptoe (Metamemoria 2020)
- 19:49 Zoltan Fecso - Wave (Silken Wave EP 2019)
- 28:55 Robert Lippok - Schemes Like These (Falling Into Komëit 2004)
- 31:15 Jan Jelinek - B1. ICE 897 (Ice Compositions 2021)
- 32:40 Nalepa - Porcelain (Beneath The Surface 2006)
- 36:55 Hainbach - Amtsweg (Landfill Totems 2021)
- 38:40 Pye Corner Audio - Phase B (Where Things Are Hollow 2 2020)
- 42:38 Belbury Poly - ffarisees (The Gone Away 2020)
- 46:37 Frank Bretschneider - Optik(For Yen-Ni) (Lunik 2018)
- 50:53 Atom™ - Computermusik (This Is Computermusik 2021)
- 54:25 Johnny Woods - Secret Commonwealth (Behind The Sky Presents: Portals 2020)
- 58:31 Komet - Blau (Gold 2003)
- 63:30 end
Sunday Mar 28, 2021
Blade Runner Pop Soundtrack
Sunday Mar 28, 2021
Sunday Mar 28, 2021
What if the original Blade Runner film had a pop music soundtrack? You know how some films have an instrumental score but also an album of pop/rock tunes that were used in the film or inspired by the film. If Blade Runner had such a collection maybe it would sound like this mix.
This all started when I was listening to Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond part 1 and I thought that it sounded like it would sort of fit with the Blade Runner score we are all so familiar with. That got me thinking about the question posed at the top of this post. As I started collecting tracks the first place I went was Gary Numan & Tubeway Army - Replicas. How could I not use a song called "Replicas"? Likewise from the same album, how could resist the track "Are Friends Electric?"
I got some great recommendations from Mixcloud listeners in this thread - https://www.mixcloud.com/lowlight/posts/pop-tunes-for-blade-runner/ Tracks from Public Image Ltd., John Foxx, Quieter Than Spiders and New Order came right from those suggestions. There were also some great ideas in that thread which will work perfectly in a Blade Runner alternative score mix. I'm hyped to do that mix but I should probably wait a bit after this BR mix.
This was a lot of fun to put together. I hope you enjoy it.
Cheers!
T R A C K L I S T :
- 00:00 Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond pt. 1
- 03:36 Tubeway Army - Replicas
- 08:25 Air - Kelly Watch the Stars
- 12:00 Public Image Ltd. - The Order of Death
- 16:26 John Foxx - A New Kind Of Man
- 19:58 Kuedo - Memory Rain
- 23:23 Ultravox - Your Name Has Slipped My Mind Again
- 27:34 Air - Remember
- 29:52 Kraftwerk - The Robots
- 35:20 Ultravox - Mr. X
- 41:45 Quieter Than Spiders - The Signs of Life
- 46:52 Brad Mehldau - Paranoid Android
- 48:23 Metric - Artificial Nocturne
- 52:31 Tubeway Army - Are “Friends” Electric
- 57:45 New Order - Elegia
- 61:43 end
Sunday Nov 22, 2020
Keeping Time in the Golden Hour
Sunday Nov 22, 2020
Sunday Nov 22, 2020
- 00:00 Francis Harris - St. Catherine and the Calm (Trivial Occupations 2018)
- 08:25 Robag Wruhme - Tulpa Ovi (Thora Vukk 2011)
- 10:42 Night Sea - Cherry (Still 2020)
- 16:18 Tiki Obmar - Ankeney, Iowa (High School Confidential 2003)
- 28:18 Ghosting Season - Through Your Teeth ( The Very Last Of The Saints 2012)
- 32:43 Saphileaum - Soft Warming (In Distant Terra 2020)
- 37:37 Sven Laux - Grass-Covered Plain (We Were Here 2013)
- 46:08 Halftribe & Spinnet - Mr & Mrs Everywhere (Patterns of Sync 2020)
- 53:14 Robag Wruhme - Prognosen Bomm (Thora Vukk 2011)
- 56:25 vau - Nightfall (ways of stillness 2018)
- 63:43 end
Sunday Nov 03, 2019
Blade Runner Is Now
Sunday Nov 03, 2019
Sunday Nov 03, 2019
I wasn't planning on doing this mix. But then on Friday, someone on Twitter posted that we have caught up to the time when the film, Blade Runner supposedly takes place. I knew immediately that I had to make a mix.
This collection is pretty straight forward - all the tracks sound like they fit into the Blade Runner soundtrack universe.
Enjoy!
T R A C K L I S T :
00:00 Pye Corner Audio - Prismatic Gateway (2019)
01:22 Jean Michel Jarre - The Watchers (2018)
04:15 Tale Of Us - Alla Sera (2017)
08:32 SaffronKeira - Aesthetic of Surrealism (2019)
14:15 Ryuichi Sakamoto - Fullmoon SURVIVE version (2017)
17:20 36 - Origin Beach (2018)
20:46 Steve Hauschildt - Cloudloss (2019)
24:00 Johnny Jewel - Candlelight Burns (2015)
26:40 Ben Chatwin - Black Castle(Sevendeaths Remix) (2019)
31:01 Vector Lovers - Long Wave (2007)
33:36 Trevor Jackson - Off World (2018)
35:51 Time Rival - Cambrian Explosion (2019)
39:58 Mac Quayle - 1.0_1-hellofriend.wav (2016)
40:40 Lázaro Pereira - Follow The Leader (2017)
44:41 MUUI - Cinematic Structures (2019)
51:03 Abul Mogard - Half Light Of Dawn (2018)
56:30 Fennesz - In My Room (2019)
67:27 end
Thursday Jul 04, 2019
Stranger Synths 2019
Thursday Jul 04, 2019
Thursday Jul 04, 2019
In honor of the third season of Stranger Things dropping today, Low Light Mixes presents Stranger Synths 2019. This a retro synth mix that falls right in line with the synth sounds of Netflix's Stranger Things series.
Cheers!
T R A C K L I S T :
- 00:00 Just A Human - Stranger Things Remix
01:33 Pye Corner Audio - Deep Space Probe
03:54 Sinoia Caves - 1983 Main Theme
06:22 The Belbury Circle - Heading Home
11:15 Locust - I'll Be There
14:40 Rheyne - Live Jam #169
20:03 David Trevelyan - Car Crash
22:37 Chromatics - Yes(Symmetry Remix)
26:25 Jean Michel Jarre - The Heart Of The Noise Pt. 1
30:22 PYLOT - Blurred Vision
33:09 ASC - Sequence 2
36:56 Merrin Karras - Void
44:50 Frank Bretschneider - Motorik
49:01 The Advisory Circle - Be Seeing You
53:57 Kasper Bjørke Quartet - The Antiphon(Epilogue)
66:03 end
Sunday Apr 28, 2019
Set The Controls
Sunday Apr 28, 2019
Sunday Apr 28, 2019
And now for something completely different. This latest mix is almost, dare I say, dance music. Yikes! Actually it's not like this is EDM/Dubstep with ridiculous drops and autotune vocals. But all the music in this mix definitely has 4/4 time signature.
One of my favorite discoveries over the last couple of years has been the music of Kiasmos, a minimal techno duo comprised of Ólafur Arnalds and Janus Rasmussen. The music has the 4x4 beat but it's more gentle than full on techno or house music. It's great for keeping pace when out walking the dog.
A few of my other favorites appear in this mix such as Christian Löffler, Recondite and a fantastic cover of Pink Floyd's "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun."
Cheers!
T R A C K L I S T :
- 00:00 Christian Löffler - York
- 03:00 Emmit Fenn - Halo 22
- 06:16 Kiasmos - Blurred
- 10:20 Steve Hauschildt - Alienself
- 15:35 Ben Bohmer - Flug & Fall
- 21:37 Stavroz - The Finishing
- 24:45 Bedouin - Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun
- 31:50 Dominik Eulberg - Sansula(Max Cooper mix)
- 36:18 Recondite - Levo
- 40:43 Isolee - Allowance
- 46:40 Prins Thomas - Fra Miami til Chicago
- 51:15 Purl - Vuela
- 57:25 Loscil - Le Plongeur
- 61:17 end
Sunday Mar 24, 2019
Places I've Never Been(Ode to High-Speed Rail)
Sunday Mar 24, 2019
Sunday Mar 24, 2019
Everything about trains is evocative. The sound of the whistle, the rhythm of the tracks, the sounds of the station, etc. Trains make for a perfect theme in electronic music mixes. Which is why you're bound to hear several of them this year from Low Light mixes.
This first one comes to us from my frequent collaborator, Paul Asbury Seaman. Not only has Paul done previous excellent mixes for me, he's also done a couple train mixes. Here's what he has to say about his latest creation...
“In my last mix I celebrated “liminal space,” the long in-betweens of life. Travel by train is both metaphor and literally that. Beyond the excitement of the busy station and going someplace new, for many of us the journey is the destination: the experience as both overview and connectedness, not felt from an airplane. The impetus for this mix was the just-released debut album of d’Voxx, on Ian Boddy’s UK label, DiN. And I dedicate it to the EuroPass, which ever since the 1960s has enabled vacationers and tourists from around the world to travel at highly-discounted rates—including by high-speed rail—anywhere in the 30 countries that are part of the system. Something that in the United States is, for now, only an ambient dream.”
The mix changes gears for the last tune, using sax, acoustics instruments and vocals but Paul thought it would fit well because A) it's called Train and B) it has "the dead-tired but satisfied feeling you have when you get home to your own bed after a long trip."
Cheers and safe travels!
T R A C K L I S T :
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00:00 d'Voxx - Akalla Söder(2019 Télégraphe)
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08:44 Rival Consoles - Persona(2018 Persona)
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15:06 Stimulus Timbre - We Reached for the Sky(2017 A Place We Never Been)
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21:40 Steve Roach - Core Meditation 1(2017 CORE - Legacy Edition)
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30:05 Evan Marc & Steve Hillage - Alpha Phase(2008 Dreamtime Submersible)
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37:45 Aepiel - Aves(2012 Painting The Sky)
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46:20 Stimulus Timbre - Look at the Stars & Think of Us(2017 A Place We Never Been)
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51:54 His Name Is Alive - Train(2002 Last Night)
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59:10 end
Sunday Aug 26, 2018
The Way Home
Sunday Aug 26, 2018
Sunday Aug 26, 2018
Earlier this year I was asked by the folks at Lifted Icons to do a guest mix. It was a unique mix because I did two 20 minute sets that were then incorporated into a larger nearly 2-hour mix.
The parameters for my mixes were as follows:
1. A lonely, melancholic wander through the void between stars
2. A triumphant end for our struggle to the stars
You can find the 2-hour mix at Lifted Icons here... https://www.mixcloud.com/LiftedIcons/cartographer/
I liked how everything turned out. It was especially fun to cut the 2nd mix as it had a few louder tunes that I normally might not use. I was too lazy to put together a totally new mix so I decided to put my two parts of the Lifted Icons mix into one new mix.
After I put them together I started tinkering. I added a few tunes to make it longer. And then I changed a lot of the first part but kept the same "drifting in the void" feel. The transition from melancholic wander to triumphant return starts at the 22:28 mark with the Underworld tune. The title for the mix comes from a track I used by the same name from Tony Anderson. It fit perfectly with the journey from part one to part two.
Cheers!
T R A C K L I S T :
- 00:00 Lunar Testing Lab - Space Traffic Control(& added Nasa quindar Tones)
- 00:40 Steven Price - Aurora Borealis
- 01:50 Tim Hecker - Boreal Kiss
- 04:06 Chris Weeks - Spiders & Plugholes
- 05:42 Clinton Shorter - An Impossible Dream
- 07:25 Strië - Man with Thick Glasses
- 10:20 Northumbria - Helluland
- 13:10 Bryantist - Spherical Harmonics
- 14:30 Conet Project & other fx
- 14:57 Memories of JJ
- 18:12 Jon Hopkins - Feel First Life
- 22:28 Underworld - Capa's Last Transmission Home
- 24:12 Ólafur Arnalds - Doria
- 27:05 Tony Anderson - The Way Home
- 30:13 Stellardrone - Red Giant
- 32:30 Johann Johannsson - A Pile of Dust
- 34:20 M83 - Another Wave From You
- 35:50 Ulrich Schnauss & Jonas Munk - Amaris
- 38:25 B. Fleischmann - A Letter From Home
- 43:22 Jon Hopkins - Light Through The Veins
- 50:45 Johann Johannsson - End(Snowing)
- 57:00 end