Episodes
Wednesday Feb 28, 2024
DUNE - The Storm
Wednesday Feb 28, 2024
Wednesday Feb 28, 2024
Denis Villeneuve's eagerly anticipated continuation of the Dune saga has arrived. I am definitely psyched about seeing it this weekend. So ramp up my excitement even more I made an alternative soundtrack mix. This set features tracks that sound like they might fit the film but are not from either of the two actual soundtracks.
There's not much else to say other than enjoy the mix and then go see the film. It's going to be epic.
Cheers!
T R A C K L I S T :
- 00:00 Arushi Jain - My People Have Deep Roots (Under The Lilac Sky 2021)
- 03:50 Peter Gabriel - Trills (Passion Outtakes 1989)
- 04:15 Eluvium - Hallucination III (Virga II 2021)
- 07:50 Jaimie Branch - The Storm (FLY or DIE LIVE 2021)
- 10:10 NYX - Deep England (Deep England 2021)
- 13:45 Palancar - The Hand of God (Desert Power 2022)
- 19:30 Abul Mogard - Clouds (In Immobile Air 2021)
- 25:40 Johann Johannsson - To Fold & Remain Dormant (Drone Mass 2022)
- 29:30 Arushi Jain - Richer Than Blood (Under The Lilac Sky 2021)
- 32:00 Scanner - The Earthbound Fox (Struktura Revisited 2022)
- 36:40 Lustmord - Twin Flames (Alter 2021)
- 45:50 Atli Örvarsson - Wolka (Wolka 2021)
- 50:35 Palancar - The Emperor's Blades (Desert Power 2022)
- 51:45 Daryl Groetsch - Desert Serenity (Scenes from Some Planet 2022)
- 57:14 end
Wednesday Mar 15, 2023
Replicant Memories
Wednesday Mar 15, 2023
Wednesday Mar 15, 2023
Blade Runner is obviously one of the great sci-fi films of all time, with one of the best soundtracks of all time. As a testament to the staying power of Vangelis' work, we still have a artists today that mimic the sound of the Blade Runner score.
The recording that got me started on this mix is brand new from Crows Labyrinth called "Neon Scenes I: Granular Dreams". It's a longform generative ambient drone track with a lead synth that has a great Blade Runner vibe. You can find it here... https://crowslabyrinth.bandcamp.com/album/neon-scenes-i-granular-dreams
As soon as I heard that track I knew I had to create another Blade Runner mix. This is my fourth one. Here are the links to the others:
https://www.mixcloud.com/lowlight/alternative-blade-runner-2049-soundtrack/
https://www.mixcloud.com/lowlight/blade-runner-is-now/
https://www.mixcloud.com/lowlight/blade-runner-pop-soundtrack/
One thing that sets this mix apart from the others is that many of the tunes are very purposely trying to replicate the sound of the original soundtrack. Some cuts even use rain, voices and effects to mimic the feel. I added a bit of BR sound fx on a couple of tracks to reinforce the vibe. Most of the time though it's that lead synth sound that transports me right back to 1982.
Some folks may have a problem with current artists so blatantly aping a style and sound(some more than others here). But I don't care, I just love the overall sound and feel of these tracks.
Here links to the music used in this mix:
- https://crowslabyrinth.bandcamp.com/album/neon-scenes-i-granular-dreams
- https://stateazure.bandcamp.com/album/nova-sonus
- https://andyhagerty.bandcamp.com/album/cadalach-ep
- https://the-rosen-corporation.bandcamp.com/album/pale-fire
- https://silentseason.bandcamp.com/album/infinite-horizon
- https://boardsofcanada.bandcamp.com/album/tomorrows-harvest
- https://decayingspheres.bandcamp.com/album/terminals
- https://www.amazon.com/Passengers-Original-Soundtracks-Brian-Eno/dp/B000001E8S/ref=sr_1_1?crid=11MWUX6Z1AL53&keywords=passengers+original+soundtracks+1&qid=1678645966&sprefix=Passengers+original+soundtracks%2Caps%2C104&sr=8-1
- https://stateazure.bandcamp.com/album/folding-space
- https://subheim.bandcamp.com/album/conviction
- https://graintable.bandcamp.com/album/universal-ash
- https://pyecorneraudio.bandcamp.com/album/let-s-emerge
- https://the-rosen-corporation.bandcamp.com/album/neon-lovers
- https://boomkat.com/products/a-forest-c29998d5-512c-465d-ab6a-20cad1eed549
- https://the-rosen-corporation.bandcamp.com/album/pale-fire
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
Friday Apr 26, 2013
Sci Fi Adventures - All These Worlds
Friday Apr 26, 2013
Friday Apr 26, 2013
- 00:00 Vangelis - Blush Response
- 04:00 Synergy - A Presuming to be Modern I
- 06:50 Richard Pinhas - L' Ethique
- 11:20 Lights Out Asia - All These Worlds are Yours
- 13:15 The Black Dog - Lounge
- 14:15 Frank Comstock - On the Dark Side of the Moon
- 16:00 Michael Garrison - Escape (music from the 21st century)
- 18:20 Synergy - Disruption in World Communications
- 22:00 David Bowie - Abdulmajid
- 25:10 Elf Machine - Evolutions Arrow
- 29:00 Underworld & John Murphy - Capa Meets the Sun
- 30:45 Vector Lovers - Girl + Robot
- 32:50 Maps & Diagrams - Skynet
- 35:30 Bruce Courtois - Inside the Black Hole (music from the 21st century)
- 37:10 Vangelis - Longing
- 38:35 Solar Fields - Blue Moon Station
- 45:00 Cliff Martinez - First Sleep
- 47:30 Rena Jones - The Problem of Time
- 49:50 Schengen - Me n' U
- 50:30 Lopside - To the Point of Obscurity
- 55:50 Vangelis - Fading Away
- 59:00 end
Sunday Apr 22, 2012
alien architecture
Sunday Apr 22, 2012
Sunday Apr 22, 2012
- 00:00 Anduin - We Swallowed the Night
- 01:56 Harold Budd - Dark Star
- 04:16 Hecq - aback
- 06:23 Pjusk - Kram
- 11:44 Robert Rich & Ian Boddy - Threshold
- 12:28 nebulo & druc drac - rive nord - rive sud
- 14:30 EU - 60 Planets
- 16:37 Monolake - phenomenon
- 19:10 Robert Rich & Ian Boddy - Methane
- 22:10 Anduin - The Voyeurs Wall of Glass
- 25:25 Lights Out Asia - All These Worlds Are Yours
- 27:15 Jon Hopkins - Cold Out There
- 30:16 Pjusk - Granitt
- 33:33 Pjusk - Flint
- 37:15 Loscil - Pressure
- 39:55 Roly Porter - Arrakis
- 42:05 Loren Connors - Red Mars
- 43:15 Robert Rich & Ian Boddy - Ice Fields
- 48:05 Saul Stokes - We Resolve
- 53:10 Robert Rich & Ian Boddy - Last Outpost
- 55:04 end
Monday Sep 12, 2011
future days
Monday Sep 12, 2011
Monday Sep 12, 2011
I guess you could call this mix "Televison Sky #2". It's a continuation of the sounds found in that mix.
This has more beats than a normal low light mix, more of an electronica sound. I think it has a nice mix of old & new material. The oldest cuts are from Can, Eno & Earthstar, 1973, 1975 & 1981 respectively. In the middle we have the Casino Versus Japan cut from 1999 & the Aspen track from 2000. Then there are a few newer tunes like the ones from Tobacco & Maps & Diagrams.
I was happy to sneak in part of a long track from B. Fleischmann called "Take Your Time". I listened to it recently for the first time in a long while & remembered how much I like it & knew that I had to squeeze it in somewhere.
I was also happy to have done the accompanying pic myself. It's from a picture I took in New York & then messed with in my video editing software, rather than photoshop, because I don't how to use photoshop. :( It's nothing great but it was fun to come up with something sort of original.
T R A C K L I S T :
- 00:00 ATOM™ - weisses rauschen (zweiter teil)
02:44 Earthstar - Cafe Sequence
04:13 Brian Eno - In Dark Trees
06:15 Can - Future Days
08:45 Field Rotation - lichtermeer
14:55 Joey Fehrenbach - Don't Wake me
19:05 Aspen - Are You that Retail Snob?
24:05 B. Fleischmann - Take Your Time
31:03 Black Dog - Rainbow Bridge
35:07 Tobacco - Stretch Your Face
37:49 Casino Versus Japan - Warm Windows
42:25 Maps & Diagrams - Waking Up
44:25 Digitonal - After the First Death
49:40 ATOM™- weisses rauschen (erster teil)
53:22 Boc Scadet - Ganymede
56:10 end
Saturday Feb 19, 2011
television sky
Saturday Feb 19, 2011
Saturday Feb 19, 2011
"The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel." > _ William Gibson, Neuromacer I love that line from "Neuromancer" & it's the jumping off point for this mix. Now if I was going to do a true Neuromancder mix I'd use stuff like Autechre & other noisy, abrasive electronica. But this isn't really a Neuro mix, I'm not a big fan of later Autechre & music that gets so noisy as to be annoying. In addition to that line, some new music I discovered at the end of last year got me thinking about an electronica style mix. The excellent music blog, A Strangely Isolated Place, posted their A - Z of 2010 list on December 27th. I discovered some great electronica like Lights Out In Asia, Tropics, aKido, Com Truise, Horizon Fire and more. I listened to enough of the new stuff to know that I wanted to do a related mix. The mix is fairly straight forward but takes a different turn when it hits the two soundtrack pieces, "Kanada's Death, pt. 2" & "Monsters Theme", from John Murphy & Jon Hopkins. I absolutely love those two tracks & figured this was the best chance to incorporate them into a mix. They actually fit pretty well. Enjoy. T R A C K L I S T :
- 00:00 Milieu - Ghosts In The Trees, Songs In The Breeze (Am-Boy Alternate Remix)
- 07:32 Horizon Fire - Passed out in a Datsun
- 11:40 aKido - Mrchf Thftr
- 13:10 Morgan Packard - Again
- 15:25 Jon Hopkins - Wire
- 19:50 Marconi Union - Stationary
- 26:20 Lights out in Asia - Attempt No Landings There
- 31:00 John Murphy - Kanada's Death, pt. 2 (adagio in d minor)
- 33:20 James Murray - Eleven(decades_mix)
- 40:10 Jon Hopkins - Monsters Theme
- 43:50 Parks - Perfect Silence
- 49:45 aKido - Carrousel
- 54:05 Tropics - Soft Vision
- 59:20 end
Thursday Oct 28, 2010
far from home
Thursday Oct 28, 2010
Thursday Oct 28, 2010
Picture yourself floating in space. Whether you like to think of it as drifting alone, in a spacesuit, looking out at the stars all around. Or instead imagine yourself as Bowie said "Here am I floating round my tin can, far above the moon." Either way, the music in this mix should make you feel "far from home". I like to envision a small craft in the middle of nowhere, drifting...waiting. Waiting for rescue? Waiting for contact? Waiting for main power to come back online? Hopefully the music will generate a feeling of weightlessness, of drifting in the vast expanse of space, without being too dark or dissonant. I did not pick the tunes based on titles. I just did a quick sampling of some of my ambient collection to come up with possible tracks. But it's interesting how many of the song titles fit right in with the "outer space" theme. Titles like Meissa, Deep Sky Time, 1st Lite & Asteroid Dawn work perfectly for this motif. T R A C K L I S T :
- 00:00 Lunar Testing Lab - Space Traffic Control
- 01:00 Brian Eno - Asteroid Dawn
- 04:40 A Produce - The Big Sleep
- 09:40 Harmonia - Weird Dream
- 11:10 Wouter Veldhuis - 1st Lite
- 18:30 Steve Roach - Deep sky Time
- 24:40 Austere - Lid
- 28:00 Mike Griffin & A Produce - Altara
- 31:45 Lunar Testing Lab - Paaliaq
- 33:05 Sonmi451 - Orange
- 38:45 Thomas Fehlman - in the wind
- 43:10 Spheruleus - Disintegrate
- 48:30 Fripp & Eno - Meissa
- 55:30 Sonmi451 - Blue
- 1:00:00 end
Sunday Dec 20, 2009
Remember Tomorrow
Sunday Dec 20, 2009
Sunday Dec 20, 2009
I was listening to music from Lunar Testing Lab the other day. The album, "Space Program", has a sort of retro/space/electronic feel to it. Boards of Canada in space?
I thought a whole mix of music with this kind of feel would be fun, so the result is "Remember Tomorrow". I tried to use tunes that had that retro, space program vibe without being too kitschy or cheesy. It's fine line & I hope I walked it successfully.
Lunar Testing Labs of course makes several appearances in the mix and of course Board of Canada had to be included. I am especially happy about being able to squeeze in the track "Cowboy" from The Units. I remember listening to it in college and absolutely loving the tune, so it was was fun to get it into a mix. I am also happy to have two Bowie cuts in there, "V-2 Schneider" & "Weeping Wall".
I found some sound from a recording called "Bob & Betty go to the Moon" and I used a couple clips from that old, corny recording. I tried not to use too much as it can easily distract from the music. I ended up using 4 samples, the coundown open & three other quickies. Using sound samples can be very tempting, tt's fun to use some but they can quickly get in the way of the music.
Although this mix is more beat-oriented than the typical Low Light offering, I think it's a fun trip.
Download(right click/save as) : 93mb, 51:00 min Remember Tomorrow
T R A C K L I S T I N G :
- 00:00 Countdown from "Lunar Adventure in 1985"
- 00:13 Belbury Poly - Adventures in a Miniature Landscape
- 06:05 Harmonic 33 - Departure Lounge
- 10:30 Lunar Testing Lab - Lunar Radio control
- 11:30 EU - New Osc's
- 13:00 Boards of Canada - Wildlife Analysis
- 13:50 Freescha - The Sun is Still
- 16:00 Lunar Testing Lab - Orbiting Lunar Observatory
- 16:40 TRS-80 - moon Patrol
- 22:30 David Bowie - V2 Schneider
- 25:10 Bochum Welt - interlude
- 28:25 Lunar Testing Lab - Phantom Cosmonaut
- 30:50 Signaldrift - Children of the 70's
- 32:20 Harmonic 33 - Planet 54
- 35:50 Frank Comstock - Music from Outer Space(when you wish upon a star)
- 37:50 Boards of Canada - Nova Scotia Robots
- 38:50 Bernard Szajner - A Kind of Freedom
- 41:30 Talvihorros - A Rural Place
- 43:35 David Bowie - Weeping Wall
- 46:35 Boards of Canada - Dayvan Cowboy
- 51:05 end
Sunday Mar 23, 2008
Moonlight Daydreams
Sunday Mar 23, 2008
Sunday Mar 23, 2008
I had already started this mix when our guest mixer, Jason, sent me his "Satellite" mix. I hadn't thought of satellite = moon until I saw his pic for the mix. So it's kind of funny that the next mix to be posted is a moon mix. I did this one the way I've done some mixes in the past, all the tunes have the word "moon" in the title. Came up with an interesting collections of tracks. It would have been fun to use more of the vocal cuts like Nick Drake - Pink Moon or Cowboy Junkies - Blue Moon, but I guess I wanted it to be mostly ambient. So only one vocal tune gets used & that's "Moon River" by Petra Haden And Bill Frisell to close out the mix. I think my favorite tune is the first one by Belbury Poly, it sounds like it could be used in some old sci-fi moon flick. Hope you enjoy the mix. T R A C K L I S T :
- 00:00 Belbury Poly - The Moonlawn
- 04:00 Robert Davies - Moon Chart
- 07:40 Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - Our Way was Lit by Moonlight
- 13:00 Lisa Gerrard - Liquid Moon
- 16:00 Djivan Gasparyan - Moon Shines at Night
- 17:45 Rain Tree Crow - New Moon at Deer Wallow
- 19:36 Rumklang - Moonlight Walking
- 21:40 Maps & Diagrams - Man in the Moon
- 22:35 Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto - Moon
- 27:35 The Green Kingdom - Broken Moonbeams
- 32:40 Steve Roach - Moonshroud
- 40:10 Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - Phases of the Moon
- 44:05 Susumu Yokota & Rothko - Floating Moon
- 46:15 Petra Haden And Bill Frisell - Moon River