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Tuesday Oct 11, 2022
Tuesday Oct 11, 2022
Sunday Apr 11, 2021
Sunday Apr 11, 2021
It's funny how mixes come together sometimes. I started this one only knowing I wanted it to be pretty straightforward ambient. The easiest thing to do was to start with some new music from the last month or two. As I laid down a few tracks I started to get this feeling of the sea, of drifting on the water, of a quiet harbor. So I went with it.
Before long I had an entire mix of new music that hung together with this beautiful ebb & flow. The theme came about organically. The tracks themselves dictated what the mood would be. I've done other sea themed mixes over the years and this one could be the most subtle. I didn't add any field recordings - any wave sounds were already in a track. It's more about feel and vibe than sound fx.
All the cuts are from 2021 except for Bursts of Static by Olga Wojciechowska. I heard that on the BBC the morning after finishing the mix and knew immediately that I had to include it.
This mix might work well as soundtrack for a rainy spring day or for a nap in hammock as you dream of drifting out on the tide.
Cheers!
T R A C K L I S T :
- 00:00 Jeannine Schulz - Riber (Luminous 2021)
- 04:35 The Green Kingdom - Atmosphere 1 (Solaria 2021)
- 09:21 Moss Covered Technology - Pressure Change (Seafields 2021)
- 15:43 Andrew Heath & Anne Chris Bakker - November (How To Breathe Like A Stone 2021)
- 26:18 Taylor Deupree - murmur (Mur 2021)
- 29:21 Daar - Waves Your Back Describes (Entire 2021)
- 34:25 Andrew Tasselmyer - What We Lost (Yesteryear 2021)
- 37:40 Observatories - Visible Darkness (Flowers Bloom, Butterflies Come 2021)
- 41:26 Jogging House - Between (Too 2021)
- 44:08 Olga Wojciechowska - Bursts of Static (Infinite distances 2019)
- 48:57 Tapes and Topographies - other distant mermaids (A Season of Loss 2021)
- 52:33 Spheruleus - Danse de Chambre (Canvas Homes + Supplémentaires 2021)
- 56:47 Masaya Kato & Valotihkuu - Viviante (Swallow 2021)
- 59:07 halftribe - Fern Moss (Lucent Forms Travelling 2021)
- 62:16 end
Tuesday Apr 09, 2019
Tuesday Apr 09, 2019
Nine years ago I did a mix of 70s & 80s library music as a soundtrack for underwater exploration. I've always liked the odd vibe of that mix and always wanted to do a follow up. Now it's finally here with Subaquatic Universe.
It's essentially the same formula and sound as the first one. Vibraphone, fender rhodes, flutes and bubbles play a large role in creating this underwater universe.
While collecting tracks for this mix I came across a bunch of other library music which will make for a great retro 70s sci fi mix which I'll put together later this year.
Cheers!
T R A C K L I S T :
- 00:00 John Hyde - Heron
- 01:33 Eric Vann - Diving
- 04:37 Walter Rockman - Chromosomes
- 06:03 Atmo - Acque Tranquille
- 08:18 Jim Harbourg - Empathy
- 10:48 Joel Vandroogenbroeck & F. Voelxen - Cascades
- 13:27 John Tender - Underwater Fantasy
- 15:30 Franco Tamponi - Stelle Marine
- 18:20 Gaston Borreani - Prelude aux Voiliers
- 20:25 Bruton Library Music - Running Waters
- 21:50 Walter Rockman - Sea Life
- 23:20 Teddy Lasry - Moins 8000
- 27:40 Gerhard Narholz - Electronique
- 29:20 A.Perry & D.Sarkys - Canadian Colours 4
- 30:00 Amedeo Tommasi - Correnti Sottomarine
- 33:03 Walt Rockman - Submarine Scenery
- 35:03 Eric Vann - Sunken Galleons
- 38:30 Alan Hawkshaw - Eternity
- 42:15 Atmo - Acque Profonde
- 44:30 Piero Umiliani - Musica Delle Sfere
- 46:12 Gaston Borreani - Cirrus
- 49:35 Georg Deuter - Deep Sea
- 52:43 end
Sunday May 21, 2017
Sunday May 21, 2017
- 00:00 Alonefold - Wanderer & Stone(Wanderer & Stone 2014)
- 07:31 Riverrun - Conover Beacon(Romer Shoal 2016)
- 11:15 Keenya - Remember Smiles(Moment Invisible 2016)
- 14:35 Helios - Ebb/Flow(Rememberance 2016)
- 18:18 Igneous Flame - North Sea Siren(Ocean Sighs 2016)
- 22:05 Gareth Davis - Filament(Filament 2016)
- 30:40 Brian Eno - The Secret Place(Apollo 1983)
- 33:20 Urenga - Seafloor(Undercurrents 2015)
- 39:15 Billow Observatory - Plum(Plains/Patterns 2017)
- 44:20 Barry Lynn - Alpha Tauri(Taurus Tapes Vol. II 2017)
- 46:36 Dolphins Into The Future - Lone Voyager(On Sea-Faring Isolation 2009)
- 54:15 Riverrun - Dubos Point(Romer Shoal 2016)
- 77:00 end
Sunday Jan 10, 2016
Sunday Jan 10, 2016
I've done many "sea" mixes over the years and I keep coming back to them because ambient music perfectly captures the impression of an undulating a sea or ocean.
Enjoy
T R A C K L I S T :
- 00:00 Rafael Anton Irisarri - Displacement
- 03:52 Loscil - Angel of List
- 10:00 Kane Ikin - Slow Waves
- 13:30 Budd & Eno - An Echo of Night
- 15:20 Diatonis - Moving in Silence
- 19:54 Wave Temples - Under the Crystal Waters
- 20:25 Wave Temples - Thru the narrow strait...
- 21:45 Benoit Pioulard - Stanza II, IX
- 26:36 Spheruleus - Clouds Swarm
- 30:37 Purl - Havets Sång
- 36:50 pjusk & sleep orchestra - Daithn
- 41:12 Intrusion - Under the Ocean
- 44:50 Porya Hatami - Farewell
- 52:25 Pan & Me - The Sea Is So Quiet
- 59:00 Stefan Paulus - Salt Sea Island
- 63:24 end
Friday Mar 23, 2012
Friday Mar 23, 2012
This is my 5th "sea" mix. I guess ambient artists really like the imagery & sounds of the sea. Me too.
This one is very similar to the other "sea" mixes. A lot of white noise accompanies you as you drift on the swells of "a further sea."
Most of the music is fairly new, especially nice is the new release from 36 - "Lithea". It's another excellent recording from Dennis Huddleston. Definitely check out all the releases by 36!
Also playing a prominent role in this mix is music from Maps & Diagrams - "Get Lost". I love this album from Time Released Sound. The whole recording is like an ambient sea voyage.
The "sea" mixes are some of my favorites and I hope you enjoy this addition to the series.
T R A C K L I S T :
- 00:00 Vieo Abiungo - A Sad Swell (Humble Remix)
- 03:15 Maps & Diagrams - Floating Sculptures
- 07:45 M. Ostermeier - Underwater Drifting
- 10:20 Jeff Greinke & Rob Angus - harbor island
- 15:30 36 - Lithea
- 19:00 the humble bee/e and i - Pearls for Alma
- 25:35 Willamette - un court thme pour lyla
- 26:55 Maps & Diagrams - Timelines
- 29:30 Radere - Lost at Sea
- 36:33 Vieo Abiungo - Feast Before Havest (Green Kingdom - greenfeast Remix)
- 38:38 36 - Susurrus
- 44:44 Willamette - portrait of a sleeping girl with radio
- 47:45 Maps & Diagrams - Unordinary People
- 49:30 Marcus Fischer - Span
- 53:25 Loscil - Fromme
- 1:00:04 end
Tuesday May 24, 2011
Tuesday May 24, 2011
"The loneliness you get by the sea is personal and alive. It doesn't subdue you and make you feel abject. It's stimulating loneliness." - Anne Morrow Lindbergh
So much of ambient music has a beautiful ebb & flow that lends itself perfectly to sea metaphors. Whether its bobbing up & down on the surface or plumbing the depths, ambient music music seems to fit well with imagery of the sea.
I could crank out sea mixes just using tunes with water, ocean or sea references in the track titles. This mix does have a few tracks with obvious sea titles, but in general it's just another collection of tunes that have that "sea sound."
T R A C K L I S T :
- 00:00 foghorn
- 00:20 Stuart Dempster - Standing Waves 1976
- 01:41 Dolphins into the Future - Memory of Self
- 04:45 Enrico Coniglio - pastor et nauta
- 07:40 Brian Eno - Invisible
- 10:20 Alio Die - Suono Ipogeo(part 1)
- 12:50 Echospace - Reflection II
- 15:00 Burial - Night Bus
- 16:55 Dean Santomieri - The Boy Beneath the Sea
- 19:35 Andrew Chalk - Ukigiri
- 21:15 Beautumn - Everfields
- 27:00 M. Ostermeier - Central
- 31:30 Deaf Centre - New Beginning(tidal darkness)
- 34:00 Riceboy Sleeps - Sleeping Giant
- 39:45 Dolphins into the Future - Lone Voyager
- 47:35 Enrico Coniglio - Da Mar
- 52:15 Stuart Dempster - Standing Waves 1976
- 54:40 end
Sunday Jun 13, 2010
Sunday Jun 13, 2010
What the heck? Two sea/water mixes in a row? I didn't plan it this way. It just sort of happened that I collected a few sea songs, then the library/soundtrack mix got done, then I found a few more sea songs and this mix happened.
"lost at sea" is very similar to "a solitary sea" from last year. Some nice drifting, flowing tunes with a definite sea/ocean feel to them. And of course all the tunes have the word "sea" in the title. The mix works really well on foggy mornings, standing out on the deck letting the music flow all around you.
There's not much else to say except that I hope you enjoy this latest collection.
Download (right click/save as) : 75mb, 54:30 lost at sea
T R A C K L I S T :
- 00:00 Milieu - the singing waters of an endless sea
- 07:30 Aless - inborn sea flowing
- 12:30 offthesky - sea ghosts
- 17:50 Jonsi & Alex - Daniell in the sea
- 25:40 Duncan 'O Ceallaigh - the sea and the sand
- 27:35 The Humble Bee - a century of sea stories
- 29:20 Sawako - april from sea shell
- 32:10 Arovane - seaside
- 35:30 Aglaia - the sea hides his secret selves
- 45:00 Seas - blue dub
- 53:15 Milieu - seashell breeze
- 54:30 end
Saturday Jun 05, 2010
Saturday Jun 05, 2010
Right off the bat, I have to come clean. I stole something. I stole the idea for this mix. But I'm glad I did because I'm very excited to post this new track.
Over at SoundCloud I ran into some mixes by Astromatt. He uses sounds from music libraries and soundtracks of '60's and '70's to create great underwater themed mixes. I love the sound of these old tracks & how they work together in a mix. Who knew that these old library albums even existed?! After some research & digging, I decided to try my hand at a similar mix.
With a lot of this music, it's very easy to cross the line into cheesy/kitchy territory. I tried to find tunes that had that old 70's undersea soundtrack feel but was still listenable by today's ambient standards. I think it works pretty well as an ambient mix, very relaxing, with a cool watery vibe. It was a lot of fun discovering some of these old albums & I'm sure I'll visit them again.
T R A C K L I S T :
- 00:13 Amedeo Tommasi - Acque Tranquille
- 02:20 Eugene Thomass - Magic World of the Sea
- 04:50 Michel Redolfi - Music for Fresh Water
- 08:40 Franco Tamponi - Submarino
- 10:35 Gaston Borreani - Cirrus
- 13:40 Gaston Borreani - Entrelacs
- 17:16 Franco Tamponi - Stelle Marina
- 20:05 Amedeo Tommasi - Correnti Sottomarine
- 21:45 Piero Umiliani - Eliogabalus
- 24:00 Gaston Borreani - Rave Abyssal
- 26:10 Patchwork Orchestra - Brumes sur Mars
- 28:00 Franco Tamponi - Profundita
- 30:05 Fabor - Angelo di Mare
- 33:25 Gaston Borreani - Port Cross
- 36:53 end
Tuesday Dec 15, 2009
Tuesday Dec 15, 2009
I haven't had time to do anything new lately but today I'm home sick so I had some time in between naps.
- 00:00 krill.minima - Submarine Poetry
- 07:00 Intrusion - Under the Ocean
- 10:00 Eluder - The Most Beautiful Blue
- 14:30 Rod Modell - Cold Watery Depths
- 21:30 Jim Cole - Ocean Depths
- 25:00 Adam Pacione - Buoy
- 31:10 Loscil - Pressure
- 35:00 Thomas Koner - 31.46.n.35.13e(hour ten)
- 36:20 Milieu - Christening Ships at port
- 43:20 krill.minima - Surface from the Groundless Oceans
- 50:30 Shaula - Sea of Trees
- 53:30 Jeff Greinke - Over Water
- 1:00:00 end