Episodes
Sunday Aug 07, 2022
Train Six-56 by Paul Asbury Seaman
Sunday Aug 07, 2022
Sunday Aug 07, 2022
Yes, another train mix. They are just too intriguing and cinematic to pass up. This one come from friend of the blog, Paul Asbury Seaman. Paul has given us some excellent train mixes in the past and this one continues that tradition. This one clocks in at just a bit under 100 minutes! So much great music in one mix.
- https://sijmusic.bandcamp.com/album/from-inkerman-to-sevastopol
- https://www.amazon.com/Runaway-Train-Trevor-Jones/dp/B002JOW24W
- https://www.amazon.com/Ax-Inferno-Paul-Speer/dp/B00EDPWL0K
- https://gertemmens.bandcamp.com/album/on-the-edge-of-nowhere
- https://www.amazon.com/Atmanaut-David-Parsons/dp/B07D74X8XQ
- https://halakencollective.bandcamp.com/track/kapadokya
- https://www.amazon.com/E2-E4-MANUEL-GOTTSCHING/dp/B0184SDHK4
- https://andrewlahiff.bandcamp.com/album/outward-currents
- https://sijmusic.bandcamp.com/album/from-inkerman-to-sevastopol
- https://solarfields.bandcamp.com/album/ourdom
- https://shamansdream1.bandcamp.com/album/prana-pulse
- https://redshift2.bandcamp.com/album/life-to-come
- https://tangerinedreamofficial.bandcamp.com/album/summer-in-nagasaki
- https://johantronestam.bandcamp.com/album/space-collection
- https://projektrecords.bandcamp.com/album/north-star
- https://thombrennan.bandcamp.com/album/eventide
- https://larsleonhard.bandcamp.com/album/gravity
- https://laddadoane.bandcamp.com/album/quasar
- https://cheryl.bandcamp.com/album/the-passenger
- https://www.beatport.com/release/journeys/3678764
- 00:00 SiJ - Inkerman - Sevastopol #1 (From Inkerman To Sevastopol)
- 00:46 Trevor Jones - Runaway Train (Runaway Train 1985)
- 03:00 Paul Speer - Tornado Warning (Ax Inferno 2013)
- 07:30 Gert Emmens - At the end of the track (On the Edge of Nowhere 2022)
- 12:50 David Parsons - Perhatian (Atmanaut 2018)
- 19:38 Mercan Dede - Kapadokya
- 26:25 Manuel Göttsching - And Sovereignty (E2-E4 1984)
- 29:12 Andrew Lahiff - Scalar Fields (Outward Currents 2021)
- 37:05 SiJ - Inkerman - Sevastopol #2 (From Inkerman To Sevastopol)
- 37:50 Solar Fields - Mountain King (Ourdom 2018)
- 46:25 Shamans Dream - The Way Through (Prana Pulse 2012)
- 52:40 Redshift - Vampyre (Life to Come 2015)
- 58:00 Tangerine Dream - Dreaming In A Kyoto Train (Summer In Nagasaki 2007)
- 60:45 Johan Tronestam - Deep Field (Space Collection 2017)
- 67:20 Erik Wøllo - Viewpoint (North Star 2021)
- 73:00 Thom Brennan - Eventide Pt.3 (Eventide 2022)
- 77:50 Lars Leonhard - Physical Objects (GRAVITY 2022)
- 83:50 LAD - Spectral Lines (Quasar 2022)
- 88:20 Cheryl B. Engelhardt - The Zephyr Remembers (The Passenger 2022)
- 91:15 Divine Matrix - Journey's End (Journeys 2022)
- 97:18 end
Sunday Nov 07, 2021
The Restless Thrum
Sunday Nov 07, 2021
Sunday Nov 07, 2021
I have done several train mixes over the years. They basically come about because I hear a tune and think - Hey, that would be great in a train mix. So it was with this one. I heard the track "A.O.E." by Portico Quartet and I knew immediately that I need to build a mix around it.
This mix differs from most of my other train mix(except one) because it's mostly a jazz influenced mix. Berlin-school sequencers have been replaced by a drum kit and synth washes are now horns. I folded in some recordings of trains and subways but I didn't want to over do it so I kept to 3 spots in the mix.
Links to all the albums used in order of how they appear in this mix:
- https://porticoquartet.bandcamp.com/album/monument
- https://nickgarbett.bandcamp.com/album/the-glider
- https://snowpalms.bandcamp.com/album/land-waves
- https://tangents.bandcamp.com/album/new-bodies
- https://elskavonjohnhayes.bandcamp.com/album/du-nord
- https://nalasinephro.bandcamp.com/album/space-18
- https://porticoquartet.bandcamp.com/album/terrain
- https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07DCDQG7K/ref=dm_ws_sp_ps_dp
- https://bellorchestre.bandcamp.com/album/house-music
- https://eremiterecords.bandcamp.com/album/mandatory-reality
- https://danielbrandt1.bandcamp.com/album/eternal-something
- https://alapastel.bandcamp.com/album/ceremony
The mix has some good energy and I could see it being a great companion for bike riding.
Cheers!
T R A C K L I S T :
- 00:00 Portico Quartet - A.O.E. (Monument 2021)
- 05:30 Nick Garbett & Mike Majkowski - Aerial (The Glider 2021)
- 11:35 Snow Palms - Kojo Yakei (Land Waves 2020)
- 15:08 Tangents - Terracotta (New Bodies 2018)
- 21:20 Elskavon & John Hayes - Vermilion (Du Nord 2020)
- 23:23 Nala Sinephro - Space 6 (Space 1.8 2021)
- 26:50 Portico Quartet - Terrain: III (Terrain 2021)
- 36:30 Olafur Arnalds - Undir (re:member 2018)
- 39:27 Bell Orchestra - Movement (House Music 2021)
- 45:00 Joshua Abrams & Natural Information Society - Shadow Conductor (Mandatory Reality 2019)
- 52:42 Daniel Brandt - Eternal Something (Eternal Something 2017)
- 58:45 Alapastel - Transmission (Ceremony 2021)
- 64:16 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 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
Monday May 01, 2017
The Memory of Trains
Monday May 01, 2017
Monday May 01, 2017
I wonder why the sound of trains is so evocative. Even for folks who have never been on a train there is something about the sound of a train on the tracks that stirs the imagination. This mix will hopefully have the same effect.
I was surprised to find that I've only done two previous train themed mixes. It sure seems like I've done more. Maybe it's the use of train sounds in filed recording mixes that has me confused. Anyway, here are the two previous mixes...
http://lowlightmixes.blogspot.com/2014/08/leaving-station.html
http://lowlightmixes.blogspot.com/2015/01/points-of-departure.html
This mix began with a recommendation from a follower on Mixcloud, Paul Asbury Seaman. I asked for any other train tunes he could suggest and he came through in a big way. He did all the hard work and mapped out the whole mix for me. I had a great time mixing it and discovering new music along the way.
Here's what Paul had to say about the mix...
"Berlin School synth/electronica can be pretty kinetic and thus an obvious source for a train mix, but I was going for a more melancholy sound, the wistful feeling evoked by the sound of Far Away Trains Passing By (the title of the Ulrich Schnauss album represented here). My working title for this mix was "Locomotive Lullaby."
While I was on the subject, I made a list of classic train songs (the sung kind) and came up with more than sixty--about three CDs worth! Here's a great article to start your playlist with: http://harpers.org/blog/2014/06/the-twenty-three-best-train-songs-ever-written-maybe/ Or contact Low Light Mixes for a copy of mine. Thanks, new friend Dave, for putting this together."
Thanks Paul, for all work on this excellent mix! I still have more tracks to use so the next train mix will be more jazzy.
Cheers!
T R A C K L I S T :
- 00:00 Erik Wollo - Church Mountain(Different Spaces 2017)
- 04:04 Johan Agebjörn - Sleepless On The Kostomuksha-Petrozavodsk Night Train(We Never Came to the White Sea 2017)
- 10:20 Between Interval - On Track(Legacy 2017)
- 13:10 David Parsons - The Himgiri(Yatra 1990)
- 18:40 Ulrich Schnauss - Nothing Happens in June(Far Away Trains Passing By...2001)
- 24:25 Ascendant - Ephemeris(Source Transmission 2014)
- 31:30 Mark Ward - Universal(Universal 2017)
- 40:15 Hollan Holmes - Enduro(The Spirits of Starlight 2014)
- 46:25 Erik Wollo - Rundreise(Different Spaces 2017)
- 51:05 Al Gromer Khan - Stamboul Train(Turya 2006)
- 62:15 end