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Wednesday Oct 25, 2023
Wednesday Oct 25, 2023
I've done Halloween mixes in the past but never one quite like this. I decided to take some of the Latin guitar sounds found in my Guitarissimo mixes, tilt them slight off kilter and give the mix a slightly sinister vibe.
It's not too dark, and some of it is kinda of fun, just the way Halloween should be. There are a few artists I was familiar with or have played before like David Lynch, SUSS, The Phonometrician, Shakey Graves, Ry Cooder, and Tommy Guerrero. The rest are all new artists I discovered while looking for tracks that fit this theme. That was a lot of fun discovering all of that new music.
Grab some mezcal, turn the lights out and enjoy. Cheers!
T R A C K L I S T :
- 00:00 Via Mardot - Portal (2022)
- 01:58 Sun City Girls - Blue West (Funeral Mariachi 2012)
- 04:55 Combustible Edison - Carnival of Souls (I, Swinger 1994)
- 07:50 Shakey Graves - Chupacadabra (Deadstock 2023)
- 09:25 The Focus Group - Bells Hazes (Sketches And Spells 2011)
- 10:14 Tommy Guerrero - Signals from Points Beyond (Perpetual 2015)
- 13:10 Ry Cooder - Paris, Texas (Paris, Texas 1985)
- 15:45 SUSS - Gunfighter (Ghost Box 2018)
- 20:09 Topaz Rags - Sightings (Capricorn Born Again 2009)
- 22:55 Pram - Track of the Cat (Dark Island 2003)
- 26:58 Last Ex - Hotel Blues (Last Ex 2014)
- 29:43 The Phonometrician - Death Rides a Horse: Part II (Cóiste Bodhar 2022)
- 34:25 Ben Von Wildenhaus - The Knife Thrower II (II 2015)
- 36:57 Louie Zong - Ghost Duet (2023)
- 37:54 David Lynch - The Night Bell With Lightning (Crazy Clown Time 2011)
- 42:47 Via Mardot - Towers (2023)
- 44:52 Shakey Graves - Who Died (Deadstock 2023)
- 48:44 Guano Padano - A Country Concept (Guano Padano 2009)
- 53:21 Tommy Guerrero - Embers of Memory (Perpetual 2015)
- 56:16 Via Mardot - Pining (2023)
- 58:13 Ry Cooder - No Safety Zone (Paris, Texas 1985)
- 59:33 Wilburn Burchette - Birth of a Witch (Guitar Grimoire 1973)
- 64:38 end
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 27, 2023
Wednesday Sep 27, 2023
I haven't done a quiet indie songs mix since this time last year. This one started when I heard the latest Peter Gabriel track, Love Can Heal, which I adore. And the timing is good as I'll be seeing him in concert on Oct. 2nd. I've heard that in his live show he plays a lot of the new tracks he's been releasing monthly. Several months ago that would have given me pause because I didn't much care for the first few new tracks. But they have been getting better and better with each new song.
The rest of the mix is just what it says it is - a collection of quiet indie tracks, all of them released in 2023. It includes some old faves like Neil Young, Kevin Morby, Slowdive, & Julie Byrne along with new to me artists like Scott Orr, The Finks, This Is The Kit, & Jörgen Kjellgren.
Cheers!
T R A C K L I S T :
- 00:00 Jörgen Kjellgren - Bluebird Waltz (Bluebird 2023)
- 04:09 Scott Orr - Horiszon (Horizon 2023)
- 07:45 Peter Gabriel - Love Can Heal(Darkside Mix) (2023)
- 12:57 Silvana Estrada - Milagro y Desastre (2023)
- 16:54 Julie Byrne - Flare (The Greater Wings 2023)
- 20:14 This Is The Kit - Careful of Your Keepers (Careful of Your Keepers 2023)
- 23:01 The Finks - Marco Polo (Birthdays at Solo Pasta 2023)
- 27:06 Arborist - Dewdrop Cherryoak (An Endless Sequence of Dead Zeros 2023)
- 32:19 Kevin Morby - Like a Flower (Music From Montana Story 2023)
- 35:30 Dean Johnson - Faraway Skies (Nothing For Me, Please 2023)
- 39:00 Neil Young - Star of Bethlehem (Chrome Dreams 2023)
- 41:35 DeYarmond Edison - Ragstock (Epoch 2023)
- 44:04 Allegra Krieger - Lingering (I Keep My Feet on the Fragile Plane 2023)
- 47:21 Indigo de Souza - Younger & Dumber (All of This Will End 2023)
- 51:50 JFDR - The Orchid (Museum 2023)
- 56:00 Slowdive - prayer remembered (everything is alive 2023)
- 60:30 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
Wednesday Jul 26, 2023
Wednesday Jul 26, 2023
The trip through the electronic music of the 70s continues with a stop in 1972. As with '70 & '71, this is a mix with some tracks that are very electronic, like the Wendy Carlos tunes, and others that are more electronic adjacent, like the Cluster or Pick Floyd tracks. But I think it gives a good sense of where things stood at the time.
I purposely stayed away from cheesy electronic versions of classical music like "The Electronic Spirit Of Erik Satie" or "The Unusual Classical Synthesizer." I'm just not a fan of that type of electronic music. I understand it's place in bringing synths to mass attention, I just don't like those recordings.
Enjoy 1972, I have a feeling 1973 will sound fairly similar. But things will start to change in '74 & '75.
Cheers!
T R A C K L I S T :
- 00:00 A.R. & Machines - Wie Ich Mir So Ich Dir (AR3)
- 02:12 Cluster - Im Suden (Cluster II)
- 08:10 Galactic Explorers - Lunarscape (Epitaph For Venus)
- 14:22 Terry Riley - Persian Surgery Dervishes
- 18:40 Klaus Schulze - Last Not Least (La Vie Electronique, Vol. 2)
- 25:15 Kraftwerk - Klingklang (Kraftwerk 2)
- 34:00 Wendy Carlos - Country Life (Clockwork Orange)
- 38:40 Tangerine Dream - Zeit (Zeit)
- 43:20 Pink Floyd - Absolutely Curtains (Obscured by Clouds)
- 45:55 Neu! - Im Glück (Nue!)
- 49:35 Wendy Carlos - Fall (Sonic Seasonings)
- 60:00 end
Wednesday Jul 12, 2023
Wednesday Jul 12, 2023
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Photo by Alan Seaman (Paul’s father) in Raiwind, Lahore District, Pakistan, c.1966.
Another train-themed mix? Yes, because they are awesome! This one comes from the mind of Paul Asbury Seaman, as have several other train mixes. As per usual, it's a great collection of familiar and unfamiliar artists, to me at least.
Here's what Paul says about this latest trip down the tracks:
“On this one—my seventh train-themed mix for LLM—I’m going for the feeling of exhilaration and weary melancholy of travel, as much as the clickety-clack rhythm associated with trains. Plus a twinge of the mystical that can be experienced while crossing between worlds. Once again, drawing from 40 years of music… a couple of new artists, some perennial favorites (of mine), and some classics of the genre.”
Thanks, Paul, for delivering once again.
Cheers!
T R A C K L I S T :
- 00:00 Christian Fiesel - A Train And No Final Destination (The New Voyages Of Little Nemo 2023)
- 03:29 Frolin - Afterthought (Morrowtide 2022)
- 07:26 Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygene 7 (Oxygene 7-13 1997)
- 15:05 Johan Tronestam - Reveals the Invisible (Cosmic Drama II 2023)
- 22:14 Fritz Mayr - Breath of the Wind (Mythical Worlds 2022)
- 28:40 Cristian Richet - Sansucy (Life Is But A Dream 2023)
- 35:05 Cosmic Ground - Phasing 76 (Entropy 2023)
- 42:40 The Soviet Space Dog Project - Star City (Star City 2021)
- 51:45 Vangelis - Life Of Antarctica (Antartica 1983)
- 57:19 LAD - Starburst (Andromeda 2023)
- 62:42 Robert Rich - Loom Of Origins (Travelers' Cloth 2023)
- 69:30 Patrick O'Hearn - Traveler's Rest (So Flows the Current 2000)
- 75:33 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