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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
Wednesday Jun 28, 2023
Wednesday Jun 28, 2023
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This mix is pretty just as the title describes - a set of long ambient pieces, perfect for sleeping. There's not much else to say other than the tracks are all fairly new with most of them from 2023.
I was happy to use a longer version of the Crows Labyrinth track in this mix. I used it in my Blade Runner mix earlier in the year but it was the short version. I have been listening to the long version a lot this year and using it as a sleep soundtrack quite a bit as well. So I knew I had to use more of the 39 minute track in this mix. That album will make my best of the year list for sure.
Speaking of best of the year lists - head over to Mixcloud Posts to see my favorite albums of 2023, so far - MIXCLOUD Best of 2023(so far)
Links to all the music used in this mix:
- https://loscil.bandcamp.com/album/alta
- https://altusmusic.bandcamp.com/album/willoweald
- https://crowslabyrinth.bandcamp.com/album/neon-scenes-i-granular-dreams
- https://milieumusic.bandcamp.com/album/beside-a-green-window
- https://slaapwel.bandcamp.com/album/particles
- https://perceptualtapes.bandcamp.com/album/fleeting-visions-into-sleep - active on 7/14/23
- https://cryochamber.bandcamp.com/album/lost-loops-collection
- https://dataobscura.bandcamp.com/album/delicate-terrain
- https://cv313.bandcamp.com/album/plays-sequential-space
Cheers!
T R A C K L I S T :
- 00:00 Loscil - Alta (Alta 2023)
- 10:20 Loneward - Light Blossom (Willoweald 2023)
- 18:00 Crows Labyrinth - Neon Scenes I (Neon Scenes I: Granular Dreams 2023)
- 27:45 Milieu - Beside a Green Window (Beside a Green Window 2023)
- 37:07 Katharina Schmidt - Particles (Particles 2022)
- 46:44 Spectrical - Distant Rain (Fleeting visions into sleep 2023)
- 55:10 Mount Shrine - Foghorn (Lost Loops Collection 2023)
- 1:12:25 Robert Davies - Diffused Meadow (Delicate Terrain 2022)
- 1:26:30 cv313 - Star Alignments (Plays Sequential Space 2023)
- 2:00:00 end
Thursday Jun 22, 2023
Thursday Jun 22, 2023
I love getting guest mixes from creative artists. I love hearing excellent segues as the music flows seamlessly across the set. And I love discovering new music. So I'm excited about this latest offering from Fragile X.
There so much good stuff in this mix I could go on and on but I'll let John say a few things about it:
"I've been inspired by my recent trip to Croatia and have made a water themed mix. I've called it "Aquadream". I wanted the mix to be able to act as a soundtrack to all kinda things. From casual swimming, deep sea diving, floating, boating or even just watching from the shoreline. It's pretty much all ambient material. It's got that hazy and submerged feel about it and is a wee bit disorientating at times but is ultimately a calm and hopefully refreshing mix!"
Thanks, John, for this awesome collection of music!
- 00:00 Sample of the World's Loneliest Whale, 52 Hertz
- 00:44 Rennie Foster - Devil's Water (Devil's Reprise) / Rebirth / 2009
- 04:48 Fragile X - The Descent / Gorecki Productions / 2015
- 07:11 Krill.minima - Submarine Poetry / Native State Records / 2007
- 12:23 Daar - Sea Wind / Silent Season / 2021
- 18:35 The Persuader - Pressure Relief / Stockholm LTD / 2015
- 21:51 Michael FK - Black Whale / Ambient / 2014
- 26:48 Newworldaquarium - Thousand Oaks / Ostgut Ton / 2014
- 29:56 Karen Vogt - Searching For Shoals (Karen Vogt remix) / Self Released / 2023
- 31:45 Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - Wetlands / Western Vinyl / 2016
- 33:03 This Mortal Coil - Song To The Siren / 4AD / 1983
- 36:47 Inhmost - Waters Edge / Huinali Recordings / 2021
- 41:11 Tom Leclerc - Postcard From The Sea / Giraffe Tapes / 2022
- 43:50 Leafcutter John - Music Under The Water / Desire Path / 2015
- 48:04 Chromasy - Naoshima /Self Released / 2020
- 52:32 Copula - North Sea Dream / Traumgarten / 2020
- 54:48 Balsam - Water Conception / Neotantra / 2019
- 56:21 Julianna Barwick - One Half / Dead Oceans / 2012
- 59:13 Circular - Calm / Beatservice Records/ 1999
- 65:19 Asura - Ascension In Blue / Ultimae Records / 2014
- 72:30 Fragile X - Mvto More / Unreleased / 2023
- 78:48 Picnic - Drops in The Water (DJ Paradise remix) / Daisart / 2021
- 80:45 Saphileaum - Freshwater Body / Nyame Records / 2020
- 85:35 Yosi Horikawa - Fluid / Borrowed Scenery / 2019
Wednesday Jun 14, 2023
Wednesday Jun 14, 2023
The Electronic Music of the 1970s series continues with a trip back to 1971. This year was a bit easier to curate than '70 because we have a few more good uses of electronic instruments featured prominently.
For me, the best electronic album of 1971 is "Zero Time" by Tonto's Expanding Head Band. It's very synthetic sounding without being too cheezy. I enjoyed discovering new music for this mix like "The Andromeda Strain" soundtrack and a Tangerine Dream soundtrack for an unreleased movie. I hope you too discover something new in this journey back to 1971.
Cheers!
T R A C K L I S T :
- 00:00 Moog - Moog demonstration record
- 00:36 Tonto's Expanding Head Band - Tama (Zero Time)
- 05:48 Beaver & Krause - Nine Moons In Alaska (Gandharva)
- 07:30 Tangerine Dream - Sunrise In The Third System (Alpha Centauri)
- 11:07 Achim Reichel - Einleitung(Invitation) (Echo)
- 16:00 Deuter - Babylon (D)
- 19:49 Pat Prilly - Aerolithe Alpha (Moog Sensations)
- 21:15 Harold Budd - Pastoral Symphony (The Oak Of The Golden Dreams)
- 22:00 Popol Vuh - Aguirre (In the Gardens of the Pharao | Aguirre)
- 27:00 Ash Ra Tempel - Traummaschine (Ash Ra Tempel)
- 33:18 Pat Prilly - Coeur Synthetique (Moog Sensations)
- 34:12 Tonto's Expanding Head Band - Cybernaut (Zero Time)
- 38:30 Doug McKechnie - Moving (San Francisco Moog: 1968-72 Vol. 2)
- 41:10 Jean Michel Jarre - La Cage (La Cage)
- 44:25 Morton Subotnick - Sidewinder (Sidewinder)
- 46:15 Gil Mellé - Andromeda (The Andromeda Strain)
- 47:47 Tangerine Dream - Vampira VI (Vampira)
- 50:53 W. Merrick Farran & E. Vetter - Sea of Storms (KPM Electronic Music)
- 52:42 Tonto's Expanding Head Band - Aurora (Zero Time)
- 59:10 end