A Distant Pulse

Who remembers what a big thing tribal ambient was for awhile back in the 90s?  The first time I heard "Fearless" from the album Strata by Steve Roach & Robert Rich I was hooked.  There were many Roach albums from that time period that drew on the tribal ambient sound - World's Edge, On This Planet, Soma, Australia: Sound of the Earth, Forgotten Gods, Cavern of Sirens, Earth Island, Well of Souls, The Serpent's Lair,   - oh heck there's too many to keep track of!

I loved that sound.  But as so often happens I grew tired of it.  Part of that was just me overdosing on that style and part of it was as the style proliferated we ended up with crappy new age versions of tribal ambient.  So I stayed away for a long time while still revisiting the classic Roach recordings occasionally.  

Earlier this year I discovered the music of Al Gromer Khan, thanks to Paul Asbury Seaman.  I was listening to a few cuts from Lexus and I enjoyed the tribal sound and realized that I hadn't listened that style very much lately.  But those tracks got me going and the next thing you know, I'm collecting tacks for a mix.

The tracks in this mix are a good sampling of new cuts, older cuts from the tribal heyday and a few really old cuts from the early 80s.  The tracks are also a mix instrumentation from drum sounds to gamelan to marimba.  I love how this turned out and hope you do too.

Cheers!




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T R A C K L I S T :

• 00:00    Al Gromer Khan - Air Wave(Lexus 2002)
• 04:30    Eno & Hassell - Chemistry(Fourth World 1 - possibles musics 1980)
• 09:35    Steve Roach, Byron Metcalf & Mark Seelig - Six(Mantram 2004)
• 17:50    Peter Gabriel - Slow Marimbas(Birdy 1985)
• 20:40    Terje Isungset - Sunrise Horizon(Hibernation 2009)
• 23:15    DavidParsons - Laplapan(Ngaio Gamelan 1999)
• 28:15    SVLBRD - Hvit(Svalbard 2017)
• 33:20    Michael Brook - Distant Village(Hybrid 1985)
• 36:39    Wuhan Wuchang - Total Art of Percussion(Tropical Drums of Deutschland 2017)
• 38:25    Uakti & Philip Glass - Paru River(Aguas da Amazonia 1999)
• 41:52    Jon Iverson - Metalanguage(Alternesia 1999)
• 47:10    Rapoon - Sanctum(Fallen Gods 2000)
• 50:10    Eno & Hassell - Delta Rain Dream(Fourth World 1 - possibles musics 1980)
• 52:50    Byron Metcalf - As Clouds Dance(Inner Rhythm Meditations 2016)
• 61:25    Jonatan Bengta - Homerun(David Lynch: The Art Life 2016)
• 62:30    Byron Metcalf - Presence of Longing(Inner Rhythm Meditations 2016)
• 75:30    Loren Nerell - Tasku(Tasku 2003) mashed up with Evan Chapman playing    Opening by Philip Glass
• 81:41    end

Icelight

Here is another fantastic mix curated by Paul Asbury Seaman. His earlier mixes are "Floating Through Moonlight" and "The Memory of Trains."

I'm listening to it as I type this and it's another wonderful collection. Here's what Paul has to say about it:

“I’m no fan of winter, but I love the visual patterns created by ice. And I’ve always loved the bell-like sounds sometimes used in electronic/ambient music and featured prominently in the works of Rudy Adrian. The idea for this mix started with a rather dark compilation by Hypnos Records called Message from a Subatomic World, from which I got the title track here, and ended with my recent (and joyous) discovery of a stunning artist working with gamelan bells, Gordon Pigeon, which opens this set. The full piece from his album Acoustic Fireflies is more than 30 minutes long.”

Thanks Paul!

Cheers!

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T R A C K L I S T :

• 00:00    Gordon Pigeon - Lamasaerie vesperale(Lucioles acoustiques 2016)
• 12:32    Jan Garbarek – Iceburn(In Praise of Dreams 2004)
• 17:10    Jeff Greinke - One September(Wide View 2002)
• 25:10    JeffPearce – Aftermath(The Hidden Rift 1996)
• 29:35    Kirsty Hawkshaw - Ice CastleThe Ice Castle 2008)
• 36:03    Rudy Adrian - Subterranean RiverDesrt Realms 2008)
• 41:20    Justin Vanderberg - Cold Brightness(Synthetic Memories 2011)
• 46:55    Kirsty Hawkshaw – Solitary(The Ice Castle 2008)
• 52:38    Oophoi - Icelight(Message From A Subatomic World 2008)
• 57:15    Meg Bowles - Glacial Dawn(A Quiet Light 2011)
• 66:02    end

 

In the Shadow of the Moon - Solar Eclipse 2017

With all the space themed mixes I've done over the years, there was no way I was going to miss making one for this solar eclipse.  So here it is - In The Shadow Of The Moon.

This mix is similar to the Juno mix in that it moves chronologically from sun to total eclipse back to sun.  The titles of the tracks describe the journey.

Cheers!


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T R A C K L I S T :

• 00:00    Arp - The Rising Sun
• 05:30    Vidna Obmana & Jan Marmenout - Traveling Moon
• 07:20    Max Richter - Falling Shadow
• 08:58    Harold Budd & Robin Guthrie - Turn Off the Sun
• 11:35    Goldmund - Shadow
• 13:23    Ramin Djawadi - Blackhole Sun
• 15:43    Johann Johannsson - the sun's gone dim and the sky's turned black
• 21:10    STRSGN - Full Eclipse
• 23:45    Marsen Jules Trio - Eclipse
• 28:52    Marconi Union - In Shadows
• 36:14    Horizon Fire - Pinhole Yellow Point
• 41:45    Eno Moebius Roedelius - The Shade
• 44:46    Max Richter - Shadow Journal
• 49:46    Lisa Gerrard - See the Sun
• 52:52    Jim Cole - Sun Showers
• 54:25    The Beatles - Sun King(vocal remix)
• 56:23    Vir Unis - Infinite Sun
• 59:51    end

 

Floating Through Moonlight

My musical friend, Paul Asbury Seaman, has given us another gift in this beautiful collection.  Paul picked out the tunes and the order & I stitched them together to form the mix.  It was a joy to assemble.

Here's what Paul had to say about the mix:

"This is another bedtime, dreaming, unwinding, floating-away-on-an-interior-journey mix. The starting inspiration came from Michael DeMaria’s piece, “Moonlight” from his 2004 album The River.  I was so struck by how precisely the music evoked the image of moonlight on water. I have always been drawn to rivers and from the early days of ambient/electronic music more than forty years ago, with the likes of Kitaro and Tangerine Dream, I have described this genre as “journey music”—Silk Road journeys, interstellar journeys and journeys down a moonlit river."

Thanks to Paul for another Stellar collection of tunes.

Cheers!


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T R A C K L I S T :

• 00:00    Byron Metcalf - As Clouds Dance(Inner Rhythm Meditations
• 07:40    Erik Wollo - Sepia(Blue Radiance)
• 10:45    Meg Bowles - Between, Shadows and Prayers(From the Dark Earth)
• 14:20    Michel Banabila - Sana's(Float)
• 18:55    Michel Banabila - Fragments of Memory(Float)
• 25:40    Michael DeMaria - Moonlight(The River)
• 35:20    Michael DeMaria - Moonlit Sea(In the Flow)
• 37:35    Erik Wollo - Revealed in Time(Ble Radiance)
• 41:30    Darshan Ambient - Tears to Rain(Songs From The Deep Field)
• 43:45    Meg Bowles - Undulant Sea(The Shimmering Land)
• 48:15    Erik Wollo - Blue Radiance(Blue Radiance)
• 52:13    end

Ocean Echoes

The Ocean is a mighty harmonist.

               - William Wordsworth

This is pretty straight forward - a collection of tunes that will make you feel as if you are drifting along on ocean currents.  Almost all of the ocean sounds in this mix are in the original pieces of music.  I only added a bit of wave sounds around the 39 minute mark.  Enjoy the float.

Cheers!

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T R A C K L I S T :

• 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

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The Memory of Trains

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!



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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

Pale Blue Dot - Earth Day 2017

"Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives."

     - Carl Sagan

I have always loved Carl Sagan's "Pale Blue Dot" essay. It's even better hearing his voice reading it.  In the Cosmos reboot from a couple of years ago, when they played a clip of Carl I actually cried.  Yes, I am a huge dork.  So needless to say, Sagan reading about the pale blue dot gets me every time. 

There are a ton of videos on youtube combining his quotes with music & images. Some are quite good, some use horrible cheesy music or hokey stock photos.  I thought, heck I'm a video editor, I'll make my own video. But then I realized how sometimes the images can detract from the prose.

So I decided to combine Sagan's Pale Blue Dot with one of my all-time favorite pieces of music - Max Richter's "On the Nature of Daylight."  The next step was to use that mashup to lead off a mix dedicated to Earth Day 2017 & the coinciding March for Science.  If you look at the track titles the theme is obvious.

I eventually did make a video to go with the mashup.  But it's just one image.  It's a pic taken by the Cassini spacecraft from just beyond Saturn.  It's Pale Blue Dot 2.0 if you will.  The  video is just one long slow pull from earth out to the full image.

Take a look here...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LedVlmajeoA

Enjoy the mix, Earth Day and remember - Science, not Silence.

Cheers!

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T R A C K L I S T :

• 00:00    Carl Sagan & Max Richter - Pale Blue Dot & On the Nature of Daylight
• 05:05    Jim Cole & Spectral Voices - Hear Earth
• 08:00    Steve Roach - On This Planet
• 15:20    Map & Diagrams - Particles of Earth
• 18:10    A Small Good Thing - Scorched Earth
• 23:15    Adam Pacione - Warming Trend
• 25:27    Shuttle358 - Melt
• 30:10    Jeff Greinke - Changing Skies
• 32:50    Brian Eno - Climate Study
• 35:30    J. Ralph - The Glaciers Are Telling
• 37:20    Michael Brook - Earth Alone
• 39:20    Mathias Grassow - Planetary Consciousness
• 43:45    Lav & Purl - Earthship
• 49:50    Robert Scott Thompson - Pale Blue Dot
• 65:00    end

Off_Worlder

One of my favorite things about making these mixes for ten years is the people I've come in contact with.  I stay in touch with folks from Ireland, The Netherlands, Canada, Brazil or just down the road in Chicago. 

This mix comes from one these online friends, Josh Furey.  He did a previous guest mix for Low Light Mixes called Cartridge, which you can find here...

Cartridge - an 8-bit Adventure  He recently reached out about a new mix & I of course jumped at the chance to showcase another of his mixes. 

I'll let Josh tell you about it...

As a relative newcomer to ambient music in 2012, I was immensely lucky to stumble across Low Light Mixes. It can be pretty overwhelming when you start to explore a new genre of music and over the years Low Light Mixes  has supplied me with a wildly diverse mix of ambient music to enjoy while also serving as an amazing resource for the genre music that now dominates any playlist I put together.

If you are a frequent listener to Low Light you will recognize a lot of the artists I chose for this mix and hopefully there are some new names for you to check out as well. Off Worlder is my way of saying thank you to Dave for introducing me to so many amazing artists over the years and keeping Low Light going for over 10 years.

I hope you enjoy.


Thanks Josh!  Here's a few Josh links...
http://joshfurey.ca/
https://joshfurey.bandcamp.com/
https://www.mixcloud.com/josh-furey/

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T R AC K L I S T :

• 00:00 - Exerpt from Blade Runner
• 00:19 - Vegyn - Unknown (https://soundcloud.com/Vegyn)
• 03:19 - Kyle Dixon + Michael Stein- In Pursuit (https://survive.bandcamp.com/)
• 04:30 - 36 - Shadow Play (http://3six.net/album/shadow-play)
• 08:23 - Goldmund - Turncoat (https://goldmund.bandcamp.com/track/turncoat)
• 11:29 - Suplington - Love (https://soundcloud.com/suplington)
• 15:27 - Julie London - Bouquet Of Blues (https://www.discogs.com/Julie-London-bout-The-Blues/release/1378929)
• 16:14 - Burial - Forgive (https://burial.bandcamp.com/track/forgive)
• 17:48 - Mark Pritchard - ? (https://markpritchard.bandcamp.com/)
• 22:15 - In Aeternam Vale - Drones (https://dement3d.bandcamp.com/track/drones)
• 24:17 - Ben Salisbury & Geoff Barrow - Ava (https://www.discogs.com/Ben-Salisbury-And-Geoff-Barrow-Ex_Machina-Original-Motion-Picture-Soundtrack/release/7007937)
• 26:35 - Vangelis - Spiral (https://www.discogs.com/Vangelis-Spiral/release/1493684)
• 27:11 - Biosphere - Sphere Of No-Form https://biosphere.bandcamp.com/track/sphere-of-no-form)
• 29:29 - Thore Pfeiffer - Good Life (https://kompakt.bandcamp.com/album/pop-ambient-2017)
• 34:53 - Aphex Twin - Stone In Focus (https://boomkat.com/products/selected-ambient-works-volume-ii-limited-triple-vinyl-reissue)
• 36:55 - Corey Allen + Marcus Fischer - Two/Twenty-Two/Eighty-Two(https://twotwentytwo.bandcamp.com/album/two-twenty-two)
• 39:27 - Murcof - Una (https://murcofmusic.bandcamp.com/album/martes-utop-a)
  41:02 - Offthesky + Pleq - A Thousand Fields https://infraction.bandcamp.com/album/a-thousand-fields)
   
• 43:02 - 2814 - 新しい日の誕生 (https://dreamcatalogue.bandcamp.com/album/--18)
• 44:10 - Marsen Jules - Through Blood and Fire (https://marsenjules.bandcamp.com/track/through-blood-and-fire)
• 46:40 - The Beautiful Schizophonic - Prayers (https://dynamophone.bandcamp.com/album/belkiss)
• 48:22 - Nils Frahm - Says(https://nilsfrahm.bandcamp.com/album/spaces)
• 51:57 - Synkro - Overture (https://synkro.bandcamp.com/track/overture)

a slow thaw 2017

I haven't had time lately for new mixes but I wanted to get something up on Mixcloud so I thought I'd resurrect an old mix.  This mix was originally done 10 years ago.  Yikes!  I can't believe I've been doing this that long.

There were a few tracks in the original mix that I didn't really like anymore so I added a few new ones and took out a few old cuts.  The new tracks are by Tilman Robinson, Loess, Murcof & Venessa Wagner, and Delia Derbyshire Appreciation Society.

I hope to get back on track with new mixes coming more frequently. There's also a guest mix coming very soon.

Cheers!

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T R AC K L I S T :

• 00:00    Tilman Robinson - Bathed in Her
• 05:55    Michael Brook - Earth Alone
• 07:25    Windy & Carl - Akimatsuri
• 12:25    Underworld & Gabriel Yared - St. Pancras
• 15:45    Loess - Striae
• 20:15    Oblong - Rendevous
• 23:22    Rafael Anton Irisarri - Waking Expectations
• 29:25    Green Kingdom - Autumn Toadlick
• 35:15    Xela - Bobble Hats in Summer
• 40:20    Chihei Hatakeyama - Granular Haze
• 43:10    Daisuke Miyatani - Yu
• 44:10    Eluvium | Requium on Frankfort Ave.
• 46:25    Dollboy | Hatterjax
• 51:25    Murcof & Vanessa Wagner - Aphex Twin Avril 14th.
• 55:10    Delia Derbyshire Appreciation Society - Half Light

gently falling snow

I think the last time I posted a snow mix I said that when I think of music to go with snow I think of piano music.  Maybe it's from years of hearing Vince Guaraldi's Peanuts Christmas album or George Winston's December album.  Whatever the reason, I immediately go to the piano for snow music.

So that is again the dominant instrument in this mix.  Most of the music here is fairly new which includes the Roedelius tune from 2015 - "Gently Falling Snow."  Obviously I stole the title for this mix but I think this collection really does have a nice feeling of "gently falling snow."

Cheers!


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T R A C K L I S T :

• 00:00    Sonmi451 - I Didn't Know That Cats Could Grin
• 05:00    Olafur Arnalds - Dalur
• 08:10    Johann Johannsson - The Drowned World
• 10:12    Rachel's - NY Snow Globe
• 12:30    Roedelius - Gently Falling Snow
• 14:33    Jason Van Wyk - Kept
• 17:50    Olafur Arnalds - For Now I Am Winter
• 21:35    Chihei Hatakeyama - Coastal Railroads in Memories
• 27:10    Andrew Heath - Requiem
• 34:15    James Murray - Particles
• 39:21    Sonmi451 - Oh My Ears & Whiskers
• 43:30    James Murray - Eyes to the Height
• 47:39    Mike Lazarev - Absent
• 50:00    Taylor Duepree - Snow(dusk dawn)
• 55:20    Jason Van Wyk - Stay
• 58:18    Nils Frahm - Less
• 63:40    end

endless ambient

I've always been a fan of long form ambient.  It's goes all the way back to side-long cuts on Fripp & Eno's No Pussyfooting and Eno's Discreet Music.  And more recently to the many full album cuts from Steve Roach.  He's got a number of long form tracks and I'm not sure how many he has released.

For this mix I decided to feature a bunch of long tracks and to also let a large chunk of each to play.  Most cuts in the mix play for about 20 minutes or so.  Which is why this ends up easily being the longest mix I've ever done, clocking in at 6 hours and 15 minutes.  The version on Mixcloud is 5 1/2 hours because I needed to get the file size under 500mb.

This mix should work well as an all night sleep aid.

Cheers!


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T R A C K L I S T :

• 00:00    Alio Die - Ultima Latet
• 19:15    James Johnson & Stephen Phillips - Lost at Dunn's Lake
• 43:15    Disturbed Earth - Butterfly
• 58:15    Brian Eno - Neroli
• 1:11:15    Sonmi451 - Ruis
• 1:30:15    Steve Roack - Etheric Imprints
• 1:43:55    Aloof Proof - The Ghost Ship
• 2:03:20    Harold Budd - As Long As I Can Hold My Breath
• 2:27:30    Seaworthy - Sleep Paths
• 3:04:00    Robert Rich - Somnium
• 3:53:15    Jim Cole - Astral
• 4:10:30    Steve Roach - The Delicate Beyond
• 4:39:20    Alio Die - In The Labyrinth Garden
• 5:08:15    Brian Eno - Lux 4
• 5:22:50    Paul Vnuk - Silence Speaks In Shadows
• 6:15:21    end

still falls the rain 2016

Back in 2009 I did a guest mix for Subversion called Still Falls the Rain.  When a regular listener/downloader was looking for a replacement file for one that he had lost I realized that I'd never properly uploaded it to my own archive or to Mixcloud. 

So I dug up the file from 2009, added a few more tracks and uploaded for your listening pleasure.  Good timing too, because it's been raining a lot here so it fits perfectly.

Cheers!

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T R A C K L I S T :

• 00:00     August Stars – Inland Rain
• 04:25     Part Timer – Rain on My Window
• 06:50     Letna – Raining Day
• 09:30     Jon Hassell – Delta Rain Dream
• 12:55     Manual - After the Rain
• 14:00     Mark McGuire – A Pocket Full of Rain
• 15:20     Sense - Early Rain
• 19:00     Cyber Zen Sound Engine & Matt Borghi – Endless Rain
• 22:10     Foxx & Budd – Raindust
• 27:55     Jeff Pearce – Rainshadow Sky
• 30:22    Giovanni Guidi Trio - The night it rained forever
• 37:40    experiments in silence - as gentle rain falls
• 47:56    Ryuichi Sakamoto - After the Rain
• 48:43   end

Ambient Decades: 1980s

This is mix #2 in the Ambient Decades series. As the titles says, this mix focuses on ambient music in the 1980s.

There were some great ambient albums in the 80s, albums that go down as some of the best ambient of all time.  That would be Brian Eno - On Land, Steve Roach - Structures from Silence and Brian Eno & Harold Budd - The Pearl. Beyond those 3 there are more great 80s recordings from Roach & Eno and other classics & worthwhile music.

I was definitely happy to include a cut from Gone to Earth by David Sylvian, one of my favorite albums of all time.  It's such a great recording and at the time it blew my mind.

Next up - the 90s.

Cheers!

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T R A C K L I S T :

• 00:00    Steve Roach - Structures from Silence(1984)
• 10:40    Brian Eno - Lantern Marsh(1982)
• 15:20    David Sylvian - The Wooden Cross(1986)
• 19:20    Michael Brook - Midday(1985)
• 24:30    Michael Stearns - As The Earth Kissed The Moon(1981)
• 31:00    Vangelis - Empty Streets(1982)
• 36:00    Thom Brennan - Moosoon(1987)
• 44:10    Steve Roach - A Circular Ceremony(1988)
• 51:58    Brian Eno & Harold Budd - An Echo of Night(1984)
• 54:00    Jeff Greinke - Island Arc(1986)
• 56:50    Harold Budd - Sandtreader(1986)
• 61:45    David Sylvian & Holger Czukay - Mutability(1989)
• 72:45    U2 - 4th of July(1984)
• 74:33    Peter Gabriel - Slow Water(1985)
• 77:08    end

Perfect Perseid Playlist

 

This mix is a couple of weeks late. It is a soundtrack for meteor watching, specifically the annual August Perseid meteor shower.  I uploaded it to Mixcloud on Aug. 12th but totally forgot to make it available here as well.  That has now been corrected. 

I've been wanting to use a track from Robert Scott Thompson's album "Pale Blue Dot" and a stargazing mix was the perfect opportunity with Skyway being a great opener for this collection.  I was also happy to include an old favorite - Thom Brennan.  I've always been a big fan of his music and much of it is perfect for star/space themed mixes.

Enjoy

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T R A C K L I S T :

• 00:00    Robert Scott Thompson - Skyway
• 05:20    Forrest Fang - not forgotten
• 09:40    36 - Miserere
• 15:05    Aglaia - after midnight
• 21:40    Markus Guentner - baryon
• 26:50    Diatonis - one starry starry starry night
• 31:36    Underworld - simple peal
• 35:15    Thom Brennan - the fog unveils
• 41:00    Arovane - Nostalghia I
• 56:20    Tau Ceti - Cydonia Plains
• 62:15    Jeffrey Koepper - Distant Light
• 73:20    Robert Scott Thompson - Shimmer Upon The Mirror Pond
• 78:14    Brian Eno - Stars
• 85:05    Sonmi451 - Rigel
• 93:33    David Wenngren & Christopher Bissonnette - Burn Like a Meteor and Leave No Dust
• 1:43:37    end

Ambient Decades: 1970s

This is the first in a series of mixes featuring ambient music from each of the past 4 1/2 decades.

Ambient music came to it's full expression during the 1970s with Eno's Discreet Music & Music for Airports. This mix explores those albums and other electronic gems. This mix/list is by no means definitive. It's music from my collection that is a representation of the emergence of ambient in the 1970s.

As I was sorting through tracks for the mix I realized that I'm definitely going to have to make a mix of 70s berlin school & kraut music electronic tunes. That way I can use Jean Michel Jarre, Can, Holgar Czukay and more rhythmic Tangerine Dream & Klaus Schulze.

Cheers!

 
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T R A C K L I S T :

• 00:00    Michael Hoenig - Voices of Where(1978)
• 04:20    Harmonia - By the Riverside(1976)
• 07:15    Klaus Schulze - Wahnfried 1883(1975)
• 12:50    Wendy Carlos - Fall(1972)
• 18:00    Gavin Bryars - The Sinking of the Titanic(1975)
• 23:25    Tangerine Dream - Sequent C(1974)
• 25:00    Brian Eno - Discreet Music(1975)
• 33:33    Kraftwerk - Heimatklänge(1973)
• 36:45    Tonto's Expanding Head Band - Tama(1971)
• 41:37    Cluster - In Ewigkeit(1976)
• 48:30    Ashra - Deep Distance(1976)
• 53:30    Steve Hillage - Garden of Paradise(1979)
• 62:25    Tangerine Dream - Rubycon(1975)
• 65:50    Klaus Schulze - Some Velvet Phasing(1974)
• 71:50    Brian Eno - Two Rapid Formations(1978)
• 74:36    Brian Eno - Music for Airports 1/1(1978)
• 91:09    end