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

Deep Sky Time - music for stargazing 2013

I know this is not the best time of year for sitting out side and stargazing.  At least not here in Wisconsin.  But I haven't done a stargazing mix in a long time so i thought I'd throw this out there.

The piece that got me started on this mix isn't an actual song.  It's NASA's Voyager spacecraft recording the sound of interstellar space.  Voyager's plasma wave instrument detected the vibrations of dense interstellar plasma, or ionized gas, from October to November 2012 and April to May 2013.  You can find the recording here... Voyager. 

I couldn't resist using that sound as a launch pad for this mix.  The rest is pretty straight forward ambient/space music.  For some strange reason I felt compelled to make this mix nearly 2 hours long.  If you want to lay outside for two hours & gaze at the night sky in the middle of December, better bring some scotch & an electric blanket. ;)

Enjoy.


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T R A C K L I S T : 

• 00:00    NASA Voyager recording of interstellar space
• 00:40    Loscil - Second Narrows Specta Ciera Version
• 03:30    Ishq - Globular Cluster
• 07:30    Harmony & Decay - Hypnotic Sequence
• 12:40    Eluder - The Event Horizon
• 14:50    Marsen Jules - A Room Full of History
• 19:15    Marconi Union - Always Numb
• 23:40    Porzellan - Floating Reception
• 24:30    Sonmi451 - Omicron Ceti
• 29:30    Loscil - ss1.2 unit circle
• 32:50    Wouter Veldhuis - Blue Forest I
• 36:00    Variant - Thru the Cosmos(ison + spica)
• 43:33    Brian Eno - Surf Birds
• 46:10    Mark Rownd - Place of Grace
• 52:20    Kissy Suzuki - rubbish & Beauties part 1
• 56:30    Altus - Floating Free
• 1:00:40    Diatonis - Whiring Above Our Heads
• 1:04:15    A Produce - Inner Sanctum
• 1:12:00    Aglaia - Dust Across the Border
• 1:15:30    Christopher Short - Unknown Constellation #2
• 1:22:30    Fripp & Eno - Meissa
• 1:29:10    Ithaca Trio - Catching Monkeys
• 1:34:00    Steve Roach - Deep Sky Time
• 1:41:10    Sylken - Sleepless
• 1:50:10    Deepchord - Driftwood
• 1:51:10    Vidna Obmana - Night Blooming
• 1:57:49    end 

Deep Sky Time - music for stargazing 2013 by Low Light Mixes on Mixcloud

starry starry night

"I, the fiery life of divine essence, am aflame beyond the beauty of the meadows, I gleam in the waters, and I burn in the sun, moon and stars."

               - Hildegard von Bingen

Electronic & ambient music seems perfectly suited for stargazing.  So you really could use just about any ambient mix for night sky viewing and it will work just fine.  But sometimes it's nice to do a mix specifically geared towards astronomical awe.

It's always interesting to see how the song titles match the theme of the mix.  Sometimes I pick tunes precisely because the titles match but most of the time it's accidental.  In this mix we have titles like "Alpha Centauri", "Polaris", "After Midnight", "One Starry Starry Night" and "Encounter in an unexplored nebula."

As usual the music is a mix of old & new, with most tunes being from the last couple years.  I was happy to sneak in an old track from Jean-Michel Jarre.  Different from his normal berlin-school stuff, this one is a nice long ambient cut from 1990.

As with a lot of stargazing mixes, this one works well as a sleep mix too.  I can testify to it's effectiveness.

On a side note...thanks to anyone who voted for Low Light Mixes in the Mixcloud best of 2011 poll.  We came in 78th.  Doesn't sound like much but considering they have thousands of "cloudcasters", coming 78th was great.  Thanks for all your support last year & over the last 6 years.

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T R A C K L I S T :

• 00:00    Lunar Testing Lab - Paaliaq (I, Absentee)
• 01:35    Sonmi451 - Alpha Centauri (Time Released Sound)
• 04:40    Digitonal - Polaris (Leaves)
• 07:20    Diatonis - One Starry Starry Night (Diatonis)
• 12:15    The Winterhouse - Clearing (DataObscura)
• 18:00    Frederico Durand - El Mundo Secreto De La Montana (Spekk)
• 21:30    A Produce & Loren Nerell - Intangible (Hypnos)
• 28:20    Maps & Diagrams - The Infinite Delay (Handstitched Recordings)
• 30:45    Thom Brennan - Pulse
• 31:55    Aglaia - After Midnight (Hic Sunt Leones)
• 37:30    Sonmi451 - Blue (U cover)
• 43:05    Biosphere - Warmed by the Drift (Touch)
• 48:20    Jean Michel Jarre - En Attendant Cousteau (Disques Dreyfus)
• 55:10    The Civilized Electrons - Encounter, In an Unexplored Nebula (Databloem)

Starry starry night by Lowlight on Mixcloud