Rhythm of the Rails

This mix is a sort of follow up to the train mix of a couple of months ago.  I had a song or two that I hadn't used and then I stumbled upon the album "Simultonality" by Joshua Abrams & Natural Information Society. The track, Sideways Fall, has this great repetitive train-like feel to it.  I knew immediately that I needed to make another train mix to fit with that tune.

That Joshua Abrams track is more jazz than ambient so I decided to keep that vibe throughout the mix. A few cuts, Steve Reich, Dan Deacon & Fieldhead, wander off the jazz track a bit but they keep the sense of forward motion.

The three 2017 releases in this mix are a few of my favorite discoveries this year.  Check them out.

Joshua Abrams & Natural Information Society - Simultonality
Daniel Brandt - Eternal Something
Quatuor Ebene & Michel Portal - Eternal Stories


Cheers!


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T R A C K L I S T :

• 00:00    Chris Watson - Veracruz(El Tren Fantasma 2011)
• 00:35    Joshua Abrams & Natural Information Society - Sideways Fall(Simultonality 2017)
• 08:00    Daniel Brandt - FSG(Eternal Something 2017)
• 11:30    The Winter Consort - The Little Train of Caipira(The Winter Consort 1968)
• 13:54    Ludovico Einaudi - Elements(Elements 2015)
• 19:35    Steve Reich - Different Trains-America Before the War(Works 1997)
• 25:30    Chris Watson - El Divisadero(El Tren Fantasma 2011)
• 27:35    Daniel Brandt - Kale Me(Eternal Something 2017)
• 32:35    Quatuor Ebene & Michel Portal - City Birds(Eternal Stories 2017)
• 38:25    Fieldhead - This Train is a Rainbow(They Shook Hands For Hours 2009)
• 41:42    Gerry Mulligan - K4 Pacific(The Age Of Steam 1971)
• 46:45    Alexandre Desplat - Night Train to Nebelsbad(Grand Budapest Hotel 2014)
• 48:25    Dan Deacon - USA Suite(America 2012)
• 58:23    end

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

Points of Departure

http://bloknayrb.deviantart.com/

a beginning

an expedition is launched

springs into being

the journey begins

This is a follow up to an earlier mix Leaving the Station, which had a train theme.  I had several people ask if I was planning on a follow up and, well, here it is.

My favorite track in this mix is El Divisadero by Chris Watson from his wonderful field recording album, El Tren Fantasma.  I've used this track before but it's so awesome I just had to use it here.

Another track in this mix that I've used before is Dialing in the Sun by Paul Ellis.  It's an excellent berlin school cut that has this great clicky-clack sound that works perfectly here.

The rest of the mix is a collection of old(Richard Pinhas) and new(Andy Stott) cuts.

On a side note, I don't know if anyone has noticed but embedded in each mp3 for download is the mix tracklist.  So if you're playing it on your phone or on some pc players, you should be able to see the tracklist when the mix is playing.

Other mixes coming soon, or maybe I should say sometime this year, a sort of jazz mix, a new age massage mix, a sci fi mix, a dubby mix, a space rock mix, guest mixes and many more I haven't even thought of yet.

Enjoy


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T R A C K L I S T :

• 00:00    Edinburgh - City Streets and Train Station
• 00:40    The Elf Machine - Asymmetric Transition
• 03:27    Arovane - Passage to Nagoya
• 05:15    Locust - I'll Be There
• 08:57    Forrest Fang - Bothered
• 12:27    Paul Ellis - Dialing in the Sun
• 17:45    Chris Watson - El Divisadero
• 22:00    Circular - Synchronus
• 29:00    The Black Dog - Exhibit 1.1
• 33:20    Function and Vatican Shadow - Things Unknown
• 40:20    Dub Tractor - More or Less Mono
• 44:08    The Field - Arpeggiated Love
• 48:55    Richard Pinhas - Melodic Simple Transition
• 52:15    Andy Stott - Science and Industry
• 57:57    Torn Hawk - She Happens
• 1:02:55    Ten and Tracer - Figure and Ground
• 1:06:05    Deepchord - Day's End
• 1:08:11    end

Points of Departure by Low Light Mixes on Mixcloud