Monday, December 25, 2006

First Snow - an ambient winter mix

Time for another winter mix.

Just like last year's mix, this playlist is filled with songs that have certain keywords in the title. So every tune will have one of these words...snow, winter, cold, frozen, ice, or freezing, in the title.

Most of the songs are either 2006 releases or new to me in 2006.

Enjoy and keep warm.

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First Snow

  • t r a c k l i s t i n g
  1. 00:00 - 04:20 Scott Solter - The Great Cold
  2. 04:20 - 09:15 Klimek - Snowfall 1
  3. 09:15 - 13:15 Greg Haines - Snow Airport
  4. 13:15 - 14:20 Corker & Conboy - Colder
  5. 14:20 - 17:20 Clint Mansell - First Snow
  6. 17:20 - 18:20 Library Tapes - It was a cold day in February...
  7. 18:20 - 20:15 Loren Connors - Falling Snow
  8. 20:15 - 24:40 Yellow 6 - (The First) Of Winter
  9. 24:40 - 30:00 Svalastog - Snow Tracer
  10. 30:00 - 35:20 Taylor Deupree - Snow Sand
  11. 35:20 - 39:00 Last Days - Snowing
  12. 39:00 - 42:30 Outputmessage - Snow
  13. 42:30 - 47:20 Trentemoller - While the cold winter waiting
  14. 47:20 - 49:20 Brian Eno - Cold
  15. 49:20 - 50:40 Freescha - Frozen Stiff
  16. 50:40 - 54:15 Hammock - Winter Light
  17. 54:15 - 56:45 Forrest Fang & Carl Weingarten - Freezing Days
  18. 56:45 - 00:10 Boc Scadet - Ice Shelves & Glaciers
  19. 00:10 - 05:20 Stuart Busby - Snow Fall

Friday, December 08, 2006

Best of 2006

Looking back on 2006, I guess it was another pretty good year for music. I like doing lists like this because it makes me resurrect cd's that I haven't listened to recently. Like the fabulous RF - Views of Distant Towns. I had almost forgotten that it came out in 2006.

I've noticed as the years have gone by, that my "best of" lists contain less and less ambient music. Now, a lot of the releases on this list have ambient qualities, but are not exactly ambient music per se. This year Scott Solter, Andrew Chalk & Forest Fang fill my traditional ambient quota in the list.

There was no way I could keep the list to a top ten. So here is my list, in no particular order, of the best of 2006(I reserve the right to add to it whenever I feel like it).
Please add your own lists in the comments section.

  1. Rf - Views of Distant Towns
  2. Christopher Willits - Surf Boundries
  3. Burial - st
  4. Scott Solter - One River
  5. Yellow 6 - The Beautiful Season has Past
  6. Triosk - The Headlight Serenade
  7. Forest Fang & Carl Weingarten - Invisibilty
  8. Helios - Eingya
  9. Andrew Chalk - Goldfall
  10. Clint Mansell & Mogwai - The Fountain Soundtrack
  11. The Necks - Chemist
  12. Svalastog - Woodwork
  13. Ceptual - Shifts Personal
  14. Halma - Back to Pascal
  15. Johann Johannsson - IBM 1401
  16. Loscil - Plume
  17. Marsen Jules - Les Fluers
  18. Ryan Teague - Coins & Crosses
  19. Loren Connors - Night Through, singles & collected works
  20. The Gentleman Losers - st
  21. Paul Simon - Surprise
  22. Joanna Newsom - Ys
  23. Sufjan Stevens - Avalanche
  24. Deaf Center - Levende
  25. Taylor Deupree - Northern
  26. North Sea & Rameses III - Night of the Ankou
  27. Adrian Klumpes - Be Still
  28. Phelan Sheppard - Harps Old Master
  29. Hammock - Raising Your Voice...
  30. Greg Haines - Slumber Tides
  31. Boxhead Ensemble - Nocturnes
  32. Green Kingdom - Lucky Bamboo