Wednesday, April 19, 2023

Current Ambient Obsessions

 

This mix is pretty straightforward - it's a collection of tracks from some of my favorite ambient albums, so far, of 2023. The first three tracks are probably my top three albums of the year so far and I expect them to be on my year-end list in December.

Links to all the music used in this mix:

There's not much else to say, just sit back and enjoy some excellent ambient music.

Cheers!


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T R A C K L I S T :

  • 00:00    Rod Modell & Taka Noda - Untitled 9 (Glow World 2023)
  • 07:03    Brendan Eder Ensemble - Ending(feat. Ethan Haman) (Therapy 2023)
  • 14:55    ARROWOUNDS - Tree of Disciples (In The Octopus Pond 2023)
  • 21:15    Robert Davies - Lakeside Reminiscence (Lakeside Haven 2023)
  • 27:50    Pan•American - Renzo (In Daylight Dub 2023)
  • 37:30    Harry Towell & Pruski - lacustyna (petrologist's lens 2023)
  • 42:30    Tim Hecker - Monotony II (No Highs 2023)
  • 44:44    Max Richter - Tranquility VII & VIII (SLEEP: Tranquility Base 2023)
  • 49:20    36 - Last Wake Dreamout (Dreamloops Suite 2023)
  • 60:00    end


1 comment:

The Interstellar Radio Station said...

Not sure if these are all ambient to the ear - the Modell/Noda, Eder, and Hecker leading lines are jazz. Consider the first two required little to no technology, something expected from ambient, else ambient would have existed long before the application of the technology of electricity to make music. And again, as mentioned in past remarks, a mix is supposed to sample its constituents, and is not the simple end to end concatenation of them (which may carry legal peril). A true to form "runaway track" here, 18 minutes from Dreamloops, is filler, as was intended by Huddleston from the outset having made all its peer tracks 18 minutes. Do fixed even minute mix durations now govern the art of mixing? THAT, if anything fulfills the title operative "Obsession". In summary, using a different "mix template" would yield better results.