minimal tendencies

On my list of the greatest recordings ever made you'll find the 1978 ECM records release of Steve Reich - Music for 18 Musicians. It blew me away when I heard it for the first time.  I've been a fan of minimal classical music ever since.

I have a ton of Steve Reich and Philip Glass music in my collection.  Recently I discovered a 2010 recording of Philip Glass music by the Delta Saxophone Quartet called Minimal Tendencies.  It's an excellent album and it got me thinking about a minimal mix.  So I stole the title of their album and started the mix with one of their tracks.

Enjoy



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T R A C K L I S T :

• 00:00    Delta Saxophone Quartet - Philip Glass Mishima I
• 03:50    Colin Stetson - Clothed in the skin of the dead
• 06:20    Pat Metheny - Steve Reich Electric Counterpoint 1 Fast
• 13:06    Philip Glass - Closing
• 18:52    Alexandre Desplat - Alan
• 21:39    Max Richter - Shadow Journal
• 26:50    Steve Reich - Six Marimbas
• 32:00    John Adams - The Death of Klinghoffer Chorus of Exiled Palestinians
• 37:55    Steve Reich - Music for 18 Musicians Pulses
• 43:20    John Luther Adams - The Farthest Place
• 50:11    Julia Rovinsky - Philip Glass Metamorphosis II
• 53:20    Clint Mansell - Ghosts of Things To Be
• 54:30    John Adams - Fog Tropes
• 57:15    Kronos Quartet - Glass String Quartet No. 2 Company IV
• 59:05    The Dublin Guitar Quartet - Philip Glass Mishima V
• 62:32    Steve Reich - Mallet Quartet II Slow
• 65:40    Evan Chapman - Philip Glass Opening
• 71:49    end

dubby & dreamy

My son the dubstep DJ(he had nothing to do with the mix, but the pic went with the music).

Ambient dub, minimal dub, ambi-dub, whatever you want to call it, is something that I listen to every now & then.  I like making mixes with this music because the tracks flow so well together.

I've done three previous dub mixes and while they are all laid back, this one may be more so.  It collects some dubby cuts & weaves in some noise & washes of field recordings from the fantastic ambi-dub recording, "DeepChord presents Echospace - Liumin."  The bonus cd for that album is all the field recordings that were the source material for the tracks on the other disc.

Not all the cuts are straight up dub tracks, but they do all fit together nicely.  Almost all the tracks are new with the exception of the krill.minima & Plastikman tunes.

Enjoy.

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T R A C K L I S T :

• 00:00    Andy Stott - Submission
• 01:10    Sven Schienhammer -  Sound Signals for Other Planets
• 04:15    Bop - My Heart in a Freezer
• 06:10    Demdike Stare - Matilda's Dream
• 09:50    Resoe - Edith's Serenade(r.i.p)
• 13:52    Overcast Sound - Devil's Mountain
• 14:25    Robag Wruhme - Brucke Eins
• 14:25    Deepchord - Untitled #1 (runs concurrently)
• 15:50    Vatican Shadow - missing hmm364 squadron purple foxes assassins
• 18:05    Moritz Von Oswald Trio - Pattern #4
• 20:35    Demdike Stare - Nothing But The Night 2
• 22:50    Marow - Iridescence
• 24:15    Coppice Halifax - Sunken Dancehall
• 29:35    Sven Schienhammer - Being Immersed in Another World
• 35:55    Deepchord - Untitled #7
• 36:40    krill.minima - Princess of the Undersea Gardens
• 40:35    Koss - Monday Conversations
• 42:55    Coppice Halifax - Luxury
• 47:50    Plastikman - cor ten
• 50:10    Sven Schienhammer - Back Into The Here & Now
• 54:30    krill.minima - sommerdellen
• 57:45    end 

 

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