Dystopian Dream

 

I'm not sure how this mix started. It was probably just a case of me stumbling across a tune that made me think of a dystopian sci-fi movie and from there I collected tracks over a few years. From what I can tell, I started gathering songs 6 years ago. 

I wasn't sure what the mix would sound like when I started laying down the tracks. As it began to take shape I realized it kind of sounded like one of my Blade Runner mixes. It definitely has some of that vibe but I think it's different enough to be it's own thing. I'm very happy with how this one turned out especially considering I didn't have much a plan at the beginning.

LINKS TO THE MUSIC USED IN THIS MIX:

https://juneunit.bandcamp.com/album/s-t

https://pyecorneraudio.bandcamp.com/album/black-mill-tapes-10th-anniversary-box

https://riechmann.bandcamp.com/album/wunderbar

https://affin.bandcamp.com/album/saw

https://anthologyrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/unusual-sounds

https://northernelectronics.bandcamp.com/album/winter-ashes

https://cryochamber.bandcamp.com/album/void-rituals

https://anaroxanne.bandcamp.com/album/because-of-a-flower-2

https://abulmogardecstatic.bandcamp.com/album/kimberlin-original-soundtrack

https://isaacsymonds.bandcamp.com/album/natura-sophia-lp

https://timhecker.bandcamp.com/album/shards

https://noton.info/product/n-061/

https://gazelletwin.bandcamp.com/album/welcome-to-the-blumhouse-nocturne-amazon-original-soundtrack-2

https://vactrolpark.bandcamp.com/album/music-from-the-luminous-void

https://cortini.bandcamp.com/album/memorie-i

https://arovane.bandcamp.com/album/gestalt

Cheers!

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T R A C K L I S T :

• 00:00   juneunit - lude (juneunit 2019)
• 04:35   Pye Corner Audio - Theme Number Five (Black Mill Tapes Vol. 5: The Lost 2020)
• 08:10   Riechmann - Traumzeit (Wunderbar 1978)
• 09:23   Absis - Floating In The Soul (Saw 2023)
• 15:01   Klaus Weiss - Survivor (Unusual Sound 2018)
• 17:42   Anthony Linell - The Norns of Fate (Winter Ashes 2021)
• 19:18   Ruptured World - Prophecies of the Vision Zero (Void Rituals 2024)
• 23:05   Ana Roxanne - A Study in Vastness (Because of a Flower 2020)
• 29:10   Abul Mogard - I Watched The Sea The Fields The Sky (Kimberlin 2019)
• 32:12   Isaac Symonds, Yaehsun - Natura Sophia (Natura Sophia 2021)
• 35:45   Tim Hecker - Joyride Alternate (Shards 2025)
• 39:39   Alva Noto - HYbr ID Ectopia Elastic 2 (HYbr:ID II 2023)
• 45:50   Gazelle Twin - Golden Light (Welcome to the Blumhouse - Nocturne: Original Soundtrack)
• 48:20   Vactrol Park - Glove (Music from the Luminous Void 2018)
• 54:00   Alessandro Cortini - Come Prima (Memorie I 2020)
• 60:36   arovane - evvr (gestalt 2020)
• 62:18   end

A Thousand Dreams by Roquen Lómë

 

I've said many times here that one reason I like hosting guest mixes is because they bring a diversity of styles and choices different from my regular offerings. This latest set from Roquen Lómë accomplishes that beautifully. This mix is lush and gorgeous in a way many of my mixes are not. Playing this mix is like a breath of fresh air.

Roquen Lómë says:

"My last mix was so long in the making that it became sort of a trip to the past. So for this musical journey I wanted to stay as present as possible. But then again, music is timeless, and so are dreams. The *thousand* theme arose naturally while selecting the tracks aiming for more ambient and less vocal vibe. No lyrics this time - only dreamscapes."

Thanks for this lovely mix!

LINKS TO ALL THE MUSIC USED IN THIS MIX:

Aret Madilian

Seabuckthorn

Drombeg & Zenjungle

Mary Lattimore & Julianna Barwick

Pan American

Arash Sanee

Elori Saxl & Henry Solomon

Glacis & Adrian Lane

Park Jiha

Christian Löffler

Aukai

Thme

Hammock

Sophie Hutchings

Poppy Ackroyd

Øystein Skar

Cheers!

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T R A C K L I S T :

• 00:00 Aret Madilian - Sirius (The Abbey Project 2022)
• 03:45 Seabuckthorn - Shadow Of The Land (A Path Within A Path 2025)
• 06:40 Drombeg & Zenjungle - A Thousand Nights (Earthworks 2016)
• 12:54 Mary Lattimore & Julianna Barwick - Perpetual Adoration (Tragic Magic 2026)
• 18:10 Pan American - Silver Plane, Now  Boarding (Fly the Ocean in a Silver Plane 2026)
• 21:29 Arash Sanee - Inside (Inside 2022)
• 25:34 Elori Saxl & Henry Solomon - A Thousand Steps (Seeing Is Forgetting 2026)
• 29:40 Glacis & Adrian Lane - Beneath The Waves Many Times Over (We Linger Where We Fell 2026)
• 32:50 Park Jiha - Blown Leaves (All Living Things 2025)
• 37:40 Christian Löffler - Pastoral (Parallels 2021)
• 41:10 Aukai - Vulture (Chambers 2026)
• 44:20 Thme - A Thousand Thrills (Sleeplaboratory3.0 2022)
• 48:35 Hammock - Requiem For Johan (Nevertheless 2025)
• 52:40 Sophie Hutchings - Sleeping Giant (Become the Sky 2025)
• 55:18 Poppy Ackroyd - For Those Who Wait (Liminal 2026)
• 61:10 Øystein Skar - Stok (Hem 2025)
• 65:22 end

Slow Sequences

 

This mix is pretty straightforward - it's a collection of Berlin-school style tracks where the arpeggio is relatively slow. I don't know what the actual BPMs are but these tracks are not the driving sequences usually associated with Berlin-school music. They unfold at a more languid, chill pace.

I was very happy to be able to include the track "Wenn der Südwind weht" by Roedelius in this mix as it's one of my favorite electronic tracks of all time. 

LINKS TO ALL THE MSUIC USED IN THIS MIX:

https://arstraumur.bandcamp.com/album/deep-space-travellers

https://phelios.bandcamp.com/album/dawn-of-time

https://open.spotify.com/album/1LkfDTSn7UnbYXA4yFVPPN?si=wkk9zxYNS3-BzQuQbld_lg

https://roedelius-official.bandcamp.com/album/wenn-der-s-dwind-weht

https://domeniquedumont.bandcamp.com/album/people-on-sunday

https://balmat.bandcamp.com/album/psychic-geography

https://lornadune.bandcamp.com/album/sequential-dreaming

https://2fel.bandcamp.com/album/stranger-flow

https://ultimae.bandcamp.com/album/onwards-system

https://grauglanz.bandcamp.com/album/hasardeur

https://abstrakce.bandcamp.com/album/una-teor-a-del-ritmo

https://rudyadrianongroove.bandcamp.com/album/concerts-in-the-usa

https://jonhopkins.bandcamp.com/album/ritual

Cheers!

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T R A C K L I S T :

• 00:00   Árstraumur - Europa Clipper (Deep Space Travellers 2024)
• 05:15   Martin Stürtzer - Radiance (Dawn of Time 2024)
• 10:15   ObukhovAUDIO - Soft Landing on Nowhere (Kosmische Musik 2025)
• 16:00   Roedelius - Wenn der Südwind weht (Wenn der Südwind Weht 1981)
• 19:57   Domenique Dumont - Rituals (People on Sunday 2020)
• 22:43   DoVs - Psychic Geography (Psychic Geography 2025)
• 26:40   Lorna Dune - Arising (Sequential Dreaming 2025)
• 30:03   2fel - revisited (stranger flow 2024)
• 36:36   CELL - Fugitive Perpetuity (Onwards System 2022)
• 41:24   Grauglanz - schmelzwasser (hasardeur 2026)
• 49:33   Mecánica Clásica - Agógica (Una Teoría Del Ritmo 2026)
• 53:00   Rudy Adrian - Turquoise(Dunedin, New Zealand) (Concerts In The USA 2003)
• 57:10   Jon Hopkins & Vylana - part ii - palace / illusion (RITUAL 2024)
• 64:20   end

Painting the Sky - Music for the Perseid Meteor Shower 2026

The annual Perseid Meteor shower is a great excuse to create a mix of spacey ambient music that is perfect for stargazing. The best viewing nights will be August 12 & 13. I believe there will be a new moon this year so we should have nice, dark skies for viewing.

I've done several of these in the past which you can find here:

https://www.mixcloud.com/lowlight/music-for-the-perseid-meteor-shower/

https://www.mixcloud.com/lowlight/perfect-perseid-playlist/

https://www.mixcloud.com/lowlight/soundtrack-for-perseid-meteor-shower-2025/

This mix is almost all music from 2026, with the opening track from 2025. You can find all that music at these links:

https://hiraeth-records.bandcamp.com/album/blueberries-on-mars

https://tonepoet.bandcamp.com/album/the-cloud-diaries

https://homenormal.bandcamp.com/album/la-paura-del-vuoto

https://coldtearrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-sound-of-nature-3

https://zakedrone.bandcamp.com/album/microliths-and-momentary-drifts

https://whitelabrecs.bandcamp.com/album/solitarium

https://slowcraft.bandcamp.com/album/solitude-and-silence

https://stateazure.bandcamp.com/album/loom-2

https://phelios.bandcamp.com/album/starfields

https://circ.bandcamp.com/album/rite

https://thelonelybell.bandcamp.com/album/time-lost

Get out there and watch some stuff burn up in the atmosphere. ☄️🔥

Cheers!

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T R A C K L I S T :

• 00:00   猫 シ Corp. - Stargazing (Blueberries on Mars 2025)
• 03:50   Tonepoet - Drifting Along the Starlit Canvas (The Cloud Diaries 2026)
• 12:05   Far Away Nebraska - Liberi di sognare (La paura del vuoto 2026)
• 18:10   Brickman - Living in the Dark (The Sound of Nature 3 2026)
• 23:00   zake, Ossa, ASC - Microlith 7 (Microliths and Momentary Drifts 2026)
• 25:15   Toàn - DEL 4 (Solitarium 2026)
• 31:15   James Murray - Contemplation (Solitude and Silence 2026)
• 33:06   State Azure - The Small Hours (Loom 2026)
• 35:55   Martin Stürtzer - Macrocosm (Starfields 2026)
• 46:15   anthéne & Far away Nebraska - land into sky (great plains 2026)
• 52:36   CIRC - Quiet Light (Rite 2026)
• 57:33   The Lonely Bell - Elsewhere (Time Lost 2026)
• 62:47   end

Ambient Summer by Daniel Hawkins

 

The summer of guest mixes continues with an awesome set from friend of the show, Daniel Hawkins. He has created several mixes for us in the past and you can find them here:

https://www.mixcloud.com/lowlight/amiably-ambient-by-daniel-hawkins/

https://www.mixcloud.com/lowlight/the-silence-between-by-daniel-hawkins/

https://www.mixcloud.com/lowlight/wabi-sabi-by-daniel-hawkins/

https://www.mixcloud.com/lowlight/dark-woods-by-daniel-hawkins/

https://www.mixcloud.com/lowlight/metallic-memories/

Daniel says the mix is pretty straightforward - "it's a mix to play on the long summer days - light and easy - no cosmic theme." Thanks Daniel, the vibe is perfect!

LINKS TO ALL THE MUSIC USED IN THIS MIX:

https://chronotopeproject.bandcamp.com/album/event-horizon

https://rocketempiremusic.bandcamp.com/album/rocket-empire

https://candlegravity.bandcamp.com/album/before-i-go

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0038BEUKE?lv=shuf&channelId=500&plpRedirect=mhFallback

https://jogginghouse.bandcamp.com/album/would

https://timereleasedsound.bandcamp.com/album/the-limbic-system

https://v-e-n-n.bandcamp.com/album/xiii

https://idra.bandcamp.com/album/resonant-bodies-anticipated-memories

https://massergy-spm.bandcamp.com/album/fire-opal

Cheers!  

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T R A C K L I S T :

• 00:00   Chronotope Project - Automatic Writing (Event Horizon 2013)
• 06:45   Rocket Empire - Montezuma's Revenge (Rocket Empire 2010)
• 11:14   Candlegravity - Snow Monkeys (Before I Go 2013)
• 15:56   Zheleznyak - Silent Field (Attenuated In Ambient 2015)
• 26:55   Jogging House - Suns (Would 2018)
• 33:50   Sonmi451 - Cingulate Gyrus (The Limbic System 2015)
• 40:23   v e n n, E J R M - Disappearing Act, Pt. 1 (VIII 2024)
• 43:40   IDRA - Remembering Me (Resonant Bodies, Anticipated Memories 2024)
• 47:50   Massergy - La Extraña (Fire Opal 2019)
• 57:03   end

Wandering Realms by Seabuckthorn

I have been a fan of Seabuckthorn for a long time. I think I have around a dozen or so releases. So when Andy Cartwright, who records as Seabuckthorn, offered to create a guest mix I was psyched. Andy did an excellent guest mix for LLM back in November of 2022 which you can find here - https://lowlightmixes.blogspot.com/2022/11/seabuckthorn-transcendental-freq.html or here - https://www.mixcloud.com/lowlight/seabuckthorn-transcendental-freq/

There is a new Seabuckthorn album out in the world - https://seabuckthorn.bandcamp.com/album/never-the-same-river 

So it's a perfect time for a mix to highlight some of the music that influenced the new album. Andy said this about the mix:

"It has a kind of ritual/ceremonial/psych folk vibe to it, which was the feel I was going for in my latest album."

I highly recommend checking out the new album and of course listening to this very cool mix. Also I think it's kind of hilarious that we followed a 4-hour mix with a 36-minute mix. Haha!

Cheers!

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T R A C K L I S T :

• Gnäw - Waters of Ether
• Old Saw - The Flood Spires
• Heinali & Andriana-Yaroslava Saienko - Zelenaia Dubrovonka
• ZAÄAR - Eucaryotes Et Reproduction Sexuée
• Hermanos Gutierrez - Low Sun
• Lino Capra Vaccina - Andante ancestrale 
• Richter band - Zaklepat
• David Shea - Falling rice on the GuZheng
• The Myrrors - Invitation Mantra
• Hvad - Notice a tiny scratch for the blue behind
• Dictaphone - Lofi Opium
• Claire Deak - Prefigured (Ritornello)
• Jessica Moss - One, Now
• Sanam - Rings رينغز

Summer Of Resonance by Faru

 

Most mixes posted here are around one hour in length. There needs to be a good reason to go well beyond that time. Well, this guest mix is a good reason to go long. This set comes to us from Faru - https://faru.bandcamp.com/music He has done a bunch of mixes over the years including for the Deep Breakfast series & Silent Season's Campfire Stories. You can find those mixes here - https://soundcloud.com/faruambient/sets/my-mixes

Here's what he says about this 4-hour set:

"The sun comes through the leaves in pieces, slow shifting fragments that move across your skin like something deliberate. The air smells of warm grass and blooming, that specific fullness when everything is happening at once.

Pollen drifts through the light, weightless, golden, the leaves quietly dancing.

Birds in the canopy. Voices not close enough to make out, just the shape of people being easy with each other, flowing past like part of the same current.

The specific gravity and warm energy of another being, close.

Three hours passing, or maybe more. Your breathing has slowed to match something you can't name but can feel.

You are not waiting for anything. Just here, inside this particular moment. Which turns out to be everything."

Faru said he likes a 4-hour mix because he wants the music to start being the environment. This mix envelopes you and does become part of the surrounding space. Thanks for a great mix!

Cheers!

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T R A C K L I S T :

• Laraji - Meditation #1
• Loscil - Kamouraska
• Abul Mogard & Rafael Anton Irisarri - Waking Up Dizzy On A Bastion
• Multicast Dynamics - Circle One
• zakè, Ossa, ASC - Momentary Drift 3
• Flying Tulpa - Signless
• singing sorrows - hear the fields confess
• .Foundation - Empress
• Astrid Sonne - Everything is unreal
• Abul Mogard & Rafael Anton Irisarri - Place Of Forever
• Alva Noto - A Forest
• Faru - Two sources (unreleased)
• Anf - Mary Lynne
• Adam Wiltzie - Mexican Helium
• Adam Wiltzie - Dim Hopes
• Fergus Jones - A Leap
• Noodle Therapy - Animal Rain
• Adam Wiltzie - We Were Vaporised
• Fergus Jones - Heap
• .founcation - meteor hymn
• Clark - No Pills U
• DJ Healer - Run From
• Dylan Henner - A New Living Being Opens Its Eyes for the First Time
• Hotel Neon - A Possible Past
• Patagonia - Dragonfly Fountain
• shipwreck detective - reentry
• Roberto Musci - Nexus on the Beach
• Hotel Neon - Reticent
• .foundation - heralds
• Zake & Coppice Halifax - Selection
• shipwreck detective - subside
• The Detroit Escalator Company - Tai Chi And Traffic Lights
• Flying Tulpa - Forever Lost - 02 From Place to Place
• Rod Modell - Grotto Of The Sun - Part 2
• Toki Fuko - Spirit Medicine - Part One
• Faru - Her Frequency (unreleased)
• Matteo Scaoloi - Ponti
• Faru - Vortex Entry (The Velvet Protocol)
• The Detroit Escalator Company - The Inverted Man
• Faru - Veloric Suspension (The Velvet Protocol)

Under a Heat Dome

 

It's been hot as hell here lately thanks to what the meteorologists are calling a "heat dome." Add in some smoke drifting in from Canadian wildfires and it makes being outdoors no fun. I wondered about hot weather music and thought slightly twangy, acoustic and electric guitar fits the mood. There's just something about these tracks that feels right for an oppressively hot day.

I like this collection because it covers a wide range of years from 1984 to 2026, with stops in 1998, 2000, 2005, 2011, 2014, 2024, & 2025. I hope you enjoy the mix and stay cool.

Cheers!

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T R A C K L I S T :

• 00:00   Ry Cooder - No Safety Zone (Paris, Texas 1984)
• 01:33   Tommy Guerrero - Water In Your Hands (Perpetuum 2014)
• 04:52   Hermanos Gutierrez - Cielo Grande (El Bueno Y El Malo 2022)
• 07:38   Six Organs Of Admittance - Oak Path (Dust & Chimes 2000)
• 11:17   Dirty Three - Black Tide (Ocean Songs 1998)
• 15:40   Marisa Anderson - Pair of Duduk (The Anthology of UnAmerican Folk Music 2026)
• 20:10   Earth - Left in the Desert (Hex 2005)
• 21:03   Joe Harvey-Whyte & Geir Sundstøl - Tista lengter (Langeleik 2026)
• 23:53   Barry Walker Jr. - Under Leaf Hill (Paleo Sol 2026)
• 26:27   Steve Roach & Roger King - Gone West (Dust to Dust 1998)
• 30:20   Sam Wilkes, Craig Weinrib, and Dylan Day - Standing in the Doorway (Sam Wilkes, Craig Weinrib, and Dylan Day 2026)
• 35:53   Daniel Lanois - New Smoke (Purple Vista 2008)
• 38:07   Yo La Tengo - Leaving Home (Old Joy 2025)
• 43:30   Calexico - Dueto De Ivonne Y Tino (Road Atlas 2011)
• 45:02   33. Bruce Springsteen - A Prayer By The River(Instrumental) (Tracks II: The Lost Albums 2025)
• 46:46   Ry Cooder - Brothers (Paris, Texas 1984)
• 48:44   Luke Schneider - midafternoon classic (Across the Horizon Vol.1 2024)
• 51:20   Woody Jackson - It Should Have Happened a Long Time Ago (Cowboy Yoga 2024)
• 57:55   Earth - Mirage (Hex 2005)
• 59:24   end

Just My Type(records)

 

Recently I was messaging with LLM guest mixer, Roquen Lómë, about Type records - an experimental record label that was active from 2003 to 2013. Founded by John Twells & Stefan Lewandowski in the U.K., Type released some creative music in those ten years ranging from delicate piano to sculptured noise to glitchy electronica to ambient to psych folk.

I thought it would be fun to create a mix of music from Type records catalog - then I looked at that catalog and, wow they sure did release a ton of music. There's no way to make an exhaustive review of their releases so I decided to go chronologically through some of my favorites. That still only scratched the surface, I think I have more than 40 Type records in my collection. 

It was nice listening to some of the recordings for the first time in years and I hope you too enjoy this little trip into the past.

Cheers!

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T R A C K L I S T :

• 00:00   Mokira - Untitled #3 (Album 2003)
• 04:25   Deaf Center - Walk (Neon City 2004)
• 07:21   Golden - Door of Our Home (Corduroy Road 2005)
• 10:37   Julien Neto - I(one) (Le Fumeur de Ciel 2005)
• 13:35   North Sea & Rameses III - Night Blossom Written in Sanskrit (Night of the Ankou 2005)
• 19:19   Xela - Bobble Hats In Summer (For Frosty Mornings And Summer Nights 2007)
• 25:08   The Alps - Trem Fanstasma (iii 2008)
• 31:14   Richard Skelton - Grange (Marking Time 2008)
• 34:00   Koen Holtkamp - You Mean The World To Me (Field Rituals 2008)
• 36:20   Grouper - We've All Time To Sleep (Dragging a Dead Deer Up A Hill 2008)
• 39:12   Helios - Hope Valley Hill (Caesura 2008)
• 44:05   Black To Comm - Hotel Freund (Alphabet 1968 2009)
• 47:57   Jóhann Jóhannsson - Pods (And in the Endless Pause There Came the Sound of Bees 2009)
• 50:55   Ezekiel Honig - Drafting Foresight (Folding In On Itself 2011)
• 54:35   Sylvain Chauveau - The Unbroken Line (Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated) 2010)
• 57:41   end