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
    

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