Two recent releases by Steve Roach get regular airtime here at Low Light Mixes. Last year's "A Deeper Silence" and this year's "Dynamic Stillness".
There was a time when I played Deeper Silence in the background all around the house everyday for a week. It created this strange feeling like I was on a spaceship. Mostly this 73 minute-long tune gets used for sleep music. The same goes for "Slowly Revealed" off of "Dynamic Stillness". I have fallen asleep to this track many times.
Another nighttime favorite...the "Beautiful Land of Nod" mixes from Mr. Asphalt Eden(aka - Brian Bieniowski). I played these two mixes quite a bit when I first downloaded them & still return to them often. I remember Brian saying he liked sleep music that seemed to rise & fall like breathing. It was that idea that inspired a mix that I did called "breathing music". I use this mix fairly often for drifting off to sleep.
This brings us to the new mix. I wanted to do a new sleep mix so I could incorporate the Steve Roach cuts. So I dumped some tracks to a portable hard drive, brought it to work & starting mixing in between "real work". I had 4 or 5 tracks laid down & I was listening to one of the transitions & literally fell asleep at my desk, hence the title of the mix. A lot of the tracks sound very much like each other which I guess is good in this case because one track stretches into another, in a long, trance inducing, ambient lullaby. At 90 minutes, the mix is longer than most, but I thought the length worked a bit better for sleeping.
Sweet dreams...
download : (129mb, 90 min.)
I fell asleep at my desk making this mix
T R A C K L I S T :
Sweet dreams...
download : (129mb, 90 min.)
I fell asleep at my desk making this mix
T R A C K L I S T :
- 00:00 St. Kilda - You are in every dream
- 03:30 Steve Roach - Slowly Revealed
- 12:20 Scott Solter - Cypress Road
- 16:00 Stars of the Lid - The Kraut
- 23:30 Ashera - Fellini's Cat
- 28:30 William Basinski - 92982.1
- 33:20 Ten and Tracer - Falling asleep in sadness
- 36:40 Irezumi - Endurance
- 42:50 Jasper, TX - This Barren Land
- 47:30 Hammock - 3 sisters
- 51:15 Manual - Last Light
- 56:40 James Johnson - In then Out
- 1:06:00 Brian Eno - Discreet Music
- 1:15:00 Steve Roach - A Deeper Silence
- 1:30:00 end