I fell asleep at my desk while making this mix

I listen to ambient music every night when I go to bed. I usually browse my recent acquisitions to find something for sleep music. There are a few recordings which get used more than others.

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 :

• 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