Shadowland

Josh, from Nocturne Records,  requested a Halloween mix.  

At first I was reluctant because I'm not a big fan of dark ambient.  I've never really cared for Lustmord records, although I do have "The Place Where Black Stars Hang."  While I do have a fair amount of drone music, I don't like dissonant drones.

When I set out to do this mix I wasn't sure what direction it would take.  Would it be noisy, scary ambient drones?  As I was looking through my music I came across "The Twin Peaks Archive" by David Lynch & Angelo Badalamenti.  I thought, now there is some dark-ish music that would be cool to use in a Halloween mix.

Three Twins Peaks tunes made it into the final mix & helped establish a sort of film noir feel.  There are definite dissonant moments but hopefully the mix is more creepy & shadowy rather than outright scary & annoying.

It was fun putting this together and I'm looking forward to making this an annual ritual.

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T R A C K L I S T :

• 00:00    Bass Communion - Ghosts on Magnetic Tape IV
• 04:30    Felicia Atkinson - Half-Blonde
• 06:10    David Lynch & Angelo Badalamenti - Mysterioso 2
• 09:30    Ricardo Villalobos and Max Loderbauer - rethikhiy
• 14:20    The Caretaker - Friends Past Reunited
• 16:00    Grouper - Soul Eraser
• 21:45    Je Suis Le Petit Chevalier - Maine Jungle
• 23:05    DJ Signify - The Sickness
• 24:20    Julien Neto - V(Rivers)
• 28:45    Deaf Center - Hunted Twice
• 32:05    David Lynch & Angelo Badalamenti - Dark Mood Woods
• 36:00    Deaf Center - New Beginning
• 38:45    Aidan Baker - complex iconographical symbology
• 44:25    The Caretaker - Dream Waltz
• 47:05    David Lynch & Angelo Badalamenti - Mysterioso 2 (film version)
• 49:35    Bohren & Der Club Of Gore - Maximum Black
• 54:15    Earth - Dry Lake
• 57:00    Clint Mansell - Death is a Disease
• 59:27    end

Shadowland by Lowlight on Mixcloud

AUTUMN IN SLOW MOTION

It hasn't felt much like autumn around here, with temps in the 70's & 80's the last week or two.  But the leaves are still falling and before you know it we'll have snow flying.  

So I figured now is as good a time as any to publish this new mix, "Autumn in Slow Motion."  This is a fairly straight forward mix with a nice blend of old & new tracks.  As you can tell all the tracks have the word "autumn" or " leaves" in the title.  I'm pretty sure I've used the track by Eluder, "Autmun Hips", before but I just had to include it again because it's absolutely beautiful.

Normally I don't use my own pics for these posts, but the last two have been Low Light originals.  This one was taken last fall on a photo hike through a nature park in my neighborhood.  If you shoot a ton of pix one or two are bound to turn out.

Enjoy.

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T R A C K L I S T :

• 00:00    wind
• 00:30    Shuttle358 - Dead Leaves
• 04:50    Eluder - Autumn Hips
• 10:10    Need More Sources - Autumn
• 13:15    A Broken Consort - Leaves
• 15:28    Shinichi Hirota - Autumn Loop Rain
• 18:40    The Green Kingdom - Autumn Toadlick
• 23:55    Peter James & Disturbed Earth - Autumnal Nights
• 31:45    Brian Eno - Dunwich Beach, Autumn 1960
• 37:45    Philip Sulidea - Autumn in Town
• 40:40    Spheruleus - Autumn
• 45:45    Jasper, TX - Through Dusk & Falling Leaves(Steinbruchel remix)
• 50:40    Aaron Martin - The Shape of Leaves
• 52:00    Tape Loop Orchestra - A Late Autumn
• 54:35    D RRadio - Leaves
• 58:22    end

Autumn in slow motion by Lowlight on Mixcloud