Wednesday, October 26, 2011

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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6 comments:

  1. Played this today when I was running errands and doing other menial tasks. It made everything super ominous. Great mix. As usual I will be playing it throughout the coming weeks and checking out some of the artists back catalogs. Thanks for putting it together Dave.

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  2. Josh,

    Thanks so much for the idea! I had fun doing this mix & definitely needed something different & this fit perfectly.

    Thanks again!

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  3. i dont know were to start, but i have listened to this remix maybe 50 times, first I didn´t get it, but I keept on coming back to it, at airport terminals waiting, on the plane, studying, driving in my car at dusk, and it sets a perfect mindset. so thank you!

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  4. Wow, I'm so glad you're digging this mix! Because it was a Halloween mix I kind of forgot about it too quickly. But now, thanks to your reminder, I'm going to give it another listen.

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  6. I'm in the middle of writing a ghost story, and this is just what I've been looking for. I came to your site from looking up dub on Mixcloud. So much good stuff, thanks,

    Simon.

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