Reflecting the Hybrid - by Chris Fraley, a member of the Hypnos Recordings Forums

This mix is a rare treat.  It's a guest mix from Chris Fraley.  I know Chris through correspondence and postings at the Hypnos Forum.  

I've been a member of the forum for a long time and I really enjoy the community there.  In this time of social networks and twitter it's nice to see that a classic forum still survives and thrives, mainly because of a shared love of ambient music.  Activity there ebbs and flows but there's always interesting topics and people hanging out.

As I said, I know Chris through the forum and as the two of us have similar tastes, I offered him the opportunity to do a mix for the blog.  He was hesitant at first because he'd never done something like this before.  But he decided to give it a shot and I'm very glad he did.

Chris said he "ended up making a mix based on some of the recent (2012 or later) neo-classical music that embodies the spirit of ambient and experimental acoustics."  The result is perfect.

I hope this is just the first of more guest mixes we may see from Chris.

Enjoy


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T R A C K L I S T:

• 00:00   Field Rotation - The Repetition of History
• 05:15   Ekca Liena and Spheruleus - Scrambling Radiosonde
• 09:11   From the Mouth of the Sun - Sitting in a Roofless Room
• 12:00   Orla Wren - Five Acre Ladder (Reprise)
• 15:20   Antonymes - Misshapen Beauty [ii]
• 20:40   The Seaman and the Tattered Sail - Her Whispers
• 26:15   Christoph Berg - Coda
• 30:14   end

Reflecting the Hybrid - by Chris Fraley, a member of the Hypnos Recordings Forums by Low Light Mixes on Mixcloud

a frozen world

It is freakin' cold here in Wisconsin right now.  It's going to be -20f below zero tonight and the high temp on Monday didn't get much above -10f.  Frigid temps like that call for a mix.

It's perfect timing for a freezing mix because a recent purchase was the album arctic conditions by stormloop.  With song titles like "Ice Wind," "In The Frozen Morning Light" and "Arctic Conditions," it was a perfect starting point for this mix.

Make some hot cocoa, sit back and try to stay warm.  Of course for listeners like Charles Glaspole in Australia, it's summer.  I guess you'll have to use your imagination.

Enjoy.


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T R A C K L I S T:

• 00:00    Wind and walking in snow
• 00:30    Terje Isungset - Go North
• 01:36    stormloop - ice wind
• 05:45    Marcus Fischer - Arctic 1
• 10:10    Panoptique Electrical - Glacier Show I
• 16:35    Ulf Lohmann - On Frozen Fields
• 18:45    Blamstrain - Tundra V
• 24:05    offthesky - beneath the ice shelf
• 26:50    Harold Budd - Ice Floes in Eden
• 29:15    stormloop - arctic conditions
• 33:55    Good Weather For An Airstrike - Frozen In Thought
• 37:25    Kiln - The Ice Floes
• 38:40    Forrest Fang & Carl Weingarten - Freezing Days
• 41:10    David Tagg - Arctic Reflection
• 50:10    Brian Eno - Fields Of Ice
• 58:00    Segue - A View of the Frozen Lake
• 1:01:40   stormloop - in the frozen morning light
• 1:08:00    end

A frozen world by Low Light Mixes on Mixcloud