Perfect Perseid Playlist

 

This mix is a couple of weeks late. It is a soundtrack for meteor watching, specifically the annual August Perseid meteor shower.  I uploaded it to Mixcloud on Aug. 12th but totally forgot to make it available here as well.  That has now been corrected. 

I've been wanting to use a track from Robert Scott Thompson's album "Pale Blue Dot" and a stargazing mix was the perfect opportunity with Skyway being a great opener for this collection.  I was also happy to include an old favorite - Thom Brennan.  I've always been a big fan of his music and much of it is perfect for star/space themed mixes.

Enjoy

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T R A C K L I S T :

• 00:00    Robert Scott Thompson - Skyway
• 05:20    Forrest Fang - not forgotten
• 09:40    36 - Miserere
• 15:05    Aglaia - after midnight
• 21:40    Markus Guentner - baryon
• 26:50    Diatonis - one starry starry starry night
• 31:36    Underworld - simple peal
• 35:15    Thom Brennan - the fog unveils
• 41:00    Arovane - Nostalghia I
• 56:20    Tau Ceti - Cydonia Plains
• 62:15    Jeffrey Koepper - Distant Light
• 73:20    Robert Scott Thompson - Shimmer Upon The Mirror Pond
• 78:14    Brian Eno - Stars
• 85:05    Sonmi451 - Rigel
• 93:33    David Wenngren & Christopher Bissonnette - Burn Like a Meteor and Leave No Dust
• 1:43:37    end

Ambient Decades: 1970s

This is the first in a series of mixes featuring ambient music from each of the past 4 1/2 decades.

Ambient music came to it's full expression during the 1970s with Eno's Discreet Music & Music for Airports. This mix explores those albums and other electronic gems. This mix/list is by no means definitive. It's music from my collection that is a representation of the emergence of ambient in the 1970s.

As I was sorting through tracks for the mix I realized that I'm definitely going to have to make a mix of 70s berlin school & kraut music electronic tunes. That way I can use Jean Michel Jarre, Can, Holgar Czukay and more rhythmic Tangerine Dream & Klaus Schulze.

Cheers!

 
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T R A C K L I S T :

• 00:00    Michael Hoenig - Voices of Where(1978)
• 04:20    Harmonia - By the Riverside(1976)
• 07:15    Klaus Schulze - Wahnfried 1883(1975)
• 12:50    Wendy Carlos - Fall(1972)
• 18:00    Gavin Bryars - The Sinking of the Titanic(1975)
• 23:25    Tangerine Dream - Sequent C(1974)
• 25:00    Brian Eno - Discreet Music(1975)
• 33:33    Kraftwerk - Heimatklänge(1973)
• 36:45    Tonto's Expanding Head Band - Tama(1971)
• 41:37    Cluster - In Ewigkeit(1976)
• 48:30    Ashra - Deep Distance(1976)
• 53:30    Steve Hillage - Garden of Paradise(1979)
• 62:25    Tangerine Dream - Rubycon(1975)
• 65:50    Klaus Schulze - Some Velvet Phasing(1974)
• 71:50    Brian Eno - Two Rapid Formations(1978)
• 74:36    Brian Eno - Music for Airports 1/1(1978)
• 91:09    end