Mixcloud Select Exclusives

Today Mixcloud launches a new feature for Mixcloud Select subscribers - exclusive mixes.

For my first exclusive mix I am launching a series called Seasonal Cycles and the initial offering is "The Promise of Spring."

https://www.mixcloud.com/lowlight/seasonal-cycles-the-promise-of-spring/

There are different ways Select creators can use exclusive mixes. I have chosen to produce several mix series that will be available exclusively to Mixcloud Select subscribes. This is what I have in the works:

1. Sleep Series(low light nightlight) - music for bedtime
2. Seasonal Cycles - music focused on weather & the seasons
3. Stargazing Sessions - music for laying outside and looking up at the stars, watching for meteors & satellites
4. Artist/Label Spotlight - concentrating on one artist/label and their music

Right now I'm not sure how many mixes there will be in each series. Though obviously for the seasonal mixes there will be at least one per season. 

If you are interested in these exclusive mixes go here to subscribe & find out more - https://www.mixcloud.com/lowlight/select/

Subscribers also get unlimited plays, fast forward AND rewind, offline listening, and upfront tracklists. The Select program also directly supports low light mixes, plus the music and artists we play.

I am proud to be a Select Creator and I am excited to see the program grow.

If you have any questions, leave them in the comments.

Cheers!

Places I've Never Been(Ode to High-Speed Rail)

Everything about trains is evocative. The sound of the whistle, the rhythm of the tracks, the sounds of the station, etc. Trains make for a perfect theme in electronic music mixes. Which is why you're bound to hear several of them this year from Low Light mixes.

This first one comes to us from my frequent collaborator, Paul Asbury Seaman. Not only has Paul done previous excellent mixes for me, he's also done a couple train mixes. Here's what he has to say about his latest creation...

“In my last mix I celebrated “liminal space,” the long in-betweens of life. Travel by train is both metaphor and literally that. Beyond the excitement of the busy station and going someplace new, for many of us the journey is the destination: the experience as both overview and connectedness, not felt from an airplane. The impetus for this mix was the just-released debut album of d’Voxx, on Ian Boddy’s UK label, DiN. And I dedicate it to the EuroPass, which ever since the 1960s has enabled vacationers and tourists from around the world to travel at highly-discounted rates—including by high-speed rail—anywhere in the 30 countries that are part of the system. Something that in the United States is, for now, only an ambient dream.”

The mix changes gears for the last tune, using sax, acoustics instruments and vocals but Paul thought it would fit well because A) it's called Train and B) it has "the dead-tired but satisfied feeling you have when you get home to your own bed after a long trip."

Cheers and safe travels!

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T R A C K L I S T :

• 00:00    d'Voxx - Akalla Söder(2019 Télégraphe)
• 08:44    Rival Consoles - Persona(2018 Persona)
• 15:06    Stimulus Timbre - We Reached for the Sky(2017 A Place We Never Been)
• 21:40    Steve Roach - Core Meditation 1(2017 CORE - Legacy Edition)
• 30:05    Evan Marc & Steve Hillage - Alpha Phase(2008 Dreamtime Submersible)
• 37:45    Aepiel - Aves(2012 Painting The Sky)
• 46:20    Stimulus Timbre - Look at the Stars & Think of Us(2017 A Place We Never Been)
• 51:54    His Name Is Alive - Train(2002 Last Night)
• 59:10    end

Luminoustrings

This mix has been brewing in my head for the last couple of years. Basically I've been planning a follow up to the Luminouspaces mix since I posted it in 2016. I finally got going on the sequel a few weeks ago while listening to "Constellations" by Jane Antonia Cornish. It's an absolutely lovely album. If you like modern classical recordings you'll definitely enjoy it.

The mix begins and ends with a track from Constellations. In between you'll find a collection of modern classical favorites from the last year or two. Like a lot of my mixes, it's a beautiful compilation with a tinge of melancholy.

Cheers!



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T R A C K L I S T :

• 00:00    Jane Antonia Cornish - Beyond The Sky(Constellations 2018)
• 07:20    Glåsbird - Gunnbjørn Fjeld(Grønland 2019)
• 13:25    Ian Hawgood & Danny Norbury - II(Faintly Recollected 2018)
• 18:40    Snorri Hallgrimsson - Still Life-Instrumental(Orbit 2018)
• 21:27    Peter Gregson - Warmth(Quartets Two 2017)
• 24:45    Laurie Anderson & Kronos Quartet - Another Long Evening(Landfall 2018)
• 26:30    Ben McElroy - Songs of Iceland(Songs of Iceland 2018)
• 29:05    William Ryan Fritch - Red Wolves(Birkitshi - Eagle Hunters In A New World 2017)
• 31:10    Christopher Spelman - The Lost City of Z(The Lost City of Z 2017)
• 31:50    Max Richter - Shimmering Clouds(My Brilliant Friend OST 2018)
• 32:50    Ceets - Hover, Over Me(Concrete Fields 2017)
• 37:45    Valgeir Sigurðsson - Committee(Little Moscow 2018)
• 39:36    Julia Rovinsky - Metamorphosis II(Dusk 2017)
• 46:22    Nicholas Britell - The Culmination(Moonlight 2016)
• 48:00    Jane Antonia Cornish  - Wave Cycles(Constellations 2018)
• 58:12    end

Look what I found

I digitized my music collection a long time ago. I have a Sonos system throughout my house so I digitized thousands of CDs and packed up the physical copies. I haven't pulled out the actual CDs in a long time but recently I rearranged some furniture and realized that I had sofa table with a cd rack built into it. The thing had been in the same place for so long that I'd forgotten there were CDs in it. I played a bunch of the discs and had a good time re-discovering music that I hadn't heard in quite awhile.

So I made a mix of some my favs. The release years range from 2003 - 2012. There are some regulars that have appeared in many of my mixes - The Green Kingdom, Kyle Bobby Dunn, Maps & Diagrams, From The Mouth Of The Sun. Along with some that I've probably never used - Shirk, Lopside, Relmic Statute, Logreybeam, Herion.

The album, 37, by Lopside was especially cool to reacquaint myself with. It falls into the Boards of Canada, Casino versus Japan category but it's not very well known. It was great to get back into it. Here it is on Spotify...

The mix starts out a little glitchy and finishes with some classic ambient sounds. I hope you enjoy this little side trip down memory lane.

Cheers!



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T R A C K L I S T :

• 00:00    Logreybeam - Beetelguise(It's All Just Another Aspect Of Mannerism 2004)
• 03:39    Lopside - The Shallow End(37 2003)
• 06:45    Mokira - untitled 1(album 2003)
• 10:55    The Green Kingdom - Maplecopter(Twig and Twine 2009)
• 17:00    Sleepy Town Manufacture & Unit 21 - Swollenguest(No Traces 2009)
• 19:21    From the Mouth of the Sun - The Crossing(Woven Tide 2012)
• 20:15    Shirk - Dipsy(The Long Game 2008)
• 23:05    Map & Diagrams - Everybody's got something to hide(Hidden Landscapes 2011)
• 25:55    Relmic Statute - template for sand & forest(morning tapes 2010)
• 30:45    Northern - Coasting(Drawn 2007)
• 33:15    Tanner Menard - Chemical Secrets And Golden Flowers(The Oceans Of Your Aura 2010)
• 36:15    A Produce & Loren Nerell - Meadow Dusk(Intangible 2011)
• 42:00    Chihei Hatakeyama - Cave(Ghostly Garden 2009)
• 46:05    Adam Pacione - Available Light(from stills to motion 2007)
• 47:10    Kyle Bobby Dunn - The Tributary -For Voices Lost(A Young Person's Guide To 2010)
• 54:08    Herion - Moske Orgulie(Out & About 2010)
• 58:33    end