The Night Absolves

 

Off-kilter, strange, a bit askew, weird, oblique - are all ways to describe this mix. It's a little creepy too which makes for a perfect mix for Spooky Season.

To create a Halloween mix it would be easy to grab some dark, dissonant ambient but as I've said before I'm not a dark ambient fan. So I went for the same feel I have used in the past - tunes that are a bit off-center. Tunes that make you think of midnight, distant headlights in the fog, street lamps and cigarette smoke.

I hope you enjoy the mix and play it during dias de los muertos.

Cheers!

[ s t r e a m ]    [ d o w n l o a d ]    [ i t u n e s ]

T R A C K L I S T :

• 00:00    Seabuckthorn - It Will Be Dark By Then (Other Other 2020)
• 03:11    Brombaer - Triangle of Land (2013)
• 07:44    Coti - Sine Shadows (Metamemoria 2020)
• 11:55    Luton - Spectres of Mark (Black Box Animals 2018)
• 14:05    Shadowdream - The Obsession Begins Tomorrow (The Sunsettler's Motel 2016)
• 19:06    Labradford - G (Mi Media Naranja 1997)
• 22:30    Pjusk - Dempet (Sart 2007)
• 25:25    Several Wives - End Song (Veil on Veil 2020)
• 26:30    Arve Henriksen - Recording Angel (Cartography 2008)
• 28:24    Mikael Lind - Piano Says Goodbye (Give Shape to Space 2020)
• 32:00    Harold Budd with Zeitgeist - Emboldened/My Dreams Perish (She Is A Phantom 1994)
• 34:08    Arms And Sleepers - Atelier (The Organ Hearts 2011)
• 36:13    Shadowdream - The Hour of the Wolf, Alfa and Omega (The Sunsettler's Motel 2016)
• 38:34    William Ryan Fritch - Unraveling (The Letdown 2020)
• 40:07    Wanderwelle - Decay (A State of Decrepitude 2020)
• 44:00    The Insects - Ad Infinitum Ad Nauseam (Devs Original Series Soundtrack 2020)
• 45:28    Several Wives - An Intermission (Veil on Veil 2020)
• 46:05    Grails - Bad Bhang Recipe (Black Tar Prophecies Vols 1, 2, 3 2006)
• 47:54    Eli Keszler - We Live In Pathetic Temporal Urgency (Stadium 2018)
• 53:41    Calexico - Longboard (The Thread That Keeps Us 2018)
• 56:18    Daniel Lanois - Sketches (Belladonna 2005)
• 60:30    end

Stay Inside

 

photo courtesy of https://unsplash.com/@coleito

I started this mix on a cold, rainy fall day with no theme or plan. The first track I laid down was from Progressions by Anthéne and Andrew Tasselmyer on Constellation Tatsu. Listening to it, the track seemed perfect for a grey autumn day. 

Now I had my theme or vibe. From there I just browsed my new releases folder to come up with an ambient accompaniment for sitting inside with a good book, while outside it's cold and wet.

Cheers!

[ s t r e a m ]    [ d o w n l o a d ]    [ i t u n e s ]

T R A C K L I S T :

• 00:00    Anthéne and Andrew Tasselmyer - Progressions Pt. 5 (Progressions 2020)
• 06:13    Christopher Bissonette - Overature (Wayfinding 2020)
• 09:33    Halftribe - A Clearing (Cloud Dreaming and Shadows 2020)
• 12:15    Andrew Heath - The Night Walker (The Alchemist's Muse 2020)
• 19:30    Moss Covered Technology - Untitled Quiet Loops #6 (Quiet Loops 2020)
• 25:25    thme - until then (that's what it will be like 2020)
• 29:05    't Geruis - 002 (Que tu es belle, au revoir en douceur 2020)
• 32:25    Seabuckthorn - I haven't Seen Tunis Since (Through A Vulnerable Occur 2020)
• 35:47    Hainbach - Before We Break (Light Splitting 2020)
• 39:33    Jörgen Kjellgren - Infinite Portals (Hollawood 2020)
• 42:27    Innesti - Apples Appear in All the Old Fables (Apperception 2020)
• 48:40    Zoltan Fecso - As Much As You Need (Daylight In An Empty Room 2020)
• 52:00    Max Ananyev - Images in Time (Midday 2020)
• 56:27    Wodwo - Suzuki-Miyaura ( Chematica 2020)
• 59:02    Ian Hawgood - Modulations (You Lose Yourself, and That's OK 2020)
• 60:56    end