Low Light Mixes: 2021

Sunday, November 28, 2021

absolutely ambient

Between work and Thanksgiving I didn't have time to put together a new mix this week. But then I remembered I had another in the "simply ambient" series waiting in the wings. So here it is - "absolutely ambient."

Like the the others in this series there is no overall theme other than a nice collection of excellent ambient music. With so much new music being released every week it's difficult to keep up and difficult to get it all into mixes. This series allows me to get some of that new music out there.

Links to all the albums used in this mix in the order that they appear:

Links to some of the excellent record labels this music was released on:

I can't believe we are almost to December and I haven't even thought about year-end lists or mixes. Hopefully over the next few weeks I can sort through all the music I've collected, knowing it barely scratches the surface of everything that is out there.

Cheers!

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T R A C K L I S T :

00:00 Tapes & Topographies - Bathed in Color and Light (Monomials 2021)
05:12 Andrew Heath - Melancholia (Drawings from Imagined Cities 2021)
14:55 Fields We Found - Time (Thanks 2021)
19:48 kj - Saturnalia (Saturnalia 2021)
24:51 Dirk Serries - Recloose (Recloose 2021)
34:47 Sonmi451 - Split Second (Seven Signals in the Sky 2021)
39:15 Ultramarine - Signals Into Space (The Sun in the East 2020)
44:55 Sofie Birch - Whisper Fold Brush Side B exerpt (Whisper Fold Brush 2021)
47:40 Maps and Diagrams - Mazinggarbe (Teygja Part B 2021)
50:00 Wodwo - Airlifted (Thistledown 2021)
53:00 Ishmael Cormack - Ōe (Ōe 2021)
56:15 Ian Nyquist - Sanctuary(Epilogue) (Endless, Shapeless 2021)
60:00 end

Sunday, November 21, 2021

A Tender Loneliness: Native American-style Flute - by Paul Asbury Seaman

I kind of overdosed on Native American flute music back in my new age days in the late 80s and 90s. So I don't listen to this style very often. But Paul has pulled me back in with his excellent collection of tracks.

It starts off with new music from Sherry Finzer so I'm in automatically. From there Paul uses a variety of artists and styles to carry us through the hour-long mix. Here's what Paul says about this mix:

“The Native American flute is one of those instruments that instantly has cultural associations. Intertwined with and beyond that, its wistful, haunting tone is a sound that evokes gratitude and reverence. It is with those qualities in mind that I selected tracks for this mix.”

Thanks again Paul for another beautifully curated set.

Links to all the albums used in this mix in the order that they appear:

Cheers!

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T R AC K L I S T :

00:00 Sherry Finzer - Red Hawk Hill (Connections 2022)
03:18 Peter Kater & Michael Brant DeMaria - Heart of Silence (Heart of Silence: Piano and Flute Meditations 2015)
10:09 Ah Nee Mah - Ceremony (Ancient Voices 2001)
15:20 Mary Youngblood - Flute Circle (The Offering 2002)
17:52 Suzanne Teng & Gilbert Levy - White Buffalo (Whisper 2021)
21:54 Peter Phippen - Returning Home (Summerland)
27:27 Randy Granger - Oh Shenandoah (Cloudwalker 2006)
30:18 Randy Granger - Chaco Moon Meditation (Handpan Music for a Pandemic 2020)
35:12 David & Steve Gordon - Daybreak Appears (Gratitude – Relaxing Native American Flute Music 2010)
40:51 R. Carlos Nakai - Shining Mountains (Sanctuary 2003)
44:22 Johnny Whitehorse - Cougar (Totemic Flute Chants 2007)
47:33 Gary Stroutsos - Adobe Walls (Night Chants: Native American Flute 2018)
50:39 Tony Gerber & Phil Keaggy - Mare Nectaris (Sea of Nectar) (Red Lunar 2019)
55:48 Dreamhub & Tony Gerber - Welcome Wind (Night Cathedral 2020)
59:12 end

Sunday, November 14, 2021

DUNE - an alternative soundtrack

Anyone who regularly follows this blog and my mixes knows that I am a science fiction dork. So it should come as no surprise that I saw Dune on opening weekend. I loved the film and have been thinking about an alternative soundtrack mix ever since.

There's not much to say other than this mix is a collection of tracks that remind me of the film. Most of the tracks are fairly new but a few older ones sneak in there, such as the one from Robert Rich & Lustmord, which goes back to 1995. The opening cut is the newest as it was written and produced by my son, who records as Just A Human, a couple of days after seeing the film.

If you see the film, see it in a theater. It's big and loud and really needs to be seen on a big screen.

Cheers!

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T R A C K L I S T :

00:00 Just A Human - Messages from the Deep
01:00 Ben Chatwin - Nordsjøen (Drone Signals 2018)
05:10 Serena Gabriel & Steve Roach - From The Sea (Seeing Inside 2021)
12:00 Murcof - Ideology Storm (The Alias Sessions 2021)
16:27 A Winged Victory for the Sullen - Thirteenth Century Travelogue (Invisible Cities 2021)
18:22 Robert Rich & B. Lustmord - Undulating Terrain (Stalker 1995)
22:12 Hibernis - The Grape Leaves (Middle of the Meds 2018)
27:00 Soriah - Uger-Khan Kargyraa (Gnostic 2019)
28:51 Rapoon - Don't Come Out At Night (Melancholic Songs of the Desert 2009)
32:40 Michel Banabila - Our Alien Voice (Trespassing 2017)
35:12 Brett Janzen - Penumbra (Aphelion 2021)
37:55 Arrowounds - Antarctica's Spherical Anomalies Leave Residual Trails (The Rise and Fall of the Melting World 2021)
41:55 Strië - Test for Ability (Perpetual Journey 2018)
44:44 Loscil - Zephyr with wind and strings
47:25 Tineidae - Epilogue (Exo 2020)
50:55 Jim Cole & Spectral Voices - Hear Earth (Innertones 2006)
52:35 Hanno Leichtmann - Wind (Nuit Du Plomb 2006)
57:00 end

Sunday, November 07, 2021

The Restless Thrum

I have done several train mixes over the years. They basically come about because I hear a tune and think - Hey, that would be great in a train mix. So it was with this one. I heard the track "A.O.E." by Portico Quartet and I knew immediately that I need to build a mix around it.

This mix differs from most of my other train mixes(except one) because it's mostly a jazz influenced mix. Berlin-school sequencers have been replaced by a drum kit and synth washes are now horns. I folded in some recordings of trains and subways but I didn't want to over do it so I kept it to 3 spots in the mix.

Links to all the albums used in order of how they appear in this mix:

The mix has some good energy and I could see it being a great companion for bike riding.

Cheers!

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T R A C K L I S T :

00:00 Portico Quartet - A.O.E. (Monument 2021)
05:30 Nick Garbett & Mike Majkowski - Aerial (The Glider 2021)
11:35 Snow Palms - Kojo Yakei (Land Waves 2020)
15:08 Tangents - Terracotta (New Bodies 2018)
21:20 Elskavon & John Hayes - Vermilion (Du Nord 2020)
23:23 Nala Sinephro - Space 6 (Space 1.8 2021)
26:50 Portico Quartet - Terrain: III (Terrain 2021)
36:30 Olafur Arnalds - Undir (re:member 2018)
39:27 Bell Orchestra - Movement (House Music 2021)
45:00 Joshua Abrams & Natural Information Society - Shadow Conductor (Mandatory Reality 2019)
52:42 Daniel Brandt - Eternal Something (Eternal Something 2017)
58:45 Alapastel - Transmission (Ceremony 2021)
64:16 end

Sunday, October 31, 2021

always ambient

This is mix #3 in the "simply ambient" series. It started with "simply ambient" then "purely ambient" and now "always ambient."

I listen to a ton of new music every month and this series gives me a chance to get some of that new music into mixes without having to wait for an appropriate theme. It's just straightforward ambient tracks, no theme, no big concept, no story to tell - just excellent ambient music, always.

Music used in the mix:

https://vaagner.bandcamp.com/album/when-the-night-ends

https://polarseasrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/still-life

https://ambientologist.bandcamp.com/album/maritime

https://lontanoseries.bandcamp.com/album/stanotte

https://archivesdubmusic.bandcamp.com/album/slow-morning

https://rhucle.bandcamp.com/album/cycle

https://innesti.bandcamp.com/album/in-letters

https://whitelabrecs.bandcamp.com/album/siberia

https://asc77.bandcamp.com/album/the-moons-of-saturn

https://devendrabanhart.bandcamp.com/album/refuge

https://keepsleep.bandcamp.com/album/past-life-memories

And here the record labels that put out this great music:

Whitelabrecs - https://whitelabrecs.bandcamp.com/music

Polar Seas - https://polarseasrecordings.bandcamp.com/

Ambientologist - https://ambientologist.bandcamp.com/

Lontano - https://lontanoseries.bandcamp.com/music

Archives - https://archivesdubmusic.bandcamp.com/

Aural Canyon - https://auralcanyonmusic.bandcamp.com/music

Auxiliary - https://auxiliary.bandcamp.com/

Shimmering Moods - https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/music

Cheers!

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T R A C K L I S T :

00:00 Jens Pauly & Stijn Hüwels - The Leaves Will Fade (When The Night Ends 2021)
11:00 Igor Yalivec - Viola (Still Life 2021)
15:35 anthéne - juniper (maritime 2021)
19:10 Michele Andreotti - Ovunque (Stanotte 2021)
25:10 Robert Farrugia - Coastal (Slow Morning 2017)
32:00 Rhucle - Distance (Cycle 2021)
35:15 Rhucle - Tone (Cycle 2021)
38:40 Innesti - Narrative Forms (In Letters 2021)
42:40 Glåsbird - Thermokarsts (Siberia 2021)
46:40 ASC & Inhmost - Sunrise On Titan (The Moons Of Saturn 2021)
53:20 Devendra Banhart, Noah Georgeson - A Cat (Refuge 2021)
57:30 KeepSleep - 上次会议 Farewell (Past Life Memories 2021)
62:00 end

Friday, October 29, 2021

Out Past Dark

I'm getting this mix up & running just in time for Halloween. This one, while it does have a bit of a nighttime feel to it, is a little less creepy than some past Halloween mixes.

For this collection I looked for titles that fit the theme of night to day. The mix moves chronologically from sunset to night to moonrise and set to darkness to dreaming and finally to light and dawn.

Grab a pumpkin spice beer and...UGH, no don't do that! Grab a normal beer, like a refreshing Hamm's, and sit on the porch, in the dark, listening to this mix. Happy Halloween.

Cheers!

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T R A C K L I S T :

00:00 Eli Keszler - Civil Sunset (Icons 2021)
03:55 Seabuckthorn - It Will Be Dark By Then (Other Other 2020)
06:49 Zoe Keating - Hello Night (Into The Trees (2010)
10:21 A-Sun Amissa - Outr Past Dark (Black Rain 2020)
14:53 Wodwo - that full-mooned night (Filey Bay 1978 2018)
18:06 Loren Connors - Moon Gone Down (Night Through: Singles and Collected Works 2003)
19:45 Observatories - Visible Darkness (Flowers Bloom, Butterflies Come 2021)
22:42 Robert Davies - Nocturnal Reverie (Shadow Dreams 2009)
29:20 Ki Oni - Dream World (A Little Night Music Aural Apparitions from the Geographic North 2020)
33:35 Ben Salisbury & Geoff Barrow - Other Dreamers (Black Mirror: Men Against Fire 2016)
34:18 ASC & Sam KDC - Another Evasive Dream (A Restless Mind 2020)
39:00 Andrew Heath - There’s a Ghost in My House (The Alchemist’s Muse 2020)
40:00 Olga Wojciechowska - Nothing To Be Afraid Of (Salaam For Yemen 2018)
43:38 Windy & Carl - Will I See the Dawn (Allegiance and Conviction 2020)
48:40 Adrian Lane - The Dawn Seems Reluctant To Come (Ennio's Muse 2021)
51:15 Hipnotic Earth - Where Night Sky Meets Day (HomeWorld 2021)
56:00 Observatories - I Knew I Was Close When I Saw The Bloom Of Your Light (Flowers Bloom, Butterflies Come 2021)
59:35 Ecovillage - Break Of Dawn ft. Gallery Six (Clouds And Waves 2020)
62:45 end

Sunday, October 24, 2021

Quiet Indie Songs #3 - Autumn 2021

WORLDS COLLIDE! In this mix I combine my love for new indie music with my love for all things quiet. The third installment of the Quiet Indie Songs series is here.

All tracks are from 2021 and it features artists like Jose Gonzalez, Billy Bragg, Matt Maltese, Cassandra Jenkins, Big Red Machine, Big Thief and more.

Go for a nice walk in the woods while listening to some quiet indie songs.

Cheers!

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T R A C K L I S T :

00:00 Jose Gonzalez - Swing
03:25 Chorusing - Watching the Beams
06:43 Art School Girlfriend - Eyes on You
11:10 Slow Meadow - Artificial Algorithm Snorri Hallgrímsson Rework
15:39 Sandrayati Fay, JFDR, Damien Rice - Song for Berta
18:53 Cassandra Jenkins - New Bikini
23:00 Big Red Machine - New Auburn feat. Anaïs Mitchell
26:14 Big Thief - Change
31:00 Matt Maltese - Oldest Trick in the Book feat. Bedouine
34:15 Cande y Paulo - Treaty
38:44 Allison Russell - Montreal
42:11 Billy Bragg - I Will Be Your Shield
45:36 Big Red Machine - Hoping Then
49:24 Avocet - Callina
51:28 Sun June - Colors
54:11 Jose Gonzalez - En Stund På Jorden
56:48 end

Sunday, October 17, 2021

Music for Covered Airports

Eight years ago I did a mix with covers of Eno tunes - UNDER ENO'S COVERS

Since then I've collected a few more that I was planning to use for a follow up. I found the most covered Eno album is Music for Airports. So I decided to recreate the album with covers. Hence the title of the mix - Music for Covered airports.

The tracks follow the same order as the original album - 1/1, 2/1, 1/2, 2/2. I made the first track with two covers because each was relatively short so I just combined them into one.

I found a great cover of Airports by Psychic Temple but it's a very loose version. One can hear parts of 1/1 in it, but like I said it's very loose and improvisational. It didn't really fit with the flow of recreating the album so I tacked it onto the end. It actually seems like a nice way to end this experiment.

Some of the covers came from YouTube and haven't been formally released.

Cheers!

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T R A C K L I S T :

00:00 Alexander Elliott Miller - Music for Airports 1/1 guitar
03:19 Dan Piccolo - Music for Airports 1/1 percussion
08:03 Sean O'Neill, Ben Witt & Daniel Fragomeni - Music for Airports 2/1
16:30 Kai Schumacher - Music for Airports 1/2
26:30 Ambientorg - Music for Airports 2/2 pipe organ with electronics
35:18 Psychic Temple - Plays Music for Airports
48:33 end

Sunday, October 03, 2021

The wind blows, just off-kilter

This mix started with one album - Goats & Distortions 5 by Dictaphone. It's one of my 2021 favorites. I began a new mix project with one song from that album as the starter, not knowing where it would go but the vibe was off-kilter. Then I heard a new album on Lost Tribe Sound, Departures by mastroKristo, and I knew where the mix would go.

This mix features a lot of wind instruments, although I'm not sure exactly what any of them are - clarinet, sax, soprano sax, oboe? A lot of the tracks are a bit askew, this is not smooth jazz. The music is atmospheric, moody, odd but the tracks all work perfectly together.

All the music is from 2021 and a few tracks are from some of my favorite albums of the year. I've already mentioned Dictaphone - Goats & Distortions 5. Another fav is Pino Palladino & Blake Mills - Notes with Attachments. And then there are two albums from Lost Tribe Sound that haven't been released yet but they will both be on my year-end favorites list. They are mastroKristo - Departures and Alapastel - Ceremony. They are both part of Lost Tribe Sound's Salt & Gravity series, which is fantastic.

Here's what LTS says about the series - "The Salt and Gravity Series is by far our most classical / ambient / drone adjacent collection yet. This series showcases some the most texturally pungent music we've ever released. A life long fascination with low end, blurred, battered and subterranean type sound has led us to this point... sound that you can feel rumbling up through the earth... the good stuff that makes your whole body hum versus just rattling around inside your head."

Go here to check it out... https://losttribesound.bandcamp.com/album/salt-and-gravity-series

Links to all the albums in this mix:

Cheers!

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T R A C K L I S T :

00:00 Dictaphone - O. (Goats & Distortions 5 2021)
04:00 mastroKristo - Gionis (Departures 2021)
08:02 Frieder Nagel - Para live version (The Arrival 2021)
11:15 Josiah Steinbrick - Mouthfeel 5 (Mouthfeel 2021)
14:24 Pino Palladino & Blake Mills - Notes with Attachments (Notes with Attachments 2021)
15:57 William Ryan Fritch - Cited (Freeland 2021)
17:34 William Ryan Fritch - Dropped (Freeland 2021)
20:06 Sam Gendel & Sam Wilkes - Cold Pocket (Music for Saxofone and Bass Guitar More Songs 2021)
23:15 Eli Keszler - All the Mornings in the World (Icons 2021)
28:27 Masayoshi Fujita - Cumulonimbus Dream (Bird Ambience 2021)
32:00 Knower - As the Night Climbed, a Band of Raccoons Started Hastily to Perform their Nocturnal Jam (Curiosity Is Not Dead 2021)
36:05 Soft Generator - Asclepeion Process (A Carefully Controlled Space 2021)
39:22 Simon McCorry - Ocean Song (All Creatures 2021)
42:57 Hawsepiper - Air Stones (Red Knot Returns 2021)
47:00 Dictaphone - Goats & Distortions 2 (Goats & Distortions 5 2021)
49:11 Alapastel - New World Healing Centre (Ceremony 2021)
58:58 end

Saturday, September 25, 2021

Brilliant mix at Ambientblog.net

I don't often promote other mixes here but this one is special. It combines the talents of Peter van Cooten of Ambientblog.net and Stéphane Pigeon, creator of myNoise.net. Like the old tagline for Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, "Two Great Tastes that Taste Great Together," this mix is "Two Great Sounds that Sound Great Together."

This mix is different from most Ambientblog.net mixes, since all sounds come from one single source - the sound generators/music at myNoise.net.

Peter & Stéphane talk about the mix here... https://www.ambientblog.net/blog/2021-09/ambientdaydream-mix/ You can also download the mix there and check out the tracklist.

Here is a link to the mix over at Mixcloud... https://www.mixcloud.com/ambientblog/ambient-daydream/

And here is the link to myNoise... https://mynoise.net/

Check it out!

Sunday, September 19, 2021

Always Autumn by Paul Asbury Seaman

Autumn seems perfectly suited to ambient music, especially ambient with a tinge of melancholy. I was thinking about doing an fall-themed mix when Paul approached me with his fully curated mix for autumn. Perfect!

Here's what Paul says about this mix:

“Dedicating this one to my sister, Miriam Walter, professor of nursing at Chico State University in Northern California. Her birthday is today, September 19th.

This turned out to be mostly guitar and piano, although I always (and still) intended it to be a going-to-sleep mix. Like most of my playlists for LLM, it starts out moderately slow and gets progressively slower and quieter. Just a bunch of beautiful tunes, with a touch of melancholy that I always associate with fall, and surrendering into tranquility.”

Thanks for another excellent mix, Paul!

Cheers!

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T R A C K L I S T :

00:00 Peter Chilvers & Jon Durant - Always Autumn (Always Golden Sands 2020)
05:10 Will Ackerman, Jeff Oster, Tom Eaton - The Golden Hour (Brothers 2021)
09:52 Jeff Johnson & Phil Keaggy - Mosaic 7 (Ravenna 2021)
16:27 Between Interval - The Tides Of Time (Autumn Continent 2006)
20:50 Uman - Somewhere On Earth (You Are Here 1999)
24:41 Ken Verheecke - Falling Leaves (Autumn Reflections 2011)
28:23 Jeff Pearce - A Walk Through The Leaves (From the Darker Seasons 2017)
32:15 Calm Whale - Blue Moon Wind Chimes Meditation (Blue Moon Meditation 2017)
39:30 Altus - Green to Gold (Autumn Breeze 2005)
46:09 Beltone - Autumn (Blind Concert 2017)
50:52 Chinmaya Dunster - Sight Meditation (Meditation Ragas 2014)
57:45 Astropilot & Kaya Project - Wind of Change, Pt. 2 (Wind of Change, Pt. 2 2021)
62:13 Cousin Silas - Lost In Autumn (Blue Ice Beyond 2019)
68:15 Kamal - The Quiet Earth (The Quiet Earth - Dusk 1993)
72:14 Ron Boots - Lingering On (Autumn Moon 2016)
76:28 end

Sunday, September 05, 2021

Slow Road - The Endless Potential of the Pedal Steel Guitar

This mix is pretty much what the title says - a collection of quiet/ambient tracks featuring the beautiful sounds of the pedal steel guitar.

I did another pedal steel mix two years and since then it seems to be easier to find practitioners of the ambient steel guitar sound. Only one artist, Chuck Johnson, is repeated from that mix in this one. Here's the first mix: http://lowlightmixes.blogspot.com/2019/09/ambient-twang.html

All that's left to say is go relax with some steel guitar & maybe a good bourbon around a campfire.

Cheers!

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T R A C K L I S T :

00:00 Devendra Banhart & Noah Georgeson - In a Cistern (Refuge 2021)
04:03 Saariselka - Shepherd Canyon (Thousands of Eyes in the Dark 2019)
07:40 The Howard Hughes Suite - Vanishing Point (Smoke from a Future Fire 2020)
13:18 SUSS - Drift (Promise 2020)
17:55 North Americans - Yearling (Roped In 2020)
20:30 Raymond Richards - Paradise, California (The Lost Art of Wandering 2020)
25:45 Trond Kallevåg Hansen - Kapellet (Bedehus & Hawaii 2019)
28:35 Susan Alcorn - first turning of the wheel(for bob graettinge) (and i await..the resurrection of the pedal steel guitar 2007)
30:18 Chuck Johnson - The Laurel (The Cinder Grove 2021)
38:50 William Tyler - Slow Night's Static (New Vanitas 2020)
48:20 SUSS - Salt (Ghost Box 2018)
51:40 Raymond Richards - Astoria, Georgia (The Lost Art Of Wandering 2020)
55:06 Light of Woods - Sparrow (Field Notes 2016)
56:45 Chuck Johnson - Serotiny (The Cinder Grove 2021)
63:33 end

Sunday, August 29, 2021

Vantage - Curated by Time Rival

I love guest mixes because they expose me to tracks I might have otherwise missed in the monthly deluge of new releases. This new mix comes to us from Michael Southard(Time Rival) of Triplicate Records. I've included a few Time Rival tracks in mixes over the years so I was excited when Michael agreed to put together a mix of some of the best his label has to offer.

Here's a blurb from Michael about this guest mix:

Triplicate Records is an artist run independent record label founded in 2018 by Michael Southard (Time Rival), Bryan Kraft (BVSMV), and George Ernst (Suncastle). We cover a lot of ground in regard to genres, but mostly stick to electronica, ambient and experimental. “Vantage” is a collection of music from our back catalog that highlights the softer side of what we do. Mixed and curated by Time Rival and featuring phenomenal new music from Ian Hawgood, Belly Full of Stars, Chris Randall, and much more.

All of this music is available through our Bandcamp page: https://triplicaterecords.bandcamp.com/

Thanks for an excellent set!

Triplicate has also made a small run painted CD - R version of the mix available at their bandcamp page... https://triplicaterecords.bandcamp.com/merch/vantage-limited-edition-painted-cd-r

Cheers!

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T R A C K L I S T :

Ian Hawgood - Flutter Echo Refrain – 0:00:00
Belly Full of Stars - Pattern 4 – 0:05:20
Time Rival – Beech – 0:09:37
Belial Pelegrim – Subtext – 0:12:53
BVSMV, Running in Slow Motion - Memory to Media – 0:18:00
Acef Stripe - Image 7: Dagobah – 0:22:20
Suncastle - The Rooms in Here are Enveloped – 0:24:51
Chaircrusher – Insular – 0:32:22
SURVEY CHANNEL - Outside the Coding Region – 0:39:02
Crest of the Syndicate – Lattermath – 0:44:58
Station Zero - Numb Hand - 0:46:34
Minimal_Drone*GRL - Raspberry Ripple – 0:50:24
Chorchill - Tea Bags – 0:52:46
Chris Randall - Synthetic Instinct – 0:54:59
End – 1:00:00

Sunday, August 15, 2021

Moteer - sounds like this

I recently stumbled upon a post or tweet that mentioned Moteer, a UK record label active in the 2000s. I was like - oh man, I have listened to that stuff in a while, time to give some a spin. It was fun going back into that world of clicks, loops, vinyl records pops, and glitchy ambience. So I decided to make a mix.

Moteer released music from 2003 to 2011. It was run by Andrew Johnson and Craig Tattersall, who record as The Remote Viewer. The label specialized in, as Harry Towell, founder of Whitelabrecs records, put it - "lo-fi folk and glitchy, electro-acoustic goodness." They don't even have a website anymore to link to so you're on your own in tracking down some of the releases.

This set starts at the beginning with the first Moteer release, Commercial Body Fittings by Clickits. And it continues chronologically to the last release, On Fell. In between we get music from The Boats, Part Timer, El Fog, Need More Sources, Tokyo Bloodworm and more.

Sit back and enjoy this little journey back to the 2000s for some off-kilter, clicky, twinkling ambience.

Cheers

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T R A C K L I S T :

00:00 Clickits - september sounds like this (commercial body fittings 2003)
03:30 Manyfingers - Ballybane (Manyfingers 2004)
08:55 The Boats - And There Are Stars That Fell (Songs by The Sea 2004)
12:45 Clickits - Natural Theatre (Express Gifts 2005)
16:48 The Boats - Donna, Paul and Grace (We Made It For You 2005)
18:50 Minimum Chips - Snow Pea (Lady Grey 2006)
22:10 Part Timer - hear... to something (part imer 2006)
25:25 The Boats - this song is one colour (Tomorrow Time 2006)
28:11 Aus - apt (Curveland 2007)
32:33 El Fog - Own Frequency, Own Time (Reverberate Slowly 2007)
37:11 Theodore & Hamblin - Lacie (The Scientific Contrast 2007)
41:00 Need More Sources - Sun (Shed 2007)
43:44 con cetta - ker (micro 2008)
48:05 Brael And Tokyo Bloodworm - Saturn Shine (Living Language 2008)
56:15 Yuri Lugovskoy - untitled #3 (Yuri Lugovskoy 2010)
60:30 Tokyo Bloodworm - Pale The Clerics Pass (Palestine 2011)
65:05 On Fell - On Fell B (On Fell 2011)
68:28 end

Sunday, August 08, 2021

purely ambient

Last year at this time I did a mix called "simply ambient" which was a nice, straightforward mix of ambient tracks. This mix is a sort of follow up titled "purely ambient." There is no theme, no story being told by the music, no big concepts. Just ambient music, pure and simple.

This might be the start of a series of mixes - utterly ambient, perfectly ambient, naturally ambient, totally ambient, etc. This would be allow me to get some of the tons of new music that I listen to every month into mixes without having to wait for an appropriate theme. Every track in this mix is from 2021.

So kick back and relax to some purely ambient music.

Cheers!

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T R A C K L I S T :

00:00 Ambalek - In the Curled Combes (Fremder 2021)
05:36 Pruski - Horizon (Whispers 2021)
10:40 O Yuki Conjugate - Antonym (A Tension of Opposites Vols 1 & 2 2021)
14:48 Martin Nonstatic - Fading Mist (Reflecting Glaciers 2021)
21:00 Robert Davies - Nocturnal Deliquescence (Arcadia 2021)
27:50 Sailcloth - Great Lakes (Woodcut 2021)
30:20 Konstruct - Nostolgia (Three (squared) 2021)
36:00 Free Dust - Earl Grey (Woo'd Early 2021)
40:00 Erik Wollo - Afterprints (Recurrence 2021)
45:00 Rosales - Nest (Still, Tomorrow 2021)
53:15 anthéne & Simon McCorry - lucid (the equation of time 2021)
60:31 end

Sunday, August 01, 2021

Chill Summer Guitars

I few weeks ago the good folks over at The Slow Music Movement sent me a couple tracks by Wiki Chaves. After listening I immediately knew I had to construct a mix around the laid back guitar style. A style The Slow Music Movement calls - "Perfect for all your beach lying, garden barbecuing, hammock slouching, sunbathing, holiday taking soundtrack needs."

Here's a link to the latest Wiki Chaves release: https://wikichaves.bandcamp.com/

From there I listened to guitar music for a couple of weeks, collecting tracks with a similar vibe. There were some artists I knew right away that I would include like Khruangbin, Bill Frisell & William Tyler. Some were new discoveries like Tommy Guerrero & Jeffrey Silverstein. While others were older tracks I was happy to rediscover such as Steve Hiett, Pat Metheny, Durutti Column and Yo La Tengo.

I like how the mix takes a more acoustic turn about half way through. Starting with new music from The Phonometrician then an old track from Calexico to even older tracks from Charlie Haden & Pat Metheny and Yo La Tengo.

Many of the mixes I do tend to focus on new music because that's what I'm listening to at the time. This mix, however, hits on 5 decades of music and it's pretty cool how they mesh together.

Artist/album links:

Cheers!

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T R A C K L I S T :

00:00 Wiki Chaves - Pleasure Point (Raiz 2021)
04:16 Khruangbin - Father Bird, Mother Bird (Mordechai 2020)
07:17 Steve Hiett - Blue Beach (Down on the Road by the Beach 1983)
11:21 Bill Frisell - The Shortest Day (Guitar in the Space Age! 2014)
14:05 William Tyler - Highway Anxiety (Modern Country 2016)
19:27 Tommy Guerrero - Sun Rays Lie Stilts (Perpetual 2015)
21:15 Jeffrey Silverstein - This and Also (Future Folk: Friendly Faces; Different Spaces 2021)
25:15 Durutti Column - Sara E Tristana (Amigos Em Portugal 1983)
28:03 Bexar Bexar - n.r.o.t. (haralambos 2003)
31:17 Trond Kallevåg Hansen - Bedehus og Hawaii (Bedehus & Hawaii 2019)
36:15 The Phonometrician - Campos de Trigo (El Mar Convertido en Oceano 2021)
39:45 Calexico - Above the Ranch (Tool Box 2007)
42:50 Charlie Haden & Pat Metheny - Cinema Paradiso (Beyond The Missouri Sky 1997)
46:33 Yo La Tengo - Green Arrow (I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One 1997)
51:40 The Green Kingdom - Sol 1 (Solaria 2021)
55:09 Steve Hiett - Standing There (Down on the Road by the Beach 1983)
58:27 Helios - Emancipation (Eingya 2006)
60:50 Pat Metheny & Lyle Mays - September Fifteenth (As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls 1980)
62:47 end