Low Light Mixes: August 2024

Wednesday, August 28, 2024

Current Ambient Obsessions August 2024

Sometimes I go off on tangents with nostalgia mixes, guest mixes, jazz mixes, etc. and I can lose sight of the fact that this is primarily an ambient mix site. So now it's time for a straightforward ambient mix.

All the tracks in this set are from summer 2024, with a couple not even released yet. So super fresh.

Here are some links to all the music used in this mix:

Cheers!

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T R A C K L I S T :

00:00 Polaroid Notes - Quiet Rooms (Quiet Rooms 2024)
05:55 PJS - Sky Dance (Flora 2024)
14:41 Tapes & Topographies - the clouds and the briars (Plumage 2024)
17:40 Philippe Deschamps - The Silence of Pallas (The Silence of Pallas 2024)
21:12 Metric System 1981 - Down To The Sea (Down To The Sea 2024)
22:20 Toàn & Francis Gri - Rêve quatre (Le tissage des rêves 2024)
28:30 Glasbird - Days of Iron and Steam (Fenscapes 2024)
34:12 Akmuo - Terapija 1 (feat. VS & Emilija) (Sielos Terapija 2024)
36:30 Thorny & Matt Borghi - Outside the Circle I (Fragments of Distance 2024)
41:12 Scattered Light - Beacons (Beacons 2024)
44:50 Mount Shrine - A Slow Plane Part 1 (The Mount Hibiki Tapes 2024)
52:05 ARROWOUNDS - Portasar (Burial Trances of the Tentacled Sect 2024)
56:02 Michael Scott Dawson - Mojave Flowers (feat. Michael Grigoni) (The Tinnitus Chorus 2024)
60:28 end

Wednesday, August 14, 2024

Communiqué '77 - '86

When I was in college, a million years ago, I worked at the student radio station. There were some cool people there that turned me onto all sorts of new music. I had cassette tapes of several of the albums they introduced me to and I played them for years. I can't remember to put my garbage out on time but I can still picture the handwritten spines of cassette cases for albums like David Sylvian - Gone To Earth and Tangerine Dream - Hyperborea.

A few of my prized cassettes were from more obscure artists such as the 3 that start this mix - Clara Mondshine, Baffo Banfi, and Bernard Szajner. After listening to these albums recently, I decided to make an entire mix of artists from that cassette era. The result is a nostalgic trip back to the late 70s and early 80s for some electronic goodness.

The tracks range from more obscure artists like Lilienthal, Clara Mondshine, Baffo Banfi, and Bernard Szajner to more well known like Phil Mazanera & Richard Pinhas to the very well known Jean Michel Jarre & Al Di Meola. This collection takes me back to a specific time and works well as a cohesive mix. I hope you enjoy listening as much as I did.

Cheers!

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T R A C K L I S T :

00:00 Clara Mondshine - Landing At Full Moon (Luna Africana 1981)
05:19 Baffo Banfi - Astralunato (Ma Dolce Vita 1979)
09:00 Bernard Szajner - The Memory (some deaths take forever 1980)
13:15 Richard Pinhas - Melodic Simple Transition (L'Ethique 1981)
16:45 Al Di Meola African Night (Scenario 1983)
21:00 Craig Leon - Region of Fleeing Civilians (Visiting 1982)
25:20 Phil Manzanera - Criollo (Primitive Guitars 1982)
30:10 Jean Michel Jarre - Magnetic Fields Part IV (Magnetic Fields 1981)
35:40 Michael Shrieve & Klaus Schulze - Communique (Transfer Station Blue 1986)
48:15 Roedelius - Weilchenwurzeln (Wenn der Südwind Weht 1981)
52:55 Michael Brook - Midday (Hybrid 1985)
58:41 Lilienthal - Gebremster Schaum (Lilienthal 1978)
64:50 end

Wednesday, August 07, 2024

The Passing Of Time by Old Amica

The guest mix hits just keep coming! This set come to us courtesy of Old Amica, a two-person band originally from Norrbotten, Sweden. Today they are separated by 1864km with one part in Stockholm, the other in Genève.

https://oldamica.bandcamp.com/

I was familiar with their work on the Whitelabrecs label:

https://whitelabrecs.bandcamp.com/album/taiga
https://whitelabrecs.bandcamp.com/album/fyr

So I was excited to hear about a new album coming out on August 9th. And then I was even more excited when they agreed to create a mix for LLM.

Here's what Johan & Linus say about this creation:

"This mix is a collection of songs and sounds that have had an influence on our new album “För alltid” (out August 9th via Le Mont Analogue [Dronarivm]). “För alltid” is an album about the passing of time, and we tried to break our sound down to its smallest constituents. Sounds that have always been there as a world of its own, but hid in the background."

Thanks so much for this excellent set! Be sure to check out their new release https://oldamica.bandcamp.com/album/f-r-alltid

Cheers!

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T R A C K L I S T :

00:00 The Beach Boys - Our Prayer (20/20 1969)
01:06 Jónsi & Alex - Atlas Song (Riceboy Sleeps 2009)
08:27 Julianna Barwick - The Harbinger (Nepenthe 2013)
14:02 Stars of the Lid - Dungtitled(In a major) (And their Refinement of the Decline 2007)
19:07 Oliver Coates - One Without (Aftersun [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] 2023)
23:51 Foreign Fields - Terrible Times (Reprise) (The Beauty of Survival 2020)
25:17 Old Amica - Mot natten (För alltid 2024)
32:12 Brian McBride - Overture(For Other Halfs) (When the Detail Lost its Freedom 2005)
38:41 Matti Bye - Open Sea (Capri Clouds 2024)
42:20 Hildur Guðnadóttir - 12 Hours Before (Chernobyl [Music from the Original TV Series] 2019)
44:30 Angelo Bandalamenti - Dark Space Low (Twin Peaks [Limited Event Series Soundtrack] 2017)
46:15 Ryuichi Sakamoto - fullmoon- immersion 2023 (async immersion 2023 2017)
51:03 Skator - Ljusa Tiden (excerpt) (År 2020)
52:20 Old Amica - Neckar (För alltid 2024)