this lonely path

 

I like it when a mix discovers itself. I started grabbing a few tracks for a new ambient mix and two of the tunes I pulled had the word "lonely" in the title. That got me thinking about making the entire mix a "lonely" mix. And this is the result.

It was fairly simple - I just searched for tracks with the word "lonely." and in no time at all I had enough for a mix. That's all there really is to say about it.

Cheers!

[ s t r e a m ]    [ d o w n l o a d ]    [ a p p l e _ p o d c a s t s ]

T R A C K L I S T :

• 00:00   Anthéne - this lonely path (the slow wave 2021)
• 03:35   Kevin Paczesny - Lonely River (Lost Horizons 2025)
• 09:52   The Howard Hughes Suite - The Lonely Shore (Through the Ether 2021)
• 13:48   Stars Of The Lid - The Lonely People(Are Getting Lonlier) (The Tired Sounds Of Stars Of The Lid)
• 20:30   Brian Eno & Harold Budd - Wind In Lonely Fences (Ambient 2 The Plateaux Of Mirror 1979)
• 24:10   Sonmi451 - The Distant Sound Of A Lonely Tree (Hummingbird 2013)
• 29:12   Juliet Walkingtom & Jim Howard - Lonely Road (Beyond The Treeline 2025)
• 34:21   Klaus Schulze - The Lonely Dead of Midnight (Timbres Of Ice 2019)
• 41:40   derrickderrick - A pack of gauloises to fill the lonely nights (Happiest in illusion 2024)
• 44:30   David Parsons - Meditation on a Lonely Pool (Tibetan Plateau / Sounds of the Mothership 1991)
• 48:30   SUSS - Road Trip Part 3(The Lonely Path) (High Line 2019)
• 51:20   Hammock - Lonely, Some Quietly Wander in the Hall of Stars (Longest Year 2010)
• 57:10   Building a Building - Galactic Static and Lonely Pings (Notebook of Strange Dreams & Nightmares 2021)
• 60:00   end

Berlin School Electronic Music 2024

I have continued my recent bingeing of berlin-school electronic music. Devouring old and new music. So I was very excited when guest mixer Erwin Broers reached with a new berlin-school mix. Woo hoo! It's all new music, some of Erwin's favorites from 2024. I was familiar with about half of the artists some it was great to discover new music.

I'll let Erwin tell you about the mix:

"I was inspired by LLM end of the year mixes on ambient and jazz. I came up with the idea of doing something similar for the Berlin School subgenre. So I checked a few blogs and searched specialized web shops for the most interesting releases of 2024. The result is a near-2hr foray with lots of different styles and atmospheres, ranging from dark to uplifting, retro analog to modern digital, occasionally with a touch of electric guitar and percussions, but almost always with typical layers of sequencers and soundscapes. The influence of the pioneers of the genre, Klaus Schulze and Tangerine Dream, is still very much alive in some tracks, almost 50 years after their prime. Filtercafe and Sequentia Legenda obviously draw from that heritage. Most listeners will not like all the tracks, but it is a good introduction to what is being created in the contemporary Berlin School."

Thanks for another great electronic mix. Look for another mix from Erwin coming next month.

LINKS TO ALL  THE MUSIC USED IN THIS MIX:

http://paulellisperthomhav.bandcamp.com/album/orpheus

http://perge.bandcamp.com/album/la-roue

http://gertemmens.bandcamp.com/album/elektra-25th-anniversary-edition

http://manikinrecords.bandcamp.com/album/106

http://cosmicground.bandcamp.com/album/area-24

http://thombrennan.bandcamp.com/album/othadiegra

http://pyramid-peak.bandcamp.com/album/kontinuum-2

http://sphericmusic-shop.de/de/schroeder-robert/1816-schroeder-robert-observer.html

http://projektrecords.bandcamp.com/album/solastalgia

http://moonsatellite2.bandcamp.com/album/motions-of-ethereal-lunar

http://awenson.bandcamp.com/album/awenson-faith

http://cyclicaldreams.bandcamp.com/album/veiled-portraits-cyd-0118

http://sequentia-legenda.bandcamp.com/album/galactic-crystals

http://emmensboots.bandcamp.com/album/lost-in-dephts-of-desolation

Cheers!

[ s t r e a m ]    [ d o w n l o a d ]    [ a p p l e _ p o d c a s t s ]

T R A C K L I S T :

• 00:00:00   Paul Ellis & Per Thomhav - Orpheus (Orpheus)
• 00:06:11   Perge - La Roue (La Roue)
• 00:11:21   Gert Emmens - Elektra Part 1 (Elektra 25th Anniversary Edition)
• 00:18:38   Filtercafé - Kaltwasserhahn (106)
• 00:32:00   Cosmic Ground - Area 24 Part 4 (Area 24)
• 00:37:02   Thom Brennan - Othadiegra Part 5 (Othadiegra)
• 00:43:51   Pyramid Peak - Aquamarine (Kontinuum)
• 00:51:13   Robert Schroeder - Observer (Observer)
• 00:58:57   Erik Wöllo - Forever River (Solastalgia)
• 01:06:42   MoonSatellite - Motion Part 3 (Motions Of Ethereal Lunar)
• 01:15:00   Awenson - Van Halen (Faith)
• 01:25:58   Paul Ellis & Pabellón Sintético - Synonymous (Veiled Portraits)
• 01:31:31   Sequentia Legenda - Crystal Of Light (Galactic Crystals)
• 01:41:40   Gert Emmens & Ron Boots - Lost In Dephts Of Desolation (Lost In Depths Of Desolation)
• 01:56:09   end

Winter Songs

 

This is the perfect time for a winter mix because we finally got a substantial snowfall today. I was worried that my snowblower wouldn't get a workout this year. I had already planned on a winter mix and then bang - 8" of snow.

This past fall I made a mix for autumn that alternated between instrumental & vocal tunes and I really like the way it turned out. So this mix follows the same guidelines but with a winter theme.

All the tracks have winter or snow or cold in the title and, like the autumn mix, they mostly alternate instrumental/vocal. Though there a few deviations from that rhythm.

Cheers!

[ s t r e a m ]    [ d o w n l o a d ]    [ a p p l e _ p o d c a s t s ]

T R A C K L I S T :

• 00:00   Library Tapes - It Was A Cold Day In February And We Walked Across The Lake
• (Feelings For Something Lost 2006)
• 01:19   Kate Bush - Snowflake (50 Words For Snow 2011)
• 10:45   Hiroshi Yoshimura - Urban Snow (Music for Nine Post Cards 1982)
• 15:18   Jan Bang - Winter Sings (Reading the Air 2024)
• 19:00   Fuzzy Lights - Snowstorm In A Snow Globe (That Fuzzy Feeling 2007)
• 21:43   Adrianne Lenker - Snow Song (Hours Were the Birds 2014)
• 25:35   Saint Etienne - Snowbound on the South Bank (A Glimpse of Stocking 2010)
• 27:08   Vashti Bunyan - Winter is Blue (Just Another Diamond Day 2001)
• 28:54   Ben McElroy - Store Away For A Winters Day (How I Learnt To Disengage From The Pack 2021)
• 31:55   Ray LaMontagne - Winter Birds (Gossip in the Grain 2008)
• 37:51   Sailcloth - Winter Walks (Close Keeping 2018)
• 39:55   The Rural Alberta Advantage - Coldest Days (Departing 2011)
• 42:45   Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal (Fleet Foxes 2008)
• 45:10   Jody Mosher - Snow(vocal and bazz flute) (Snow 2025)
• 49:30   Christopher Hanlon - Dreams of Summer in Winter (Dreaming of Summer in Winter 2022)
• 51:42   Doug Ashdown - Winter in America (No Cheap Grace 1995)
• 55:41   Kika Sprangers - Winter ( (In)finity 2024)
• 58:14   Voces8 - Arnalds: For Now I Am Winter (Winter 2016)
• 62:57   end

Quiet Fusion

 

Back in the 70s I was a huge prog rock fan and an offshoot of that fandom was discovering jazz fusion. I think Jean-Luc Ponty was the first proper fusion record I ever owned. I believe I was a fusion fan before getting into jazz in general. 

I've been planning on creating a fusion mix for months but just haven't gotten around to it. Then last month I was sipping coffee on a cold morning, listening to a fusion playlist, when a couple of laid back tunes came up. I immediately started a new playlist for quiet fusion tracks. And this mix is the result.

It's got some of my all time favorite jazz fusion artists - Alan Holdsworth, Brand X, Pat Metheny, Herbie Hancock & Miles Davis. But surprisingly, not my fav fusion artist - Bill Bruford. He just didn't have anything quiet enough that worked with the mix. But at least his guitarist, Alan Holdsworth made the cut.

I hope you enjoy listening to this little diversion as much as I did creating it.

Cheers!

[ s t r e a m ]    [ d o w n l o a d ]    [ a p p l e _ p o d c a s t s ]

T R A C K L I S T :

• 00:00   Herbie Hancock - Vein Melter (Head Hunters 1973)
• 08:50   Allan Holdsworth - Distance vs Desire (Sand 1987)
• 13:56   John Abercrombie - Timeless (Timeless 1974)
• 21:38   Pat Metheny & Lyle Mays - September Fifteenth
• (As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls 1981)
• 29:06   Jaco Pastorius - Continuum (Jaco Pastorius 1976)
• 33:30   Soft Machine  - Between (Six 1973)
• 35:33   Joe Zawinul - In A Silent Way (Zawinul 1971)
• 40:11   Gong Emotions (Downwind 1979)
• 44:50   Jean-Luc Ponty - I Only Feel Good With You
• (Cosmic Messenger 1978)
• 47:38   Brand X - Black Moon (Masques 1978)
• 51:55   Miles Davis - It's About Time
• (The Complete In a Silent Way Sessions 2001)
• 60:49   e n d