You're In An 80s Film Driving At Night

 

This mix started via a Spotify playlist with the same name - "You're in an 80s Film Driving at Night." I really liked the synth vibes so I created my own folder at home and began collecting tracks.

The mix has a great retro vibe even though many of the tracks are from the last 10 years. But, of course, I had to include some cuts from the time period with songs from Tangerine Dream, John Carpenter & Vangelis.

Hop in your Delorean and head back to the 1980s for some retro electronic goodness.

Cheers!

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T R A C K L I S T :

• 00:00   All India Radio - Rust (Solo Electronique 1984 2017)
• 02:47   Tangerine Dream - Dr. Destructo (Thief 1981)
• 05:45   Sinoia Caves - 1983 Main Theme (Beyond the Black Rainbow 2014)
• 08:15   Emmx - The Nation (The Nation 2022)
• 11:00   A.L.I.S.O.N - Subtract (Signal Flow 2019)
• 15:45   John Carpenter - He's Still Alive/Romero (Escape From New York 2005)
• 17:55   Harold Faltermeyer - Logo-Bakersfield (The Running Man 1987) 
• 20:50   Baldocaster - Map to the Stars (Part II) (Solare 2019)
• 22:25   Tangerine Dream - Love on a Real Train (Risky Business 1984)
• 26:00   Volkor X - Outlaws (Heart Wired, Pt. 1 2019)
• 31:51   Baldocaster - Shadow Figures (Memorie 2022)
• 36:17   John Carpenter - Night (John Carpenter's Lost Themes 2015)
• 39:45   Vangelis - Blade Runner(End Titles) (Blade Runner 1994)
• 44:08   Cliff Martinez - Bride of Deluxe (Drive 2011)
• 46:47   Disasterpeace - Detroit (It Follows 2015)
• 47:52   Inhmost - Gravity(feat. Nashira) (Dragbacks on Dockweiler State Beach 2015)
• 53:16   Tangerine Dream - Beach Scene (Thief 1981)
• 59:11   end

Soundtrack for Perseid Meteor Shower 2025

The annual Perseid meteor shower peaks tonight and tomorrow night, August 12th & 13th. I like to use the Perseids as an excuse to create a spacey, ambient mix for stargazing. So here it is.

The first track I grabbed for this mix was Jeff Pearce - For The Perseids, from the Gemstones IV compilation. How could I not use that cut in a mix like this. So I decided to look for other tracks with names that would fit and it was fairly easy to find a bunch that worked. Again, how could I resist tunes called "Luminous Dust Trails" and "Night Drifters" and "Comet Tails."

Get outside and scan the skies.

LINKS TO ALL THE MUSIC USED IN THIS MIX:

• https://cyclicaldreams.bandcamp.com/album/gemstones-iv-cyd-0089
• https://chitrarecords.bandcamp.com/album/ashes
• https://tonepoet.bandcamp.com/album/scenes-from-the-apocalyptic-bliss
• https://pulsemandala.bandcamp.com/album/cocoon
• https://foundrysite.bandcamp.com/album/lost-and-found-a-foundry-anthology
• https://dataobscura.bandcamp.com/album/garden-of-twilight
• https://philippedeschampsfilms.bandcamp.com/album/the-silence-of-pallas
• https://dronarivm.bandcamp.com/album/murmurs-of-the-machine
• https://nicoless.bandcamp.com/album/moving
• https://philippedeschampsfilms.bandcamp.com/album/endless-vanishing-lines
• https://synphaera.bandcamp.com/album/cosmic-echo
• https://lawrenceenglish.bandcamp.com/album/selene
• https://dronarivm.bandcamp.com/album/tarnished-tapes-and-saturated-signals

Cheers!

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T R A C K L I S T :

• 00:00   Jeff Pearce - For the Perseids (Gemstones IV 2023)
• 05:25   Logic Moon - Night Drifters (Ashes 2025)
• 08:08   Tonepoet - Infinite Tide of Stars (Scenes From The Apocalyptic Bliss 2024)
• 12:09   Applefish & Pulse Mandala - Touch of Gravity (Cocoon 2024)
• 17:38   EM - Galaxies Like Grains of Sand (Lost and Found: A Foundry Anthology 2002)
• 21:54   Robert Davies - Beneath Strange Stars (Garden Of Twilight 2006)
• 25:30   Philippe Deschamps - Cybele Asteroids (The Silence of Pallas 2024)
• 30:21   Xu - Luminous Dust Trails (Murmurs of the Machine 2025)
• 33:03   Nico Less - Textures (Moving 2024)
• 37:11   Logic Moon - Transient Light (Ashes 2025)
• 39:47   Philippe Deschamps - Shape of the Night (Endless Vanishing Lines 2025)
• 43:12   Martin Stürtzer - Comet Tails (Cosmic Echo 2023)
• 52:24   Akira Kosemura & Lawrence English - Twilight Wave (Selene 2024)
• 56:00   Mike Lazarev - The Final Resonance of Light (Tarnished Tapes and Saturated Signals 2025)

ECM Favorites

 

I've been listening to the ECM record label since the 1970s. You can always count on ECM to put out interesting and sometimes great records.

My favorite ECM release is Steve Reich's "Music for 18 Musicians." It's not only my favorite ECM album, it's one of my top albums of all-time. A real desert island record for me. A few of my other favorite regular ECM artists are Steve Tibbetts, Eberhard Weber & Pat Metheny. 

We had a discussion about our favorite ECM recordings over on Mixcloud. You can read or join in the thread here - https://www.mixcloud.com/lowlight/posts/favorite-ecm-albums/

I decided it wouyld be cool to make a mix of my top ten favorite ECM albums. I put it together in chronological order, starting with Ralph Towner & a fantastic version of Icarus. And ending with a 2017 album from Björn Meyer.

Please leave a comment with some of your favorites in the comments and enjoy this little journey through ECM.

Cheers!

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T R A C K L I S T :

• 00:00   Ralph Towner - Icarus (Diary 1974)
• 06:08   Pat Metheny - Sirabhorn (Bright Size Life 1976)
• 11:28   Eberhard Weber - Moana I (The Following Morning 1976)
• 19:54   Steve Reich - Pulses (Music For 18 Musicians 1978)
• 25:08   Pat Metheny & Lyle Mays - As Falls Wichita, So Falls
• Wichita Falls (As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls 1980)
• 32:45   Steve Tibbetts - Ur (Yr 1988)
• 40:15   Jan Gabarek - Parce Mihi Domine(de Morales) (Officium 1993)
• 45:40   Arvo Pärt - Spiegel Im Spiegel (Alina 2000)
• 54:30   Jon Hassell - Blue Period (Last Night The Moon Came Dropping
• Its Clothes In The Street 2009)
• 61:20   Björn Meyer - Pulse (Provenance 2017)
• 64:05   end