Friday, June 19, 2026

Just My Type(records)

 


Recently I was messaging with LLM guest mixer, Roquen Lómë, about Type records - an experimental record label that was active from 2003 to 2013. Founded by John Twells & Stefan Lewandowski in the U.K., Type released some creative music in those ten years ranging from delicate piano to sculptured noise to glitchy electronica to ambient to psych folk.

I thought it would be fun to create a mix of music from Type records catalog - then I looked at that catalog and, wow they sure did release a ton of music. There's no way to make an exhaustive review of their releases so I decided to go chronologically through some of my favorites. That still only scratched the surface, I think I have more than 40 Type records in my collection. 

It was nice listening to some of the recordings for the first time in years and I hope you too enjoy this little trip into the past.

Cheers!


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T R A C K L I S T :

  • 00:00   Mokira - Untitled #3 (Album 2003)
  • 04:25   Deaf Center - Walk (Neon City 2004)
  • 07:21   Golden - Door of Our Home (Corduroy Road 2005)
  • 10:37   Julien Neto - I(one) (Le Fumeur de Ciel 2005)
  • 13:35   North Sea & Rameses III - Night Blossom Written in Sanskrit (Night of the Ankou 2005)
  • 19:19   Xela - Bobble Hats In Summer (For Frosty Mornings And Summer Nights 2007)
  • 25:08   The Alps - Trem Fanstasma (iii 2008)
  • 31:14   Richard Skelton - Grange (Marking Time 2008)
  • 34:00   Koen Holtkamp - You Mean The World To Me (Field Rituals 2008)
  • 36:20   Grouper - We've All Time To Sleep (Dragging a Dead Deer Up A Hill 2008)
  • 39:12   Helios - Hope Valley Hill (Caesura 2008)
  • 44:05   Black To Comm - Hotel Freund (Alphabet 1968 2009)
  • 47:57   Jóhann Jóhannsson - Pods (And in the Endless Pause There Came the Sound of Bees 2009)
  • 50:55   Ezekiel Honig - Drafting Foresight (Folding In On Itself 2011)
  • 54:35   Sylvain Chauveau - The Unbroken Line (Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated) 2010)
  • 57:41   end

Wednesday, June 03, 2026

The Joy of Trains by Paul Asbury Seaman



Another train mix? Another Berlin-school mix? Yes and hell yes! I've been struggling to keep up with creating new mixes and then, like a train pulling into the station right on time, Paul comes to me with a new mix. Perfect timing!

This one has tunes that are all fairly recent so it was fun to hear new stuff or discover new artists. I'm always up for new Berlin-school music and this set from Paul does that with long, evolving tracks that suck you in and keep you going. Here's what Paul says about his latest collection:

"I expect that for people who commute to work by train, there’s not much novelty in it. But most of my train-themed mixes imagine a long-distance trip where the journey itself is the experience and the destination somewhere in your imagination. As I’ve said before, sequencer-based “Berlin School” synthesizer music is a natural fit to evoke the subtle, hypnotic rhythms of travel by train. The six artists in this set were all new to me this year—and what a joy it has been to discover them."

Thanks again, Paul, for this wonderful collection of train tracks.

LINKS TO ALL THE MUSIC USED IN THIS MIX:

https://jimkirkwood.bandcamp.com/album/souls-that-dance-on-the-edge-of-a-sword

https://lvmorris.bandcamp.com/album/darkstar

https://albaecstasy.bandcamp.com/album/berlin-school-reveries-vol-1

https://grantbeasley.bandcamp.com/album/dreams-in-deep-space

https://dask.bandcamp.com/album/transitions-2025-24-bit

https://dtime.bandcamp.com/album/birth-of-a-constellation-album

Cheers!


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T R A C K L I S T :

  • 00:00   Jim Kirkwood - Tenebrae-The Moonbeam Road (Souls That Dance on the Edge of a Sword 2021)
  • 09:27   L.V. Morris - Rings Around the Sun (Darkstar 2025)
  • 18:25   Alba Ecstasy - Reverie One (Berlin School Reveries, Vol. 1 2025)
  • 28:50   Grant Beasley - Observing Time (Dreams in Deep Space 2025)
  • 37:47   DASK - Transitions (Transitions 2025)
  • 55:00   DTime – In The Crystalline Light (Birth Of A Constellation 2024)
  • 70:20   end