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Wednesday, January 18, 2023

A Foggy Winter's Dub

This mix is much more straightforward than the Antarctica set. This mix follows my "dubby & dreamy" formula of ethereal ambient dub tracks with a few gentle beats and lots of synth washes.

Here are the 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 PLastikman & Chilly Gonzalez - Ekko(In Key) (Consumed In Key 2022)
03:39 CELL - Onwards System - Fugitive Perpetuity (Onwards System 2022)
09:00 ASC - Solitude (Ultimae Records - Isolated 2022)
12:10 Solar Debris - It's All Dark When You Are Gone (Arctic Dub Compilation 2019)
16:50 Owl - Distant Transmission (Infinite Horizon 2021)
20:20 EROT - Observer Effect (Gneiss EP 2021)
24:50 MYKJA - Vera Á Reiki (North Paths 2017)
32:40 Motionfield - Midnight Metro (Optical Flow 2014)
38:32 Earthen Sea - Shallow, Shadowless (Grass & Trees 2019)
43:20 ASC - Sequence 4 (Sequenced 2017)
47:00 Mr Zu - Echova (Driftwood EP 2016)
53:00 Model 500 - Starlight(Intrusion dub) (2008)
57:45 Daar - Coda (Entire 2021)
60:00 end

Sunday, November 22, 2020

Keeping Time in the Golden Hour

I'm in the process of making lists of my top 5 instrumental albums for each year from 1970 to the present. Yeah, it's going take a while. So I was digging around in my music hard drive looking for music that would fit those lists and I stumbled upon the track Tulpa Ovi by Robag Wruhme. I immediately loved the feel of tune and knew I needed it in a mix.

The cut has a feeling of motion similar to others I've used in train themed mixes. But it was more gentle, almost wistful. It made me think of traveling during sunset or the golden hour. Hence the title "Keeping Time in the Golden Hour."

From there I collected tracks, new and old, with a similar vibe. In addition to the cut by Robag Wruhme my other favorites in this mix are "St. Catherine and the Calm" by Francis Harris and "Ankeney, Iowa" by Tiki Obmar. I like all the tracks in this mix but those two really get me.

Normally I'd say this would be a perfect mix for traveling during the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday but it's 2020 so stay home. Put this mix on and do some virtual traveling. Here's a little video promo I made to put in that frame of mind.

Cheers!

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T R A C K L I S T I N G :

00:00 Francis Harris - St. Catherine and the Calm (Trivial Occupations 2018)
08:25 Robag Wruhme - Tulpa Ovi (Thora Vukk 2011)
10:42 Night Sea - Cherry (Still 2020)
16:18 Tiki Obmar - Ankeney, Iowa (High School Confidential 2003)
28:18 Ghosting Season - Through Your Teeth ( The Very Last Of The Saints 2012)
32:43 Saphileaum - Soft Warming (In Distant Terra 2020)
37:37 Sven Laux - Grass-Covered Plain (We Were Here 2013)
46:08 Halftribe & Spinnet - Mr & Mrs Everywhere (Patterns of Sync 2020)
53:14 Robag Wruhme - Prognosen Bomm (Thora Vukk 2011)
56:25 vau - Nightfall (ways of stillness 2018)
63:43 end

Sunday, May 29, 2016

dubscapes & seacapes

I love me some ambient dub. I also love ambient tunes that remind me of the sea. Over the years I've made 7 dub style mixes & 6 sea themed mixes. This new mix combines those two obsessions.

There's now much else to say about all the music here. other than I think all the tunes flow nicely & work well within this theme.

Enjoy

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T R A C K L I S T :

00:00 Brother Blue - Summoning UFOs
05:55 Shaded Explorer - Sea Mist
10:33 Purl - Havets Sang
16:25 Kris Dubinsky & Warmth - Sammanväxta Toner
20:55 Purl - Montauk
27:50 Wanderwelle - Leaving Port Logan
31:00 Urenga - Ocean's Secret
37:55 Markus Guentner - Baryon
44:25 Bjorn Rohde - Forest of Forgotten Hearts(reflections edit)
49:40 Kris Dubinsky & Warmth - Uncertain Horizon
54:39 Kanthor - Hegemony
59:15 Gas - Pop III
65:22 Purl - Remnant
73:37 end

Sunday, September 13, 2015

dubby & rainy

I was planning on making a rain mix sometime this fall & I was planning on making a dub mix as well. Then I realized that those two theme as perfect for each other. So here is the appropriately titled mix "dubby & rainy."

I love how a lot of ambient dub tunes already sound sort of "rainy." They make liberal use of white noise which is great for conjuring a rainy atmosphere. So many of these tracks already sound & feel "rainy" that I didn't have to add much rain fx.

Enjoy

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T R A C K L I S T:

00:00 DeepChord - Morning
01:00 Segue - Rain Drone
03:20 Mind Over MIDI - Soften By Rainfall
07:05 Fieldhead - I'm Fond of Maps
09:50 Optical Frameworks - Silenced Streets, Reflections in Rain
14:00 As If - Trip 5
18:50 Donato Dozzy - Vaporware 1
23:05 Shaded Explorer - Sea Mist
28:30 DeepChord - Prayer Wheel
32:44 Loscil - Angel of List
37:37 krill.minima - Serpentine
39:00 Marco Madia - Hydrotropism
41:00 Mr. Cloudy - DS4
48:20 AES DANA - Beneath
52:10 Blamstrain - Sunday Dub
57:57 Ethernet - Rain Elemental
61:50 Deepchord - Neon and Rain
65:20 Deepchord - Day's End
66:50 Variant - After the Rain
78:30 Ethernet - After Dark
86:24 end

Dubby & rainy by Low Light Mixes on Mixcloud

Saturday, December 14, 2013

A Winter's Dub

I love dubby ambient. I think this is my third dub mix this year. I'm sure I'll grow tired of this style of music but for now I'm soaking it in. It was snowing while I made this mix & the music just seemed to fit the winter mood. Hence the name "A Winter's Dub."

Many of the tracks in this mix came from Bandcamp. As a matter of fact, all the links in the tracklist are to Bandcamp pages. I love Bandcamp. So easy & convenient. And great for discovering new music. I bought a bunch of stuff this year by following other folks & sampling we they buy.

Here is my Bandcamp collection for anyone that's interested.

Enjoy the dub!

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T R A C K L I S T

00:00 The Sight Below - Further Away
05:20 Optical Frameworks - Flicker Platform, Luses
09:40 Adam Michalak - Immersed in Dreams
16:35 Axs - Frozen Signpost
24:30 Blamstrain - Tundra I
32:50 VidasM - Mire
37:20 Sen - Soul Rain
41:40 Vectrex - Silent
46:50 krill.minima - Surface from the Groundless Oceans
53:40 Seaman & The Tattered Sail - Matter & Light
1:00:50 Seas - Arctic
1:11:50 Optical Frameworks - One Semitone
1:18:00 Marco Madia - Music for Plants
1:20:25 Blamstrain - Sunday Dub 6pm
1:25:20 The Nautilus Project - The Enchanting Forest
1:41:20 end

A winter's dub by Low Light Mixes on Mixcloud

Tuesday, August 13, 2013

dub transmissions

I happened to come across a new tune from Moritz Von Oswald Trio. The song, Blue Dub, has this great, slow, sparse dub thing going on that I love. I knew as soon as I heard it that I'd have to make a new mix of dub related tunes.

So, "dub transmissions" is, duh, is mix of dub tunes. I've done them before & this one is similar to the others. I think the previous ones have had parts that are a little noisier & spacier than this mix. Most of these tunes have a beat, although that beat can be very laid back and muffled.

Enjoy.

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T R A C K L I S T :

00:00 Moritz Von Oswald Trio - Blue Dub
05:30 The Black Dog - Sleep Deprivation 1
09:30 krill.minima - Kalypso
12:50 Holger Flinsch - Navigator
19:10 Massive Attack - Cool Monsoon
23:00 Deepcord - Theme From Silent World
32:20 Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement - The Spirit Wore the Shoes of the Boy
37:10 Iminazole - Sunny
41:20 The Green Kingdom - dustloop4
44:05 Deadbeat - Portable Memory
47:30 As If - Crumble to Dust
54:30 Pablo Bolivar - Walk Man Fever
05:05 As If - To Be Ground
09:30 Bjorn Rohde - Forest of Forgotten Hearts
15:35 end

Dub transmissions by Lowlight on Mixcloud

Monday, February 13, 2012

dubby & dreamy

My son the dubstep DJ(he had nothing to do with the mix, but the pic went with the music).

Ambient dub, minimal dub, ambi-dub, whatever you want to call it, is something that I listen to every now & then. I like making mixes with this music because the tracks flow so well together.

I've done three previous dub mixes and while they are all laid back, this one may be more so. It collects some dubby cuts & weaves in some noise & washes of field recordings from the fantastic ambi-dub recording, "DeepChord presents Echospace - Liumin." The bonus cd for that album is all the field recordings that were the source material for the tracks on the other disc.

Not all the cuts are straight up dub tracks, but they do all fit together nicely. Almost all the tracks are new with the exception of the krill.minima & Plastikman tunes.

Enjoy.

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T R A C K L I S T :

00:00 Andy Stott - Submission
01:10 Sven Schienhammer - Sound Signals for Other Planets
04:15 Bop - My Heart in a Freezer
06:10 Demdike Stare - Matilda's Dream
09:50 Resoe - Edith's Serenade(r.i.p)
13:52 Overcast Sound - Devil's Mountain
14:25 Robag Wruhme - Brucke Eins
14:25 Deepchord - Untitled #1 (runs concurrently)
15:50 Vatican Shadow - missing hmm364 squadron purple foxes assassins
18:05 Moritz Von Oswald Trio - Pattern #4
20:35 Demdike Stare - Nothing But The Night 2
22:50 Marow - Iridescence
24:15 Coppice Halifax - Sunken Dancehall
29:35 Sven Schienhammer - Being Immersed in Another World
35:55 Deepchord - Untitled #7
36:40 krill.minima - Princess of the Undersea Gardens
40:35 Koss - Monday Conversations
42:55 Coppice Halifax - Luxury
47:50 Plastikman - cor ten
50:10 Sven Schienhammer - Back Into The Here & Now
54:30 krill.minima - sommerdellen
57:45 end

Dubby and dreamy by Lowlight on Mixcloud

Saturday, December 11, 2010

subatomic dubscapes

The term "dubscapes" in the title of the mix pretty much says it all. This is dub mix. I've used dubby style songs in mixes before but never did a whole dub mix.

Of course after setting out to do an all dub mix, I veered off course pretty quickly by including a cover of the Twin Peaks theme & track from Vangelis. I'd been looking for a way to work those two tunes into a mix & they seem to fit pretty well here.

The Twin Peaks cover is by Talvihorros. He has an excellent recording out on Hibernate called "Music in Four Movements". After buying the albumBen Chatwin(Talvihorros) was kind enough to send me a copy of his version of the Twin Peaks theme. I liked this version immediately & knew I had to find a home for it in a mix.

One track in the mix is from an album that will end up in my top ten list this year. The album is Deepchord presents Echospace - Liumin/Liumin Reduced. It's a double album with the first being great ambient dub/techno and the second an album of field recorded treatments made by Rod Modell in Tokyo. An immersive record that I highly recommend.

The dub used in this mix is fairly ambient, especially towards the end where the ambient drones & washes come in & the beats slow way down.

Download (right click/save as) : 71mb, 51:20
subatomic dubscapes

T R A C K L I S T :

00:00 Fluxion - Field
03:25 Polmo Polpo - Rottura
08:55 Marconi Union - Temperature Drop
13:28 Talvihorros - Twin Peaks Theme
17:55 Deepchord presents Echospace - In Echospace
21:30 Vangelis - Antartica
26:30 The Orb - Slug Dub
31:25 Rod Modell - Mars Oil
36:16 Fluxion - Plain
38:50 Mokira - Lord, Am I Going Down
42:00 Wixel - You're Inside Your Own shadow
44:45 Sval - Valldal
51:20 end

Friday, April 16, 2010

eppur si muove(and yet it moves)

The mixes are coming fast and furious! I'm trying to crank out a few more than normal. This one seems to be fast paced compared to the usual mixes found here.

This creation is similar to a mix I did in 2008 called "Motion for Relief". Ambient dub would be the best way to describe this installment. Not all the tunes are "dub" but most have beats, some more prominent than others. The feel is still pretty laid back, with just enough going on to give a sense of movement. Hence the title, "eppur si muove(and yet it moves)", which is apparently a phrase uttered by Galileo.

Enjoy

Download (right click/save as) : 82mb 59:57
eppur si muove(and yet it moves)

T R A C K L I S T :

00:00 Pan American - B esso
04:30 Deepchord - Vantage Isle (echospace reshape)
08:50 Aardvarck - bloom 4

11:45 Marconi Union - Shibuya
14:45 Porter Ricks - Redundance 3
20:40 Rhythm & Sound - Hit You Version ??
27:40 Kiln - Royal Peppermint Forest
30:50 Rena Jones - Indra’s Web
33:40 Rod Modell - beach
37:20 Shuttle 358 - Calty
40:50 Marconi Union - We Travel
47:25 Jonathan Hughes - Dieresis
49:40 Basic Channel - Radiance i edit
53:30 James Murray - eleven (decades mix)
59:57 end