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Wednesday, February 28, 2024

DUNE - The Storm

Denis Villeneuve's eagerly anticipated continuation of the Dune saga has arrived. I am definitely psyched about seeing it this weekend. So ramp up my excitement even more I made an alternative soundtrack mix. This set features tracks that sound like they might fit the film but are not from either of the two actual soundtracks.

There's not much else to say other than enjoy the mix and then go see the film. It's going to be epic.

Cheers!

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T R A C K L I S T :

00:00 Arushi Jain - My People Have Deep Roots (Under The Lilac Sky 2021)
03:50 Peter Gabriel - Trills (Passion Outtakes 1989)
04:15 Eluvium - Hallucination III (Virga II 2021)
07:50 Jaimie Branch - The Storm (FLY or DIE LIVE 2021)
10:10 NYX - Deep England (Deep England 2021)
13:45 Palancar - The Hand of God (Desert Power 2022)
19:30 Abul Mogard - Clouds (In Immobile Air 2021)
25:40 Johann Johannsson - To Fold & Remain Dormant (Drone Mass 2022)
29:30 Arushi Jain - Richer Than Blood (Under The Lilac Sky 2021)
32:00 Scanner - The Earthbound Fox (Struktura Revisited 2022)
36:40 Lustmord - Twin Flames (Alter 2021)
45:50 Atli Örvarsson - Wolka (Wolka 2021)
50:35 Palancar - The Emperor's Blades (Desert Power 2022)
51:45 Daryl Groetsch - Desert Serenity (Scenes from Some Planet 2022)
57:14 end

Wednesday, March 15, 2023

Replicant Memories

Blade Runner is obviously one of the great sci-fi films of all time, with one of the best soundtracks of all time. As a testament to the staying power of Vangelis' work, we still have a artists today that mimic the sound of the Blade Runner score.

The recording that got me started on this mix is brand new from Crows Labyrinth called "Neon Scenes I: Granular Dreams". It's a longform generative ambient drone track with a lead synth that has a great Blade Runner vibe. You can find it here... https://crowslabyrinth.bandcamp.com/album/neon-scenes-i-granular-dreams

As soon as I heard that track I knew I had to create another Blade Runner mix. This is my fourth one. Here are the links to the others:

https://www.mixcloud.com/lowlight/alternative-blade-runner-2049-soundtrack/

https://www.mixcloud.com/lowlight/blade-runner-is-now/

https://www.mixcloud.com/lowlight/blade-runner-pop-soundtrack/

One thing that sets this mix apart from the others is that many of the tunes are very purposely trying to replicate the sound of the original soundtrack. Some cuts even use rain, voices and effects to mimic the feel. I added a bit of BR sound fx on a couple of tracks to reinforce the vibe. Most of the time though it's that lead synth sound that transports me right back to 1982.

Some folks may have a problem with current artists so blatantly aping a style and sound(some more than others here). But I don't care, I just love the overall sound and feel of these tracks.

Here links to the music used in this mix:

Cheers!

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T R A C K L I S T :

00:00 Crows Labyrinth - Neon Scenes I: Granular Dreams(Single Version) (2023)

03:40 State Azure - Nova Sonus (2022)

10:00 Andy Hagerty - Cadalach(Analogue Fantasy Mix) (Cadalach EP 2021)

14:50 The Rosen Corporation - A Good Joe (Pale Fire 2018)

22:12 Owl - Distant Transmission (Infinite Horizon 2021)

25:52 Boards of Canada - Collapse (Tomorrow's Harvest 2013)

28:00 Druid & Jok - Skyline Envelope (Terminals 2023)

31:54 Passengers - Ito Okashi (Original Soundtracks 1 1995)

34:50 State Azure - Folding Space (2020)

42:50 Monolog & Subheim - Colorful Flight (ConVIction 2017)

45:35 Graintable - UnIVersal Ash (UnIVersal Ash 2019)

50:24 Pye Corner Audio - Saturation Point (Let's Emerge! 2022)

53:53 The Rosen Corporation - Passing Thoughts (Neon Lovers 2020)

58:27 Alva Noto - A Forest (A Forest 2020)

61:48 The Rosen Corporation - The Warmth of Death (Pale Fire 2018)

66:20 end

Sunday, April 17, 2022

Severance - an alternative soundtrack

I love doing these alternative soundtrack mixes. I believe this is the fifth one I've made. Sometimes I have the mix take the soundtrack in a different direction and sometimes I simply follow the vibe of the original with all new tracks. This mix takes the later approach.

For anyone not familiar with it, Severance is a series on AppleTV+, an eerie dystopia where people can sever their work life from their home life with a brain implant. Variations on the main theme are used throughout the show. It's just odd & sinister enough to leave you feeling off kilter. Here's the opening credit sequence:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmS3m0OG-Ug

And here's the series trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJYlG5I4rOk

I was happy to have stumbled upon a collection of Erik Satie piano pieces that I've had for 40 years and found that the Gnossienne tracks worked perfectly with the feel of the Severance theme. Another common sound in the show is ticking or pulsing so you hear that in the Hans Zimmer cut and The Nick Cave track as well as a few others.

Even if you don't watch the show I hope you enjoy the mix.

Cheers!

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T R A C K L I S T :

00:00 Just a Human - The Basement (2022)
01:20 Hans Zimmer - The Mole (Dunkirk 2017)
02:58 Erik Satie - Gnossienne No. 1 (Early Piano Works, Vol. 1 1975)
08:31 Roedelius & Tim Story - Seeweed (4 Hands 2022)
12:19 Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross - Orphans of Krypton (Watchmen 2019)
14:11 Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - Red Ford (Kings OST 2018)
16:18 Piero Umiliani - Sole Percussioni (Continente Nero 1975)
18:50 Martin Glass - Okinawa Fantasia (The Pacific VIsions Of Martin Glass 2017)
20:10 Wilburn Burchette - Witch's Will (I Am The Center: Private Issue New Age In America, 1950-1990, 2013)
21:33 Eli Keszler - Realtor Creep (The Scary of Sixty-First 2021)
22:14 Angelo Badalamenti & David Lynch - Mysterioso #2 Film Version (Twin Peaks Archive 2011)
25:38 Nicholas Britell - Keepers of the Keys and Seals (If Beale Street Could Talk 2018)
27:20 Klaus Gesing, Björn Meyer, Samuel Rohrer - What We Leave (Amiira 2016)
32:08 Erik Satie - Gnossienne No. 4 (Early Piano Works, Vol. 1 1975)
35:02 Corey Fuller & Richard Skelton - Insula (Isolarii 2022)
38:19 Klaus Gesing, Björn Meyer, Samuel Rohrer - Flimmer (Amiira 2016)
40:20 Seefeel - Monastic (Succour [Redux] 2021)
46:08 Tale Of Us - Alla sera (Endless 2017)
52:09 Erik Satie - Gnossienne No. 3 (Early Piano Works, Vol. 1 1975)
56:33 end

Sunday, November 14, 2021

DUNE - an alternative soundtrack

Anyone who regularly follows this blog and my mixes knows that I am a science fiction dork. So it should come as no surprise that I saw Dune on opening weekend. I loved the film and have been thinking about an alternative soundtrack mix ever since.

There's not much to say other than this mix is a collection of tracks that remind me of the film. Most of the tracks are fairly new but a few older ones sneak in there, such as the one from Robert Rich & Lustmord, which goes back to 1995. The opening cut is the newest as it was written and produced by my son, who records as Just A Human, a couple of days after seeing the film.

If you see the film, see it in a theater. It's big and loud and really needs to be seen on a big screen.

Cheers!

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T R A C K L I S T :

00:00 Just A Human - Messages from the Deep
01:00 Ben Chatwin - Nordsjøen (Drone Signals 2018)
05:10 Serena Gabriel & Steve Roach - From The Sea (Seeing Inside 2021)
12:00 Murcof - Ideology Storm (The Alias Sessions 2021)
16:27 A Winged Victory for the Sullen - Thirteenth Century Travelogue (Invisible Cities 2021)
18:22 Robert Rich & B. Lustmord - Undulating Terrain (Stalker 1995)
22:12 Hibernis - The Grape Leaves (Middle of the Meds 2018)
27:00 Soriah - Uger-Khan Kargyraa (Gnostic 2019)
28:51 Rapoon - Don't Come Out At Night (Melancholic Songs of the Desert 2009)
32:40 Michel Banabila - Our Alien Voice (Trespassing 2017)
35:12 Brett Janzen - Penumbra (Aphelion 2021)
37:55 Arrowounds - Antarctica's Spherical Anomalies Leave Residual Trails (The Rise and Fall of the Melting World 2021)
41:55 Strië - Test for Ability (Perpetual Journey 2018)
44:44 Loscil - Zephyr with wind and strings
47:25 Tineidae - Epilogue (Exo 2020)
50:55 Jim Cole & Spectral Voices - Hear Earth (Innertones 2006)
52:35 Hanno Leichtmann - Wind (Nuit Du Plomb 2006)
57:00 end

Sunday, April 19, 2020

DEVS - a real & unreal soundtrack

DEVS, a tv series on FX/Hulu, is easily one of the best things I've ever seen on tv. It's written, directed and produced by Alex Garland the man responsible for Ex Machina & Annihilation, two of my favorite films of the last ten years.

The sound design and music in his films is always perfect. His musical collaborators are Ben Salisbury & Geoff Barrow and they are responsible for the music in DEVS as well. Garland lets scenes breathe, lets the music wash over you as the camera lingers.

It's difficult to separate the original music from pre-existing music used in the series. No soundtrack has been released so this mix has none of the newly written score. But I was able to track down a few of the pre-existing tracks that were used. The most important of which is Jan Garbarek - Regnantem Sempiterna. It makes several appearances throughout the series. One of the other pieces I was happy to find is Fortunate Ones by The Beacon Sound Choir. I ended up using two other tracks from them because they fit the style of the show perfectly.

I used several tracks from other soundtracks by Salisbury & Barrow and a few from the new Johann Johannsson album. I also used some favorite tracks from Cliff Martinez because of the steel drum sound he uses. Salisbury & Barrow used that same type of sound throughout their score. And anybody that has seen the series finale will know why I used Rachmaninov - Dues Meus.

If you haven't seen the series I highly recommend it. And then, of course, listen to this mix.

Cheers!

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T R A C K L I S T :

00:00 Jan Garbarek - Regnantem Sempiterna
05:28 Existence - Moon
06:15 DEVS - Stuart's Poem
08:48 Daniel Lopatin - Buzz Me Out
09:23 The Beacon Sound Choir - Fortunate Ones
12:04 Steve Reich - Come Out
14:35 Mica Levi - Bedroom
15:40 Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross - Hand Covers Bruise
19:25 Cliff Martinez - What Shoe Size
21:14 Johann Johannsson & Yair Elazar Glotman - Slow Destruction Of Neptune
24:36 Ashera - Lullaby for Mother Earth
27:38 Cliff Martinez - They Broke His Pelvis
28:39 Ben Salisbury & Geoff Barrow - Smelling Reality
29:25 Johann Johannsson & Yair Elazar Glotman - Remembrance Of The Past
30:45 Ben Salisbury & Geoff Barrow - The Ghost of Her Mother
33:48 Cliff Martinez - We Don't Have to Think Like That Anymore
36:15 The Beacon Sound Choir - Drone 3
39:52 Rachmaninov - Deus Meus
43:50 Ben Salisbury & Geoff Barrow - Dream Reality
44:25 Ben Salisbury & Geoff Barrow - Annihilation
48:15 The Beacon Sound Choir - Sea Of Voices (Machinefabriek Rework)
52:33 Johann Johannsson & Yair Elazar Glotman - The Last Men
55:28 Salisbury & Barrow - Sleep
56:42 Johannsson & Glotman - The Universal End
58:11 end

Sunday, December 22, 2019

Film Scores of the Decade

Here's another impossible task - compiling a mix of the best film scores of the decade. Like any of my other year-end mixes, this is not really a "Best" mix. It's a collection of scores that I listened to a lot and fit within my ambient aesthetic.

The tracks are laid out chronologically from when the films were released. Starting with Monsters in 2010 to Ex Machina in 2015 and finishing up with American Woman in 2019.

There are scores from four TV series included in this mix - Halt and Catch Fire, Mr. Robot, Stranger Things, and The Knick. They are some of my favorite soundtracks and definitely worth checking out.

There's not much else to say about this mix, it's pretty straight forward. I'm sure I missed a bunch of very good film scores but I think this mix holds together as a cohesive set. I hope you enjoy it!

Cheers!

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T R A C K L I S T :

00:00 Jon Hopkins - Water (Monsters 2010)
01:15 Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross - Intriguing Possibilities (The Social Network 2010)
04:05 Cliff Martinez - Rubber Head (Drive 2011)
06:35 Alexandre Desplat - Emergence of Life (Tree of Life 2011)
09:57 Dan Romer & Benh Zeitlin - The Thing That Made You (Beast of the Southern Wild 2012)
12:08 Tom Tykwer, Johnny Klimek, Reinhold Heil - Prelude to the Atlas March (Cloud Atlas 2012)
13:18 Alexandre Desplat - Maya on Plane (Zero Dark Thirty 2012)
17:05 Max Richter - Find Schumaker (Dosconnect 2013)
17:31 Arcade Fire - Sleepwalker (Her 2013)
20:13 Mark Orton - Their Pie Hawthorne version (Nebraska 2013)
22:40 Cliff Martinez - Finish Your Breakfast (The Knick 2014)
24:22 Han Zimmer - Cornfield Chase (Interstellar 2014)
25:42 Ben Salisbury & Geoff Barrow - Falling (Ex Machina 2015)
28:45 Nick Cave and Warren Ellis - Farewell at Tinguit (Loin Des Hommes 2015)
30:50 Ryuichi Sakamoto & Alva Noto - The Revenant Theme Noto Remodel (The Revenant 2015)
34:14 Johann Johannsson - Heptapod B (Arrival 2016)
37:40 Nicholas Britell - Metrorail Closing (Moonlight 2016)
38:52 Paul Haslinger - The Scenic Route (Halt and Catch Fire 2016)
40:27 Mac Quayle - 1.0_5-pierreloti.au (Mr. Robot 2016)
43:13 Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein - Hazmat Suits (Stranger Things 2016)
44:52 Christopher Spelman - Source of the Verde River (The Lost City of Z 2017)
48:03 Tamar-kali - Ronsel Leaves (Mudbound 2017)
49:10 Valgeir Sigurðsson - Communication (Little Moscow 2018)
51:33 Nicholas Britell - If Beale Street Could Talk End Credits (If Beale Street Could Talk 2018)
53:00 Adam Bryanbaum Wiltzie - Lipstick in the Trash (American Woman 2019)
56:29 end

Sunday, December 01, 2019

2019 Film Scores

I use a fair amount of film music in my mixes and have done mixes of all soundtrack tunes but I have never made a best of the year mix for film scores. Until now.

There were no blow my mind scores, like Arrival or Solaris, this year but there was a lot of excellent music to choose from for this mix.

As an ambient guy, I lean towards more atmospheric film scores. I'm not at all interested in the soundtrack for the new Star Wars film or Avengers Endgame. So in my list of 2019 favs there are the usual suspects - Clint Mansell, Max Richter, Cliff Martinez & Johann Johannsson. Along with great music from folks like Hildur Guðnadóttir, Peter Gregson, Stuart A. Staples, Daniel Hart, and Adam Bryanbaum Wiltzie.

One of my favorite film music discoveries of the year is William Ryan Fritch. In addition to the monumental collection of film music, Deceptive Cadence: Music For Film Volume I & II, he released two more film scores in November - Artifishal & Exit 12 which I knew I had to include because they are both excellent. All three recordings are available on Lost Tribe Sound - https://losttribesound.bandcamp.com/

Sometimes I start a mix with high expectations but with this one, I was just trying to cobble together enough tracks to make a mix worth uploading. But I've been listening to this mix for a week and I'm very happy with how it turned out. It flows really well is an engaging listen.

Up next Best Film Scores of the Decade.

Cheers!

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T R A C K L I S T :

00:00 William Ryan Fritch - Canary in the Coal Mine (Artifishal)
01:35 Ben Salisbury And Geoff Barrow - Amy Follows Luce (Luce)
03:45 Bryce Dessner - The Homecoming (The Kitchen)
05:19 Guðnadóttir, Hoedemaekers, Jóhannsson - Secret Rendevous (Trapped)
07:21 Max Richter - A Trip to the Moon (Ad Astra)
11:24 Paul Haslinger - The Connection (Halt & Catch Fire vol. 2)
13:15 Peter Gregson - Sequence Four (Mari)
17:24 Daniel Hart - John Beckers (Over Water)
21:00 Richard Thompson - The Cold Blue (The Cold Blue)
24:00 Cliff Martinez - I'm Not Going to Hurt You (Too Old to Die Young)
25:42 M83 - End Credits (Knife + Heart)
27:49 Hildur Guðnadóttir - Vichnaya Pamyat (Chernobyl)
31:30 William Ryan Fritch - Vietnam (Exit 12)
34:23 Clint Mansell - Timeslip (Out of Blue)
38:27 Johann Johannsson - Playing With Ball (White Black Boy)
40:16 Stuart A. Staples - Grow Baby, Grow (High Life)
40:51 Daniel Hart - A Beacon of Honesty and Hopefulness (Over Water)
41:51 Cliff Martinez - Jesus and the Snake (Too Old to Die Young)
44:37 Max Richter - Erbarme Dich (Ad Astra)
47:35 Paul Leonard-Morgan - Assessments (Amateurs in Space)
49:29 Rob Simonsen - On Her Trail (Fast Color)
51:03 Paul Haslinger - Venture Capital (Halt & Catch Fire vol. 2)
52:27 Stuart A. Staples - Main Title (High Life)
53:42 Adam Bryanbaum Wiltzie - Bridget's Theme (American Woman)
55:00 Daniel Hart - Anna Elizabeth Shaw (Light Of My Life)
56:36 Peter Gregson - I Want You To Move Out (Adolescence)
58:11 Hildur Guðnadóttir - 12 Hours Before (Chernobyl)
60:13 PJ Harvey - Waltz (All About Eve)
62:55 Johann Johannsson - Intro (White Black Boy)
64:24 William Ryan Fritch - Life Cycle (Artifishal)
65:58 end

Sunday, November 03, 2019

Blade Runner Is Now

I wasn't planning on doing this mix. But then on Friday, someone on Twitter posted that we have caught up to the time when the film, Blade Runner supposedly takes place. I knew immediately that I had to make a mix.

This collection is pretty straight forward - all the tracks sound like they fit into the Blade Runner soundtrack universe.

Enjoy!

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T R A C K L I S T :
00:00 Pye Corner Audio - Prismatic Gateway (2019)
01:22 Jean Michel Jarre - The Watchers (2018)
04:15 Tale Of Us - Alla Sera (2017)
08:32 SaffronKeira - Aesthetic of Surrealism (2019)
14:15 Ryuichi Sakamoto - Fullmoon SURVIVE version (2017)
17:20 36 - Origin Beach (2018)
20:46 Steve Hauschildt - Cloudloss (2019)
24:00 Johnny Jewel - Candlelight Burns (2015)
26:40 Ben Chatwin - Black Castle(Sevendeaths Remix) (2019)
31:01 Vector Lovers - Long Wave (2007)
33:36 Trevor Jackson - Off World (2018)
35:51 Time Rival - Cambrian Explosion (2019)
39:58 Mac Quayle - 1.0_1-hellofriend.wav (2016)
40:40 Lázaro Pereira - Follow The Leader (2017)
44:41 MUUI - Cinematic Structures (2019)
51:03 Abul Mogard - Half Light Of Dawn (2018)
56:30 Fennesz - In My Room (2019)
67:27 end

Sunday, December 03, 2017

Alternative Blade Runner 2049 Soundtrack

Being a science fiction & electronic music geek, it's no surprise that I'm a big fan of the soundtrack for the original Blade Runner film. When I heard that they'd tabbed Johann Johannsson to do the score for the 2049 film I was very excited. But then he was pulled from the project & replaced with Hans Zimmer. While I've actually liked a few of Zimmer's recent scores, I wasn't overly impressed with his music for 2049. It wasn't that I disliked it. I think I was just disappointed that it wasn't Johannsson.

My son, however, liked the soundtrack much more than I did. So much in fact that he went home after seeing the film, created his own track in the 2049 style and sent it to me the next day. I was impressed with the track and immediately made plans for a Blade Runner mix.

The music here is a collection of tunes that sounds like it fit perfectly in Blade Runner 2049. In searching for music I was happy to have rediscovered Xerrox, Vol. 2 by Alva Noto, such a great album. I was also excited to find music and artists I'd not heard before like Ital Tek, Floating Machine & Island People.

Here's a link to my son's track which appears in the mix as track #3 - "Blade Running" by Just a Human.

Also here's his latest EP -

Cheers!

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T R A C K L I S T :

00:00 Alva Noto - Xerrox Moonphaser 2
05:00 Ital Tek - Jenova
10:10 Just a Human - Blade Running(unreleased)
12:18 36 - Black Future
16:05 Ryuichi Sakamoto - life, life
20:00 Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross - The Same Dream
23:51 Floating Machine - Nowhere
30:40 Island People - vogelsang
35:25 Andreas Tilliander - Syncussion Discussion
40:10 Boards of Canada - Transmisiones Ferox
41:35 Arovane & Hior Chronik - Into My Own
45:35 Ryuichi Sakamoto - Fullmoon
47:30 Island People - from the sky
54:35 Alva Noto - Xerrox Moonphaser 1
61:40 end