Melancholy Soundtracks: A Requiem for 2020

 

A perfect mix for the end of 2020 comes to us from Paul Asbury Seaman. All soundtrack cuts, all with varying degrees of melancholy, all forming an ideal coda for 2020.

Here's what Paul says about the mix:

“I’ve been sitting on this playlist for more than three years. Never got around to firming it up for a Low Lights mix. It dawned on me just the other day that the eight movies from which these pieces are drawn are all meditations on death and loss. So now seems like a good time to share it. Also, all of these movies were released around the turn of the Millennium, except “Battle of Algiers” (1963) which has one of the most sorrowful themes ever put to music—by the great Ennio Morricone, who died this year.”

Thanks Paul for another excellent mix!

Up next - it's best of the year list time!

Cheers!

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T R A C K L I S T :

• 00:00    Clint Mansell - The Last Man (The Fountain 2006)
• 05:42    Ennio Morricone - Sorrow in the Casbah (Battle of Algiers 1963)
• 06:33    Ennio Morricone - Ali's Theme (Battle of Algiers 1963)
• 09:38    Mark Isham - Flames (Crash 2005)
• 17:06    Philip Glass - The Hours (The Hours 2002)
• 24:37    Zbigniew Preisner - Van Den Budenmayer Funeral Music (Trois couleurs - Bleu 1993)
• 26:32    Zbigniew Preisner - Reprise First Appearance (Trois couleurs - Bleu 1993)
• 27:02    Javier Navarrette  - A Tale (Pan's Labyrinth 2006)
• 28:50    Richard Thompson - Parents (Grizzly Man 2005)
• 32:10    Zbigniew Preisner - Julie in Her New Apartment (Trois couleurs - Bleu 1993)
• 33:48    Zbigniew Preisner - Reprise Flute (Trois couleurs - Bleu 1993)
• 35:50    Mark Isham - Negligence (Crash 2005)
• 38:23    Philip Glass - The Poet Acts (The Hours 2002)
• 42:00    Richard Thompson - Main Title Revisited (Grizzly Man 2005)
• 45:42    Javier Navarrette  - Lullaby (Pan's Labyrinth 2006)
• 47:20    Alexandre Desplat - Death Convoy (The Painted Veil 2006)
• 50:00    Alexandre Desplat - Kitty's Theme (The Painted Veil 2006)
• 53:00    Clint Mansell - Xibalba (The Fountain 2006)
• 58:09    end

Arrival alternative sountrack

I love the film, Arrival, so I should have thought of this myself. But a listener commented on my Blade Runner alternative mix that I should do an alternative mix for Arrival. Yes!

So here it is - An Alternative Arrival Soundtrack. I absolutely love Johann Johannsson's original soundtrack, probably one of my top two or three soundtracks of all time. So this mix is not attempting to make something that I think is better than his score. It's sort of a supplement to the original, a collection of tracks that fit with the style of the original.

 All of the tunes are newer than the original soundtrack, which came out in 2016. All the tunes except On The Nature Of Daylight by Max Richter. That amazing track was used to open and close the film. Here I use it in an unusual way - it plays backward then forward at the end of the mix. The film messes with the concept of the passage of time and the Richter track bookends the film to bring events of the end back around to the beginning. So playing it backward then forward kind of does the same thing. And it's crazy how much the track still sounds the same while playing backward.

If you haven't seen the film, go see it. It is definitely one of my top three favorite films of all time. Here's a couple links to the Blade Runner alternative mix...

http://lowlightmixes.blogspot.com/2017/12/alternative-blade-runner-2049-soundtrack.html

And what the heck here's my other alternative soundtrack mix - for the film Annihilation.

Cheers!

PS - the tune @ 15:00 is from my son. He did an excellent track for the Blade Runner mix and so I went to him immediately for this mix as well.



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T R A C K L I S T :
00:00    Tale Of Us - Alla Sera
04:00    Skamoto - Solari(Johannsson rework)
09:12    Nils Frahm - Kaleidoscope
10:08    Hibernis - The Grape Leaves
15:00    Just A Human - Heptapod(version 1)
17:12    Sakamoto - Disintegration(Alva Noto remodel)
22:10    Ocoeur - Embers
26:05    Ital Tek - Cipher
31:03    Caleb Burhans - Early Music (For a Saturday)
35:20    Vieo Abiungo - The Dregs
36:50    r beny - overgrowth
41:30    Sven Laux & Daniela Orvin - Friends
46:38    Max Richter - On the Nature of Daylight(backward)
52:45    Max Richter - On the Nature of Daylight(forward)
58:56    end

The Way Home

Earlier this year I was asked by the folks at Lifted Icons to do a guest mix. It was a unique mix because I did two 20 minute sets that were then incorporated into a larger nearly 2-hour mix.

The parameters for my mixes were as follows:
1. A lonely, melancholic wander through the void between stars
2. A triumphant end for our struggle to the stars

You can find the 2-hour mix at Lifted Icons here... https://www.mixcloud.com/LiftedIcons/cartographer/

I liked how everything turned out. It was especially fun to cut the 2nd mix as it had a few louder tunes that I normally might not use. I was too lazy to put together a totally new mix so I decided to put my two parts of the Lifted Icons mix into one new mix. 

After I put them together I started tinkering. I added a few tunes to make it longer. And then I changed a lot of the first part but kept the same "drifting in the void" feel. The transition from melancholic wander to triumphant return starts at the 22:28 mark with the Underworld tune. The title for the mix comes from a track I used by the same name from Tony Anderson. It fit perfectly with the journey from part one to part two.

Cheers!



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T R A C K L I S T :

• 00:00    Lunar Testing Lab - Space Traffic Control(& added Nasa quindar Tones)
• 00:40    Steven Price - Aurora Borealis
• 01:50    Tim Hecker - Boreal Kiss
• 04:06    Chris Weeks - Spiders & Plugholes
• 05:42    Clinton Shorter - An Impossible Dream
• 07:25    Strië - Man with Thick Glasses
• 10:20    Northumbria - Helluland
• 13:10    Bryantist - Spherical Harmonics
• 14:30    Conet Project & other fx
• 14:57    Memories of JJ
• 18:12    Jon Hopkins - Feel First Life
• 22:28    Underworld - Capa's Last Transmission Home
• 24:12    Ólafur Arnalds - Doria
• 27:05    Tony Anderson - The Way Home
• 30:13    Stellardrone - Red Giant
• 32:30    Johann Johannsson - A Pile of Dust
• 34:20    M83 - Another Wave From You
• 35:50    Ulrich Schnauss & Jonas Munk - Amaris
• 38:25    B. Fleischmann - A Letter From Home
• 43:22    Jon Hopkins - Light Through The Veins
• 50:45    Johann Johannsson - End(Snowing)
• 57:00    end

Shimmer - An alternative soundtrack to the film Annihilation

I saw the film Annihilation on opening weekend and really liked it. It is directed by the same guy that directed Ex Machina and has the same crew doing the score. While I didn't like it quite as much as my favorite sci-fi film of the last few years, Arrival, I did like it quite a bit. And I especially loved the score. It goes seamlessly from acoustic guitar to synthetic noises to creepy choral sounds. It's great.

So of course I had to make my own interpretation of the soundtrack, just like I did for Blade Runner 2049. I liked how that one turned out so much that I knew immediately after seeing Annihilation that I'd soon be making a mix.

I started collecting a few tunes for the mix but it wasn't until I found "Elemental Shimmer" by Robert Davies that the project really took off.  The music from Davies' album is perfect for setting the scene and it's even more appropriate because it's got the word "Shimmer" in the title.  The Shimmer is the anomaly enveloping "area x" that the scientists enter to try and figure what the heck is going on.





Making these alternative soundtracks is a lot of fun and I'm sure I'll be doing more in the future. I hope you like this one.

Cheers!



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T R A C K L I S T :

• 00:00    Robert Davies - Honeysuckle Vapour
• 04:18    Moon Wiring Club - Marshlight No. 2
• 05:00    Ryuichi Sakamoto - Walker
• 07:05    Chris Watson - Vatnajokull
• 07:30    Martin Grech - Ashes Over Embers
• 09:00    Peter Gabriel - Slow Water
• 11:05    Moon Wiring Club - A New Face On An Old Friend (Blazing)
• 13:20    Recondite - Der Steinmetz
• 15:45    Isorinne - b2 5-00
• 19:50    Stockholm Radio Choir - Lux Aeterna
• 21:17    Penguin Cafe - Control 1(interlude)
• 25:30    A.R.C. Soundtracks - Ruins-Ritual
• 28:57    Biosphere - Sphere Of No Form
• 30:12    Murcof - Sangre
• 31:45    Leyland Kirby - Sadly, The Future Is No Longer What It Was
• 32:18    Somei Satoh - Mantra/Stabat Mater from The Arts at St. Ann's
• 33:30    Emptyset - Augur
• 35:06    Morton Feldman - Rothko Chapel 3
• 35:45    From the Mouth of the Sun - A Breath to Retrieve Your Body
• 39:20    Ryuichi Sakamoto - Solari(Johann Johannsson rework)
• 44:44    Robert Davies - Of Foxglove & Nettle Leaves
• 50:42    Western Skies Motel - Leaving Behind
• 53:45    Thomas Köner - Tiento de la Luz 4
• 55:43    Biosphere - Green Reflections
• 58:45    end

Sci Fi Soundtracks

The title of this mix pretty much says it all - this is a collection of excellent tracks from excellent science fiction films.  

This isn't meant to be definitive as in "The Best SciFi Soundtracks of All Time!"  It's just some of my favorite music from some of my favorite sci fi films.  I purposely stayed away from stuff like Star Wars, Star Trek, Close Encounters and 2001.  Those are a little too recognizable and most of the time don't fit with the ambient feel of this mix.

I just had to start the mix with what may be my all time favorite sci fi soundtrack - Solaris by Cliff Martinez.  I like the movie pretty well but the soundtrack is what really made that film for me.  Another soundtrack that I absolutely had to include is Arrival from Johann Johannsson.  Easily my favorite film of last year and the soundtrack made me love it even more.  A lot of the music in this mix is fairly new, released within the last ten years or so.  The exception being the tracks from Blade Runner and Dune.

Are there any sci fi soundtracks that I should check out for further mixes?  Any favorite sci fi film music that you have?  Let me know in the comments.

Cheers!


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T R A C K L I S T :

• 00:00    Cliff Martinez - First Sleep(Solaris)
• 02:42    Clint Mansell - Welcome to Lunar Industries(Moon)
• 06:00    Ben Salisbury & Geoff Barrow - The Turing Test(Ex Machina)
• 07:10    Harry Gregson-Williams - Watney's Alive(The Martian)
• 09:50    Jon Hopkins - Campfire(Monsters)
• 11:30    M83 - Starwaves(Oblivion)
• 14:38    Johann Johannsson - Arrival(Arrival)
• 17:00    Steven Price - Aningaaq(Gravity)
• 21:00    Vangelis - Fading Away(Blade Runner)
• 23:33    Toto - Paul Meets Chani(Dune)
• 26:25    Clint Mansell - First Snow(The Fountain)
• 29:17    Max Richter - Nocturne(Black Mirror)
• 31:05    Johann Johannsson - Kangaru(Arrival)
• 33:36    Underworld - Capa's Last Transmission(Sunshine)
• 35:27    Brian Eno - Prophecy Theme(Dune)
• 39:36    John Tavener - Mother & Child(Children of Men)
• 42:55    Hans Zimmer - Where We're Going(Intersteller)
• 45:41    Ben Salisbury & Geoff Barrow - Other Dreamers(Black Mirror)
• 46:31    Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein - Eleven(Stranger Things)
• 49:35    Arcade Fire - Morning Talk/Supersymmetry(Her)
• 53:15    Daft Punk - Solar Sailer(Tron 2)
• 55:40    Ben Salisbury & Geoff Barrow - Bunsen Burner(Ex Machina)
• 58:34    Ramin Djawadi - Exit Music(for a film)(Westworld)
• 62:58    end

Cinematic Headspace

I've been on a big Johann Johnnsson kick lately.  He released one of my favorite albums of the year "Orphee" a few months ago and now he has scored the excellent film "Arrival."  It is a wonderful soundtrack that really adds to an already fantastic film.

Johannsson tells the story of how he made the first track in this mix, "Heptpod B," at Song Exploder here...

https://soundcloud.com/hrishihirway/song-exploder-johann-johannsson-arrival-score

That new soundtrack is the jumping off point for this cinematic mix.  All the music used was released this year with the exception of tracks from "The Martian" & "The Revenant" which are 2015 recordings.  All these soundtracks are superb and I hope you will seek out the full albums.  I've included the name of the film in the tracklist.

Cheers!



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T R A C K L I S T :

⦁ 00:00    Johann Johannsson - Heptapod B(Arrival)
⦁ 03:25    Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - Daedalus(Mars)
⦁ 06:15    Harry Gregson-Williams - Message from Hermes(The Martian)
⦁ 08:50    Adam Bryanbaum Wiltzie - Bring This Place to Life(Salero)
⦁ 11:30    A Winged Victory for the Sullen - Metro, pt.3(Iris)
⦁ 15:05    Mac Quayle - leavem3here.flac(Mr. Robot)
   16:09    Max Richter - Morgan Main Title(Morgan)
⦁ 20:10    Starkey - Ticks(Charting Stardust)
⦁ 24:15    Paul Haslinger - Security is a Myth(Halt & Catch Fire)
⦁ 26:45    Ramin Djawadi - Something I Can Never Have(Westworld)
⦁ 32:10    Adam Bryanbaum Wiltzie - Lithium, the new era(Salero)
⦁ 35:20    A Winged Victory for the Sullen - Flashback Antoine(Iris)
⦁ 37:15    Dustin O'Halloran & Hauschka - Memories(Lion)
⦁ 38:40    Adam Bryanbaum Wiltzie - end credits(Salero)
⦁ 41:25    Johann Johannsson - One of Twelve(Arrival)
⦁ 44:05    Riuichi Sakamoto - Glass & Buffalo(The Revenant)
⦁ 45:40    Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - Mama's Room(Hell or High Water)
⦁ 47:55    A Winged Victory for the Sullen - endless battle of the maudlin ballade, pt. 3(Iris)
⦁ 50:25    Ramin Djawadi - Exit Music(Westworld)
⦁ 54:47    end

Cinema Atmospherica

As with so many of these mixes this one grew out of one particular recording.  In this case it was The Revenant soundtrack by Ryuichi Sakamoto with Alva Noto.  It's an absolutely gorgeous film score and I knew I needed to build a mix around it.

This mix, as the title suggests, is fairly atmospheric in feel and sound.  The tracks used are a combo of newer recordings & old ones too, with The Revenant making three appearances.  That soundtrack is definitely going to be on my best of list at the end of 2016.

Enjoy



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T R A C K L I S T :

• 00:00    Ryuichi Sakamoto & Alva Noto - The Revenant Theme(Noto remodel)
• 03:44    Johann Johannsson - Desert Music(Sicario)
• 07:50    Tindersticks - Night Time Cigarettes(Les Salauds)
• 09:50    Ben Salisbury & Geoff Barrow - Ava(Ex Machina)
• 11:10    Cliff Martinez - Sonia(The Knick season 2)
• 11:43    Cliff Martinez - and we're here to listen(Traffic)
• 13:26    Underworld - Corazon finds the seeding(Sunshine)
• 14:12    Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - Teacher's Farewell(Loin Des Hommes)
• 15:58    Arcade Fire - Loneliness #3(Her)
• 19:10    Nils Frahm - Our Own Roof(Victoria)
• 24:12    Jon Hopkins - Lost Map(How I live Now)
• 25:50    Ryuichi Sakamoto - The Revenant Theme Atmospheric
• 28:23    Harold Budd - Mysterious Skin(Mysterious Skin)
• 30:35    Cliff Martinez - Speight Lived Here(The Knick season 2)
• 32:00    Calexico - el escape del circo(Circo)
• 33:10    Max Richter - Shadow Journal(Waltz With Bachir)
• 37:27    Ryuichi Sakamoto - Out of Horse(The Revenant)
• 40:15    Peter Gabriel - On The Map(Rabbit Proof Fence)
• 41:00    Cliff Martinez - Wrong Floor(Drive)
• 42:00    Ennio Morricone - Neve(Hateful 8)
• 43:36    Ólafur Arnalds - Before The Calm(Another Happy Day)
• 44:44    Clint Mansell - Summer Ghosts Of Things To(Requiem for a Dream)
• 45:50    Andrey Dergatchev - Georgians(The Return)
• 48:00    Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - Dead Horse(Loin Des Hommes)
• 50:45    Johann Johannsson - The Jewish Cemetery on Moellegrade(Copenhagen Dreams)
• 52:54    Arcade Fire - We're All Leaving(Her)
• 55:26    end

Ghosts of the Future

At the end of May I posted an excellent mix from Mike G of the Ambient Music Guide.  We agreed to do guest mixes for each other and that the starting point would be a title that each of us would give the other.  We sent each other a few title ideas, we each chose one and got to work.

Mike chose "Lapse into Reverie" and the result was his beautiful mix that you can find here...

http://lowlightmixes.blogspot.com/2015/05/lapse-into-reverie-complied-mixed-by.html

And here...

https://www.mixcloud.com/lowlight/lapse-into-reverie-compiled-mixed-by-mike-g-of-ambient-music-guide/

Mike gave me about 4 or 5 title ideas and my attention was immediately drawn to one in particular... "Ghosts of the Future."

The first thing that comes to mind is the film "Interstellar", which I had just re-watched right before this project.  With its time dilation and Murph's "ghost" communicating from the future, the soundtrack is the perfect launching point for this mix.  I like soundtracks but Hans Zimmer usually isn't a favorite.  However with this film he strikes a perfect balance.  At times the music has a Philip Glass feel to it.

I also thought of snippets of voices as ghosts and so I worked in some spoken word excerpts here & there, as well as using tracks that had voices or vocoder. Overall I hope the mix conveys a strange, otherworldly feel to it.

Thanks again to Mike G for doing the mix swap with me and thanks for a great mix title.

Enjoy


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T R A C K L I S T :

• 00:00    Ian William Craig - Before Meaning Comes
• 00:35    Hans Zimmer - Where We're Going(Interstellar OST)
• 05:52    Eskmo - Spvce
• 07:55    Robert Rich - Premonition of Circular Clouds
• 13:15    Intrusion - Static Waves & Shuttle358 - Fissure(played simultaneously)
• 16:30    Echospace - Viola's Ghost Hamonix, Beyond Gravity, Astral Dreaming,        Beyond The Drone(played simultaneously along with Static Waves)
• 19:10    Disasterpeace - Formations
• 20:55    Shuttle358 - Warm
• 25:10    Kraftwerk - Endlos Endlos
• 25:50    Chris Dooks - Antifoni
• 26:45    Bon Iver - Woods(remixed)
• 28:40    Hans Zimmer - s.t.a.y.(Interstellar OST)
• 33:45    Adlib - Hoffnung
• 34:25    Steve Roach - It's All Connected
• 39:50    Vangelis - Tears in the Rain
• 42:36    Cliff Martinez - We Don't Have To Think Like That Anymore
• 45:15    Transcient - My Last Goodbye
• 48:39    Simon Bainton - Range
• 50:43    Public Broadcasting Service - Tomorrow
• 55:55    end

Ghosts of the Future by Low Light Mixes on Mixcloud

Sunday Morning Music Vol. 8 - slow mornings

Grab a cup of coffee and the paper with this mix as your Sunday soundtrack.

This iteration of the Sunday morning series uses mostly new music including a couple of great Bob Dylan covers from Sarah Jarosz and Phosphorescent.  I couldn't resist starting the mix with the wonderful "Morning" from Beck's new release.  I found this track on a mix by Bob Duskis over at Six Degrees Records.  Check out their excellent mix on Mixcloud here...SixDegreesRecords

From there we move on to a beautiful, jazzy track from Philémon Chante that I have been itching to use for a while.  That cut is from his album called Les Sessions Cubaines which you can find on Bandcamp here...Philémon Chante

There a couple soundtracks represented in the mix from two of the best films of 2013, "Her" and "Nebraska."  Arcade Fire and Owen Pallett collaborated for the "Her" soundtrack, with two cuts in this mix.  Mark Orton did the beautifully simple soundtrack for "Nebraska" and it shows up here in the track "The Old Compressor Escape."  I've got an Americana mix waiting in the wings which will have more from that soundtrack.

One of my other favs is the cut from Bill Callahan.  He remixed his 2013 album, "Dream River," as a dub album called "Have Fun With God."  It's fantastic!

Enjoy.


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T R A C K L I S T :

• 00:00 Beck - Morning
• 05:12 M. Ostermeier - Sunlight on My Desk
• 07:55 Sam Prekop - A Cloud to the Back
• 11:30 Philémon Chante - J'arrive toujours un peu trop tard
• 15:40 Sarah Jarosz - Simple Twist of Fate
• 20:20 Mark Orton - The Old Compressor Escape
• 22:50 Thievery Corporation - le coeur (feat lou lou ghelichkhani)
• 25:45 Assia Cunego - Canto Ostinato Section 25-30
• 29:00 Segue - slow mornings
• 34:00 Bill Callahan - Small Dub
• 37:45 Arcade Fire and Owen Pallett - Dimensions
• 40:34 Darcy James Argue's Secret Society - An Invitation
• 43:08 Nick Cave - Into My Arms
• 47:17 Phosphorescent - Tomorrow is a Long Time
• 51:30 Paul Buchanan - Mid Air
• 53:45 Arcade Fire and Owen Pallett - We're All Leaving
• 56:17 end

Sunday Morning Music vol. 8 - slow mornings by Low Light Mixes on Mixcloud

things left unsaid

Most regular visitors to this blog are aware that I also post these mixes over at Mixcloud.  I love Mixcloud.  I got in very early on and so have developed quite a few followers.  It's been fun watching it grow.  

One thing that has helped in growing that following is being one of the featured cloudcasts in the Ambient/Chillout category.  Well, apparently now Low Light Mixes is also one of the featured cloudcasts in the Classical category.  Some of my mixes my have some classical related tunes but I definitely wouldn't characterize these mixes as "classical."  But, what the heck, I'll take the extra exposure.

Being featured in the classical category was the genesis for this new mix, "things left unsaid."  It's an all classical mix.  Maybe it would be better to call it an orchestral mix because about half of the tracks are from film soundtracks, so not classical in the purest sense.

Most of the music is fairly new.  The oldest cut being the Jonnie Greenwood piece from 2007.  There a few tracks from Caleb Burhans and David Lang that are from 2013 releases that didn't make it onto my year in review lists because I didn't find them until 2014.  I found them on someone else's best of list.  They are both excellent recordings.  And of course I had to include some Johann Johannsson because I pretty much like everything he does.

I hope you enjoy this classical diversion.


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T R A C K L I S T :

• 00:00 Max Richter - Spring 0(Recomposed By Max Richter: Vivaldi, The Four Seasons)
• 00:40 Johann Johannsson - By the River
• 01:10 Caleb Burhans - The Things Left Unsaid
• 05:00 Jonnie Greenwood - Open Spaces
• 08:38 Alexandre Desplat - L'hôpital
• 11:56 Jon Hopkins - How I Live Now
• 16:15 Johann Johannsson - The Jewish Cemetery on Moellegade
• 18:20 Tom Tykwer, Johnny Klimek, Reinhold Heil - Prelude, The Atlas March
• 19:31 Maya Beiser - Spiegel im Spiegel
• 28:58 David Lang - no. 5. i am walking
• 33:10 Colin Stetson - All the Days I've Missed
• 34:10 Caleb Burhans - nunc dimittis
• 38:25 Alexandre Desplat - Skies
• 43:30 Max Richter - Winter 3(Recomposed By Max Richter: Vivaldi, The Four Seasons)
• 47:33 Tom Tykwer, Johnny Klimek, Reinhold Heil - The Cloud Atlas Sextet
• 51:26 Johann Johannsson - The Rocket Builder
• 57:39 Caleb Burhans - The Things Left Unsaid(end)
• 58:55 Alexandre Desplat - De rouille et d'os
• 1:00:51    end

Things left unsaid by Low Light Mixes on Mixcloud

undiscovered soundtrack

I love soundtracks. And if you look at the tracklist for this mix, you'll see that I have a few favorite composers.

At the top of that list are Clint Mansell & Cliff Martinez. They are responsible for two of my favorite soundtracks, The Fountain & Solaris.

Jon Hopkins, a new composer on the soundtrack scene, could soon join those two as a favorite. His soundtrack for the movie Monsters, got a lot of play here. I ended up using three tracks from that album in this mix, I just couldn't resist.

Actually I doubled up a few artists in this mix, Martinez, Hopkins, Sigur Ros, Nick & Warren Ellis, Underworld. Normally I don't like to do that but it just sort of happened that way. This is a relatively short mix but I think it works. Sometimes I don't make it to the end of some mixes, this way hopefully listeners are still in to it & focused at the end.

Enjoy this "undiscovered soundtrack".


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T R A C K L I S T :

• 00:00    Clint Mansell - Winter Ghosts of a Future (Requiem for a Dream)
• 01:45    Jon Hopkins - Candles (Monsters)
• 03:35    Cliff Martinez - And We're Here to Listen (Traffic)
• 05:15    Thomas Newman - Still Dead (American Beauty)
• 07:55    Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - The Road (The Road)
• 11:30    Underworld & John Murphy - Searle Finds the Crew of Icarus (Sunshine)
• 12:20    Explosions in the Sky - An Ugly Fact of Life (Friday Nigh Lights)
• 14:10    Sigur Ros - síðasta ferð (hlemmur)
• 16:33    Craig Armstrong - Main Theme (The Clearing)
• 17:40    Ennio Morricone - Tema di Ali (The Battle of Algiers)
• 21:32    John Zorn - Family Found(cello) (Family Found(Filmworks XII))
• 23:50    Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - Micro Sucker (White Lunar)
• 24:25    Underworld - Capa's Last Transmission Home (Sunshine)
• 26:10    Sigur Ros - fyrsta ferð (hlemmur)
• 28:25    Hilmar Hilmarsson - I Flew (Angels of the Universe)
• 30:25    Cliff Martinez - First Drive Home (First Snow)
• 30:50    Jon Hopkins - Water (Monsters)
• 31:55    James Newton Howard - I'm Sorry (I am Legend)
• 33:50    Jon Hopkins - Campfire (Monsters)
• 36:11 end

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Cinematica

I got the idea for this mix over at the Hypnos records forum.  In the "Now Playing" thread, someone posted several entries in a row about listening to various soundtracks. Some favorites of mine, Cliff Martinez's "Traffic" & "Narc" and Clint Mansell's "The Fountain", were on the list.  It got me thinking & listening to soundtracks for a week or two and this new mix, "Cinematica", is the result.

There are 25 tracks in this mix, so it keeps moving pretty well I think.  I realized after I was done that a few of the tracks appear in other low light mixes.  Oh well, that's bound to happen with so many mixes and fewer and fewer brain cells.

I would say my favorite soundtracks from the past 10 - 15 years would have to be "Solaris" from Cliff Martinez & "The Fountain" by Clint Mansell.  I purposely used a lesser known Martinez cut from "Wicker Park" but one that had the same "Solaris" feel to it.  Then of course I discovered that I'd already used the same cut in an earlier mix. Duh!  

This mix was easy & fun to put together so I'm sure I'll be doing another one in the future.  Any suggestions for essential soundtracks that I should check out?

Download : 110mb  59:50min

Cinematica

T R A C K L I S T :

• 00:00    Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - The Proposition #2 (The Proposition)
• 02:00    Graeme Revell - Cue 34 (Until the End of the World)
• 04:10    Thomas Newman - Drive Away(End Title) (Lemony Snicket)
• 06:50    Cliff Martinez - What Shoe Size (Wicker Park)
• 08:05    Andrey Dergatchev - Port (The Return)
• 10:05    Max Richter - Shadow Journal (Valse Avec Bachir)
• 12:15    John Murphy/Chrales Gounod - Taxi(Ave Maria) (28 Days Later)
• 14:07    Mogwai - 7-25 (Zidane, a 21st Century Portait)
• 18:20    Clint Mansell - Death is a Disease (The Fountain)
• 20:40    Explosions in the Sky - From West Texas (Friday Night Lights)
• 22:26    Brian Eno - Always Returning (Apollo)
• 25:35    Corker/Conboy - First Crossing (3 Degrees Colder)
• 27:05    David Byrne - Canal Life (Lead Us Not Into Temptation)
• 29:20    Peter Gabriel - A Sense of Home (Long Walk Home)
• 30:50    Sigur Ros - #3 untitled (Hlemmur)
• 33:05    Andrey Dergatchev - Georgians (The Return)
• 35:13    Hilmar Orn Hilmarsson - Ars Moriendi (Children of Nature)
• 37:20    Philip Glass - Organic (Koyaanisqatsi)
• 42:10    Gabriel Yared & Underworld - Mending Things (Breaking & Entering)
• 44:20    Cliff Martinez - Helicopter (Traffic)
• 46:05    John Murphy - Red Dresses (28 Days Later)
• 46:43    Devotchka - The Winner Is (Little Miss Sunshine)
• 49:35    David Byrne - Dirty Hair (Lead Us Not Into Temptation)
• 52:06    Peter Gabriel - Passion Extras #4 (Passion)
• 53:55    James Newton Howard - I'm Listening (I am Legend)
• 55:45    Brian Eno - an ending(ascent) (Apollo, 28 Days Later, Clean, Traffic)
• 59:50    end