Summer Stargazing

 

I have been making stargazing and space themed mixes for a long time. But I realized that I haven't posted a straightforward stargazing mix for almost two years. So this mix fixes that.

All the tracks are fairly new, with half of them being from this year. Some tracks are from low light mixes regulars like Loscil, Loneward and Hipnotic Earth alongside new discoveries like RIKAAR, Tone Color and Audio Obscura.

Here are links to all the albums used in this mix in the order in which they appear:

• https://triplicaterecords.bandcamp.com/album/malin-1
• https://altusmusic.bandcamp.com/album/our-unyielding-sky
• https://dronarivm.bandcamp.com/album/starfish-giant-foams
• https://www.amazon.com/Xerrox-Vol-4-Alva-Noto/dp/B087SDHPRK/ref=tmm_acd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
• https://hrresonance.bandcamp.com/album/infinite-realms
• https://dewtonerecordings.com/album/dwelling-in-light
• https://motionfield.bandcamp.com/album/evolve
• https://tapesandtopographies.bandcamp.com/album/modalities
• https://whitelabrecs.bandcamp.com/album/moments-of-immersion
• https://triplicaterecords.bandcamp.com/album/triplicate-tapes-vol-2-space-invaders
• https://banabila.bandcamp.com/album/to-yemen-with-love-2
• https://loscil.bandcamp.com/album/lifelike

Cheers!

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T R A C K L I S T :

• 00:00    RIKAAR - Future Hope to Past Lightyears (Malin 1 2022)
• 12:15    Loneward - Star Portal (Our Unyielding Sky 2022)
• 11:58    Hipnotic Earth - Full of Stars (Starfish and Giant Foams 2021)
• 16:45    Alva Noto - Xerrox Neige (Xerrox Vol. 4 2020)
• 20:40    Alpha Wave Movement - Timeless Starfields(Infinite Realms 2021)
• 27:50    Tone Color - The Beauty of Not Knowing (Dwelling in Light 2022)
• 30:50    Motionfield - Evolve (Evolve 2022)
• 36:00    Tapes and Topographies - The Worn Surface of Heart (Modalities 2022)
• 41:40    Pruski - Moment V (Moments of Immersion 2022)
• 46:00    Audio Obscura - The Quiet Night (Triplicate Tapes Vol. 2 Space Invaders 2021)
• 49:50    Machinefabriek - Waqūr (To Yemen With Love 2020)
• 53:14    Loscil - Swipe Enforce (Lifelike 2019)
• 58:11    end

Sea of Stars 2020

photo by Wil Stewart https://unsplash.com/@wilstewart3

I've been working from home for a couple of months and you'd think I might have some extra time to work on some mixes with being locked down and all. But nope, I seem to have fallen farther behind with a lot of things. 

I wanted to get a mix up onto Mixcloud so that I don't go too long in between uploads. But I hadn't done anything new so I was looking through some old mixes that were posted here but never made it to Mixcloud. And I found one from 2008 called Sea of Stars. I still listen to it occasionally as sleep music so I decided this would be a good one to share on Mixcloud. But I couldn't pass up the chance to tweak it a bit so I hacked off the last two tracks and added 5 new tunes. The new mix is now an hour & a half long, perfect for sleeping or laying out under the stars watching for satellites.

This mix was originally posted in 2008 so think of it as the light from many of the stars in the sky in 2008 is just now reaching earth so playing this mix fits perfectly. I plan on posting another revised version in 2032.

Cheers!


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T R A C K L I S T :

• 00:00    bvdub - You'll miss me when I'm gone
• 06:19    Area C - Mare Imbrium
• 11:30    Kyle Bobby Dunn - Furthest From It
• 18:10    Emmanuel Errante - Radio Hopes
• 23:40    Parks - Trains
• 29:50    Kode - Movements #6
• 35:30    Shirk - Itchytime
• 38:55    Deaf Center - Close
• 40:55    The Caretaker - Lacuna Amnesia
• 44:05    Area C - Sea of Clouds
• 51:15    Kabana - dubru
• 55:45    Lauge - Floating
• 60:15    36 & zakè - Stasis Sounds for Long-Distance Space Travel (Stage 2)
• 65:30    Innesti & Jacob Newman - Moon Machine
• 71:18    North Atlantic Drift - Lost Years
• 75:27    The Winterhouse - A Long Way From Here

Perfect Perseid Playlist

 

This mix is a couple of weeks late. It is a soundtrack for meteor watching, specifically the annual August Perseid meteor shower.  I uploaded it to Mixcloud on Aug. 12th but totally forgot to make it available here as well.  That has now been corrected. 

I've been wanting to use a track from Robert Scott Thompson's album "Pale Blue Dot" and a stargazing mix was the perfect opportunity with Skyway being a great opener for this collection.  I was also happy to include an old favorite - Thom Brennan.  I've always been a big fan of his music and much of it is perfect for star/space themed mixes.

Enjoy

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T R A C K L I S T :

• 00:00    Robert Scott Thompson - Skyway
• 05:20    Forrest Fang - not forgotten
• 09:40    36 - Miserere
• 15:05    Aglaia - after midnight
• 21:40    Markus Guentner - baryon
• 26:50    Diatonis - one starry starry starry night
• 31:36    Underworld - simple peal
• 35:15    Thom Brennan - the fog unveils
• 41:00    Arovane - Nostalghia I
• 56:20    Tau Ceti - Cydonia Plains
• 62:15    Jeffrey Koepper - Distant Light
• 73:20    Robert Scott Thompson - Shimmer Upon The Mirror Pond
• 78:14    Brian Eno - Stars
• 85:05    Sonmi451 - Rigel
• 93:33    David Wenngren & Christopher Bissonnette - Burn Like a Meteor and Leave No Dust
• 1:43:37    end

Deep Sky Time - music for stargazing 2013

I know this is not the best time of year for sitting out side and stargazing.  At least not here in Wisconsin.  But I haven't done a stargazing mix in a long time so i thought I'd throw this out there.

The piece that got me started on this mix isn't an actual song.  It's NASA's Voyager spacecraft recording the sound of interstellar space.  Voyager's plasma wave instrument detected the vibrations of dense interstellar plasma, or ionized gas, from October to November 2012 and April to May 2013.  You can find the recording here... Voyager. 

I couldn't resist using that sound as a launch pad for this mix.  The rest is pretty straight forward ambient/space music.  For some strange reason I felt compelled to make this mix nearly 2 hours long.  If you want to lay outside for two hours & gaze at the night sky in the middle of December, better bring some scotch & an electric blanket. ;)

Enjoy.


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T R A C K L I S T : 

• 00:00    NASA Voyager recording of interstellar space
• 00:40    Loscil - Second Narrows Specta Ciera Version
• 03:30    Ishq - Globular Cluster
• 07:30    Harmony & Decay - Hypnotic Sequence
• 12:40    Eluder - The Event Horizon
• 14:50    Marsen Jules - A Room Full of History
• 19:15    Marconi Union - Always Numb
• 23:40    Porzellan - Floating Reception
• 24:30    Sonmi451 - Omicron Ceti
• 29:30    Loscil - ss1.2 unit circle
• 32:50    Wouter Veldhuis - Blue Forest I
• 36:00    Variant - Thru the Cosmos(ison + spica)
• 43:33    Brian Eno - Surf Birds
• 46:10    Mark Rownd - Place of Grace
• 52:20    Kissy Suzuki - rubbish & Beauties part 1
• 56:30    Altus - Floating Free
• 1:00:40    Diatonis - Whiring Above Our Heads
• 1:04:15    A Produce - Inner Sanctum
• 1:12:00    Aglaia - Dust Across the Border
• 1:15:30    Christopher Short - Unknown Constellation #2
• 1:22:30    Fripp & Eno - Meissa
• 1:29:10    Ithaca Trio - Catching Monkeys
• 1:34:00    Steve Roach - Deep Sky Time
• 1:41:10    Sylken - Sleepless
• 1:50:10    Deepchord - Driftwood
• 1:51:10    Vidna Obmana - Night Blooming
• 1:57:49    end 

Deep Sky Time - music for stargazing 2013 by Low Light Mixes on Mixcloud

starry starry night

"I, the fiery life of divine essence, am aflame beyond the beauty of the meadows, I gleam in the waters, and I burn in the sun, moon and stars."

               - Hildegard von Bingen

Electronic & ambient music seems perfectly suited for stargazing.  So you really could use just about any ambient mix for night sky viewing and it will work just fine.  But sometimes it's nice to do a mix specifically geared towards astronomical awe.

It's always interesting to see how the song titles match the theme of the mix.  Sometimes I pick tunes precisely because the titles match but most of the time it's accidental.  In this mix we have titles like "Alpha Centauri", "Polaris", "After Midnight", "One Starry Starry Night" and "Encounter in an unexplored nebula."

As usual the music is a mix of old & new, with most tunes being from the last couple years.  I was happy to sneak in an old track from Jean-Michel Jarre.  Different from his normal berlin-school stuff, this one is a nice long ambient cut from 1990.

As with a lot of stargazing mixes, this one works well as a sleep mix too.  I can testify to it's effectiveness.

On a side note...thanks to anyone who voted for Low Light Mixes in the Mixcloud best of 2011 poll.  We came in 78th.  Doesn't sound like much but considering they have thousands of "cloudcasters", coming 78th was great.  Thanks for all your support last year & over the last 6 years.

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T R A C K L I S T :

• 00:00    Lunar Testing Lab - Paaliaq (I, Absentee)
• 01:35    Sonmi451 - Alpha Centauri (Time Released Sound)
• 04:40    Digitonal - Polaris (Leaves)
• 07:20    Diatonis - One Starry Starry Night (Diatonis)
• 12:15    The Winterhouse - Clearing (DataObscura)
• 18:00    Frederico Durand - El Mundo Secreto De La Montana (Spekk)
• 21:30    A Produce & Loren Nerell - Intangible (Hypnos)
• 28:20    Maps & Diagrams - The Infinite Delay (Handstitched Recordings)
• 30:45    Thom Brennan - Pulse
• 31:55    Aglaia - After Midnight (Hic Sunt Leones)
• 37:30    Sonmi451 - Blue (U cover)
• 43:05    Biosphere - Warmed by the Drift (Touch)
• 48:20    Jean Michel Jarre - En Attendant Cousteau (Disques Dreyfus)
• 55:10    The Civilized Electrons - Encounter, In an Unexplored Nebula (Databloem)

Starry starry night by Lowlight on Mixcloud

sea of stars

This is a mix from our annual trip to the Wisconsin Northwoods. As the title suggests it's a mix for stargazing.

I limited myself to fairly new music, stuff I have been listening to a lot lately. I knew I wanted to include new music from Area C - Sea of Rains. It was commissioned by the NASA RI Space Grant Consortium and the Museum of Natural History in Providence, RI as an original score for their "Mission Moon: past, present, future" exhibit at the Museum of Natural History. It has some Nasa recordings mixed in with the music so it was natural for this mix.

After that the other tracks are just tunes that are kind of new, sound a bit spacey, and flow well together.

Download (right click/save as) :
sea of stars

T R A C K L I S T :

• 00:00 bvdub - You'll miss me when I'm gone
• 06:19 Area C - Mare Imbrium
• 11:30 Kyle Bobby Dunn - Furthest From It
• 18:10 Emmanuel Errante - Radio Hopes
• 23:40 Parks - Trains
• 29:50 Kode - Movements #6
• 35:30 Shirk - Itchytime
• 38:55 Deaf Center - Close
• 40:55 The Caretaker - Lacuna Amnesia
• 44:05 Area C - Sea of Clouds
• 51:15 Kabana - dubru
• 56:15 Shirk - Riesal
• 00:09 Le Chat Blanc Orchestra - She Left This Morning