I absolutely love NPR music . The host of their All Songs Considered podcast is Bob Boilen. I've heard him describe music as "Sunday morning music." I'm not exactly sure what that is but I think I know when I hear it. I'd been thinking about doing a Sunday mix for some time and then I heard Wilco's song "One Sunday Morning" & immediately loved it & had to start a mix so I could use that tune in it. [...]
Back in 2007 I did a Prog Rock mix that is still one of my favorite low light mixes. You can find the original post & download here... PROG ROCK '07. I've always wanted to do another prog mix. While on a pro rock binge I came across "For Absent Friends" by Genesis and that gave me the idea of doing a mellow prog mix. In the original mix I tried to stay away from prog rock mainstays like Genesis [...]
"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 [...]
For such a small country, Iceland has produced a surprising number of excellent artists. From Bjork to Mum to Seabear to Olaf Arnalds to Sigur Ros, it's really extraordinary the amount of wonderful music that comes from that island. This last mix of 2011 is an Icelandic journey. All the music is created by artists from Iceland. The brilliant idea for it came from loyal listener, Kevin. I wasn't sure how much music of Iceland I had in my collection but I was surprised to find quite a [...]
For some reason,when I think of falling snow, the instrument that comes to mind is the piano. Maybe it's from years of listening to Vince Guaraldi's Charlie Brown Christmas album. So it's no surprise that there is a fair amount of piano music in this "snow" mix. We didn't have any snow yet but I had been thinking about doing a "first snow" mix for awhile & decided to throw one together Friday night. Then I woke up Saturday morning to a light dusting of snow on the ground. [...]
Mixcloud has taking votes for Mixcloud Cloudcaster of the year. So I'm basically shilling for votes. If you click on the link it will take you to my Mixcloud page. Unfortunately there is no simple "vote" button. You have to "share" on Facebook to vote. I hate that. There are probably other cloudcasters I'd vote for but I don't like cluttering up my Facebook with random stuff like that. Anyway, if anyone doesn't mind the Facebook sharing aspect, I'd [...]
This past Saturday NASA launched the Mars Science Laboratory known as "Curiosity" on a 9 month journey to the planet Mars. As I was watching video of the launch, I was thinking about music that would work well with a launch & space voyage. I quickly collected some appropriate tune & cranked out this mix at escape velocity speed. The tracks are all electronic/electronica cuts that I thought seem to fit the theme. As it turns out, many of the tunes have titles that are perfect for a [...]
I recently had surgery on a broken collarbone & had to spend a fair amount of time laying around, recuperating, sleeping. So I decided to make a mix that would work well with Percocet & Vicodin. I've produced other sleep mixes before, "I fell asleep at my desk making this mix" , "slo mo" , "slow & sleepy" , and have often relied on them for nighttime listening. Of course most of the mixes found here could work as "sleep" mixes. [...]
A friend of mine made an excellent Spotify playlist called "Atmospheric Songs for Travelers" which had some great music from John Martyn, Nick Drake, Wilco & more.(I saved it as my own playlist which is why name is on it if you click the link.) Listening to that collection made me want put together my own mix of vocal music. I don't do vocal mixes very often but I thought it'd be nice to do one now, while all that music is swimming around in my head. [...]
Josh, from Nocturne Records , requested a Halloween mix. At first I was reluctant because I'm not a big fan of dark ambient. I've never really cared for Lustmord records, although I do have "The Place Where Black Stars Hang." While I do have a fair amount of drone music, I don't like dissonant drones. When I set out to do this mix I wasn't sure what direction it would take. Would it be noisy, scary ambient [...]
It hasn't felt much like autumn around here, with temps in the 70's & 80's the last week or two. But the leaves are still falling and before you know it we'll have snow flying. So I figured now is as good a time as any to publish this new mix, "Autumn in Slow Motion." This is a fairly straight forward mix with a nice blend of old & new tracks. As you can tell all the tracks have the word "autumn" or " leaves" in the [...]
I guess you could call this mix "Televison Sky #2". It's a continuation of the sounds found in that mix. This has more beats than a normal low light mix, more of an electronica sound. I think it has a nice mix of old & new material. The oldest cuts are from Can, Eno & Earthstar, 1973, 1975 & 1981 respectively. In the middle we have the Casino Versus Japan cut from 1999 & the Aspen track from 2000. Then there are a few newer tunes like [...]
" Several times I've seen the evening slide away. Watching the signs taking over from the fading day. " - Brian Eno from Golden Hours This is music for sitting on the porch in the evening, as the day slips into night. The sounds of traffic, lawn mowers & kids fade away as the first stars come out. I stole the title from a recording by Fognode, which you can find here... [...]
"Music is the space between notes." - Claude Debussy I found a couple of tunes recently that exemplify that Debussy quote. So I looked for more tracks that had definite valleys between the peaks of synth washes or long pauses between piano chords and then I let the mix take off from there. The result is similar to the "breathing" mixes I've done before with [...]
I'd like to call your attention to an absolutely brilliant mix from the folks at astrangelyisolatedplace . Ryan has been very kind to low light mixes over the years & I don't think I ever returned the favor. ASIP is a fantastic site for mixes & discovering new music. I especially like finding good, new electronica through ASIP. This mix from a favorite artist of mine, Marsen Jules. His new release, Nostalgia, [...]
I am a chronic procrastinator. Paperwork piles up on my desk until I am forced to deal with it because I can't see the actual desktop anymore. There are to do lists scribbled on scraps of paper all over the house, most of the lists unfinished. With that in mind I present this latest mix which began more than a year and a half ago. Mick from the music blog, Subversion , had an idea for doing a cooperative mix. The plan was for each of us to do [...]
"The loneliness you get by the sea is personal and alive. It doesn't subdue you and make you feel abject. It's stimulating loneliness." - Anne Morrow Lindbergh So much of ambient music has a beautiful ebb & flow that lends itself perfectly to sea [...]
"Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another." -- Plato (427-347 B.C.) I realized that I hadn't done a stargazing mix in quite awhile and with the weather getting warmer & spending more time outside, I figured a new star mix was in order. So here it [...]
On the heals of the last mix, which was sort of modern classical, comes another neo-classical type mix. I started collecting tunes for this mix after I heard Alva Noto's "Argonaut Version" in a Quiet Sounds mix. I like that song & wanted it to find a home in a mix. Speaking of Quiet Sounds , there are some excellent mixes available for download there. I wish Brian would crank them out more often. [...]
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 [...]
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