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low light mixesBlade Runner Pop Soundtrack
What if the original Blade Runner film had a pop music soundtrack? You know how some films have an instrumental score but also an album of pop/rock tunes that…
low light mixesGuest Mix from Brad Deschamps of Polar Seas Recordings
This year I've had the good fortune of posting several cool guest mixes and that continues with this excellent collection from Brad Deschamps of Polar Seas…
low light mixessnow on my piano
As I've said here before, solo piano is wonderfully evocative of falling snow. So this mix is a collection of piano tracks that remind me of snow. All the…
low light mixesThe Infinite Present
This mix is nice and straightforward - no funky locations, no focus on a single instrument - just straight up ambient. The closest thing to a theme would be…
low light mixesResonant Spaces
Somehow last year I missed the album Transcendence by Sherry Finzer. https://heartdancerecords.bandcamp.com/album/transcendence It's an album of solo flute…
low light mixesAmbient Vaporwave - A mix by Innesti
Photo by Nick Reynolds on Unsplash I am so psyched to have another excellent guest mix. This one comes from long-time friend of the blog, Innesti -…
low light mixesThe Long Polar Night
As I type this we are getting pounded with another 9" of snow, the second pounding in less than a week. Combine that with semi-lockdown we are still under and…
low light mixesBell Tone Meditation by Paul Asbury Seaman
Great minds think alike. Both Paul and I had the idea of doing a "bell" based mix. I, however, am a procrastinator, and after creating a save folder for bell…
low light mixesflickering moments passing - a halftribe guest mix
I've been a fan of halftribe(Ryan Bissett) ever since he approached me about doing a guest mix roughly 6 years ago - whoa, blows my mind that it was that long…
low light mixesThe Silence of Snow
I was fishing around for an idea for a new mix and mother nature helped out by dropping some fresh snow overnight so that became the theme - The Silence of…
low light mixesStillness Within Motion
by Sven Geier - sgeier.net We end the year as we began - with a mix from Paul Asbury Seaman. And a fine way to end the year it is. All of the music in this set…
low light mixesBest Ambient Albums of 2020
I always label these lists and mixes as "Best Ambient," but with so much music released each year, coming up with a true best list is almost impossible. So…
low light mixesQuiet Indie Songs of 2020
I listen to as much indie music as I do ambient music. I always keep a list of favorite albums and favorite songs of the year. As I was looking at some of my…
low light mixesWind in Lonely Fences - A Farewell to Harold Budd
2020, you unrelenting bastard. Now you've taken Harold Budd from us. An icon in ambient music. There's not much I can say right now except that I love his…
low light mixesMelancholy 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…
low light mixesKeeping 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…
low light mixesThe Stars Appear Like Diamonds
As is well documented in this blog, I am a space nerd. Over the years I have posted a ton of mixes related to the cosmos. Whether it's a stargazing mix or a…
low light mixesThe Night Absolves
Off-kilter, strange, a bit askew, weird, oblique - are all ways to describe this mix. It's a little creepy too which makes for a perfect mix for Spooky Season…
low light mixesStay Inside
photo courtesy of https://unsplash.com/@coleito I started this mix on a cold, rainy fall day with no theme or plan. The first track I laid down was from…
low light mixesStrange Beauty - 4th Excursions Vol. 2
sounds swim all around drifting in the warm embrace of this strange beauty This my second 4th world mix and it's similar to the 2018 version. It still follows…
low light mixesLighting Out for the Territories
This mix came about because I wanted to find a vehicle for some of the great music coming out of Lost Tribe Sound and their Fearful Void series. The bundle of…
low light mixesRainfall Meditation
Sometime in the last couple of weeks we got a good downpour here at Low Light headquarters. As I stood at the front door smelling the rain, listening to the…
low light mixessimply ambient
This mix, like the title, is simple. It's straight forward ambient music. Nice and relaxing, beatless, drifting ambient music. All of the music is new - 9 of…
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Fragmented Dialogue
image by Thomas Park This mix was a lot of fun! Back in April, Peter van Cooten, of Ambientblog, created the awesome mix, Lockdown. After it posted we talked…
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Not seeing is a flower
This mix came about from an idea by a listener, Kevin. He suggested a mix based on artists from Japan. I asked for track recommendations and Kevin came back…
low light mixesDub Train Dub Station
I have been planning on a new dubby mix for a while and I have been planning for a mix with a slow-ish train vibe. Somehow those two concepts merged and became…
low light mixesSea of Stars 2020
photo by Wil Stewart https://unsplash.com/s/photos/wil-stewart I've been working from home for a couple of months and you'd think I might have some extra time…
low light mixesSunday Morning Music vo. 20 - Exhale
I haven't posted a Sunday Morning mix since January and with how much things have changed since then I figured we could all use a mix with that Sunday morning…
low light mixesSerenity, Hope & Grace by Paul Asbury Seaman
I can always count on Paul for a good palate cleanser. After the bizzaro world of DEVS & the continuing covid crapola, I think everyone is in need of a little…
low light mixesDEVS - 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…
low light mixesOf Reed and Breath
This mix started nearly two years ago when I created a playlist on Spotify called "Sax is Back." In there I collected tracks that used a saxophone as a main…
low light mixesLockdown - by Peter Van Cooten of Ambientblog.net
I like to think that I put a lot of thought and effort into these mixes. Hopefully, the mix as a whole is greater than the sum of its parts. But what I do is…
low light mixesPiano Day 2020
Today, March 28th, is International Piano Day. This is what the Piano Day website says about today: “Why does the world need a Piano Day? For many reasons. But…
low light mixesAlone Time - music for self-isolation
I have to come clean. I stole this idea. Dennis Huddleston, who records as 36, posted a Spotify playlist a couple of days ago and I thought it sounded like a…
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Lullabies for a Night Train by Paul Asbury Seaman
After the last mix, I was trying to decide what to do next - sea mix? orchestral? shortwave? train? Well, Paul beat me to it by sending a tracklist for another…
low light mixesMusic for Meditation - healing vibes for election season
It's hard to believe there are still 9 months until the presidential election here in the US. It feels like the 2016 campaign never ended. Working in TV news I…
low light mixesSequential Circuits 2.0.2.0
This is a re-posting of sorts. I was going through old mixes trying to figure out which ones had not been posted to Mixcloud. I plan on posting some of those…
low light mixesGuitarscapes 2020
This mix doesn't need a lot of introduction or explanation. It's a collection of ambient guitar tunes. The kind with swells of sound and long, slow washes of…
low light mixesWorlds Within Worlds - Field Recordings 2020
I was digging through some old mixes that had never been uploaded to Mixcloud and I came across a couple of old field recording mixes. The plan was to combine…
low light mixesSunday Morning Music Vol. 19 - Rhodes to the 70s
This mix started with an interesting album I came across this past weekend, Ernest Hood - Neighborhoods. It was originally released in 1975 but was recently…
low light mixesThe Voice of Silence: Bells, Gongs & Gamelan - by Paul Asbury Seaman
When Paul emailed a few weeks back with the idea of doing a bell themed mix I got all excited. I thought to myself - "Perfect, I have a whole folder of bell…
low light mixesA Decade of Ambient
Ugh, this was difficult. I went through old end-of-the-year lists, checked Spotify playlists, looked up other folks' lists and dug up old mixes. There is just…
low light mixesFilms 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…
low light mixesBest Ambient of 2019 Vol. 2
As I said in the previous post, there was so much good music this year, every year really, that I couldn't fit it all into one mix. So here is volume 2. This…
low light mixesBest Ambient of 2019
It's an impossible task to narrow down the multitude of ambient recordings released every year into a definitive "Best of" list. There's so much music out…
low light mixes2019 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…
low light mixesSoft Focus
I have a bunch of folders of music that I collect for mixes. I have one called "sea '19" for a sea-themed mix. One called "fog bound" for music that sounds…
low light mixesMystical Ambience 2: Tactile Ground by Paul Asbury Seaman
Cover art created by and courtesy of Robert Rich, https://robertrich.com/graphic-art/. As regular visitors to this blog have probably figured out, I don't…
low light mixesBlade 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…
low light mixesIn Sequencer Euphoria
Cover art by Sven Geier, http://www.sgeier.net/fractals/ I have talked many times here about how a single track or artist can inspire a mix. Well, that seems…
low light mixesAmbient Twang
I remember the first time I heard the Daniel Lanois tunes From Eno's Apollo album, I didn't really care for them. I didn't like the pedal steel guitar. I…
low light mixesAlmost Home
I'm not sure exactly where this mix started. I heard a few tunes that had a wistful, almost melancholy feel to them and began collecting tracks. The result is…
low light mixesA Rhythmic Passage
Two years ago I did a mix called "A Distant Pulse" which featured a lot of tribal ambient sounds. I've been meaning to do a sequel and now it's here with "A…
low light mixesMostly Flute: Ambient New Age by Paul Asbury Seaman
I've been heckin' busy this summer. First of all, it's summer so beer gardens, baseball games, northwoods vacations, beer gardens, yard work, beer gardens…
low light mixesLost Tribe Sound: The Western Divide
I can't tell you how excited I am for this mix. Well, actually I'm telling you right now so that first line was bullshit. Suffice it to say I love this mix. It…
low light mixesStranger Synths 2019
In honor of the third season of Stranger Things dropping today, Low Light Mixes presents Stranger Synths 2019. This a retro synth mix that falls right in line…
low light mixesLevitate by Innesti
One of my favorite discoveries over the past year has been Innesti. The last album, released in February, is called Formless and that describes perfectly the…
low light mixesWhitelabrecs 2019(so far)
I made a list of my favorite ambient albums of the first half of 2019 and noticed that there were 6 releases from the Whitelabrecs label on it. Harry Towell…
low light mixesSunday Morning Music vol. 18 - Sun Room
The 18th installment in the Sunday Morning Music series is here. It starts with one of my favorite albums of the year - Spirit by Rhye. It's so beautiful and…
low light mixesThe Gentle Space Music of Hollan Holmes curated by Paul Asbury Seaman
created by and through the courtesy of Hollan Holmes I am excited to bring you another beautifully curated mix from Paul Asbury Seaman. Anyone who has been to…