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low light mixesHalftribe ambient mix
The timing on this could be better. I've been very busy lately and haven't been able to do a mix. So it's the perfect time for a guest mix. This mix comes to…
low light mixesAlways & Forever - Americana Vol. 1
I know this blog is supposed to be about ambient music but over the years I've posted some outliers - "Quintessential Jazz" "Footsteps" "Psalms and Lullabies"…
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Favorite Ambient Tracks Of All Time
I've already done a "Favorite Ambient Albums" mix and a "Favorite Ambient Artists" mix so it makes sense that there would eventually be a "Favorite Ambient…
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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…
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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…
low light mixesAcross the Water
One of the benefits of making & posting mixes for all these years is getting to know some like-minded folks from around the world. One of those is my good…
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Ghosts in the Score
stirring up the dust ghosts from the past whisper in grooves of forever There's a first for this blog - vinyl haiku. I was looking for ways to describe this…
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Reflecting the Hybrid - by Chris Fraley, a member of the Hypnos Recordings Forums
This mix is a rare treat. It's a guest mix from Chris Fraley. I know Chris through correspondence and postings at the Hypnos Forum. I've been a member of the…
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a frozen world
It is freakin' cold here in Wisconsin right now. It's going to be -20f below zero tonight and the high temp on Monday didn't get much above -10f. Frigid temps…
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Late Night Encounters Vol. 1
The title of this mix pretty much says it all. This is a collection of tunes that works well at night. I didn't want the mix to be dark & depressing or dark…
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A winter's dub
I love dubby ambient. I think this is my third dub mix this year. I'm sure I'll grow tired of this style of music but for now I'm soaking it in. It was snowing…
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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…
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Favorite ambient albums of all time
About a year ago I did a mix of my favorite ambient artists of all time. I have been meaning to do a mix of my favorite ambient albums of all time ever since…
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distant crossroads
As I have said many times before on this blog, a new mix is very often born when a track or two inspires me to create something new. In this case it was the…
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Sunday Morning Music vol. 7 - The Sun King
found a cool clip on YouTube from the Beatles Abbey Road album. It is the 16 minute medley that closes the album but it's only the vocals. It's fascinating to…
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dub transmissions
I happened to come across a new tune from Moritz Von Oswald Trio. The song, Blue Dub, has this great, slow, sparse dub thing going on that I love. I knew as…
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A Glitch in Time
Sometime around 2001 I discovered the album Tides by Arovane. I'm not sure if it qualifies as "post-digital" or "blip hop" or "micro" music but it was through…
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Movement & Location - music for biking
This mix is completely different from anything that I've posted here. It's not ambient, or electronic or Sunday morning jazz. This is music for motion. This is…
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Under Eno's covers
At the suggestion of a listener I set out to do a mix of ambient covers. Not so easy. But I did find a bunch of Brian Eno cover tunes. Some I was familiar…
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Infinite ambient
I usually keep different folders of music for different types of mixes. I have a "sea" folder. And one called "dub & stuff." Another is "piano." And of course…
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a leaf on the wind - field recordings & ambience 2013
The title pretty much says it all - this mix is a field recording mix. I think I've done 3 field mixes in the past but haven't done one in a long time. So I…
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Sunday Morning Music - 1970s Recollections
More Sunday morning music - this time all the tracks are from the 1970s. In collecting these cuts I discovered two albums that I somehow missed - Kraftwerk -…
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Sci Fi Adventures - All These Worlds
The good folks over at Nocturne Records asked me to do a mix for their podcast. They put out some great music so how could I resist! Most of the time with my…
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Rivers Flow
Cedar Creeek in Cedarburg, WI. This mix ended up in a different place than when it started. I have folder in my prospective mix bin called "just plain old good…
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Ambient by Non-Ambient Artists
Ambient music will never be a popular genre. We all know the kind of looks we get from people when they hear some of our ambient tunes. But over time ambient…
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Sunday Morning Music vol. 5 - Chasing Ice
I have to be honest. One of the reasons I've done so many(#5 now) of these Sunday morning music mixes is that they are so popular, especially on Mixcloud. So…
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dubscapes & dreamscapes
I love the end of the year because of all the lists that get posted all over the place. I love discovering releases that I knew nothing about. The folks over…
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Headphone Commute ...and darkness came
The awesome folks over at Headphone Commute asked me to do a special mix for them and of course I could not refuse. The mix is special because it is helping…
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asleep at the piano
Looking back over the last six years of mixes, the piano has been the featured instrument in many of the the tracks. I guess it goes all the way back to…
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Sunday Morning Music vol. 4 - To Speak of Solitude
Oops! It's Sunday night & I'm posting a mix called Sunday Morning Music. Oh well, play it next Sunday while reading the paper with a cup of coffee. This is the…
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s t r e t c h e d beyond recognition
This is a very slow, droney kind of mix. All the music has been stretched or slowed down so much that the tunes are unrecognizable from the originals. I used a…
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illusions of autumn
I wanted to get this mix in while it is still autumn. I originally did this mix last fall for the good folks over at Headphone Commute. If you've not been…
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Favorite Ambient Artists
There is a new release from Loscil called "Sketches from New Brighton." And of course it's excellent, everything from Loscil is excellent. As I listened to it…
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daylight fades
This is a mix I did for my good friends at acloserlisten.com and lostchildrennetlabel.com The mix is called “daylight fades” because as I was listening to…
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Music for a Mars landing
Back in November I did a mix for the launch of Curiosity, NASA's newest Mars rover. Now 8 months later, Curiosity has arrived at Mars. So this mix is music for…
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The God Particle
Those of us who are science dorks were fascinated earlier this month when it was announced that the discovery of a new particle was very likely the elusive…
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Every day is like Sunday - Sunday morning music vol. 3
Sunday mornings in summer...put on some coffee even though the temps are already climbing. Sunday mornings in summer...are spent on the deck with the paper &…
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Transit of Venus
A mix in honor of the recent transit of Venus across the face of the sun. It won't happen again until 2117. All the tracks have Venus, sun or transit in the…
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on the behavior of radio waves
Shortwave radio signals spread across the planet, the signal fades in & out, washes of static mix with music & voice, creating an eerie mashup of music &…
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alien architecture
The music in this mix has a strange, sort of alien feel to it. The pieces are a bit darker, but not creepy or annoying. But they do all have a weird…
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Sunday Morning Music Vol. 2
On Sundays I don't do anything useful until noon. I read the paper, listen to music, read a book, sort & catalog my mp3's, sit out on the deck, etc. This mix…
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a further sea
This is my 5th "sea" mix. I guess ambient artists really like the imagery & sounds of the sea. Me too. This one is very similar to the other "sea" mixes. A lot…
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1969 - trans lunar injection
I've been on kind of a moon binge lately. It started with watching HBO's excellent series, "From the Earth to the Moon." Then I read "We Reach the Moon," a…
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imaginary soundtracks
I guess you could say that all the music I listen to is a soundtrack of one sort or another. Soundtrack for cleaning the house, soundtrack for sleeping, for…
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dubby & dreamy
. Ambient dub, minimal dub, ambi-dub, whatever you want to call it, is something that I listen to every now & then. I like making mixes with this music because…
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sunday morning music
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…
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The Mellow Side of Prog
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…
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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…
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fire and ice - an Icelandic mix
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…
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I can hear the snow fall
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…
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Launch of Curiosity
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…
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drowsy
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…
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psalms & lullabies
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 &…
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Shadowland
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…
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autumn in slow motion
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…
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future days
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…
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porch music
"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…
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graceful silence
"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…
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an uncharted sea
"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…
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the stars above us
"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…