Ambient mix - Road trip radio (Ken Kesey's insomnia mix)

Not much more that needs to be said except what the music has to say. This mix was the result of collecting tracks for about 6 months and trying to decide how to fit them together. Two themes stuck out: voices and sleep. To make the first fit it seemed best to go with a changing radio station approach, especially as many tracks where already cut up and splice-like. The second set of tracks come from a pool of albums and thereabouts based around sleep including Jeff Bridges' "Sleeping Tapes", Dasha Rush's exceptional "Sleep Step" album and Frank Rothkamm's "Wiener process" album on Baskaru that doesn't feature sadly as its 24 one hour CDs are a bit beyond my budget. In any case, I always find it interesting the subtle subthemes that seem to come to the surface in music. Synchronicity perhaps?

Maybe as well given the northern heat wave and my difficulty sleeping lately, being somewhere in-between sleep and awake at times it is easy to join the dots and make some conceptual link between unrelated tracks and form a narrative of sorts. The structure is intentionally up and down to near silence to simulate that falling away (expressed as well in such a lovely way by the beautiful Lucy track that did not fit in in full sadly). There is also the intentional repetition of small elements like dreams that repeat or that cut back in when least expected as if exerting their own consciousness.

As always, it was made with Adobe Audition with some cut and paste of tracks to make crude collage re-mixes where necessary. One track is actually one of my own field recordings made from the bedroom window of my good friend Frank Cadorna's house in Harlesden, london in 2003 (recorded on mini disc). It features a rather mythical and crude conversation between two locals early one Sunday morning. Thankfully my machine was ready at the time and I only had to hang the mic out the window to catch them mid row. Frightening and funny. It was also a pleasure to pit Flying Saucer Attack (and their wnderful return) with Jeff Mills, probably the first time ever in a mix I imagine, as well as realise that AMP, another Bristol (or ex-Bristol) group are still in business with new music soon.



Enjoy and above all get some good, clean, healthy sleep.

Number	Artist	Track	Label	Year
1	To Rococo Rot & I-Sound	A number of things	City Slang	2001
2	Anna Caragnano & Donato Dozzy	Introduzione	Spectrum Spools	2015
3	Felix K	Tragedy of the Commons	Blackest Ever Black	2015
4	The Jesus and Mary Chain	Supertramp	Creation	1998
5	The Jesus and Mary Chain	Black	Creation	1998
6	The Jesus and Mary Chain	Fizzy	Creation	1998
7	Ilitch	Voyage (Limit Speed Desintegration)	Oxygene / Fractal	1978 / 2000
8	Monolake	Inwards	Monolake / Imbalance Computer Music	2014
9	Lydia Lunch, Zahra Mani, Mia Zabelka	Bloodlust and oblivion	Monotype Records	2013
10	Biosphere	The Third planet (sample only)	Volume / Biophon	1994 / 2014
11	Pole	Lachen	Kiff SM	1998
12	Stephanie Sykes	Hypo	Fullpanda Records	2014
13	Loscil	Luna	Not On Label (Loscil Self-released)	2015
14	Jeff Bridges	Sleep. Dream. Wakeup	Not On Label (Jeff Bridges Self-released)	2015
15	Dasha Rush	Lumiere Avant Midi	Raster Noton	2015
16	恢复	2814	Dream Catalogue™	2015
17	Hexagon	Illuminated Atoms	Transcendent	2013
18	Light Sleepers	Side of the road flashback	Shimmering Moods	2015
19	Lucy	Falling (sample only)	Stroboscopic Artefcts	2014
20	Campbell Irvine	Terms Of Propaganda	Infrastructure New York	2015
21	Cabeza de Vaca	Field recording: Harlesden , London 2003 (Go to sleep crack head)	Dullsville Records	2003 / 2015
22	Flying Saucer Attack	Instrumental #6	Domino	2015
23	Jeff Mills	Us and them	Axis	2014
24	Anthony Child	Over Napoli	Downwards	2014
25	Lydia Lunch, Zahra Mani, Mia Zabelka	Medusa´s ghost	Monotype Records	2013
26	Leyland Kirby	Eventually, It Eats Your Lungs	History Always Favours The Winners	2011
27	Echo Grid	Damage	Shimmering Moods	2015
28	AMP	Sense	Ampbase.Net	2011
29	Yui Onodera	Sigure	Arctic Tone	2015
30	Biosphere	Cloudwalker II	Origo Sound / Biophon	1991 / 2015
31	Ilitch	Voyage (Limit Speed Desintegration)	Oxygene / Fractal	1978 / 2000
32	David Shea	#6	Room 40	2015

Rainstorm blues

An ambient mix with a lot of history behind it and very little in the way of summer vibes.

 

Track	Artist	Title	Label	Year
1	Cabeza de Vaca	Leaving Rupert Street April 2003	Dullsville Trax	2003
2	Vangelis	Blade Runner blues	EastWest	1982
3	Francis Harris	Fangerdream (original mix)	Scissors and Thread	2014
4	Flying Saucer Attack	Rainstorm blues	Domino	1994
5	The Jesus and Mary Chain	F hole	Blanco y Negro	1987
6	Lou Reed	Berlin	RCA Victor	1973
7	Surgeon	Not two	Dynamic Tension Records	2011
8	Swans	Nathalie Neal	Young Gods	2014
9	Donato Dozzy	Il Canto Della Maga	Stroboscopic Artefacts	2014
10	Nesta Kerin Crain	Gongs in the rain	Light in the Attic	2013
11	The Cure	Plainsong	Fiction Records	1989
12	Deaf Center	Thunder night	Type	2005
13	Alice Damon	Waterfall Wind	Light in the Attic	2013
14	Burial	Night bus (+ Gutted)	Hyperdub	2006
15	Fennesz + Sakamoto	Trace	Touch	2007
16	ASC	Washed away over time	Silent Season	2013
17	William Basinski	Disintegration loop d|lp 2.2	2062	2002
18	Flying Saucer Attack	For silence	Domino	1994
19	Faust	Meadow meal	Polydor	1971
20	Bohren and Der Club of Gore	Dead end angels	Wonder	2000