What exactly happens at the moment night changes back into day again, when darkness slowly retreats and light comes back in? Are we aware of what happens outside, at that time of day most of us are still sleeping? What sort of animals or creatures are hiding from the light, and what sort finally dare to come out again? Would we discover “Dawn Secrets” when we’d leave our own safe and familiar surroundings?
Imagine yourself in deep sleep. Very deep sleep. Unaware of your surroundings, unable to control images built from memories, unable to distinguish your dreams from impressions originating from the outside world.
This mix is a bit different: it’s definitely not an “ambient mix”, although there’s quite a lot of ambience involved. Iit features the music of one artist only: Michel Banabila.
A collaborative mix by Muttley (Subversion Weblog) and myself. The mix is divided in ‘sets’ getting shorter each round. In minutes: 20-20-10-10-5-5.
“Was the Constitution written in visible ink? Has everybody here forgotten how to think? Is this great big boat starting to … sink?”
Vortex was especially created for the X-Rated radio show. It was broadcast on the May 23, 2010 show (the first day of Pentecost).
The mix presented here was created specifically for Fluid Radio. It is no ‘head-tail’ mixtape, but a collage of fragments that are represented in a different context and, doing so, get a different musical meaning.
Let me begin with a warning: this mix is quite unlike the previous ones! When I started this Recyclopedia mix, I originally wanted to focus on the many ambient music pieces throughout the series, creating an ambient mix and leaving out all other music. But the nature of the project decided otherwise.
The SubVersion ’15 Minutes of Fame’ format dictates that any mix should contain no more than 10 tracks and last no longer than 40 minutes.
“Miserere” has taken its name from the concluding piece: Gregoria Allegri’s Miserere, as performed by the Tallis Scholars. While working on this mix, I soon felt that this piece had to be the conclusion, and that it should not be combined with other pieces of music or environmental sounds.
This mix is different from most previous mixes, in that it does not include many different artists, but concentrates on the music of one single artist: Mark Tamea. His music is a fascinating combination of electronics, environmental sounds, musique concrête, acoustical and modern classical music.
‘The Chronicles of Spellborn‘ came with so much interesting soundscapes, that I decided to create a second mix, an alternate version to the first one published the week before.
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