Isolate is the first mix published on ambientblog.net created by a guest.
Muttley (Michael Buckingham) is actively maintaining the Subvert Central weblog (hosting 60+ mixes now!), and also contributed some mixes to the Low Light Mixes weblog that I’m sure you are all familiar with.
Isolate is a continuous mixtape focussing on drone tracks. It’s a great mix to listen to at night (and falling asleep to).
“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.
When The Chronicles of Spellborn was released early 2009, I decided to create a special mix from a selection of the sound and music that comes with it.
Nonstop Ambient Montage: from Alva Noto to Arvo Pärt, via Arve Henriksen and Jacaszek, with short stops at Christopher Bissonnette, Entia Non, Kraken, Goldmund, and many, many others.
“Utsura-Utsura” is a japanese expression indicating the ‘fluctuation between alert wakefulness and a state of half-sleep’. This is exactly what this hour-long mix is about: between being awake and half asleep.
Like it’s companion mix (“Strange Birds”, published last week) this mix was also broadcast in April 2008. It’s a further walk in the same landscape. Sometimes the tension may rise somewhat, but the view remains spectacular.
The spring-like chatter in Christina Kubisch’ “Tea Time (Autumn Leaves Mix)” evokes a strange and hypnotic landscape sometimes unnerving, sometimes comforting.
