“Jam Karet” is Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian language) meaning “Elastic Time” (or “Rubber Hours”).
It is used for all ‘time waiting patiently or expected, rather than wasted’. It definitely also makes life easier: if you have an appointment at 9pm jam karet and arrive at 9.30 pm, you are still not too late.
Time simply isn’t very relevant in everyday life …

To me, Jam Karet can also be applied to many mixes including ambient and drone fragments… where the listener gets immersed in sound in such a way that all notion of time is lost. Where music could last for minutes, or for hours.
With that idea in the back of my mind, I started working on this mix.
The result is a collage with samples from a lot of different sources – ambient music, early electronic music experiments, field recordings and fragments or ‘acousmatic’ music – mixed together to (hopefully) make you lose track of time…

Full track details and more info can be found here:
http://www.ambientblog.net/blog/2015-02-03/jam-karet-elastic-time-mix/

2015 - 1 Jam Karet (Elastic Time)

When I started working on this mix, its working title was Wonderlust, simply because I liked that word: a variation on wanderlust (‘a desire to travel’) which the Urban Dictionary describes as ‘the desire to be in a constant state of wonder’.
But as the mix progressed, the title didn’t fit very well. There were too many dark and unsettling moments… moment that may evoke their own ‘state of wonder’ but of a completely different kind. 

The Questions in Anja Garbarek‘s track are crucial to this mix and gave it its title: a few simple questions to diagnose severe psychotic disorders, a delusional state of mind. There may be quite a few of these delusional moments in this mix, but they are alternated with moments of joy in an almost melodramatical equilibrium. 

Full playlist details (and free download, also available as a surround version) can be found on:
https://www.ambientblog.net/blog/2019-01-06/delusional-mix/

Delusional

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