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╔ Tears in Rain by @battyroy ╝

Vangelis' future-noir atmosphere of 1982 film Blade Runner ║drones that soar above the city lights ║pianos and glockenspiels duelling sultry saxophones in smoky bars ║ a tentative love affair between man and machine ║ a backdrop of smog and gentle persistent rain

╔ prologue: the blade-runner who came in from the rain ╝
Vangelis ║ Spiral
Vangelis ║ Main Titles
Vangelis ║ Blade Runner Blues
Future Sound of London ║ Dirty Shadows

╔ how can it not know what it is? ╝
Nico Niquo ║ Chelsea Bridge
Vangelis ║ Rachael's Song
Hans Zimmer ║ Mesa

╔ moments in love theme ╝
Vangelis ║ Love Theme
Vangelis ║ Love Theme (Gutbrod's ambient mix 2)
Art of Noise ║ Moments in Love (beaten)

╔ finding and losing a lover in the rain ╝
Vangelis ║ Blade Runner Blues
Vangelis ║ Dmitri's Bar
Vangelis ║ Sweet Solitude

╔ all those moments will be lost in time ╝
Vangelis ║ Fading Away
D.K. ║ Memories
Vangelis ║ Spiral

╔ epilogue: moments in love forever ╝

tears in rain: a Blade Runner love affair

As the temperature rises, bask in a blissful & balearic sensual summer affair with Kate. 

Prologue — Aerial
Delius (Song of Summer) — Never for Ever
Prologue — Before the Dawn
An Architect's Dream — Aerial [2018]
Prologue — Before the Dawn
Mna Na Heirann — Common Ground
Painter's Link — Aerial [2005/2018]
Sunset — Aerial
What If? — Fruitopia Commercials
Eat the Music — The Red Shoes
Person — Fruitopia Commercials
In the Warm Room — Lionheart
Oh to be in Love — The Kick Inside
Lily (intro) — The Red Shoes
The Sensual World — The Sensual World
Flower of the Mountain — Director's Cut
The Saxophone Song — The Kick Inside
Nocturn — Aerial

Four Seasons of Kate

Like Golden Light Dripping — Kate Bush Summer mixtape

The Keta Bush Dance Party is a club night featuring a smooth mix of synthpop, disco, house, and lashings of Kate Bush. Visit (and subscribe to) the linktree for our latest party details -> https://linktr.ee/ketabush

Typically I'll start and end a set with a Kate Bush tune, play a couple of dancefloor-ready remixes of Kate Bush somewhere in the middle, and the rest is a slick high-energy blend of complementary music. If you want your favourite Kate Bush track played, please come and request it at the start of event and I'll try and fit it into the set! 

Intro music: State Azure's reimagination of Running Up That Hill
Shalamar — A Night to Remember
Isaac Tichauer — Doing What I Got
Fox The Fox — Precious Little Diamond
Emmanuelle — Italove
Kate Bush — Cloudbusting (Young Edits edit)
Fleetwood Mac — Everywhere (Psychemagik edit)
Coco, Steel & Lovebomb — Touch It (Work on the remix)
Lady Gaga — Babylon (Casual Look edit)
Kate Bush — Wow (Ali Ooft edit)
Lykke Li — I Follow Rivers (The Magician remix)
Klapto — Mister Game
Prince & The Revolution — When Doves Cry
Abba — Voulez-vous (Charles J edit)
Chase & Status feat. Moko — Count on Me
Eartheater — Babooshka (Kate Bush cover)

Keta Bush Dance Party — a Kate Bush dance mix

Ace of Base's best upbeat electronic cuts @ 125bpm. Classics, demos, edits all fully amped-up for modern ears and car soundsystems.

Voulez-Vous (demo)
Walk Like A Man (demo)
Dancer in a Daydream
Hear Me Calling
All That She Wants [Axel Boman edit]
The Sign [the remix]
Lucky Love (Amadin remix)
Stranger to Love (demo)
Young and Proud
Fashion Party (instrumental)
My Mind (mindless mix)
Memories Forever (demo)
Beautiful Life (Lenny B's House of Joy Club mix)
Hypnotized (Hear Me Calling re-edit)

When you're ready to chill hit the Ace of Base reggae-pop mixtape → https://soundcloud.com/batty-roy/ace-of-reggae-pop

ace of techno-pop — Ace Of Base @ 125bpm

A 45-minute mixtape of all the Eurythmics' music produced for the 1984 film Nineteen-Eighty-Four blended with some of the material from their studio album "For the Love of Big Brother" (items with *)

Ministry of Love* (excerpt)
The Call Has Come
It's a Dream
Greetings from a Dead Man*
Winston's Diary*
Dead Insects
Five Fingers
For the Love of Big Brother*
Everything Fades Into Mist
I Did It Just the Same*
Newspeak Dictionary
I Hate Her
Julia & Winston
Two Plus Two
Ministry of Love* (extended mix)
Julia* (extended mix)
It's a Dream (reversed)
Who is She?
The Worst Thing in the World
Room 101*
Ministry of Love

Nineteen Eighty-Four soundtrack

1984: a Eurythmic Dystopia

End Titles from Blade Runner (Vangelis), but make it a CD-length mix

Vangelis — Damask Rose
Microlith — Brainslave Sequence
Agents of Time — Drive Me Crazy
Brame & Hamo — Retro Active
The Hacker — Jupiter Skyline
Woob — >1991 Again
Woob — OVERRUN.EXE
Boy Harsher — Motion
DC Salas — Gliding Future
FORCES — World in Focus
Maceo Plex — Blade Runner End Titles edit
Pablo Bozzi — GoldenEye
Maceo Plex — Conjure Balearia
Genetic — Transmission (Cops Don't Knock mix)
Clatterbox — Impulse Response
Country & Western — Reincarnation
William Orbit — Love My Way
Naum Gabo — Theme For Great Cities
Vangelis — Memories of Green

replicants on the run (a Blade Runner mix)

A Capercaillie mixtape. Collated in the month before a trip to Skye with the boys. 

Dr MacPhail's Reel
Dr MacPhail's Trance
Bonaparte (remix)
The Little Cascade
Coisich a Ruin
Take the Floor
Alasdair Mhic Cholla (extended remix)
Marc's Set
Eastern Reel
Balindore
Four Stone Walls
Silver Spear Reels (live)
Hebridean Hale-Bop (edit)
The Hebrides
Waiting For The Wheel ('92 version)

fergus' reel (Capercaillie catch the ferry to Skye)

It's coming on Christmas, they're cutting down trees. Ideal for a brisk afternoon walk in the snow, or a warm bath while the world freezes around you.

Meredith Monk — Eva's Song
Joni Mitchell — River
Nina Simone — Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood
Meredith Monk — Dance
Kate Bush — Warm and Soothing
Tori Amos — Horses
Delerium feat. Sarah McLachlan — Silence (celestial acapella)
Jeff Buckley — Corpus Christi Carol
Fleet Foxes — Heard Them Stirring
Björk — Frosti / All is Full of Love
Kirsty Hawkshaw — Metamorphosis
Röyksopp — A Higher Place
Akina Nakamori — Kaleidoscope Without Light
Eurythmics — There Must Be An Angel (Playing With My Heart)

Heaven Holds a Sense of Wonder — wintery angelic voices

Scottish folk-electronica soundtrack to a roadtrip on Lewis, Harris & Skye

Wolfstone — J-Time
Talitha MacKenzie — Fear a’ Bhàta
Niteworks — Cumhachd
Martyn Bennett & Tommy Smith — Karabach
Paul Mounsey — North
Brona McVittie — The Vast & Vague Extravagance That Lies at the Bottom of the Celtic Heart
Peatbog Faeries — Decisions, Decisions
Martyn Bennett — MacKay’s Memoirs
Alasdair Fraser — Theme for Scotland
Capercaillie — Alasdair Mhic Cholla Ghasda (remix)
Peatbog Faeries — Strictly Sambuca
LUSA — Hawea
Malcolm Jones & Donald Black — Eilean Scalpaigh Na Hearadh
Valtos & Elephant Sessions — 1990
Peatbog Faeries — The Skyline of Skye

the sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night

the highlands & islands of the soul — stoner trad

Ace of Base's very best reggae-pop cuts at a groovy 96bpm, amped up and remastered for car soundsystems... If you knew how to have fun with the windows down circa 1993 this is for you ✌️

The Sign (long mix)
Life is a Flower (Sweetbox mix 1)
Don't Turn Around (groove mix)
Wheel of Fortune (demo)
All That She Wants (12")
Happy Nation (12")
Giving it Up (remake)
Living in Danger (demo)
The Sign (Luke Mornay SOS extended mix)

Join us in the club later for Ace of Base's harder electronica cuts →  https://soundcloud.com/batty-roy/ace-of-techno-pop

ace of reggae-pop — Ace of Base @ 96bpm

something soft and warm to come home to after a long night

KLF — Madrugada Eterna
Brona McVittie — The Vast & Vague Extravagance That Lies at the Bottom of the Celtic Heart
Stephan Bodzin — Sungam (synthapella)
Dream 2 Science — My Love Turns to Liquid
Torch Song — Shine On Me
Rudy's Midnight Machine — Shimmering Coast
Alma Negra — In the Mood for Deepness
Pilgrims of the Mind — Good Morning Angel
Dany Dorado — Fuga
Quentin Sirjacq  — bodies
Arpanet — Wireless Internet
Bicep — Glue
Tranquility Bass — Mya Yadana
Boards of Canada — Nlogax
Faze Action — Vamos Pintar (Max Essa slo-mo dub)

welcome weary traveller — ambient homecoming

Groove Armada — Inside My Mind (Blue Skies)
Olive — Miracle (Doc Scott remix)
The Chameleon — Links
Adam F — Circles
Akasha — Brown Sugar (PFM's cosmic journey mix)
Tim Reaper & Dev/Null — Anytime
JDL — The Runner
Omni Trio — Who Are You (Aquasky remix)
Jonny L — Underwater Communication
Tastexperience — Summersault (Saad Chishty remix)

liquid breaks sleep furiously — atmospheric liquid dnb

Extended, augmented, and rounded. More 90s nostalgia right here from Ace of Base:
https://soundcloud.com/batty-roy/ace-of-reggae-pop

Simply Red - Fairground (Merry-Go-Round edit)

A nostalgic, sinister and sensual story of a chase, a kiss and first love over a tender Steve-Reich-inspired broken-chords line, based on No-Man's Days in the Trees (Reich), which borrows Donna's confession to Harold in Twin Peaks season 2.  

If you like this try the 20 minute adventure based on the same piece:
https://www.mixcloud.com/rufusson/days-and-days-in-the-trees/

Donna's Confession from Twin Peaks [extended version of No-Man's Days in the Trees]

Extended edit of Spiritualized's 1997 beast of multi-part harmony 'Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space'.

"ladies and gentlemen we are floating in space" / "but I can't help falling in love with you" / "we'll float in space just you and I" / "all I want in life's a little bit of love to take the pain away" / "please put your sweet hand in mine and float in space and drift in time"

Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space (Edits)

Spiritualized — Ladies and Gentlemen We Are (Floating In Space Forever edit)

WestBam & Nena — Oldschool, Baby (Steinway rave piano mix)

A 10-minutes-long edit of Running Up That Hill that doesn't loop or repeat sections. Fans of Stranger Things should hopefully appreciate this extended version!

It's got an extended intro and outtro, the immense driving beat of the 12" version throughout (created by a Linn drum machine) and its cut-up vocals, guitar solo and drum solo; the full choruses and verses of the album version; and some extra backing vocals from the relatively rare instrumental version.

Running Up That Hill (Keta Bush Stranger Things extended 12" edit)

This belter extended and amped for 8 minutes of breakbeaty dancefloor fun. Original + Tiga + A Touch of Class remix.

Comfortably Numb (keta bush edit)

I know things have been a little strange around here lately, but I just want us to stop for a minute and think about how much we have together. I know that we can make it... we can make it

PKA — Let Me Hear You (Say Yeah)
no moon — wouldnt have it any other way
Voices in the Dark — Keep It Warm
Hot Since 82 — Tilted
Gat Decor — Passion (Ray of Passion overdub)
Ken Doh — Nakasaki (I Need a Lover Tonight)
Carl Cox — Give Me Your Love (Valentino Kanzyani mix)
Three Drives — Greece 2000
Nalin & Kane — Beachball
Circulation — Turquoise (Ride the Turquoise overdub)
Valentino — Flying (re-edit)
Руки Вверх (Ruki Vverh) — Песенка (Pesenka)

Mixes

I Know We Can Make It — sunshine house

A minimal ambient version of Delerium's Silence with the original voice of Sarah McLachlan. Also features in this mixtape: https://soundcloud.com/batty-roy/heaven-holds-a-sense-of-wonder-wintery-angelic-voices

Apologies for the low quality: found this beauty at the end of a knockoff cassette tape of Karma last year — it's labelled the "celestial acapella".

Delerium — Silence (original Sarah McLachlan acapella)

The adventures of a selkie who dreams of touching a sky that lies beyond the water, painted in shades of caribbean blue. Listen on headphones, or in the bath. 

Want more Enya & Kate Bush goodness? Try 'Eternal Celtic Dreamtime of the Soul':
https://soundcloud.com/keta-bush/kate-bush-vs-enya-eternal-celtic-dreamtime-of-the-soul

Tracklist:
Bróna McVittie — The Vast and Vague Extravagance That Lies at the Bottom of the Celtic Heart
Enya — Boadicea
Chicane — Saltwater (Thrillseekers remix feat. Moya Brennan)
Lisa Hannigan — Song of the Sea
Enya — Aldebaran
Enya — I Want Tomorrow
Enya — On Your Shore (excerpt)
Kate Bush — Mná na hÉireann
Kila — The Derry Tune
Enya — Caribbean Blue
Clannad — Caisleán Óir (Planet Heaven mix) 
Bróna McVittie — In the Secret Garden
Wolfstone — J-Time
Lisa Hannigan — Song of the Sea (reprise)
Enya — Humming

Song Of The Selkie — Enya's dreams in caribbean blue

I’ve loved immersive audio things since falling asleep to prog rock albums on cassette players at night as a kid. These are things I’ve made over the years as Batty Roy, Keta Bush & Sonic Headtrip Inc while DJing and messing around with Ableton.

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