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On this mix, originally appearing on Headphone Commute podcast in May of 2017, we celebrate some of the pioneers of early electronic ambient music, with the help of a long-time contributor, Fingers in the Noise. Here are all of the first explorations into the then unnamed genre, sometimes referred to as avant-garde, new-music, or simply electronic music. Pictured for the cover art of this mix is Laurie Spiegel, an American composer, who, while working in Bell Laboratories in the early 70s, composed with analog synthesizers using interactive software she wrote herself. Some of this music is hard to come by, with the early experiments a bit difficult to digest, so I thank Laurent Bisch for his wonderful selection of tracks for this very special tribute.

Full track listing and more details on the mix can be found here:
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Fingers In The Noise - A Tribute to the Pioneers of Electronic Ambient Music

I had a lot of train journeys recently and I love watching the wires seemingly dance around outside the window. I wondered if we could be getting fooled by a similar process during our usual experience of movement and time, and thought it would be an interesting project for a music video set to the music created during the same journeys.

You can find that project and a longer explanation of the video ideas here: https://vimeo.com/241546182

For the music I wanted to bring ideas of frozen moments of the past into play, and no better excuse to get stuck in with the Prophet 6 on some lush classic analogue synth sounds for the main chord sequence, and plenty of nob noodling for a dance of modulating sounds around the main sequence. I wanted to keep it fairly sparse to let the chord patch be central, and just focus on trying to make every element, including the percussion, warp a little, so you can either listen to the track from a distance and hear the harmonic ideas, or delve in to find all sorts more hiding in there.

You can hear the whole EP here: https://lnk.to/WorldPassingByEP

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Resynthesis [Mesh004]

Douglas Dare's third and most stripped back album to date, 'Milkteeth', is out now. Produced by Mike Lindsay, founding member of Tunng and one half of LUMP with Laura Marling, the BBC 6 Music Album Of The Day sees Douglas become confident and comfortable enough with his own identity to reflect on both the joys and pains of youth. In doing so, he has established himself as a serious 21st century singer-songwriter with an enduring lyrical poise and elegant minimalist sound.

"Gorgeous compositions" 7.6 — Pitchfork
"Utterly distinctive" ★★★★ — Q Magazine
"It blows me away" — Lauren Laverne, BBC6 Music
"Such a beautiful record" — Tom Ravenscroft, BBC6 Music
"A stunningly harmonious musical journey" — DIY
"A work that exudes beauty" — Clash Magazine
"Milkteeth feels grandiose" — Loud and Quiet
"A gently heartbreaking ode" — Billboard

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Happy to present this year's sunrise set, live from the Dusty Rhino in Black Rock City on Thursday, August 29th, 2019. Thank you all for taking the time to share in this moment, it's truly a highlight for me to spend this morning with you each year 🙏 Big thanks and love to the Dusty Rhino crew, Dane, Juan, Kiyoka, Hannah, Jakub and Rory 

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Van Halen - 1984
Boards of Canada - Alpha and Omega
Tycho - Japan (Instrumental)
Muddy Monk & Jimmy Whoo - Divine
Bakradze - Quiet Loop
Karol XVII & MB Valence - Aqua
Tycho - Easy
Tigerskin - This Place Is Empty Without You
Octavian - Lightning (Ross from Friends Remix)
Bonobo - Linked
Kiasmos - Drawn
Tycho - Into The Woods
Letherette - After Dawn
Four Tet - Evening Side (Oneohtrix Point Never Edit)
You Man - Birdcage
Icarus - October
Photay - Illusion Of Seclusion
<<< SUNRISE >>>
Westerman - Roads
Tourist - Elixir
Bicep - Opal (Four Tet Remix)
Maribou State - Turnmills
Tycho - Jetty
B. Traits NorthShore
Tycho - Pink & Blue (Instrumental)
Chrome Sparks - The Meaning of Love
Tycho - Weather

Inversion - Burning Man Sunrise Set 2019

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Berlin based composer and producer Ben Lukas Boysen has announced the release of his third album, the progressive and shape-shifting 'Mirage', on 1 May 2020. It follows 2013’s 'Gravity' and the acclaimed 2016 full length 'Spells', a record as much admired by his peers as it was loved by fans that not only yielded remixes from Max Cooper and Tim Hecker, but also opened Jon Hopkins’ Late Night Tales compilation.

Since the release of 'Spells', Ben collaborated with cellist and composer Sebastian Plano on the score for David OReilly’s landmark innovative video game 'Everything'. It was added to the long list for the Best Animated Short at the 90th Academy Awards, making it the first video game to qualify for an Oscar. 

As with 'Gravity' and 'Spells', Ben has an array of musical guests adorning Mirage, including long time collaborator, Berlin based cellist and composer Anne Müller as well as Australian saxophonist and composer Daniel Thorne — for whom Ben wrote parts specifically, having heard his 2019 solo debut 'Lines of Sight'. Lead track 'Medela' features both and takes the listener on a kaleidoscopic journey that slides with ease across sonic terrains.

While on 'Spells' Ben made programmed pieces sound indistinguishable from human playing, with 'Mirage' he set out to do the opposite and make the human touch unrecognisable, creating something of a mystery or a mirage.

“A lot of the elements and instruments you hear on the album are either not what you think they are, or exactly what you think they are but behave differently or they’re elements you definitely know but they are hidden, processed, or morphed into something else. With 'Spells' and 'Gravity' I was trying to hide the machines. On 'Mirage', I’m trying to hide the human” — Ben Lukas Boysen

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