By now it's no secret that I'm a fan of Brian Housman's labour and his Stationary Travels site. Two years ago I even unveiled a brand new Best of the Year list, dedicated to his very own selections, appropriately titled "Music For Your Stationary Travels". I suspect that the respect here is mutual since he recently revealed his highlights from music spotted on HC's Best of the Year feature. Yes, in this little corner of this strange and often ruthless "music business" it's less about competition and more about the support. And both of us support the music, at least through mixes or through words. And so, without any further ado, I present to you a reflection on the last year, as put together by Brian for this very special mix. There are lots of beautiful pieces on here, but as usual with this particular feature - less words and more music, yes? And please, be sure to support the featured artists and labels on this mix!

More details, including the tracklisting: http://hcdi.gs/Annum2021

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Annum 2021

Stationary Travels - Annum 2021

Sofia Nystrand is a Stockholm-based composer with an anticipated new album M​å​nens Hav, due out on June 2nd, 2023, via the German LEITER imprint. This follow-up to her 2019 record Hav, is deeply influenced by her childhood experiences growing up in the Swedish archipelago of Roslagen. With her music, she explores the duality of beauty and brutality in nature, "awe and fear, magic and sorcery," and how it shapes our emotions and creative expressions. For this Headphone Commute Mix, Sofia compiles a selection of pieces that she listened to while composing her album. Here, we can find all of our favourites, from Grouper to Nils Frahm, from Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres to Tim Linghaus and his collaboration with Nystrand as Vargkvint. Sprinkle in a bit of This Mortal Coil, and you will get a sense of the influencing themes that permeated the music on her upcoming release, which in Swedish means "Oceans of the Moon".

More details and full tracklisting here: http://hcdi.gs/vargkvint

Vargkvint Mix

Vargkvint - Headphone Commute Mix

Residence • Lion's Drums (Janvier 2024)

tHe sTAr

an electroacoustic exploration of the state of my creative burnout

[more of the same]

Takanawa Dream Hotel Vol.2 (Vinyl Only - 300 Copies - No Repress)

Available soon on Decks, Discogs and your local record store.

A2. Frank Sebastian - Mature Trees (Vinyl Only / MOSHI005)

I dedicate this podcast to the victims of horrible recent Nice event. More particularly for 10  innocent childrens.... R.I.P little angels.

Playlist & Download:
https://reviews.headphonecommute.com/2016/05/31/fingers-in-the-noise-tears-of-clouds/

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[Headphone Commute] Fingers In The Noise - Tears Of Clouds

@rjsfoudnsounds is sound artist from Detroit, MI based in Brooklyn, NYC.  He has released a wide array of original soundscapes ranging from brief naturalistic field recordings to extended sound collages, each project sharing a hazy psychedelic glow. This podcast is compiled by tracks from influential artists to R.J. Stefanski, as well as field recordings and original productions to highlight the melding of artists across decades of electronic music history.

Main Mix Tracks: 

Biosphere - "Whole Forests of Them Appearing"
William Basinski - "A Shadow in Time"
Windy & Carl - "Surfacing"
Stars of the Lid - "The Atomium - Part Three"
Benoit Pioulard - "Of Everything That Rhymes"
Riceboy Sleeps - "Indian Summer"
Leandro Fresco & Rafael Anton Irissari" - Cuando El Misterio Es Demasiado..."
Brock Van Wey - "Intrusion Shape I"
Markus Guentner - "Sommergewitter"
Pantha du Prince - "I'm Bann"
The KLF - "3 AM Somewhere Out of Beaumont"
The Orb - "Plateau (Live Orb '93)"
Rhucle / Mike Nigro - "Golden Guppy"
Bibio - "Wet Flakey Bark"
Helios - "Halving the Compass"
Taylor Deupree - "Field (beta)"
Neel - "Life on Raputa Regio"
Edgar Froese - "Aqua"
Khotin - "Frog Fractions"
Markus Guenter - 'Donaunebel"
Mountains - "Sand"
The House in the Woods - "Bucolica"
Benoit Pioulard - "The Very Edge of its Flame"
Grouper - "Alien Observer"
Gas - "Stern"

Layered Tracks:

R.J. Stefanski - Coney Island Waves
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - "Static"
Interview with Ed Mitchell (Apollo 14) WBPF 25 News (youtube clip)
R.J. Stefanski - J Train over Broadway
R.J. Stefanski - unreleased nature soundscape (wind through the tops of trees)
Geir Jenssen - "Tingri - The Last Truck"
vintage clips from gameshow Password
Main - "Haloform Part II"
R.J. Stefanski - Torrential Downpour in the City
R.J. Stefanski - track fire announcement at broadway junction
UMFANG - "Sweep"
R.J. Stefanski - unreleased rec. of fountains in Miami
Aphex Twin - "Domino"
Chris Watson - "The Crossroads"
R.J. Stefanski - unreleased eastern mkt soundscape
Avey Tare - "Abyss Song"
Boards of Canada - "Sherbert"
The Mars Volta - "Soothsayer"

Mixtape 008: R.J. Stefanski

@kasperbjorke released his brilliant album "The Fifty Eleven Project" earlier this year on Kompakt. With a similar mindset, he put together this rare Ambient mix for us.

Catch him at The Church of Our Lady, Copenhagen on December 21st if you get the chance: https://www.facebook.com/events/330995327696122/

We wish you a happy second advent! 

1 Come Softly (For Daniel D.) — Grouper	
2 The Dusk Pines — High Plains	
3 The Word Love — Gigi Masin	
4 Starwood Choker — Bing & Ruth	
5 OS — Kasper Bjørke Quartet	
6 09:13 — Bibio	
7 Cromo 3 — Yui Onodera	
8 Fr3sh — Kareem Lotfy	
9 Ohayou Gozaimasu — Cass & Stijn Hüwels
10 Moon Fever (Lawrence Ambient Mix) — Superpitcher
11 Stars — Brian Eno	
12 andata — Ryuichi Sakamoto
13 The Flat — Johann Johannsen

Kompakt Winter Mix 2 - Kasper Bjørke

On the heels of our modular-synthesizer-heavy release and remix album by James Bernard, we dug into some other artists playing within the rabbit holes of analog frequencies. There are of course many to choose from, but one artist has recently caught our ear as a purveyor in both techno and ambient sounds within the modular realm. https://soundcloud.com/an_on_bast

For more info and download: http://asip.me/isolatedmix88

Tracklist:

01. Bill Laswell - Káshí
02. Mouse On Mars - Unity Concepts
03. An On Bast & Maciej Fortuna - Our Plateux
04. David Toop - Bodies of Water
05. James Bernard - Euph
06. Atone - Qobac Sine
07. Unknown - ShiveRX
08. Arvo Part - Tabula Rasa - Fratres
09. Coil - Finite Bees
10. Pan American - Coastal
11. Celia Green - In The Extreme
12. An On Bast & Allca - 04:05
13. An On Bast - Rootless
14. Unknown - 10060
15. Woob - Later
16. Dream Fish - Underwater
17. Tatsu - Stilness / Introspective Me
18. Loscil - Monument Builders
19. An On Bast - Enter
20. Meritum - Harfowa

More info

isolatedmix 88 - An On Bast

Submersion - Inward

Track 6 of 8

01 Inward I
02 Inward II
03 Inward III
04 Immerge
05 Angles
06 Inward IV
07 Oblique Motion
08 Eight

W/P by Justin Francazio
August - September 2020
Mastered by A.P at GS Mastering & Post

1:09:20

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Inward IV

Here are some original solo piano pieces...  some mixes from my podcast... some exclusive track premieres...  and some tracks from the albums I review on Headphone Commute... Enjoy!