Ambient

About the mix

I’ve been thinking about a concept for a mix titled “As the city sleeps” for some time. Soundtracking one of my favourite times of day, between 4-5am, the witching hour, when you fall in love, spend time getting to know the things about your friends you never knew and when towns and cities feel like your own.
When I was asked to contribute an hour of music to the inaugural “Monolithic Installation" (more info below), an immersive light installation in Bristol at Motion this summer it was the perfect catalyst to finally record the mix. I have gone back in and worked on it since and am happy to share it with you now.

"As featured in the Monolithic Installation, 5,376 suspended LEDs, an immersive light installation at Motion Bristol's recent day party by Squid Soup & Ben Price, hear the other mixes here and look out for it on the road this year" - http://bit.ly/2mrsYLo

Read more about it on Crack Mag - http://bit.ly/2D2yDAN

Tracklist 

"La Haine” Intro/Outro
Ian William Craig - Doubtshapes
Bruised Skies - Low
>>> Steve Reich - Come out
Benoit Pioulard - An Image Apart from Ourselves 
Oneohtrix Point Never - Behind the Bank
Body in the Thames - Brexit Music for a Film
Dj Rum - Projection
Vito Ricci - Inferno (Pt 2)
>>> Dorian Corey - Excerpt from Paris is Burning
Arthur Russell - Answers Me
Suzanne Kraft & Jonny Nash - Hanging Glass Structure 
Kraftwerk - Ananas Symphonie
Demdike Stare - Black Sun
Andés Zacco - Leit
Luke Abbott - Ovals 
Cluster -  Sowiesoso
Sun Ra - Cosmo Drama (Prophetika 2)
Cala Del Forno - Fast Moving Cars
Radiohead - Meeting in the Aisle 
Mark Pritchard - Give it Your Choir (feat Bibio)
Nick Drake - Horn 
Mark Hollis - The Colour of Spring

As the city sleeps, a mixtape [January 2018]

https://3voor12.vpro.nl/update~d628dc0f-d1d0-4d5d-a480-64010dda55c6~sunday-snooze-34-oberman~.html edit: cut off the intro/outro cause it was too annoying.

3voor12 snoozemix

Live jam from Hypnotic Spa—March 15th 2018 alongside Mr Curtains.
An exquisite monthly chill-out, ambient, downtempo, etc. night at Mood Ring run by Maxime and Sean. 
Free dl.

Hypnotic Spa Live

http://blowinguptheworkshop.com/project/grandriver

"Spring is a powerful season for changes. Transitions might be troublesome as changes go against our need to feel in control of our life. Every instant could bring slowly-building shifts of the mind, emotions and actions - even if we don’t notice it."

Blowing Up The Workshop

88 ◆ Grand River

Slow Life Friends Podcast 006 - E/TAPE -

Off The Record Mix Series

Off The Record Mix Series 2: Alex Bradley (Utopia Records Home Listening and Healing Mix)

Music From Memory cofounder Jamie Tiller showed off his enviable collection of pretty ambient records on a cosy Sunday evening at Brilliant Corners.

RA Live - 03.02.19 - Jamie Tiller at Brilliant Corners

2 - DEEP

C.K - Safe Radio S03E08

Mysteries of the Deep, Chapter C. Space in the Sun by Sébastien Robert.
Cover photo courtesy of Candace Price.

Akio Suzuki constructed the Hinatabokko no kukan (Space in the Sun) in 1988. This space consists of two huge parallel walls, in between which the artist can sit all day and purify his hearing by listening to the reflected sounds of nature. This space leads the artist to discover a new method of listening. Suzuki himself comments, "Sound, which had been conceptually imprisoned in various spaces, is freed to circle the world."

Tracklist:
1. Af Ursin - De Tweede Persoon  
2. Taj Mahal Travellers - August 1974 (I)
3. Adham Shaikh and Tim Floyd ‎- Estuary
4. Coil - The Mothership & The Fatherland 
5. Waveform Transmission - V 2.0-2.1
6. Zoviet France - Ascend A Fall
7. Tomaga - The Whitest Light 
8. Akio Suzuki & Aki Onda - Do Ko Ka Ra 
9. Ligovskoï - Thessalonians 
10. Andrea Belfi - Syncline 
11. Ultrafog - Trace
12. Matthias Puech - Un incontro notturno
13. Basses Terres - Unreleased
14. Pariah - Pith
15. Tim Hecker - In Mother Earth Phase 
16. Terre Thaemlitz - Subjective Loss, Day 83
17. Matthias Puech - Sculpté au fond de la fontaine, un visage d’enfant
18. Material Object - Earlier Reflections (E. Honda Remix)
19. Basses Terres - Unreleased
20. Exael - Bundle

https://soundcloud.com/sebastienrobert

Mysteries of the Deep Podcast, Chapter C

Mysteries of the Deep C - Sébastien Robert | Space in the Sun

Think Tank links:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ThinkTankAmbient
Mixcloud: https://www.mixcloud.com/think_tank_ambient/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thinktankambient/

Photo by Andre D Chambers: https://www.instagram.com/this_is_dretography/

Pariah @ Think Tank, Belgrave Music Hall, Leeds 12/05/19 (Ambient Set)

I got dat woda.

Tracklist:
小久保隆 - 01 [00:00 - 04:06]
Susumu Yokota - Hagoromo [04:06 - 7:52]
Marc Cary - Rhodes Ahead Intro [07:52 - 10:07]
Autechre - Altibzz [10:07 - 13:41]
Jonny Nash & Suzanne Kraft- Beluga’s Song [13:41 - 18:04]
Aphex Twin - Untitled [18:04 - 21:12]
Oneohtrix Point Never - Physical Memory [21:12 - 23:22]
Kareem Lotfy - FR3SH [23:22 - 26:55]
Biosphere - Chukhung [26:55 - 28:34]
Leila - Underwaters [28:34 - 31:28]
OCA - Heaven Cent [31:28 - 34:49]
Visible Cloaks - Screen [34:49 - 38:03]
Jaco Pastorius solo (live w/ Joni Mitchell, 1977) [38:03 - 41:10]
Iury Lech - Barreras [41:10 - 46:45]
Cliffdiver - Digital Dreams [46:45 - 51:30]

AQUAPHORIA

Music is the beauty to explore sound. A way to express that which cannot be put into words, but cannot remain silent.

1 hour of e/tape on Red Light Radio - 26.06.2019.

www.wakinglife.pt

e/tape - Red Light Radio - Waking Life

Nadia Khan - High Rize

Beyond / Below 26 by @isabelladiblassio. Received November 2019.
Image from an LP by Susan McLane, provided by the mixer

Song IDs available on request.

26. Isabella DiBlassio

Delicate textures and wistful atmospheres.

Read more here: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?id=710

@nadia-khan-10

Resident Advisor podcast

RA.710 Nadia Khan

Ben Bondy - Moon Draped in Linen

Beyond / Below 28 by Ali Wade of @frequency-domain. Received January 2020.
Photo by Ali

"Recorded at home the first week of 2020. Thanks to the artists."
Support Frequency Domain on Bandcamp: https://frequencydomain.bandcamp.com/

Andrew Pekler - Description of Rain (Over Frisland) (Faitiche)
Autechre - VI Scose Poise (Warp Records)
Aerial Service Area - Liquid Water (Fax +49-69/450464)
Paul Prudence - Myriorama 1 (NLS Records)
Asuna & Jan Jelinek - How A Spiral Works (Faitiche)
Jo Johnson - Words Came After Music (Further Records)
Ali Wade - Knowledge Particle (Frequency Domain)
Paul Prudence - Bowls (NLS Records)
Marja Ahti - Symbiogenesis (Hallow Ground)
Paperbark - Heard the Woods Again (Seil Records)
Autechre - Altibzz (Warp Records)
Mac-Talla Nan Creag - Flight (Firecracker Records)
Sync24 - Replicant (Ultimae Records)
Autechre - Nonima (Gonzo Circus)
Andrew Pekler - Saxenburgh / Pepya / Aurora (Faitiche)
Sa Pa - Room With A View (Mana)
Imaginary Softwoods - Coconut Serenade (Mineral Disk)
Juneunit - Lude (Jacktone)
Matt Whitehead - Pris’s Dream (Frequency Domain)

28. Ali Wade

This winter we bring in Farplane, the fusion of Chicago-based DJs sold and Hi-Vis, playing across the spectrum of psychedelic electronic sounds to induct ecstatic trance states. They conduct the deep listening portion of Eris Drew's Motherbeat raves, and co-run their own rave Neon Falls. sold also co-runs the party Relate and works at Gramaphone Records. Hi-Vis operates the mix series Beyond / Below and Jacktone Records' sublabel Dreamtone.

We are honored to celebrate the recent union of these two souls through their collaborative mix, where we are guided through the slow steady coming of a hazy dawn. The arc of ethereal wistful melodies interwoven with pulsating morse code-esque percussion conjure up cinematic moments filled with sentiments of longing, mystery and infinite love.

FOR Q & A: https://coneshapetop.com/cst-radio-1/2020/2/6/hi-vis-and-sold

CST RADIO NO. 12 | FARPLANE (SOLD & HI-VIS)

Echo of Species 10 - Moonbow

@el_hardwick
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This episode features tracks from Arve Henriksen (@arve-henriksen), Ulla (@ullastraus), Chihei Hatakeyama (@chiheihatakeyama), αίών, Theta Wave, Emily A. Sprague (@mlesprg), Carbon Based Lifeforms (@carbon-based-lifeforms), State Azure (@state-azure), FRKTL (@frktl), Kareem Lotfy (@kareemlotfy), Saphilieaum, Octo Octa (@octoocta), Mabe Fratti (@mabefs), Unknown, M. Geddes Gengras (@green-machines), Pataphysical (@pataphysicaltransmission), Legion of Green Men (@legion-of-green-men), Vida Vojić (@vida-vojic), Carmen Villain (@carmenvillain), Dolphin Midwives (@dolphinmidwives), ose, sonmi451 (@sonmi451), Biosphere (@officialbiosphere), Andrea, Stephan Haluska (@stephanhaluska), spoken words by Donna J. Haraway, and materials from the podcast "For The Wild"
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Moonbow's words about their participation:
"Recently I have been enamoured by the work of Donna J. Haraway: a professor, writer and scholar whose work critiques the seprativist perception between humans and non-humans. Imagined as an alternative to the term "Anthropocene", Haraway instead proposes a successive epoch, which she calls the "Chthulucene", wherein multi-species kinship thrives.

Interspersed with samples taken from an interview with Haraway on "For The Wild", one of my favourite podcasts, the mix I have made is a proposed soundtrack for such entangled worlds. It is an ambient deep listening journey that spirals through multiplicities of landscapes, seasons and atmospheres. Many of the tracks that feature in the mix, I listened to over the last year whilst recovering from a physical, chronic illness that was the result of overworking like a machine within our capitalist system. Listening to ambient music and spending time in my small, but wild, garden, played a crucial role in my healing. I strongly believe that a slower, attentive, less extractive pace is what is needed in the route towards climate justice -- and so it was important to me to include many of these tracks in the mix."

Thanks to Donna Haraway & For The Wild Podcast for granting permission to use samples. 

Please visit https://forthewild.world/podcast
Donna J. Haraway’s work can be found here: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Haraway
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To know more about Moonbow:

Moonbow is the project of London based multidisciplinary artist El Hardwick. Alongside working as a photographer and music video director, their avant-pop music production interweaves a vortex of ambient soundscapes, maximalist sci-fi rhythms and political lyricism. Meanwhile, their colourful DJ sets and mixtapes are an exercise in storytelling that delve into melancholia & euphoria, old & new, organic & synthetic. A refusal to be defined by genre, gender or media underpins Moonbow’s artistic voice, which is at once eclectic and also undeniably their own.

Soon to release their debut album on 33-33’s label, the record will be released alongside a book of prose and collaborative photography created by Hardwick. Titled "8" the project imagines a climate fiction narrative where technocratic powers use the last reserves of energy, on an otherwise resource-depleted-earth, to mass migrate to cyberspace. However, when it is discovered that there is only limited bandwidth and resources to do so, a familiar story of corruption unfolds. Interweaving issues of colonialism, industrialisation, borders, net neutrality, and dogmatic constructs of the “good versus evil narrative”, the story is told from the perspective of several fictional alter egos, who are in a relationship with a capitalist system that favours extraction over nurture.

You can support Moonbow here: https://elhardwick.com/

You can support artists directly: https://buymusic.club/list/moonbow-echo-of-species-mix-tracklist?fbclid=IwAR0XaezV_PWFPGfx5x5DA-_y54NBgroJctwuqDpQn4ZmyFkUFj2C3lIy8K4

🌳1x tree has been planted to balance the carbon footprint of this upload (Project Povo da Floresta).

Ambient

Jacob Koffler