Ambient Sounds.. Part 2

Deep Cuts is a new music journalism format. Instead of ranking and classifying music, it classifies the way music is experienced; sharing the vast variety of ways people hear and discover and interact with music. Each article gathers a variety of writers from Loose Lips' sprawling community, sharing treasured music and thoughts along a unifying theme theme, music which is then combined into a mix, and a lengthy spotify playlist. This is very much a labour of love. Each mix has a link to its article in the bio. Enjoy.

Deep Cuts

Loose Lips' Deep Cuts returns, sharing thoughts from writers, rappers and producers, united by the theme Winter Breeze, with its prompt question 'What music sounds hopeful?' Check out the full article here; http://loose-lips.co.uk/blog/winter-breeze-1

Artwork by Trav - https://backdownwarchild.co.uk/

Tracklist:
00:00 Pecker - Kylyn
03:16 Yu Su - 1024
05:40 Tara Walsh - White Flag
09:45 Luca Musto - What We Witness
12:35 Frank & Tony - Bring The Sun
15:15 Ptaki - Słoneczny pył (Eltron Remix)
17:40 Gorillaz - Crystalised (JThunder Remix)
20:40 Taylor Bennett - Broad Shoulders
24:00 Washed Out - Million Miles Away
25:50 Victor Romeo - Ride On The Ride Rhythm
27:45 Mac DeMarco - The Stars Keep on Calling My Name
30:15 Silkie - Test
35:28 Mira Calix - Khala
37:20 Nas - The World Is Yours
41:17 Africa HiTech - Do You Wanna Fight
44:00 Westerman - The Line
47:05 Sampha - 4422
48:18 Maribou State - Vale
50:48 Lykke Li - Hard Rain

Loose Lips' Deep Cuts - 012 - 'Winter Breeze'

'What music makes you want to get dowwwn / sounds like getting dowwwn?'

Here is the official mix for our 13th Deep Cuts article (read here: http://loose-lips.co.uk/blog/sexy), gathering responses to this deep eternal question, from models, writers and DJs with origins in UK Rave (@kimcosmik), Toronto Electronica (@pgrooves), Dubstep Revival (@cazzztle) and Deep House (@kundaimusic).

Tracklist:
If I Was Your Girlfriend – TLC 0:00
It Is What It Is – Blood Orange 3:30
Vossi Bop – Stormzy 6:00
Feeling U, Feeling Me – Alicia Keys 8:46
M. Baysden – Body San 9:55
Forever – Danger Incorporated 12:47
Louder – Brook Baili 15:45
Love To Love You – Donna Summer 18:10
Fade – Kanye West 21:15
Everyday – Wendy & Lisa 24:36
New & Physical [Deep Cut Premiere] – Angus 27:16
Voodoo – Frank Ocean 29:07
How Does It Feel – D’Angelo 30:42

Loose Lips' Deep Cuts - 013 - 'Sexy'

Shared as part of today's Deep Cuts: Sexy article (read here: http://loose-lips.co.uk/blog/sexy), a premiere from London-based producer and lover of incense, Angus

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Deep Cut Drops: Angus - New & Physical

'What music channels your political beliefs?' 

This month's deep cuts article is an intense one, with contributions from Intervention founder @ifeoluwa_1234 and rave legend @kimcosmik, alongside an intimate squad of writers. Tracks from each contribution (plus a couple extra from the recent Intervention compilation, check it out it's sick) are included in this mix. 

Artwork by the don Trav, check his insta here: https://www.instagram.com/backdowntrav/

Read the full article here: https://loose-lips.co.uk/blog/stand-up

Tracklist:
Renditions - Bruised Skies - 0:00
Stand! - Sly & The Family Stone - 2:20
Scene 1: Unseen - Tygapaw - 5:09
Inn Ann - Daboor & Shabjdeed - 8:20
Void - Utah? - 10:20
Forward The Revolution - Spiral Tribe - 12:07
1 in 10 - UB40 - 15:43
N19 - Lee Gamble - 18:58
Favourite Shirts (Boy Meets Girl) - Haircut 100 - 20:00
Bless Ya Heels - Tribe Mama Marykali - 22:02
Hold On - Popcaan - 25:13

Loose Lips' Deep Cuts - 014 - 'Stand Up'

'When does the club feel like a church, (or home)?'

Our upcoming Deep Cuts article gathers answers to this question from a wide variety of writers, DJs and musicians, from South London Dancehall Don @sininigenie through to Toronto lo-fi beat originator @anzola, and tracks from every contribution are mixed into this here mix by the ever-astonishing @kimcosmik, strap yourselves in for a journey... 

Read the full article here: http://loose-lips.co.uk/blog/faith-in-ecstasy-1

Tracklist:
Ojerime - Give It Up 2 Me (NELSON Remix)
Tommy Lee Sparta - Pat It Up 
Pursuit Grooves - Wonderment
Efdemin - Parallaxis (Traumprinz' Over 2 The End Remix)
Latin Soldier - Affinar Celestial ( Hembra Conqistadora Remix )
grayscayle - fitting in
Smagghe & Cross - Paradiso
The Chemical Brothers - Got To Keep On
Sgt Slick & John Course - Love Vision (Extendended Mix)
K-hand - Dusty (Andrew Duke remix)
Volkoder & Sam Supplier - Tornado
Tomi Rosewell & Masayuki Tomita - Stay Sane
Pushkin - Amourote revisited - Return to Traal
Oliver Huntemann & Stephan Bodzin - Rubin
Girl Unit - Wut
Plump Djs - Scram
parts project - free party
Anz - Last Before Lights
SOPHIE - Blaze That Ass (feat. Big Freedia)
India Jordan - For You
Diffuse Reality Records - Woof
LaShun Pace / Nicolas Jaar - It's Me Oh Lord Acapella Praise (Valdou Bootleg )
Oklou - God's Chariots

Loose Lips' Deep Cuts - 015 - 'Faith In Ecstasy'

Samson G Balfour Smith, 𝘛𝘐𝘔𝘌 𝘓𝘌𝘚𝘚 [EM030]

𝑷𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒊𝒆𝒓𝒆: Pattrn - Ethereal Rhythm [PITCH38]

Produced by Brice Deloose aka Pattrn

Mastered by Brice Deloose at Incidence Studio
(www.incidence.studio)
Layout by Mark Wagner

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While working and choosing the material, I was constantly thinking of how all this would sound in the store itself and also tried to imagine how would the atmosphere and the essence of the actual store sound

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A synapse-popping electro-acoustic soundwalk around Western Europe's cathedrals, chapels and churches, 𝑪𝒂𝒎𝒑𝒂𝒏𝒂 𝑺𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒏𝒔 skews recognizable sacred soundscapes, proposing a contemporary mythology that muddles the past, present and future. Following on from his critically-acclaimed 𝑩𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒔𝒆 𝑩𝒍𝒖𝒆𝒔 full-length, American sound artist Jake Muir familiarizes himself with German and British sonic architecture by studying some of the medieval shadows that still hang over Europe's streets, even as they continue to evolve. Manipulating environmental recordings captured in Germany and England, Muir presents an impressionistic juxtaposition of parallel cultures: the UK's distinctive "change ringing" technique, where a team of bell-ringers play long varied sequences on a set of tuned bells; and Germany's more sober style, with monotonous peals that add rhythm to daily life.

When Muir moved from Los Angeles to Berlin back in 2019, it wasn't just the German capital's damp weather and long, dark winters that came as a surprise. He was immediately struck by the city's anomalous acoustics, and one particular element stood out: the resonant church bells that echo around Berlin throughout the day to mark time, and for 10 minutes on Sundays as a call for mass. Gathering his field recording equipment, Muir acquainted himself with his new home by following the sonorous clangs, wandering from kiez to kiez to capture each church's distinct auditory flavor. And the more material he collected, the more engrossed he became in the history of bell ringing, prompting a deep dive that would shuttle him across Germany and into Italy, Belgium and the UK.

On 𝑪𝒂𝒎𝒑𝒂𝒏𝒂 𝑺𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒏𝒔, Muir trains his focus on Berlin, where his journey began, and on England, where he encountered the most elaborate bell ringing practice. 𝘌𝘳𝘻𝘬𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘨 is a hypnotic lattice of sounds recorded all over the German capital: at Parochialkirche, a reformed church in Mitte; at evangelical church St. Matthäus, at Sophienkirche, another Mitte landmark; and at St. Mathias, a Roman Catholic church just in front of the Potsdam Gate. By fusing the liturgical chimes with snippets of local ambiance - traffic, chattering tourists and birdsong, for example -  Muir takes a blurry snapshot of the city, queering its idiosyncratic color spectrum with his various digital processes. Using reverb to replicate the acoustic properties of both the streets and the church interiors, he subtly disturbs the timeline, stretching out brief peals into long, mesmerizing drones and turning garbled voices into ghostly babble.

The environment alters considerably on 𝘊𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘴; Muir uses the same technique and applies it to recordings made at the 1000-year-old St. Oswald church in Oswestry, St. Bartholomew's, Edgbaston and Holy Trinity in Stratford-Upon-Avon, home to Shakespeare’s final resting place. Here, Muir methodically untangles the change-ringing process, linking back to 𝘌𝘳𝘻𝘬𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘨 with a single bell tone before moving inside the church itself and documenting the ringers' shouted instructions, blending the calls with the bells' mathematical cyclic patterns. Muir memorializes what in 2025 is a dying art-form - a community skill that's disappearing worryingly quickly as young Brits lose interest in the church and its rituals. Unsettling distortions bite into the undulating sequences and underneath the noise, Muir highlights the music's latent euphoria, drawing out its most celestial tonalities.

File under: devotional music.

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recorded by Jake Muir
audio finalized by Glyn Maier
photography by Jake Muir
design template by Joe Bastardo

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Erzklang [Preview Clip] (ENM-14)

'What music satisfies you on a basic sensory level, and also in a higher, more meaningful sense?' Alec and Aimee, the curators and owners of Belgium's mood-based record store Objects & Sounds, give us their answers, as part of our multi-writer Deep Cuts article, check out the full thing here; http://loose-lips.co.uk/blog/double-sustenance

O&S' website: objectsandsounds.com

Loose Lips' Deep Cuts - 011.1 - Objects & Sounds' Double Sustenance

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