Another Abby Prime v Prime Senior production

Time Is Ticking

A more laid back vibe with this track, built around a short drum sample from Rush's Neil Peart ('Mystic Rhythms' from the album  Power Windows (1985)). Feels summery and shimmery. Enjoy.

Under Northern Lights

The Blue Nile are the most enigmatic band in pop. Releasing just four albums in twenty years. Yet fans of their melancholic perfection include everyone from Peter Gabriel to 2016's hottest act, The 1975. Ken Sweeney's In Search of The Blue Nile airs the 28th of December at 10pm on RTÉ Radio 1

In Search Of The Blue Nile

Volume 2 here: https://on.soundcloud.com/qqMxK

While also drawing on ambient and chillout elements, ambient-techno would be associated with labels such as Warp, R&S, Apollo & GPR. Releases focused more on albums than 12-inches. The genre also departed from dance-oriented sound heard at raves and instead saw popularity as a form of electronic listening music. 

1.0	Virtual cocoon-1994 
2.0	The Orb – Valley-1995| Orbus Terrarum 
3.0	Aphex Twin – 9 un chopped-1994|Unreleased
4.0	Caustic window – 101 rainbows (ambient mix)-1996| Caustic window
5.0	Beaumont Hannant – Water & Space1993| Tastes and Textures, Volume 3
6.0	Balil & Arno (Black dog) – Otaku-1992|Black Dog Productions E.P.
7.0	Burial – Endorphin -2007|Untrue
8.0	Children talking (Sampled by Aphex Twin)-1968| Harold Williamson-Getting Into Trouble
9.0	Richard H. Kirk – November X-Ray Mexico -1994| Virtual State
10.0Biosphere : The seal and the Hydrophone – 1994 | Patashnik
11.0	Boards of Canada : Wildlife X 8 edit -2010 | MHTRTC 
12.0Aphex Twin : Tha-1991-Selected ambient works vol. 2 
13.0Curve : Rising (FSOL Headspace mix) -1993| Blackerthreetrackertwo
14.0Jesus Jones : Zeros & ones (Aphex Twin reconstruction # 2)-1993| Zeroes & Ones
15.0	F.S.O.L – Central industrial (Special Roy Batty edit) – 1991 | Accelerator 
16.0	Aphex Twin AFX - 34 ibiza spliff-2015|Unreleased
17.0	Slowly - On The Loose (Autechre Remix) -1995|Remix EP 
18.0	Autechre - Inhake 2 -1999|Peel session 
19.0	Max 404 - Infinite Legs-1995|Convulsion EP 
20.0	Global communication - Maiden Voyage (Ripperton Edit)-2013
21.0	Meat beat manifesto - Agelast -2019| Opaque Couché
22.0	Nuron - Eau Rouge -1996| Likemind 04
23.0	As One – Amalia – 1992| 21st Century Soul
24.0	Norken – Arp Galaxy – 2020 | Galaxy driven 
25.0	Afx - 19 bradley echoes-2015 |Unreleased
26.0	Psyche (Carl Craig) - Elements -1990| Elements 1989-1990
27.0	Mihail P – Semblance (Gnork remix) -2017 | Sleeper EP
28.0	Air Liquide – Nephology (Jammin unit remix)-1995| Abuse your illusions 1 & 2
29.0	James Holden - A Break in The Clouds-2003| A Break In The Clouds
30.0	Orbital - Halcyon on + on-1992-|Brown album 
31.0	LA Synthesis - Agraphobia -1994| Agraphobia EP
32.0	Norken – Gone-1999| Soul Static Bureau
33.0	Russ Gabriel - Peace For Thought-1993| Peace EP
34.0	Stasis _- Point Of No Return -1993| Point Of No Return!
35.0	Kenny Larkin – Loop 2-1995 | Metaphor 
36.0	Air Liquide – Sun progress-1992| Neue Frankfurter Elektronik 
37.0	Plaid - This City – 2006| Tekkonkinkreet Soundtrack 
38.0	Morganistic - In The Shadow-1992|EP
39.0	Kenny Larkin - Q -1994| Azimuth
40.0	Infiniti-Game one -1994| Game One / Think Quick EP
41.0	Underworld - Dark & Long [Dark Train Mix]-1994
42.0	Orbital - Walk Now 1992-|Brown album
43.0	Sterac - Astronotes Pt.1&2 -1995| Secret Life Of Machines
44.0	Quark - Astral Voyager-1994|Migration EP 
45.0	Reload – Phase 4 -1993|Auto-reload EP 
46.0	Meat Beat Manifesto - Mindstream (The Aphex Twin Remix) -1993
47.0	Autechre - Second Bad Vilbel (Long Version) -1995|Anvil Vapre
48.0	Autechre – Kalpol Introl -1993|Incunabula 
49.0	808 State - Pacific State (Noah Lipsey Remix)-2017|Unreleased 
50.0	The Future Sound Of London - Lifeforms (Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhmes Simetikon 002-06 Re-Edit) -2006|Lifeforms EP 
51.0	In a Beautiful Place Out In the Country (Aime Autumn In The Valley Of Fólkvangr Remix)-2012
52.0	Schizophrenia – Schizophrenia (Moritz von Oswald & Thomas Fehlman)-1993
53.0	Jedi Knights – Afterlife -1996| New School Science
54.0	Cygnus – Oak cliffs cybernetics -2020| Neon Flux
55.0	It’s thinking – Afterglow (Bushwacka remix) -2003| Made In Rotterdam
56.0	Skee mask – Muk FM -2018|Compro 
57.0	Carl Craig feat. Sarah Gregory – As time goes by – 1997 More 
58.0	Skee mask – Calimance (Delay mix) - 2018|Compro
59.0	Global communication –Incidental harmony-1994| The Keongaku EP
60.0	Sensorama – (Aspirin Global communication remix)-1996| Zu Gast Auf Der Welcome Insel

Selected Ambient - Techno Works (1990 - 2020)

For the full mix background, links to buy, track timings, + Buy Music Club list: http://asip.me/reflection2020

As with all past ‘Reflection’ year-end mixes, I start with a collection of albums I have enjoyed over the year. Through the process of compiling a mix that flows well, songs are whittled down and selected from this collection. This means many of my favorite tracks and albums are often omitted in the process, due to the need for them to fit in a mix that comes together as organically as possible. As I say every year, this isn’t a definitive ‘best-of’ list, but a selection of some of my favorite music from the year in one easily listenable format. It’s the most enjoyable way for me to boil down music I’ve loved from the year using these self-imposed restrictions, for you to then enjoy and discover more. I encourage you to use the mix to jump off and explore each artist, album and label (and check the Buy Music Club list).

Tracklist:
01. Yumiko Moriaka - 銀の船 (Métron Records)
02. LOG - Log 9 (Experiences Ltd)
03. Úlfur (Ft. Cellist Gyda Valtýsdóttir) - Feathered (Touch The Plants)
04. Yumi Iwaki - Initial Tidings (Mystery Circles)
05. Slow Reels - Miya (Morr Music)
06. Rafael Anton Irisarri - Arduous Clarity (Dais)
07. Ian Boddy - Omicron (Behind The Sky)
08. Jonathan Fitoussi - Oceans (Transversales Disques)
09. Evan Caminiti - Plume (Dust Editions)
10. LF58 - Iniziazione (Astral Industries)
11. Night Sea - This Will Take Time (Silent Season)
12. Neel - Alchemy (Ido)
13. Sophia Loizou - Vestal Waters (Houndstooth)
14. Tomas Jirku - Entropy 8 (Silent Season)
15. Daniel Avery - Into The Arms of Stillness (Phantasy Sound)
16. Abfahrt Hinwil - Phase4 (Lapsus Records)
17. Pub - Fragile Root (Ampoule)
18. Space Africa - Self (Self)
19. DJ Lostboi - Ordinary People (Queeste)
20. Lucy Gooch - We Carry (Looking Glass)
21. Robert Lippock - With Tomorrow (7K!)
22. HVL - newenslo (Self)
23. KMRU - ulmma (Seil)
24. Patricia Wolf - All Things Change (Beacon Sound)
25. Perila & Ulla - Every something is an echo of nothing (Silence)
26. Awakened Souls & Pepo Galan - Center of the Sea (Hush Hush)
27. Chronovalve - Breathing Space (Home Normal)
28. Adam Wiltzie - How to Disappear inside a thirty-piece Orchestra (7K!)
29. Epic 45 - Sidings (Wayside & Woodland)
30. Ocoeur - Ascent (n5MD)
31. nthng - With You (Lobster Theremin)
32. Wardown - Culverhouse (Blu Mar Ten)
33. Rone - Human (InFiné)
34. Malibu - Lost At Sea (Kelly Moran remix) (Uno NYC)
35. Il Quadro di Troisi - Real (Raster)
RIP Harold Budd, Pauline Anna Strom & José Padilla.

ASIP - Reflection on 2020

Old Bone People Track Re-imagined during lockdown - Vocals and Arrangements Abby Prime - Prime Senior the rest

Bedroom Hero Revisited - Abby Prime(2021)

Abby Prime - Better Days (2021)

Another chapter in my ongoing series of studio ambient mixes (not recorded live, produced over at least a month). This one is extra special for me as the title alludes to the fact that 2021 means I have been working in sound design for a decade. To help celebrate, I designed this new psychedelic journey, and layered it with field recordings from my collection of SFX I have captured going all the way back to my first upload folder from summer 2011. 

The track selection plays out like an anthology of some of the most talented ambient/sound design producers, blending eras and approaches ranging from pillars such as Biosphere, Stars of the Lid, and William Basinski - alongside emerging producers like Green-House and Zeze Wakamatsu. Molding everything together is a constantly shifting foundation of found sounds. The listener begins literally floating downstream as one subtle aquatic effect dissolves into another for the opening fifteen minutes. I also included many of my favorite audio finds including air traffic controllers, vintage game shows, NASA communications, nature documentaries, and religious A.M. radio hosts to list a few.

As a special bonus and thank you: I am pledging a $5 donation for every 350 plays of this mix* to Coalition for the Homeless (based in NYC)(*for the first 10,000 plays).
UPDATE: As of 08.26 $107 has been donated to cover the first 7,500 plays


Headphones highly recommended for this immersive mix. There are links below to support all of the included artists. Thanks for a decade of chilling out with me.

Tracklisting:

1. Intro / Floating down the River  00:00 - 16:30

-R.J. Stefanski "Small Stream near the Boathouse"
-Boards of Canada "Sundown"  00:20
-A.M. Radio snippet (lots of these captured by myself and hidden in mix)
-Zeze Wakamatsu "Concert in a Tortoiseshell"  03:20
-Cholosus "Lexicon Drive" 07:45
-Segue "Aurora"  11:40
-R.J. Stefanski "Powerful Atlantic Surf"

2. Floating in Space   16:31 - 39:00

-Markus Guentner "Keep Your Eyes Closed"  16:31
-audio snippet from "What's My Line" gameshow (circa 1950)
-The Orb "Moonbuilding 2703 A.D."(Wolfgang Voigt Mix) 20:45
-Sun Electric "An Atom of All Suns" 25:00
-R.J. Stefanski "Night River"
-Biosphere "Insolate" 28:45
-R.J. Stefanski "The Birds of Turtle Pond"
-Stars of the Lid "The Better Angels of our Nation" 33:00
-Loscil "Erit" 35:30
-R.J. Stefanski "Cars Passing in the Night"

3. Floating in a Dream / Outro 39:01 - 57:46

-Windy and Carl "Lighthouse" 39:30
-Aphex Twin "Cliffs" 39:30
-Green-House "Parlor Palm" 42:00
-Skee Mask "Dolby" 46:45
-R.J. Stefanski "Subway to Manhattan"
-William Basinski "O, My Daughter, O My Sorrow" 50:40
-R.J. Stefanski "unreleased rain recording 2011"
-Casino Versus Japan "Tropic" 54:30
-R.J. Stefanski "Wind Chime in south west Detroit"

Support artists:

Boards of Canada
https://boardsofcanada.bandcamp.com/

Zeze Wakamatsu
https://zezewakamatsu.bandcamp.com/

Cholosus
https://cholosus.bandcamp.com/

Segue
https://www.segueambient.com/

Markus Guentner
https://markus-guentner.bandcamp.com/

The Orb / Wolfgang Voigt
https://theorb.bandcamp.com/album/moonbuilding-2703-ad-remixes-sin-in-space-pt-1

Sun Electric
https://sunelectric.bandcamp.com/

Biosphere
https://biosphere.bandcamp.com/

Stars of the Lid
https://starsofthelid.bandcamp.com/

Loscil
https://loscil.bandcamp.com/

Windy and Carl
https://windyandcarl.bandcamp.com/

Aphex Twin
https://aphextwin.bandcamp.com/

Green-House
https://green-house.bandcamp.com/album/six-songs-for-invisible-gardens

Skee Mask
https://iliantape.bandcamp.com/album/itlp04-skee-mask-compro

William Basinski
https://williambasinski.bandcamp.com/

Casino Vs Japan
https://casinoversusjapan.bandcamp.com/

R.J. Stefanski
https://rjstefanski.bandcamp.com/

Ten Years Adrift [Studio Mix of Ambient, Experimental, Soundscape & Field Recordings]

Brit living and loving in SoCal.  Have been DJing for many, many years but messing around with sound for way longer. Play drums. Daddy. Music freak. Love writing, mixing, playing. By day, marketing, creative and PR mind.

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