mind beacon

slippery spacefungus

are you afraid of the dark

glide

crescend

descent

old oaks

A retrospective on the releases of 2016 that most moved me, and an experiment in mixing something cohesive out of an assortment of tracks selected without constraints of genre or bpm.

##. (~time~) title [album]
01. (00:00) Alan Watts - Music
02. (00:30) Clark - Hide On The Treads 3 [The Last Panthers]
03. (02:30) Plaid - Wen [The Digging Remedy]
04. (04:40) Mafgar - Don't Be Garbage [Mountain Songs]
05. (08:20) Any Colour You Like - Music is Math (Boards Of Canada Remix) [Remixes & Covers]
06. (11:30) Letherette - Rich & Dan [Last Night on the Planet]
07. (14:20) Strangeloop - Instrumental Sketches Mix for Monolith (Excerpt) [Unreleased]
08. (17:54) Taylor McFerrin - Decisions (Live Mix at Casa Bertallot) [Unreleased]
09. (21:19) Milieu - Blackfur [Unreleased]
10. (24:00) Kilowatts - Wilderness Defense Mechanism [Unreleased]
11. (29:04) Kiasmos - Orgoned [Late Night Tales: Ólafur Arnalds]
12. (32:16) Sasha - Time After Time [Scene Delete]
13. (36:00) Rival Consoles - Four (Ólafur Arnalds & Nils Frahm Remix) [Erased Tapes 
Collection VII]
14. (40:04) Tontario - Öldurót (Ólafur Arnalds Remix) [Anjunadeep 08]
15. (42:40) Ry X - Only (Stevie R & The Acid Beast Edition) [Unreleased]
16. (47:12) Tontario - Limerence [Unreleased]
17. (50:45) Icarus - Home (Feat. Aurora) (Lane 8 Remix) [Anjunadeep 08]
18. (55:30) Tripswitch - Payola [Vagabond]
19. (62:56) Cubenx - SK01 [Unreleased]
20. (68:24) Master Margherita - Drone Dub (Campana Mix) [Pote 1]
21. (74:49) Jitter - Acida [Digital Family Vol.6]
22. (77:50) Smoke Sign - Bluetongue-Encompass (Smoke Sign, Enki, & Tektree Remix) [Unreleased]
23. (84:42) Vishnudata - Koneveljet-Romulus (Vishnudata Remix) [Unreleased]
24. (87:37) Jaia & Pris Stratton - Use Your Imagination (Jaia Pressure Mix) [Use Your Imagination]
25. (95:21) Ulrich Schnauss - Negative Sunrise [No Further Ahead Than Today]
26. (98:46) Tycho - Rings [Epoch]
27. (102:24) Juno Reactor - 2 Byculla (Thorazin Remix) [Stream Enterer]
28. (107:21) Luke Mandala - Under The Spell (Kaya Project Remix) [So It Was (...And So It Goes) 
Remixed]
29. (112:20) Tipper - Sleeper [Unreleased]
30. (116:50) Lostodyssey - Eastghost Old Day Bootleg [Unreleased]
31. (119:57) Rival Consoles - Lone [Night Melody]
32. (122:18) Explosions In The Sky - Infinite Orbit [The Wilderness]
33. (124:50) Mint Julep - Broken Devotion [Broken Devotion]
34. (129:32) Bibio - Petals [A Mineral Love]

Crystalline Subroutines 01 - 2016 Wasn't So Bad

Crystalline Subroutines (2016-Wasn't-So-Bad Mix)

spectra

Starting over fresh with a belated 2020 retrospective mix of powerful and unconventional audio artistry, from many powerful and unconventional creators.  Hoping to have done proper justice, and brought us all something more than the sum of its parts.  Thank you all <3

Image: a solo light painting one summer night in the southern Oregon wilderness, as the coyotes (wolves?) at the beginning of this mix began to sing.

[0:00:00] Borealism - I Miss Everyone Who Isn't Here Anymore (+Warner Canyon Oregon wilderness wolfsong, +Laura&Bill on New Caprica) ( #borealism )
[0:03:00] Rival Consoles - Melodica ( #rivalconsoles )
[0:05:40] Bibio - The Milky Way Over Ratlinghope ( #bibio )
[0:09:30] Aleksandir - Skin & Mind ( #aleksandir )
[0:13:30] Sky Civilian - Off The Ground ( #skycivilian )
[0:17:10] Casino Versus Japan - Untitled ( #casinoversusjapan )
[0:22:00] Setsuya Kurotaki - Midnight Nightingale Masses Of Light And Shadow  ( #iiP )
[0:24:20] Toro Y Moi - You Hid  ( #toroymoi )
[0:28:50] Mild Minds - Swim (ford. Remix)  ( #mildminds / #ford )
[0:30:50] Spaven x Sandunes - Tree of Life  ( #spaven / #sandunes )
[0:35:20] KiloWatts - Emotion ( #kilowatts )
[0:40:20] Tourist & The Range - Last  ( #tourist / #therange )
[0:44:00] Voyage - Sync ( #voyage )
[0:48:40] Caribou - You and I ( #caribou )
[0:52:50] Manski - Black Swan (Bongbeck Remix) ( #manski / #bongbeck )
[0:56:30] Affkt - Braco ( #affkt )
[1:00:00] Pluko - The Lovely One ( #pluko )
[1:02:30] Powel - Sunrise Over Melmac ( #powel )
[1:06:20] Daniel Avery - Lone Swordsman ( #danielavery )
[1:11:50] Bongbeck - Mew ( #bongbeck )
[1:13:30] Kolomensky - Ritual Gone Wrong (Pedro Martins Remix) ( #kolomensky / #pedromartins )
[1:16:30] Aparde - Integrity (Lusine Remix) ( #aparde / #lusine )
[1:19:50] Blindsmyth - Gryllidae (Dave DK Remix) ( #blindsmyth / #davedk )
[1:23:20] Kaya Project - Time To Emerge (ft. Randolph Matthews) (Luke Mandala Remix)  ( #kayaproject / #lukemandala )
[1:30:10] Ricardo Tobar - After The Movie (Plaid Remix) ( #ricardotobar / #plaid )
[1:34:00] Four Tet - Parallel 4 ( #fourtet )
[1:36:40] Traumer - Cookie ( #traumer )
[1:40:00] Applescal - Incognitana ( #applescal )
[1:44:10] Sasha - Wolf Spider ( #sasha )
[1:49:30] Avalon Emerson - Rotting Hills ( #avalonemerson )
[1:54:10] Floating Points - ARP3 ( #floatingpoints )
[1:58:30] Ramona Yacef & Bill It - Physical Interface (Enzo Leep Remix) ( #ramonayacef / #billit / #enzoleep )
[2:02:30] Dawn Razor & Archetech - Your Object 1 ( #dawnrazor / #archetech )
[2:07:00] Röyksopp - Alpha Male (Live) ( #royksopp )
[2:17:00] Fejká - Unfold ( #fejka )
[2:20:40] Throwing Snow - Murky ( #throwingsnow )
[2:24:00] Four Tet - Insect Near Piha Beach ( #fourtet )
[2:27:20] Otik - Zero-Sum Game ( #otik )
[2:32:10] Bicep - Saku (feat Clara La San) ( #bicep )
[2:35:10] Lapalux - Earth (Live Version) ( #lapalux )
[2:38:00] No Moon - Set Phasers to Stun ( #nomoon )
[2:40:40] Artefakt - Suiran ( #artefakt )
[2:44:40] Flore - Coded Language (Walton remix) ( #flore / #walton )
[2:47:00] Slavyanka - My Thesis ( #slavyanka )
[2:49:10] Om Unit - Shapes ( #omunit )
[2:51:30] Solitary Dancer - Will U Meet Me ( #solitarydancer )
[2:54:50] Blanketdragon - Life In Reverse (w. Mr. Bill) ( #blanketdragon / #mrbill )
[2:57:30] Com Truise - I Dream (for You) ( #comtruise )
[3:01:10] Flume - The Difference (feat. Toro y Moi) (Jon Hopkins Remix) ( #flume / #toroymoi / #jonhopkins )
[3:06:20] Xander - Settle (feat. XXYYXX) ( #xander / #xxyyxx )
[3:08:10] Rumpistol - Walk On Home ( #rumpistol )
[3:09:00] Zach Bush - Excquisite Miracle of Beauty ( #zachbush )
[3:12:00] Oregon Siuslaw wilderness deer calling at night + Laura&Bill

2020 visions

֍ to catch what's too slow, dark, small, far, quiet ֍

sineseeing