Name: Aqueous Sunbeams by Sublim8r
Duration: 3 min 48 s
Description: Swimming through slanting summer sunbeams at a prisitine tropical cove

this song makes me nostalgic for the Pacific Ocean 💙

What is originality in music anymore? It's something I've struggled with as a producer and DJ for much of the past 10 years. As a producer I've pretty much given up on sounding original, but as a DJ I've always tried to find music that sounds original or at least attempts to do so. When it comes to dance floor music I've found it nearly impossible to find music that truly has an original sound to it, but I've been finding all sorts of abstract and eclectic Electronica and random tracks here and there that to me really feel like they're doing something different or going Against The Grain if you will....

When two of the worlds best electronica/downtempo producers and DJs, Bluetech and Dj Maggie respectively asked me to create a set for their streaming show Holotropic Happy Hour I knew this was the perfect opportunity to finally put together a set of these tracks! I hope you enjoy the journey! 

Track List:

1 - Robot Koch -All Forms Are Unstable
2 - Robot Koch - Numb
3 - Robot Koch - Lyra One
4 -Marc Romboy - La lune et l'etoile
5 -Animal Picnic, Aaryon - Tangram 
6 -Robot Koch, Fiora -Let It Go By (Instrumental)
7 -Florian Kruse, Hendrik Burkhard, TheGround - Going Against The Grain (Album Version)
8 -Steve Moore - Protostar
9 -Raxon - The Distance
10 -David August - D'ANGELO
11 -Daniel Hokum - Burn
12 -O/Y - The Wind
13 - Sun Glitters - LLaatteellyy
14 -Melokind - Harry Cutter
15 -Barnaby Carter - Basti
16 -Sk'p - Eye Earth Pt.2 (Life in a box remix)
17 -Afar - Lulled and Fake (Geju Remix)
18 -thds - Couteau
19 -Pete Lazonby - Alma
20 -Luca Bacchetti - Navajo Blues
21 -Erot - Mkh2801
22 - Riotact - Dcm001
23 -Om Unit - The Crossing
24 -Barnaby Carter - Sassuolo Cagliari 
25 -Bluetech - Gethen (ft. Yaima)
26 -Trentemøller - Sleeper
27 -Harald Bjork - Sketch On A Feeling (Bedtime Stories Version)
28 - Minilogue - Even The Wind Seemed in Deep Sleep

Treavor Moontribe - Against The Grain

Take a journey to your inner realms. An almost completely beatless ambient journey with lots of organic instruments, mixed in the studio in 2006. This was my first ambient mix.

Tracklist:

1. Shulman - Staring at the Abyss
2. Jon Hopkins - Searchlight
3. Shpongle - Flute Fruit
4. Sainkho - Naked Spirit (feat. Djivyan Gasparyan)
5. Shpongle - Saudade Part II
6. Makyo- Ghost Echoes
7. Four Tet - You Were There With Me
8. Manual - Crystal Pier
9. The Album Leaf - Window
10. Underworld - Ess Gee
11. Fila Brazillia - Subtle Body
12. Marconi Union - Sleepless
13. Random Rab - The Dream Is Real
14. Jon Hopkins - Luna Moth
15. Brian Eno with Daniel Lanois and Roger Eno - An Ending (Ascent)

Summoned Within

An atmospheric, bass heavy DJ mix on the deeper side of the dubstep spectrum with tracks by Gyu, Truth & Yayne, Dubsworth, Jafu, Ruckspin, Quark, B9, Daega Sound, Gerkle, RedRabbit, Bakir, Ezra, Pheral & Occult and Flame & Tiiu.  Mixed by Naasko.

Thanks and much respect to the artists and the record labels (Chord Marauders, Dubs Alive, Gradient Audio, Urban Scrumping, Echodub, Absys Records, Full Melt Recordings, NoMad Records, Ranking Records, Defy Records) involved in getting this music out there.


DEEP END

Swimming through slanting summer sunbeams at a prisitine tropical cove

Aqueous Sunbeams

There's a feeling when driving certain stretches of desert around the early morning and late evening. Particularly high or mountain deserts, with their hidden features that unfold with every turn and roll with the land. The vast vistas stretching into the Sun's sets and rises. Clouds doing the many things clouds do. It's splendor and adventure and wonder.  That feeling is the inspiration of this track.

Cool Wind, Desert Drive

A synthesis of the many disciplines I had developed at the time, around 2012.  Production, composition, guitar, psychoacoustics, and (for lack of a better phrase) sound healing.  It's steady, groovy, trippy, bluesy, gentle rockin', and very psychedelic.  And it's quite long for one track.  The beat stays fairly steady while themes of guitar interplay and production techniques provide the journey. I was studying the field of "Cymatics" at the time and attempted to use that information to embed "healing" frequencies.  So, if anyone notices that their scar tissues or symptoms of adhesion improve, please let me know.  As per their research validity I leave it to you (or a scientist friend) to check it out, as I'm only an armchair researcher.  But here's hopin'!! Enjoy :)

So Creaks My Radiant Heart

Nexus

Live recording of my set in the chill room at the FnF Summer Campout, 2017, trimmed a little for quality control. A collection of some of my favorite chilled tunes from the last 5 years in a little mini-set.

Tracklist:

1. Emancipator - Valhalla (NKLA Remix)
2. Giyo - Mind Games
3. Spatialize - Koi Dreaming
4. Rain Dog - Like a Lame Man Stepping
5. Citta Flow - Woodwind
6. Dream Stalker - Deeping
7. Van Hai - Dernier Amour (Ripperton's No Love Lost Reshape)
8. Great Skies - Light at the End of the Tunnel
9. Skytechnic - Immersion
10. Hedflux - Superliminal Sound
11. Charlesthefirst - The Mist (w/CloZee)
12. 5AM - Komorebi

Brave New Mandelbrots

A voyage into the soft & quiet spaces of the beatless realm. This is a live recording of my ambient set from one of our early Floasis downtempo gatherings in 2011, located in Southern California. We planned the flow for ambient music from midnight to sunrise, so our guests could choose to listen or be lullabied as they slept. I've made ambient studio mixes before, but this was my first time playing an ambient set out, live. It's a work in progress.

Mastering done to perfection, as usual, by Brian Saitzyk.

Tracklist:
1. Idlemode - Late Rate
2. Mantsevich Dzenis - November
3. Cepia - Public Address
4. VidasM - Lime Flavour
5. Melorman - One
6. Phobium - Another Orbit Around the Sun
7. Electricwest - Niche
8. Rumpistol and Red Baron - Howie
9. Stephan Mathieu - Schwarzschild Radius
10. Essáy - Origami
11. Miasma - Serum Switch
12. Carbon Based Lifeforms - Betula Pendula
13. Metaphorical Cloud - Morphing
14. Wombatmusic - Along the Way
15. The Host - 3am Surfing
16. Julian Neto - Questionable Things
17. Mike Shannon, Takeshi Nishimoto, Blue Fields - Open Your Eyes

Velvet Vessel

This is the closing set from the Moontribe Full Moon Gathering in October 2019. It's a longer one - clocking in at 2.5 hours - and my intention was to keep the energy relatively high as we wound down from a night and day of dancing. I'd recently completed a lot of work on my music library so I was delighted to pull out some classics that hadn't been in my playlists for a long time, alongside lots of newer music.

Tracklist:

Saafi Brothers - Ta Tvam Asi (Kuba Remix)
School of Seven Bells - Half Asleep (Lusine Remix)
Kritical Audio - Krupp
Nalepa - Porcelain
Lusine - Double Vision
Somatoast - Blood Moon
Hedflux & Alex Delfont - Terra Nullius
I Awake - Inner Bird
Brothomstates - Mdrmx
Airi - Animism
Little Thoughts - Mbi Gung Swa
Lo.Renzo - The Source
Argus - Aurora
Green Beats Vs. Hypnoxock - Magnetic Beats
Bluetech - Dawn Ascent (Desert Dwellers Remix)
Tor - Heikki
Bluetech - Spectral Currents
Cosmosis - Contact
Digital Mystery Tour - Chilam Bilam
KiloWatts - Gollum Fingers
Kaya Project - Katarino (Kick Bong Remix)
Kalya Scintilla - The Calling (Desert Dwellers Remix)
Hardfloor - Dubdope
Sunday Sessions - Look Back in Wonder
Auditive Escape - Epsilon
Bombay Dub Orchestra - Monsoon Malabar (International Observer Remix)
Pitch Black - Lost in Translation (International Observer meets Horace Remix)
Hedflux - Peyote Dawn
NQ - Every Home Has a Knife

Moondust

Live set from the chillout stage at Desert Escape 2019. I was playing music to accompany a yoga class from an instructor named Where's Wanderer. Starts off with gentle ambience, rising into slow groovy beats.

Tracklist:

1. Rhucle - Visitor
2. Om AKA Ovnimoon - Algun Dia
3. Lars Leonhard - Burning Clouds
4. Sync24 - Coffee Break in Orbit
5. Bansara - Morning Wind
6. Translippers - Full Moon Kiss
7. AtYyA - Emanating (Hakuu Remix)
8. Rhian Sheehan - She Walks Into Mine
9. Dubdiver - Lunatic Lullaby
10. Porangui - Suenos de la Selva (AtYyA Remix)
11. Green Beats - A Touching Trip (Lab's Cloud Remix)
12. Orbient - In Time
13. Snakestyle - Misunderstood
14. Balance - It's Just Water

Destination Station

Craig Godfrey is an accomplished musician, composer, producer, audio engineer & sound healer. He has produced and performed both solo and in collaborations including The Checktones (with Brian Saitzyk/Eastern Sun), Four Eyed Whale (with Steven Anderson), and The Ramen Empire (with J.T. Carstarphen). His signature sonic creations are the fruition of 25+ years of artistic evolution, blending diverse influences and explorations: the unique sound of Four Eyed Whale combining indie rock and soul/r&b... the Checktones integration of sound healing and psychoacoustics with experimental electronic production and sound design.... his own fusion of punk/rock indie guitar feels with electronic beats and synths and soundscapes. Craig's growing solo catalogue also includes genre-defying cinematic pieces featuring guitar or piano, and otherwise melding traditional instruments with synths and electronic production, as well as studies in sound design for media. 

Recent works draw upon the eclectic influences of his childhood amid the music scenes of New Orleans, Rio de Janeiro, and broader global travel (rock/punk/indie, bossa nova, electronica, soul, blues, and funk, jazz, classical, and American folk, among others). After studying guitar since the age of 12, he cut his teeth with his first rock/pop/punk band in Austin, TX in the mid-90s, before studying music at MI inn Hollywood.  Craig is inspired further by an immersion over the past two decades in rave, festival, and psychedelic art undergrounds, as well as in meditative, sound-healing, and teaching spaces, and his passion for media and narrative entertainment in all its forms. 

Explore more  and Purchasing:

The Checktones: 
 https://soundcloud.com/checktones , https://soulresonance.bandcamp.com/album/yay 

Four Eyed Whale: 
https://soundcloud.com/foureyedwhale 

The Ramen Empire:
https://music.apple.com/us/artist/the-ramen-empire/412753382 , https://open.spotify.com/artist/0WmlFwNeFrovrW4VZqbFhx

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