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26 Jul 2010 - Closer
Abandoned buildings, quiet harbours, hazy landscapes, remembrances from the past, people in their everyday occupations. Closer is about music fusing into environments, happenings, and people.
It's a mix of ambient music, but probably a bit more "intense" or eventful in style than an average ambient mix. Most of the music here has a dusty, hazy, texture-like characteristic, that kind of forms a "dry" framing around the track (hard to describe, yes). This is also the kind of style in the ambient field that intrigues me the most at the moment.
Field recordings are in a big role in this mix. I think that environmental recordings and composed ambient soundscapes has a relation, a similarity in a very basic level, and that is what I also wanted to emphasize here.
There are some older and some newer music featured here. My priority with this mix was to carefully choose tracks that would fit together and make the mix keep its general sound throughout. I hope you'll enjoy listening to it as much as I enjoyed making it.
Length: 57:34
Tracklisting:
00:00 Wendt - 20070715-Wendt-UK-Part2 [Tri Postal]
01:05 Scanner / NightJam - Sleepless City (Stephen Vitiello Remix) [Artangel Interaction]
03:40 The Remote Viewer - Be Honest [Autres Directions In Music]
05:35 MINT - Hindemith [Kompakt]
08:40 Souns - Blue [Kikapu]
11:20 Mar.ch - They Are Looking For A Country Of Their Own [Kikapu]
15:30 Lasse-Marc Riek - Juringels Warten [and/OAR]
19:30 Biosphere - Katedra Botaniki [Rune Grammofon] + Tim Hecker - Shosts In Silver [Kompakt]
22:20 Pan American - Outside [Autres Directions In Music]
24:00 Silencio - Hindsight (Wixel Remix) [Tri Postal]
25:55 Biosphere - Sherbrooke [Touch]
28:00 Field recording: Pre-concert crowd noise by andrew1280
29:10 Faithless - Code (timestretched) [Sony BMG]
31:20 Dub Jay - Remain Down (Cycle Never Changes)
33:00 Markus Guentner - Pilot [Kompakt]
37:10 Carlos Santos - Crossing Point [Webbed Hand]
40:00 Silencio - Botaniska Trädgård [Tri Postal]
42:20 Thomas Fehlmann - In The Wind [Kompakt]
46:00 Biosphere - From a Solid To a Liquid [Touch]
49:50 Popnoname - Wandel [Kompakt]
52:20 Stars Of The Lid - Piano Aquieu + (field rec.: Harbour by inchadney)
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