low light mixes

It's been hot as hell here lately thanks to what the meteorologists are calling a "heat dome." Add in some smoke drifting in from Canadian wildfires and it makes being outdoors no fun. I wondered about hot weather music and thought slightly twangy, acoustic and electric guitar fits the mood. There's just something about these tracks that feels right for an oppressively hot day.

I like this collection because it covers a wide range of years from 1984 to 2026, with stops in 1998, 2000, 2005, 2011, 2014, 2024, & 2025. I hope you enjoy the mix and stay cool.

Cheers!

 

T R A C K L I S T :

00:00   Ry Cooder - No Safety Zone (Paris, Texas 1984)

01:33   Tommy Guerrero - Water In Your Hands (Perpetuum 2014)

04:52   Hermanos Gutierrez - Cielo Grande (El Bueno Y El Malo 2022)

07:38   Six Organs Of Admittance - Oak Path (Dust & Chimes 2000)

11:17   Dirty Three - Black Tide (Ocean Songs 1998)

15:40   Marisa Anderson - Pair of Duduk (The Anthology of UnAmerican Folk Music 2026)

20:10   Earth - Left in the Desert (Hex 2005)

21:03   Joe Harvey-Whyte & Geir Sundstøl - Tista lengter (Langeleik 2026)

23:53   Barry Walker Jr. - Under Leaf Hill (Paleo Sol 2026)

26:27   Steve Roach & Roger King - Gone West (Dust to Dust 1998)

30:20   Sam Wilkes, Craig Weinrib, and Dylan Day - Standing in the Doorway (Sam Wilkes, Craig Weinrib, and Dylan Day 2026)

35:53   Daniel Lanois - New Smoke (Purple Vista 2008)

38:07   Yo La Tengo - Leaving Home (Old Joy 2025)

43:30   Calexico - Dueto De Ivonne Y Tino (Road Atlas 2011)

45:02   33. Bruce Springsteen - A Prayer By The River(Instrumental) (Tracks II: The Lost Albums 2025)

46:46   Ry Cooder - Brothers (Paris, Texas 1984)

48:44   Luke Schneider - midafternoon classic (Across the Horizon Vol.1 2024)

51:20   Woody Jackson - It Should Have Happened a Long Time Ago (Cowboy Yoga 2024)

57:55   Earth - Mirage (Hex 2005)

59:24   end

Most mixes posted here are around one hour in length. There needs to be a good reason to go well beyond that time. Well, this guest mix is a good reason to go long. This set comes to us from Faru - https://faru.bandcamp.com/music He has done a bunch of mixes over the years including for the Deep Breakfast series & Silent Season's Campfire Stories. You can find those mixes here - https://soundcloud.com/faruambient/sets/my-mixes

Here's what he says about this 4-hour set:

"The sun comes through the leaves in pieces, slow shifting fragments that move across your skin like something deliberate. The air smells of warm grass and blooming, that specific fullness of spring when everything is happening at once.

Pollen drifts through the light, weightless, golden, the leaves quietly dancing.

Birds in the canopy. Voices not close enough to make out, just the shape of people being easy with each other, flowing past like part of the same current.

The specific gravity and warm energy of another being, close.

Three hours passing, or maybe more. Your breathing has slowed to match something you can't name but can feel.

You are not waiting for anything. Just here, inside this particular moment. Which turns out to be everything."

 Faru said he likes a 4-hour mix because he wants the music to start being the environment. This mix envelopes you and does become part of the surrounding space. Thanks for a great mix!

Cheers!

 

T R A C K L I S T :

Loscil - Kamouraska

Abul Mogard & Rafael Anton Irisarri - Waking Up Dizzy On A Bastion

Multicast Dynamics - Circle One

zakè, Ossa, ASC - Momentary Drift 3

Flying Tulpa - Signless

Roberto Musci - Ghost Train

.Foundation - Empress

Astrid Sonne - Everything is unreal

Abul Mogard & Rafael Anton Irisarri - Place Of Forever

Alva Noto - A Forest

Adam Wiltzie - Stock Horror

Anf - Mary Lynne

Adam Wiltzie - Mexican Helium

Adam Wiltzie - Dim Hopes

Fergus Jones - A Leap

Fergus Jones - Heima

Adam Wiltzie - We Were Vaporised

Fergus Jones - Heap

Fergus Jones - It Should Be 

.founcation - meteor hymn

Clark - No Pills U

DJ Healer - Run From

Dylan Henner - A New Living Being Opens Its Eyes for the First Time

Hotel Neon - A Possible Past

Roberto Musci - Kami Shintai

shipwreck detective - reentry

Roberto Musci - Nexus on the Beach

Hotel Neon - Reticent

.foundation - heralds

Hotel Neon - Tidal

shipwreck detective - subside

The Detroit Escalator Company - Tai Chi And Traffic Lights

Flying Tulpa - Forever Lost - 02 From Place to Place

Rod Modell - Grotto Of The Sun - Part 2

Toki Fuko - Spirit Medicine - Part One

Faru - Unreleased

Faru - Unreleased

Faru - Unreleased

Faru - Unreleased

The Detroit Escalator Company - The Inverted Man

Recently I was messaging with LLM guest mixer, Roquen Lómë, about Type records - an experimental record label that was active from 2003 to 2013. Founded by John Twells & Stefan Lewandowski in the U.K., Type released some creative music in those ten years ranging from delicate piano to sculptured noise to glitchy electronica to ambient to psych folk.

I thought it would be fun to create a mix of music from Type records catalog - then I looked at that catalog and, wow they sure did release a ton of music. There's no way to make an exhaustive review of their releases so I decided to go chronologically through some of my favorites. That still only scratched the surface, I think I have more than 40 Type records in my collection. 

It was nice listening to some of the recordings for the first time in years and I hope you too enjoy this little trip into the past.

Cheers!

 

T R A C K L I S T :

00:00   Mokira - Untitled #3 (Album 2003)

04:25   Deaf Center - Walk (Neon City 2004)

07:21   Golden - Door of Our Home (Corduroy Road 2005)

10:37   Julien Neto - I(one) (Le Fumeur de Ciel 2005)

13:35   North Sea & Rameses III - Night Blossom Written in Sanskrit (Night of the Ankou 2005)

19:19   Xela - Bobble Hats In Summer (For Frosty Mornings And Summer Nights 2007)

25:08   The Alps - Trem Fanstasma (iii 2008)

31:14   Richard Skelton - Grange (Marking Time 2008)

34:00   Koen Holtkamp - You Mean The World To Me (Field Rituals 2008)

36:20   Grouper - We've All Time To Sleep (Dragging a Dead Deer Up A Hill 2008)

39:12   Helios - Hope Valley Hill (Caesura 2008)

44:05   Black To Comm - Hotel Freund (Alphabet 1968 2009)

47:57   Jóhann Jóhannsson - Pods (And in the Endless Pause There Came the Sound of Bees 2009)

50:55   Ezekiel Honig - Drafting Foresight (Folding In On Itself 2011)

54:35   Sylvain Chauveau - The Unbroken Line (Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated) 2010)

57:41   end

Another train mix? Another Berlin-school mix? Yes and hell yes! I've been struggling to keep up with creating new mixes and then, like a train pulling into the station right on time, Paul comes to me with a new mix. Perfect timing!

This one has tunes that are all fairly recent so it was fun to hear new stuff or discover new artists. I'm always up for new Berlin-school music and this set from Paul does that with long, evolving tracks that suck you in and keep you going. Here's what Paul says about his latest collection:

"I expect that for people who commute to work by train, there’s not much novelty in it. But most of my train-themed mixes imagine a long-distance trip where the journey itself is the experience and the destination somewhere in your imagination. As I’ve said before, sequencer-based “Berlin School” synthesizer music is a natural fit to evoke the subtle, hypnotic rhythms of travel by train. The six artists in this set were all new to me this year—and what a joy it has been to discover them."

Thanks again, Paul, for this wonderful collection of train tracks.

Cheers!

 

T R A C K L I S T :

00:00   Jim Kirkwood - Tenebrae-The Moonbeam Road (Souls That Dance on the Edge of a Sword 2021)

09:27   L.V. Morris - Rings Around the Sun (Darkstar 2025)

18:25   Alba Ecstasy - Reverie One (Berlin School Reveries, Vol. 1 2025)

28:50   Grant Beasley - Observing Time (Dreams in Deep Space 2025)

37:47   DASK - Transitions (Transitions 2025)

55:00   DTime – In The Crystalline Light (Birth Of A Constellation 2024)

70:20   end

A little over a year ago I posted a mix of quiet fusion jazz tunes which I really enjoyed curating. So it was only a matter of time before I made another and here it is. This mix has some of the same artists as the first one - Mile Davis, Soft Machine, Gong, Jean-Luc Ponty, Brand X, along with new additions. Not surprisingly, most of the tracks are from the 1970s, a few from the 80s and one new track by Elephant9 released in 2024.

Here's the first quiet fusion mix - https://www.mixcloud.com/lowlight/quiet-fusion/

I still plan on doing a straightforward fusion mix but for now this quiet set will do nicely. It's perfect early morning coffee music.

Cheers!

 

T R A C K L I S T :

00:00   Hugh Hopper & Alan Gowen - Waltz For Nobby (Two Rainbows Daily 1980)

08:51   Weather Report - Morning Lake (Weather Report 1971)

13:08   Soft Machine - Snodland (Seven 1974)

14:40   Brand X - April (Product 1979)

16:05   Elephant9 - Chamber of Silence (Mythical River 2024)

18:36   Jean-Luc Ponty - Ethereal Mood (Cosmic Messenger 1978)

22:23   Frank Zappa - Zoot Allures (Zoot Allures 1976)

26:13   John Scofield - Gil B643 (Still Warm 1986)

32:40   Gong - Mireille (Gazeuse! 1976)

35:28   Miles Davis - Ascent (The Complete In a Silent Way Sessions 1969)

39:50   Sun Ra - Haverford Impromptu #1(Haverford College 1980 Solo Rhodes Piano 2019)

42:48   Quiet Sun - r.f.d. (Mainstream 1975)

46:00   Mahavishnu Orchestra - Nostalgia (Mahavishnu 1984)

51:45   Eberhard Weber - Quiet Departures (Fluid Rustle 1979)

57:57   Cinematic Orchestra - Flute (Every Day 2002)

64:28   end