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Back To The Roots Of Berlin School by Erwin Broers
At the beginning of September when I posted my "Sequencer City" mix, I said I'd been on a berlin school bender. Well, now three months later I'm still on that sequencer synth kick. At the end of October the analog synth itch was scratched by a stellar guest mix from Erwin Broers called "Capturing The Voice Of A Galaxy." It featured tracks from the Klaus Schulz label, "Innovative Communications. Now we have have a follow up mix from Erwin called "Back to the Roots of Berlin School." Oh man, this is some good stuff! Erwin tells me that "there's a whole sub-category of "Berlin School" out there called "Retro Berlin School". In the mid 1990's "Berlin School" was revived by nostalgic electronic artists who benefited from technological innovations to make the iconic analog synths such as the Mellotron, the ARP 2600 and the big Moog Modular more playable. The result was a huge resurgence of mid 1970's style Berlin School EM which was dubbed "retro" to mark the difference with the classics such as Tangerine Dream's Stratosfear, Klaus Schulze's Timewind and Ashra's New Age Of Earth." I hope my current obsession with this genre continues because I am loving every minute of it. Thanks for another great mix, Erwin. Cheers! T R A C K L S I S T : 00:00 Redshift - Redshift(excerpt) (Redshift, 1996) 09:20 Cosmic Hoffmann - Shiva Connection (Shiva Connection, 2000) 15:00 Free System Projekt - And Then There Were Two (Impulse (reissue), 2005) 29:00 Brendan Pollard - Aquarius (Expansion, 2005) 31:17 Ramp - Phasenverzerrung (Nodular, 1998) 42:50 Javi Canovas - North Of Circle (Impasse, 2005) 56:42 Arcane - Dystopian Fictions (Gather Darkness, 1999) 71:02 end
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Gifts at Dinner - an Ambient Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. Just hanging out all day with family, eating and drinking. Perfect. The songs in this mix were all chosen for the titles, which all fit the Thanksgiving theme. Besides the obvious titles with the word "thanks" my favorite track titles are "my dad's famous potatoes", "Give me cornbread when I'm hungry", and "An Awkward Conversation at a Family Gathering." Play this in the background as you eat way too much food and hopefully not way too much beer. Cheers & Happy Thanksgiving! T R A C K L I S T : 00:00 Grouper - Thanksgiving Song 02:42 Ólafur Arnalds - Family Stroll 04:30 Massive Attack - Everybody's Got a Family 05:55 Matt Morton - A Special Thank You 08:00 anderegg - thanksgiving 10:14 lawrence - falling down a dam of mashed potatoes 13:33 Lullatone - An Awkward Dinner Conversation at a Family Gathering(piano version) 14:55 TSU! - Dear Stanley, Thank You 17:29 Richard Thompson - Family(guitar version) 20:13 Bill Frisell - Thankful 25:15 Carlos Niño & Friends - Togetherness feat. Jamael Dean & Devin Daniels 28:42 The Circular Ruins & Off The Sky - Giving to You 30:48 Tiny Isles - With Thanks, Petal 34:53 Cliff Martinez - my dad's famous potatoes 37:06 John Fahey - Give me cornbread when I'm hungry 40:13 Loren Connors - Why We Came 41:45 Peter Gregson - Gifts at Dinner 45:42 Hildur Guðnadóttir - Many Secrets in this Family 48:00 Endless Melancholy - Moments We Spent Together 51:51 Sven Laux - Thank You, Goodbye 54:44 Pat Metheny - Last Train Home 59:18 end
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Jazz-ish
I'm not exactly sure how this mix started. I think I was listening to the track, Outlook Remains Untouched, by |||||||||||||||||||| , yes that's the actual name the artist goes by. |||||||||||||||||||| on bandcamp I like the jazzy vibe the tune has. It reminds me of similar tracks from the heyday of glitch and idm that also have a jazz feel to them. Sort of Jazz-ish. So I grabbed some older tracks from 2001, 2002, 2006, and mixed them with new tunes to come up with this electronic mix that isn't really jazz...more like Jazz-ish. Links to all the music used in this mix: https://barcodenoun.bandcamp.com/track/outlook-remains-untouched https://robagwruhme.bandcamp.com/album/thora-vukk-pampacd002 https://www.amazon.com/Mizoknek-Iso68/dp/B0018CCMZU https://triosk.bandcamp.com/album/the-headlight-serenade https://ambarchiberthlingwerliin.bandcamp.com/album/ghosted https://prefuse73.bandcamp.com/track/clean-up-scene-apprentice https://josiahsteinbrick.bandcamp.com/album/mouthfeel-serene https://nalasinephro.bandcamp.com/album/space-18 https://rockinghorse.net/products/cd95049 https://memetune.bandcamp.com/album/indicator https://fourtet.bandcamp.com/album/three https://flau.bandcamp.com/album/reverberate-slowly https://boomkat.com/products/we-think-as-instruments https://laurencepike.bandcamp.com/album/prophecy https://elikeszler.bandcamp.com/album/live-2-1 Cheers! T R A C K L I S T : 00:00 |||||||||||||||||||| - Outlook Remains Untouched (Outlook Remains Untouched 2021) 05:06 Robag Wruhme - Tulpa Ovi (Thora Vukk 2011) 09:00 Iso68 - Catzen (Mizoknek 2002) 13:40 Triosk - Lost Reprise (The Headlight Serenade 2006) 19:00 Oren Ambarchi, Johan Berthling, Andreas Werliin - II (Ghosted 2022) 25:36 Prefuse 73 - Clean Up Scene Apprentice (New Strategies For Modern Crime Vol. 1 2024) 28:30 Josiah Steinbrick & Sam Gendel - Mouthfeel 1 (Mouthfeel, Serene 2021) 30:00 Nala Sinephro - Space 5 (Space 1.8 2021) 33:10 Andrew Pekler - you are here (Station To Station 2002) 34:10 Oblong - sketches of staines (Indicator 2006) 37:21 Four Tet - So Blue (Three 2024) 42:02 El Fog - Smoke and Satellites (Reverberate Slowly 2015) 44:35 I’m Not A Gun - Soft Rain in the Spring (We think as instruments 2006) 49:20 Laurence Pike - Prophecy (Prophecy 2020) 53:09 Eli Keszler - Copenhagen Part III (LIVE 2 2024) 60:00 end
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Meditative Music To Get You Thru Election Night 2024
Thanks goodness election season is almost over. Election night can be a stressful time so here's a mix of new ambient tunes to help us all get through the night. Cheers! T R A C K L I S T : 00:00 Logic Moon - Lifelines (Lifelines 2024) 03:15 Bruce Brubaker - Music For Airports, 1/2(Bows Version) (Eno Piano 2 2024) 07:00 Feeling Flying - Shimmer (Spirit Level 2024) 13:15 Andrew Lang - Tristan's Ascension (Frailty 2024) 17:15 Martin Stürtzer - Radiance (Dawn of Time 2024) 24:50 Steve Roach - One Day (One Day Forever 2024) 32:07 zakè & anthéne - distant forms (regeneration 2024) 37:16 Michael Scott Dawson - Mojave Flowers(feat. Michael Grigoni) (The Tinnitus Chorus 2024) 41:07 Faux Tapes - Dive Pr 2 (Dive 2024) 45:15 David Cordero - Sonidos olvidados (Melodías Susurradas 2024) 48:54 LAB'S CLOUD - Praia da Cruz(Solo Version) (Arquitectura Natural 2024) 54:18 Glasbird - Days of Iron and Steam (Fenscapes 2024) 60:21 end
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Capturing The Voice Of A Galaxy
Another stellar guest mix comes our way courtesy of loyal listener, Erwin Broers. He asked if I was interested in a mix of electronic music from Innovative Communication, the label founded by Klaus Schulze in the late 70s. Yes, please! Here's what Erwin says about this fantastic mix: "I was in my teens when I got in touch with Electronic Music by means of well-known artists such as Jean-Michel Jarre, Kraftwerk and Vangelis. Searching for more similar music in the local library, I came across an LP with on its sleeve just a mysterious picture of a huge radio telescope. The album was Robert Schroeder's "Galaxie Cygnus-A" ! Liner notes on the back of the sleeve explained that the music was commissioned by the Austrian Broadcasting Service (ÖRF) and performed live at the 1982 ARS Electronica Festival in Linz, Austria. The idea behind the project consisted of capturing sound waves coming from the Cygnus-A galaxy with the help of the Effelsberg 100 meter radio telescope, the largest fully steerable radio telescope in the world at that time. Schroeder used those sound waves as basis and inspiration, and created a magical soundtrack for stargazing and floating in outer space. Needless to say, I was blown away by this album, and from then on I fanatically sought out other releases on the Innovative Communication label, which - by the way - was founded in 1978 by the late Klaus Schulze, one of the godfathers of Electronic Music. To honour my memory of that exciting period, I chose to start this label retrospective with the first two tracks of this special album - including some of the white noise straight from space ! The mix is rather heterogeneous and gives a good impression of the kind of EM that was published on IC in its heydays, ie. the 80s. From the early 90s the label quickly became more commercial edging towards mellow new age and average electro-acoustic instrumental fusion (aka NAM)." Thanks, Erwin, for this trip back in time. Cheers! T R A C K L I S T : 00:00 Robert Schroeder - Galaxie Cygnus-A Part 1 & 2 (Galaxie Cygnus-A, 1982) 12:08 Klaus Schulze - Silent Running (excerpt) (Trancefer, 1981) 19:26 Peak - Nightmist (Ebondàzzar, 1982) 25:30 P'Cock - The Prophet (The Prophet, 1980) 31:15 Peter Seiler - Serengeti (Sensitive Touch, 1987) 36:00 Mind Over Matter - Paradise: 1st. Movement: Being One (Air) (The Colours Of Life, 1988) 42:09 G.E.N.E. - Taste Of Dawn (Life Is A Melody, 1988) 47:42 Software - Syn-Code-Z: 1st. Movement: Code-Ocean (Syn-Code, 1987) 53:45 Patrick Kosmos - Airgasm (Cosmic Resonance, 1991) 63:16 end
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