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FIFTH SECTOR - Blade Runner Ambiance 2025

Episode 358

mercredi 3 septembre 2025 • Duration 58:51

I really didn't intend to follow an 80s themed mix with another mix with an 80s vibe. But I couldn't help myself because of the brand new album from Crows Labyrinth - Neon Scenes II: Echoes of Then https://crowslabyrinth.bandcamp.com/album/neon-scenes-ii-echoes-of-then

The album is a follow-up to an album called "Neon Scenes I: Granular Dreams." Both albums are longform generative drone ambient pieces that have this great Blade Runner vibe. I used the first album as the jumping off point for my last Blade Runner themed mix in March 2023 - https://www.mixcloud.com/lowlight/replicant-memories/ Upon hearing this new Crows Labyrinth album I just knew I had to create some more Blade Runner ambiance.

Links to all the music used in this mix:

Cheers!

T R A C K L I S T :

00:00 Crows Labyrinth - Neon Scenes II: Echoes of Then (Neon Scenes II: Echoes of Then 2025)
08:25 Martin Stürtzer - Nexus-6 (Nexus-6 2025)
17:00 Ruptured World - The Great Void (Void Rituals 2024)
22:00 Logic Moon - New Arcadia (Music For Film Vol.1 2024)
25:30 Alphaxone & Onasander - Megacities (Futuristic Dereliction 2024)
32:24 Graintable - Cascade Moutain Ash (Music to Watch Seeds Grow By 003: Graintable (Blue Flax) 2025)
37:00 deepspace - Entering Aquarium Prefecture (Neon Blue Utopia 2025)
43:12 Dave Nelson - The New Normal (The Act of Vanishing 2020)
46:00 Uther Moads - Future Waves (Uther Moads 2011)
49:30 juneunit - lude (juneunit 2019)
53:30 Sabled Sun - Onboarding Errors (2150 2025)
58:54 end

You're In An 80s Film Driving At Night

Episode 357

mercredi 20 août 2025 • Duration 59:56

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This mix started via a Spotify playlist with the same name - "You're in an 80s Film Driving at Night." I really liked the synth vibes so I created my own folder at home and began collecting tracks.

The mix has a great retro vibe even though many of the tracks are from the last 10 years. But, of course, I had to include some cuts from the time period with songs from Tangerine Dream, John Carpenter & Vangelis.

Hop in your Delorean and head back to the 1980s for some retro electronic goodness.

Cheers!

T R A C K L I S T :

00:00 All India Radio - Rust (Solo Electronique 1984 2017)
02:47 Tangerine Dream - Dr. Destructo (Thief 1981)
05:45 Sinoia Caves - 1983 Main Theme (Beyond the Black Rainbow 2014)
08:15 Emmx - The Nation (The Nation 2022)
11:00 A.L.I.S.O.N - Subtract (Signal Flow 2019)
15:45 John Carpenter - He's Still Alive/Romero (Escape From New York 2005)
17:55 Harold Faltermeyer - Logo-Bakersfield (The Running Man 1987)
20:50 Baldocaster - Map to the Stars (Part II) (Solare 2019)
22:25 Tangerine Dream - Love on a Real Train (Risky Business 1984)
26:00 Volkor X - Outlaws (Heart Wired, Pt. 1 2019)
31:51 Baldocaster - Shadow Figures (Memorie 2022)
36:17 John Carpenter - Night (John Carpenter's Lost Themes 2015)
39:45 Vangelis - Blade Runner(End Titles) (Blade Runner 1994)
44:08 Cliff Martinez - Bride of Deluxe (Drive 2011)
46:47 Disasterpeace - Detroit (It Follows 2015)
47:52 Inhmost - Gravity(feat. Nashira) (Dragbacks on Dockweiler State Beach 2015)
53:16 Tangerine Dream - Beach Scene (Thief 1981)
59:11 end

Dark Woods by Daniel Hawkins

Episode 348

mardi 3 juin 2025 • Duration 56:49

I've fallen behind a bit on creating and uploading mixes. But have no fear, it's Daniel Hawkins to the rescue! He's come up with a guest mix at just the right time. You'll remember Daniel form his previous mix, "Metallic Memories" - https://www.mixcloud.com/lowlight/metallic-memories/

For this set he takes us into the modern classical realm. Here's what Daniel has to say about this new mix:

"I was thinking about some of the nice Neo-classical/crossover stuff I like and then got to thinking about the way having a label for a style of music can actually be a limiting factor. The best creative work in any field so often transcends genres and labels and breaks new ground - Issak Dinsen said “A work of art is a thing of infinite loneliness and the least to be understood through criticism.” I remember back in the 1970’s playing Keith Jarret’s solo piano albums and my friends asking what kind of music it was. What do you say? Back then they stocked it in the jazz section of the record store with the other ECM releases, but I have never thought of that body of work as jazz. Music continues to evolve - Ambient? Chillout? Drone? Electronic? Tribal? Names and more names. So what do you call this collection of cello music? Is it classical because it features an instrument that is typically found in an orchestral setting? Personally I don’t think we need a label. I know good music when I hear it. The mix leans to the somber side - something strings do so well - deep and evocative. Explorations of the dark night of the soul."

Thanks, Daniel, for another excellent mix!

Cheers!

T R A C K L I S T :

00:00 Snorri Hallgrímsson - I Am Weary, Don't Let Me Rest (I Am Weary, Don't Let Me Rest 2023)
06:04 Peter Gregson - Softly Falling (Softly Falling - Single 2024)
08:08 Hildur Guðnadóttir - Ascent (Without Sinking 2009)
12:42 Bob Holroyd - Enough (The Cage 2018)
18:01 David Darling - Dawn (Darkwood IV) (Dark Wood 1993)
23:00 Ketil Bjørnstad, Svante Henryson - Visitor (Night Song 2011)
27:55 Ólafur Arnalds - Partisans (The Invisible EP 2021)
31:03 Henrik Meierkord - Kval (Kval 2021)
35:50 Willebrant - Undercurrent (Undercurrent - Single 2023)
38:05 Slow Meadow - Palemote (Palemote - Single 2016)
43:30 Peter Gregson - Ritual (Peter Gregson 2025)
46:57 Gabriel Ólafs - Whale Overture (Polar 2025)
51:33 Snorri Hallgrímsson - Three Week Cloud (Longer shadows, softer stones - EP 2024)

Lost In Transmission

Episode 258

mercredi 5 avril 2023 • Duration 59:44

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I love making shortwave mixes, so it's hard to believe it's been almost 11 years since my last new shortwave creation. Yikes! I know these mixes are labor intensive and I am a terrible procrastinator but I am shocked that it's been that long.

Here are the previous mixes:

This mix is a combo of real shortwave broadcasts, tracks that have broadcasts already embedded, and tracks that have that scratchy, radio feel. I couldn't resist adding a bit of Conet Project recordings here and there. Most of the straight radio broadcasts come from Myke Dodge Weiskopf. I've been using his recordings for years. You can find his stuff here - https://www.myke.me/

Two of my favorite cuts in this mix are by Mount Shrine from the album Shortwave Ruins. https://cryochamber.bandcamp.com/album/shortwave-ruins It's a perfect combo of ambience, drone, and radio chatter. Mount Shrine is Cesar Alexandre, who sadly passed away in 2021. His two tracks in this mix fit the vibe perfectly.

I hope you enjoy the washes of static and voices from the ether. Hopefully it won't be 11 years until the next shortwave mix.

Cheers!

T R A C K L I S T :

00:00 shortwave noise
00:40 Mount Shrine - Earth Bridge (Shortwave Ruins 2020)
04:50 Rival Consoles - Noise Call and Response
06:35 Mike Benoit - November’s Static Is Chill & Drear, November’s Leaf Is Red & Sear
07:10 Federico Durand - el grillo de nacar(the cricket of nacre) (a traves del espejo 2016)
09:36 9_11_01(Unknown time and frequency)
10:20 Enrico Coniglio & Matteo Uggeri - Jessaias de reduire mes medicaments
12:53 David Sylvian - Camphor
16:03 Helios - All You Are (Remembrance)
17:00 The Focus Group - CineToneOne (Stop-Motion Happening 2017)
17:12 Goncalo F Cardoso - Radio Zanzibar Etude 1
17:50 Tetsu Inoue - Invitable Colour (World Receiver 1996)
21:12 Shipping Forecast on BBC Radio 4
22:45 Jogging House - Frail
25:55 Ant’lrd - Slow Dream (Deck Amber 2018)
27:15 Radio Belarus – German Service 3-Aug-2010
28:20 Cremation Lily - Immaculacy (In England Now, Underwater 2018)
29:40 Radio Bulgaria 2-13 5800 kHz, 11_12_05 (2054UTC)
30:20 Austin Rockman - Sun Ink (Our Own Unknown 2022)
34:30 Janek Schaefer - Lagoon (glitter in my tears 2017)
36:03 Teleferick - g.klarf (sixteen frames 2017)
36:45 Lee Noyes & Radio Cegeste - broken only by the need for breath (to orient themselves with coastlines 2012)
37:15 Mount Shrine - Across Rooftops (Shortwave Ruins 2020)
42:10 Maps & Diagrams - Mutability (Teygja Part B 2021)
45:42 KJES 5-03 7555 kHz, 8_1_05 (0154UTC)
47:00 Rival Consoles - Outline of a Distant Memory
50:27 The Focus Group - Sir John Pepper (Stop-Motion Happening 2017)
51:22 Swod - Tucholskystr, 34 (Gehen 2004)
51:47 Olli Aarni - Puro (Puu tuulessa 2015)
54:33 half light - Rest (Rest 2022)
59:44 end

Forbidden Colours - A Tribute to Ryuichi Sakamoto

Episode 257

lundi 3 avril 2023 • Duration 55:33

Another musical great has left this world. Ryuichi Sakamoto was a founding member of Yellow Magic Orchestra. He became well known for his neo-classical work, his collaborations, and of course his film scores, from Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence to The Revenant to the Oscar-winning score for The Last Emperor. The solo piano version of Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence is one of my favorite piano pieces ever written.

In January of this year he released an album of piano tracks, called 12, that is hauntingly simple and beautiful.

In 2017 he recorded a track called "Life, Life", from the album Async, that is one of my favorite pieces of all time. I'd like to finish this post with the spoken word poem that appears in that track...

And this I dreamt, and this I dream And some time this I will dream again And all will be repeated, all be re-embodied You will dream everything I have seen in dream To one side from ourselves, to one side from the world Wave follows wave to break on the shore On each wave is a star, a person, a bird Dreams, reality, death - on wave after wave No need for a date; I was, I am, and I will be Life is a wonder of wonders, and to wonder I dedicate myself, on my knees, like an orphan Alone - among mirrors - fenced in by reflections Cities and seas, iridescent, intensified A mother in tears takes a child on her lap

Thank you for your music.

T R A C K L I S T :

00:00 Ryuichi Sakamoto - Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence(solo piano version)
04:40 Ryuichi Sakamoto - life, life
08:45 Ryuichi Sakamoto - Mountains
09:37 Ryuichi Sakamoto - 20220123
17:37 Ryuichi Sakamoto - In The Red
22:35 Ryuichi Sakamoto - The Revenant Main Theme Atmospheric
25:10 Ryuichi Sakamoto & Christian Fennez - oto
28:35 Ryuichi Sakamoto - Railroad Man
33:07 Ryuichi Sakamoto - The Sheltering Sky(piano version)
39:20 Ryuichi Sakamoto - The Sheltering Sky(continues as orchestral version)
38:25 Ryuichi Sakamoto - Elephantism 2
42:50 Ryuichi Sakamoto & Alva Noto - Trioon I
47:38 Ryuichi Sakamoto - Aqua
51:58 Ryuichi Sakamoto - Rain(I want a Divorce)
53:22 Ryuichi Sakamoto - The End
55:36 end

Piano Day 2023

Episode 256

mercredi 29 mars 2023 • Duration 59:10

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International Piano Day is March 29th and, as has been the case for the last five years, I've put together a new mix in celebration of ambient piano tunes. I don't do quite as many piano mixes as I once did but when I create these Piano Day sets I find I really enjoy the vibe.

There are a lot of new tracks in the mix, half of them from 2022 & 2023. But there are a few older tunes as well. I really like how this one turned out. I hope you enjoy the latest Piano Day excursion.

Cheers!

T R A C K L I S T :

00:00 daniel.mp3 - green to blue (2022) 02:45 Hania Rani - The Beach(From I Never Cry) (Music for Film and Theatre 2021) 05:14 Ryuichi Sakamoto - 20211130 (12 2023) 10:02 h hunt - 11e (playing piano for dad 2016) 12:49 Arin Aksberg - In Memory (It Flows Between U 2023) 16:47 Olafur Arnalds - Still, Sound (A Sunrise Session 2021) 20:42 ANNA - Receiving(Jon Hopkins piano version) (2023) 25:15 Hania Rani - Whale's Song (Inner Symphonies 2021) 29:42 Ryuichi Sakamoto - 20211201 (12 2023) 34:37 Library Tapes - Safe Haven (Dusk 2021) 36:41 Bing and Ruth - We Are on the Side of Angels (Tomorrow Was The Golden Age 2014) 42:53 Milieu - Antique Sunlight (Smokebuilder's Woodshop 2008) 47:56 Nebel Lang - Past All Unknowing (Directions For Stopping 2022) 52:43 Lorenz Weber - as time goes by (only the wind 2022) 56:10 Purple Decades - Forest (Journey Test 2023) 59:10 end

Replicant Memories

Episode 255

mercredi 15 mars 2023 • Duration 01:06:17

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Blade Runner is obviously one of the great sci-fi films of all time, with one of the best soundtracks of all time. As a testament to the staying power of Vangelis' work, we still have a artists today that mimic the sound of the Blade Runner score.

The recording that got me started on this mix is brand new from Crows Labyrinth called "Neon Scenes I: Granular Dreams". It's a longform generative ambient drone track with a lead synth that has a great Blade Runner vibe. You can find it here... https://crowslabyrinth.bandcamp.com/album/neon-scenes-i-granular-dreams

As soon as I heard that track I knew I had to create another Blade Runner mix. This is my fourth one. Here are the links to the others:

https://www.mixcloud.com/lowlight/alternative-blade-runner-2049-soundtrack/

https://www.mixcloud.com/lowlight/blade-runner-is-now/

https://www.mixcloud.com/lowlight/blade-runner-pop-soundtrack/

One thing that sets this mix apart from the others is that many of the tunes are very purposely trying to replicate the sound of the original soundtrack. Some cuts even use rain, voices and effects to mimic the feel. I added a bit of BR sound fx on a couple of tracks to reinforce the vibe. Most of the time though it's that lead synth sound that transports me right back to 1982.

Some folks may have a problem with current artists so blatantly aping a style and sound(some more than others here). But I don't care, I just love the overall sound and feel of these tracks.

Here links to the music used in this mix:

Cheers! T R A C K L I S T : 00:00 Crows Labyrinth - Neon Scenes I: Granular Dreams(Single Version) (2023) 03:40 State Azure - Nova Sonus (2022) 10:00 Andy Hagerty - Cadalach(Analogue Fantasy Mix) (Cadalach EP 2021) 14:50 The Rosen Corporation - A Good Joe (Pale Fire 2018) 22:12 Owl - Distant Transmission (Infinite Horizon 2021) 25:52 Boards of Canada - Collapse (Tomorrow's Harvest 2013) 28:00 Druid & Jok - Skyline Envelope (Terminals 2023) 31:54 Passengers - Ito Okashi (Original Soundtracks 1 1995) 34:50 State Azure - Folding Space (2020) 42:50 Monolog & Subheim - Colorful Flight (ConVIction 2017) 45:35 Graintable - UnIVersal Ash (UnIVersal Ash 2019) 50:24 Pye Corner Audio - Saturation Point (Let's Emerge! 2022) 53:53 The Rosen Corporation - Passing Thoughts (Neon Lovers 2020) 58:27 Alva Noto - A Forest (A Forest 2020) 61:48 The Rosen Corporation - The Warmth of Death (Pale Fire 2018) 66:20 end

Strange Dream - The Curious World of the Ondes Martenot

Episode 254

mercredi 8 mars 2023 • Duration 57:19

https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/21018554/4355326989577282207 Maurice Martenot with his invention

Last year in my Halloween mix I included a track that used an instrument called the Ondes Martenot. I new a little bit about it - that it was an old instrument played with a ring on a wire. But that was all I really knew. Then a listener pointed me in the direction of a piece for the Ondes Martenot written in 1937. Yikes, 1937?! I had no idea that "Oraison" by Olivier Messiaen was one of the first electronic pieces of music ever written. Of course this lead me down a Ondes Martenot rabbit hole and this mix is the result.

The Ondes Martenot was invented in 1928 by the French inventor Maurice Martenot. It sounds very much like a Theremin with it's wavering tones produced by oscillators. The Ondes Martenot can be played with a metal ring worn on the right index finger. Sliding the ring along a wire produces "theremin-like" tones. The music definitely can have a spooky, other-worldly sound. But it can also be quite expressive in the right hands.

https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/21018554/4355326989577282207 Current players of the Ondes Martenot include Jonny Greenwood of Radiohead. He uses it on "Kid A" and it appears in Radiohead songs including "The Natinal Anthem", "How to Disappear Completely" and "Where I End and You Begin". The other artist that is most well known for her use of the unusual instrument is Christine Ott, both in her solo work and with the band Snowdrops. The mix uses four of her tracks and two from Snowdrops. All of her work is excellent and worth checking out. https://christineott.bandcamp.com/ Cheers! T R A C K L I S T : 00:00 Olivier Messiaen - Oraison (1937) 02:50 Tomas Bloch - Mare Teno(Michel Redolfi) (Music for Odnes Martenot 2004) 07:31 Christine Ott - Burning (Chimères (pour Ondes Martenot) 2020) 13:44 Snowdrops - Ultraviolet (Volutes 2020) 20:00 Sylvette Allart - Elegie(Darius Milhaud ) (Magie Des Ondes Martenot 1970) 22:46 Tindersticks - Percy's Theme (Minute Bodies: The Intimate World of F. Percy Smith 2017) 24:40 Peter Kohlmetz Moller - Song for AJ 26:08 Christine Ott - Comma (Chimères (pour ondes Martenot) 2020) 31:42 Thomas Bloch - Sweet Suite 1 (Music for Odnes Martenot 2004) 36:00 Snowdrops - Firebirds (Missing Island 2022) 41:18 Jeanne Loriod & S. Laurent & P. Duclos - Ondes Spatiales (Ondes Martenot) 42:40 Christine Ott - Sexy Moon (Only Silence Remains 2016) 47:25 Christine Ott - Tempête / the Tabu (Tabu 2016) 53:30 Sylvette Allart - Nana(Falla) (Magie Des Ondes Martenot 1970) 55:22 Olivier Messiaen - Oraison (1937) 57:22 end

Sunday Morning Music Vol. 23 - A Sunday Kind of Love

Episode 253

dimanche 26 février 2023 • Duration 01:00:07

A couple of tunes were the inspiration for cranking out another Sunday Morning mix. First is the lead-off track - A Sunday Kind of Love from Etta James. It's simply a great tune that I'm surprised I haven't used before. Next is an track from 1971 that I'd never heard of until a few weeks ago. I stumbled on an Instagram reel that talked about the gentle beauty of "Curry Rice" by Kenji Endo. I immediately fell in love with it and the rest of the album.

That's where the mix started and from there it follows the usual formula - some jazz, some ambient, some folk - all flowing together in a sweet Sunday mix.

Here the links to all the music used in this mix:

T R A C K L I S T :

00:00 Etta James - A Sunday Kind of Love (At Last! 1960)
03:15 Fuubutsushi - Cicada Season (Fuubutsushi 2020)
05:46 Kenji Endo - Curry Rice (Manzoku Dekirukana 1971)
08:42 John Surman - Sunday Morning (Such Winters Of Memory 1983)
15:30 Andrew Tasselmyer & Blurstem - Ray (Duets 2022)
18:52 Carlos Niño & Friends - Ripples Reflection Loop (More Energy Fields, Current 2021)
21:17 Nyokabi Kariuki - Home Piano (Peace Places Kenyan Memories 2022)
23:48 Foreign Body Sensation & Justin Maranga - In the Lair of the 5-Sided Serpent (Subterranean Environments 2023)
30:30 Hior Chronik - Cloud Peels (Haze 2022)
33:17 Peppermoth - Sun Dreamer (Ventrilokissed 2021)
37:28 Cole Pulice - Scry (Scry 2022)
44:39 Joan Shelley - Amberlit Morning (The Spur 2022)
49:44 Los Indios Tabajaras - Wide Horizon (Always in My Heart 1964)
52:28 Bill Frisell - Waltz for Hal Willner (Four 2022)
55:04 Zolton Fecso - Morning's Theme (Daylight in an Empty Room 2020)
58:07 Ben McElroy & A Spot on the Hill - A New Light (Everything Was Different Yesterday 2023)
60:10 end

Now That’s What I Call Ambient

Episode 252

mercredi 22 février 2023 • Duration 57:57

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Hmmm, what kind of mix do you think this one might be. I believe the gaudy cover art gives it away. This is essentially a continuation of my "Simply Ambient" series. A nice, straightforward mix of new ambient tunes.

I got tired of coming up with variations of "simply ambient" such as absolutely ambient, purely ambient, totally ambient, etc. So I decided to ripoff the over-the-top "Now That's What I Call Music" series. I'm not sure if, like that series, I'll keep adding numbers to each mix so that I end up with "Now That's What I Call Ambient Vol. 84".

Here are the links to all the music used in this mix: