TRANZ_046 (remix)

Fresh off a mini-break, I did a quick remix of Marco’s TRANZ  046 projekt (Projekt Gestalten) – remixed with cross-faded segues, slowest to quickest in terms of beat/groove:

01 Fuga (Zeitlupen Remix By Midnightradio11)
02 The Sprawl (Ozone Player)
03 I’m Not Your Guy (Stripped Down Piano Cut)
04 Watching Soldiers Passing By (DJ Merli Remix)
05 Thinking About You
06 Watching Soldiers Passing (Paula Daunt Krieg Remix)
07 Peace Love (Blaze Remix)
08 Better Days
09 CCCP Gymnastics (Lars Leonhard Remix)
10 I’m Not Your Guy (Projekt Gestalten Remix)
11 The Edge Of The Abyss (George M. Trip Mix)
12 Linear (Monolake)

D/L mix:
http://www.divshare.com/download/18541551-8b1

Groovera

Mmm. Took a mini-getaway vacation last week & this. During the time, we listened to the internet station Groovera & the playlist Low Mercury (downtempo/chillout grooves with international influences).

Now I have it on my BlackBerry (via Tuned-In Radio) as well as our home PC.

Nice!

The Deception of the Thrush

Transmissions” by Akumu

“Transmissions” by Akumu | link

Great blend of microsonic sonance, approx 26 minutes in length.

Download “Transmissions” by Akumu, free from ping things!

ping things is thrilled to release the latest from Deane Hughes’ project Akumu. “Transmissions” is a series of short, abstract pieces that delve into Akumu’s interest in messages hidden within messages, of sounds between sounds, of communications that are slightly beyond our perception… beyond our reach.

In our daily lives, we are exposed to a constant stream of noise, static, interference – all of which we filter out and ignore. But what if there is more there than we are aware of? Hidden inside the cracks of cacophony?

Built upon recordings of radio static, electrical interference and guitar-based ephemera, “Transmissions” creates a world of tones, clicks, squelches and pulses – a space that lies between calm drones and arrhythmical noise. Within that space, much like the world around us, perhaps there is something more? A place where lost transmissions reside.

“Transmissions” by Akumu is available for free download as a 62 Mb Zip file containing the full release in high quality 320kbps mp3 format along with artwork suitable for printing. The music on this release is copyright Deane Hughes 2012, and may not be used or reproduced without the artist’s express permission. If you enjoy the work of Akumu, please feel free to visit the Akumu website at www.musicbyakumu.com

http://pingthings.blogspot.ca/2012/05/transmissions-by-akumu.html

 

 

 

 

 

Another Fripp

After listening to the new offering from DGM, The Wine of Silence, more then several times, I got the idea to make it into a classically based mix (for hopefully obvious reasons).

Here’s the final product:

1. The Blue Nature of Everyday Variation in Blue #1- Dusk – Leonardo Rosado
2. In The Fen Country – Ralph Vaughan Williams
3. Miserere Mei – Robert Fripp | Andrew Keeling | David Singleton
4. The Dormition of the Mother of God – Yo-Yo Ma, David Zinman, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
5. String Quartet No. 2 in D_ I. Allegro moderato,  II. Scherzo. Allegro, III. Nocturno. Andante & IV. Finale. Andante-Vivace – Borodin Quartet: Rostislav Dubinsky and Yaroslav Alexandrov; violins, Dmitri Shebalin; viola, and Valentin Berlinsky, cello

Coca Cola: Catch “We” Doing Something Good!

 

 

 

 

EarTickles

I’d like to start this review on a personal note. The Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society (WDCS) has been my charity of choice for the past seven years. Every year, we sponsor a dolphin called Rainbow who lives in Scottish waters, and it’s lovely to be kept in touch with her progress. So I was delighted to see this album on Sound for Good’s page at Bandcamp, where you name your price for buying their releases and 100% of what you pay goes to a nominated charity, in this case the WDCS. The label is an excellent initiative from the artist Jack Hertz, who has already helped to support Trees for the Future with the label’s two earlier releases.

The opening track, “Spiral”, starts with an ominous rumble, static, and then an immense drone with iridescent bursts of almost rhythmic organic sound textures. It’s very complex and dense, glimmering like a strange…

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‘h u e’ & ‘h u e (bouquet)’

Just completed a lengthy back & forth mixing process with a new [mini] series entitled ‘h u e‘.

At first, given the overall softness of the tracks, I planned on making them adjuncts to my ‘slipstream‘ series of 5 or 6 years ago. But, after mulling it over, decided to give them a berth of their own within my mixological catalog.

This was a project very much driven by three primary sources:

• the OKTAF release ‘Lost in the Humming Air (a tribute to the music of Harold Budd)’
• DGM‘s recent ‘The Wine of Silence’ by Robert Fripp, Andrew Keeling & David Singleton,
• AND also several key Relaxed Machinery releases: Chris Russell’s Bloom, Peter James’s Landfall, åpne sinn’s en seier & Max Corbacho’s Lost Links
• …with an honorable mention to Leonardo Rosado‘s ‘The Blue Nature of Everyday‘ (one track of which appears on ‘bouquet’, another on a forthcoming classical mix)

So…there was quite a bit of ambient sound to unpack, sort through & listen to in order to achieve the desired flow of the two mixes. I made the original h_u_e mix…and subsequently made 4 more revisions of the mix before settling on the final playlist. The adjunct, shorter companion, ‘bouquet’ was completed with one revision; that being the inclusion of the second track after hearing it in the wee hours of the morning during a bout of sleeplessness (for which I am grateful as the blog post which pointed me to the track hadn’t been up for more then 10 minutes – & I would have missed it had I not been surfing the web @ 3:00AM).

I plan to release the 2 mixes either together or very closely spaced; most likely within the month of June so…

…please stay tuned. ; )