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Moving Stillness

Moving Stillness copyright H. Adams

Another mix?! That’s four in just over a month!

Well, yes, but there’s a simple explanation…

I have genre folders in my iTunes library — Ambient, House, Tech, Cosmic Disco, etc. — where I put tracks that I fancy whenever I stumble upon them.

So, every once in a while, I peek into those folders and when there’s enough raw material to consider recording a mix, I toy around with said raw material to see if the muses are with me.

It’s no mystery, then, how this Ambient mix, the previous Cosmix 8 and Merry Techmas and a Happy New House came to be.

As for Cosmix 7.5, that was commissioned, with a due date and a fixed exclusivity period, hence the 30 days between it and Cosmix 8.

Add that to the fact that the more I mix, the more I want to mix…

It’s always been like that and a keen observer will notice that my production often comes in such bursts. Many artists operate with the same impetus.

In any case, the creation of this Ambient mix was guided by harmonic progression but created out of pure expressionist instinct and it’s de facto very personal. This might mean that some people won’t like it, but I humbly doubt that.

I sincerely hope you enjoy it.

You can stream or download it here and your donations are welcome to help me pay for the file hosting!

TRACKLISTING

Moving Stillness

  1. Flowers for Yulia – Max Richter
  2. Spangle (Autechre remix) – Seefeel
  3. Sun Drugs – Stars of the Lid
  4. Deep Blue Day – Brian Eno
  5. Signals – Seefeel
  6. Assassin (Chocolate Hills Of Bohol Mix) – The Orb
  7. Jack And Jill (Selffish Remix) – Benfay
  8. Regressor – Demdike Stare
  9. Wooloomooloo – Jean-Michel Jarre
  10. Six Fantasies on a Poem by Thomas Campion: Her Song – Paul Lansky
  11. Low and Order – Frank Martiniq
  12. Extwistle Hall – Demdike Stare
  13. Harmonium – Max Richter
  14. Irradian Irradiant – Jesse Somfay
  15. Basscadet (Basscadubmx) – Autechre
  16. Into The Fourth Dimension (Essenses In Starlight) – The Orb
  17. Sealand – Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
  18. Articulate Silences part 2 – Stars of the Lid
  19. Late Anthropocene – Brian Eno

Through The Past Darkly

A couple of months ago, I was offered to do an ambient set on my friend Jeff Prémont‘s radio show, in Quebec City, but for some reason, things didn’t pan out.

Nonetheless, I thought recording an ambient mix was a good idea.

While preparing that set I’ve titled Headspace, I decided I also wanted to record another one that would be some of my favourite tracks that don’t really fall into a specific genre, or rather that fall into so many different ones that it would be hard to fit them in my more niche oriented sets like Tech House and Cosmic Disco.

However, after doing a preliminary selection of tracks for that second mix, I realized I was going into two very distinct directions: a more guitar oriented one, and a smooth one.

In the end, I decided to concentrate on the smoother side and that became the third installment of the Loungin’ with Monsieur Seb series, a series whose two previous installments already date back quite a few years.

If you’re wondering about the title of this post, well, I guess after listening to the them, you’ll understand…

Click the title to stream or download each mix.

TRACKLISTING

Monsieur Seb’s Headspace, vol. 1

  1. Dog Shelter – Burial
  2. The Secret Place – Brian Eno
  3. The Atomium Part 3 – Stars of the Lid
  4. Ships Without Meaning – Oneohtrix Point Never
  5. He Loved Him Madly – Miles Davis
  6. Preludes, Book 1, L 117: Danseuses De Delphes – Debussy / Jean-Yves Thibaudet
  7. Yes? – Seb & Greg
  8. Altibzz – Autechre
  9. Exp3 (Aka Two Sequencers Are Better Than One) – John Daly
  10. Echoes (Deep Sea Mix) – Pink Floyd
  11. Cherry Coloured Funk (Seefeel Mix) – Cocteau Twins
  12. Fricative White – Jesse Somfay

Loungin’ with Monsieur Seb, vol. 3

  1. StartPeter Gabriel
  2. The Thin AirMagazine
  3. In Every Dream Home A HeartacheRoxy Music
  4. Me And The DevilGil Scott-Heron
  5. Bring Me The Disco KingDavid Bowie
  6. Splitting the AtomMassive Attack
  7. Hello Goodbye (Uncool)Lupe Fiasco Feat. Unkle
  8. Pray for RainMassive Attack
  9. NowhereRide
  10. Stars And SonsBroken Social Scene
  11. Fugue En Sol InconnuDaniel Bélanger
  12. The TruthJedi Knights
  13. I Sing RainGary Numan
  14. Ghost sYMbOLZero 7
  15. Space OdysseyDetroit Experiment
  16. Chase The TearPortishead
  17. Sine Of The DubKode 9