After a quick side trip we are back to a straight forward, ambient mix.

I got the idea for this mix from my online friend, Brian and his an excellent podcast, The Quiet Sounds. At the beginning of the year he did a mix of sleep music and said this about it..."many of these tracks have a lullaby, 'breathing' quality...".

The idea of "breathing" music caught my attention. I would come back to the concept again and again as I listened to music this year. So I finally decided to put together my own mix of "breathing" music.

Most of the tracks have a common feel...in & out, back & forth, ebb & flow...a wash of sound that fades then the wash returns. Most of the cuts are fairly new, though I was happy to squeeze in some old Cluster & Eno. Like Brian's original mixes, this one works pretty well for sleeping as well.

Enjoy

T R A C K L I S T

00:00 - 05:30    Alp - tropen

05:30 - 10:30    Robert Henke - layer #3

10:30 - 14:00    Stars of the Lid - another ballad for heavy lids

14:00 - 18:30    Scott Solter - wave & sepia wire

18:30 - 22:30    Cluster & Eno - old land

22:30 - 27:30    Steve Roach - slow rapture

27:30 - 31:30    Jeff Pearce - life in the dusk air

31:30 - 34:20    Alio Die & Luciano Daini - la rocca's view

34:20 - 43:30    Marsen Jules - eilet en delta

43:30 - 48:00    Cluster & Eno - fur luise

48:00 - 50:40    Andrew Deutsch - loops over land

50:40 - 58:40    William Basinski - el camino real

58:40 - 03:26    Stars of the Lid - the evil that never arrived