Brian Records is a label run by Jim Norman out of Bath in the United Kingdom. Recently, I invited Norman to showcase his record collection in Headphone Commute's I’ll show you mine following his announcement to raise funds for a book he titled, Micro Record Label: A love letter for music fans; a how-to for the hopeless; a light-hearted, humorous, self-deprecating detour for the uninterested. The Kickstarter campaign has now ended with the project being 100% funded (and more!) so you can expect a great read when it’s finally published! We close out this campaign with a beautiful selection of pieces from the label we call Headphone Commute Brian Megamix. For a more detailed description, full track listing and more information about this mix, please visit headphonecommute.com

Yes, another gorgeous mix by Ryan Griffin of A Strangely Isolated Place, and yes, this one was already released by ASIP in December of 2018, but oh, it is so lovely, and its frequencies keep spreading through the lake of consciousness like a memory’s reflection, and so, why not, we asked, and then why not, we whispered, the echoes of the past are there to be heard. For a more detailed description, full track listing and more information about this mix, please visit headphonecommute.com

It’s been a long brutal winter at label headquarters in Wisconsin, and it’s left a wanting for warmer days and the entry of a new season. The music of this mix has a definite watery and cyclical vibe to it. Trapped between the seemingly endless gray of winter, and the desire for warm coastal climates and surroundings with even the slightest hint of green. The mix covers the last couple years of output from the label, and looks forward into a wide array of unreleased material coming soon in the current 8-album Lost Tribe Sound series, titled, We Stayed The Path That Fell To Shadow. For a more detailed description, full track listing and more information about this mix, please visit headphonecommute.com

I’ve been a long time fan of Dmitry Taldykin‘s Moscow-based Dronarivm label which, thanks to the additional curation from Bartosz Dziadosz (aka Pleq) has always brought us treasures from the depths of ambient and modern classical waters. Many of imprint’s releases have been covered on these pages (just look at our dedicated Dronarivm label directory!), so it’s no wonder that I’m excited in sharing the Headphone Commute Podcast platform with the founder to showcase Dronarivm’s upcoming releases in 2019 in this very special mix. Plenty of exciting tracks on here from all of your favourites in the many yet to be announced albums. It’s a like a season preview of all the fantastic finds we’ve got in store for you this year! For a more detailed description, full track listing and more information about this mix, please visit headphonecommute.com

Nine years ago (damn!), Dag Rosenqvist made a mix for Headphone Commute under his Jasper TX moniker (listen to From Midnight To Sunlight). Since then he has produced numerous albums under his real name, many of which, like Vowels (2015), elephant (2016), and Hello Darkness (2017) were featured on these pages. I’ve been way overdue on checking in with Dag to see what he’s been up to, so I thought it only appropriate to ask him for a mix, selecting music that has moved him, to share with my readers. Here it is then, a very eclectic journey, featuring some fascinating tracks that have even grabbed at my attention. I hope that it inspires you. Enjoy! For a more detailed description, full track listing and more information about this mix, please visit headphonecommute.com

Back to the regularly scheduled programming (but with a new site in tow) I’m excited to present you with a fresh new mix from Gavin Miller (he is also one half of worriedaboutsatan and Ghosting Season for which he collaborates on with Tom Ragsdale). For his Headphone Commute Mix, Miller curates a selection of the latest and favorites from Lost Tribe Sound, Sound In Silence and his very own This Is It Forever labels, showcasing a particular flavour of music which is so prevalent to the above. I suppose that the only way to understand this better is to listen, which is why I happily invite you into his world. For a more detailed description, full track listing and more information about this mix, please visit headphonecommute.com

And here we are. Finding ourselves at this place at this time, where we have been before, and yet, it is always new. Even this mix, although now a tradition, to be published during our Best of the Year lists, celebrating 50 tracks from 50 releases of the last year, seems very familiar, but truly unique. So without further adieu, we present, for your listening pleasure, Mathias Van Eecloo‘s personal selection of his favourite pieces, arranged in a 72-min journey, in a tour guide package with a recommendation of the lands he’s frequent before. And right now, it is like this. We hope that you enjoy this little gift, and wish you a start of a new year. Enjoy! For a more detailed description, full track listing and more information about this mix, please visit headphonecommute.com

We’re back with the second part of this wonderful piano based journey from Cedric. Be sure to check out Part One, and thank you all for your wonderful comments – I know I speak on behalf of Cedric, but he definitely appreciates all of the feedback (and frankly, so do I – otherwise it often feels like I’m broadcasting into a wall). More gorgeous tracks for you on this one from all the favourites like Lambert, Tambour, Ed Carlsen, Time Linghaus, Julien Marchal, and even something else, very special to me, if you can spot it in this mix... For a more detailed description, full track listing and more information about this mix, please visit headphonecommute.com

First a man behind the words of A Strangely Isolated Place blog (I prefer to call it a magazine), then a curator of an influential record label, and now a master selector of musical journeys, Ryan Griffin has been a partner in crime on my sonic evangelism for over a decade now. So without a doubt, I’m more than honoured to host a beautiful ASIP mix on Headphone Commute – perhaps the only reason it took so long in the first place is that I didn’t want to take away his time from the beautiful Isolated Mixes appearing on all your favourite platforms. Nevertheless, here we are, and I’m super excited to share with you this gorgeous voyage, featuring two unreleased ASIP tracks (from Merrin Karras and Markus Guentner). So, less words and more music!!! Enjoy!!! For a more detailed description, full track listing and more information about this mix, please visit headphonecommute.com

I’ve been praising Mike Jedlicka‘s end of year selection for nearly six years now, when, with a slight hand of a magician and a skilled curator, he presents his favorite vinyl-only mix. The tracklisting alone shows Jedlicka’s vast knowledge in today’s moving genres, and greatly summarize some of my own thoughts on the music in 2017. It’s a somber year-end – not in a bad way, but more in an acceptance of how things truly are. Because they are the only way that they can be right now. For a more detailed description, full track listing and more information about this mix, please visit headphonecommute.com