Dark days. Featuring Murcof, Surgeons Girl, Ocoeur, Felicia Atkinson, Echaskech, Marconi Union, Oval, Morgan Packard, Jah Wobble, Matthew Hawtin, Craven Faults, Pete Namlook, Loscil, Alva Noto and Floods.

Making sense of the present - taking a playlist of recent ambient favourites and trying to blend them into a mix. Deliberately based around quiet then loud then quiet tracks with minimal beats.

Some of my favourite artists in here: Boards of Canada, Biosphere, Alva Noto, Loscil, Slam. Some new artists too: Damm, Etap Kyle, Barker, Prins Thomas, Yamaneko, Aril Brikha & Huerta

This one moves through some pretty varied territory - there's processed electronics, glacial ambience, a bit of modern classical, and some straight-up IDM. It opens gently with Marconi Union before Alva Noto brings some texture and grain. Things stay cool and considered through the middle - Hecker, Autechre, Loscil - before Sakamoto and Noto's Revenant Theme gives it an emotional centre of gravity. Biosphere closes it out.

Fans of labels like Miasmah, 12k, or Type Records will probably feel at home here.

Marconi Union — Lost in Neon

Alva Noto — Xerrox 2ndevol

Albrecht La'Brooy — Daybreak

Tim Hecker — Chimeras

Ocoeur — L'envie

Bing & Ruth — The How of it Sped

Cristobal Tapia De Veer — Meditative Chaos

Autechre — Overand

The Black Dog — Who he Was

Loscil — Deceiver

A Winged Victory for the Sullen — Retour au Champ-de-Mars

David Morely — Orf

Ryuichi Sakamoto & Alva Noto — The Revenant Theme

Max Wurden — Fernfield

Biosphere — Poa Alpina

Rising is a mix built around a simple idea - music that lifts slowly and deliberately, gathering weight before finding somewhere to rest. It moves through the drift of Loscil and Susumu Yokota, the  mechanics of Autechre and Monolake, and the ambience of Steve Roach and Brian Eno. It ends where I hope it should. Turn it up and let it take its time.

1. Octa – My Body is Powerful
2. Steve Hauschildt – Pismo
3. Loscil – Bleeding Ink
4. Pablo Bolivar – North Bay
5. Steve Hauschildt – Phantox
6. Martin Nonstatic – Edelbitter
7. Solar Fields – When the Worlds Collide
8. Steve Roach – The Only Way In
9. Spacetime Continuum – Flux
10. Susumu Yokota – Tobiume
11. A Winged Victory for the Sullen – Steep Hill of Vicodin Tears
12. Autechre – Nine
13. Monolake – Void
14. Albrecht La'Brooy – Tidal River
15. Antendex – Modulation (Photons 2)
16. Brian Eno – An Ending