Ambient Four

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1. Steve Roach - Quiet Canon (excerpt)
2. This Mortal Coil - A Heart of Glass
3. Penguin Cafe Orchestra - Piano Music
4. Windy & Carl - Consciousness
5. The Legendary Pink Dots - Small Anthem
6. Cocteau Twins - Otterly
7. Northern Picture Library - Into the Ether
8. Harold Budd - Children on the Hill
9. Laraaji - Meditation #1 (excerpt)
10. Wendy Carlos - Fall (excerpt)
11. Neu! - Im Glück
12. David Sylvian - Approaching Silence (excerpt)
13. Cindytalk - Angel Wings
14. Kendra Smith - Iridescence 31
15. Penguin Cafe Orchestra - Now Nothing
16. Cluster - In Ewigkeit
17. Tangerine Dream - Origin of Supernatural Probabilities (excerpt)
(photography & design by myself)

the length of this mix exceeds that of a cd. if you want to make a cd then you'll have to divide it into two. i doubt many people really even find the need to burn cds anymore and just use the mp3s on their players and computers.

Ambient Three

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1. Deep Listening Band - Deep Hockets
2. This Mortal Coil - Waves Become Wings
3. Vangelis - La Mer Recommencée
4. Michael Sterns - Night Currents
5. The Legendary Pink Dots - Paris 4am
6. Roger Eno - The Silent Hours
7. Tuxedomoon - Nazca
8. Windy & Carl - Sunrise
9. Virginia Astley - Morning: A Summer Long Since Passed
10. William Basinski - Melancholia VI
11. Robin Guthrie & Harold Budd - The Memories Returning
12. Harold Budd - The Serpent (In Quicksilver)
13. Flying Saucer Attack - Instrumental Wish
14. Jonas Reinhardt - Lucian Lift
15. Erik Satie - Vexations
16. Les Joyaux De La Princesse & Regard Extrême - Rösen des Lebens
17. Felt - Autumn
18. Richard Wagner - Vorspiel

(photography & design by myself)

Ambient Two

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1. Stars of the Lid - Music For Twin Peaks Episode #30 Part 1
2. Brian Eno & Harold Budd - First Light
3. Slowdive - Erik's Song
4. Aphex Twin - Lichen
5. La Düsseldorf - Flashback
6. Rapoon - Ochre
7. Robert Fripp & Brian Eno - Wind On Water
8. Roedelius - Sonnegeflecht
9. Cindytalk - Snowkisss
10. Psychic TV - Part I
11. Harold Budd & Andy Partridge - Through The Hill
12. July Skies - Branch Line Summers Fade
13. My Bloody Valentine - Honey Power (edit)
14. Simon Fisher Turner - The Dog Star
15. Popol Vuh - Angel of The Air, Part Two
16. Boards of Canada - Olson
17. Brian Eno - Silver Morning

(photography & design by myself)

Ambient One

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1. Roy Montgomery - Clear Night, Port Hills
2. Harold Budd / Simon Raymonde / Robin Guthrie / Elizabeth Fraser - Why Do You Love Me?
3. Mahogany - Anais No. 3
4. Pieter Nooten And Michael Brook - Several Times II
5. Kraftwerk - Heimatklänge
6. Harmonia - Ahoi!
7. The Hope Blister - Sweet Medcine
8. Nurse With Wound - Colder Still (edit)
9. David Bowie / Eno - Moss Garden
10. Brian Eno - Mist/Rhythm
11. Luciano Cilio - Suiff (frammento)
12. Dif Juz - Crosswinds
13. Lanterna - Riverside
14. Lovesliescrushing - Isvel
15. Cluster & Brian Eno - Ho Renomo
16. David Sylvian - Sunlight Seen Through Towering Trees
17. Current 93 - The Long Shadow Falls
18. Eyeless in Gaza - Through Eastfields
19. Michael Rother - Katzenmusik 1
20. Bill Nelson - Day of Eternity
21. The Durutti Column - Estoril À Noite

(photography & design by myself)

Preposterous mix #3

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1. Intro (The Archies crossed with Matt Johnson)
2. The Pale Fountains - Reach (edit)
3. Colin Newman - Safe
4. Look Blue Go Purple - As Does the Sun
5. Fantastic Something - If She Doesn't Smile (It'll Rain)
6. The Hit Parade - You Didn't Love Me Then
7. The King Of Luxembourg - Smash Hit Wonder
8. Simon Fisher Turner - Sketches of Luxembourg
9. The Family Cat - Gabriel's Wings
10. Prefab Sprout - Walk On
11. Nikki Sudden - Channel Steamer
12. Flamin' Groovies - I Can't Hide
13. Lori & The Chameleons - The Lonely Spy
14. The Lilac Time - Return To Yesterday (original Swordfish version)
15. The Bevis Frond - New River Head
16. Françoise Hardy - Oh Oh Chéri
17. Anthony Adverse - The Red Shoes Ballet
18. Tracey Thorn - Goodbye Joe
19. James - Tomorrow
20. Amon Düül II - Utopia #1
21. White Noise - Your Hidden Dreams
22. Emily - Mad Dogs
23. Dif Juz - Hu
24. Family Fodder - Savoir Faire
25. Grass Widow - Celebrate the Mundane
26. Able Tasmans - Hold Me I

La Düsseldorf - Silver Cloud

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Prefab Sprout

Prefab Sprout? Daft name, and aren't they adult contemporary-smooth-semi-sophisti-pop? Yes! and No. For starters, I've yet to give into the allure of The Blue Nile, a group I've dismissed for years, so please go easy on me (addressing myself here, mostly. I'm sure all you reading are cooler than me and know the group well). I must of given Prefab Sprout at least one half assed chance in the distant past and obviously wasn't hooked by their enchanting sound. Today I'm handing myself over to Prefab Sprout and am fully prepared to make lofty statements about them. They wrote two of the best pop songs I've ever heard. One being their self released debut single, and the other the opening song off their second LP.

They debuted in 1982 with their self-released single, "Lions In My Own Garden: Exit Someone" - songwriter Paddy McAloon wanted a song title where the first letters of the words spelled out "LIMOGES" (the French city where his former girlfriend was staying at the time).
see, isn't that nice? now listen to the song and see how many times you'll play it over and over again.

Faron Young, if i recall correctly, was written in response to people who listen to country-western in the north, or more generally in cities, as it isn't relevant. Later on Paddy McAloon (Prefab's singer/songwriter) rebuked this sentiment by saying that people listened to Country Western because it's honest music. Glad he wised up. oh, found the quote: “This shows you how stupid I am - it’s a song wondering why people like country & western music when they live in the industrial north. I thought, ‘Why do they listen to all these things about cowboys and farmers and grain?’ and then 20 years later, I suddenly think, ‘It’s because C&W deals with real emotions.’ Take that!” - NME, June 20, 1992

Lions In My Own Garden (Exit Someone)
Faron Young (my favorite pop song as it stands)
as a bonus Radio Love (B-side to "Lions")


cover of "Lions In My Own Garden (Exit Someone)" single

their 2nd LP retitled as "Two Wheels Good" in the USA

Able Tasmans

what the hell was going on in New Zealand throughout the late 70s and into the mid 90s? pop magic floating around on those islands. i recently discovered the Able Tasmans, who along with a bunch of other groups from that strange land, are blowing my fucking mind. everyone should probably listen to more Verlaines too, and Look Blue Go Purple!

for download is their song "Mary Tyler Moore" from their last album "Store in a Cool Place" (1995).
get it here

more to come...