low light mixes

The good folks over at Nocturne Records asked me to do a mix for their podcast. They put out some great music so how could I resist! Most of the time with my mixes I’ll stumble upon one or two tunes that spark an idea. In this case I rediscovered an old electronic [...]

Cedar Creeek in Cedarburg, WI. This mix ended up in a different place th...

Ambient music will never be a popular genre.  We all know the kind of looks we get from people when they hear some of our ambient tunes.  But over time ambient sensibilities have crept into a ...

I have to be honest.  One of the reasons I’ve done so many(#5 now) of these Sunday morning music mixes is that they are so popular, especially on Mixcloud.  So I’m a sellout, a ratings whore.  I admi...

I love the end of the year because of all the lists that get posted all over the place.  I love discovering releases that I knew nothing about.  The folks over at Headphone Commute have started their mammoth collection of...

The awesome folks over at Headphone Commute asked me to do a special mix for them and of course I could not refuse.

Looking back over the last six years of mixes, the piano has been the featured instrument in many of the the tracks.  I guess it goes all the way back to Ambient #1 : Music for Airports.  The piano is a perfect instrument for the contemplative, ambient music in the mixes found here. As far as [...]

Oops!  It’s Sunday night & I’m posting a mix called Sunday Morning Music.  Oh well, play it next Sunday while reading the paper with a cup of coffee. This is the fourth in the Sunday morning series.  It follows a similar pattern - some ambient, some vocal tunes, some jazz - all of it nice & [...]

This is a very slow, droney kind of mix.  All the music has been stretched or slowed down so much that the tunes are unrecognizable from the originals. I used a great little program called Paul Stretch which you can find here… http://hypermammut.sourceforge.net/paulstretch/ It take music and stretches or slows it down dramatically but still keeps it [...]

I wanted to get this mix in while it is still autumn.  I originally did this mix last fall for the good folks over at Headphone Commute. If you’ve not been there, head over to their great site for reviews, news, sound clips & of course mixes. The music in the mix sort of has an autumnal feel [...]