Ghosts of the Future

At the end of May I posted an excellent mix from Mike G of the Ambient Music Guide.  We agreed to do guest mixes for each other and that the starting point would be a title that each of us would give the other.  We sent each other a few title ideas, we each chose one and got to work.

Mike chose "Lapse into Reverie" and the result was his beautiful mix that you can find here...

http://lowlightmixes.blogspot.com/2015/05/lapse-into-reverie-complied-mixed-by.html

And here...

https://www.mixcloud.com/lowlight/lapse-into-reverie-compiled-mixed-by-mike-g-of-ambient-music-guide/

Mike gave me about 4 or 5 title ideas and my attention was immediately drawn to one in particular... "Ghosts of the Future."

The first thing that comes to mind is the film "Interstellar", which I had just re-watched right before this project.  With its time dilation and Murph's "ghost" communicating from the future, the soundtrack is the perfect launching point for this mix.  I like soundtracks but Hans Zimmer usually isn't a favorite.  However with this film he strikes a perfect balance.  At times the music has a Philip Glass feel to it.

I also thought of snippets of voices as ghosts and so I worked in some spoken word excerpts here & there, as well as using tracks that had voices or vocoder. Overall I hope the mix conveys a strange, otherworldly feel to it.

Thanks again to Mike G for doing the mix swap with me and thanks for a great mix title.

Enjoy

T R A C K L I S T :

• 00:00    Ian William Craig - Before Meaning Comes
• 00:35    Hans Zimmer - Where We're Going(Interstellar OST)
• 05:52    Eskmo - Spvce
• 07:55    Robert Rich - Premonition of Circular Clouds
• 13:15    Intrusion - Static Waves & Shuttle358 - Fissure(played simultaneously)
• 16:30    Echospace - Viola's Ghost Hamonix, Beyond Gravity, Astral Dreaming,        Beyond The Drone(played simultaneously along with Static Waves)
• 19:10    Disasterpeace - Formations
• 20:55    Shuttle358 - Warm
• 25:10    Kraftwerk - Endlos Endlos
• 25:50    Chris Dooks - Antifoni
• 26:45    Bon Iver - Woods(remixed)
• 28:40    Hans Zimmer - s.t.a.y.(Interstellar OST)
• 33:45    Adlib - Hoffnung
• 34:25    Steve Roach - It's All Connected
• 39:50    Vangelis - Tears in the Rain
• 42:36    Cliff Martinez - We Don't Have To Think Like That Anymore
• 45:15    Transcient - My Last Goodbye
• 48:39    Simon Bainton - Range
• 50:43    Public Broadcasting Service - Tomorrow
• 55:55    end