Wednesday, July 08, 2015

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...


And here...


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


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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





5 comments:

Neil said...

Great mix. Thanks for sharing.

Niklas said...

Hi Dave. Fanntastic remix as usual. My opinion is that your mix and the German "Klangboot" which now not seem to exist anymore, are the best shows out there. Dave Id like to ask you a question but cannot find a proper mail address or any other eay to contact you that is not public.

Low Light Mixes said...

Hi Niklas, Glad you like the mixes. My email address is dmichuda@wi.rr.com.

chip brookshaw said...

wonderful edition! i've been playing this one all week

Low Light Mixes said...

Thanks Chip! Glad you enjoyed it. This was a fun one to put together.