Isolate (Mix)

Isolate is the first mix published on ambientblog.net created by a guest.

Muttley (Michael Buckingham) is actively maintaining the Subvert Central weblog (hosting 60+ mixes now!), and also contributed some mixes to the Low Light Mixes weblog that I’m sure you are all familiar with.

Isolate is a continuous mixtape focussing on drone tracks. It’s a great mix to listen to at night (and falling asleep to).

Or, in Muttleys own words:

“The Subvert Central community has helped me grow so much since I joined.
“Isolate” is dedicated to Jon Statto, who’s always been there to lend a hand with blogging feedback.

I picked drones as a leitmotif, as Statto is a lover of such.
The catharsis doubles as a controlling agent for my screaming phenomena (see my “Better Days To Come” mixtape for further analysis), structured to relieve pain with meditative properties.

“Isolate” foretells the emotions I conjure from being warmed by Jon.
“What has begun, cannot be stopped” from Noisia‘s “The Tide” ends the program, a signal to 2010 that there will optimistically be more Muttley sets, more dedications, more progression, and more of what makes the world positively tick.” 

ISOLATE PLAYLIST:

• Asher – 14
  – “Landscape Studies” – Room40, 2009
• Sean Mcann – Cathedral Of Limbs
  – “A Wind In Their Way” – Monorail Trespassing, 2008
• Oophoi – Floating
  – “Night Currents” – Umbra, 2004
• Billy Gomberg – Lights Form Her Body
  – “Days” – The Land Of, 2009
• Leyland Kirby – Stralaeur Peninsula
  – “Sadly, The Future Is No Longer What It Was” – History Always Favours The Winners, 2009
• Eliane Radigue – Koume
  – Trilogie De La Mort” – Experimental Intermedia, 1998
• David Tagg – Desperate Air
  – “Dulcimer Studies” – Install, 2009
• Quosp – Slope
  – “Grassland Melodies” – Rope Swing Cities, 2006
• Tim Hecker – Harmony In Blue II
  – “Harmony In Ultraviolet” – Kranky, 2006
• Peter Broderick – Floating / Sinking
  – “Float” – Type, 2008
• Noisia – The Tide (excerpt)
  – Vision 001 12′ – Vision, 2005