Winter Solstice 6 (Mix)

The Winter Solstice Ambient Night on Concertzender Nederland has become a yearly tradition: this is the sixth edition already of the 8-hour ambient music night presented by four of their radio show hosts.
Like in all previous editions, I’m honored to close the night with a two-hour collage. My contribution is presented here, but for those interested the complete night will remain available on-demand from the Concertzender Nederland website.

Other than you might expect, this mix is not intended to make you sleep. On the contrary: the challenge is to keep you awake in these last two hours of this ambient music night. Which will probably be quite hard if you’re listening in real time.
As usual, only very few tracks are played in full here. Most are fragments, sometimes samples, taken from much longer pieces (which you can check out using the list below).
This time, the overall key of this mix is E-Minor.

TRACKLIST:
Start time Sample length Artist – Title
Album Title, Year, Label

00:00 4:56 The [Law_Rah] Collective – In Simulacra
Innovation, 2018, Raubbau
04:00 3:29 Anxious_Bot – Last Look
Chronic Limbo, 2024, self-released
06:02 2:36 Acasta Gneiss – Leliestad
Glimmer, 2023, Anterior Insula
08.21 4:02 Bistro Boy – Colour Arrows
Ambient Short Stories, 2024, self-released
09:27 5:35 Richard Chartier – Variance 4
On Leaving, 2024, Touch
10:48 5:56 Loscil – Strathcona
Strathcona Variations, 2009, Ghostly International
15:55 2:06 Richard Skelton – Under Glotta
The Old Thrawing Crux, 2024, Aeolian Editions
17:14 2:53 Markus Stockhausen & Luca Formentini – Spirits Everywhere
Rêverie, 2023, Dark Companion
19:26 3:12 Kassel Jaeger – Khari
Andrei Tarkovky – Another Kind Of Language, 2015, and/OAR
21:47 1:54 Trepaneringsritualen – The First Adam
The Totality Of Death (Omega), 2024, Cold Spring
22:55 2:08 Ryuichi Sakamoto & Alva Noto – Carrying Glass
The Revenant (OST), 2016, Milan Records
24:36 1:03 Gustavo Santaolalla – All Gone [Aftermath]
The Last Of Us (Game Score), 2013, Sony Masterworks
25:33 2:26 Anne Chris Bakker – Paths (For Robert)
15 Shades of White, 2013, Dronarivm
27:37 2:15 Associated Sine Tone Services – 000800
Associated Sine Tone Services, 2024, Flag Day Recording
28:06 2:54 Anthéne – Stray Light
Stray Light, 2024, Floralia
29:35 3:54 Dakota Suite & Emanuele Errante – A Loveless Moment
The North Green Down, 2011, Lidar
33:04 2:15 Distant Fires Burning – Book Of Pointless Endurance
Interspectycon Vol. 2, 2022, Audiobulb
34:57 2:33 Kilometre Club – Hug
At Dusk Hour The Crickets, 2024, Polar Seas Recording
36:27 2:54 Melanie De Biasio – Alba
Il Viaggio, 2023, [PIAS} Le Label
38:54 4:08 The Orchestra Of Mirrored Reflections – Lay Your Head Down On My Withering Cloud
Dead Beat, 2017, self-released
44:03 1:44 Listening Mirror – Midnight At Teques, Storm Approaching
The Heart Of The Sky, 2011, Bathetic Records
44:55 3:44 Charles Rehill – Fata Obstant
Devises, 2024, self-released
47:41 2:21 Chloe Alexandra Thompson – Improv
They Can Never Burn The Stars, 2022, Sige Records
49:17 4:13 Alva Noto – Hybrid Oval Spin
HYbr:ID I, 2021, Noton
51:49 3:14 Anne Garner (+James Murray) – Soft Eyes
Be Life, 2015, Slowcraft Records / Unperceived Records
53:43 2:11 Angelo Badalamenti – Dark Space Low
Twin Peaks (Limited Event Series Soundtrack), 2017, Rhino Records
56:22 2:59 Ambiente Solstice – 4D Spacetime
Out Of The Void, 2023, Wayfarer Records
58:34 2:32 An Moku & Stefan Schmidt – Medium
Raum, 2021, Karl Records
60:35 4:26 Aret Madillian – Procyon
The Abbey Project, 2022, self-released
62:50 3:54 Stephan Mathieu – In Them A Giant Diverted Himself
Trace. Recordings Of Entropic Systems 1998-2018, 2018, Schwebung
65:59 3:06 Susana López – Concentric
The Edge Of The Circle, 2022, Elevator Bath
68:39 2:21 Szymon Kaliski To Specific Place
Out Of Forgetting, 2010, Audiomoves
70:10 3:15 Brian McBride – Several Tries (In An Unelevated Style)
The Effective Disconnect, 2010, Kranky
72:58 3:00 Spring Quintet – Raven, Raven, Raven (Part 5)
Raven, Raven, Raven, 2019, Whitlelabrecs
74:00 2:47 John Von Seggern & Dean Benedictis – Shadow Lake
Taking Shasta Mountain (By Strategy), 2024, self-released
75:25 3:34 Nobuka – Of What Remains
To Yemen With Love, 2020, self-released
78:03 5:28 Bruce Gilbert & BAW – The Void
Diluvial, 2013, Touch
82:40 3:26 Angelina Yershova – Khan Tengri
Cosmo Tengri, 2019, Twin Paradox
85:04 3:38 Bad Sector – Peaks
Incendium III, 2000, Loki Foundation
87:45 2:55 Ben Lukas Boysen – Evensong
Spells, 2016, Erased Tapes Records
90:18 2:42 Beyond The Ghost – The Sadness Of All Things
The Last Resort, 2021, Cryo Chamber
92:23 6:00 Henrik Meierkord – Ambient Dreams
Falling, 2024, Projekt
96:35 4:32 Federico Mosconi – At 4:00 AM
Nocturnal, 2023, Drnarivm
100:21 3:23 Loscil – Equivalent 8
Equivalents, 2019, Kranky
103:23 5:25 Staad – Im Schatten
Staad, 2022, House Of Inkantation
105:00 2:15 Carl Lord – Bedtime Voices
Sacred, 2024, Heart Dance Records
108:02 2:03 Forest Robots – Of Embers Warmth The Long Forgotten Memories
Supermoon Moonlight II, 2022, Subexotic Records
109:55 2:42 John Foxx, Harold Budd, Ruben Garcia – Nighthawks
Nighthawks, 2015, Metamatic
112:09 2:58 Marek Kaminski & Piotr Michalowski – Ruminations
Sleeplaboratory 2.0, 2020, Whitelabrecs
114:28 5:27 Erik Wøllo – Nightscape
North Star, 2021, Projekt