Podcast: Ambientblog Mixes

For this mix I aimed to create a dreamlike and timeless atmosphere – dark (but not too dark). It is calm, yet there are many shifting scenes, many passing landscapes and some conflicting emotions… When it ends, (I hope) it feels as if it was much longer.

If one of the criteria for ‘ambient’ music is that you can comfortably fall asleep to it, I guess you’d better skip this particular mix. Although it starts quiet and reassuring, the mood the mood disintegrates and sometimes can become rather unsettling – depending on your own personal ‘incidental memories’.

Autumn is here. Darkness slowly creeps up just a little bit earlier. Clouds get grayer and swell up with rain. Trees shed their colors and tighten their belts. And people begin to prepare for winter.

“I’m not formed by things that are of myself alone” This is the key quote (taken from Stoker) for this mix, which is also ‘not formed by things of itself alone’. Every detail, every short sample, has its origin in another context, another musical composition, from which it is taken to find a new place in a completely different context.

“Rust” usually refers to ‘decay’, but in dutch “Rust” simply also means ‘rest’. But – as we say in Holland: “Rust Roest” – or: “Too much rest will make you rusty…” In other words: don’t expect just ‘tranquil’ sounds in this mix.. This is nót meant to be your average ‘healing session ambient’ soundtrack… so be prepared…

Computer systems revolting, loss of memory, human utterings that seem to come from lost souls….
I guess you’d better be prepared for a dark and suspenseful listening hour …