Lockdown (Mix)

I’m VERY proud that this mix is ‘premiered’ on Dave Michuda’s great Low Light Mixes blog.
He also wrote this nice introduction to this mix, which I just copy here:

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I like to think that I put a lot of thought and effort into these mixes. Hopefully, the mix as a whole is greater than the sum of its parts. But what I do is nothing compared to the transformative touch that Peter Van Cooten brings to his mixes.
Each mix is a unique work of art. Peter rarely lets a track play in its complete form. Instead, he uses smaller samples and deftly weaves the tracks in and out of each other. Sometimes 2,3, or 4 tracks play simultaneously, creating something new from different elements. In this mix, he uses an incredible 41 tracks! Here’s what Peter has to say about using so many short samples:

“Sometimes I feel a bit embarrassed about using such short samples and/or editing the tracks (of these 41, only 8 are used in their complete form). It’s a bit like cutting up the Mona Lisa to create a landscape patchwork with the fragments ;-). 
But on the other hand, this is what I feel makes these mixes unique. Taken out of their context and in relation to other fragments, the music sometimes tells a different story.”

This mix is a bit darker than most of my (= Dave Michuda’s, PvC) mixes. But it’s dark in an interesting way, not in a droney, dissonant way. The mix has a very cinematic feel and combined with the cover art and title I can imagine drone shots of empty streets and newspapers blowing across the square.
Peter was hesitant about the name and the cover art. He says:

“It may be too closely linked to the current worldwide crisis, but on the other hand I have tried to think of another name or context but the uncertain times seem to be too dominant to think of another name I could give it. The funny thing is, that if you listen back most of my mixes have a rather dark edge to them. There’s always a lot of ‘tension/release’. But in this case, it seems there’s a bit more ‘tension’ than ‘release’. 
Oh well, sign of the times…”

Cheers, and stay safe.

Dave Michuda, Low Light Mixes (blog), or Low Light Mixes (Mixcloud)

Lockdown was also broadcast in Bob Rusche’s ‘X-Ray’ on Concertzender Nederland on April, 19

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

• 00:00 03:23 Fovea Hex – Is
  Is Lanza Light & Given (Steven Wilson Remixes), 2019, Die Stadt/Janet Records
• 01:25 04:35 Maggi Payne – Fluid Dynamics
  Arctic Winds, 2020, Aguirre Records
• 02:03 01:45 Pat Keista – Doppler
  Still Of The Void, 2020, self-released
• 04:17 01:47 Dave Phillips – Phytognosophysiology
  Post Homo Sapiens, 2020, Attenuation Circuit
• 05:10 02:45 Jóhann Jóhannsson & Yair Elazar Glotman – Prelude
  Last And First Men, 2020, Deutsche Grammophon
• 05:42 02:00 Andrew Pekler – Fonseca Winds (Lament)
  Sounds From Phantom Islands, 2019, Faitiche
• 07:29 01:19 Jóhann Jóhannsson & Yair Elazar Glotman – Telepathic Unity
  Last And First Men, 2020, Deutsche Grammophon
• 08:13 03:10 Ben Bertrand – Those Behind Us That We Follow
  Manes, 2020, Les Albums Claus
• 11:08 01:31 Fani Konstantinidou – (Variations)
  Moving Music: Sounds From The Rocking Chair, 2020, Moving Furniture Records,
• 11:58 01:32 Aaron Martin – Overcoming Inertia
  Test Subjects, 2019, self released
• 12:53 01:51 A Journey Of Giraffes – Gone Is The New Fuji
  Kona, 2019, Somewherecold records
• 13:29 03:30 Robert Haigh – Ghosts Of Blacker Dyke
  Black Sarabande, 2020, Unseen Worlds
• 16:46 02:48 Snorri Hallgrímsson – Fear
  Chasing The Present, 2020, Moderna Records
• 16:53 00:30 Mica Levi – Mensajero
  Monos, 2019, Invada
• 17:40 02:30 Snorri Hallgrímsson – Suffering
  Chasing The Present, 2020, Moderna Records
• 19:22 01:58 Bersarin Quartett – Prolog
  Methoden Und Maschinen, 2019, Denovali
• 20:41 01:09 Ruairi O’Baoighill – Scryer
  To See Without Eyes, 2018, Cursed Monk Records
• 20:50 01:59 I Wound – The Choir Of The Drowned Sings ‘Our Demons Are Real’
  Homework Year 3, 2018, Taâlem
• 21:48 03:01 Christine Ott – Comma
  Chimères (Pour Ondes Martenots), 2020, Nahal Recordings
• 24:22 02:34 Ida Toninato – Pour Retourner Au Silence
  We Become Giants, 2020, Dragon’s Eye Recordings
• 25:32 03:47 Merrin Karras – Drawn, Quartered
  Northwest Passage, 2020, A Strangely Isolated Place
• 28:27 02:07 Ciro Berenguer – Luna Creciente
  Eilean 100, 2019, Eilean Records
• 29:57 01:47 Yiorgis Sakellariou – B4
  Diapsalmata: A Collection Of Short Works, 2018, Tanuki Records
• 29:57 01:19 Celer – Birds Inside The High Halls Of Hangzhou (06.23.17)
  Xièxie, 2019, Two Acorns
• 30:12 03:18 Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Akritchalerm Kalayanamitr, Koichi Shimizu – Sharjah And Java
  Metaphors – Selected Soundworks from the cinema of Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2017, Sub Rosa
• 31:24 00:44 Coil – Corybantic Ennui
  Stolen & Contaminated Songs, 2019, Cold Spring Records
• 32:32 01:22 Olivier Messiaen – Quator Pour Le Fin Du Temps III: Abîme des Oiseaux
  Olivier Messiaen – Complete Edition, 2008, Deutsche Grammophon
• 33:54 01:26 Hildur Gudnadottir – Following Sophie
  Joker OST, 2019, Watertower Records
• 35:14 00:55 Ryuichi Sakamoto – Countdown
  Black Mirror: Smithereens, 2019, Milan
• 35:45 03:24 Silent Chaos – Nocturne On Ganymede
  Macro, 2020, We Don’t Give A Fuck
• 38:52 04:03 Roger Eno & Brian Eno – Burnt Umber
  Mixing Colours, 2020, Deutsche Grammophon
• 42:38 02:13 Martina Bertoni – Invisible Cracks
  All The Ghosts Are Gone, 2020, Falk
• 44:29 03:30 Eivind Aarset & Jan Bang – Nightspell
  Snow Catches On Her Eyelashes, 2020, Jazzland Recordings
• 46:21 02:13 Jana Irmert – Fog
  Cusp, 2020, self-released
• 47:40 01:36 Fovea Hex – Given
  Is Lanza Light & Given (Steven Wilson Remixes), 2019, Die Stadt/Janet Records
• 48:42 02:40 Frank Makowski – Fliegende Schatten – Canon 1
  Canon der Finsternisse, 2019, Diffusschall
• 49:05 01:12 Michael Begg – Plain Chant
  Sonambulo, 2019, Omnempathy
• 50:40 02:20 A Winged Victory For The Sullen – The Slow Descent Has Begun
  The Undivided Five, 2019, Ninja Tune
• 52:35 04:30 Felix Blume – Horns In Fog Pt. 2
  Fog Horns, 2019, Discrepant
• 55:49 03:02 Max Richter – Ursa Minor – Visions
  Ad Astra, 2019, Deutsche Grammophon
• 58:30 00:40 Jóhann Jóhannsson & Yair Elazar Glotman – The Sun
  Last And First Men, 2020, Deutsche Grammophon
• 59:10 End

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