rainfall meditation '22

This mix is perfect for spring. Here the rain is the main attraction. It dominates the sound. I purposely mixed the audio from the music fairly low so that it sounds like it's playing in the background somewhere.

I did a similar mix back in August of 2020 - https://www.mixcloud.com/lowlight/rainfall -meditation/ and this one is the same idea. Enjoy this mix as winter snow turns to spring rain.

Cheers!

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T R A C K L I S T :

• 00:00    rain(duh)
• 00:40    Brian Eno - Hannah (Sisters 2017)
• 06:30    Austin Rockman - - Kissed By Her Witness (Our Own Unknown 2022)
• 10:50    Janek Schaefer - Beam Me Up (Glitter In My Tears 2017)
• 14:00    Calm Whale - Blue Moon Wind Chimes Meditation (2017)
• 22:22    Konstruct - Driftwood (Soundworks 2022)
• 26:45    Pepo Galán - Sowing (A Speechless Body 2022)
• 31:00    Andrew Tasselmyer - Our Own Private Libraries (Limits 2022)
• 37:15    David Cordero - El bosque animado (VA Home Normal 2020)
• 42:12    Brian Eno - LUX 4 (LUX 2012)
• 52:25    Lo-Fang - Himalayan Singing Bowls in The Hoh Rainforest pt. 1 (Near Other Worlds 2020)
• 60:00    generative piano
• 64:53    end

Rainfall Meditation

 

Sometime in the last couple of weeks we got a good downpour here at Low Light headquarters. As I stood at the front door smelling the rain, listening to the cloudburst, I realized that I had some music playing softly in the background and it blended perfectly with the storm. I stood there for a good twenty minutes taking it all in. This mix is based on that experience.

The main idea here is to mix the music below the rain and thunder. Sometimes it is very low so that it sounds like it's coming from another room. Other times the music is more upfront. Some of the tunes already have rain fx in them and others do not. Most of the rain and thunder you hear I added. They came from recordings I did or my son did or from sites like freesound.org. I also snuck in some Blade Runner ambience around the 1 hour mark.

Cheers!

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T R A C K L I S T :

• 00:00    rain
• 01:40    Segue - Rain Drone
• 05:00    Snufmumriko - Rainfall Diary
• 09:00    Cyber Zen Sound Engine & Matt Borghi - Endless Rain
• 13:22    Echoflex - 50°21'14"N 4°10'12"W Veering ENE
• 21:10    John Luther Adams - In The Rain
• 30:15    Yo La Tengo - Rainy Night In New York
• 32:20    Paul Vnuk Jr. - Silence Speaks In Shadow
• 44:10    Music for Deep Meditation - Wind Chimes, Thunderstorm, and Rain
• 56:50    Robert Davies - Dew-Drenched Hours
• 62:00    Lindsheaven Virtual Plaza - Rainforest Hill
• 75:15    Echoflex - 50°19'11"N 4°12'03"W Veering S
• 85:48    end

still falls the rain 2016

Back in 2009 I did a guest mix for Subversion called Still Falls the Rain.  When a regular listener/downloader was looking for a replacement file for one that he had lost I realized that I'd never properly uploaded it to my own archive or to Mixcloud. 

So I dug up the file from 2009, added a few more tracks and uploaded for your listening pleasure.  Good timing too, because it's been raining a lot here so it fits perfectly.

Cheers!

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T R A C K L I S T :

• 00:00     August Stars – Inland Rain
• 04:25     Part Timer – Rain on My Window
• 06:50     Letna – Raining Day
• 09:30     Jon Hassell – Delta Rain Dream
• 12:55     Manual - After the Rain
• 14:00     Mark McGuire – A Pocket Full of Rain
• 15:20     Sense - Early Rain
• 19:00     Cyber Zen Sound Engine & Matt Borghi – Endless Rain
• 22:10     Foxx & Budd – Raindust
• 27:55     Jeff Pearce – Rainshadow Sky
• 30:22    Giovanni Guidi Trio - The night it rained forever
• 37:40    experiments in silence - as gentle rain falls
• 47:56    Ryuichi Sakamoto - After the Rain
• 48:43   end

I Love the Rain

The transition from spring to summer brings two new mixes from Low Light Mixes central command.  We've had a fair amount of rain lately so both mixes are "rain" mixes.

Rain evokes so many memories & emotions, it's a great theme for mixes.  Using field recordings really helps hold the mix together.  I try not to over do it with the rain sounds, hopefully it works well.

This first mix is a vocal mix, well mostly vocal, there are three instrumentals hiding in there.  All the tunes have the word "rain" in the title.  It was fun discovering tunes I did not know very well, like The Decemberists track & the cut from Susanna & The Magical Orchestra.

The second rain mix is an instrumental mix and it will be posted over at the SubVersion blog.  Mick will be posting it there soon.  And I will be posting a drone mix from Mick here at Low Light Mixes soon as well.  I've also got a "sleep" mix in the works.

DOWNLOAD :  77mb  40:00min

I Love the Rain

T R A C K L I S T :

• 00:00    Susanna & The Magical Orchestra - It's Raining Today
• 04:40    The (real) Tuesday Weld - I Love the Rain
• 08:37    Asche & Spencer - A Walk in the Rain
• 09:49    The Handsome Family - Famous Blue Raincoat
• 14:40    Daniel Lanois - Rain Weather
• 18:20    The Decemberists - Raincoat Song
• 20:40    Joe Purdy - I Love the Rain the Most
• 25:00    Oblong - Rain Over the Deverils
• 28:54    REM - I'll Take the Rain
• 34:15    Rivulets - Rain All Winter Long
• 40:00    end