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I am listening to this guest mix as I type this and I am loving this set. Curated by Roquen Lómë, this is a wonderful collection of tracks for slowing down, for introspection. You can find some of his stuff on Mixcloud - https://www.mixcloud.com/roguenlome/

Here's what he has to say about the mix:

"There's something magical about listening to music late at night. You can dim the lights or turn them off entirely and immerse yourself in the sound. Your perception shifts just enough to highlight subtle noises, making any voices feel intimately near, though sometimes they may not be real. At times, they exist, and other times, they arise from your imagination or the onset of sleep. Most of the used tracks feature some form of vocal or whisper-like quality, though they may not always be tied to a human voice. I still tend to include vocal-driven songs into my mixes to provide an engaging contrast to the predominantly ambient and electronic sounds, ensuring the listener remains alert throughout the journey."

Thanks for a lovely mix!

Cheers!

 

T R A C K L I S T :

00:00  Colin Stetson - Morning Of (The First 2018)

02:13  Anne Müller - Solo? Repeat! (Heliopause 2019)

07:50  Sjors Mans - Big Ballad (Noord 2019)

14:27  Malibu - Cheirosa '94 (Palaces of Pity 2022)

16:05  Mowg - The Way Home (Burning 2019)

19:04  Brombaer - Cosmo Pollen (Stars 2013)

21:40  Ben Lukas Boysen & Sebastian Plano - Winding And Unwinding (Everything 2017)

24:08  Sonmi451 - Brenta (Panta Rei 2017)

28:34  The Phonometrician - We're Burning (Mnemosyne 2019)

31:54  Ólafur Arnalds - Particles (Island Songs 2016)

35:39  Otto A. Totland - Pinô (Pinô 2014)

38:03  Glåsbird - Austfonna (Svalbarð 2019)

42:51  Marek Kamiński - Long Hands (Not Here 2019)

46:29  Rauelsson - Split (Vora 2013)

51:52  Sven Laux - Fisher (Schachmatt 2018)

56:00  Deaf Center - Yet To Come (Low Distance 2019)

58:22  Lana Del Rey - Hope Is A Dangerous Thing For A Woman Like Me To Have - But I Have It (Norman Fucking Rockwell! 2019)

We've had a few guest mixes recently with a couple more on the way so I figured we needed a straightforward ambient mix in between all the guest sets. This mix features all music from 2026, except the track by Slow Dancing Society & zakè which is from 2025. This also features some of my favorite ambient albums of the year so far:

> Six Missing - drift, sway
> James Murray - Solitude and Silence
> Clariloops - As The Light Fades
> David Cordero - La Imagen Muda
 
LINKS TO ALL THE MUSIC USED IN THIS MIX:

https://norayrecords.bandcamp.com/album/la-imagen-muda

https://sixmissing.bandcamp.com/album/drift-sway

https://slowcraft.bandcamp.com/album/solitude-and-silence

https://whitelabrecs.bandcamp.com/album/the-quiet-below

https://arborescence32.bandcamp.com/album/bouquet-sauvage

https://zakedrone.bandcamp.com/album/stars-silence

https://projektrecords.bandcamp.com/album/infinite-and-unbound

https://kordelrecords.bandcamp.com/album/les-id-es

https://davidcordero.bandcamp.com/album/how-to-make-sense-of-downtime

https://anthene.bandcamp.com/album/great-plains

https://secretdomainlabel.bandcamp.com/album/heavenchord-infinity-dots-armenia

 The mix is very chill, very ambient. I hope you like it.

Cheers!

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00:00   David Cordero - Aion (La Imagen Muda 2026)

03:24   Six Missing - afternoon walk (drift, sway 2026)

07:07   James Murray - All Mountains Are Blue (Solitude And Silence 2026)

10:56   Clariloops - As The Light Fades (The Quiet Below 2026)

15:15   Arborescence - The Fine Grains of Memory (Bouquet Sauvage 2026)

21:15   Slow Dancing Society & zakè - The Quiet Of First Light(excerpt) (Stars & Silence 2025)

28:40   Dirk Serries - Everything Is Known, Part Two (Infinite And Unbound 2026)

36:20   Phloe - Le Départ (Les Idées 2026)

43:13   Wil Bolton & David Cordero - And Strange the Wind Lifts (How to Make Sense of Downtime 2026)

47:00   anthéne & far away nebraska - miles to go (reat plains 2026)

50:55   Heavenchord & Infinity Dots - Lament (Armenia 2026)

58:50   Six Missing - peaceful sleep (drift 2026)

61:55   end

We are in for a real treat with this latest guest mix from Paul Asbury Seaman. Paul has done a bunch of "train" mixes over the years. He has also done several Berlin-School mixes. This one could be my favorite combo of the two themes. 
 
This wonderful mix plays right into my current obsession with the Berlin-School subgenre. I can't say enough about how much I love this mix. As I have stated here previously, I've been on a Berlin-School bender for the last few years. Although, now that I think about it, my return to this style has gone on long enough that it is no longer a bender or binge. It's just outright love for this genre. 
 
Paul has created an absolute gem so I'll let him tell you more about it:
 

“People get ready…” Popular culture, especially in music, has long used the association with trains as an image of redemption. Part of the seductive appeal of long-distance travel is that something we experience might change or enlighten us. On a train we are free of the obligations and stress of driving, but also have a more private, sedentary experience conducive to withdrawing into ourselves than on a boat, a ship or a plane, yet--to emphasize the metaphorical lesson--in stillness we are also moving forward. This is the paradox: hurtling across the landscape (or through time) while sitting comfortably, without moving. Watching. Rejuvenating."

 Thanks again, Paul, for curating this fantastic collection of train tracks. ;-)

 Cheers!

 

T R A C K L I S T :

00:00   Hollan Holmes - So Far Away (The Sanctity of Rust 2026)

04:55   Rudy Adrian - Rail Corridor(Rocky Mtns, Colorado) (Concerts In The USA 2003)

13:50   Robert Rich - Sky Tunnel (Electric Ladder 2006)

22:08   DTime - A Gleaming Silver Thread (Weaving A Dream 2024)

37:33   Aleksi Perälä - FI3AC2513503 (GRACE 15 2025)

42:54   Craig Padilla & Marvin Allen - Undercurrents of Change (Unfolding Skies 2026)

48:04   Alba Ecstasy - Reverie Two (Berlin School Reveries, Vol. 1 2025)

58:40   Dream Sequence - Turn off the lights (Live at The ICA 2026)

67:37   David Helpling & Eric Taylor - For Those in Shadow (The Precious Dark 2025)

73:33   Lars Tellmann - Midwinter Train (Komorebi Winterlight 2026)

78:54   end

To finish the first quarter of the year we get another excellent berlin-school mix from EM master, Erwin Broers. Just like his ECM mix posted last month, Erwin sent me this mix last year but I spaced out and forgot I had until this year. Luckily for historical mixes like this one, the post is evergreen and can be appreciated anytime.

I'll repost what he said about volume 1:

"Here's a follow-up on my mix "Back To The Roots Of Berlin School". As you recall it featured a collection of electronic music tracks from the 1990s, that were inspired by the patterns, sounds and analog instruments of the 1970s and early 1980s. Back then, nobody talked about "Berlin School Electronic Music". That label would only appear somewhere mid 1990s, probably to honour the place where the genre was born. Fans in the early days would rather use the term "Kosmische Musik" (German for "Cosmic Music"). An explanation for the "cosmic" element is to be found in the use of the step sequencer, which made it easy to create hypnotic rhythm loops with up to 32 notes or steps, set a tempo, and mix them over electronic drones, soundscapes, soloing, washes, white noise and space sounds. The effect was to “float” the listener through endless terrestrial or cosmic space. For those not keen on using illicit substances, it was an interesting and harmless alternative "trip"!

I thought about creating a mix of some classic pieces from that first era, but soon found out one mix would not be enough to do justice to all the fantastic "Cosmic Music" that was made back then. So we get two mixes! This post is for volume 2 and you can find volume 1 here - https://lowlightmixes.blogspot.com/2025/06/kosmische-musik-starters-guide-vol-1.html

 

Thanks, Erwin, for another great cosmic trip!

 

Cheers!

 

T R A C K L I S T :

00:00:00   Tim Blake - New Jerusalem (Blake's New Jerusalem, 1978)

00:16:01   Jean-Michel Jarre - Oxygène parts 1 & 2 (Oxygène, 1976)

00:31:14   Vangelis - Soil Festivities part 2 (Soil Festivities, 1984)

00:37:25   Alan Parsons Project - The Gold Bug (The Turn Of A Friendly Card, 1980)

00:41:47   Robert Schroeder - The Day After X (Harmonic Ascendant, 1979)

00:49:22   Edgar Froese - Maroubra Bay (Epsilon In Malaysian Pale, 1975)

00:53:24   Ole Højer Hansen - Song Blue (Nudity, 1988)

01:00:30   Synco - Silent Water ('85-'89, 1990)

01:02:40   Mergener & Weisser - Sunbeam (Beam-Scape, 1984)

01:12:52   Wavestar - Chase The Evening (Moonwind, 1987)

01:25:26   Tangerine Dream - Logos Live part 1 (2nd movement) (Logos, 1982)

01:38:46   Manuel Göttsching - Dream (Dream & Desire, rec.1977-pub.1991)

01:44:24   Klaus Schulze - Georg Trakl (X - Sechs Musikalische Biographien, 1978)

01:49:44   Michael Hoenig - Hanging Garden Transfer (Departure From The Northern Wasteland, 1977)

02:00:30   end

I was listening to some U2 tunes recently and in the song "In God's Country" there's a line - "Sleep comes like a drug in God's country." I liked the "sleep comes like a drug" part and thought it would make a good title for a sleep mix. So I got right to work and found some great, recent tracks that are perfect for sleeping.

Cue up the mix, climb into bed, and drift off to sleep.

 

LINKS TO ALL THE MUSIC USED IN THIS MIX:

https://homenormal.bandcamp.com/album/great-plains

https://www.beatport.com/release/glass/5926376

https://aliodie.bandcamp.com/album/vimana-ascensional-waves

https://sixmissing.bandcamp.com/album/drift

https://tonepoet.bandcamp.com/album/radiant-pastures

https://thelonelybell.bandcamp.com/album/time-lost

https://phelios.bandcamp.com/album/dyson-sphere-beta-2

https://steveroach.bandcamp.com/album/sentient-being

https://cosmicleaf.bandcamp.com/album/cellular-universe-6

 

CHEERS!

 

T R A C K L I S T :

00:00   anthéne & Far away Nebraska - meet me in saskatchewan (great plains 2026)

05:11   SVLBRD - Glass (2026)

07:20   Alio Die - Unknown Oceans And Starry Seas (Vimana Ascensional Waves 2026)

15:43   Six Missing - drift: sandcastles (drift 2026)

18:40   Tonepoet - A Land Of Eternal Spring (Radiant Pastures 2026)

25:45   The Lonely Bell - Elsewhere (Time Lost 2025)

30:45   Martin Stürtzer - 22:27 (Dyson Sphere Beta 2026)

36:33   Steve Roach - Angels At Rest (Sentient Being 2026)

43:50   Eguana - Cellular Universe 6 (Cellular Universe 6 2026)

66:10   end