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I haven't had much time or been motivated to create new mixes so far in the new year. But there's nothing like sub-zero temperatures and being cooped up indoors to get one in the mood for a good wintry mix. The temperature as I type this is -15 degrees with a wind chill of -40. 🥶 I've done these frigid temps themed mixes before and I'm always surprised at how well they come together. I start by simply searching for tracks with certain keywords - frozen, cold, frigid, ice, wind, winter, etc. and then try to use mostly tunes from 2025. This mix is a bit different than others because it turns toward warmth in the last few tracks - "Warmer Light," "Threads of Warmth," and "Warmth". I hope that by ending the mix on a warmer note that I may manifest higher temps. Stay warm and cheers! T R A C K L I S T : 00:00 Hainbach & Ensemble Recherche - The Cold Settles In (Retold 2025) 03:40 Valotihkuu - The Frozen Landscapes (Drifting Between Seasons 2025) 06:15 Science Of Sleeping - The Coldest Winter (Samsara 2025) 06:57 Jeff Pearce - A Long Winter'S Sleep (From the Darker Seasons 2017) 16:12 Erik Wøllo & Ian Boddy - Ice Station (Transmissions 2025) 20:30 Philippe Deschamps - Wind Secrets (Wind Secrets 2025) 22:39 Dirk Serries - Weathering The Gale (Treasure Of Stars 2025) 29:43 Seaworthy & Matt Rösner - Cold Weather (Deep Valley 2024) 32:27 Chihei Hatakeyama - Wind From Mountains (Lucid Dreams 2025) 37:00 Tokyo Ambient Collective - where the fireplace is (Winter Ambience 2025) 42:35 Pete Kvidera - Warmer Light (2025) 45:40 Valotihkuu - Threads Of Warmth (Drifting Between Seasons 2025) 51:25 Sebby Kowal - Warmth (Deep In Our Hearts 2023) 59:04 end

One of my favorite genre rabbit holes that I went down in 2025 was instrumental rock music. That title covers a lot of styles from post-rock to stoner rock to prog rock to cosmic country to fusion to psych rock etc. I've always listened to music that falls into this category whether it's Khruangbin or Causa Sui or Oren Ambarchi but this year my interest in this genre exploded. So I thought I would create a mix of some of my favorite instrumental rock albums from 2025. I was surprised at how much I enjoyed the heavy stuff. This mix has a nice blend of a few heavy tunes with some Khruangbin-like tracks, a couple kraut rock style tracks, a jam band cut, a prog tune, even a dub track, and a bunch of other difficult to categorize music. >>>LINKS TO ALL THE MUSIC USED IN THIS MIX<<< 01 - https://actiontensionspace.bandcamp.com/album/new-dimensions 02 - https://heavypsychsoundsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/yawning-man-pavement-ends 03 - https://ambarchiberthlingwerliin.bandcamp.com/album/ghosted-iii 04 - https://elparaisorecords.com/product/causa-sui-in-flux/ 05 - https://piotrkurek.bandcamp.com/album/songs-and-bodies 06 - https://elparaisorecords.com/product/edena-gardens-dispossessed/ 07- https://barrywalker.bandcamp.com/album/barry-walker-unit-at-the-13th-moon-gravity-well 08 - https://jeffthebrotherhood.bandcamp.com/album/magick-songs 09 - https://kungensman.bandcamp.com/album/resande-i-rockmusik 10 - https://markusreuter.bandcamp.com/album/truce-3 11 - https://re-stoned.bandcamp.com/album/the-loom-maxi-single 12 - https://townportal.bandcamp.com/album/grindwork 13 - https://holmisanisland.bandcamp.com/album/behind-curtains 14 - https://yuuf.bandcamp.com/album/alma-s-cove 15 - https://eliwinter.bandcamp.com/album/a-trick-of-the-light I know this isn't the usual LLM ambient fare but it is still somehow trance inducing. I hope you enjoy this deviation from ambient bliss. Cheers! T R A C K L I S T : 01) 00:00 Action & Tension & Space - Folkemusikk fra Kvala (New Dimensions 2025) 02) 04:47 Yawning Man - Bomba Negra (Pavement Ends 2025) 03) 09:45 Oren Ambarchi, Johan Berthling, Andreas Werliin - Chahar (Ghosted III 2025) 04) 15:49 Causa Sui - The Circus is Back (In Flux 2025) 05) 17:32 Piotr Kurek - Nothing Holds Still (Songs And Bodies 2025) 06) 22:26 Edena Gardens - Fills The Well (Dispossessed 2025) 07) 27:50 Barry Walker Unit - High in the Hummocks (At the 13th Moon Gravity Well 2025) 08) 32:51 Jeff The Brotherhood - Many Moons Dub (Magick Songs in Dub 2025) 09) 37:27 Kungens Män - Resande i rockmusik (Resande i rockmusik 2025) 10) 42:40 Markus Reuter - We Have Your Back (Truce <3 2025) 11) 47:20 The Re-Stoned - The Loom (The Loom 2025) 12) 52:24 Town Portal - Gold-Plated (Grindwork 2025) 13) 56:18 Holm - Behind Curtains (Behind Curtains 2025) 14) 60:08 Yuuf - Alma’s Cove (Alma's Cove 2025) 15) 63:37 Eli Winter - A Trick of the Light (A Trick of the Light 2025) 67:16 end

Oh man, what a way to end the year! Erwin has been curating excellent Berlin-school mixes for us all year and now he finishes it off with this massive end-of-the-year update. I've been in this headspace for a while now so this perfectly satisfies my craving. Thanks to Erwin for a great year of electronic mixes. Here what he has to say about this year-ender: "Another smorgasbord of what the electronic music scene has to offer these days and another invitation for space travelling! It's an extra long mix given my incapacity to choose from the wide offer of sublime tracks and albums that were released in 2025. The diversity in styles within this music category is remarkable; synth pop, retro, contemporary and progressive Berlin School, cosmic sound tapestries, contemplative/meditative/emotional (drone) ambient and a lengthy deep house track. Special mention for two female electronic music artists Andrea Cichecki and Lisa Bella Donna. Unfortunately, women are rare in this line of music, but these ladies more than deserve their place in this mix with thrilling evocative compositions. Check it out & enjoy your trip!" LINKS TO ALL THE MUSIC USED IN THIS MIX: 01. https://aevanelstprojects.bandcamp.com/album/the-art-of-ae-live-2 02. https://fritzmayr.bandcamp.com/album/eye-of-the-storm 03. https://cosmiccadence.bandcamp.com/album/alien-artifacts 04. https://epigenetics.bandcamp.com/album/tunes-for-the-trip-to-alpha-centauri-2025-album 05. https://cyclicaldreams.bandcamp.com/album/everything-dies-cyd-0139 06. https://cyclicaldreams.bandcamp.com/album/gemstones-vi-cyd-0141 07. https://cyclicaldreams.bandcamp.com/album/a-sequence-of-colours-cyd-0147 08. https://sphericmusic-shop.de/gb/featured/1889-mergener-peter-chip-meditation-2025.html https://www.groove.nl/shop/peter-mergener-chip-meditation-2025/?v=910955a907e7 09. https://moonsatellite2.bandcamp.com/album/litanie-des-songes 10. https://tronestamjohan.bandcamp.com/album/settlers 11. https://caughtinjoy.bandcamp.com/album/equilibrium-double-album 12. https://matthiaslehmann.bandcamp.com/album/autumn-rhapsody-season-quadrology-part-iv-album 13. https://sequentia-legenda.bandcamp.com/album/timeless https://cyclicaldreams.bandcamp.com/album/timeless-cyd-0143 14. https://jimottaway.bandcamp.com/album/cosmic-odyssey 15. https://dacker.bandcamp.com/album/saudade https://www.groove.nl/shop/dacker-skoulaman-saudade/?v=910955a907e7 16. https://lisabelladonna.bandcamp.com/album/dawn-of-a-new-age 17. https://mahorka.bandcamp.com/album/making-things-happen-netlabel-day-10th-anniversary-compilation 18. https://mattgoodluck.bandcamp.com/album/portals 19. https://phelios.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-planetarium-erkrath 20. https://unisphereerikrene.bandcamp.com/album/opus-tria 21. https://drune-music.bandcamp.com/album/beyond 22. https://joerg-dankert.bandcamp.com/album/back-to-berlin 23. https://hellomrklaus.bandcamp.com/album/angels-memento-mori 24. https://mindphaser2.bandcamp.com/album/analogue-birth-of-the-universe 25. https://tectonia.bandcamp.com/album/luna-the-moon 26. https://cyclicaldreams.bandcamp.com/album/the-vanishing-point-cyd-0145 27. https://hrresonance.bandcamp.com/album/dream-mooring 28. https://quietdetails.bandcamp.com/album/yesterday-sky 29. https://tim-stebbing.bandcamp.com/album/spacehopper 30. https://colinrayment.bandcamp.com/album/optical-perceptions 31. https://galacticsoundstation.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-the-mental-health-of-astronauts-volume-1 32. https://astro-sphere.bandcamp.com/album/fading-sun-endless-blue 33. https://jayhosking.bandcamp.com/album/the-world-will-never-survive-without-you-ambient-works Happy New Year to everyone and here's to 2026 being another fantastic year of music. Cheers! T R A C K L I S T : 01. 00:00:00 AE Van Elst Projects - Take-Off (The Art of AE Live) 02. 00:05:58 Fritz Mayr - Wind & Rain (Eye Of The Storm) 03. 00:07:12 Cosmic Cadence - Alien Artifacts (Alien Artifacts) 04. 00:11:45 Epigenetics - Leaving Everything Behind...

Not much to say in this post other than here is part two of my favorite ambient albums of 2025. I'll also repost the full list here with links. Alexander Knaifel - Chapter Eight Almost An Island - Almost An Island Andrew Heath - Signals and Codes Anthéne & Simon McCorry - Wellspring Bill Brennan and Andy McNeill - Dreaming In Gamelan Byron Metcalf - Spiral Exchange Clarice Jensen - In holiday clothing, out of the great darkness Dictaphone - Unstable Emily A. Sprague - Cloud Time Erik M - Soft Wish Florian TM Zeisig - A New Life Lab's Cloud and Flavio Salvaje - Kalima Loneward - Musings of a Painted Sky M. Sage - Tender / Wading Martin Stürtzer - Nexus-6 offthesky - form.radio offthesky - Nocturnas Peter Gregson - Peter Gregson Rod Modell - Northern Michigan Snowstorms Seabuckthorn - A Path Within A Path Six Missing - Without Mind Steve Roach - The Reverent Sky Taylor Deupree & Zimoun - Wind Dynamic Organ, Deviations Xu - Murmurs of the Machine Yorkshire Modular Society + Peter Digby Lee - Beneath the Hanging Sky zakè - Silentium Here's to more excellent ambient music in 2026. Cheers! T R A C K L I S T :

When end-of-the-year list season began I wasn't sure if I was going to do a favorite ambient albums list. I wasn't as locked into ambient as much this year as in the past. I spent most of my listening time in indie, jazz, and berlin-school. I had several ambient albums that would for sure make my list so I started with those and the next thing I knew - I had a list of 26 albums that are my 2025 favorites. Here are my favorite ambient albums of 2025, in alphabetical order: I made two mixes so it will be a little easier to digest. This post is for part one. I hope you enjoy this look back at 2025. Cheers! T R A C K L I S T :

This is a mix I originally created back in December of 2006, during my first year of posting mixes online. This one never made its way to Mixcloud so I figured, with all the cold and snow I'm getting in my neck of the woods, now would be a good time to resurrect this set. The original post here on the blog has a bad link to the mp3 so I wanted to post it her as well. It's interesting to see the artists that I was listening to at the time. Such as Freescha, Svalastog, Yellow 6, Klimek, and the track by Clint Mansell from the soundtrack to The Fountain, which I was absolutely obsessed with for a few years. Every tune has one of these words...snow, winter, cold, frozen, ice, or freezing, in the title. Btw, the pic is my mom, taken in the mid 1970s. :-) Cheers! T R A C K L I S T : 00:00 Scott Solter - The Great Cold 04:20 Klimek - Snowfall 1 13:15 Greg Haines - Snow Airport 14:20 Corker & Conboy - Colder 17:20 Clint Mansell - First Snow 18:20 Library Tapes - It was a cold day in February... 20:15 Loren Connors - Falling Snow 24:40 Yellow 6 - (The First) Of Winter 30:00 Svalastog - Snow Tracer 35:20 Taylor Deupree - Snow Sand 39:00 Last Days - Snowing 42:30 Outputmessage - Snow 47:20 Trentemoller - While the cold winter waiting 49:20 Brian Eno - Cold 50:40 Freescha - Frozen Stiff 54:15 Hammock - Winter Light 56:45 Forrest Fang & Carl Weingarten - Freezing Days 60:10 Boc Scadet - Ice Shelves & Glaciers 65:20 Stuart Busby - Snow Fall

I have a special treat for everyone with this new mix. It's a guest mix from friend of Low Light Mixes, Andy McNeill. Andy records as Maple Mountain Sunburst and has created two previous mixes for LLM and they are both excellent. You can find them here: http://lowlightmixes.blogspot.com/2024/10/a-moon-full-of-stars-and-astral-cars-by.html https://lowlightmixes.blogspot.com/2025/01/we-did-it-again-by-andy-mcneillmaple.html Andy has a new album out, under his own name, that is a little different from his other recordings. That new album is the inspiration for this new mix which is really something special. I'll let Andy tell you about it: "Mallets, gongs, tintinnabulations, things that go ping. Here we have a mix of percolating exotica to float away on for an hour. I’ve included three tracks from a recent collaboration with percussionist and fellow composer Bill Brennan. Our album Dreaming In Gamelan blends West Javanese gamelan traditions with contemporary ambient electronics. Recorded with traditional hand-forged bronze instruments, the tracks were then augmented and treated in the studio. Also joining us was the brilliant electric violinist and sonic explorer Hugh Marsh. The album was mixed for immersive Dolby Atmos by Ron Searles (Atmos version available on Apple Music, Tidal, Amazon)." https://lnk.to/dreamingingamelan https://brennanmcneill.bandcamp.com/album/dreaming-in-gamelan Thanks to Andy for curating and mixing this great collection tracks. And thanks for the excellent new album. LINKS TO ALL THE MUSIC USED IN THIS MIX: Bill Brennan and Andy McNeill - Tunnels of Light https://lnk.to/dreamingingamelan another fine day - Child’s Play https://anotherfineday.bandcamp.com/album/a-good-place-to-be Peter Gabriel - Slow Marimbas (from Birdy soundtrack) https://open.spotify.com/album/6ZTQcgutsPhQ50FRZk3BYl?si=Af0sn6YnTaq84N4kJPk1ug Thomas Newman - Bullet (from White Oleander soundtrack) https://open.spotify.com/album/76i4SD0LNBtIZtAumvcJsS?si=mAj14pOYTYqT8_QS-S8h1Q Genesis - The Waiting Room (excerpt) https://open.spotify.com/album/49BxISwAbZZfmlhqD6Vh88?si=91fRitQ_QPK6Uh5GHyNb7w Wanderwelle - An Offering of Gratitude https://silentseason.bandcamp.com/album/gathering-of-the-ancient-spirits Bill Brennan and Andy McNeill - Morning Beams https://lnk.to/dreamingingamelan Thomas Stronen - Confronting Silence https://open.spotify.com/album/6xEg7P0N3edYKhptbNxo5c?si=ZCwZBplZRdeT_vaWWooXnQ Michael Brook - Distant Village https://open.spotify.com/album/7t48EroHL8dzsBTdUS3pRp?si=Q7PfBPDGQxCfXI-wvtXv0w Connecta Quartet - Madeira River (P.Glass) https://open.spotify.com/album/4h0827roLiZ3IDt4UK6MfS?si=7hAx96RaQnSn-i42L3bUBA another fine day - green thought (in green shade) https://anotherfineday.bandcamp.com/album/life-before-land Bartosz Kruczyński - Dream 1 https://earthtraxonline.bandcamp.com/album/dreams-whispers Shuta Yasukochi - Sakura https://shutayasukochi.bandcamp.com/album/harmonies-of-flowers Marilyn Masur - Bell-Painting https://open.spotify.com/album/5HZk4QJRTXSQaauqz5SHAL?si=WbplnlyZRYydr9vaWBiTSw Four Tet - Lush https://fourtet.bandcamp.com/album/new-energy Jon Hassell - Time and Place https://open.spotify.com/album/6p97ys8xZeV60gh427TwMz?si=o8f6zwf7SNiDkBdp-IYnGw Boston Modern Orchestra Project - Suite for Violin with American Gamelan - III. Air (Lou Harrison) https://bmopsound.bandcamp.com/album/lou-harrison-la-koro-sutro Pierre Favre Ensemble - Frog Songs (excerpt) https://open.spotify.com/album/4i3JU3zB3PfVceKEq89mx7?si=GI0PfPDbRsG4pHCXpCdOgw Marilyn Masur - Spirit Of Air (excerpt) https://open.spotify.com/album/5HZk4QJRTXSQaauqz5SHAL?si=WbplnlyZRYydr9vaWBiTSw Four Tet - You Were There With Me (excerpt) https://open.spotify.com/album/2BKXRpAaq7jZStXo6A10qK?si=kfBOKOGwR_-uWyseYAk-kQ Bill Brennan and Andy McNeill - Reverie https://lnk.to/dreamingingamelan Cheers! T R A C K L I S T : 00:00 Bill Brennan and Andy McNeill - Tunnels of Light (Dreaming In Gamelan 2025) 02:35 another fine day - Child’s Play (a good place...

Between Erwin Broers & Paul Asbury Seaman I have been exposed to a ton of excellent berlin-school music over the last couple years. Erwin continues his great string of mixes with this new one featuring the music of Wolfram Spyra. I was totally unfamiliar with this music before hearing this mix and now I'm thankful for the introduction. Here's what Erwin says about this mix: "In the mid-1990s, when interest for 'Kosmische Musik' (German)/'Cosmic Music' (English) regained, some Electronic Music artists chose to dig deeper into that first highly creative era, hence starting the 'Retro Berlin School' subgenre. Other artists merely borrowed certain elements (multi-facetted sequencing, layered soundscapes, space fx, Mellotron choirs,...) and then added their own spices to the sauce. One of the artists that managed to create his own style of contemporary "Berlin School Electronic Music" is the German Fine Arts student (then), and musician, inventor and sound designer (now, dixit his own website) Wolfram Spyra (Kassel, 1964), aka "Der Spyra" or simply "Spyra". His style is somewhere between floating, rhythmic, meditative, downtempo and groovy, yes almost danceable. A very interesting blend of old skool and modern electronic ingredients! This mix is a chronological overview of 20 years of releases from 1997 till 2018." More information: Discogs: www.discogs.com/artist/13462-Spyra Website: www.derspyra.de Bandcamp: wolframspyra.bandcamp.com Thanks for another great mix! Cheers! T R A C K L I S T :

This is a perfect mix for floating in a floatation tank, drifting off to sleep, or viewing the northern lights(which we've had several nights of this year). All the music is from this year, much of it from the last few months. There's not much else to say other than kick your feet up, relax and float away. LINKS TO ALL THE MUSIC USED IN THIS MIX: https://altusmusic.bandcamp.com/album/musings-of-a-painted-sky https://whitelabrecs.bandcamp.com/album/partial-holograms https://rohsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/gray https://brianweza.bandcamp.com/album/fizzles-2 https://purl.bandcamp.com/album/a-quiet-awakening-ii https://projektrecords.bandcamp.com/album/water-planets https://brannanlane.bandcamp.com/album/under-the-moonlight-collaborations-vol-1 https://theliftedindex.bandcamp.com/album/agonist https://laaps.bandcamp.com/album/nocturnas https://buriedmarie.bandcamp.com/album/the-ghost-you-will-be https://laaps.bandcamp.com/album/anti-atlas https://stroomtv.bandcamp.com/album/a-new-life Cheers! T R A C K L I S T :

My love for tribal ambient music, of course, starts with Steve Roach. Going back to Dreamtime Return, Desert Solitaire, Western Spaces, Origins, Strata, On This Planet, and The Dream Circle, just to name a few. I go through phases where I may tire of the style but I always come back to it, usually when a new record reminds me of how much I love the genre. In this case that new album is "A Path Within A Path" by Seabuckthorn. I always enjoy Seabuckthorn music so I dove into the new album and discovered a few tracks with an excellent, organic percussion sound that I love. The entire album is great. Once I latched onto those rhythmic tracks I knew I had to compile a few more for a new tribal ambient mix. Surprisingly there are no Steve Roach tracks in the mix. Although there's a great track from one of his frequent collaborators, Byron Metcalf, from his lates album - Spiral Exchange. I've created several tribal mixes over the years and I hope you enjoy this and the others as much as I do. LINKS TO ALL THE MUSIC USED IN THIS MIX: https://seabuckthorn.bandcamp.com/album/a-path-within-a-path https://byronmetcalf.bandcamp.com/album/spiral-exchange https://rainforestspiritualenslavement.bandcamp.com/album/killer-whale-atmospheres https://marcoshuttle.bandcamp.com/album/cobalt-desert-oasis https://hubertdupont.bandcamp.com/album/trio-kosmos-3 https://laurencepike.bandcamp.com/album/the-undreamt-of-centre https://frore-shanemorris.bandcamp.com/album/ochre https://orenambarchi.bandcamp.com/album/kind-regards https://craigleon.bandcamp.com/album/anthology-of-interplanetary-folk-music-vol-2-the-canon https://dronarivm.bandcamp.com/album/theme https://jfoersternkramer.bandcamp.com/album/habitat Cheers! T R A C K L I S T :

The guest mix hit parade continues! Right on the heels of his last train mix Paul gives another train-themed set. This is one more in line with many of Paul's other train mixes in that it's main genre is berlin-school. I have been on a berlin-school bender all year so I am excited for this one. Here's what Paul says about the mix: "You’re sitting on a grassy slope above the cottage, looking out across the landscape below. It’s night and soft dots of light here and there indicate other houses, groups of houses, a road. In the distance you can see the black edge of a ruler, marking the gap between carriages and a bright bar of light moving left in front of it. Like happens in dreams, you are watching the scene and then you are in it, your seat tipped back, not quite asleep, you’re looking out the window. It’s a modern train. Gone is the classic click-click, click-click, but you can still feel the subtle rocking back and forth as the train hurtles silently forward. Under the stars. The cacophony of a station stop, made eerie in the wee hours of the morning. Or memory stirring up a previous adventure then returning you to your current tranquility." Thanks, Paul, for another excellent entry in your continuing train series. LINKS TO ALL THE MUSIC USED IN THIS MIX: https://matthewlabarge.bandcamp.com/album/while-we-were-therehttps://madis.bandcamp.com/album/plains-of-elysiumhttps://macofbionight.bandcamp.com/album/mangroviehttps://sovietspacedogproject.bandcamp.com/album/memories-of-spacehttps://caughtinjoy.bandcamp.com/album/out-of-nowherehttps://colinrayment.bandcamp.com/album/time-dilationhttps://synphaera.bandcamp.com/album/protostarhttps://nuellmartin.bandcamp.com/album/slaves-to-the-starshttps://synthreplicants.bandcamp.com/album/dreams-of-paradise-albumhttps://codeindigomusic.bandcamp.com/album/endgame-the-best-moves Cheers! T R A C K L I S T :

Yorgos Dousos is a multi-instrumentalist and composer located in Athens. He plays flute and clarinet to combine Greek music tradition, European jazz, and ambient electronic into an inspired musical experience. I got to hear an advance copy of his latest album - LUPUS, Love Under Pain, Upon Suffering - I knew immediately that I had to reach out to Yorgos about a guest mix. And here it is! Here's what Yorgos has to say about this set: “Late Night” is a small map of where my head has been living while finishing my new record. It’s the hour when things get quieter, when the room feels bigger than it is and every sound has more weight. I wanted this mix to sit in that space where breath, memory, and repetition start to blur. It opens with my own pieces (“Marisha” and “Breath” from "LUPUS, Love Under Pain, Upon Suffering") because that’s the emotional ground I’m working from lately. All of the tracks orbit the same questions I’m dealing with on the album: what it means for sound to feel physical and intimate but also distant and ghosted; how much you can say emotionally with or without melody; and where the human breath sits inside electronics and processing. Thanks, Yorgos, for this excellent mix! LINKS TO ALL THE MUSIC USED IN THIS MIX: https://yorgosdousos.bandcamp.com/album/lupus-love-under-pain-upon-suffering https://johnalsobennett.bandcamp.com/album/ston-elai-na https://mastrokristo.bandcamp.com/album/passage https://kalimalone.bandcamp.com/album/the-sacrificial-code-2019-edition https://colinstetson.bandcamp.com/album/all-this-i-do-for-glory https://christinavantzou.bandcamp.com/album/no-1 https://haniarani.bandcamp.com/album/on-giacometti https://aphextwin.bandcamp.com/album/i-care-because-you-do https://timhecker.bandcamp.com/album/shards https://stroomtv.bandcamp.com/album/original-spirit Cheers! T R A C K L I S T :

We've had a nice run of guest mixes lately here at Low Light Mixes world headquarters. And that streak continues will a wonderful new set from Daniel Hawkins. Here his two previous guest mixes: https://www.mixcloud.com/lowlight/dark-woods-by-daniel-hawkins/ https://www.mixcloud.com/lowlight/metallic-memories/ This mix has a perfect fall vibe. Here's what Daniel says about this collection of tracks: "As I was saving some of the songs that I liked over the past few weeks, I noticed a bunch of them were guitar pieces - so I figured that was as good a reason as any to do a themed mix. For me the hardest part of doing the mixes is I end up with a lot of good music and have to make tough choices about what to cut from the final mix. There are just so many great musicians out there now doing superb work. So I just go slow and make changes - I think this is a cohesive mix with a nice flow - you be the judge." Thanks, Daniel, for another excellent mix. Cheers! T R A C K L I S T :

The king of Berlin School EM music, Erwin Broers, is back with a fantastic update to his regular series. This fall update just may the best yet. I listened to this while biking home from work, unsure whether it would fit the activity. Oh man, it was perfect! It kept me pedaling and focused while exposing me to fresh electronic sounds. Here's what Erwin has to say about this set: "Another look at what's been happening on the Electronic/Berlin School/Synth Music spectrum over the last months. As might be expected, a variety of styles and vibes, so listen to the whole mix and I guarantee you'll find at least a few tracks to your liking. All music is from 2025 and from a wide variety of countries including Germany, England, the Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, Italy, the USA, Russia, Sweden, Finland, Poland and even Argentina! Click on the links below for more information on the artists and please consider purchasing the music you like!" ObukhovAudio https://obukhovaudio.bandcamp.com/album/atom-cassiopeia Brendan Pollard https://brendanpollard.bandcamp.com/album/the-coils-suite Cybernaum https://cybernaum.bandcamp.com/album/origo Ocralab https://ocralab.bandcamp.com/album/basic-ultraworlds Sundial Aeon https://beatspace-impactstudio.bandcamp.com/album/nebulosis Madis x Kebu https://madis.bandcamp.com/album/mentes-determinadas TaboTago https://tabotago.bandcamp.com/album/sessions-017-20250308-live-in-schwerin Fusion Of Elements https://fusionofelements.bandcamp.com/album/3mit-time-24-bit The Roswell Incident https://roswellincident.bandcamp.com/album/trapped-part-ii Mac Of BIOnighT https://macofbionight.bandcamp.com/album/radiance-unit-vol-01-classic-em-72 Pabellón Sintético https://cyclicaldreams.bandcamp.com/album/machine-for-living-cyd-0140 Sync24 https://sync24.bandcamp.com/album/hope Immediate Proximity https://radiomatrix.bandcamp.com/album/improx-starlit-rebellion Roman Ridder https://romanridder.bandcamp.com/album/synaptic-echoes Michael Brückner https://michaelbrueckner.bandcamp.com/album/arpreciated Starterra https://exospheremusic.bandcamp.com/album/phasepath Stephan Thelen & Markus Reuter https://stephanthelen.bandcamp.com/album/promise-of-a-better-world Thanks to Erwin for another great mix! Cheers! T R A C K L I S T : 0:00:00 ObukhovAudio - Silhouettes Of The Voices (Atom Cassiopeia) 0:10:26 Brendan Pollard - Embers (The Coils Suite) 0:17:28 Cybernaum - Origo (Origo) 0:26:15 Ocralab - Astrea (Basic Ultraworlds) 0:28:47 Sundial Aeon - Mistform (Nebulosis) 0:36:18 Madis x Kebu - Mentes Determinadas (Mentes Determinadas) 0:44:04 TaboTago - 20250308 Live In Schwerin Part 7 (Sessions 017 - 20250308 Live in Schwerin) 0:49:55 Fusion Of Elements - The Specious Present Awareness (3MIT-TIME) 0:53:39 The Roswell Incident - The Singularity Escapegate (Trapped Part II) 1:03:05 Mac Of BIOnighT - Radiance (Radiance Unit vol 01 - Classic EM 72) 1:11:31 Pabellón Sintético - Curutchet's House (Machine For Living) 1:16:49 Sync24 - Bioluminescent Creatures (Hope) 1:23:18 Immediate Proximity - Ferce (IMPROX - Starlit Rebellion) 1:26:35 Roman Ridder - Mind Mesh (Synaptic Echoes) 1:30:42 Michael Brückner - ARPreciation (ARPreciated) 1:37:55 Starterra - Silent Horizon [Digital Edition] (Phasepath) 1:42:15 Stephan Thelen & Markus Reuter - Clocks Go Down In Wonderland [2025 Remake] (Promise Of A Better World) 2:01:37 end

I always like to create a mix for autumn but this year I got bust and never got around to it. Thankfully The Lonely Bell has that covered. The Lonely Bell is Ali Murray who hails from the Isle of Lewis in Scotland. He has been producing for ten years and I have been a fan since 2022's "Kingdom of the Deep." The Lonely Bell has a new album out so to celebrate we have this new mix. Here what Ali says about this mix: "As the seasons begin to change, and late summer gradually fades into the dark, cold, wet, blustery days of early autumn here on the Isle of Lewis (Scotland) - I wanted to create a guest mix of ambient tracks that aurally reflect the quiet sadness and barren beauty that fills the air (and the heart) at this time of year. These tracks have been soundtracking my days during this seasonal shift, and I find that each individual track is dense with this strange and mysterious form of autumnal melancholy that is simultaneously haunting and comforting.... The mix also coincides with the release of my latest album 'Time Beyond The Edges' - an album of collaboration pieces with fellow ambient artists and experimental composers from around the globe, which came out on Shady Ridge Records on Sept 26th. The mix is bookended by two of the tracks from this release..." The Lonely Bell www.thelonelybell.bandcamp.com Time Beyond The Edges www.thelonelybell.bandcamp.com/album/time-beyond-the-edges Thanks, Ali, for the excellent autumnal vibes. Cheers! T R A C K L I S T :

More than 8 years ago, Paul Asbury Seaman came to me with an idea for a mix. He would provide the theme and tracklist, and I would man the faders and knobs to create his first guest mix. Of course that first mix was a train-themed set. Now, after 9 railway mixes & many hours traveling on the audio tracks, Paul brings us his tenth train-themed mix. This one is a b it different than the others so I'll let Paul tell you about it: "To celebrate my tenth train mix for Low Light Mixes I’m doing a collection of vocal tracks. There are way too many great train songs to call this set a “Best Of,” thus the qualified title. (I have five CD-length train song mixes for my own use.) These are some of my favorites. And here’s several more to start your own playlists, that didn’t make the cut only because of time limitations: “People Get Ready” (several good versions), “City of New Orleans” (Arlo Guthrie), “Locomotive Breath” (Jethro Tull), “Long Train Runnin’” (Doobie Brothers), “The Midnight Special” (CCR), “Downtown Lights” (Annie Lennox version) and of course “Hear My Train a Comin’” by Jimi Hendrix (from the Winterland LIVE box set)." Thanks, Paul, for another thoughtful collection of songs. Here's to 10 more excursions on the rails. LINKS TO PAUL'S OTHER TRAIN MIXES: THE MEMORY OF TRAINSGALAXY EXPRESSPLACES I'VE NEVER BEEN TO - AN ODE TO HIGH-SPEED RAILLULLABIES FOR A NIGHT TRAINMYSTICAL TRAINTRAIN SIX 56LAST TRAIN HOMETRAIN NO. 8 - AUTUMN EXCURSIONMORE TRAIN TRACKS Cheers! T R A C K L I S T :

This mix is pretty straightforward - all ambient, all new. It can be hard to keep up with new releases so I decided to put together a nice collection of new 2025 tracks. Turned out pretty darn good if I do say so. Cheers! T R A C K L I S T :

I really didn't intend to follow an 80s themed mix with another mix with an 80s vibe. But I couldn't help myself because of the brand new album from Crows Labyrinth - Neon Scenes II: Echoes of Then https://crowslabyrinth.bandcamp.com/album/neon-scenes-ii-echoes-of-then The album is a follow-up to an album called "Neon Scenes I: Granular Dreams." Both albums are longform generative drone ambient pieces that have this great Blade Runner vibe. I used the first album as the jumping off point for my last Blade Runner themed mix in March 2023 - https://www.mixcloud.com/lowlight/replicant-memories/ Upon hearing this new Crows Labyrinth album I just knew I had to create some more Blade Runner ambiance. Links to all the music used in this mix: https://crowslabyrinth.bandcamp.com/album/neon-scenes-ii-echoes-of-thenhttps://phelios.bandcamp.com/album/nexus-6https://cryochamber.bandcamp.com/album/void-ritualshttps://logicmoon.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-film-vol-1https://cryochamber.bandcamp.com/album/futuristic-derelictionhttps://graintable.bandcamp.com/album/music-to-watch-seeds-grow-by-003-graintable-blue-flaxhttps://projektrecords.bandcamp.com/album/neon-blue-utopiahttps://dave-nelson.bandcamp.com/album/the-act-of-vanishinghttps://uthermoads.bandcamp.com/album/uther-moadshttps://juneunit.bandcamp.com/album/s-thttps://cryochamber.bandcamp.com/album/2150 Cheers! T R A C K L I S T :

This mix started via a Spotify playlist with the same name - "You're in an 80s Film Driving at Night." I really liked the synth vibes so I created my own folder at home and began collecting tracks. The mix has a great retro vibe even though many of the tracks are from the last 10 years. But, of course, I had to include some cuts from the time period with songs from Tangerine Dream, John Carpenter & Vangelis. Hop in your Delorean and head back to the 1980s for some retro electronic goodness. Cheers! T R A C K L I S T :

The annual Perseid meteor shower peaks tonight and tomorrow night, August 12th & 13th. I like to use the Perseids as an excuse to create a spacey, ambient mix for stargazing. So here it is. The first track I grabbed for this mix was Jeff Pearce - For The Perseids, from the Gemstones IV compilation. How could I not use that cut in a mix like this. So I decided to look for other tracks with names that would fit and it was fairly easy to find a bunch that worked. Again, how could I resist tunes called "Luminous Dust Trails" and "Night Drifters" and "Comet Tails." Get outside and scan the skies. LINKS TO ALL THE MUSIC USED IN THIS MIX: https://cyclicaldreams.bandcamp.com/album/gemstones-iv-cyd-0089https://chitrarecords.bandcamp.com/album/asheshttps://tonepoet.bandcamp.com/album/scenes-from-the-apocalyptic-blisshttps://pulsemandala.bandcamp.com/album/cocoonhttps://foundrysite.bandcamp.com/album/lost-and-found-a-foundry-anthologyhttps://dataobscura.bandcamp.com/album/garden-of-twilighthttps://philippedeschampsfilms.bandcamp.com/album/the-silence-of-pallashttps://dronarivm.bandcamp.com/album/murmurs-of-the-machinehttps://nicoless.bandcamp.com/album/movinghttps://philippedeschampsfilms.bandcamp.com/album/endless-vanishing-lineshttps://synphaera.bandcamp.com/album/cosmic-echohttps://lawrenceenglish.bandcamp.com/album/selenehttps://dronarivm.bandcamp.com/album/tarnished-tapes-and-saturated-signals Cheers! T R A C K L I S T :