It’s been nearly two months now since Herne from the brilliant Origami Sound site approached me, asking if I’d be interested in guest posting a few tracks on the site. Since then, I’ve got to know him pretty well and we share an immense amount in common for discovering new artists, spending an enormous amount of time listening to music, and cultivating our own little passions in life (i.e a website!)
I asked Herne what type of music he’d like me to post and the brief was kept open. As a reader of ASIP, I guess he had confidence in my choices, but that put a little bit of extra pressure on. I toyed with posting nothing but new stuff, or featuring ambient classics, but instead settled it by creating a mix – a method which rarely has any method at all…
For me, a mix rarely has a predefined track list but instead, I choose tracks as it goes along. What I ended up with was mixture of both old and new – fifteen posts on Origami Sound which i’m happy to see, have lent themselves to even more ears than normal over the past few months or so.
The mix (and ultimately the selection of guest posts) ended up pretty electronic, with only one ‘strictly’ ambient piece. Tracks i’ve loved for years, and some i’ve loved for just weeks. Music that hopefully provided a small insight, some new artists to dig into more, and a mix which everyone can enjoy.
You can read my words on each track over on Origami Sound, or I’ve distilled the fifteen tracks into three posts on ASIP: Wrap one, Wrap two and Wrap three (tracks were posted in no particular order).
Keep an eye on Origami Sound in the near future – i’ve had a small insight as to what Herne has up his sleeve and it sounds very nice indeed…
And as some of you know, i’ve been pretty busy on the mix front recently, so expect another one very soon…
Tracklist:
01. Gusgus – Detention
02. Chymera – Umbrella (Beatless mix)
03. Isan – Ampule
04. Freescha – Slo-Peeq
05. Sabi – Screaming Bulb
06. aus – Clocks
07. Arc of Doves – Lotus
08. D_rradio – Wish For More Wishes
09. Christian Kleine – Handsome Used
10. Dominik Eulberg – Der Zug Der Kraniche: Boten Der Veränderung
11. Ourson – 237
12. Monolake – Arte
13. FRKTL – Tidal
14. Zephyr Nova – Searching For Signals
15. TTK – Wavecoaster
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Great collection of tunes here, and like the more downtempo as opposed to ambient approach. Not that there’s anything wrong with ambient
Posted by Vishal | June 6, 2011, 5:59 pmCheers Vishal. I wanted to explore a few more ‘electronic’ tracks with this one… i have a mix coming out in August for RTFKT which will be less ambient too (if you liked this one!)
Posted by Ryan | June 7, 2011, 10:31 amI would be interesting in knowing what kind of other electronic genres you (and others who make more ambient-minded mixes) are into….just to kind of understand the kind of influences that play a part in the sound collection
Posted by Vishal | June 10, 2011, 1:25 pmHey Vishal, well from my perspective, i like pretty much all types of electronic music. From original trance, acid and rave, to more recent minimal techno, electronica. ambient etc. I guess that having a wide spectrum of interest helps as there’s elements from all of these genre’s that crossover. What’s kind of stuff are you into?
Posted by Ryan | June 10, 2011, 2:10 pmMy ‘biography’ of electronic music starts out around ’98 with the progressive trance of Oakey, Nick Warren, Sasha and Diggers, then I got really heavily into prog, especially John and Sasha for a fair few years…….then last year I happened to visit the Berghain and my perceptions of music changed a lot and I realised that techno is possibly the most underground, evolving and diverse of all genres……the darker it is, the better it is……and it’s a conduit into such great music as well, ambient, IDM, dub techno, Detroit, the more emotive side of electronica like Autechre…….but I do sometimes feel the emotional quotient of straight-up, 4×4 techno is lacking, and to this day I think that one of the most moving mixes I’ve heard is Sasha Ibiza-GU 013 CD 1…….
But yeah, I see a lot of genre snobbery out there and I think that how we perceive music is a sum of different parts, including the non-electronic stuff that we listen to (sometimes guilty pleasures like Yazoo or the Communards subliminally drove some of us to seek out more synths for example!), the richer our musical background the more elements we can bring
Posted by Vishal | June 15, 2011, 7:50 pmThere’s a lot of hazy pearls here. Thanks a lot Ryan !! When i’ll be able to spend a few more bucks, i’ll look which ones i can find on vinyls…
Posted by TGM | September 26, 2011, 3:00 pm