Headphone Commute
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worriedaboutsatan - Headphone Commute Mix
June 09, 2020 09:35 - 1 hour - 146 MBGavin Miller is back, this time with his worriedaboutsatan project, showcasing some of his favourite pieces, including a few of his own, like the opener taken from his latest release for n5MD. We live in a strange and unstable world, but the only constant that remains is all of this music. So when I find myself overwhelmed with the latest events, I turn to meditation through sound, with a journey curated by someone else. Through this mix, I feel like we are listening together, and as such, c...
Mnemonic45 - Sky Is A Painter
May 26, 2020 09:32 - 47 minutes - 109 MBTime goes by. Time stands still. Time loops upon itself. And if it wasn’t for the sound, changing as it flows through time, and for the clouds, nudging time as they pass through, we wouldn’t even notice all the changes. Was it really you, a month ago, a year and a decade, and was it really me? Or is it still somewhere out there, in other space, in other time? And as we measure time in colors of the seasons, in the music of the spheres, and in the ever-present change, it’s through transitions...
Roel Funcken - Australian Bushfire Sampler Mix
May 12, 2020 09:27 - 3 hours - 495 MBToday we have a 3.5 hour showcase by Roel Funcken, who has put together a Sampler Mix from a double-volume Australia Bushfire Compilation, which he has curated for Touched Music. This is a benefit release approaching 70+ tracks selected from the musicians around the world to raise funds 'for the rescue, preservation and safe sanctuary of koalas and other vulnerable wildlife affected by the unprecedented catastrophic fires of the Australian Black Summer (September 2019 – February 2020) result...
Arandel - Switched-on InBach
April 28, 2020 09:22 - 48 minutes - 116 MBOn today’s podcast, we are featuring an exclusive mix by Arandel who has recently released a new album on the French Infiné imprint, titled 'InBach'. As you may have already guessed, Arandel’s work interprets the German composer’s sacred music into an updated formation of modern classical and contemporary electronic sound. In March of 2018, Arandel participated in the Bach Marathon at the Cite de la Musique Hall, Paris with his hybrid live performance and DJ set 'Switched on Bach', named in ...
HC - And Darkness Came (Rewind)
April 14, 2020 09:20 - 1 hour - 142 MBThis mix was originally broadcast on Headphone Commute in December of 2012. It was created to promote the benefit compilation, under the same name, … and darkness came, and in the process showcase the diverse sonic landscape of music featuring just a handful of tracks from the release. Well, it’s been over eight years since those events, but the music is as pungent as ever, especially during these devastating times, when you can find comfort in its sound. In the last couple of weeks, I found...
Richard Chartier - LINEmix5
March 11, 2020 09:18 - 1 hour - 223 MBFor today’s podcast, we are featuring an outstanding label showcase for LINE, mixed by the one and only Richard Chartier. For this mix, which is also available at Name Your Price on Line’s Bandcamp [I highly recommend you grab the lossless version there!], Chartier showcases works from the most recent and back catalog of his monumental label, in the process creating more than just a label sampler, but a journey of its own. If this is your first foray into minimalism, sound art, and microsoun...
A Strangely Isolated Place - Reflection on 2019
February 18, 2020 10:17 - 2 hours - 360 MBIt’s nearly two months into the new decade and yet I’m still celebrating the music of the past year. And why wouldn’t I, especially when the selection of the favorites is put together by Ryan Griffin of A Strangely Isolated Place? In a true Reflection On 2019, Griffin handpicks the tracks that have accompanied him through his journey, including that of his label which has put out some of the best records in of the year. These are all of my loved ones as well, so I couldn’t resist the syndica...
Sylvain Chauveau - The Light That Is Felt
February 05, 2020 10:16 - 48 minutes - 121 MBOn today’s program, Brussels-based Sylvain Chauveau stops by to share his favorite records with the listeners and followers of Headphone Commute. This is an eclectic selection, ranging from acoustic songs to classical and to traditional Japanese music. It’s an hour full of surprises, like a personal mixtape, made lovingly just for you. Chauveau has recently released a new album on FatCat titled Simple featuring music taken from his film scores, collecting atmospheric vignettes in 18 beautifu...
Optic Echo Presents - Best Vinyl of the Decade
January 22, 2020 09:35 - 1 hour - 231 MBBoy, do I have a special treat for you! Just as I thought we were finished, and the selections of best of the year came rushing in, I realized that we have more to celebrate at the turn of the decade. So, the ever trustworthy Mike Jedlicka of Optic Echo Presents whipped out his overflowing crates of vinyl and began digging for his favorites to make you another mix! I have to say, there are a lot of surprises on here, and the choices are not that obvious, which makes this unique selection tha...
Optic Echo Presents - Best Vinyl of 2019
January 02, 2020 09:03 - 1 hour - 281 MBGood morning and welcome to 2020. We kick off another decade with our annual tradition of celebrating the music of yesteryear, by presenting to you our favourites and recommendations. There will be enough here to fill your shelves and empty your wallets, and all that is coming up in just a couple of days, but we open up our tribute with another vinyl-only mix by Mike Jedlicka of Optic Echo Presents, to tease your ears with his selections of this still-spinning format. For a more detailed des...
Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch - Headphone Commute Mix
October 23, 2019 05:00 - 93.9 MBFor our 270th entry in the Headphone Commute Mix series, we welcome Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch to share with us her favourite contemporary and modern classical pieces. This is Music by contemporary composers, with a very intemporal quality in its simplicity and harmonic language. For a more detailed description, full track listing and more information about this mix, please visit headphonecommute.com
Suumhow - Muuscle Mix 2
October 02, 2019 05:00 - 84.3 MBAnd we’re back! Back after a short vacation and back with the second volume of delicious IDM from a Belgian duo, Suumhow, whose latest record on n5MD, Secuund, was released only a few days ago, on September 20th, 2019. After the first mix, which was released in August of 2018, we promised an ongoing retrospective on the genre, and with this new instalment Suumhow delivers yet another volume of deliciously crunchy tracks for your enjoyment! For a more detailed description, full track listing a...
James Murray - No Ordinary Home
September 11, 2019 05:00 - 141 MBHome Normal is a remarkable label curated by a remarkable man. Ian Hawgood’s contribution to the minimal music scene over the past decade is hard to overstate. When invited to compile a mix to celebrate the label’s 10th anniversary I took it as a rare opportunity to submerge myself in this deep and varied catalogue... For a more detailed description, full track listing and more information about this mix, please visit headphonecommute.com
Susumu Yokota - Ambient Mix
August 21, 2019 05:00 - 70.8 MBOn March 27th of 2015, we lost one of our own, Susumu Yokota, with numerous releases on Harthouse, Skintone, Sublime and Leaf. This mix is not a eulogy for his untimely passing, but rather an echo of himself that still lives on beyond the time. Susumu is no longer among us in this particular dimension to explain and share the notes of his selections for this Ambient Mix. Compiled in 2002, we’re honored to be able and share this once again with the permission of the label. Perhaps we do not ne...
Aaron Martin - Headphone Commute Mix
July 17, 2019 05:00 - 140 MBThis quiet Wednesday morning seems like an appropriate time to begin a day with another Headphone Commute Mix. Today’s selection is curated by Aaron Martin, whose discovery not only blankets many notable labels, such as Fluid Audio, Dronarivm, Facture, Preservation, Experimedia, Eilean, Lost Tribe Sound and many more but also extends to his collaborations with Dag Rosenqvist (who, also, by the way, made us a Headphone Commute mix) as a very special project they named From The Mouth Of The Sun...
PvC - Radical Candor
July 02, 2019 05:00 - 135 MBA word of warning first. This is not an ambient mix intended to relax or create a calm atmosphere. Also, it is not a showcase with full album tracks. It is a 'create-your-own-movie' soundtrack with some rather intense climaxes. And 42 track fragments in less than one hour – almost none of those in full length: all tracks are cut-up, fragmented, edited, layered and re-assembled (but never altered sonically) - just like creating a collage from torn pictures. This also means that none of the par...
Headphone Commute Brian Megamix
May 21, 2019 05:00 - 149 MBBrian Records is a label run by Jim Norman out of Bath in the United Kingdom. Recently, I invited Norman to showcase his record collection in Headphone Commute's I’ll show you mine following his announcement to raise funds for a book he titled, Micro Record Label: A love letter for music fans; a how-to for the hopeless; a light-hearted, humorous, self-deprecating detour for the uninterested. The Kickstarter campaign has now ended with the project being 100% funded (and more!) so you can expe...
ASIP - Reflection on 2018
April 09, 2019 05:00 - 277 MBYes, another gorgeous mix by Ryan Griffin of A Strangely Isolated Place, and yes, this one was already released by ASIP in December of 2018, but oh, it is so lovely, and its frequencies keep spreading through the lake of consciousness like a memory’s reflection, and so, why not, we asked, and then why not, we whispered, the echoes of the past are there to be heard. For a more detailed description, full track listing and more information about this mix, please visit headphonecommute.com
Lost Tribe Sound - For A Time We Felt Like Giants
March 26, 2019 05:00 - 98.7 MBIt’s been a long brutal winter at label headquarters in Wisconsin, and it’s left a wanting for warmer days and the entry of a new season. The music of this mix has a definite watery and cyclical vibe to it. Trapped between the seemingly endless gray of winter, and the desire for warm coastal climates and surroundings with even the slightest hint of green. The mix covers the last couple years of output from the label, and looks forward into a wide array of unreleased material coming soon in th...
Dmitry Taldykin - Dronarivm Showcase 2019
March 13, 2019 05:00 - 112 MBI’ve been a long time fan of Dmitry Taldykin‘s Moscow-based Dronarivm label which, thanks to the additional curation from Bartosz Dziadosz (aka Pleq) has always brought us treasures from the depths of ambient and modern classical waters. Many of imprint’s releases have been covered on these pages (just look at our dedicated Dronarivm label directory!), so it’s no wonder that I’m excited in sharing the Headphone Commute Podcast platform with the founder to showcase Dronarivm’s upcoming release...
Dag Rosenqvist - Headphone Commute Mix
February 20, 2019 05:00 - 195 MBNine years ago (damn!), Dag Rosenqvist made a mix for Headphone Commute under his Jasper TX moniker (listen to From Midnight To Sunlight). Since then he has produced numerous albums under his real name, many of which, like Vowels (2015), elephant (2016), and Hello Darkness (2017) were featured on these pages. I’ve been way overdue on checking in with Dag to see what he’s been up to, so I thought it only appropriate to ask him for a mix, selecting music that has moved him, to share with my rea...
Gavin Miller - Headphone Commute Mix
February 06, 2019 05:00 - 125 MBBack to the regularly scheduled programming (but with a new site in tow) I’m excited to present you with a fresh new mix from Gavin Miller (he is also one half of worriedaboutsatan and Ghosting Season for which he collaborates on with Tom Ragsdale). For his Headphone Commute Mix, Miller curates a selection of the latest and favorites from Lost Tribe Sound, Sound In Silence and his very own This Is It Forever labels, showcasing a particular flavour of music which is so prevalent to the above. ...
Mathias Van Eecloo – eisOtones 12
January 16, 2019 05:00 - 169 MBAnd here we are. Finding ourselves at this place at this time, where we have been before, and yet, it is always new. Even this mix, although now a tradition, to be published during our Best of the Year lists, celebrating 50 tracks from 50 releases of the last year, seems very familiar, but truly unique. So without further adieu, we present, for your listening pleasure, Mathias Van Eecloo‘s personal selection of his favourite pieces, arranged in a 72-min journey, in a tour guide package with a...
Optic Echo Presents – Best Vinyl of 2018
January 02, 2019 05:00 - 257 MBFor the seventh year in a row, we partner up with Mike Jedlicka of Optic Echo Presents, to bring you the best of vinyl releases of the year, in one continuous (vinyl-only of course) mix. This one is nearly two hours long, so there is plenty for you to dig through, and then get ready for our Best of the Year lists which we’ll begin unveiling tomorrow. So open up your hearts, and hopefully your wallets, to celebrate a year that has turned out this music, and all things considered, was not at al...
eilean rec. [2018]
December 19, 2018 05:00 - 176 MBFor the third year in a row, we are proud to host a mix by Mathias Van Eecloo showcasing his beautiful Eilean imprint, and the tiny gems he’s brought into this world. This is a perfect way for you to catch up to the music you have missed from this fantastic label, featuring many great pieces by some of our favourites, such as Ian Hawgood, Benjamin Finger, Ljerke, Cyril Secq + Sylvain Chauveau, and many other great discoveries. If you’re slowing down for the end of the year, curl up with this ...
Eraldo Bernocchi – A Map of Memories
December 04, 2018 05:00 - 187 MBBernocchi is an Italian composer and sound designer with releases going back to 1997. His collaboration in 2017 with Netherworld for Glacial Movements captured our attention, and we’ve invited the artist to curate a label special mix (see Eraldo Bernocchi – Glacial Movements). For Map Of Memories, Bernocchi shares not only his favourites (and mine as well) but also a piece from his most recently released Like A Fire That Consumes All Before It LP out on his very own imprint, Rare Noise. I hop...
Laima Lisauskiene – Dimensions
November 14, 2018 05:00 - 187 MBInfinite moments of deep listening punctuated with fragile shards of icy silence. Weightless and adrift inside a colossal white cube of thunderous electrostatic noise, awash with the flotsam and jetsam of intricate and sublime melodies borne on powerful superluminous currents pulsing with sonic energy. Transformation of sounds and shapes accompanying crescendos of sound waves expand and devour consciousness, leaving us the shattering associations and ecstasy of oblivion. Thoughts, sensations ...
Orangewarrior - HALFTIME FOOTWORK JUNGLE MAYHEM
October 30, 2018 05:00 - 179 MBIt’s that time of the year, kids, when we invite our favourite Halloween ghost and ghoul to wreck some mayhem on our ears. Headphone Commute is more than just all ambient and piano for the road – sometimes we need that extra oomph on slow and sludgy mornings. Orangewarrior has been with us for many years, and today he’s back (right on time!) with a huge selection of his hand-picked bangers! For a more detailed description, full track listing and more information about this mix, please visit h...
PvC - James & Anne
September 18, 2018 05:00 - 149 MBWe’ve got something very, very special for you today, folks! A collaboration of forces between three separate entities, Headphone Commute, Ambientblog, and Slowcraft Records, are proud to present a unique mix by a colleague and partner in crime, Peter van Cooten, of beautiful works from a beautiful couple, James Murray and Anne Garner, culminating a selection of compositions they released individually, as well as together under various project names. Peter then carefully compiled these pieces...
Suumhow – Muuscle Mix 1
August 14, 2018 05:00 - 97.6 MBEveryone has that handful of tracks that they just keep going back to, over and over again, no matter what. As teenagers growing up in Brussels in the late 90s/early 2000s, we lost our innocence to IDM/electronica institutions like n5MD, Toytronic, City Centre Offices, Schematic, Karaoke Kalk, Mego and Merck (just to name a few) – and never really left any of it behind. It’s still all here with us, as timeless go-tos and unique influences, and this first MUUSCLE MIX is an honest and humble tr...
Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch – An Open Landscape
July 24, 2018 05:00 - 155 MBOne of the catalysts to the composition on my new album Époques was a 2 weeks retreat in Suffolk last year, the change of environment and soundscape, away from inner city manmade noises. Many of the pieces featured in this mix were inspired by nature in an abstract or descriptive way. It is easy to sense the heatherlands, rivers and other natural phenomena at the source of the music. Starting with what has now become a classic, John Cage's In A Landscape, and followed by Dario Marianelli's cu...
PvC – No Stars
June 19, 2018 05:00 - 133 MBI know, I know – it’s a bit risky to use a teenage love song as the title track of an otherwise fairly dark ambient mix. Some listeners probably won’t get past it – and if they quit at that point, they’ll miss the 40 minutes of associative transitions following it. [...] With the occasional exception, most of the music in this mix is heavily mutilated: the original tracks are cut-up, shortened, fragmented, edited – often using only a minute fragment of a track that originally is much longer. ...
‘k” – insistence on purity
May 31, 2018 05:00 - 343 MBThis is a very eclectic selection of tracks, a bit gloomy and noir-fi, exactly how I like it, for the perfect mental image of the state you feel inside. I spent a whole day listening to this sonic weave of textures before writing down these words, imagining all of the descriptive adjectives I’d use to lure you into its conditions, finally realizing (as I always do) that music is indeed a more descriptive language. And so I leave you with this two-and-a-half hour journey which may inevitably l...
Oaktree - Brussels
May 16, 2018 05:00 - 128 MBOne year after recording a Soundtrack For A City View in Antwerp, I gathered with my friends from Montage in one of the highest buildings of Brussels for a follow-up. This recording was made on March 1st in the WTC building in Brussels during sunset and streamed live on Facebook. Additional video footage was made on the day before and assembled live in the same way the music was. The music and additional images were selected as the sun went down on a grey cold day in the Belgian capital. Just...
Cedric – Press Pause (Part Two)
May 02, 2018 05:00 - 168 MBWe’re back with the second part of this wonderful piano based journey from Cedric. Be sure to check out Part One, and thank you all for your wonderful comments – I know I speak on behalf of Cedric, but he definitely appreciates all of the feedback (and frankly, so do I – otherwise it often feels like I’m broadcasting into a wall). More gorgeous tracks for you on this one from all the favourites like Lambert, Tambour, Ed Carlsen, Time Linghaus, Julien Marchal, and even something else, very spe...
Cedric – Press Pause (Part One)
April 24, 2018 05:00 - 162 MBFor today’s instalment, we welcome back Cedric, who has contributed two long Pianorama mixes back in 2013 and 2014, and just as last time, he’s sharing some of his favorite piano pieces with us, on this two-part podcast. There are plenty of amazing tracks on here, many of which, I know, you already love. So sit back, and come on a beautiful stroll with us, along with Otto A. Totland, Dustin O’Halloran, Nils Frahm, and Jóhann Jóhannsson. We’ll be back next week with Part Two. Enjoy! Thank you ...
ASIP – The Last Frequencies
April 11, 2018 05:00 - 197 MBFirst a man behind the words of A Strangely Isolated Place blog (I prefer to call it a magazine), then a curator of an influential record label, and now a master selector of musical journeys, Ryan Griffin has been a partner in crime on my sonic evangelism for over a decade now. So without a doubt, I’m more than honoured to host a beautiful ASIP mix on Headphone Commute – perhaps the only reason it took so long in the first place is that I didn’t want to take away his time from the beautiful I...
Roel Funcken – Franthom Phost Ambient Mix (Part 2)
March 13, 2018 05:00 - 325 MBThank you for patiently awaiting the second part of this mix. Roel and I have left you two weeks ago with over two hours of gorgeous music to digest, and we hope that you had a good time of it, because here comes your reward! Make sure to read more about this mix in Part 1 of this series! Otherwise, you know how this goes... Thank you for listening! For a more detailed description, full track listing and more information about this mix, please visit headphonecommute.com
Roel Funcken – Franthom Phost Ambient Mix (Part 1)
February 27, 2018 05:00 - 326 MBHonored to have Roel Funcken back on the show, especially because he has this uncanny ability to mesmerize my senses with his incredible mixing skills. Ambient music may be easier to “blend” than all the rhythmic parts, but when you find this task at the hands of a master, you can really tell the difference of a talent navigating the way. For a more detailed description, full track listing and more information about this mix, please visit headphonecommute.com
36 – Headphone Commute Mix
February 13, 2018 05:00 - 147 MBDennis Huddleston has been captivating his audience with the sounds of space and time exploration, where the music transcends all auditory boundaries and simply carries you away. While music, in general, may possess such time-traveling properties, the sounds of 36 aid in a special [and spacial] propulsion through the atmospheres of other planets, where some form of higher consciousness may exist beyond our reach. I’m honored to invite you to join me on this very special journey curated by Hud...
Mathias Van Eecloo – eisOtones 11
January 23, 2018 05:00 - 170 MBSo I’m back in New York for a couple of weeks. Everything is nearly the same, and yet all of it’s different. I now notice more of the things that I’ve left behind, not recognizing their heavy significance, the darkness or the emptiness that they carried so loud, during my presence. Even this mix, feels a bit out of place in this space, and it surely makes sense. After all, these tracks have been part of my life outside of this life, and they lack in connection all of the associations that are...
HC-PvC – Bipolar
January 03, 2018 05:00 - 138 MBA few months in the making, this mix is a collaboration between Peter van Cooten (PvC) of Ambient Blog and yours truly (HC), ending up in a mesmerizing trip which we could only call Bipolar. For this fascinating exchange, Peter and I passed the files back and forth, without sharing the track listing, allowing each one to only spend five minutes to mix out and continue the direction of the journey. This very tight time limit, with constant twists and turns, created a nearly hallucinatory exper...
Optic Echo Presents – Best Vinyl of 2017
December 27, 2017 05:00 - 215 MBI’ve been praising Mike Jedlicka‘s end of year selection for nearly six years now, when, with a slight hand of a magician and a skilled curator, he presents his favorite vinyl-only mix. The tracklisting alone shows Jedlicka’s vast knowledge in today’s moving genres, and greatly summarize some of my own thoughts on the music in 2017. It’s a somber year-end – not in a bad way, but more in an acceptance of how things truly are. Because they are the only way that they can be right now. For a more...
Matt Emery - Eternal Bliss
December 12, 2017 05:00 - 165 MBMatt Emery is a London based composer, a talented pianist, and now a friend, whom I am honored to host today on this Headphone Commute episode, with his exclusively curated mix, titled Eternal Bliss. With his selections, Matt traverses a landscape of modern classical and ambient compositions, many of which are already dear to my heart, like a piece by Hildur Guðnadóttir from her 2009 Without Sinking album, and a few beautiful discoveries along the way, like the Julien Marchal remix of a piece...
noition – child of nature
November 29, 2017 05:00 - 157 MBThis mix is called 'child of nature'. It is a proof that music and nature fit together very well, especially for those who feel connected with nature. However, in every one of us, you find a little 'child' of nature. Probably you will realize this by listening. Until now I’ve recorded nature sounds with my pocket recorder. This time everything is from vinyl – the music and the background sound as well. This was the reason to record this mix with three turntables. Sometimes I changed the vinyl...
James Heather – Headphone Commute Mix
November 15, 2017 05:00 - 176 MBFor this Headphone Commute mix I decided to focus mostly on the ambient for the first time. It’s filled with mainly new discoveries and a few old tracks that have never quite left my ears. The theme is peace. I have recently been fascinated by books and documentaries about a woman named Mildred Lisette Norman, from her 40’s she became a spiritual teacher, mystic, pacifist and activist. She renamed herself ‘Peace Pilgrim’ and proceeded to walk non-stop for the next 28 years, somewhat idealisti...
Orangewarrior – Halloween Mix
October 31, 2017 05:00 - 170 MBI'm a HUGE fan of 70s and 80's horror movies and my initial intention with this mix was to mimic the pace and intention that those sorts of movies have, whilst also trying to use tunes and sounds that emulated either the sounds or (failing that) mood. If this mix was a movie soundtrack, I’d want the viewers shouting at the screen whilst the musical cues clearly showed evil, uncomfortable, stranger things were about to happen and the pregnant silences had you waiting for something horrific to ...
eilean rec. [2017]
October 24, 2017 05:00 - 163 MBMathias Van Eecloo has been extremely prolific with the curation of his very own Eilean Records. I honestly can’t keep up. This year alone, he has already put out 14 records, each one with a point on the imaginary map of music. At the end of 2016, Headphone Commute featured a mix with a selection from the imprint showcasing the catalog to the busy listener unable to consume individual records in time. It’s a fantastic [re-]introduction to Eilean’s ambient landscape. This year we thought we’d ...
ASC - Headphone Commute Mix
October 03, 2017 05:00 - 140 MBI’ve got a mix, and yes, another mix for you, and really, I spoil you, don’t you think? There’re all these albums to enjoy and then I go ahead and get these artists to select their favorites for you, to pave a journey through their mind with all these sounds and all this music. James Clements, producing under his ASC moniker, has recently jumped to the forefront of my favorite composers when it comes to atmospheric, drifting, and dark space music (because you know, if space had music, that’s ...
James Murray - Celestial Waters
September 26, 2017 05:00 - 138 MBOnce in a blue moon, I compile a mix, always ensuring I give the narrative, track selection and each and every transition my full, unhurried attention. In other words, I like to get them just right. They’re usually loosely themed and often coincide with an album release. Also, for the first time and at the suggestion of Headphone Commute, my solo contributions are not studio recordings but live improvised versions of tracks from the new record. It’s the first time I’ve taken this live approac...