music: january 26
A year ago, David Lynch passed away. I recently came across this quote:
"The world is as you are." And I think films are as you are. That's why, although the frames of a film are always the same – the same number, in the same sequence, with the same sounds – every screening is different. The difference is sometimes subtle but it's there. It depends on the audience. There is a circle that goes from the audience to the film and back. Each person is looking and thinking and feeling and coming up with his or her own sense of things.
– David Lynch, Catching the Big Fish
The same is true for music. When you listen, you don't receive a finished object – you participate in it. Your thoughts and memories and moods add a layer on top, and the work becomes partly yours. I wrote about the concept of listening as creation last month.
With that said, here are some tracks from January. Go out and create.
I have no idea where this will lead us, but I have a definite feeling it will be a place both wonderful and strange.
– Dale Cooper, Twin Peaks
Red room
- Album: Area 3 – View (cloudy ambient, modular textures, meditative downtempo; fav tracks P-plunky and Deep Seek)
- Album: William Basinski – Melancholia (sad, blissful, haunting – one of those albums you know will stay with you for a long time)
- Track: SSIEGE – Drama Lover (loopy warm ambient, brief but sticky; also check Fata Foresta!)
- Track: Dali de Saint Paul & Maxwell Sterling – 5 (whistling, strings, meditative, new age-y; from Objekt's ambient set, weirdly (?) this worked for me)
- Track: Voice Actor & Squu – dYn (ambient-ish experimental pop, hazy, pulsing, grainy sketches)
- Track: Micå – Echoes of Blue (ethereal, airy, ambient keys – maybe too fluffy (?), but I kept it in)
- Track: Martinou – Paean (deep atmospheric ambient, Traumprinz energy, peaceful, like drifting through an easy dream)
- Track: downstairs J – Soft Tissue (atmospheric trip hop with dub elements, slow, heady; via the same Objekt set)
- Track: Elori Saxl – It will be gone (analog synth meets saxophone, contemplative)
- Track: Caterina Barbieri, Benedikt Giske – Alignment, Orbits (arpeggiated electro-acoustic sax, trancelike, astronomical, such a cool collaboration)
- Track: Mikkel Rev – LM8182 (mysterious, atmospheric, from an album exploring ambient-trance boundaries – this track leans ambient, very very cool; also check Journey Beyond for more trance and less ambient)
Roadhouse
- Track: Joy Orbison – Hyph Mngo (landmark track from 2009, post-dubstep, Pitchfork 9/10, elegant pads, wish to hear it on loud speakers one time, crazy to think that this was Joy Orbison's debut and it is just such a massive track)
- Track: Paul Rogers – Krafty (progressive house, builds slowly and steadily, big beaty break in the last third; shared by a close friend, thanks E.K.)
- Tracks: Blocks & Escher – Charm / All That Glitters (cinematic drum & bass, long intros, soft pads, strings, guitars, vocals; Charm is 11 minutes but time flies when you're moving)
- Track: Tal Fussman – Sea of Blue (house, rolling groove, high energy, built for the dancefloor)
- Track: Dold – Horizon (Mikkel Rev Motion Mix) (the original sits at the crossroads of ambient, IDM, electro, loopy techno – this mix adds clear trance motion)
Thanks for reading, listening and co-creating!
