Mind Over Rhythm

30 tracks of 90’s trance, progressive techno, ambient & IDM spread just under 3 h 00.

1. Intro ambience
2. Symbiotic – Bass meditation
3. Irresistible Force – Space is the place (Intergalactic ambient mix)
4. Richard H. Kirk – November X-Ray Mexico
5. Transform – Trans out (Chill mix)
6. UVX – Elevator 13 th floor
7. Richard H. Kirk – The number of magic
8. Further – The trip
9. Future sound of London – Lifeforms – Path 6 & 7
10. Ambience Surge
11. Skin Up You’re Already Dead AFX / Autechre 1
12. Aleksi Perälä – Escort
13. Jega – Phlax
14. Gescom – A57 (Rmxd By DC Duo’s)
15. ORBITAL – Walk Now
16. Solar Quest – Acid Eye
17. Ultrahigh – Primitive Love (Part 1)
18. FSOL – Lifeforms
19. Humate & Rabbit In The Moon -East (Rabbit In The Moon Opium Den Remix)
20. Underworld – Dark & Long [Dark Train Mix]
21. Vapourspace – Gravitational Arch Of Ten 1993
22. KENNY LARKIN – Loop 2.
23. Microwave Prince – Eternal Light (1995)
24. Drawing Future Life – The Day Of Return (1993)
25. Air Liquide – Liquid Air (Acidtrance 1992)
26. Spooky – Little Bullet (High Velocity Mix)
27. Curve – Rising (FSOL Headspace Mix)
28. George Carlin – Nursery Rhymes
29. One Dove – White Love (Psychic Masturbation)
30. Outro

Yagya in 90 minutes (Mix Tribute)

 

A student of computer science at the University of Iceland, Yagya spends his free time creating music on his computer. He concentrates on atmospheres and moods and tries to reflect the beauty of the world around him in the sounds of his music. He seeks influence in the works of Gas, Philip Glass, Basic Channel, Brian Eno and anything that is true to itself and it’s ideas. Yagya concentrates on the softer side of music and avoids heavy rhythms. He finds harmony and beauty in the simple sounds of nature and wants his music to flow naturally through the listener. Icelandic producer Yagya (Aðalsteinn Guðmundsson) has been creating atmospheres through melody and sounds since the 1990s. A definitive member of the Thule Musik collective, Yagya is definately one of the most important producers in the electronic music community. Here is a mix of 20 of his tracks featured here with videos in 4 K of landscapes from Iceland.

1) Cymantics – Bringing matter to life with sound
2) Snowflake 2
3) Snowflake 6
4) Rigning sjo
5) Cold hands
6) Rigning sex
7) Rigning Einn
8) Rigning Tvo
9) The salt on her cheeks
10) Rigning Prju
11) Snowflake 8
12) As it is
13) Sleepygirl 2
14) Sleepygirl 5
15) Sleepygirl 4
16) Sleepygirl 7
17) Change
18) A thousand words
19) When they stood they let down their wings
20) Rigning fjorir

The Orb – Blue room 60 min edit – The Lysergic UFO Acid Trip

A 57 minutes extended edit version of The Orb’s Blue room (1992) with several weird samples underlying the Orb’s music. In fact, I have used more than 50 voice samples and extended the track from 34 minutes to 57 minutes with the awesome basslines of The Orb and studio wizardry of Kris Weston. I will remove upon request. NO LSD was used during this process.

Mental Cube 1988-1995

Out of Detroit, Techno and then New Beat in Belgium and just before Trance, there was a very hedonist and pure european rave culture. The breakbeats (early hardcore) were also played at Rave parties were in between 1988 – 1995 and raves back then often had 4-5 rooms with very eclectic music that ranged from acid house to trance, techno, house, breaks and ambient. By 1995, Oldschool Raves ended and movies like Trainspotting were released. Raves combined New Beat, Acid House and early Techno like the seminal track Q from Mental cube (aka FSOL). Old school raves will never die! #breakbeats #Rave #Earlytechno #acidhouse #techno #trance #ambient #ecstacy

1. INTRO – Andy Hughes – Antilla
2. The Shamen – Scientas (Irresistible force remix) 1993
3. Trans 4-M – Arrival (1992)
4. Spacetime continuum – Voice from the Earth (1994)
5. Air Liquide – If there was no gravity (1994)
6. James Bernard – Phosphorous (1994)
7. Air Liquide – Liquid air (1992)
8. Air Liquide – Combat zone II (1994)
9. Mental Cube – Q (Rich Lane Cotton Dub)
10. LFO – LFO (Rich Lane Cotton Dub)
11. Techno Bert – Neue Dimensionen 1990
12. Lhasa – The Attic (1990)
13. Joey Beltram – Energy Flash (Original Mix) – R & S Records – (1990)
14. The Orb – Blue Room (Frank De Wulf Remix) (1992)
15. Gat Decor – Passion (Naked Mix) (1992)
16. Age of chance – Times up (1989)
17. The Project – Do That Dance (1990)
18. FSOL – Papua new Guinea (1991)
19. Jaydee – Plastic dreams (1992)
20. Altern8 – Frequency (1991)
21. Prodigy – Charly (Alley Cat Mix) (1991)
22. Human Resource – Dominator (Beltram Mix) 1991
23. Vein Melter – When You Feel It (1993)
24. F.U.S.E. – Mantrax (1991)
25. F.U.S.E. – F. U. (1991)
26. Space Experience – Preface (1995)
27. Om – Here Comes The Sun (1993)
28. Atom Heart – 2005 (1993)
29. The Age Of Love – Watch Out For Stella Club Mix) (1992)
30. Jam & Spoon – Stella (1992)
31. The Arc – Skinjobs [INT 1994]
32. The House Crew – Euphoria (Nino’s Dream Remix) (1993)
33. Prodigy – Out of Space (1992)
34. Tom & Jerry – The One Reason (1992)
35. Leftfield – Song of life (1992)
36. Opus III – It’s A Fine Day (1992)
37. Orbital – Halcyon on & on (1992)
38. Leftfield – Melt (1995)
39. F.U.S.E. – Into the space (1993)
40. Reload – Le Soleil et la Mer [1993]
41. 808 State – In Yolk (1989)
42. The Future Sound of London – Papua New Guinea (Dub Child of Mix)
43. KLF – Chill out reworked (1990)

Orbiting the Earth – 3 h 00 In Space

Experience weightlessness in Space for 3 h 00 with ambient from the likes of ISHQ, Mick Chillage, ASC, Mount Shrine (RIP), Warmth, Black dog, Inmost, Donato Dozzy amongst the artists played in this mix. Over 50 tracks in total. Samples from these sources: Silent running (1972) with Bruce Dern, Cosmos 1999 (1975), Ad astra (2019). The Berlin Wall of Sound ( The Berlin Wall of Sound is an acoustic reconstruction of the Berlin Wall) Listen here.

The ambient-house revival – Planet Love 3 h 33 mix

Finally, there is a discernible revival for the short lived ambient-house genre. This is surely a sign that the 90’s are getting the retro love it deserves, and I’m all for it. Interest for this era has never been higher in eons. Those tracks are full of space-alien references, obscure movies from the 90’s, meditation lectures from gurus of that time like (John C. Lilly 1915-2001) and dreamy pads infused with acid leads. Most of these tracks found their way onto the shelves of many discerning listeners in the 90’s thanks to a frothy mix of dubwise ambient house and melodic electronica primed for post-club melting sessions. DJs playing downbeat electronica and slow trance should take a look at these tracks as interest for this era has never been higher in eons. File under ambient/ chill out / house / trance / acid & bleepy melodic chill anthems.

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1. Planet Love – New Era
2. The Orb – Blue Room (CocoDaBank Remix)
3. Alien Mutation – Starship Heart Of Gold
4. Alien Signal – Deep Sky Delights (1993)
5. Bliss Inc. – Offensive Username
6. Biosphere – Novelty Waves (Biosphere Arctic Mix)
7. Ebi – San
8. Manipulate – It’s Not A Mindtrip
9. Air Liquide – Chromoplastic (Remix)
10. Ex-Terrestrial – Mojave Skyline (ANF Virtual Music Mix) – Euphorbia EP
11. If You Don’t Love Me (Future Sound Of London Stateside Swamp Mix)
12. PLO Man – Rare Plastic
13. Maurizio – Ploy (Battersea Was An Island Of Mud Mix)
14. Air Liquide – Sun Progress
15. Air Liquide – This is not a mindtrip Live at the Love parade
16. Air Liquide – Liquid Air (Acidtrance 1992)
17. The 7 th Plain – To Be Surreal
18. Maara – Tranquil Lust Mommy
19. Orbital – Impact (The Earth Is Burning)
20. Biodive – Limpet Minds
21. Ex-Terrestrial – Vanilight (Rezoned)
22. Gnork – Rays
23. Sueño Latino – Sueño Latino (The Paradise Version)
24. Conoid Tone HIA
25. Barry Human – Beauty (1993)
26. SPACE E.C.C.O. – John C. Lilly
27. Aphex Twin – Digeridoo (Aboriginal Mix) 1991
28. Phobia – Phobia (Silent) (1991)
29. Maara – Plum Plum Paradise
30. Biosphere – Patashnik
31. PREMIERE E00 – X-71 Odyssey [Paradygme Records]
32. Ex-Terrestrial – Insect Reject
33. Sun Electric –  Space Therapy (Orbital Therapy Part 1)
34. Global Communication- Maiden Voyage (Ripperton Edit)
35. Lhasa – The Attic (1990)
36. Trans4M – Arrival
37. Number Stations The Conet Project Part 1
38. PLO Man – TX-i
39. Pacific State (Nathan Jassi Remix)
40. My.Dinner.With.Andre.
41. The Higher Intelligence Agency – Speedlearn (Reformed By The Irresistible Force)
42. The Arc – Orphic Mysteries
43. Atlantis – Paradise Part 1 (Chill Out Version)
44. Ongaku – Mihon #2
45. The KLF – Dream Time in Lake Jackson
46. The Orb- A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain That Rules From The Centre of the…
47. The KLF – 3AM Somewhere Out Of Beaumont
48. Prince of Darkness – This is not a Dream

Sampling FSOL (A collection of Samples, rarities, remixes & covers)

There is so much musical diversity and sheer ingenuity on FSOL’s music. Gaz Cobain has said that FSOL’s mentality has always been about making a journey of an album rather than focusing on trying to have hit singles. Here is a mix of rare and obscure tracks sampled by FSOL, remixes of the band, covers and edits.
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Well the way I see it it’s exactly the same. There ain’t no difference between a flying saucer and a time machine. People get so hung up on specifics. They miss out on seeing the whole thing. Take South America for example. In South America thousands of people go missing every year. Nobody knows where they go. They just like disappear. But if you think about it for a minute, you realize something. There had to be a time when there was no people. Right?

1. House 2 – The Second Story-3-44
2. The Future Sound Of London – 3D Headspace Tour 1994
3. 3.FSOL – Ill flower (Machinedrum remix)
4. Blu Mar Ten – Night Shift (The Future Sound Of London Remix)
5. FSOL – We have Explosive, Part 3
6. Astronaut John Glenn First American to Orbit Earth Newsreel
7. Flak The Future Sound of London
8. Samples from the motion picture
9. Tomita  The Bermuda Triangle Space ship lands emitting silvery light
10. The Future Sound Of London – Egypt (Nmesh Remix)
11. Terence McKenna – Reclaim your mind
12. Klaus Schulze – 5. Airlights [Beyond Recall Album 1991]
13. Mental Cube – Q (Rich Lane Cotton Dub)
14. Meat Beat Manifesto – Radio Babylon (Soul Intent Relick)
15. Future Sound of London – Among Myself
16. Amorphous Androgynous – Swab (Nmesh Remix)
17. The Future Sound Of London – Lifeforms (Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhmes Simetikon 002-06 Re-Edit)
18. The Future Sound Of London – Papua New Guinea (Balthazar & JackRock Bootleg)
19. The Future Sound Of London – Papua New Guinea (Bart Skils Remix)
20. The Future Sound Of London – Papua New Guinea (Yotto Rework)
21. If You Don’t Love Me (Future Sound Of London Stateside Swamp Mix) – Prefab Sprout
22. Future Sound Of London – Space Hippy (Peel Session)
23. Future Sound Of London – Lifeforms (Commercial Version)
24. Ill Flower The Future Sound of London
25. Future Sound of London. Lifeforms, Path 2
26. Future Sound of London. Lifeforms, Path 6 & 7
27. Future Sound of London – Life Form Ends
28. Future Sound Of London – Little Brother
29. 2010: The Year We Make Contact (sequel to 2001) Dr. Chandra and SAL 9000
30. The Future Sound of London – Dead Skin Cells
31. The Shamen – Re-Iteration (Future Sound Of London Remix)
32. Paul meets Chani from Dune
33. Serengeti
34. Maximilian!

Winter mix

Photo taken in Mont-Tremblant january 2021, Province of Québec. These tracks are showcasing deep techno/ambient/electronica inspiration from the Winter season in the Province of Québec. Starting with distant hints of the abstract ambient dub music of Marc Leclair and finishing things off with IDM outfit Casino versus Japan, a soundtrack for the long midwinter nights to come.

WINTER DUB MIX : ICEBERGS & IMMERSIVE TECHNO

1. Rade Serbedzija (2004) 00:00:00
2. Marc Leclair – 1er jour / Musique pour 3 femmes enceintes (2005) 00 :00 :07
3. krill.minima – Submarine Poetry (2004) 00:06:30
4. Trentemoller While The Cold Winter Waiting (2007) 00:12:49
5. James Bernard – Mars Rain / Atmospherics (1994) 00:16:30
6. Koss – Ocean Waves (Minilogue Dream Drone Remix)-2010 00:18:08
7. Remote – Permafrost (2008) 00:24:10
8. Synkro – Recognition (2013) 00:27:33
9. Ariane Moffat – La fille de l’Iceberg (Akufen rework)-2008 00 :29 :27
10. Natur – Space Dub II (2020) 00:35:10
11. Alex Humann – Triangulare (2016) 00:38:53
12. Basic Channel – Radiance II Edit (1993) 00:43:55
13. Signer – Night Is Blurred (2002) 00:47:18
14. Trentemøller – Nightwalker (2006) 00:51:41
15. Idealist – Mountain Sky [Bergamon08]-2018 00:55:26
16. Yagya – Snowflake 1 (1999) 00:57:40
17. Anton Lanski Strange-Star(2018) 01:02:52
18. Route 8 – I Can’t (2018) 01:12:43
19. Deepchord presents Echospace – Sub-Marine (2010) 01:18:42
20. Steve O’Sullivan & Mike Schommer – Submerged (Deepchord negative space exploration (2018) 01:25:20
21. Elting Lieb – Subtraction/Disturbedances (2001) 01:32:10
22. Cari Lekebusch – Obscurus Sanctus (2011) 01:39:20
23. Akufen – Skidoos (2002) 01:46:40
24. Andrey Pushkarev – First Snow (2014) 01:50:20
25. Martin Donath – Winterwaerme (2003) 01:54:40
26. Deepchord – Exploring the North (2016) 02:01:40
27. d. diggler – Silverfinger (Forcetracks)1999 02:08:50
28. Deepchord – Vantage Isle ( Echospace Spatial Dub )-2008 02:14:20
29. Deepchord – Immersion II [AI-10] – 2018 02:18:00
30. Jan Jelinek – Ice 897 (2002) 02:26:40
31. Casino Vs Japan – Go Hawaii (2001) 02:32:10

Drifting In Space – The Fifth Element (Ambient mix)

The 5th element known as space or aether is the material that fills the region of the universe beyond the terrestrial sphere. Integrating experimental techno, actual samples from deep space radioscopy (specifically recordings of pulsars), and spoken words by Dr. Frank Drake (a senior scientist with the SETI Institute). While Project Phoenix scanned about 1,000 stars all within 200 light years, the distance away from Earth makes the travel even further to Proxima Centauri, Ophiuchi and Omega Nebula.

Read more about Frank Drake who recently passed away in september 2022 here.

1. The first man to look at Earth from Space
2. Pulsation – Pulsar (Pete Namlook) – 1992
3. Hirotaka Shirotsubaki – Midnight Air (Muzan Editions – MEDS024 – 2019) – @Bandcamp here.
4. Boqurant –   Lying on Our Backs and counting a Million Stars @Soundcloud profile.
5. Taennya – Hare footprints [natural serenity – 2021 -@Bandcamp here.
6. Atmospheric Dynamics – Slow Comet
7. Mick Chillage – Entering Coordinates (Astronomy For Beginners – 2021) @Bandcamp here.
8. Pete Namlook & Tetsu Inoue – Shades of Orion 2
9. Carbon based lifeforms – Arecibo (Twentytree – 2011)
10.  Andrew Lahiff – Legends of the Pioneers @Bandcamp here.
11. Spaceci – High flight (Unreleased)
12. Atom Heart – Slow Motion (Our choice EP – 1994)
13. Dots – Dots (Rather Interesting – 1994 )
14. James Bernard – Mars rain (Rising high – Atmospherics – 1994)
15.  “Présence des extraterrestres d’Erich von Däniken

16. SleepResearch_Facility – 79° S 83° W (Deep_Frieze-2007)
17. Dots – Spinout segment (Rather Interesting – 1994)
18. Mick Chillage – Ophiuchi (2022)  @Bandcamp here.
19. SETI – Beacon (Instinct records – Pharos – 1995)
20. Jonah Sharp & Tetsu Inoue aka Electro harmonix – Morphing clouds (FAX-1995)
21. Mick Chillage – Cosmica Sidera [ Parts 1 & 2 ] @Bandcamp here.
22. Monolake – Mass transit railways 
23. Dreamfish – Underwater 
24. LPF12 – Blurred landscapes 
25. Max Richter – Chorale / Glow (Sleep album – 2015)
26. Stellardrone – The pale blue dot 
27. Mer de rêve – Aislin (In silver dust)
28. Altus – Wormhole 
29. Aura minimum – Ritual effect
30. Outro

Anders Trentemøller mix tribute

Last year I ve made a mix on Trentemoller, just for myself, to listen to on the train journey to Montréal which takes accurately 2 h 33 minutes.

I ended up reworking this one for a few weeks – months. IDK? But the result is a 2 h 22 minutes mixtures of minimal techno, pop, shoegaze, electro, deep house, edits & dark cold wave (Think Joy division) ———> his last 3 albums are absolutely fantastic! Obverse, Fixion and Memoria. It’s like Portishead would meet Ian Curtis for an extended session, and this is why I decided to publish this one.

”Music is for sharing with people. — The Irresistible Force I think there’s a story inside every one of us and we all have different talents that allow us to tell our story whether that be through words, art, crafts, music or simply by sharing our life with those we love. Don’t let your story go untold.” — Susan Rushmore

Trentemøller started music in the late 1990s with different indie rock projects. In 2006, Trentemøller released his debut album The Last Resort. Trentemøller’s later music has been described as synthwave and pop. His early tracks (especially The Last Resort) show influences drawing from early downtempo and trip hop, minimal, glitch, and darkwave with an often cinematic feel. He cited amongst his influences Siouxsie and the Banshees, My Bloody Valentine, Slowdive, Joy Division, and Depeche Mode. His music has also been used by film directors, including Oliver Stone (Savages), Pedro Almodóvar (The Skin I Live In), and Jacques Audiard (Rust and Bone).

1. Jim Morrison – Can We Resolve the Past (The Lost Paris Tapes)
2. The Doors – (break on through to the other side ) trentemoller mix
3. Evil Dub
4. Nightwalker
5. Chris Isaak – Wicked games (Trentemoller Dub rmx)
6. Physical Fraction
7. Moan (Trentemøller Remix)
8. Booka Shade – Outskirts (Trentemøller Remix)
9. Bruce Springsteen – State Trooper (Trentemøller Mix)
10. Trentemøller vs. DJ Lab – Rauta (Girls Mix)
11. Djuma Soundsystem – Les Djinns (Trentemøller Remix)
12. The Knife – We Share Our Mother’s Health (Trentmøller Remix)
13. Royksopp – What Else Is There (Trentemoller Remix)
14. In Progress
15. Prana
16. Sharon Phillips – Want 2 Need 2 (Trentemoller remix)
17. Le Champagne
18. Polar Shift
19. Trentemoller, Buda, Vildtand and Krede – 25 Timer
20. Into The Trees (Serenetti Part 3)
21. Feeling Good (Trentemoeller Remix – Chronicles Edit)
22. Silver surfer, Ghost rider go (lulu rouge feat. abdullah s remix)
23. Silver Surfer, Ghost Rider Go !!! (Andrew Weatherall Prinz Mix)
24. Miss you (Nils Hoffmann Remix)
25. Moby – Go (Trentemoller Remix)
26. Still On Fire
27. Aphex Twin – Windowlicker (trentemoller remix)
28. Aphex Twin – Windowlicker (official video)
29. Miss You (Trentemøller Remix)
30. Trentemøller No One Quite Like You (feat. Tricky)
31. Sycamore Feeling (Trentemøller Remix)
32. The Last Resort
33. November