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DJ Mixes, Music suggestions

Moving Stillness

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Moving Stillness copyright H. Adams

Another mix?! That’s four in just over a month!

Well, yes, but there’s a simple explanation…

I have genre folders in my iTunes library — Ambient, House, Tech, Cosmic Disco, etc. — where I put tracks that I fancy whenever I stumble upon them.

So, every once in a while, I peek into those folders and when there’s enough raw material to consider recording a mix, I toy around with said raw material to see if the muses are with me.

It’s no mystery, then, how this Ambient mix, the previous Cosmix 8 and Merry Techmas and a Happy New House came to be.

As for Cosmix 7.5, that was commissioned, with a due date and a fixed exclusivity period, hence the 30 days between it and Cosmix 8.

Add that to the fact that the more I mix, the more I want to mix…

It’s always been like that and a keen observer will notice that my production often comes in such bursts. Many artists operate with the same impetus.

In any case, the creation of this Ambient mix was guided by harmonic progression but created out of pure expressionist instinct and it’s de facto very personal. This might mean that some people won’t like it, but I humbly doubt that.

I sincerely hope you enjoy it.

You can stream or download it here and your donations are welcome to help me pay for the file hosting!

TRACKLISTING

Moving Stillness

  1. Flowers for Yulia – Max Richter
  2. Spangle (Autechre remix) – Seefeel
  3. Sun Drugs – Stars of the Lid
  4. Deep Blue Day – Brian Eno
  5. Signals – Seefeel
  6. Assassin (Chocolate Hills Of Bohol Mix) – The Orb
  7. Jack And Jill (Selffish Remix) – Benfay
  8. Regressor – Demdike Stare
  9. Wooloomooloo – Jean-Michel Jarre
  10. Six Fantasies on a Poem by Thomas Campion: Her Song – Paul Lansky
  11. Low and Order – Frank Martiniq
  12. Extwistle Hall – Demdike Stare
  13. Harmonium – Max Richter
  14. Irradian Irradiant – Jesse Somfay
  15. Basscadet (Basscadubmx) – Autechre
  16. Into The Fourth Dimension (Essenses In Starlight) – The Orb
  17. Sealand – Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
  18. Articulate Silences part 2 – Stars of the Lid
  19. Late Anthropocene – Brian Eno
DJ Mixes, Music suggestions

Monsieur Seb’s Cosmix 8: In Space, Everyone Can See You Boogie

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Here it is, Cosmonauts and Cosmonettes: the new Cosmix is about to hit your ears and endorphin production centers!

Several weeks in the making, this iteration of the series is a proud successor to its predecessors inasmuch as it doesn’t much sound like any of them! 🙂

Its 29 tracks range from 115 to 124 beats per minute and from pure disco to so called slo-mo house and deep house with a splash of italo-feeling groove and even an ambiant conclusion that I litterally decided on seconds before the track began. The mix was initially supposed to end with Carl Craig’s remix of Tiga’s track, but for reasons which belong to creators and artists, I just had to throw in Arp’s amazing tribute to krautrock as a coda to this mix.

Despite the high track count, it is a relatively short affair compared to previous iterations in the series. What that means is simple: unmixed, all the tracks on Cosmix 8 total 3,7 hours of music. Mixed (if one excludes the last track that’s not really “mixed” per se), you get 2 hours and 30 minutes. So more that an hour of that tracklist happens while two tracks are playing at the same time… Yeah, I like long haul mixes, a luxury afforded by new technological tools like Mixed in Key and pitch lock.

In any case, enough geek-talk! Enjoy!

You can stream or download it here and your donations are welcome to help me pay for the file hosting!

P.S.: In case you haven’t checked it out yet, don’t forget to give a glance at Cosmix 7.5, which was an exclusive podcast for my friend Mike’s label CCCLTD and kind of a sneak peek at Cosmix 8.

TRACKLISTING

Monsieur Seb’s Cosmix 8: In Space, Everyone Can See You Boogie

  1. La Ninya (Afrodub Version) – John Talabot
  2. Whispering Twirl – Tornado Wallace
  3. Costa Verde – Space Ranger
  4. Superstring – Space Ranger
  5. Le Troublant Acid – KZA
  6. Matilda’s Dream – John Talabot
  7. Freekend feat. Danielle Moore (Anthony Mansfield & Nick Chacona Dub) – Hot Toddy
  8. Wake Up – The Glimmers
  9. Naked (Kink Mix) – Sleazy McQueen
  10. Hot Pepper Sauce – Stopmakingme
  11. Superbacon – Kasper Bjørke & Tom Barford
  12. I Know You’re Mine – Roberto Rodriguez (Manolo)
  13. The Jammer – Chamboche
  14. Cosmic Radiation – Dionigi
  15. Pushin’ – Toomy Disco
  16. Shave Me, I’m Famous (Instrumental) – Space Ranger
  17. 60 Minutes – Dionigi
  18. Distant Shores – Petar Dundov
  19. Mitch (Emperor Machine Long Version) – Acidkids
  20. No Brain (Serge Santiago Remix) – Étienne De Crécy
  21. Will I (Instrumental) – Sportlotto
  22. Moody Bang (Tensnake Remix) – Ajello
  23. Soul Train – The Glimmers
  24. Subgreen (Arto Mwambe’s Saap-Green Mix) – Extraproduktionen
  25. Eleven Dimensions – Dionigi
  26. Megalopolis (Beatfanatic Remix) – Cloned In Vatican
  27. All Night – Oliver
  28. Love Don’t Dance Here Anymore (Carl Craig Remix 2) – Tiga
  29. Pastoral Symphony: I. Dominoes — II. Infinity Room – Arp

Because you made it all the way down here, you deserve a little treat: Cosmix 8: Deleted Scenes, a minimix of songs I wanted to use but didn’t in the final version!