Burning Bright

'Earthbound' is my second new long mix of the year, and comes from the same well of inspiration as 'Earthborn' from a couple of weeks ago, i.e. grey mornings, low sun, dirty windows, trudging about and staving off attacks from piles of leaves.


Tracks:

001 Brian Bennett: Earthborn 002 Tangerine Dream: Fauni Gena 003 Ramases: Earth People 004 Nucleus: Stonescape 005 Michael Garrick: Thanksgiving Dance 006 Minotaur Shock: Primary 007 Boards of Canada: Oirectine 008 Oberon: Time Past, Time Come 009 Marianne Faithfull: Jabberwock 010 Les Reed: Dawn Idyll 011 Delired Cameleon Family: Le Boeuf

Featured songbirds include the Greenfinch, the Crosshatch, the Field Fare and the occupants of the Berlin Zoo Aviary in late 1972.

What Dread Hand

First mix of 2011, and the first to be hosted on 'Island Of Terror'. How exciting.

'Earthborn' was inspired by the first twangs of Spring, but is more about the arse end of Winter, the muddy, chilly, damp and dreary that sticks around and makes everyone vaguely depressed until the beginning of April when the sun starts to break through. I don't mind that sort of weather at all, of course, I'm a vaguely depressed kind of person: I like drizzle better than sizzle.

Tracks: 

001 Boards Of Canada: Wildlife Analysis 002 Talk Talk: The Rainbow (Edit) 003 Evan Parker: Birds One 004 Norma Winstone: Perkins Landing 005 Pentangle: In Your Mind 006 The Memory Band: Once Bittern 007 Basil Kirchin: Once Upon A Time (Excerpt) 008 Spontaneous Music Ensemble: Oliv II (Excerpt) 009 Belbury Poly: Cool Air 

It's all mixed together with some additional sound effects, nature recordings and the odd bit of sonic manipulation, as well as some dialogue samples from, well, you'll never guess...