Ghosts of the Future

At the end of May I posted an excellent mix from Mike G of the Ambient Music Guide. We agreed to do guest mixes for each other and that the starting point would be a title that each of us would give the other. We sent each other a few title ideas, we each chose one and got to work.

Mike chose "Lapse into Reverie" and the result was his beautiful mix that you can find here...

http://lowlightmixes.blogspot.com/2015/05/lapse-into-reverie-complied-mixed-by.html

And here...

https://www.mixcloud.com/lowlight/lapse-into-reverie-compiled-mixed-by-mike-g-of-ambient-music-guide/

Mike gave me about 4 or 5 title ideas and my attention was immediately drawn to one in particular... "Ghosts of the Future."

The first thing that comes to mind is the film "Interstellar", which I had just re-watched right before this project. With its time dilation and Murph's "ghost" communicating from the future, the soundtrack is the perfect launching point for this mix. I like soundtracks but Hans Zimmer usually isn't a favorite. However with this film he strikes a perfect balance. At times the music has a Philip Glass feel to it.

I also thought of snippets of voices as ghosts and so I worked in some spoken word excerpts here & there, as well as using tracks that had voices or vocoder. Overall I hope the mix conveys a strange, otherworldly feel to it.

Thanks again to Mike G for doing the mix swap with me and thanks for a great mix title.

Enjoy

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T R A C K L I S T :

00:00 Ian William Craig - Before Meaning Comes
00:35 Hans Zimmer - Where We're Going(Interstellar OST)
05:52 Eskmo - Spvce
07:55 Robert Rich - Premonition of Circular Clouds
13:15 Intrusion - Static Waves & Shuttle358 - Fissure(played simultaneously)
16:30 Echospace - Viola's Ghost Hamonix, Beyond Gravity, Astral Dreaming, Beyond The Drone(played simultaneously along with Static Waves)
19:10 Disasterpeace - Formations
20:55 Shuttle358 - Warm
25:10 Kraftwerk - Endlos Endlos
25:50 Chris Dooks - Antifoni
26:45 Bon Iver - Woods(remixed)
28:40 Hans Zimmer - s.t.a.y.(Interstellar OST)
33:45 Adlib - Hoffnung
34:25 Steve Roach - It's All Connected
39:50 Vangelis - Tears in the Rain
42:36 Cliff Martinez - We Don't Have To Think Like That Anymore
45:15 Transcient - My Last Goodbye
48:39 Simon Bainton - Range
50:43 Public Broadcasting Service - Tomorrow
55:55 end