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Download: Quiet Sounds Episode 19: Moss Dance

63.2MB - one hour, nine minutes

Underneath the forest loam.

Tracklist:
1. “Turning to Stone” by Robert Rich & Alio Die from Fissures (Fathom) (start time: 1:14)
2. “Meditation” by Edward Artiemev from Stalker soundtrack (Electroshock) (6:17)
3. “Vog Rings” by Of from The Sun and the Earth Together (Ultra Hard Gel) (11:07)
4. “Old Hive” by Andrew Chalk from Crescent (Robot Records) (18:07)
5. “Rhododendrons” by Jefre Cantu-Ledesma from The Garden of Forking Paths (Spekk) (23:41)
6. “Lantern Marsh” by Brian Eno from Ambient 4: On Land (EG) (26:17)
7. “Windmill” by Bruce Langhorne from The Hired Hand soundtrack (Blast First) (31:35)
8. “Sun Against My Eyes” by Colleen from Les Ondes Silencieuses (Leaf) (33:01)
9. “Canopy” by Milieu from Of the Apple (Second Sun Recordings) (37:06)
10. “Zauberberg 1″ by GAS from Zauberberg (Mille Plateaux) (41:22)
11. “Shoals of Stars” by eM from Lost and Found: A Foundry Anthology (The Foundry) (48:40)
12. “Aguirre” by Popol Vuh from Aguirre soundtrack (Kuckuck) (54:07)
13. “Trees Kissing Trees III” by Darren Tate from Trees Kissing Trees (Fungal) (59:35)

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Download: Quiet Sounds Episode 18: Unknown Pleasures

65.8MB - one hour, eleven minutes, fifty-three seconds

Underrated or obscure ambient from the attic.

Tracklist:
1. “La Neve D’estate Sull’ardesia di Cornia” by Sostrah Tinnitus from Piccola Musica per Staglieno (Penumbra) (start time: 1:17)
2. “Some Light from the Heavens” by David Tollefson from New Eyes on the Universe (Hypnos) (7:43)
3. “1″ by Paul Bradley from Chroma (Twenty Hertz) (13:22)
4. “The Color of Wind I” by Jason Sloan from Still (Slo Bor Media) (16:39)
5. “Temporal Continuum” by The Azusa Plane from Tycho Magnetic Anomaly and the Full Consciousness of Hidden Harmony (Camera Obscura) (23:02)
6. “Gravitational Pull” by Freq. Magnet from Étoiles du Couvercle (Sound-O-Mat) (30:16)
7. “Wet Flakey Bark” by Bibio from Fi (Mush) (35:42)
8. “Dead Leaves” by Shuttle 358 from Chessa (12K) (40:06)
9. “4 A.M.” by Forrest Fang from Gongland (Projekt) (45:15)
10. “Nel Ventre della Verginità” by Saffron Wood from Platonica Filosofia della Temperanza (Hic Sunt Leones) (49:29)
11. “The Fucking Bleeding Hearts Brigade” by The Remote Viewer from Let Your Heart Draw a Line (City Centre Offices) (54:17)
12. “Time Starts Again” by Ashera from Ambient Selections (Ashera) (56:34)
13. “Compassion” by Kiln from Thermals (Infraction) (59:22)
14. “Sputtering Lungs / End Organ” by Celer from Continents (Celer/Unlabel) (61:49)

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Download: Quiet Sounds Episode 17: My 2007 Favorites

71.9MB - one hour, eighteen minutes, thirty-three seconds

A cross-section of my favorite music from 2007.

Tracklist:
1. “Cover the Windows and the Walls” by Grouper from Cover the Windows and the Walls (Root Strata) (start time: 3:36)
2. “Winters” by Northern from Drawn (Infraction) (9:19)
3. “Balloon Folder” by Pub from Rainclown (Talent Hoover/Ampoule) (18:02)
4. “Im Not” by Panda Bear from Person Pitch (Paw Tracks) (27:40)
5. “Sickly Sweet” by Adam Pacione from From Stills to Motion (Infraction) (31:28)
6. “Arches/Far Journeys” by Jim Cole & Spectral Voices from Innertones (Spectral Spiral Music) (33:52)
7. “Time Travel of the Sloth, Parts 1-3″ (edit) by Eluvium from Jesu/Eluvium Split 12″ (Hydra Head/Temporary Residence) (38:39)
8. “What I Learned on TV” by Felix from Chris Herbert/Felix split 7″ (Low Point) (46:51)
9. “Haru” by Fennesz + Sakamoto from Cendre (Touch) (51:32)
10. “Cumulus and Fugue” by Roy Montgomery from Inroads (Rebis) (55:43)
11. “La Rocca’s View” by Alio Die & Luciano Daini from End of an Era (Hic Sunt Leones) (60:26)
12. “Thin Light” by Rapoon from Time Frost (Glacial Movements) (63:25)
13. “Peak” by Tetsu Inoue from Inland (Fax) (69:21)
14. “Above the Sky” by Brian Grainger from Eight Thousander (Attack Nine) (75:20)

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Download: Quiet Sounds Episode 16: The Good Old Stuff 1

77.9MB - one hour, twenty-five minutes, eight seconds

Classics from the bygone age.

Tracklist:
1. “Cybernaut” by T.O.N.T.O.’s Expanding Head Band from Tonto Rides Again (Viceroy Vintage) (start time: 13:07)
2. “Across the Lake of the Ancient Word” by Terry Riley from Shri Camel (CBS/Columbia) (17:19)
3. “Waterwheel” by Mother Mallard’s Portable Masterpiece Co. from Like a Duck to Water (Cuneiform) (24:31)
4. “Greenland” by Richard Pinhas from Ice Land (Cuneiform) (33:31)
5. “Blanche” (edit) by Klaus Schulze from Body Love (SPV) (41:52)
6. “Des Zauberers Traum” by Eroc from Eroc (Brain) (49:02)
7. “Hausmusik” by Harmonia from Musik von Harmonia (Brain) (54:06)
8. “Voices of Where” (edit) by Michael Hoenig from Departure from the Northern Wasteland (Kuckuck) (58:03)
9. “Heimatklänge” by Kraftwerk from Ralf & Florian (Germanofon) (62:50)
10. “Evensong” by Fripp & Eno from Evening Star (EEG) (66:06)
11. “Garden of Paradise” (edit) by Steve Hillage from Rainbow Dome Musick (Virgin) (68:31)
12. “Deep Distance” by Ashra from New Age of Earth (Virgin) (79:19)

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Download: Quiet Sounds Episode 15: Lost Horizon

66.2MB - one hour, twelve minutes, nineteen seconds

Journeys, vast, bright, lovely.

Tracklist:
1. “Nano Flame” by Saul Stokes from Radiate (Databloem) (start time: 7:30)
2. “Gauss” by Kiln from Holo (Thalassa) (20:16)
3. “Rainbow Blood” by Tim Hecker from Harmony in Ultraviolet (Kranky) (24:06)
4. “Going to Stay” by Beautumn from White Coffee (Infraction) (25:40)
5. “Inscape and Landscape” by A Produce from Inscape and Landscape (Trance Port) (28:47)
6. “Wind Circle” by Todd Fletcher from Star (Arya/Amplexus) (33:22)
7. “Habu Valley” by Thom Brennan from Mountains (Rubycon) (39:24)
8. “Glint in Her Eyes” by Robert Rich from Music from ‘Atlas Dei’ (Soundscape) (48:49)
9. “Departure” by O Yuki Conjugate from Equator (Staalplaat) (54:34)
10. “Hidden Message” by Robin Guthrie & Harold Budd from Before the Day Breaks (Darla) (61:28)
11. “Seep” by Taylor Deupree from Landing (Room40) (66:02)

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Download: Quiet Sounds Episode 14: The Guitar and Other Machines

73.3MB - one hour, twenty minutes, six seconds

Yes, each track features the guitar in some way.

Tracklist:
1. “Television” by Howard Hello from Howard Hello (Temporary Residence)
2. “Brocade (Rewoven)” by Greg Davis from Curling Pond Woods (Carpark)
3. “Ses Aintro ‘e Mene Finzas Si Ses In S’atter Ala E Su Mundu” (edit) by Kawabata Makoto from O Si Amos A Sighire A Essere Duas Umbras? (Important Records)
4. “Luddite” by Pub from Do You Ever Regret Pantomime? (Ampoule)
5. “Empty Field” by Parallax from Empty Field: Collected Works 1999–2004 (Milieu Music)
6. “Bay” by Mountains from Sewn (Apestaartje)
7. “Swans and Ponds” by Mandible Chatter from Of Foreign Lands and People (Relapse/Release)
8. “1987″ by Robert Fripp from Let the Power Fall (EEG)
9. “Can of Bliss” by FFWD from FFWD (Inter-Modo)
10. “Sienna” by Kiln from Holo (Thalassa)
11. “Labor Pained” by Egocentric from The Sky Within the Ground ep (The Foundry)
12. “Rosa I” by Mick Turner from Marlan Rosa (Drag City)
13. “Blood In the Palm of Your Hand” by Rameses III from Matanuska (Music Fellowship)
14. “Departure” by Windy & Carl from Portal (Ba Da Bing!)
15. “Let the Snakes Crinkle Their Heads to Death” by Klimek from Pop Ambient 2005 (Kompakt)
16. “Laguna” by Fennesz from Venice (Touch)
17. “The Photo of Santiago McKinn” by Harold Budd (featuring Bill Nelson) from By the Dawn’s Early Light (Opal)
18. “From the Same Hill” by Brian Eno from Music for Films (EEG)
19. “A Matter of Feeling” by Off the Sky from It Is Impossible to Say Just What I Mean (Stilll)
20. “Inside of the Pocket” by Chihei Hatakeyama from Minima Moralia (Kranky)

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Download: Quiet Sounds Episode 13: 2006 Favorites

76MB - one hour, twenty-three minutes

My favorite music from a glorious 2006.

Tracklist:
1. “Messenger with Keepsakes” by RF from Views of Distant Towns (Plop)
2. “Kappsta” by The Field from Pop Ambient 2007 (Kompakt)
3. “Part 11″ by Andrew Deutsch from Loops over Land (Divine Frequency)
4. “First Dream Called Ocean” by Helios from Eingya (Type)
5. “The Palace Wedding” by Scott Solter from One River (Tell-All)
6. “You & I” by John Webster Johns from Presence Under the Tree - Starlight (Attack 9)
7. “Cave-In” by The Surf the Sundried from Presence Under the Tree - Twilight (Attack 9)
8. “Medium Blue” by Christopher Willits from Surf Boundaries (Ghostly International)
9. “Blood Rainbow” by Tim Hecker from Harmony in Ultraviolet (Kranky)
10. “Who Told You This Room Exists” by Belong from October Language (Carpark)
11. “Suashi” by Chris Herbert from Mezzotint (Kranky)
12. “Northern” by Taylor Deupree from Northern (12K)
13. “Layer 002″ by Robert Henke from Layering Buddha (Imbalance Computer Music)
14. “Goldfall” (edit from side 1) by Andrew Chalk from Goldfall (Faraway Press)
15. “Song to Go …” by The Church from Uninvited, like the Clouds (Cooking Vinyl)

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Download: Quiet Sounds Episode 12: Tiny Melodies

43.1MB - forty-seven minutes, six seconds

Sweet and often heartbreaking sonic miniatures—an uninterrupted mix.

Tracklist:
1. “Over the Horizon Radar” by Boards of Canada from Geogaddi (Warp)
2. “Plant Radiation” by Saasfee* from Mt. Fern (Saasfee*)
3. “Charms of Beautiful Natural Girls” by Kiln from Thermals (Infraction)
4. “Memory 4″ by Miles Tilmann from Underland ep (Sub:marine)
5. “Gentle Fields” by Milieu from Sun White Sun (free download @ Expanding Electronic Diversity)
6. “We Are You” by Casino Versus Japan from Go Hawaii (Wobblyhead)
7. “I” by Aphex Twin from Selected Ambient Works 85–92 (R&S)
8. “Heal” by Michiru Oshima & Pentagon from Ico: Melody in the Mist (SME Visual Works)
9. “Aegina Airlines” by The Dead Texan from The Dead Texan (Kranky)
10. “Beautiful Losers” by Fenton from Small Melodies (Spekk)
11. “Untitled” by Ulf Lohmann from Because Before (Kompakt)
12. “Cullin Hill” by Helios from Unomia (Merck)
13. “The Other Room” by John Foxx & Harold Budd from Translucence/Drift Music (Edsel)
14. “Steal Away” by Harold Budd & Brian Eno from The Pearl (EEG)
15. “Mit Simaen” by Cluster & Eno from Cluster & Eno (Sky)
16. “Andrew and Lynsey” by The Boats from We Made It for You (Moteer)
17. “Villa PS-1822 (A Song for P)” by Sebastien Roux from Pillow (Apestaartje)
18. “Prozac” by Howard Hello from Howard Hello (Temporary Residence Ltd.)
19. “Lake Feet” by Black Moth Super Rainbow from Falling Through a Field (70’s Gymnastics Recording Co.)
20. “Harmony in Blue I” by Tim Hecker from Harmony in Ultraviolet (Kranky)
21. “Light Sound” by Steve Roach from Now | Traveler (Fortuna)
22. “Dx-Snth” by Jochem Paap from Vrs-Mbnt-Pcs 9598 II (Fax)

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Download: Quiet Sounds Episode 11: Studying for a Ph.D. in Ambient

81.3MB - one hour, seventeen minutes, fourteen seconds

Back to school, but here the teachers simply instruct you to relax….

Tracklist:
1. “Umbra” by Loscil from Idol Tryouts Two (Ghostly International)
2. “First Jump” by Saul Stokes from Zo Pilots (Hypnos)
3. “Seasons’ Tide” by Oöphoi from The Rustling of Leaves (Faria)
4. “Dijon/Pleure” by Ultra Milkmaids from Lands ep (Waystyx)
5. “Datura” by Marsen Jules from Les Fleurs (City Centre Offices)
6. “Afirespoken” by Opium from Sympathetic Flying Objects (Silentes)
7. “The Flight” by Zero Ohms from True Degrees of Freedom (Space For Music)
8. “Currents Beneath the Shine” by Vir Unis from The Drift Inside (GreenHouse Music)
9. “Synthetic Alignment” by Exuviae from Response (AtmoWorks)
10. “Study for Prepared Violin” by Ryan Teague from Silva (Miasmah)
11. “The Door Opens the Other Way” by Belong from October Language (Carpark)

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Download: Quiet Sounds Episode 10: Orchestra, Submerged

70.7MB - one hour, seventeen minutes, fourteen seconds

Go down with the ship, while the orchestra plays on….
An uninterrupted mix.

Tracklist:
1. “Zauberberg 1″ by Gas from Zauberberg (Mille Plateaux)
2. “Yara 1″ by Marsen Jules from Yara (Autoplate)
3. “Thread” by Deaf Center from Pale Ravine (Type)
4. “The Last Human” by Tylervision from From Here to Tranquility, Volume 2 (Silent)
5. “Prelude” by Tom Heasley from On the Sensations of Tone (Innova)
6. “Part 2″ by Andrew Deutsch from Loops over Land (Divine Frequency)
7. “Melancholia 2″ by William Basinski from Melancholia (2062)
8. “Fucked Up (3:57 AM)” by Stars of the Lid from The Ballasted Orchestra (Kranky)
9. “Green Reflections” by Biosphere from Shenzhou (Touch)
10. “Underwater Flowers” by John Foxx & Harold Budd from Translucence/Drift Music (Edsel)
11. “Zauberberg 7″ by Gas from Zauberberg (Mille Plateaux)

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