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Download: Quiet Sounds Episode 23: Monsters of Long-Haired Hippie Beardo Ambient

64MB – one hour, nine minutes, fifty six seconds

“Hey, man is that AMBIENT?”
“YEAH, MAN!”
“Well, TURN IT UP, MAN!”

Tracklist:
1. “Sunrain” by Ashra from New Age of Earth (Virgin) (start time: 1:07)
2. “Kekse” by Harmonia from Deluxe (Brain) (8:21)
3. “Aqua Shimmering” by Laraaji from Harmony with Ambience (Windfarm) (12:27)
4. “Four Ever Rainbow” (edit) by Steve Hillage from Rainbow Dome Musick (Virgin) (21:44)
5. “Morning” (edit) by Michael Stearns from Morning Jewel (Earth Turtle/Groove Unlimited) (28:31)
6. “Akasha” by Paul Horn from Inside the Taj Mahal (Kuckuck) (34:47)
7. “March of the Colossus” by J.D. Emmanuel from Solid Dawn—Electronic Works 1979–1982 (Kvist) (37:28)
8. “Abraxas” by Deuter from Aum (Kuckuck) (42:07)
9. “Door of Your Enigma” by Kawabata Makoto from Hosanna Mantra (Important) (43:31)
10. “Circulation of Events” by Tangerine Dream from Atem (Sanctuary/Castle) (50:02)
11. “Warm Clicked Fruit” by White Rainbow from Prism of Eternal Now (Kranky) (55:38)
12. “Something In Tears” by Steve Roach from Quiet Music (Fortuna) (64:19)

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Download: Quiet Sounds Episode 22: Great and from ‘08

65.9MB – one hour, eleven minutes, fifty seven seconds

Pillowy ambient and dream pop to quietly usher out another year.

Tracklist:
1. “Yes No Piano” by Bachel from Go-Gax ep (Ampoule/Talent Hoover) (start time: 1:32)
2. “Without Motion” by The Sight Below from Glider (Ghostly International) (11:15)
3. “Basilica” (Keith Berry remix) by Rameses III from Basilica (Important) (15:27)
4. “In the End It Won’t Matter” by Eluder from The Most Beautiful Blue (Infraction) (20:31)
5. “Heavy Water/I’d Rather Be Sleeping” by Grouper from Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill (Type) (26:42)
6. “Young Love” by Fabio Orsi from Audio for Lovers (Last Visible Dog) (29:29)
7. “Petrified Forest” by Celer from Nacreous Clouds (And/Oar) (35:26)
8. “Trains” by Parks from Umber (Infraction) (38:16)
9. “Levante” by Pub from Making Trakcx.5 (Ampoule/Talent Hoover) (44:52)
10. “Grey Scale” by Fennesz from Black Sea (Touch) (51:58)
11. “Aura Seminalis I” by Alio Die from Aura Seminalis (Hic Sunt Leones) (55:18)
12. “Intermittent Haiku” by Hans-Joachim Roedelius & Tim Story from Inlandish (Grönland) (60:30)
13. “You Came To Me” by Beach House from Devotion (Carpark) (61:49)
14. “The Loom Pedal” by Benoît Pioulard from Temper (Kranky) (65:48)
15. “Let the Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel” by Atlas Sound from Let the Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel (Kranky) (71:47)

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Download: Quiet Sounds Episode 21: IDM: Indolent Dance Music

74.6MB – one hour, twenty-one minutes, thirty-five seconds

Rather sleep than dance?

Tracklist:
1. “Bug Attack” by Saasfee* from Mt. Fern (Saasfee*) (start time: 1:53)
2. “Frame” by Shuttle358 from Frame (12K) (6:31)
3. “One Thing In Mind” by Redcell from Redcell/Stasis split (B12) (14:03)
4. “Particle 3” by Miles Tilmann from 3D Concepts (Toytronic) (19:54)
5. “Television Tower” by Monolake from Cinemascope (Imbalance Computer Music) (23:26)
6. “You Need” (Cepia remix) by Mr. Projectile from Atlantic Blood (Sublight) (29:03)
7. “Wet Tip Hen Axe” by Aphex Twin from I Care Because You Do (Warp) (33:37)
8. “Rosery Pilots” by Balil from Parasight (Rising High) (38:21)
9. “Morphic Fields” by Deep Space Network from Earth to Infinity (Source) (44:53)
10. “Two Of” by Gescom from 0161 (V/vm / Skam) (54:09)
11. “Skim Two” by CiM from Reference (Defocus) (59:46)
12. “Le Soleil et la Mer” by Reload from A Collection of Short Stories (Infonet) (61:19)
13. “Last Breath” by Xela from For Frosty Mornings and Summer Nights (Neo Ouija) (68:45)
14. “Everything You Do Is a Balloon” by Boards of Canada from Hi Scores (Skam) (74:29)

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Download: Quiet Sounds Episode 20: The Very Soul of the Machine

71.3MB – one hour, seventeen minutes, forty-five seconds

Mandala sequencing and blissed-out cloud-hop.

Tracklist:
1. “Departure from the Northern Wasteland” (edit) by Michael Hoenig from Departure from the Northern Wasteland (Kuckuck) (start time: 1:10)
2. “Arrival” by Steve Roach from Empetus (Fortuna) (9:19)
3. “Red Birds Will Fly Out of the East and Destroy Paris In a Night” (edit) by Coil from Musick to Play in the Dark 1 (Chalice) (11:48)
4. “Movements of a Visionary” by Tangerine Dream from Phaedra (Virgin) (18:07)
5. “Patashnik” by Biosphere from Patashnik (Apollo) (25:44)
6. “Tascel_7” by Arovane from Atol Scrap (DIN) (31:56)
7. “Lomond” by Loess from Wind & Water (N5MD) (37:20)
8. “Amalia” by As One from A.R.T.¹ 12″ (A.R.T.) (41:46)
9. “Xtal” by Aphex Twin from Selected Ambient Works 85–92 (Apollo) (48:19)
10. “Broken English from Europe″ by Metamatics from From Death to Passwords Where You’re a Paper Aeroplane (Hydrogen Dukebox) (52:45)
11. “Flextone C” by Atom Heart from Flextone (Rather Interesting) (58:39)
12. “Resurgam” by Loscil from Submers (Kranky) (61:55)
13. “Snowflake 6” by Yagya from Rhythm of Snow (Force Inc.) (68:40)

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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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