Earth tones for Autumn / 81 and a half minutes

1: Je M’appelle Geraldine (Mid-Tempo Version) – Jean-Claude Vannier
2: Lay Lady Lay – Claude Denjean
3: Shadows From Nowhere – Blue Gas
4: Nangs – Tame Impala
5: SB-02 – Unknown Mortal Orchestra
6: Trepanated Earth (Overture) – Ariel Pink
7: ?
8: Punch-Drunk Boogie – Odd Nosdam
9: Autumn Travels – Aphex Twin
10: Don’t You Know – Jan Hammer Group
11: Signaux Codes Non Identifies – Michel Magne
12: The Space Between – Brainticket
13: Watercolour Rush – The Fireman
14: Environmental Studies – Delia Derbyshire
15: Breathe Between Sleep – Christ.
16: I’m Waiting – The Tape-Beatles
17: Cannibal – Drab Majesty
18: Gem – Ducktails
19: Elevator Music – The Tape-Beatles
20: Spruce Tops – Bibio
21: Witches Hat – Incredible String Band
22: McCrimmon Will Never Return – Gavin Bryars & Christopher Hobbs
23: Go Ya Lo – Kid Spatula
24: Ganesha – Alice Coltrane
25: Sweet Bird – Joni Mitchell
26: Societas Xcerpt – Boards Of Canada
27: Surfaise (Trade Winds Mix by Boards Of Canada) – Michael Fakesch
28: The Bubble Massage – Iasos
29: Clear the Cobwebs – Mark McGuire
30: Forever – Morabeza Tobacco

Hazy old synth mix from 2014 that I’m still pretty fond of.

1 Seasons – The Advisory Circle
2 Riddles Of the Sphinx” (Sequence 5) – Mike Ratledge
3 Super Nova – Bruce Haack
4 Dance – Lise-Helene Larin
5 Sun Circles – Sand Circles
6 Tropic Of Capricorn (Remix) – Edgar Froese
7 Longing Thresholds (Side 2) – Pulse Emitter
8 Six String Marenghi – Bibio
9 Splendored Skies and Angels – Earthstar
10 Aurora Borealis – Wendy Carlos
11 Sun Zither – Laraaji
12 Sunset Drive – Tangerine Dream
13 When Shade Was Born – Harmonia ’76
14 Structures From Silence – Steve Roach
15 Drone – FFWD
14 Itineraire – Richard Vimal

70 minutes

1: He – Jai Paul
2: Alone In Sandkassi – Bjarki
3: Doesn’t Matter (If You Love Him) – Ital
4: II – Cloudface
5: Tam Tam (Daniele Baldelli & Marco Dionigi Remix B) – Codek
6: Smoke Of the Skunk – LSDXOXO
7: New Beat Situation – Body Party vs. Yazoo
8: I’m a Model –  Valerie Claire
9: Petrified Rimshot – Atom TM
10: Whendialupbecomeform – Bonka
11: Panaflex Sunrise – Special Request
12: Mary Mary – The 2 Bears
13: Experience – Cosmic Garden
14: Drocovums – Analogical Force
15: Tourtou – RAMZi
16: Dreamquest – Peaking Lights
17: Totally! – Eric Anada
18: Saint – Blood Orange
19: Doesn’t Matter (If You Love Him) (Reprise) – Ital

57 and a half minutes.

The annual Summer mix, compiled July 2019.

Originally posted to Mixcloud May 2018, this is a mix of library music, vintage synth & moog, esoteric Canadiana, documentary soundtracks, vinyl artifacts, jazz of sorts, muzak memories, childhood favorites, and space facts.

1: Gamescan ’76 (1977)
2: Constellation – Klaus Weiss (1981)
3: Heavy Industry – Alan Hawkshaw (1981)
4: Caribou (1971)
5: Soft Games – Robert Lueben (1983)
6: Snoopy – Rod Hunter (1972)
7: I’m Bob Macgregor (1988)
8: Research Specimens – James Asher (1986)
9: Space Travel – Rock City (1988)
10: Starblanket (1973)
11: Vibraphonoid ( c ) – Laszlo Bencker (1988)
12: Vibes From the Tribe – Phil Ranelin (1976)
13: Sables Rouges – Alan Shearer (1983)
14: Flower Garden – James Harpham (1982)
15: CBC Radio (1988)

16: The Greater Snow Goose (1978)
17: Vibraphonoid ( e ) – Laszlo Bencker (1988)
18: Overhead Glass – Geoffrey Landers (198?)
19: Voyager 1 (1982)
20: Cameo – Michal Urbaniak (1975)
21: Kluane (1981)
22: Crystal Fire (edit) – Benjamin Cohen & Mam Houari (1985)
23: Volcanic Journey – James Asher (1982)
24: 21st Olympiad (1977)
25: The Rocky Mountains – Wendy Carlos & Rachel Elkind (1980)
26: Planet Mars (1979)
27: Sea Bird Fly – Christian Chevallier (197?)
28: Synthesizers In Love – Marc Chantereau & Pierre-Alain Dahan (1980)
29: Riddles of the Sphinx (Sequence 8) – Mark Ratledge (1977)
30: Voyager 2 (1982)

Cover design adapted from Canadian postage stamps by Fritz Gottschalk.

1: Improvisation (Max D Edit) – Vangelis Katsoulis
2: Where Chavez Becomes Sunset – George Michelle
3: Diesel – Conor C
4: Gay Futures – Decius
5: Seagulls – Bicep
6: See U In My Dreams (Lone Remix) – DJ Haus
7: Baikal Reflection – Krycek
8: Temperamental – Everything But The Girl
9: Innocence – Róisín Murphy
10: Kpanlogo (Mawimbi Edit) – Ben Baddoo
11: I Don’t Care – Park Hye Jin
12: Real Love – George Michelle
13: Never Wanna Lose You – Doc Daneeka
14: Deep Trip – 3 Down
15: Melted (Out Of Body Experience) – Lone
16: Afterlife – Pontchartrain
17: Bruce Lee (The Micronauts Mix) – Underworld
18: Too Hard – DSC
19: Occupy Your Mind – Dusty Springfield

Compiled/mixed May 2019 by Panda Magic.

Relax but don’t get too comfortable . . .

1: A Break To Breathe – Moon B
2: Guitar Pule – SFT
3: Pink Arcade – Beta Librae
4: The Search – Curved Light
5: Echo Shore – Voyage Futur
6: Late Hither [ma8ema8mati7s nap version] – Brainwaltzera
7: Phasing Percussions d – Michel Gonet
8: Julia (Footnote IV) – Leon Vynehall
9: The Geep (Goddess Of My Soul Mix) – The Geep
10: English Meadow – Irv Teibel
11: Rogue – Greymatter
12: Strange Harvest – Linda Moulton Howe
13: Aspects Of Order – K. Leimer
14: Waterworld – Jurgen Muller
15: NL-L56-18-07441 – Aleksi Perala
16: Ne T’En Fui Pas – Kate Bush
17: Top Soil – Bibio
18: Hvitar Fjoll – Glasbird
19: Fade To Grey – 36
20: Intakes – Craven Faults
21: Mystic Sleep – Sleep, Data
23: On the Way (Space Caravan) – Michael Stearns
24: Crusoe (The LFO Mix) – Art Of Noise

Compiled/mixed April 2019 by Panda Magic.
Cover art: Rudi Stern, Imaginary Table, 1974.

A pleasant mix from 2014.

1: A Crystal Form – Panda Magic
2: Zyllyakrvm – La Synthesis
3: No Child Of God – Dabrye
4: Austral Aura – Sleep D
5: Sunday Cycling (Bearhead Remix) – Min-y-llan
6: Kalamazoo – Dykehouse
7: Gas Bubbles – Ovuca
8: Stan’s Slaves – Global Goon
9: Hallo – Astrobotnia
10: Jubilee – Derek Jarman
11: Marchromt30a Edit 2b 96 – Aphex Twin
12: Nubian West Coast – Nacho Patrol
13: That’s Mutuality – Bochum Welt
14: Pistachio Payoff – Alias
15: Dusk Veiled – Pye Corner Audio
16: Go To Sleep (Everything Is Alright) – Vibert & Simmonds
17: Obsessed – B12
18: Milk & Honey – Burger/ink
19: This Is Not America – David Bowie & Pat Metheny Group
20: Marcus & Michael – 18 Carat Affair

The third in the Sleep Country series (volumes 1 and 2, both from 2015, are only up on Mixcloud for now.) Not necessarily to be used as a sleep aid.

Part 1
1: Hakko Suru Zero – 7FO
2: Umasa – Symbol
3: When the Dog Bites – Tropic of Cancer
4: Stay Home (Ambient) – Guidewire
5: Sleeping to Technology (2) – Five Way Mirror
6: Intro Cymbal Wind – Dean Hurley
7: Gradual Requiem (Part 4) – Ingram Marshall
8: Mask: Movement 4 – Vangelis
9: Data Flow – Sunmoonstar
10: Theme From Atom Egoyan – Le Bannash

Part 2
11: Om Mani Padme Hum – Constance Demby
12: Day Dreams – Kuniyuki Takahashi
13: Preparations For a Journey – David Sylvian
14: The Six Million Dollar Sandwich – The Dead Texan
15: Fratres – Stars Of the Lid
16: Béton Brut – Loscil
17: Prism – Chris Spheeris & Paul Voudouris
18: Picnic In a Multiverse Cassette – Smackos

73 and a half minutes. Compiled & mixed Jan/Feb 2019.

Psychotropic mix from 2014.

1. And Clouds For Company – Lawrence English
2. The Tuning Meditation – Pauline Oliveros
3. Clockworks – Laurie Spiegel
4. Ploy (Battersea Was an Island of Mud Mix) – Maurizio
5. In Mind – Amorphous Androgynous
6. Format & Journey North – Oneohtrix Point Never
7. So Much Light – Datacide
8. Seven Sacred Pools – Patrick Cowley
9. Magnetic Dreamscape – Zavijava Orchestra
10. Sand – Gale Orminston & Carl Weingarten
11. The Children Gathering Around the Lake – Steve Jansen, Richard Barbieri & Nobukazu Takemura
12. Ein Wort – Monoton
13 .Heterotropian – DJ Spooky & Scanner
14. Toy Park – Exercise One
15. Charlotte’s Mouth (Avant Garde Mix) – Seefeel
16. Sleep Comedy – Andy Kaufman
17. Trombones of Lithia – Craig Kupka
18. Wuub – Woob
19. Harmonic Relation – David Hykes & The Harmonic Choir
20. Then It’s White (Mohn Mix) – The Field
21. The Tuning Meditation (Reprise) – Pauline Oliveros

Short dance mix made for the FADADANCE Christmas Party “A Crystal Ball,” December 22 2018, The Exchange Club, Regina SK, as part of a collaborative performance called HAIR ENERGY.

1: Bindou – Joe Lewandowski
2: Pull Up To The Bumper (Joey Negro Mix) – Grace Jones
3: Hypnotic – Faze Action
4: Viarejo – Clap! Clap!
5: Dare (DFA mix) – Gorillaz
6: Psychic Life Coach – Dusky
7: Brighter Days (Underground Goodies Mix) – Cajmere ft. Dajae
8: Going Down – Sidney Charles
9: Wet Dollars (Dirty) – Tazer & Tink
10: Want To See U – Jean Tonique
11: Everybody Wants – Green Velvet & Kid Sister
12: Direct Connection – Dreamtrak
13: It’s The Beat – Simian Mobile Disco
14: Around The World – Senor Coconut & His Orchestra

The second installment of this annual series (see here for Ambient 2017), Ambient 2018 distills the best of a year’s worth of drifty sonic hypnosis down to 82 minutes.

1: Mantis – 丘を越えて (Beyond The Hill)
2: Brick Cloud – Area 2 – The National Pool
3: The Son, The Sun – Low
4: Kill Scene – Joyfultalk
5: The Weight Of History – Brian Eno & Kevin Shields
6: The Haunted Shores of Hiva Oa – Wanderwelle
7: Sea Of Sand – Peaking Lights
8: Raw Silk Uncut Wood – Laurel Halo
9: Upward Beside The Gale – Helios
10: Fantana Vie – Petre Ionutescu & Daniel Dorobantu
11: Ununited States – The Orb
12: Fiji – Arp
13: This Much More – Laraaji & Arji OceAnanda & Dallas Acid
14: Inner Voice – Tape Loop Orchestra
15: Love In The Time Of Lexapro – Oneohtrix Point Never
16: Hotel TV Network – Dravier
17: Slipstream – Jon Hassell
18: Ceiling Of The Mind – Omni Gardens
19: Phantom Brickworks V – Bibio

Cover artwork incorporates “Snooperscope” (1983) by George Snyder.