Today’s guest deejay is Austin Hill of Aeroplane Recordings.
Soundwave guest deejay Steven Howard introduced me to Austin. I’ve known Steve for decades. If he recommends someone, I listen. And, as always, Steven didn’t disappoint. Neither did Austin.
Austin’s mix introduces his ambient productions to a broader audience and highlights the work of two other exceptional artists, Dan Rosen and Denver Bon, who create art through music.
Austin has words about today’s mix below.
Join us next week when our guest deejay will be Anne Chris Bakker.
See you then.
This set was created to present my ambient productions to an audience beyond my Facebook friends, and to highlight two wonderful musical artists who create art with music, Dan Rosen and Denver Bon. My ambient productions are created with an intent to go beyond the drone productions that can be created on a grid in a digital audio workstation. These songs pollute the current atmosphere of Ambient music. I like adding live, improvised instrumentation to breathe life into the productions and hopefully create mesmerizing digital and analog music soundscapes. I also hope there is accessibility available to the listener, some very slight, almost Pop, or familiar tone that draws people in so that it can be listening music or background music depending on the listener's intention. It's a live recorded mountain stream in one song, a live Martin acoustic guitar, a live Fender Strat, and a live human voice in another. The only borrowed samples are drums or percussion.
The line between Art and Craft has been interesting to me lately. If everything someone "makes" is art, we live in an art wasteland. My music, for example, is mostly craft, given enough time, or maybe already, someone has probably done or will do something very similar without ever having heard it, simply because they have the method down. The same cannot be said for May Family Reunion and Drank November. Like all great art, their efforts and creations come from an intangible realm of creativity. It is something only they could ever create. I hope you and your listeners enjoy the juxtaposition of these two sources of inspiration and that these songs create an interesting tapestry to lay back and introspect to.
- drank november “The Wave Function of Dreams”
- Headrest ft. Lotus Olin “Water Song, unreleased”
- May Family Reunion “It’s Gotta Be”
- Headrest “That Cloud, unreleased”
- May Family Reunion “The Right Recipe”
- Headrest “St. Vrain, unreleased”
- drank november “Lost and Through”
- Softening “David Martin, unreleased”
- drank november “Meaning and Reason”
- Headrest “Meteoric, unreleased”
- May Family Reunion “Casanova”
- drank november “Hypnagogia”
- Headrest “Roswell Alien Landing Re-enactment”
- Headrest “Weird outro”
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