Today’s guest deejay is Drew Sullivan.
Drew is the Mastering Engineer for Past Inside the Present, an ambient label and the home of a passionate, collaborative artistic community pursuing the world’s most inventive and engaging quiet music. They aim to moor the listener in changing tides with a captivating sense of permanence, blurring the ephemeral with the eternal.
I thank Zach Frizzell, AKA zakè, or putting me in touch with Drew. After Zach shared his mix on Soundwave (you can and should listen to it here), I asked him who he knew who might also want to guest deejay on Soundwave. Zach recommended Drew, who also records under the monicker Slow Dancing Society.
Drew is a Washington-based musician/producer and nostalgist extraordinaire. If ever there was an artist who truly expressed themselves in a way that defies everything music and art expect and, at times, demands, then Slow Dancing Society would be that artist. As with Brian Eno’s finest moments and David Sylvian’s ambient explorations, Drew’s music manages to dissolve its temporal markers and speak about moments removed from time.
Drew, in his modesty, didn’t include his own music in his mix. However, I strongly recommend you purchase his latest album, Do We Become Sky? Drew suggests experiencing the album in its 86-minute entirety, as it’s a spiritual successor to Priest Lake Circa ‘88. This album is inspired by the namesake location, evoking visions of childhood freedom and innocence, family road trips through northern Idaho, and a yearning for a simpler past.
While I’m at it, I urge you to pick up Live Improvisations, which came out earlier this year. The album features Chihei Hatakeyama, Hakobune, zakè, and From Overseas. Oh, and listen to From Overseas’s mix for Soundwave here.
Join us again next week when out guest deejay will be… me!
See you then.
- Charles Webster “The Second Spell (feat Ingrid Chavez)”
- BT “Nicht Musik [Verklärung] No.2 in D major”
- Ryuchi Sakamoto and Alva Noto “First Dream / Second Dream”
- Angelo Badalamenti “Mulholland Drive”
- James Newton Howard “Times Square”
- Asche & Spencer “I Needed You”
- Cliff Martinez “Gold Paint Shoot”
- 36 & Isaac Helsen “All Possible States”
- Johnny Jewel “Saturday (Evening)”
- John Murphy “Mercury”
- Nancy Wilson “Elevator Beat”
- Skrillex “Ride Home”
- The Dream Academy “Power To Believe”
- James Newton Howard “Legacy”
- Asche & Spencer “Tyrell”
- Peter Gabriel “In Doubt / A Different Drum”
- Charles Webster “The Spell / The Second Spell”
- Telefon Tel Aviv “Lengthening Shadows”
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