{"id":14669,"date":"2013-12-24T02:21:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-24T02:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=14669"},"modified":"2013-12-24T02:21:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-24T02:21:00","slug":"night-music-in-two-parts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2013\/12\/24\/night-music-in-two-parts\/","title":{"rendered":"Night Music in two parts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.mixcloud.com\/widget\/iframe\/?feed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mixcloud.com%2Ffeuilleton%2Fnight-music-one%2F&amp;mini=&amp;stylecolor=&amp;hide_artwork=1&amp;embed_type=widget_standard&amp;embed_uuid=7b0cd89d-3bdc-4d65-921d-27b7257cebe4&amp;hide_tracklist=1&amp;hide_cover=&amp;autoplay=\" height=\"180\" width=\"454\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; height: 3px; width: 332px;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"display: block; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0; padding: 3px 4px; color: #02a0c7; width: 332px;\"><a style=\"color: #02a0c7; font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mixcloud.com\/feuilleton\/night-music-one\/?utm_source=widget&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;utm_campaign=base_links&amp;utm_term=resource_link\" target=\"_blank\">Night Music One<\/a> by <a style=\"color: #02a0c7; font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mixcloud.com\/feuilleton\/?utm_source=widget&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;utm_campaign=base_links&amp;utm_term=profile_link\" target=\"_blank\">Feuilleton<\/a> on <a style=\"color: #02a0c7; font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mixcloud.com\/?utm_source=widget&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;utm_campaign=base_links&amp;utm_term=homepage_link\" target=\"_blank\"> Mixcloud<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; height: 3px;\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>Night Music I<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Hafler Trio \u2013 <em>Soundtrack To &#8220;Alternation, Perception, And Resistance&#8221; \u2014 A Comprehension Exercise<\/em> (1985)<br \/>\nAphex Twin \u2013 <em>Selected Ambient Works Volume II: Untitled 4\/1 (Hankie)<\/em> (1994)<br \/>\nMichael Brook \u2013 <em>Earth Floor<\/em> (1985)<br \/>\nAphex Twin \u2013 <em>Selected Ambient Works Volume II: Untitled 10\/1 (Tree)<\/em> (1994)<br \/>\nBiosphere \u2013 <em>Startoucher<\/em> (1994)<br \/>\nBlack Lung \u2013 <em>Rex 84<\/em> (1995)<br \/>\nBiosphere \u2013 <em>Biosphere<\/em> (1992)<br \/>\nHolger Czukay \u2013 <em>Radio In An Hourglass<\/em> (1993)<br \/>\nRapoon \u2013 <em>Rains<\/em> (1993)<br \/>\nClock DVA \u2013 <em>Memories Of Sound<\/em> (1992)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.mixcloud.com\/widget\/iframe\/?feed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mixcloud.com%2Ffeuilleton%2Fnight-music-two%2F&amp;mini=&amp;stylecolor=&amp;hide_artwork=1&amp;embed_type=widget_standard&amp;embed_uuid=a0c31df2-c46a-47e7-8461-e853285d10b5&amp;hide_tracklist=1&amp;hide_cover=&amp;autoplay=\" height=\"180\" width=\"454\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; height: 3px; width: 446px;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"display: block; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0; padding: 3px 4px; color: #02a0c7; width: 446px;\"><a style=\"color: #02a0c7; font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mixcloud.com\/feuilleton\/night-music-two\/?utm_source=widget&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;utm_campaign=base_links&amp;utm_term=resource_link\" target=\"_blank\">Night Music Two<\/a> by <a style=\"color: #02a0c7; font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mixcloud.com\/feuilleton\/?utm_source=widget&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;utm_campaign=base_links&amp;utm_term=profile_link\" target=\"_blank\">Feuilleton<\/a> on <a style=\"color: #02a0c7; font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mixcloud.com\/?utm_source=widget&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;utm_campaign=base_links&amp;utm_term=homepage_link\" target=\"_blank\"> Mixcloud<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; height: 3px;\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>Night Music II<\/strong><br \/>\nPsychick Warriors Ov Gaia \u2013 <em>Dust (At The Crossroads)<\/em> (1994)<br \/>\nAphex Twin \u2013 <em>Selected Ambient Works Volume II: Untitled 2\/2 (Parallel Stripes)<\/em> (1994)<br \/>\nHarold Budd \u2013 <em>The Gunfighter<\/em> (1986)<br \/>\nDivination \u2013 <em>Errata<\/em> (1993)<br \/>\nCoil \u2013 <em>Dismal Orb<\/em> (1992)<br \/>\nBiosphere \u2013 <em>Mir<\/em> (1994)<br \/>\nDavid Toop and Max Eastley \u2013 <em>Rising Up Before Us Like Things<\/em> (1994)<br \/>\nAngelo Badalamenti \u2013 <em>Night Life In Twin Peaks<\/em> (1990)<br \/>\nCoil \u2013 <em>The Sleeper II<\/em> (1992)<br \/>\nJon Hassell \u2013 <em>Empire II<\/em> (1983)<br \/>\nThe Grid \u2013 <em>Virtual<\/em> (1990)<br \/>\nBiosphere \u2013 <em>En-trance<\/em> (1994)<\/p>\n<p>After signing up to Mixcloud earlier this year I&#8217;ve only managed to compile one mix so here&#8217;s an unseasonal attempt to compensate.<\/p>\n<p><em>Night Music<\/em> was a bona fide mix on cassette tape that I put together in 1994, intended as a response to Kevin Martin&#8217;s double-disc compilation from the same year, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Various-Ambient-4-Isolationism\/release\/72804\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Ambient 4: Isolationism<\/em><\/a>. The three previous entries in Virgin&#8217;s <em>Ambient&#8230;<\/em> series were fairly routine reworkings of the label&#8217;s back catalogue, collections of more-or-less ambient material with light electronica. Martin&#8217;s compilation concentrated on the darker, doomier end of the musical spectrum, and also pulled in music from outside the Virgin fold. It arrived as a considerable tonic after several years of diluted techno and psychedelic clich\u00e9s being marketed as &#8220;ambient&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><em>Night Music<\/em>\u00a0is much more of a genuine DJ mix than <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixcloud.com\/feuilleton\/ectoplasm-forming\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Ectoplasm Forming<\/em><\/a>. I didn&#8217;t have any proper mixing equipment at the time so had to record every other track onto stereo videotape then play back the tape while fading the rest of the tracks in and out from the CD player. The whole thing was recorded live to a C-100 cassette. Rather than run the mix as a single track I&#8217;ve kept the two sides separate; both sides were programmed with beginnings and endings so work better this way. I transferred the mix to CD several years ago, and still listen to it every so often. There&#8217;s a little too much Biosphere but apart from that I wouldn&#8217;t alter the track list.<\/p>\n<p>As usual I\u2019ll be away for a few days so the { feuilleton } archive feature will be activated to summon posts from the past below this one. Enjoy your <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wassail\" target=\"_blank\">wassail<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2013\/10\/31\/a-mix-for-halloween-ectoplasm-forming\/\">A mix for Halloween: Ectoplasm Forming<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Night Music One by Feuilleton on Mixcloud Night Music I The Hafler Trio \u2013 Soundtrack To &#8220;Alternation, Perception, And Resistance&#8221; \u2014 A Comprehension Exercise (1985) Aphex Twin \u2013 Selected Ambient Works Volume II: Untitled 4\/1 (Hankie) (1994) Michael Brook \u2013 Earth Floor (1985) Aphex Twin \u2013 Selected Ambient Works Volume II: Untitled 10\/1 (Tree) (1994) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2013\/12\/24\/night-music-in-two-parts\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Night Music in two parts&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[29,3],"tags":[2029,5554,466,883,5556,4248,2272,412,802,2276,212,5033,140,5555,5558,5557,5559,5553,2021],"class_list":["post-14669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronica","category-music","tag-angelo-badalamenti","tag-aphex-twin","tag-bill-laswell","tag-biosphere-musician","tag-black-lung","tag-clock-dva","tag-coil-group","tag-david-toop","tag-harold-budd","tag-holger-czukay","tag-jon-hassell","tag-kevin-martin","tag-max-eastley","tag-michael-brook","tag-psychick-warriors-ov-gaia","tag-rapoon","tag-the-grid","tag-the-hafler-trio","tag-twin-peaks"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-3OB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}