Side A
Artist	Song
Global Communications	14:31 - 76:14 - (1994)
Meallo	Satyagrahi - Space N Bass - (199?)
Lucier, Alvin	Interval 3 - I Am Sitting In A Room - (1990)
Reich, Steve	[Excerpt] - Music For 18 Musicians - (1978)
Fennesz	15 - Plus Forty Seven Degrees 56' 37" Minus Sixteen Degrees 51' 08" - (2000)
Neotropic	Regents Park - 15 Levels of Magnification - (1994)
Seefeel	Minky Starshine - Polyfusia - (1993)
Lucier, Alvin	Interval 7 - I Am Sitting In A Room - (1990)
Arovane	Seaside - Tides - (2000)
Lull	Lonely Shelter - Cold Summer - (1995)
Aphex Twin	Untitled (Track 14) - Selected Ambient Works, Vol. 2 - (1994)
Hirsch, Shelly	On the Swing (Excerpt from Pomp and Circumstances) - Imaginary Landscapes: New Electronic Music - (1989)
¦-Ziq	Whale Soup - Tango N' Vectif - (1993)
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Pan Sonic	Ilma/Air - Kesto (234.48:4) - (2004)
Lucier, Alvin	Interval 3 - I Am Sitting In A Room - (1990)
Boards of Canada	Aquarius - Music Has The Right to Children - (1998)
Mountains	Mountains [Excerpt]. - Wire Tapper 11 - (2004)
Oval	Untitled (Track 9) - Ovalprocess - (2004)
Pan American	Remapping - Pan American - (1998)
Richter, Max	The Blue Notebooks - Shadow Journal - (2004)
Deep Listening Band	Deep Pockets - Non-Stop Flight - (1998)
Lucier, Alvin	Interval 3 - I Am Sitting In A Room - (1990)
Guenter, Marcus	Respect for the Distance - Kompakt 100 - (2004)
Mullos	Argentine Dawn - Space N Bass - (199?)
Hunt, Jerry	Strings 3 - Sound Drapes - (1999)
Hunt, Jerry	Strings 5 [Birds] - Sound Drapes - (1999)
Amacher, Maryanne	Music Rooms [Excerpt from Stain] - Ambient, Vol 1: A Brief History of Ambient - (1987)
Pimmon	Smaller Than You Are - Liquid Architecture - (2005)
Rome	Lunar White - Rome - (1996)
Side B
Artist	Song	Buy
Basinski, William	dlp 4 [Excerpt] - Disintegration Loops - (2004)
Reilly, Terry	[Excerpt] - In C - (1968)
Glass, Philip	Part 10 [Excerpt] - Music in Twelve Parts - (1983)
Lucier, Alvin	Interval 14 - I Am Sitting In A Room - (1990)
Vainqueur	Antistatic - Elevations - (1997)
Monolake	Lantau - Hong Kong - (1996)
Porter Ricks	Port Gentil - Biokinetics - (1996)
Basic Channel	The Climax/Octogon/Cyrus:Recall - Scion - (2002)
Lucier, Alvin	Interval 20 - I Am Sitting In A Room - (1990)
Eno, Brian	2/1 - Ambient 1 Music For Airports - (1978)
Hassel, Jon	Before and After Charm (La Notte) - OHM: Early Electronic Gurus - (1980)
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Felhmann, Morton	Feat - Lowflow - (2004)
As One	Reunion - So Far (So Good) - (199?)
Lucier, Alvin	Interval 26 - I Am Sitting In A Room - (1990)
L	Harvest - Holy Letters - (1992)
Optica	Evolute - Space N Bass - (199?)
Biosphere	Kobresia - Substrata - (1997)
B12	Telefone 529 - Electro-Soma - (1993)
Higher Intelligence Agency	Hubble - Freefloater - (1995)
Irresistable Force	Another Tomorrow - It's Tomorrow Already - (1998)
Children of Dub	Waves of Dub - Space N Bass - (199?)
Black Dog Productions	Clan (Mongol Hordes) - Bytes - (1993)
Photek	Resolution - Form and Function - (1998)
Speedy J	Fill 3 - Artificial Intelligence - (1993)
Mandarin Movie	The Green Giraffe - Wire Tapper 13 - (2005)
Lucier, Alvin	Final Interval - I Am Sitting In A Room - (1990)

Comment:

This mix goes out to g.a.b. l@b.

A four disc set which blends ambient, ambient dub, ambient techno, experimental ambient, minimalistic classical and modern composition. All of which fall well within the instrumental category.

One will note the prevalence of tracks from Alvin Lucier's I Am Sitting In A Room, noted as "Intervals". Here's a little background: considered "one of the masterpieces of 20th century music merging processed music, minimalism, and self-reference into an utterly amazing and ultimately beautiful work". To create this work the composer sits and describes what will happen, and then it happens. Lucier tapes these instructions (about 80 seconds worth), tapes it, replays that tape into the room, tapes that, plays the second tape into the room, etc., and so on. After each repetition, the recording erodes further and further to the point (around interval 12) the listener can barely make out the words. But, as the words disappear, other tones seem to appear. By the midway point, one is left with a musical throb marked by only the rhythm left from the original recording.

I thought by including 8 intervals throughout the rest of the pieces, one can experience the transition from words to ambience caused by one's surroundings. Something I felt would be quite fitting for this particular mix.

I hope you enjoy.

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