Crambe Repetita– Abstraction

Ben Kamen – “So The Light Came To Contain Numbers”
Arvo Part – “Fuer Alina”
Stars Like Fleas – “I Write This From The Dancefloor”
Oren Ambarchi – “Triste”
Stars of the Lid - “I Will Surround You”
Andrew Thomas – “Untitled”
The Wind Up Bird – “Fluff and Meat, Perhaps Resulting in the Annihilation of Both”
Thomas Koener – “Hym”
Edward Artemiev- Selections from his re-recordings of the soundtrack to Solaris

Conceived as one-half of a mix for a friend of mine, this one is quite a bit different from most that I’ve made in the past. That being said, it more accurately reflects what my college radio show used to sound like when I was doing it solo (my last two years at school were spent doing a collaborative show with Gavin Mueller).

While I won’t bother going into what the specific tracks sound like, my general idea was to go from sparse to overwhelming in as few steps as possible over the course of the half-hour. The key track for me is “I Write This From the Dancefloor,” which moves it past the dueling pianos of Kamen and Part.

Next week, the other half of the mix: “Blow (A Jacques Lu Cont Mix).”