http://tmwk.com/lampshade/Marginalia6.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadThe concept behind this mix was very simple and concrete in my head, but hard for me to articulate coherently for whatever reason. Here’s some ways I tried: “organic futurism” “rainforest cyborg” “greenhouse A.I.”… uh hopefully one of those makes sense. Anyway here it is, enjoy! Visible Cloaks – …
http://tmwk.com/lampshade/ecstasy.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadThis is the third Halloween mix by Scholastics, the follow-up to The Shadows Are A Mercy and Lies are Cheaper than Thrills, but departs from the horror disco & synthwave template of those two mixes for a sound that’s a bit noisier. Phoenix Chorale – Ola Gjeilo: Serenity (O …
http://tmwk.com/lampshade/Marginalia5.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download Scholastics – Marginalia № 5 1. David Wenngren & Christopher Bissonnette – Their Hunted Expression 2. Gailes – Requiem for an Airport Television Newsreader 3. Gregg Kowalsky – Maliblue Dream Sequence 4. Christina Vantzou – And Instantly Take Effect 5. Bing & Ruth – What Ash It Flow …
http://tmwk.com/lampshade/Marginalia2.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download Marginalia No. 2 1. Tourist – Tonight 2. Björk – Pagan Poetry (acapella) 3. Symmetry – Magic Gardens 4. Saint Cava – Forget (Scholatics Reprise Edit) 5. Havenaire – Brute Camp 6. Merely – Limestone Corridor 7. White Sea – Cannibal Love (School of Seven Bells Remix) 8. …
http://tmwk.com/lampshade/moon_cities_silent_sandy_circuitry.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download A fall-oween mixtape for 2016. 1. Aaron Roche – Giganova 2. Akron/Family – I’ll Be On The Water 3. Castanets – No Voice Was Raised 4. Danielson – Jokin’ At The Block (Dymaxion remix) 5. Vapor Lanes – Mary 6. Aperture Science Psychoacoustics Laboratory – Music of the …
http://tmwk.com/lampshade/Scholastics-Watershed.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download With Watershed, Scholastics mines the effects left on the universe by late-period Talk Talk. Gorgeous and haunting, this delicately-structured mix is dense with sounds that evoke feelings and ideas that may have been lying dormant. I’m not saying this might make you cry or anything, but, you know. It might …
http://tmwk.com/lampshade/MBM.m4aPodcast: Play in new window | Download Like a lot of people on the internet, I was enamored with Mad Max Fury Road from the moment the film started. Elements of it crawled up into my brain and began leeching weird feelings, all shiny and chrome, into my body. Weirdly enough, this mix, its name an …
http://tmwk.com/lampshade/sylvansummerspectre.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download Sylvan Summer Spectre, Moon Cities’ long-awaited proper follow-up to Golden Ghost Forest, has arrived in its proper timing, on the fall equinox. Like the mix it follows, it’s full of perfect, moody segues that move fluidly and unselfconsciously between genres without being showy, distracting or disturbing the spell …
http://tmwk.com/lampshade/Live-Library-Three.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download A proper tribute to Frankie Knuckles, Live from the Library, Volume 3 starts meditatively and never loosens its grasp on that emotional thread, even while delicately punching its way up to a workout. It’s pure house and pure heart that crescendos into a classic, often leaving you breathless …
http://tmwk.com/lampshade/PF.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download “Feels”, that piece of post-Tumblr Millenial slang, is as much misunderstood as it is derided. But let’s get to that later. Pure Feels (the name chosen as a homage of the iconic Pure Moods compilation) draws from ambient music, not the genre proper, but the music that was …
http://tmwk.com/lampshade/Scholastics-Hollowtongue_Hymnal.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download Scholastics has taken the feeling of existential dread that can be experienced at 4 am in a dead town and has transmuted it into an hour and a half of chills-up-your-spine bone-rattle music. A spiritual cousin to Golden Ghost Forest. 1. Rachel’s – Cypress Branches 2. Castanets – …
http://tmwk.com/lampshade/cos3.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download The third in the ongoing Chapter of Seas ambient mixtape series ventures out into deepier, choppier waters. But the brutality of the opening third gives way to an ocean of celestial drone. Salvation is reserved for those who endure. Tracklist: 1. Superstorms – Part 1 2. RxRy – …
http://tmwk.com/lampshade/Live-Library-Two.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download The second mix in the Live from the Library series is a lot brighter and more sprightly than the first. It’s also about 15 minutes longer, clocking in at just over an hour. Scholastics – Live from the Library, Volume Two 1. Philip Jeck and Jacob Kirkegaard – …
http://tmwk.com/lampshade/Chapter-of-Seas-2.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download The second in what has become an ongoing series of collaborative ambient mixes between Scholastics and Moon Cities. The unsaid theme of this one was for more “organic” sounds. We <3 you, Hearts of Space. 1. Serifs – There Is an Inaudible Roar Underneath All Things 2. Arp …
http://tmwk.com/lampshade/chapter_of_seas_1.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download An ambient collaborative mix. We both grew up hugely inspired by long-running “slow music” NPR show Hearts of Space. The Chapter of Seas series of mixes are our tribute to Hearts of Space and ambient music in general. 1. Murcof – Cosmos I 2. Oneohtrix Point Never – …