The Dalai Lama once said “Sleep is the best meditation”. However, our lifestyle and subsequent choices in how to have fun can make sleep, or even mild mental repose, so frustratingly elusive.
So many people are too focused on “the ‘floor” and that new biggest/loudest/heaviest sound, so that stepping away from the club and focusing on those more personal, tranquil and introspective sounds can often be neglected.
(HNNY bringing together a relaxing blend of mellow jazz, bossa nova, and electronica.)
Yet despite (or maybe because of) this ambient music is in a current bloom, a revival of which I am exceedingly grateful for. I agree with Joe Muggs when he says ‘It dissolves your learned listening habits, the impatience and sense of needy anticipation that comes with quick-skip click culture’.
These selections of mixes are intended to soothe, de-stress, untangle one’s mind and act as an anxiolytic, an audible Valium if you will.
(Recent teaser to the new producer’s debut album Pixel Wave Embrace, this mix is a melting pot of found sounds, harmonics and shoegazing with the essence of instrumental grime.)
This is come down music at its glorious and blissful best.
Bonus Beat:
If you like your mixes a little darker, more potent and with added drone intensity, then try this beast instead…
http://www.xlr8r.com/podcast/2014/11/shifted
… and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.
Enjoy.
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// Function Four // 