For the latest 5:4 mixtape, inspired by the incredible heat that’s been sizzling its way across Europe recently, i’ve turned to the Sun as my theme. The mix has a somewhat different tone from my Summer mixtape from four years ago (which was, generally, intended to be quite upbeat and – well – ‘summery’), drawing on differing degrees of languorousness, dreaminess and, here and there, some searing intensity. As such, it starts rather slowly and lazily, through relatively gentle tracks by Heiko Maile, Benn Jordan, Fovea Hex, Anna von Hausswolff and Altus, before beginning to pick up some momentum. What follows includes various songs (Lady & Bird, Holly Herndon, Björk, Sigur Rós, C Duncan, Jenny Hval & Susanna, Ghost Twin), some of which are beautifully full-blooded paeans to the sun and/or poetically tap into its connotations of heat and fire. Of the non-vocal tracks, i’ve chosen some for their exuberance (Ashra, Kenny Beltrey, Deborah Pritchard), some for their potent energy (Autechre, Ulver, The Hafler Trio, Aidan Baker, Hecq, Elizabeth Anderson, Ouvrage Fermont, Wolves in the Throne Room, Brian Reitzell) and others for their ecstatic bliss (Ascoil Sun, Andrew Liles, Ben Lukas Boysen & Sebastian Plano, Sleep Party People, Christina Vantzou, 36, Liisa Hirsch). The mixtape begins and ends with short traditional songs from Trio Mediaeval that invoke the sun’s rising and setting.
Two hours of sound that bakes, basks and boils in sunlight; here’s the tracklisting in full, including time positions and links to buy the music.
- 00:00:00 Trio Mediaeval – Solbønn (Sun-Prayer) (from Folk Songs)
- 00:01:12 Heiko Maile – Sunrise On The Balcony (from Wir sind die Nacht (Original Score))
- 00:02:37 Benn Jordan – Sunrise In Blue Skies (from Pale Blue Dot)
- 00:05:47 Fovea Hex – The Golden Sun Rises Upon the World Again (from The Salt Garden I)
- 00:09:52 Anna von Hausswolff – Sun Rise (from Ceremony)
- 00:14:28 Altus – Sunmotes in Your Eyes (from Macro – free download)
- 00:17:13 Autechre – paralel Suns (from Quaristice)
- 00:19:56 Lady & Bird – Run in the Morning Sun [excerpts] (from La Ballade of Lady & Bird)
- 00:24:07 Holly Herndon – Morning Sun (from Platform)
- 00:29:20 Ascoil Sun – Settlers By The Sun (from Emergence)
- 00:33:28 Ulver – Solaris (from ATGCLVLSSCAP)
- 00:35:37 Björk – Sun In My Mouth (recomposed by Ensemble) (from Cocoon (CD1))
- 00:38:42 Andrew Liles – Sunshine Sea And The Sandman (from The Flesh Creeping Gonzoid & Other Imaginary Creatures)
- 00:40:48 Ben Lukas Boysen & Sebastian Plano – Glacial Sunbeam (from Everything)
- 00:44:54 Ashra – Sunrain (from New Age Of Earth)
- 00:52:12 The Hafler Trio – Who Is The Mother of The Sun? [excerpt] (from Only The Hand That Erases Can Write The True Thing)
- 00:55:18 Sigur Rós – The Hungry Ghosts, We Live in an Old Chaos of the Sun [excerpt] (from Variations On Darkness)
- 01:00:08 C Duncan – He Came from the Sun (from Health)
- 01:04:00 Kenny Beltrey – Suntrip (from Suntrip – free download)
- 01:08:22 Deborah Pritchard – The Angel Standing in the Sun (World Première) (unavailable)
- 01:12:55 Aidan Baker – (The) Sun [excerpt] (from Pretending To Be Fearless – free download)
- 01:15:56 Hecq – Sun Ricq (from A Dried Youth)
- 01:18:39 Sleep Party People – I See the Sun, Harold (from Floating)
- 01:22:29 Jenny Hval & Susanna – O Sun O Medusa (from Meshes of Voice)
- 01:24:46 Christina Vantzou – Shadow Sun (from No. 3)
- 01:29:08 Elizabeth Anderson – Solar Winds [excerpt] (from L’envol)
- 01:33:03 Ghost Twin – Saturn Swallows the Sun (from Plastic Heart)
- 01:37:08 Ouvrage Fermont – Peaks of Eternal Sunlight [excerpt] (from The Peaks Of Eternal Sunlight)
- 01:40:24 Wolves in the Throne Room – Turning Ever Towards the Sun [excerpt] (from Celestite)
- 01:45:56 36 – Black Sun [excerpt] (from Black Soma)
- 01:49:24 Liisa Hirsch – The Sun Worshippers (from SoundCloud)
- 01:53:06 Brian Reitzell – And the Woman Clothed in Sun Pt 3 (from Hannibal: Season 3 Volume 2 (Original Television Soundtrack))
- 01:55:58 Trio Mediaeval – Nu Solen Går Ned (The Sun Is Setting) (from Folk Songs)
