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    Mixtape #27 : Drone

    by 5:4 July 1, 2013 • 22:26
    July 1, 2013 • 22:26

    It’s 1 July, so here’s the new mixtape, focusing on the intense genre of drone. Drone music suffers the same kind of malaise as more generalised ambient music—immobility and drift as tacet apologias for a dearth of imagination and subtlety of ideas. But these 21 tracks offer an insight into …

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    Mixtape #17 : Lay the Voice to Rest, Dear Mist (In Memoriam Danielle Baquet-Long)

    by 5:4 July 8, 2010 • 00:12
    July 8, 2010 • 00:12

    How quickly a year passes. On this day, 12 months ago, Danielle Baquet-Long died, bringing to an abrupt end the remarkable musical project that she and husband Will had crafted together for several years. Of course, music, like life, goes on regardless, and the prospect of plenty more releases yet …

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    Mixtape #2 : Late Night (again)

    by 5:4 March 7, 2008 • 20:27
    March 7, 2008 • 20:27

    While it’s not my intention to create a series of mixtape each intended to be listened to late at night, this new mix again has that in mind. Perhaps i’m just drawn to nocturnal kinds of music; or perhaps it is i that is nocturnal and not the music. Either …

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