This was an idea for an epic mix, to be based on using a series of field recordings. I have always loved the idea of field recordings - checking out both the abstract and concrete sound qualities in the world around us- but sometimes these recordings do get plain weird (yes, I know - you need talk) - in that you will have a field recording supposedly set in a jungle where an entire circus of exotic animals is paraded into the mix one of the other...but then it struck me as a great idea, to make a mix based on field recordings, but placed deliberately in direct contradiction which each other...so there are wolves with whales, fires with thunderstorms, frogs with a desert wind...And then the whole thing mixed down into a big drone timestretched piece to add extra depth and textures. Quite an epic mix too, with some two hours of sound going on down here! More versions of this to follow...
...almost immediately. In this second of the series from the Big Ambient Mixes, we have the field recordings mix, all by themselves, with no backing timestretched drone piece mixed in this time to keep them company, as with the Full Mix. Not they had a chance to get lonely of course, as the mix became rich in delay and reversed samples...
...and in this third and final mix from the Big Ambient series, we have the backing drone mix, recorded from an earlier series of sessions, all by itself and no field recordings mixed in. This grew out of a series of electronic jam sessions that were edited and mixed together, with pitch shifting and time stretching added in key areas of the mix. Sort of atonal and harmonic at the same time...
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