Episode 005 of Music for Small Audiences is called Free And Clear. It was recorded as a live set a few days ago, and the title and content reflect my mood this week, having finished a rather challenging semester of study. Now, with the southern summer rolling in, the days are getting longer and the sunsets pinker, and I am feeling the relief of not having to juggle work, study and personal priorities until the fall semester starts up in late February.
This mix is 83 minutes long in total. The first hour or so is deep and melodic progressive house. There are some big names in here, and some little ones, some new tunes and some old ones, with a bit of a twist at the end. Enjoy, and whatever you are up to, peace.
Episode 004 of Music For Small Audiences was mixed live a few weeks ago, during the first week of Daylight Savings Time here in Australia. With the arrival of Daylight Savings Time, the sun returns to the evenings, opening up a whole world of weekday evening options.
Spring in Melbourne being what it is, the weather changes quickly. ‘Four seasons in a day’ is a well-worn cliche that actually describes the variability pretty well. One of the more unusual weather phenomena we seem to see during the spring is rain falling while it is sunny. It is not something I am used to seeing, and I find it special every time it happens. This mix starts out with the sounds of rain, and works through four seasons of its own from house to ambient and back again, over the course of two hours and two minutes. I hope it brightens and brings a refreshing change to your day wherever you are.
This is Episode 003 of Music for Small Audiences. I have called it Fonda and the Five Minute Banana Bread. Fonda is a Mexican restaurant. Five minute banana bread is troublesome, because it doesn’t take long to make and tastes very, very good.
My intention in making these podcasts available was to showcase a broader side to my musical tastes. This mix covers a lot of ground in this regard, starting with laid-back electronica and working its way through some downtempo grooves of varying intensity for the first forty minutes or so, before settling into a deep groove that builds and bubbles away over the course of the ninety minutes that follows. It was mixed live.
Episode 002 of Music For Small Audiences is called “The Heater Is On Wheels”. It is just under two hours in length, and while it covers plenty of ground in terms of tempo and energy level, it’s underpinned throughout by warm and creatively tuned melodies and expressive grooves.
I have always enjoyed the interplay between electronic and acoustic instruments, and particularly the less-than-perfect timing and tuning that any ‘real’ instrument has as a result of its real-ness. To me, some of the real creativity in electronic music production is found in creatively modulating pitch and groove in a manner similar to that which one might expect to hear from an acoustic instrument. Rather than being stifled by rhythms locked down to millisecond-perfect grids and tuning left pitch-perfect to the exact cent, the songs in this mix breathe and wander, combining both the warmth of real instruments and the precision of modern technology. Mixed live on a cold southern spring evening, this mix should bring a warm change to your ears whatever your weather.
This is episode 001 of Music For Small Audiences. It is a live set recorded last month after a particularly nice weekend away on Australia’s southern coast, in a little town called Airey’s Inlet on the Great Ocean Road, about two hours west of Melbourne.
Episode 005 of Music for Small Audiences is called Free And Clear. It was recorded as a live set a few days ago, and the title and content reflect my mood this week, having finished a rather challenging semester of study. Now, with the southern summer rolling in, the days are getting longer and the sunsets pinker, and I am feeling the relief of not having to juggle work, study and personal priorities until the fall semester starts up in late February.
