OHM Sweet OHM

Who else bought this three CD set, released by Eclipse Arts a few years ago? Promising a definitive trawl through the fringes of avant garde electronic innovation from 1948-1980, it's a lavishly packaged selection of near-inpenetratable experimentation, featuring all the 'giants' of the era from Cage to Riley; from Stockhausen to Eno. Heavy!

I recently came across a mix of mine that I'd completely forgotten about, collecting dust on a shelf among a stack of other cd-rs. As far as I can remember it was an attempt to make some sense of all the sounds and sensations presented on "OHM", integrated with a few Krautrock dronescapes (another area I was exploring at the time) in an attempt to create something that was listenable (enjoyable?), blending 'clever-but-difficult' musique concrete and sinewave studies with more easily digestable 'musical' pieces. Listening again several years later, I think it came out pretty good, although seems to lose the flow in the last fifteen minutes (it was recorded totally live). If you're feeling adventurous, and have a fast connection speed, you might like to give it a spin...

OHM Sweet OHM Mix

(74 mins, 192 kbps, 101 Mb)

Tracklist:

David Tuder - Rainforest V.1
Tangerine Dream - Birth Of Liquid Plejades
Terry Riley - Poppy Nogood and the Phantom Band
John Cage - Williams Mix
John Hassell - Before and After Charm
Fripp & Eno - The Heavenly Music Corporation
Bernard Parmegiani - En Phase/Hors Phase
Cluster - 15:33
David Behrman - On The Other Ocean
Steve Reich - Pendulum Music
John Chowning - Stria
Holger Czukay - Boat-Woman-Song
Alvin Curran - Canti Illuminiti
Popul Vuh - Vuh
Pierre Schaeffer - Etude aux Chemins de Fer
Otto Luening - Low Speed
La Monte Young - Drift Study Excerpt
Paul Lanksy - Six Fantasies On A Poem By Thomas Campion: Her Song
Morton Subotnik - Silver Apples Of The Moon Prt.1
Alvin Lucier - Music On A Long Thin Wire
David Tuder - Rainforest V.1 (reprise)