Ambient Cities
A series of curated mixes that act as surrealist passages through a dense metropolis, collaging music of the past and present, and trespassing boundaries between genres. In turn, each mix is itself a city: teeming with life, populated by characters from many worlds, and fueled by strange intersections. Endlessly in flux and capable of inducing waking hallucinations, mixes and cities behave like dreams in motion.
Each mix blends works by other artists with original compositions by William Rauscher.
Ambient Cities I: The Black Light District
Aphex Twin - Z Twig
William Rauscher - Rain in Blood
Francisco Semprun & Michel Christodoulides - Les Miroirs Mentent
Ezekiel Honig - Displacement
2814 - 真実の恋
Passengers - Ito Okashi
Claire Hamill - Sleep
Relaxace - Tempus Perfectum
The Wind Harp - Cycle One: Seasons: Solstice/Summersong
Earth - Left in the Desert
William Rauscher - The Bronx Saxophone
K-S.H.E. - Head (In My Private Lounge, My Pad)
Material - The End of Words
Jon Hassell - Delta Rain Dream
Midori Takada - Mr. Henri Rousseau's Dream (William's Screwed Mix)
William Rauscher - Juno Qi Gong
The Cosmic Wizards' Club Band - Musashi
M'Boom Re:Percussion – Side 1
Marsen Jules - Lazy Sunday Funerals 02
William Rauscher - Cloud City
William Rauscher - Far Tortuga
Your passport to ambient cities. Global sound evocations and soundtracks for imaginary places. Travelogue of ethnoambient meditations and hypermodern sound sculptures that embrace the chaos magic of city life.
Ambient Cities II: Chaos Magic
H. Takahashi - Umwelt
Satoshi Ashikawa - Landscape of Wheels
Klimek - Standing on the Beach
Anton Kubikov - Dekka
Johnny Jewel - City of Roses
Alice Coltrane - Ganesha
Toni Iordache - Balada Haiduceasca
Deuter - Karatas
William Rauscher - Alone in the Garden
Passengers - A Different Kind of Blue
David Sylvain - Home
Hitoshi Yoshimura - Clouds
Bibio - Phantom Brickworks II
DJ Harvey - Moonshadow Volume One Track Two
The Taj Mahal Travellers - I
Arp - The Rising Sun
Lou Reed - Find Your Note
Curation and multi-channel mixing by William Rauscher
FX processing by Harry Bennett
I wanted AC2 to reflect the immersiveness of city life in sound in a new way. So I made a rough mix out of my selected tracks and sent it to Harry, who then processed it with hardware FX units into three different versions. I then created a four-channel mix by combining Harry's processed versions and my initial dry version together. The final mix has a unique ebb and flow as if you're drifting through a densely layered urban space.
The track curation features chill-out essentials as well as some new finds from distant lands. This is your passport to ambient cities.
Ambient Cities III: Sun Damage
Evening Tide
Stars of the Lid - Daughters of Quiet Minds
Les Baxter - Mozambique
William Rauscher - Ojai Dub
Gaussian Curve - Impossible Island
Arp - Halflight Visions
William Rauscher - Far Tortuga
Clan Caiman - Encuentro Cercano
Eden Ahbez - Full Moon
Webley Edwards - Hawaiian Paradise
Jerry Goldsmith - Love Theme from Chinatown
William Rauscher - Fourth of July
Vito Ricci - Dox E Koo
Andreas Vollenweider - Lunar Pond
The mind is on vacation.
Ambient Cities IV: Snowfall
William Rauscher - Snowfall
Brian McBride - Overture (for Other Halfs)
Max Richter - Scream at the Sky
Robert Hampson - Antarctica Ends Here
William Rauscher - Piano Improvisation I
Chihei Hatakeyama - Granular Haze
William Rauscher - Melting Ice / Eastern Fjord (live improvisation in Iceland)
William Rauscher - Bell Study
Dub Tractor - Cirkel
Uchi - [Untitled]
Certain Creatures - Cross Star Woman
William Rauscher - Piano Improvisation II
Ingram Marshall - Entrada (At the River)
William Rauscher - Evening, Fourth of July
Sounds for your next hibernation session. I selected some of my original tracks along with icy favorites and laced them with some improvised piano work throughout. Take a slow boat down the snowy Shanghai river of the mind.