Ambient, Various sevenism
l i f e -immersion-

hundredth bandcamp album in two years!
sevenism.bandcamp.com/album/l-...i-f-e-immersion

My albums from the last year have been leading up to this. I've been wanting to do a mix that encompasses a lot of different styles all melded together..at the same time I've been working improvised, one take, as much as possible. Got the balance ok.. It was only the jungle track that was lots of fiddly samples. The rest was recorded as it was made.

The inspiration was from a free CD from eternity magazine in the mid 90s. Life: innovation by Jack Smooth (mixcloud.com/matt-preston2/ete...-bass-techo-mix). Rave had got popular; but it had all got segregated you couldn't like house if you liked jungle. You didn't like ambient and gabba. But this mix had everything all mixed seamlessly.. And all made by just one guy.

My plan was to be a bit more diverse, to have some more blues soul hip-hop stuff but then I haven't been making much like that recently. I let it flow as it wanted, most tracks were done one afternoon, and it came out pretty ambient.

There's quite a range of styles though. It starts at experimental drone then to weird classical / noise, then there's an acoustic section flowing into pulsing hypnotic electroacoustic > rhythmic electronic > ambient techno > jungle (with samples from previous tracks), a dub version then bassy ambient and an ambient fade out.

tracklist:

0.00 a_౩rdo
0.34 chorus for robot voice
1.14 early
2.08 SLOW RECOVERY
9.09 tisle oe
14.07 ⓣ③⓪⓪ⓢ
21.47 disquiet300
23.26 twelve string web
26.57 left open
30.48 fortando glissimo
38.28 arcoda.
39.32 oh.iograin
46.03 .☮.
50.16 antitaverna
53.20 spider flow
57.20 spider dub
60.53 teale sep
63.45 bark cover fade

i've put the full unmixed tracks in as bonus tracks too: some of these are quite a bit longer.