The Slumbering God Sessions - Part 2

This part 2 of another session I recorded with aiwazz, its downbeat psybient goodness for your ears. Aiwazz says. Alrighty gang. A new mix for the select to peruse at your leisure. In 2004 (my god it’s really been that long?) hypno and i produced a mix called the slumbering gods… Hypno had introduced me to the wonders of psybient music, and i wanted to work with it. I also had my own leanings into obscure music designed for visionary escapades by the likes of steve roach. At that time in mixing I was really enjoying the concept of harmonic mixing. i wanted to test myself. What’s one of the deadliest harmonics in the world to mix with? The harmonics produced by bells and gongs. Complex and rich yet catastrophic when not mated well with other tones, bells offer a unique challenge to harmonic mixing. They also have a great power to alter brainwave patterns and therefore are used by the tibetans and others for meditation practice. I grew up with my parents always playing a series of tibetan bell recordings (called the the tibetan bells 1-4) by henry wolf and nancy hennings. They consist of experiments using traditional tibetan bells. They are powerful stuff to those who open their ears. So the concept was born: mix bells and tones with dub/psybient/otherworldy music that was modified to gel with a storyline engineered specifically to demonstrate the theme of a gods (insert favorite deity here) dreams. There was a parallel ofcourse thematically with the latent skills inherent in our own cells that may be considered by some to be “sleeping”. The first mix used the movie “the children of dune” for storyline weaving, this one uses “dune” so in a way it is a prequel, yet in others a sequel, as the dream is becoming a “waking dream”. The elephants eye below is open this time… Grin technically i feel it’s my best mastering work ever. I also wrote track 08 and have been exploring stereo field work. The tracks by me are labeled mixes/remixes as that’s what they are. lots of original material was written throughout. 7 months, 544 files in 48 folders equaling 40.4 gigs and making 24 tracks of audio at some points in 32 bit manipulation with audition. I didn’t use all the “freshest hottest tracks” i used tracks that meant the most to me in this context, so some are tracks that have been the soundtrack to my life. Such as the bells, which were written before I was born… into this vessel… Big love to hypno, it’s always such a blast working with ya. 01. Aiwazz - Henry Wolff & Nancy Hennings - Khumbu Ice-Fall (Dream Unfolds Edit) 02. Hypnoticstate - Androcell - Efflorescence 03. Hypnoticstate - Entheogenic - The Solution Machine 04. Aiwazz - Shulman - Aion (Aiwazz Mindkiller Remix) 05. Aiwazz - Shpongle - Shpongleyes (Aiwazz Left Well Enough Alone Edit) 06. Aiwazz - Steve Roach, Robert Rich & Brian Eno - Arrival (Aiwazz Lost in the Garden Mix) 07. Aiwazz - Steve Roach & Jeffrey Fayman - Trance Spirits (Aiwazz Nature of the Virus Mix) 08. Aiwazz - Aiwazz - Out of Darkness (Understand This) 09. Hypnoticstate - Collider - Tripswitch 10. Hypnoticstate - Kaya Project - Salaam (Remix For Irina Mikhailova) 11. Aiwazz - Don Peyote - In Havana (Aiwazz Grumbles Edit) 12. Aiwazz - Steve Roach & Vidna Obmana - Middle World Passage (Aiwazz Force of the Ancestors Remix) 13. Aiwazz - Solar Fields - Self Transforming Experience Second Movement (Aiwazz Bassbins Attack! Mix) 14. Hypnoticstate - Peter Tha Zouk vs DI Simmon - Enchantments (Hypno’s On and On Mix) 15. Aiwazz - Steve Roach - Songline (Aiwazz House Is What You Make of It Remix) 16. Aiwazz - Steve Roach - Core Meditation 1 (Aiwazz The End is the Beginning Remix)