1,000 Dreams

Mixed October 2004 by DJ sneJ
Cover picture from Une Semaine de Bonté by Max Ernst

This mix accreted itself around the song "To Whom Can I Tell My Pains", which I discovered while randomly surfing through the iTunes Music Store, and which reduced me to tears on the first listen. As a setting for it I pulled together other songs with the right levels of sadness, distance, exoticness or thrilling dissonance.

This also gave me a chance to attempt something I'd wanted to do for a while: add "serious" 20th-century classical music to a mix. This ended up as the most varied mix I've ever done: it also has folk music from several cultures, rock, electronics, and unclassifiable experimentation. I hope it works for you.

Track listing:

(since there is only one file, the start time of each track is shown.)

00:00 "Guitar Rag"* -- Sylvester Weaver [US]
00:26 "In This World"* - Cindytalk [UK]
03:05 "Eshten Charlyyry (It's Hard To Be Parted From A Friend)" -- Huun-Huur-Tu [Tuva]
09:25 "To Whom Can I Tell My Pains" -- Marika Kanaropoulou [Greece]
12:03 "Venus In Furs" -- The Velvet Underground [US]
17:08 "Dark Was The Night" -- Blind Willie Johnson [US]
20:25 "Shudder" -- Underworld [UK]
21:05 "Alchemagenta"* :Zoviet*France: [UK]
23:02 "Houses On The Hill" -- Biosphere [Norway]
24:15 + "4 Or 5 Trees"* -- Rachel's [US]
25:13 + "Tsmindao Chmerto" -- The Rustavi Choir [Georgia]
27:40 "4 Or 5 Trees"* -- Rachel's [US]
28:27 "Already It Is Dusk" (mov. 1) -- Henryk Gorecki [Poland] / Kronos Quartet [US]
29:28 "The Voyage Of Camille" -- Rachel's [US]
33:17 "Already It Is Dusk" (mov. 2) -- Henryk Gorecki [Poland] / Kronos Quartet [US]
34:11 "Adagio For Strings" Samuel Barber [US] / Kronos Quartet [US]
39:14 "Ruika"* Somei Satoh [Japan]
41:14 "Strange Attractor"* -- Lustmord [UK]
45:04 "Lactate's Moment"* Stars Of The Lid [US]
52:45 "Kati-Kata" -- Muszikas [Hungary]
56:09 "Wings" -- Dog Faced Hermans [Netherlands]
60:10 "Frontier" (1987 version) -- Dead Can Dance [Australia]
63:04 "It's Gonna Rain" -- Do Make Say Think [Canada]
65:12 "Guitar Rag" -- Sylvester Weaver [US]

68:13 Total

* denotes excerpts

Download:

1,000 Dreams [62MB MP3]