Where to start. From Way Out West, to the very first Back To Mine compilation, Nick Warren has his name against some of my favourite productions, remixes and compilations. Back To Mine 001 is still champion of ‘most treasured LP within my collection’ and isn’t set to lose that title anytime soon: Moby – Go (Jan & Spoon Dub), Talismantra – Warmth Reheated, and classics from Craig Armstrong and Coldcut. If you needed an introduction to great ambient/downtempo music, this would be a rather good start.
Nick Warren then preceded to give us Ulrich Schnauss, Global Communication and Boards of Canada, with his GU24 Reykjavik compilation. This was probably the first time such beautiful downtempo music had graced the GU compilations. Ring a bell?
Move on to 2007, and he continues breathing downtempo life into the GU series with GU30 – Paris. This time, featuring the Justin Robertson remix of Love Movement, Joey Fehrenbach, Tripswitch, Miika Kuisma and Audioglider.
So, not that it needed any, that’s the hype and here’s Nick Warren’s latest mix. Tracklisting is still in ambient oblivion, but as soon as it’s out there it will be up on here. To put it simply, I would go insane not knowing what some of the tracks featured on this mix are.
UPDATE 3rd September: The tracklist arrives:
Jonsi & Alex “Sleeping Giant”
Jonsi & Alex “Indian Summer”
Jonsi & Alex “Stokkseyri”
Jon Hopkins “The Wider Sun”
Jon Hopkins “A Drifting Up”
Jonsi & Alex “Daniel in the sea”
Alva Noto “Monophaser 2″
Rafael Anton Irisarri “Watching as she reels”
Porn Sword Tobacco “the Lava Life”
Chelxia Chan “Ein Hyringur” Sigur Ros remix Hope recordings
Fuqugi “Nightingale”
Land Patterns “A Muted Steet Song”
Porn Sword Tobacco “I Love Riding My Bicycle”
John Hopkins “Autumn Hill”
Plus sound clips, movie snippets and field recordings by Nick
