This first mix is a small collection of piano and key based tracks, mainly contemporary, that all explore the space between the noise. Conceived as a backing track to thinking; hence ‘Keys for Thought’. With many people now working with background music it’s a contemplative background for when the work is more creation than grind. Spanning from ‘contemporary classic’ to straight up modern, there’s a wide range of approaches and artists but they all have the same appreciation of the space between the notes often particular to piano. Traveling from staid to melancholic to tush shaker it’s hopefully a productive journey.
- 1Promenade Sentimentale by Vladimir Cosma
- 2OVERNIGHT by GONZALES
- 3Among Angles by Kate Bush
- 4It wasn't a deer skull by Peter Broderick
- 5Aisatsana by Aphex Twin
- 6Clearing by Grouper
- 7Hammers by Nils Frahm
- 8Abandon Window by Jon Hopkins
- 9In the Air: I by Tim Hecker
- 10Basquiat by Zomby
- 11N.E.W. by Actress
- 12Held Apart by Arca
- 13Shanghai Freeway by Fatima Al Qadiri
- 14The Splendour by Pantha du Prince