this is a screengrab of the entire Ableton Live session for Songs from the Tarpit
showing the volume curves; approximate time is along the bottom.
this mix was made by request for Todd Burns' promomixes.com, to represent the short-lived but very fecund Illbient scene,
where a cozy little mob of us were lucky to be jolted aware around 95.
all but a couple records are from 96 or earlier.
Birmbau // we
Dancehall // Malfunction Sub Dub
Stream Endless // Lull
Crawling Spirit // Coil vs. Elph
Flick // Scorn
Amok // Lustmord
Terran Invasion // DJ Spooky
Soon Forward // DJ Spooky
Purge // Jim O’Rourke
Heaven // Silence
Magamat // Veve
Air-Lubricated Free Axis // Trainer Labradford
Pythagorean Sea // PGR
Rainstorm Blues // Flying Saucer Attack
Liquid Legs // Thessalonians
Orange Clouds Over Battery Park // Pierrot Premiere
Hydrazoid // Techno Animal
Ooze Out and Away // Moon and the Melodies
Chinatown Dub // we
Moving Dub // Massive Attack vs. Mad Professor
oaxaca // Sub Dub
(unknown) // Erinys
Transmit Liberation // Single Cell Orchestra
You // we
Flutesque // we
Light Trap // Scorn
Open Closed Apart // Lull
Thoughts Like Rain // DJ Spooky
Musica Eternal // Dead Can Dance
Cage // PGR
Subtyranya // Byzar
Juba // DJ Spooky
Second Hand Science // we
Floods and Chairs // PGR
C of People // Labradford
Le Bepteme de la Solitude // Paul Bowles
The Calm Before // Experimental Audio Research
Travelling Without Moving (Trip 9) // Air
Automatic Writing // Robert Ashley
Vuls // Dead Voices on Air
Subvocal // Erinys
Set Rising // Veve
Thomasina (excerpt) // (Disney movie)
The Words of Voice // Lustmord
Tactile vs. ø
Tactile vs. Solaris
Trephine // Yab Yum
Transient Scratch // we
Float // Carborundum
Transparent Radiation // Spacemen 3
Anthrazite // Techno Animal
Dub Fi Gwan // King Tubby
Exodus // Scorn
Urban Music for the Middle of Nowhere // Enedkeg
Accident // Happy Flowers
Maggot Brain // Funkadelic
Reverse Pool // P Children
Totems of the Red-Sleeved Warrior // Harold Budd
Too High // The Aloof
Part 1 // Flying Saucer Attack/Telefunken
God & Beast // NON
Radiation Ruling the Nation // Massive Attack vs. Mad Professor
A Day in a UFO // Fluessige Luft
Tactile vs. Scorn
Singing in the Rain // Walter Carlos/Clockwork Orange Soundtrack
Aura 7 // P Children
I Wanna Watch Cartoons // Happy Flowers
Caged Light // Tactile
Raining Dub // Blind Idiot God
Rakta // Byzar
Ana // Transglobal Undeground
Love How You Love Me // Patty Duke
Tabes // Erinys
Lose This Skin // The Clash