STORA SKUGGAN & Dream Weapons present: HYPNAGOGIC C90

 

So here it is, as promised. Compiled about a year ago, my last mix in the foreseeable future. 

 

Join inn on a trip through the ages and various sound-spaces in gentle timbres and melodies of erratic beauty. Hypnagogia is the transitional state from wakefulness to sleep. I’ve attempted to establish a feeling of falling out of consciousness and into a dream state. Over and over again. Like fever dreams, but of the haunting, ethereal and enchanting kind. And kinda strange. But that goes without saying, doesn’t it? That was the idea. But who knows, some of you listeners might not associate medieval hymns performed on the theremin, a chorus of mice, herding calls or even musically accompanied poetry readings - with anything dreamlike at all -Moahaha  

 

1 Hekla - Heyr Himna Smiður
2 Wilson Trouvé - First Steps / Insights
3 Harpo Marx - Lullaby Doll
4 J.A. Caesar - 兄ちゃん眠れないね (I Can’t Sleep, Brother)
5 Luigi Malatesta - Laguna Fosforescente 
6 Sonny Bono - Chastity Love Theme
7 Vic Mars - Earthworks and Trackways 
8 Zdeněk Liška - Merciful Nature 
9 The Heartwood Institute - The Chalice
10 Buddy Morrow with Keith McKenna - Annabel Lee
11 Vygandas Telksnys - Sidabrinė Šviesa
12 Barbara - La Rue S'Allume
13 Sharakan Early Music Ensemble - Hreshtakayin (Hagiological Hymn)
14 Kenneth Patchen - The Lute in the Attic
15 Glåsbird - 1959
16 Stephen St Paul - Breathy
17 Henry Lowther Band - Between

18 Jean Ritchie - The Lydian Mode / The Lonesome Days of Winter
19 Tristanne - If Only
20 John Faulkner and Sandra Kerr - The Prima Ballerina
21 Slow Attack Ensemble - In Another Room
22 Tone Hulbækmo - Kåmmå No - Kulokk Frå Tolga
23 Andrew Wasylyk & Tommy Perman - Unrepeatable Air
24 Arleta - Mia Istoria Ap' Ton Polemo
25 Giovanni Fusco - Finale 3
26 Olivia Font - Amorphic
27 ZNR - Garden Party
28 Stanley Wilson - Kandy Wedding
29 Dainuoja Liliana Ablėnaitė - Vai Pūtė Pūtė
30 Pierre Array - Blue River
31 The Sun Also Rises - Song Of Consolation
32 Heart Of Snake & Mira - Chamaerops Pt. 1
33 Brigitte Fontaine & Areski - Je t'aimerai 2
34 mastroKristo - Elegy 

 

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-Underneath is STORA SKUGGAN's alternative cover, and how they present it to their audience, I left the quote they used from my text, so half of it is just repetition:

 Our favourite clandestine music selector Mohaha, from the elusive music collective @drm-wpnz has gifted us another fascinating contribution to our mixtape series. Titled Hypnagogic, Mohaha’s second STORA SKUGGAN mix is purely based on the idea of a theme —avoiding any name dropping of artists, or genres— Hypnagogia is the transitional state from wakefulness to sleep. -“I’ve attempted to establish a feeling of falling out of consciousness and into a dream state. Over and over again. Like fever dreams, but of the haunting, ethereal and enchanting kind.” We invite you to join us on a trip through the ages and various sound-spaces in gentle timbres and melodies of erratic beauty. 

STORA SKUGGAN · 050 – Dream Weapons: Hypnagogic

Dream Weapons present: COLD COMFORT C90

Happy New Year everyone! I certainly hope that this will be a happy, new, year. Now a few vague words as to what to expect from Cold Comfort:

-The chilling warmth or warming chills of hauntingly beautiful music and voices. Suitable for January here up north. About 50/50 songs and instrumentals. A mood piece of spellbinding Folk, traditional and Modern Classical (all chamber music, really), Art Pop and other neighboring sounds that seem related. Simultaneously celestial and earthy somehow I think. I’m not certain whether it’s good or bad, but this mix feels very much like where I’m at these days. I like it here though -Moahaha

1 Trevor Jones - Gelfling Song
2 Sam McLoughlin & Alison Cooper - Kept Birds Fly In Recurring Circles
3 Christmas - Hymn
4 Roger Eno - Massacre of the Innocents, Pt. 1
5 Luster - I Fall
6 Meierkord/Andersson - Försjunken
7 Levina Storåkern - Orissa
8 Rauelsson - Prelude No. 7
9 Julia Sabra - Session 6
10 Okkyung Lee - hidden road (for yoo jae-ha)
11 Memotone w, Eva May - In Dreams
12 Kelly Moran - Above the Vapours
13 Black Tape For A Blue Girl - Pandora’s Dream ’92
14 Emily Dickens, Apollo5 - Ave Stella Maris I

15 Lena Natalia - Debris
16 Elisabeth Klinck - Slow Life
17 Isobel Waller-Bridge - Shoe
18 Che Vuoi - Etoile Distante
19 Michel Banabila - Little Picture On The Wall
20 ZÖJ - Forever Tehrani 
21 Emily Dickens, Apollo5 - Ave Stella Maris II
22 Barbarelle - Angel
23 Susannah Stark & Band - Ceistean gun freagairtean
24 Dennis Farnon - Through the Looking Glass (a)
25 National Health - Starlight On Seaweed
26 Daniel Herskedal - Walking the Clouds
27 Emily Dickens, Apollo5 - Ave Stella Maris III 

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Dream Weapons present: SIGHTING C90

Hello everyone! I’ve been so busy - and haven’t really the time for music nerding during the latter half of 2025. I’m afraid it’s not over yet. But I finished this mix a while ago. It’s basically all new and Ambient Music - sounding somewhere in between Berlin School and electronic movie scores. I think Sighting would work perfectly to some modern extra terrestrial mystery flick - or series. Like if Tales From the Loop was as great as it should have been. I have listened through several hundred albums within this sonic landscapes throughout the year, and these 20 tracks are among the ones that spoke strongly to both my heart and mind. Speaking of the mind: if yours is open, I’ll think you’ll discover much beauty here -Moahaha 

-Many of you might prefer me in my usual «obscure gems from the past» mode, and I’m sure I’ll get back to that. But I’m afraid I won’t have much of that to offer in the nest couple of months. What can I say… life takes its twists and turns every once in a while. I probably won't have the time to make a Xmas Delight-mix this year either. Sorry.

1 CCTemple, Chapelier Fou & Ocoeur - Reaching Out (Ocoeur rework)
2 MJ Guider - Primavera (Ritmo Joven)
3 Ai Yamamoto - Playful Pinky Clouds
4 The Black Dog - Park Hill Forever
5 Dapper Blob - A Lingering Sense of Longing
6 Christian Fiesel - Dwelling In Digial Shadows
7 Trollslottet - Där Trollet Har Sitt Hjärta
8 Egil Kalman - Sets At Dawn (7th)
9 Yearns - Mariana Radar
10 Marc Neys - Fossick

11 Hainbach & Ensemble Recherche - The Cold Settles In    
12 Paw Paw - Auana
13 Evigt - Time We Have
14 Loula Yorke - Let a Sound Complete its Life
15 Sabled Sun - Nebula
16 Six Missing - Laboratory
17 Rasmus Nyboe - Den Levende
18 Joachim Spieth & Andrew Thomas  - Nocturna
19 zYklen - Aniakchak Caldera
20 sohme - These Are All My Thoughts

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Dream Weapons present: STILLNESS IN MOVEMENT C90

With «Music for contemporary dance choreography» as the subheading. It felt more appropriate than the often used «music for an imaginary film»-variation. I just slapped it on for fun, but I actually watch a lot of contemporary dance/ballet. And I do think most of these 18 pieces included, would be perfect for performative dancing. 

This is actually that darker sibling of «Walk with me in Beauty» I mentioned (in my previous post) I was working on. A different kind of beauty. I think it’s all quite stunning really. Modern Classical, Electronic, Ambient, Experimental (often combined), a little doom laden Folk + a slice of Gamelan Jazz(?) compositions - or musicians musicking. All taken from recent releases. Not at all unlike my approach to the present tense-mix shared earlier this year. Deeply in debt to newothermusic, I’ve been searching in these musical fields of late. When this new-other-music sneaks upon me, aims for the heart and hits - it’s truly an earth-shattering experience -Moahaha

1 Frederikke Hoffmeier - The Orphanage
2 Dead Space Chamber Music - The Grail Carol
3 Our Love Will Destroy The World - Venus Skeleton Green
4 Rebecca Foon & Aliayta Foon-Dancoes - Surrounded By You
5 Paweł Szamburski - Pożegnanie
6 Anthony Pateras - 1: Reise der Schatten 2: Sans Visages #1
7 Ensemble Nist-Nah - Snakelike
8 Tim Didymus & Foster Neville - Hidden
9 Aaron Martin & Umberto - Spectacle of Mystery

10 Michele Andreotti - Laubia 
11 Cerys Hafana - Luke Wake Dirge
12 Jacaszek, Jan Kleefstra, Romke Kleefstra - It Deel
13 Poppy H - We All Felt It At The Time But Now We All Don't Feel It No More
14 Teddy Abrams - Mahler's Pedal-Found Material
15 Mark Springer, Sacconi Quartet - Noon
16 Andrea Belfi - Pastorale
17 Aho Ssan & Resina - Egress II
18 Tristanne - Maison Mary

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Dream Weapons present: ENTITIES C90

I always thought it was from a poem but I can’t seem to locate it anywhere, so maybe it’s just a local saying. It goes something like this:

Outside it's spring, but inside of me it's fall

-and that's Norwegians in a nutshell... or maybe it’s just me. Yes, I know it’s summer by now, but I think you catch my drift. And if you do, you’ll also have an idea of what to expect from this mix of mine. Finally, the sun is shining! Let’s stay indoors and listen to darkly tinted, melancholic music all day long -Moahaha

1 Hector Zazou - Vera C.
2 Eulipion Corps - Lotus Run
3 Ben Reynolds - A Pit Meditation
4 Kay Gardner - Awakening
5 Kara-lis Coverdale - Eternity
6 Gallo Curcio Group - Bow
7 Jorja Chalmers - She Made Him Love Again (reprise)
8 Bernard Xolotl & Daniel Kobialka - Adieu
9 Lucy Ishkanian - Armenian Folk Dance
10 Vieo Abiungo - In Wash or Haze
11 Makoto Nomura - Memusica 8 - Riparian Tress
12 Paul Ben-Haim - Three Songs Without Words: III. Sephardic Melody

13 Jorge Reyes - En El Dondo Del Barranco Hay Un Cangrejo... (Part 1)
14 Eccentronic Research Council - Post Wake Estate Agent
15 Mirror Image Artifacts - Outside
16 Allegro Corporation - Eerie Music
17 Trembling Strain - At Marsh
18 Sulkhan Tsintsadze - Prelude no. 6 In B Minor
19 John Williams - In Search of Unicorns
20 Emerald Web - Inside The Hall Of Chips
21 Camino Al Desvan - Adjudicado a la Danza
22 Gwakasonné - Atmosphere
23 David Crowell - Point - Cloud (III)
24 Nilson - Winstanley
25 Golden Retriever - Thread of Light

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Dream Weapons present: PRESENT TENSE C60

I have to admit that I’m a little proud of this one. It is the sort of mixtape I would have loved for someone else to have compiled - and for me to discover. Twelve compositions released in 2024 and two from 2023 is about as present tense that I’m capable of. Actually it’s way beyond my capabilities in that regard. I made a  playlist titled «Strange Beauty», and somehow this hour of pristine musical gems materialized from within it. Almost. 

-Whether leaning mostly toward the traditional, experimental, electronic or ambient - all fourteen compositions can safely be filed under «Modern Classical». In retrospect, I might as well have kept my playlist-title, as these are all strange beauties to my ears -Moahaha

1 Alice Hebborn - Saisons - Mouvement 2
2 Laura Masotto - Dark Horse
3 Bruno Sanfilippo - The Feast of Crows
4 Christopher Cerrone - Beaufort Scales. I & II
5 Malcolm Pardon - Side Effects
6 Kirin McElwain - Work
7 Ljudvägg & L.T. Fisk - Försvinna, återvända

8 Jasmine Wood - VII
9 Laura Cannell and Lori Goldston - Lying Beneath The Earth
10 Snowdrops - The River
11 Watine - Unbroken Fields
12 Sarah Neufeld, Richard Reed Pary, Rebecca Foon - Georgia
13 Lauré Lussier - 4th Movement - Allegretto
14 Otto A. Totland - Mirror

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Dream Weapons present: STIR THE CAULDRON C90

Witches brew. A hodgepodge of different tastes and ingredients that I think somehow make sense together. I don’t know how to better describe it. I do however know that anyone reading this won’t regret giving it a listen -Moahaha

1 Michel Chion - Gloria
2 Shane Parish - Journey in Satchidananda
3 Humez Bros - Urshanabi And Gilgamesh
4 Antonina Nowacka - Nite Vision
5 The Reverend Kristin Michael Hayter - TALK ABOUT SUFFERING HERE BELOW
6 Wacław Zimpel (feat. Kamil Szuszkiewicz) - Princess of Kyoto
7 Chucha Assar - Setare, étoiles
8 Farid al-Atrash Orchestra - Raqsat Zoumorod
9 محمد عبد الوهاب (Mohamed Abdel Wahab) - Zeina
10 Даулет Мыктыбаев - Аншылык
11 Najah Salam - Khay Testahel ya Kalbi
12 Enrico Rava - Foto Di Famiglia
13 Karen Black / Harry Freedman - It All Turned Out the Way I Planned It
14 Yao Min & Hattori Ryoichi - 河邊春 (Spring By The Riverside)
15 Brannten Schnüre - Urin Deiner Blüten I
16 Asmus Tietchens - Litia
17 Hanns Dieter Hüsch und das Ensemble der Arche Nova - Carmina Urana - 3. Gesang-edit

18 François Rabbath - Poucha-Dass
19 Popular Mechanics - The Blue Blouse
20 Galapagos Duck - In The Wild (March)
21 Edda Dell 'Orso - L'eta del Malessere
22 Luciano Michelini - Arya
23 Shu-De - Khomus Duet
24 André Ricros & Louis Sclavis Quartet - Pastourel
25 Lietuvių Liaudies Instrumentų Kamerinė Grupė - Muzikinė Tabokinė
26 Mikael Lammgard - Gunnel Derning - Vattnet - Manniskan
27 Ossian - Rozdział V
28 Giorgio Gaslini - Voce Di Strato Psicologico
29 Bahnar - Cithare à Resonateur de Calebasse
30 Gamelan Semar Pegulingan - Gambang Kuta
31 Theodora Schulze and The Telemann Society - Synthesized Bells Pealing / Veni Sponsa Christi
32 Cybe - Elektro Gamelan
33 Nomadia - Aum

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Dream Weapons present: DEEP INSIDE A DREAM C90

We're falling down the rabbit hole. Transporting you into a wonderfully (and troublingly) surreal state. Sweet dreams gently interrupted by waves of unease. Like an adventure taking place inside of your subconscious. Or like someone is trying to tell you a half-remembered tale. A «can’t put my finger on it» sort of vague concept for a trip through the motions. Sounds fun doesn’t it? -Moahaha

                   

1 Panthers of Chastity - Return to Bridmore
2 The Fool - Voice in the Wind
3 Mike Green - Theme From Head Light
4 Antique Doll - Glass Elver
5 Jasper Van't Hof & George Gruntz - Filomeel and Procne / Swallow and Nightingale
6 The Buckinghams - I Know I Think
7 The Ron Grainer Orchestra - No.6 Approaches the Escape Helicopter
8 Julia Blair - Lullaby Two
9 Antonio de Sousa Dias - As Fontes Mágicas De Gerénia
10 J.A. Caesar - Big Dipper
11 John Mills-Cockell - Speedy's Teardown
12 Maple Leaf - Epilogue to Return to Womb - エピローグ ~ 母胎回帰

13 Eric - Von Der Insel
14 Viola Kramer & Heinz Bielefeldt - Teddybär
15 Cristiano Varisco - O Canto do Urutau
16 Toadstone - Moon Song
17 Baba Scholar - She’s an Indian Minor
18 The Cowslips - Night Shift
19 Paz - Horrors
20 Mark McDowell - Message Sent
21 Ananda Shankar - Planet X
22 Linda Hoyle - For My Darling
23 Neil Chotem and his Orchestra - And Now, It’s For Sure
24 Elaine & Derek - Brahms Lullaby

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Dream Weapons present: NOCTURNAL C90

 

 

«Through the darksome forest roam, Luna breaks through oaks and bushes» is a quote from Goethe's poem «The Beautiful Night». I wanted to capture a vibe like that in music somehow. Nocturnal music to me is ambiguous music of light and dark. Slow-footed, jazzy film noir moods, loads of easy, eerie listening and I think... a few surprises underway -Moahaha

 1 Masahiko Satoh and Medical Sugar Bank - Parus Varius
 2 Yusef Lateef - From Within
 3 Emilio Locurcio - La Visione - La Primavera Feroce
 4 The Don Black Orchestra & Singers - Where Did Our Summers Go
 5 Don Elliot And His Choir - Dinah
 6 Silvano D'Auria - Porto Cammelli
 7 Four For Jazz - Ghost And Blood Chant
 8 Academy of Music Ljubljana - Läksin Minä Kesäyönä Käymään
 9 Boastein - En Gresk Western
10 Jac Berrocal - Automne Perdu
11 Albrecht Gündel-vom Hofe, Robin Draganic & Lucía Martínez Alonso - Finden des Ich's
12 Syrinx - Journey Tree
13 Het Pandorra Ensemble - Ritme 7000
14 Jun Fukamachi - From Mishone

15 Svein Finnerud Trio - IDA
16 Frank Comstock & His Orchestra - From Another World
17 Cecil McCartney - Sacrifice  (Collage For Leather Boots, Bread Knife, Voice, Guitars & Electronics)
18 Juan Gelman Juan Cedrón - Madrugada
19 Heinz Von Moisy - Mirage
20 Supersister - In Die Allee
21 Kunihiko Murai  - Goyoukiba - Love Theme
22 Eddie Suzuki - High Tide
23 Wlodzimierz Nahorny - Kotwica / Obserwatorzy
24 Melba Liston - Dark Before the Dawn
25 Martha Elefteriadu - Dvě Kresby Tuší II.
26 Pascoal Meirelles - Juruviara
27 Frank & Jo Byers - Polynesian Fantasy Theme Song (Finale - more waves)

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Dream Weapons present: MALAISE C60

Pure and simple beauty is nice (but nothing pure is ever simple). I’m primarily more interested in an unsettling kind of beauty, though. I’m not sure why. Perhaps I find it more true to life. I do know I respond stronger to it emotionally. Well, that’s just me. Now let’s see if this collection of strangely alluring tunes touches a few kindred spirits out there as well -Moahaha

1 Egisto Macchi - Post-Impressionismo
2 Akiko Yano - リンゴ
3 Adam Wodnicki -  Dulcimer Dream
4 Gunter Hampel And His Galaxie Dream Band - no 94 angel
5 Jackie McLean, Michael Carvin - The Crossing
6 Vytautas Juozapaitis, Vilnius Quartet - Kvartetas Nr. 3, Andante
7 Romano Rizzati - Solare

8 Bruce Ditmas - Don’t Wake Me
9 Guglielmo Papararo & Vittorio Montis - Jonosfera
10 Umberto Santucci - Ceylon
11 Fabio Fabor - Contemplatif
12 Ennio Morricone - Non e Un Dramma
13 Algardas Martinaitis - Gyvojo Vandens Klavyras (edit)
14 Hector Zazou - Le Bain Royal
15 Hanns Eisler - Eisler Sonata for Violin and Piano

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Btw: If you enjoy these sounds, I think you'll locate all the other mixes of mine that operate within the same soundspaces, by simply pressing the Modern Classical-tag.

Dream Weapons present: MACHINERY C60

Finally, a new mix! So while awaiting our great 200th mixtape-collab Drain Crystals 3 to materialize, I decideded to skip straight to number 201. What can I say, collaborations are simply more difficult to finish. This one is more of a typically electronic mind trip with a touch of human warmth. As that’s how I prefer my electronic mind trips. Enjoy! -Moahaha 

1 Bruno Spoerri - Space Cantata pt. 1
2 Monoton - Π 3.141592653589793
3 Those Little Aliens - Incident In Moderan
4 Marco Melchiori aka Teisco aka Rimauri - Dimensione Alpha
5 Trees Speak - Skip Breath, Odyssey, Passage
6 Zed - Shai Hulud (First Vision)
7 Robert Schröder - Frozen Breath of Life

8 Greg Foat - Riding into Battle
9 Jonas Palm - Linguatronics
10 Rheingold - Stahlherz (#7)
11 Philippe Feret - Le Cri Ces Profondeurs
12 William Hoskins - Variation
13 Michel Mouline - L'echo de L'acier
14 Air Craft - Valley of the Lord

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Dream Weapons present: THE OLD WAVE C60

The Old Wave is really just a bunch of tunes from the early to mid-eighties, that's either been with me forever, or I’ve stumbled over in various places around the internet. If not that old, New Wave is at least middle aged by now (yet for some reason "The Middle Aged Wave" didn't feel right). But it holds up well and still sound as fresh as ever. More so than the music from the second part of the same decade. It was an uniquely vibrant period for «popular music». I’ve simply collected nineteen standout gems (at least I think so) from this era that has gone under most everyone’s radar. Yes I know, The Comsat Angels and Lene Lovich are relatively well known, but the single/EP flipsides included here aren't. Chilling and doom-laden in a sort of cold war angsty way + plenty of fun -Moahaha

 

1 Mystery Plane - Telephone
2 Kaffi - Moonbeams
3 Ende Shneafliet. - Midnight Train
4 Dislocation Dance - Roof is Leaking
5 The Comsat Angels - We Were
6 Sueno Sueno - Hands
7 Störung  - Macabre
8 Avocados - I Never Know
9 Mal - A Letter From Yellowland
10 Stupid Set- Relaxin

11 Drinking Electricity - Fall
12 Lene Lovich - Cats Away
13 Tarzan 5 - Boys Game
14 David Harrow - Still Optimistic
15 Leven Signs - Our Position Vanishes
16 M.Nomiized - Nitsed
17 Jung Analysts - Punishment is Art
18 Galen Herod - 800728
19 Hong Kong Syndikat - Divided By

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(self)promotion: Eulipion Corps - Return To Friendly Islands (Wormhole World, 2023)

 

 

The image over here is my third cover for yet another album by my hyperproductive friend Julian and his project Eulipion Corps. The cover and the title combined is as good indication as any in regards to what Return To Friendly Islands sounds like. Similar to the two previous albums shared here, but more aquatic, friendlier and more islandish. Check it out! For Bandcamp-link press cover, title or...

 

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Dream Weapons present: SORCERER C60

Soft focus aside, here at Dream Weapons we love the strange and eerie just as much. Sometimes even more. A mysterious and seductive kind of strange filled with beauty and suspense that is. The music presented on Sorcerer isn’t really as far out as that crazy-ass shaman featured on the cover suggests. I simply had to make use that one-of-a-kind-painting at some point. I'm trying to recapture the feel and mode of a hauntingly surreal ghost story that I only vaguely remember. Or maybe it actually happened. I'm not certain -Moahaha

1 Osiris - Fioretti
2 The Ilk - Cosmic Revenge
3 Bruno Battisti D'Amario - Invocazione
4 Alex Serra - Suez
5 The Braen's Machine - Murder
6 Vedurlög - Regn
7 James Clarke - Empty Streets

8 Tullio De Piscopo - 'O Miracolo Adda' Veni'
9 Li Zhih-Kung - A Music Stretch on Plum Flowers
10 Kenyon Hopkins - Chamber of Horrors
11 Orkiestra Ósmego Dnia - Brzeg
12 Carlos Ferreira - Childhood's End
13 Nash the Slash - Lost Lenore
14 Lydia Kavina / Elizabeth Parcells - In Whims of the Wind (edit)
15 Sandro Brugnolini - Under Funeral

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(self)promotion: Eulipion Corps - Rites & Mysteries (Wormhole World, 2022)

Yes, I've made the cover art for a second Eulipion Corps album. After compiling 150 mixtapes I'm incapable of creating designs for the traditional CD/LP square (I tried both times:). But Julian doesn't seem to mind adopting "our signature look".

I've featured his music on two previous mixes: The Quiet Earth and It Was a Very Good Lightyear. So I'd say there's a fair chance you'll enjoy this if you enjoyed those - and of course if you liked Eulipion Corps (or "our") previous album Aenean Fields.

It's either free to listen to at Bandcamp, or £2.50 to buy the digital version (the CD is unfortunatly already sold out), so if you're curious, there's really no reason not to give it a try. I think it's beautiful. -Moahaha

 

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Dream Weapons present: INDOOR GAMES C90

Late last August I compiled a folk-mix sort of tributing the coming of autumn in all its glory*. This year’s autumnal mix however, is for the great indoors. Contemplative, (but not meditative), gently strange songs and instrumentals for book reading, board games, playing cards, knitting, drinking tea or wine, making soup, staring out the window… or whatever you feel like like doing when days get colder and shorter. This time I actually made the cover art first, and then I started collecting music I enjoy that I associated with the visuals in one way or another -Moahaha

1 The Ron Grainer Orchestra - The Art Seminar Around the Fountain
2 Miranda Martino - Maraviglioso momento
3 Séguin - Crépuscule
4 Toru Takemitsu - In the End
5 Mikael Lammgard, Gunnel Derning - Vattnet
6 Benedicte Maurseth & Åsne Valland Nordli - Alde
7 Combustible Edison - Lonelyville
8 Paul Castanier - Cad e sin don te sin
9 The Sandpipers - If
10 Beaver & Krause - Loves Of Col. Evol
11 Cyrus Faryar - Ghosts
12 The Michael Coldin Septet - Lullaby Of The Leaves
13 Mormos - Walk In, Walk Out
14 Mor - Marines
15 Belan - Homesick

16 Stressi - Finaali
17 Gale Garnett - So Long
18 Jorja Chalmers - Nightingale
19 Jessica Moss - Fractals (Truth 3)
20 Antonio Riccardo Luciani - Problemi Del Sud
21 Dulcimer - Morman's Casket
22 Gianni Fallabrino - Ballata Ebraica
23 Long Orme - Nos Rêves
24 Guglielmo Papararo & Vittorio Montis- Sol 3
25 Ken Narita - 昼下がり
26 Makoto Kubota - あさの光
27 Raul Porchetto - I. C. Ciento Treinta y Tres
28 Alfrēds Kalniņš - Balade
    (Outro/Owls

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*The Light Traveller is 2021's rural, autumnal mix (+ a couple more folk mixes in the link)

Dream Weapons present: WAVEFORMS C60

 

 

Mostly mildly pulsating Kosmische / Berlin School (inspired) electronic music. I think of night drives, wet asphalt, gas stations and neon lights. But it’ll probably sound nice for a trip to the countryside as well. Or into space. Or at home… I don’t know about you, but how I experience music changes with my surroundings anyway. Just listen to it whenever or wherever you feel like it. 

 

-I don’t even have a drivers license. Nor do I own a car. But if I did I know I would drive around for hours for no other purpose than listening to music -Moahaha

 

1 Gunther Olesch - Sternenmarsch
2 Stratis - TE Rheingold
3 Explorer - No. 8
4 Patrick Vasori & Caravelli - Novembre
5 Hardy Kukuk - Takt Der Zeit
6 Gil Mellé - The Piedmont Elegy
7 Le Car - 24 Hours
8 Reinhard Lakomy - Möglichkeit Einer Ouvertüre

9 Gianni Sposito - Nova
10 Angelika Mann - Erinnerung An Jürgen H. (edit)
11 Trance - Matriculator
12 Those Little Aliens - Ismalia
13 Fondation - Impressions
14 Asmus Tietchens - Größenwarnung
15 Sergei Djokanov - The Green Desert
16 Roberto Anselmi - Flash Gordon (Molto Ritmico - Sintetizzatore)

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(self)promotion: Eulipion Corps - Aenean Fields (Wormhole World, 2022)

Eulipion Corps is Julian Goldberger on guitar, synths, electric piano, vintage drum machines, field recordings, and various other sound making devices. 

I, or Moahaha made the album cover! Julian first contacted Dream Weapons as a blog visitor who liked our mixes, and over the last year or so, we've gotten to know each other a little bit. I also checked out his own, self released music, enjoyed what I heard - and ended up including one of the tracks "The Long Goodbye" on It Was a Very Good Lightyear. Sometime in late 2021 he started to work with the UK based label Wormhole World, and asked me if I was interested in designing the artwork for his fourthcoming album. I told him I was just a happy amateur, but that's seemingly what he wanted:). At first I tried to work with the traditional shape of a square image. But nothing felt right until I went about it as if I was compiling another mixtape. As you can see it ended up having a distinct DWp-signature look.

So what does this sound like? The visuals will hopefully give you an indication but I find it comparable to the sort of electronic music in combination with warm acoustic parts - as featurered on the aforementioned mix + Innerouterspace, On Ice, Tveklang, Return to TRAPPIST-1 etc. I mean it's not the exact same of course, but if you enjoy the music featured on those, there's a great chance you (like me) will dig this. Click on the front & back cover art for links to Bandcamp and Spotify, or start by checking out Aenean Fields opening epic underneath -  and take it from there -Moahaha

 

...for the back I actually reused the It Was a Very Good Lightyear-image. There's such an undeniable fit for the musical contents of the album, I simply had to.

Dream Weapons present: SPATIAL JAZZ C90

 

Yet another vintage mix of mine that hasn’t been available for years - reuploaded for anyone interested. A fairly strange one. At least if you're not already "into jazz". In many ways it's the The Infinite Streams older, brainier sibling. I work alone in my studio and these are some perfect examples of my typical "working music". Not always, but sometimes. It helps me stay awake, focused and alert. Here's what I wrote about it back in April 2013:

-When I first heard Grachan Moncur III's early to-mid sixties compositions such as Evolution and Esoteric I think I had (and still have) a similar tingling sensation or brain orgasm comparable to what ASMR folks say they get from listening to whispering voices. Or maybe its closer to what mathematicians experience when they get an esthetical delight out of the supreme beauty of math? I'm just guessing. But this is only partly what spatial jazz is about. Its the careful attention to space, and I don't mean outer space but a soundspace - a room. Out To Lunch is probably the most well known example of jazz I know of that that can give you a hint. I ended up with 16 compositions and some of the bigger names in jazz are represented. All of them at their least conventional and most out there - except for Cecil Taylor, who is at his most stuctured. Hope you like it! -Moahaha

Get it Here (and if the Mediafire-file isn't working, just try again until it eventually does) 

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Dream Weapons present: FORECAST C60

If this was a trustworthy forecast, we’d all be doomed. 

-I think having had my ears assaulted by those overblown Dune/Blade Runner 2049 Hans Zimmer-scores has inspired me to compile yet another chilling «dystopia that awaits us, as seen from our near past-fantasy». A no budget, less pompous soundtrack with better themes and some nice songs -Moahaha

Also; Goodbye & Good Riddance to 2021 and a Happy New Year to all our friends and followers!  

1 Antonio de Sousa Dias - A Gruta
2 Weekend - Sleepy Theory
3 Borghesia - Cindy Sherman
4 Me Lost Me - Forest Fire
5 You - Future-Past
6 Ofra Haza - Love Song
7 Sebastian Gandera - La Visite Au Musee
8 Bene Gesserit - Femmes Aux Yeux D'Argile
9 Mark Reeder - Work

10 Λιάνα Θάνου / Liana Thanou - Δεν Ήξερα Το Μέλλον / Den Iksera to Mellon
11 The Necks - The Boys III
12 Camino Al Desvan - El Newage
13 The Heartwood Institute - Noah's Castle - Theme
14 Dunkelziffer - Stil der Neuen Zeit
15 Francisco Semprun & Michel Christodoulides - Temps Distillé
16 Sussan Deyhim & Richard Horowitz - Jum Jum
17 Emilio Locurcio - La Gente In Strada
18 Cinorama - Prologue-The Giant

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-If you happen to enjoy my psuedo fortune-telling I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore-approach to compiling mixtapes, I've got plenty more darkly surreal hours of fun for you to explore on mainly: OFF THE RAILS, SECTOR UNIT, DANSE MORTELLE, WAYWARD, COLONIAL SPACE TOURS, THE TIME CAPSULE, FUTURA PRIMITIVA, ANTROPOCEN... but really most of our mixes tagged "Electronic or "Experimental".

...and BTW, most of our 20ft shows + the two we've done for Radio Alhara are up on Soundcloud and collected HERE - if anyone of you prefers that platform - or have an account there. I might as well add that player too:

20ft Radio · Dream Weapons: FORECAST C60 - 31/12/2021