The Bedtime Barbiturates Now with Tracklisting!

This is a December Mixtape for playing one hour before sleep or for falling asleep to… please support the artists in the tracklisting many are online as bona fide free mp3s.

The Bedtime Barbiturates:-

Bedtime Barbiturates download here

Tracklistings and links below

1. Lucky Pierre – Velbon from Touchpool
2. GAS – Funf from Konigsforst (Bovine Edit) NOT the awful remastered version from Nah Und Fern
3. Brian Eno – 1-1 From Music for Airports
4. Michael Andrews – Goldfish from Me and You and Everyone We Know OST
5. Loscil – Steam from Plume
6. Uli Teichmann – “Piano Tec” from Kompakt’s Pop Ambient 2006
7. Chris Dooks – Prologue from Apprentice OST (Play at Edinburgh’s Rosslyn Chapel)
8. Wim Mertens Whisper Me (Bovine Edit) from Maximising The Audience
9. Stars of The Lid – Piano Aquieu from The Tired Sounds of Stars of The Lid
10. Labradford – “by Chris Johnston, Craig Markva, Jamie Evans” – from E Luxo So
11. Aphex Twin – Stone in Focus from Selected Ambient Works II Vinyl version only
12. Pausal – Song from a Cloth Pocket from highpointlowlife.com web album
13. Brian McBride –  A Gathering To Lead Me When You’re Gone from When the Detail Lost it’s Freedom

Writer Eleanor Thom aged Two

My collaboration with Glasgow-based writer Eleanor Thom. Her dad recorded her voice when she was two and a half. The recording was beautiful in it’s own right, but it was begging for an electronica makeover. Its me playing the piano and shakers…

Mixtape for People Who Find it Difficult to Sleep!

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hope you enjoy it!

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Preview of BLSS 11 (in development! A Christmas Special)

Download Mp3 (10mb) here

We’re gonna need a bigger boat!

You are not going to believe this but BLSS 11 is in testing already. I’m definitely on a roll. It’s definitely more fun to do two or three next to each other. Anyway, I plan to release this one just before Christmas Day. It’s going to be a double – BLSS11 and 12 together. 11 will be the usual weird music, it’s a goodie so far, and 12 will be some of my own back catalogue – in a hopefully nicely designed web-exclusive E.P.

Chris x

BLSS 10 – The Manatee Edition Online Now!!!

Image: Kevbow

I proudly present BLSS 10 – The Manatee Edition (link – 77mb 160kbps)

The proverbial buses. Two Bovine Life Support Systems within a couple of weeks of each other. See download page for full tracklistings and links to artists’ sites.

This edition is a bit of a special. A short story about a Manatee, or Sea Cow was released on my album “The Aesthetic Animals Album” by Benbecula Records, which you can preview here (a link to Benbecula Records Site)

On this BLSS, I split the story up into about ten micro-sections and spread it out across the tracks, which in the case of BLSS10 are a combination of either quite hard electronic IDM fused with some very blissed/blessed out numbers as the narrative goes on. As usual, I think I have made my favourite show. Again!!!

I sit here writing this at 7am with extremely painful stomach ache so there’s not much creativity or excitement in my purple prose today. But I think if you let the music do the talking there’ll be enough said. The things I do for the BLSS!

The mediafire download of the show is here

The next edition will be a Christmas 2xlength special, making it 12 shows before December 25th. (It’s really ten because Feb and March were one show also).

BLSS 10 in TESTING ALREADY!

There’s not going to be a delay with the next BLSS! Hurrah! I enjoyed making BLSS09 so much that I went on to the rigorous finding / testing stage of BLSS10 straightaway. It’s going to be quite a riot this one, quite loud then incredibly quiet. Some real digital hardcore and some gossamer thin introspection – the whole thing plays like a narrative of noise.

Can’t wait to upload it and record the intros.