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May 27, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Moby: Long Ambients Two

Moby  Long Ambients Two  Little Idiot  Moby returns with a second volume of his long ambient pieces. Designed specifically to put you to sleep (hey! No jokes!) this nearly four-hour playlist/mixtape-of-an-album is, as with its earlier volume, in line with Max Richter’s Sleep.  In fact there’s not a lot to say about this – and this is recommendation rather than review. The stretched, flattened, gospel-waft of […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Ambient, Brian Eno, Calm, Download, Instrumental, Long Ambient, Long Ambients, Long Ambients TWo, Max Richter, Mixtape, Moby, Moby: Long Ambients Two, Mood, Playlist, Sleep, Sleep App, William Basinski, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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September 22, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Five Songs For Friday: 19 – Album-Length ‘Songs’

It’s been a while – and since the big news for a lot of people this week was the announcement that Sleep will be playing NZ shows next year (for the first time ever) I thought, in honour of the album Dopesmoker we could look at four single-track albums; album-length songs. So here goes…
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 19, A Passion Play, Album-Length ‘Songs’, Albums, Black Unity, Brian Eno, Dopesmoker, Drive By, Five Song, Five Songs, Five Songs For A Friday, Five Songs For Friday, Five Songs For Friday: 19, Five Songs For Friday: 19 – Album-Length ‘Songs’, Jethro Tull, Neroli, Pharoah Sanders, Reflection, Single Track Albums, Sleep, Songs, The Necks, Thick As A Brick ·

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September 18, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Tour Announcement: Sleep to Play First NZ Shows (Jan, 2018)

Pioneering stoner-doom group Sleep has announced their first ever shows on New Zealand soil. The trio emerged from Northern California in the early nineties, and quickly tucked two records under their belts. The group’s sophomore album, 1992’s Sleep’s Holy Mountain, has held its place as one of the most influential records in the canon of stoner metal. Due to […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 2018), Auckland, Dopesmoker, Gig, Gig Announcement, Januray, LIFE IS NOISE, Live Gig, Post-Rock, Sleep, Sleep to Play First NZ Shows, Sleep's Holy Mountain, Stoner-Rock, Tour Announcement, Tour Announcement: Sleep to Play First NZ Shows (Jan, Under The Radar, Wellington ·

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November 6, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 135 Lucid Dreams – Part One

Half of the people can be part right all of the time Some of the people can be all right part of the time But all of the people can’t be all right all of the time I think Abraham Lincoln said that “I’ll let you be in my dreams if I can be in […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Art, Dreaming, Dreams, Guest Blog, Guest Post, Jon Mcleary, Lucid, Lucid Dreaming, Lucid Dreams: Part One, Music, Painting, Sleep, Sleeping, Spines, The Ghost of Electricity, The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 135 Lucid Dreams - Part One, The Spines, Tibetan Buddhist, War Stories, War Stories # 135, War Stories by Jon McLeary, Wellington, Writing ·

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October 27, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Max Richter + Various Artists: Sleep Remixes

Max Richter  + Various Artists: Sleep Remixes Deutsche Grammaophon Max Richter’s 8-hour album/dreamscape was the thing I listened to most last year – I say ‘thing’ because the gentle, gorgeous 8-hour sprawl caught me, deer in headlights, at times, other times it lulled me back to sleep, or sent me off to sleep, sometimes I […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Ambient, Clark, Deutsche Grammaophon, Digitonal’s Theo in Dreamland, Electronica, Jurgen Muller, Marconi Union, Max Richter, Max Richter + Various Artists, Mogwai, Sleep, Sleep Remixes, V/A, Various Artists ·

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September 5, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Moby: Long Ambients 1 – Calm. Sleep.

Moby Long Ambients 1: Calm. Sleep. (Independent) Moby’s latest “album” is a four-hour playlist available as a free download (or on all the streaming platforms) that aims to encourage you toward sleep, or at least to enjoy calm and peaceful activities. Created as part of the soundtrack for Moby’s own yoga and relax-time, Long Ambients […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 4 Hours, Album Review, Ambient, Brian Eno, Calm, Download, Eno, Free, Independent, Long Ambients, Long Ambients 1, Long Ambients 1: Calm. Sleep., Max Richter, Moby, Playlist, Self-Released, Sleep, Soundtrack, Stream, Yoga ·

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March 23, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Max Richter: Sleep

Max Richter Sleep Deutsche Grammaophon Easily my most played album of 2015 – easily, and yet it’s not, strictly an album. Here, Max Richter has created a soundtrack for sleep, but it’s more than just a settling score, it’s a musical evocation, a melodic translation of sleep. It’s a stretch – too (pardon the pun) […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 8 Hour, Album, Album Review, Ambient, Arvo Part, Brian Eno, Classical, Deutsche Grammophon, Download, Gorecki, Max Richter, Sleep ·

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March 22, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Dope Smoker: Marijuana

Dope Smoker Marijauana (Independent/Bandcamp) Just when you thought the album/track Dopesmoker by Sleep was as overt as “Stoner Rock” got, along comes the Welsh band Dope Smoker – that seminal track/album was surely, well, a guiding light – and here’s their fifth album; the title now as blatant as can be, and if you’re somehow […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Alice In Chains, Bandcamp, Black Sabbath, Bleach, Crack The Skye, Dope Smoker, Dopesmoker, Marijuana, Mastodon, Nirvana, Ozzy Osbourne, Post-Rock, Rock, Sabbath, Sleep, Sludge Metal, Smashing Pumpkins, Stoner, Stoner-Rock, Swervedriver, Wales, Welch ·

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July 7, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Jeff Bridges: Sleeping Tapes

Jeff Bridges Sleeping Tapes dreamingwithjeff.com Here’s one of the strangest, but genuinely most rewarding albums of the year – a leftfield oddity from a big-name star. It’s been made – it seems – with best of intentions, both with regard to its primary purpose/stated aim and its secondary focus (you pay what you like and […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, dreamingwithjeff, Jeff Bridges, Keefus Ciancia, No Kid Hungry, Sleep, Sleeping, Spoken Word, The Sleeping Tapes ·

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September 2, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Tom The Lion: Sleep

Tom The Lion Sleep Wrasse Records Tom The Lion – what a shit name. Here’s new album, Sleep – and it’s a bit too Coldplay to get the big tick, but on the Coldplay-spectrum it’s down at that almost-acceptable area, early-Turin Brakes, that sort of thing… There’s also clearly been some inspiration from those new-fangled […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Bon Iver, Coldplay, Fleet Foxes, Sleep, Tom The Lion, Turin Brakes ·

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