A sort-of remix album?

This album was a kind of snarky comment on the use of PaulStretch to create instant ambient smoosh, a method that was very much in fashion among underground ambient artists at the time I made this. There's nothing honestly wrong with doing that, no judgements here, knock yourselves out, any method of making music is valid. But I did kind of get annoyed by the ubiquity of the method and how similar all these releases sounded. I just wanted to see if an opposite method would be interesting. Maybe squeezing a long ass ambient song would make an instant pop song? Not exactly.

Not every song that I have squeezed for this remix was originally made with the PaulStretch method I described above, I just picked out longform ambient tracks at random.

This album was only available in mp3 format for a limited time in early 2013.

The original text written for the release is below:

Longform ambient is de rigueur in netlabels these days, especially now that the freeware application Paulstretch that makes it so easy to stretch short duration sounds into improbably lengthy ones.

For this project, I selected the first twenty-four longform ambient pieces I came across that were both free to download and licensed allowing for remixing / derivative works. Those twenty four tracks were time-squeezed down to somewhere around a minute each. No other processing was done to any of the pieces.

It would take over twenty six hours to listen to all of the original tracks I used as source material.

This idea came directly from something David Porter said. Credit and blame goes his direction.

Download the cover art:
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Cover photo by Flickr user woodleywonderworks, licensed CC BY
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Attribution:
Digital Mass - "Train to Knowhere" from Onboard the Nowhere Train CC BY NC SA
archive.org/details/Onboard_The_Nowhere_Train

Approx - "Last Night on Earth" from Last Night on Eartth PUBLIC DOMAIN
archive.org/details/Ef006___approx-lastNightOnEarth

Cousin Silas - "Dronescape 001" from Dronescape CC BY NC
archive.org/details/waag_drs001

Earlyguard - "Stigma" from Stigma CC BY NC SA
archive.org/details/waag_rel006

Hertz and Honeycutt - "Burn" from Burn CC BY NC SA
archive.org/details/Burn_Hertz_And_Honeycutt

Mystified - "Cavern of Tile" from Cavern of Tile CC BY
archive.org/details/Cavern_Of_Tile

Drone Forest - "Return" from Meta:Drone CC BY NC SA
www.droneforest.com/meta.html

Mystified - "MonoDecay" from MonoDecay CC BY
archive.org/details/okk005mystified

Digital Mass - "Drowning Mermaids" from Drowning Mermaids CC BY
archive.org/details/Drowning_Mermaids

JMMIII - "The Man With No Face" from Stranger Than Fact CC BY SA
archive.org/details/ARGREC02

Geronymakis - "Witte de With" from Parabool 2009 Protoplazma CC BY NC
archive.org/details/Geronymakis_-_Parabool_2009_Protoplazma

Mister Vapor - "Complex Silence 6" from Complex Silence 6 CC BY NC
archive.org/details/Complex_Silence_6

Grove of Whispers - "The Radiant" from The Radiant CC BY
archive.org/details/The_Radiant

Turmoil - "Constant 19" from Constant 19 CC BY
archive.org/details/Constant_19

Desohll - "Subtle Monotony" from Subtle Monotony CC BY
archive.org/details/okk055desohll

C. Reider - "Inconstant" from Inconstant CC BY
archive.org/details/Inconstant

Fosel - "Nightfall Tall and Ignorant (side A)" from Nightfall Tall and Ignorant CC BY NC SA
archive.org/details/NightfallTallAndIgnorant

Mystified - "Complex Silence 14" from Complex Silence 14 CC BY SA
archive.org/details/Complex_Silence_14

Tribe of Astronauts - "Missive 2" from Missive 2 CC BY
archive.org/details/Missive_2

Drone Forest - "Rig Delayer" from Meta:Drone CC BY NC SA
www.droneforest.com/meta.html

System Essence - "Nothing Remain" from Nothing Remain PUBLIC DOMAIN
archive.org/details/gt568SystemEssence-NothingRemain

Jane's Scenic Drive - "Now to Then" from Now to Then CC BY SA
archive.org/details/NowToThen

Grove of Whispers - "Ame" from Ame CC BY NC SA
archive.org/details/wh245

Zieltogend - "XXXV" from Constant 18 CC BY
archive.org/details/Constant_18