Slow Poof 6

Slow Poof 6 goes a little deeper than yesterday's Poof. This pick leans more pop-ambient, with things stretching out and hanging longer, even when there’s a beat. Robin Guthrie shows up, and again, and Cocteau Twins energy is everywhere, and the space between notes matters as much as the notes themselves. Funny enough, the shortest song on these Slow Poof picks so far helped point the way — a reminder that drift isn’t about length, it’s about feel. Same Slow Poof, just a little farther out. Probably going to be the last one (at least for awhile).

Slow Poof 6

65 Biosphere - Poa Alpina

66 Cluster - Hollywood

67 Cocteau Twins + Harold Budd - Memory Gongs

68 Michael Brook - Ultramarine

69 Ulrich Schnauss - On My Own (Robin Guthrie Version)

70 Colourbox Featuring Lorita Grahame - Baby I Love You So (12' Version)

71 Curiosity Killed The Cat - Misfit (12 inch)

72 Massive Attack - One Love

73 Ryuichi Sakamoto - Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence

74 Harold Budd & Brian Eno with Daniel Lanois - The Pearl

75 Tangerine Dream - Love On A Real Train (Rerecorded)

76 The Blue Nile - From a Late Night Train

77 Klaus Schulze - Floating

Slow Poof 5

This Slow Poof pick surprised me a little. I wasn’t expecting Kraftwerk to fit here at all, but The Model works in a calm, pop-ambient way, like it slows down without actually being slowed. That led straight to Yello, especially the Orb remix of You Gotta Say Yes To Another Excess, where the track stops being a song and just drifts. From there the rest of the pick fell into place. Another Slow Poof — pop ambient, slow motion, and not in a hurry.

Slow Poof 5

54 Kraftwerk - The Model

55 Yello - You Gotta Say Yes To Another Excess (Orb Extended Remix)

56 Vangelis - Blade Runner Blues (Extended Version)

57 New Order - Elegia (Full Version)

58 Japan - Nightporter

59 David Sylvian - Orpheus

60 Bryan Ferry - Windswept

61 Sade - Paradise

62 Grace Jones - Walking In The Rain

63 Belouis Some - Imagination (12 inch)

64 Virginia Astley - Morning, A Summer Long Since Passed

Slow Poof 3

I wasn't sure I was going to make a third volume of this pick. I mean, I wanted to make a bunch, since I like this stuff. Look at the previous Pop Ambient Slow Poofs. But it was difficult for me to get just the right songs. And I didn't. I found a couple. And then I found others that kind of fit. I wasn't too happy with it. But I listened to it several times. I moved a few songs and I'm kinda happy with the way it turned out. Unless you send me a few ideas for volume four, it probably won't happen for awhile. So enjoy this while you can.

Slow Poof 3

25 Kinobe - Slip Into Something More Comfortable

26 Bardeux - When We Kiss

27 Talk Talk - Happiness Is Easy

28 Global Communication - 523

29 Moodswings - The Moodswings Overture

30 Radiohead - Everything In Its Right Place

31 Man Parrish - Hip Hop Be Bop (Don't Stop) (12'' Maxi Single)

32 David Bowie with The Pat Metheny Group - This Is Not America

33 Malcolm McLaren - Deep In Vogue

34 Freeez - I.O.U. (Original 12'' Version)

35 Flash And The Pan - Midnight Man

36 The Beloved - The Sun Rising

37 Jean Michel Jarre - Ethnicolor 1

38 Air - La Femme D'Argent

Slow Poof 2

More of the Slow Poof pick. Pop Ambient? Chill? Ambient Wave? I have no idea what to classify these, but I like it. There's what some people call dub on here. And some, I mean, how do you classify Radiohead? Is Thievery Corporation chill? Or is it world? What Bill Laswell track would fit in with these? All I know is I find Terrence McKenna, soothing as well as boring and interesting at the same time. How can that be? Mint Juleps was supposed to be on volume one of Slow Poof, but just missed it. Now you get it. And you get another puff ball. In slow motion.

Slow Poof 2

13 The Orb - Towers Of Dub (Original Mix)

14 Thievery Corporation - Lebanese Blonde

15 Mint Juleps - Every Kinda People (Pts. 1, 2 & 3)

16 Art Of Noise - Art of Love (7 Edition)

17 Blank Banshee - Teen Pregnancy

18 Radiohead - Everything In Its Right Place

19 808 State - Pacific 909 (Mellow Birds Mega Edit)

20 Spacetime Continuum - Funkyar

21 The Shamen - REEvolution

22 Dub Syndicate - 2001 Love

23 The Grid - Crystal Clear (The Orb Remix Clear, Like An Unmuddied Lake)

24 Stereolab - Emperor Tomato Ketchup

Slow Poof 1

This is a kind of fun one for me. A pick of songs I call Slow Poof. It came from thinking of Puff Balls and watching clouds float by. Probably more ambient music, but just sort of. I was listening to Frankie Goes To Hollywood Power Of Love and thinking of the Art Of Noise and 10cc, Trevor Horn and ZTT. It just branched from there. Much of this isn't typical of either ballads or ambient music, but sort of inbetween that and world music. I never thought of the Frankie song being a Christmas song, but supposedly in some countries it is. I don't think any of the other ones would be considered Christmas, but then again, I didn't think Frankie was either. I have almost enough to make a part two, so give me suggestions as to what else would fit.

Slow Poof 1

01 The Orb - Little Fluffy Clouds

02 Air - Ce Matin La

03 Yes - White Car

04 Frankie Goes To Hollywood - The Power Of Love (Blank & Jones So8Os Reconstruction)

05 Spacetime Continuum With Terence McKenna - Archaic Revival

06 Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygene Part IV

07 Yello - The Race Ambient Loop Mix

08 Jam & Spoon - Stella

09 10cc - I'm Not In Love (Rework Of Art Mix)

10 Art Of Noise - Moments In Love

11 Glenn Gregory & Claudia Brucken - When Your Heart Runs Out Of Time

12 Godley & Creme - Cry (Extended Remix)