Dreamland

I would like to begin this blog with a post that puts me in a similar mood as Twin Peaks. Although I wasn't thinking about Twin Peaks at the time I made this playlist, which was about 2 or 3 years ago, it certainly evokes many of the emotions I get while I watching the newest season of Twin Peaks (2017). This playlist is the first and a series of three entitled "Dreamland." I believe I made the first when I was drowsy from a fever, and I thought these tunes evoked my feelings well. I often have the most interested sometimes David Lynchian dreams while sleeping with a mild fever. In my youth, I would often make myself mix tapes to stimulate weird dreams to inspire my creative writing. So in a sense this playlist is an homage to those mixtapes I made over twenty years ago.

Playlist

1. "Fur Elise" from Cluster & Eno's eponymous 1977 album -  I love the wooing intro
2. "4:14" from Global Communication's 1994 album 76:14 
3. "The Eleventh Hour" from Chromatics' dreamy 2012 album Kill for Love - incidentally the Chromatics appeared in the last Twin Peaks episode I watched
4. "Andro" from Oneohtrix Point Never's critically acclaimed 2011 album Replica
5. "Of These, Hope (reprise)" from Peter Gabriel's Passion 1989 soundtrack to The Last Temptation of Christ - I used many songs from this album for my surreal mix tapes I made when I was in high school
6. "Meditation No. 2" from Laraaji's 1980 album Ambient 3: Day of Radiance - This song evokes feelings of entering an exotic temple. I say this as a white male very aware of my orientalist sentiment formed during my youth. 
7.  "Search for Delicious" from Panda Bear's 2007 album Person Pitch
8. "Grown in Shells" from Gary War's 2009 album New Raytheonport
9. "Paul Meets Chani" from Toto's 1984 soundtrack to Dune, a David Lynch film - This is another soundtrack I played heavily to induce fever dreams
10. "Make My Sleep His Song" from Broadcast & The Focus Group's 2009 album Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age, which I believe is a perfect album to play during Halloween. 
11. "Poa Alpina" from Biosphere's 1997 album Substrata -  The accompanying video seems very Lynchian to me.
12. "Nearly Awakened..." from Harold Budd & Zeitgeist's 1994 album She Is a Phantom - This track and the track #10 have titles obviously referring to the playlist theme.
13. "Etude No. 2" by Philip Glass. I'm not sure when this song was first published as I got this song from a sampler album.
14. "Flycatcher" from Kiln's 2007 album Dusker.
15. "A Year and a Day" from Belbury Poly's 2009 album From an Ancient Star. Very British.
16. "Progress (live)" from Orchestral Maneouvers in the Dark's 1980 album Organisation. Also quite British.
17. "Moon Fever" from Air's 2012 album La Voyage Dans la Lune and part of an updated soundtrack to the famous "Trip to the Moon" film. Very French.
18. "Let the Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel" from Atlas Sound's 2008 album of the same name.
19. "Two Against Three" from Brian Eno & David Byrne's critically acclaimed 1981 album My Life in the Bush of Ghosts. The playlist bookends with another of Brian Eno's collaborative work.