Blog → There will come soft rains

I started this mix a couple of weeks ago and I wasn't sure when to post it. Then the rains came. We have been getting pelted here for a week, so I figured now is the perfect time to post a rain mix.

Based on the amount of rain we've been getting maybe a more appropriate title would have been "A hard rain is gonna fall & flood my basement & turn my backyard into a swamp." I guess that's a little long. So I'll stick with "There Will Come Soft Rains". The title is taken from a short story by Ray Bradbury who takes the title from a poem by Sara Teasdale. Not that poem or story have anything to do with the mix, I just love the sound of the line.

The music in this mix is a collection of tunes I thought would work well with the sound of rain. Most of the rain you hear in this mix was added by me. I hope I didn't over do it. The listening environment has a lot to do with how the rain is perceived. While mixing in a quiet room I kept worrying about too many rain fx, but then listening in my office at work, I couldn't hear half of the rain sounds. Hopefully I managed to strike the right balance.

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There will come soft rains(53:17, 62mb)

t r a c k l i s t :

* 00:12 - 02:30 Chas Smith - Santa Fe
* 02:40 - 05:40 Elegi - Despotiets vesen
* 05:44 - 10:20 Fenton - Neon Giraffe
* 10:33 - 11:51 Max Richter - harmonium & Time Passing
* 11:51 - 15:55 Julien Neto - VI
* 16:00 - 22:20 Loscil - Steam
* 22:35 - 25:50 Loren Connors - airs #6
* 25:30 - 28:50 Rameses III - night blossom written in sanskrit
* 29:25 - 32:20 Leo Abrams - scene memory
* 32:20 - 35:40 Daniel Lanois - Telco
* 35:50 - 41:36 Popol Vuh - Listen He Who Ventures
* 41:36 - 50:35 Rameses III - theme three
* 50:35 - 51:41 Lawrence - A Quiet Day
* 51:47 - 53:17 Max Richter - Fragment