Fluid Radio - an excellent webstream I regularly put on at work - invited me to do a mix. I dug up some of my favourite tunes to fall asleep to and made one hour of sleepy wooziness. From Basinski to Some Tweetlove, Mount Eerie to Viktor Sjoberg, Tsukimono to Badalementi.. listen here: http://www.mixcloud.com/FluidRadio/wixel-exclusive/

a question

Unwind is no longer available. Lots of people still need to get a reply, will do so asap!

100 grim reapers by ben & bruno.

today i discovered this video someone made with a wixel song as a soundtrack.  what a total random weird happening. (via mm4ng)

Hi.

Next saturday i’m playing one last show with my band called guernica. it will be at zennestraat 17 - in brussels. check the information here.

this song seems fitting (too bad it’s not ours)

Slaapwel Records is happy to announce a new release in its catalogue! Greg and I met at a show in London, at The Spitz. We instantly got along and ended up record shopping in Soho the day after. A year later he joined my band for a handful of shows through the UK. It was the only “real” tour I did in my life, but Greg made it a wonderful and extremely fun experience. A little later he released “Slumber Tides”, a stunning piece of contemporary classical music. Beautiful, melancholic strings with some electronic lights in it. Since then I’ve been nagging him to do a sleeping piece… it took him quite some time, but finally it’s here. A soothing piece with church organ, piano and tape recorders that takes you places. It’s been a while since his last solo effort, so i’m welcoming this both as a stunning piece of music, and as an excellent way to close my eyes & shut off my mind.

//wim

go to http://www.slaapwelrecords.com for details on how to order it. there’s no preview or stream, just trust me on this one…

Hi all,

The paint is still wet, but i’m happy to announce there’s a new wixel monthly disc again. The year is slowly finding its way to 2010. As it progresses and as I am pouring out ideas and songs to have enough material each month, I am really starting to feel empty. The neverending fun of making a record each month clearly has gone away. Since this month life even got a little more busier due to personal circumstances, so I nearly decided to quit the whole thing. However, I am pretty sure you always have to hold on a little longer, you never know what follows. (Sorry if i sound like a dramaqueen! :D - not the intention). But… that’s why this month is a sort of cheat-month again. Like in May I focussed on finishing old songs. Most of these were intended for a cd release as a wixel “pop” album. But it never got finished, so I decided to release them now as I still am proud of those 4 little soft sung songs. I wouldn’t want them ending as a faint memory (though everything eventually will). They were all inspired by the sweet soft side of love. You know, the innocent kind, when you were still young. When you were still making mixtapes for your lover(s), thinking your choice of songs and the order you put them in were of the highest importance - I remember my favorite one starting out with “Antlers” by the Microphones. Its “Sway With Me, Aimlessly” words/feeling becoming the chorus of a song as it seemed like the perfect way to invite someone into your life. (She accepted by the way, but it wasn’t meant to be.) Anyways, I don’t want to get too personal. I suppose there is nothing left to do besides enjoying the songs for what they are: simple sweet poppy lovesongs. If one ever finds its way to a mixtape somewhere, I’d be more than thrilled. It is the weirdest form of art.

If you want to have it, simply send an e-mail to wimmaesschalck@gmail.com - and i’ll hook you up with the details. The cd (only 20 minutes in length) is 10 euro + whatever shipping is. It is once again limited to 30 copies. Records will be shipped coming weekend!

You can download it free (or have a preview stream) here: