We’ve been bringing you a healthy dose of bangin beats here on The Beatery recently, so I figured this would be a good opportunity to take it down a notch… like I was a bizarro anti-Emeril.

I’m always paying visual attention to my surroundings, light in particular. There are these times of day, one hour before sunset and one hour after sunrise, where the world looks just a little bit different. The shadows are longer, colors are softer, warmer, and the world just seems to glow with this beautiful radiance not seen at any other time. Photographers call it “the golden hour”. For this podcast I’ve compiled a set of songs that give the world a similar beauty when I listen to them. Listening to songs like these I can be anywhere, on a bus, on BART, watching paint dry, whatever, and the world seems to have that same glowing sheen; like everything is going to be alright, no matter what. I hope they have the same effect on you, enjoy! Tracklist, discussions and more photos after the jump:

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Tracklist:

1. Heaven – UNKLE – King Unique Remix
2. Light Through the Veigns – Jon Hopkins – Ewan Pearson Remix
3. Apollo – We Plants Are Happy Plants*
4. Highlife – Adam Parker – Sasha’s Invol2ver Remix**
5. It’s Not My Problem - Sneaky Sound System – Thin White Duke Remix***
6. Radio 101 – Pole Folder featuring Shelley Harland – Francesco Pico Remix
7. Engineers – Sometimes I realize – Sasha’s Invol2ver Remix

*Thanks to the guys over at Binary for turning me on to this track!

**How is this the “Invol2ver Remix” when it is a TOTALLY different version than he uses on his album “Invol2ver”? The one on Sasha’s mix is super minimal and doesn’t have the vocal at all. This should be “Sasha’s other remix that’s way better than the one on Invol2ver”. But maybe that was a little long…

***Thanks to the guys at Silence Killer for clueing me into this one!

Photos:

Here are some shots that I’ve taken during the Golden Hour all around the world. It’s so neat that from New York to the West Bank the Sun is the Sun, and the light it casts is the same (View using “PicLens” to listen and view photos at the same time.  Clicking on the photos will close the music player).

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