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I'm VERY proud that this mix is 'premiered' on Dave Michuda's great Low Light Mixes blog.
He also wrote this nice introduction to this mix, which I just copy here:

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I like to think that I put a lot of thought and effort into these mixes. Hopefully, the mix as a whole is greater than the sum of its parts. But what I do is nothing compared to the transformative touch that Peter Van Cooten brings to his mixes.
Each mix is a unique work of art. Peter rarely lets a track play in its complete form. Instead, he uses smaller samples and deftly weaves the tracks in and out of each other. Sometimes 2,3, or 4 tracks play simultaneously, creating something new from different elements. In this mix, he uses an incredible 41 tracks! Here's what Peter has to say about using so many short samples:

"Sometimes I feel a bit embarrassed about using such short samples and/or editing the tracks (of these 41, only 8 are used in their complete form). It's a bit like cutting up the Mona Lisa to create a landscape patchwork with the fragments ;-). 
But on the other hand, this is what I feel makes these mixes unique. Taken out of their context and in relation to other fragments, the music sometimes tells a different story."

This mix is a bit darker than most of my (= Dave Michuda's, PvC) mixes. But it's dark in an interesting way, not in a droney, dissonant way. The mix has a very cinematic feel and combined with the cover art and title I can imagine drone shots of empty streets and newspapers blowing across the square.
Peter was hesitant about the name and the cover art. He says:

"It may be too closely linked to the current worldwide crisis, but on the other hand I have tried to think of another name or context but the uncertain times seem to be too dominant to think of another name I could give it. The funny thing is, that if you listen back most of my mixes have a rather dark edge to them. There's always a lot of 'tension/release'. But in this case, it seems there's a bit more 'tension' than 'release'. 
Oh well, sign of the times..."

Cheers, and stay safe.

Dave Michuda, Low Light Mixes (blog), or Low Light Mixes (Mixcloud)

Lockdown was also broadcast in Bob Rusche's 'X-Ray' on Concertzender Nederland on April, 19

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Tracklist:
Start time Sample length Artist - Title
Album Title, Year, Label

• 00:00 03:23 Fovea Hex - Is
  Is Lanza Light & Given (Steven Wilson Remixes), 2019, Die Stadt/Janet Records






• 01:25 04:35 Maggi Payne - Fluid Dynamics
  Arctic Winds, 2020, Aguirre Records






• 02:03 01:45 Pat Keista - Doppler
  Still Of The Void, 2020, self-released






• 04:17 01:47 Dave Phillips - Phytognosophysiology
  Post Homo Sapiens, 2020, Attenuation Circuit






• 05:10 02:45 Jóhann Jóhannsson & Yair Elazar Glotman - Prelude
  Last And First Men, 2020, Deutsche Grammophon






• 05:42 02:00 Andrew Pekler - Fonseca Winds (Lament)
  Sounds From Phantom Islands, 2019, Faitiche






• 07:29 01:19 Jóhann Jóhannsson & Yair Elazar Glotman - Telepathic Unity
  Last And First Men, 2020, Deutsche Grammophon






• 08:13 03:10 Ben Bertrand - Those Behind Us That We Follow
  Manes, 2020, Les Albums Claus






• 11:08 01:31 Fani Konstantinidou - (Variations)
  Moving Music: Sounds From The Rocking Chair, 2020, Moving Furniture Records,






• 11:58 01:32 Aaron Martin - Overcoming Inertia
  Test Subjects, 2019, self released






• 12:53 01:51 A Journey Of Giraffes - Gone Is The New Fuji
  Kona, 2019, Somewherecold records






• 13:29 03:30 Robert Haigh - Ghosts Of Blacker Dyke
  Black Sarabande, 2020, Unseen Worlds






• 16:46 02:48 Snorri Hallgrímsson - Fear
  Chasing The Present, 2020, Moderna Records






• 16:53 00:30 Mica Levi - Mensajero
  Monos, 2019, Invada






• 17:40 02:30 Snorri Hallgrímsson - Suffering
  Chasing The Present, 2020, Moderna Records






• 19:22 01:58 Bersarin Quartett - Prolog
  Methoden Und Maschinen, 2019, Denovali



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