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A word of warning first. This is not an ambient mix intended to relax or create a calm atmosphere. Also, it is not a showcase with full album tracks (you may want to check the DreamScenes editions for those).
It is a 'create-your-own-movie' soundtrack with some rather intense climaxes.
And 42 track fragments in less than one hour - almost none of those in full length: all tracks are cut-up, fragmented, edited, layered and re-assembled (but never altered sonically) - like creating a collage from torn pictures.
This also means that none of the parts represents the artists' original intention (I hope they still can appreciate what I do here). For further exploration, the release details of the fragments are provided so you can check out the original full versions and support the artist wherever possible.

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The mix title, Radical Candor, comes from the (management) philosophy described by former Google and Apple executive Kim Scott. In short, it argues that feedback (on behaviour) is most effective if it is challenging but at the same time shows that you care.
A music collage is anything but a management philosophy of course. But still I felt there was a resemblance: the mix is 'caring' at times but can also be quite 'challenging' to the listener.
At least, that was my intention.
Anyway: I also just liked the way the words sound: Radical Candor. So here it is.

This mix is simultaneously published on the great Headphone Commute website:
"I’m honoured to welcome back a dear friend, Peter van Cooten for his multi-layered textured voyage which has become an art form in itself. Not satisfied with simply arranging his favourites in a particular order, Peter tediously hand-coats the soundscapes which often run six levels deep (just look at the sequence screenshot)."
Thanks, H_C!

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Tracklist:

[starting time] [fragment length] Artist name - Track title
Album title, release year, label

• 00:00 02:08 Areni Agbabian - Garun A
  Bloom, 2019, ECM 2549






• 00:52 01:49 Gideon Wolf - Self Portrait
  Replicas, 2019, Fluid Audio 060






• 01:37 01:26 Kammarheit - The Indefinite Vaults
  Drone Islands - Land Raising, 2019, Eighth Tower Records






• 02:43 01:34 Resina - Trigger (Abul Mogard Remix)
  Traces - Remixes, 2019, 130701/Fatcat Records LP1335






• 03:36 02:23 Craig Leon - The Twenty Second Step As Well As The Tenth
  Anthology Of Interplanetary Folk Music Vol. 2, 2019, RVNG Intl RVNGNL55






• 05:03 02:53 Angelina Yershova - Cosmotengri
  Cosmotengri, 2019, Twin Paradox






• 07:02 02:55 Ashtoreth - Elemental I
  Drone Islands - Land Raising, 2019, Eighth Tower Records






• 09:16 01:31 Robert Scott Thompson - Proximity
  Phonotopological, 2018, Acourant AWD 379561






• 10:10 02:42 Alla Zakaykevych - Voice/Way
  Kaleidoscope - Experimental Music From Ukraine, 2019, Flaming Pines FLP079






• 12:38 01:51 Snowdrops - Manta Ray
  Manta Ray OST, 2019, Gizeh Records GZH87






• 14:13 02:20 Zeno van den Broek - Interlude Two
  Breach, 2019, Moving Furniture MFR072






• 15:03 03:52 Jessica Moss - Fractals (Truth 4)
  Entanglement, 2018, Constellation CST138






• 18:28 02:55 The London Sound Survey - Maplin Sands
  Thames, 2019, Persistance Of Sound PS003






• 19:28 02:17 Rebecka Sofia Ahvenniemi - Winds
  Tacit-Citat-Ion, 2019, Ravello Records RAVL8011.2






• 21:08 01:58 Giulio Aldinucci - The Burning Alphabet
  Disappearing In A Mirror, 2018, Karl Records KR055






• 22:06 03:33 John Haniver - Black
  How To Live Like A Ghost, 2019, Linge Records LINGE089






• 22:20 00:44 Anxious Bot - Check The Basement
  Crystal Bible, 2018, self-released






• 23:38 01:56 Anxious Bot - Check The Basement
  Crystal Bible, 2018, self-released






• 24:20 03:25 Carl Stone - Kuk II Kwan (1981)
  Electronic Music From The Seventies And Eighties, 2016, Unseen Worlds UW15






• 26:07 01:22 Maxime Tanguay - Nain Field
  Sertraline, 2018, the end is near then012



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