In a world that emphasizes productivity, daydreaming is looked upon negatively because it represents ‘non-doing’. I’ve found, however, that sometimes the most productive thing I can do is to drop everything and let my mind wander. We statistically do less daydreaming as we grow older, so let this mix help set the mood for exploring your thoughts in a positive light.

This mix was created five years ago by my best friend Jason Ruff aka Fade On. As a connoisseur of his mixes, I’ve listened to many of them repeatedly, but none as frequent as this one. iTunes counts 29 complete plays for me, meaning I’ve spent nearly 60 hours listening to this beauty. It’s mostly gorgeous, downtempo/ambient introspective bliss, but like any great mix there are a number of twists along the way.

1. Tim Hecker – Blood Rainbow

2. Nathan Fake – Fell

3. Christian Fennesz & Ryuichi Sakamoto – Haru

4. Nathan Fake – Fell

5. Broken Social Scene – Fell Good Lost Reprise

6. Ulrich Schnauss – Molfsee

7. Boards Of Canada – ’84 Pontiac Dream

8. Lucky Pierre – Ghost Two

9. Aphex Twin – Lichen

10. Animal Collective – Loch Raven

11. Caribou – Dundas, Ontario (Remix)

12. Calika – Max And Louie

13. Deaf Center – Dial (Helios Remix)

14. Normal – Horse Pyramid

15. Mum – Green Grass Of Tunnel

16. Syntaks – Redgrass

17. Mogwai – Sine Wave

18. DNTEL – Don’t Get Your Hopes Up

19. Four Tet – Hands

20. Boards Of Canada – Left Side Drive

21. Eluvium – Everything To Come

22. Brian Eno – From The Same Hill

23. m83 – Kelly

24. Lunz – Serpentining

25. .tape. – On The Mountain Office (Bichi Remix)

26. Harmonic 313 – Quadrant 3

27. Telefon Tel Aviv – Your Mouth

28. Fennesz – Saffron Revolution

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