can a noise dude recommend some AMBIENT

turn their second album backwards in audacity or whatever you have it da best !

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00000B49G.01._SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg

& Thomas Koner's Kaamos & Daikan also
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000001E81.01._SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000003S2I.01._SS500_SCMZZZZZZZ_V1056635226_.jpg
&Jon Hassell's possible musics vol 1 with eno, and "power spot"

http://www.aquariusrecords.org/images/lovegliscd.jpg

hmm loveliescrushing "glissceule" a cross between cocteau twins and thomas koner.
& ihttp://www.tomheasley.com/
tom heasley's website he plays his tuba through delays and reverbs and it's way too good.
and zoviet france: norsch, mohnomishe, eostre, shouting at the ground, just an illusion, loh land - i suppose anything of theirs really I don't have it all there is too much of it but it's so primevally monged. maybe the 3 cd popular youth music set is the best place to start i dunno.

-- cutty (holle...), Today 9:21 AM. (mcutt) (later)

cutty otm

-- cutty (holle...), Today 9:21 AM. (mcutt) (later)

cutty otm

-- s1ocki (slytus...), June 19th, 2006. (later)

yeah tritto

.1. Miles Davis - In A Silent Way
.2. Alvin Lucier - Music on A Long Thin Wire (Edit)
.3. Brian Eno - A Clearing
.4. Oren Ambarchi – Corkscrew
.5. Gas – Zauberberg, Pt. 1
.6. Keith Fullerton Whitman - Track3a(2waynice)
.7. Alejandra & Aeron - Know I Don't
.8. Nurse With Wound - Funeral Music For Perez Prado
.9. Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Quintet – Track Ten, from Mottomo Otomo: Unlimited XIII
.10. Charlemagne Palestine - One Fifth in the Rhythm Three Against Two
.11. Aphex Twin - Blue Calx
.12. Björk - Headphones (Ø remix)

I think I lifted the NWW track from here. Thanks!

Which of you knows about what other Otomo Yoshihide is worth looking out for?

Ghislain Poirier: Sous Le Manguier (= what youd expect a Colleen/Rapoon collab to sound like)

Paragraph 7

this too

and this too

15%

plz to contain pointless anger to DC threads

there's a palpable difference between wolfgang voigt being lazy (gas) and burger/ink: las vegas

the main difference being laziness, which tends to plague a lot of ambient music. just because it doesn't have beats and lyrics doesn't mean you can get away with being boring on purpose, or that all concepts hold water (TOMBOT: granular synthesis ate my balls, coming out in 2007)

kinda wish i still had my copy of 'las vegas'

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000668M1.01._SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg

what's that silva lp like

confucious rapidshared the one good hykes record, which is easily found at amazon, but still. he also has the 90's Eno CDRs -- worth hearing if you're a fan, though not as good as the earliers

http://differentwaters.blogspot.com/

also there need to be more ambient albums made with the dialogue from cable tv fishing shows

does BISK go on this thread or is he something else?
can we complain about namlook?

hmmm I was just gonna toss this -- been weeding my CD shelves this week --but maybe I should play it agin.

more ambient albums made with the dialogue from cable tv fishing shows

THE FISHIN' MUSICIAN w/your host GIL FISHER

though probably not the jake mandell

come out tomorrow night
i and i will drop some new age bonerz

i refilled my prescription of ambient today!

nobody thought "voigt camp" was funny

bob snoom pwnd this thread in one post

invite that guy back

retire 1 replicant

http://bp2.blogger.com/_Za0xVoORBv8/SDq7sFfCuOI/AAAAAAAAAm4/vhmSQ6VEwAs/s400/AlanLamb%5B1%5D.JPG

tim hecker

which ones? i have one called 'X Avant Festival, Toronto, Oct 25, 2008 bootleg'

http://www.sunblind.net/discography/mirages/mirages.html

ooh he has a new one on kranky

chihei hatakeyama

kranky 032 & 036 still unfuckwithable imo.

i cant hate on any hecker album. they are all huge glacial slabs of beautiful digital ambience.

harmony in ultraviolet is a good place to start, the new one i'm just getting into

http://camarilhadosquatro.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/expo-70-black-ohms.jpeg

what's that?

expo '70

http://www.exposeventy.com/

Dudes are from Kansas City!

love that cover

can't find a blog link but its worth hunting down for headphone chillin

thanks

cough

: )

loving expo 70

: )

thanks

kites - sky hammer

does everyone have this album? it makes my stoner 100 list easily. loooooooooooooooove it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oISucGq5dsk

YES SCOTT I LOVE HER

yes that is a sweet sweet album

not really ambient though? pastoral folky vocal ambient?

yeah, more field recording/pastoral/minimal than ambient, but the drift from song to song is so subtle and slow...i can see that dude from the orb being a fan. i don't even know why i thought of the dude from the orb. i guess virginia fits in more with durutti column and penguin cafe orchestra kinda stuff. which kinda connects with glass and eno too.

i've really been digging the noto/sakamoto collaboration stuff lately. so beautiful. best youtube description ever is "cyber-satie". their new thing on raster noton is just mind-boggling.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7az9jgc5wz8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evllPOj0wTo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjMvQHgAgjg

again, more minimal than ambient, maybe? but i can't get enough of their stuff and i have to share.

okay, it is minimalism, but i hope you all will indulge me.

that berlin thing KILLS me.

http://www.part.lt/img/c3556c1fbb593087d826d0cd0c51b1a6743.jpeg

http://waxidermy.com/images/ancient_leaves.JPG

not a stearns fan, in general, but this is very pleasant.

http://blackstag.podbean.com/2007/12/27/music-for-the-dead-days/

*sigh*

kevin drumm - imperial horizon
and i second william basinski - 92982

can anyone recommend some good digital ambient? i mean specifically stuff made on 80s/early-90s digital synths. i've got the shutov assembly, some steve roach, and there's that laurie spiegel album unseen worlds i need to get. some of the rapoon i've heard sounds like it could've been made on a wavestation or something. what else?

not sure if they correspond to your synth wishlist, but I've been digging these lately:

Mirror - Still Valley
Omit - Tracer

i haven't heard this one yet, just bought it. i remember it being pretty weird. michael william gilbert 'in the dreamtime' 82
http://www.mwgilbert.com/discd.gif

darren kearns 'optimal being' 83
http://img11.shop-pro.jp/PA01054/001/product/10951921.jpg

off topic, but was totally jamming to Robert Ashley's Perfect Lives last night and really catching the ambient groove and textures on that one. Reminded me very much of Manuel Gottsching's Dream and Desire (which i ~prefer~ to E2-E4, thx4 da challops) with some tabla and some sprinkly winter piano.

actually rio, if you're into late 70s/early 80s synth washes, the 2 records above should fit that mold nicely.

http://www.ashra.com/covers/1911dr2.jpghttp://www.discogs.com/image/R-426249-1111804211.jpg

http://intothedarkness.up.seesaa.net/image/lull.rr6403.jpg
http://intothedarkness.up.seesaa.net/image/lull.rr6403.jpg
http://intothedarkness.up.seesaa.net/image/lull.rr6403.jpg
http://intothedarkness.up.seesaa.net/image/lull.rr6403.jpg

this shit makes me feel like an 11th century benedictine monk

moments was my favourite album for years <3

these dudes do it right: http://www.myspace.com/duetforthereminandlapsteel

been listening to this all morning. so good.
http://justanothergarden.blogspot.com/2008/09/edge-with-michael-brook-captive-ost.html

cold summer > moments, iirc

cool, that's next on my list.

i like how moments has 99 tracks

np fripp & eno - morning star. is "an index of metals" the darkest eno?

eno - music for civic recovery centre

http://chacinski.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/bakerhecker_fantasma1.jpg

http://www.discogs.com/Robert-Henke-Piercing-Music/master/84721

this is so good

i will listen only to dark ambient for the month of januarys

i'm really digging:

Andrew Deutsch: Loop Over Land
Iasos: Inter-Dimensional Music

"Loops Over Land consists of about 50 min. of loops produced using an analog reel-to-reel tape deck and an analog tape delay system (provided by Neil Rolnick). The loops were constructed using random 'scissors clips' of Mahler's 5th Symphony and thus reflect the pastoral feel of his original composition. Some of what sound like drum beats in the loops are actually sloppy splices bathed in reverb. Production of the loops happened over the course of 2 days while I was confined to my apartment dodging an enormous snow storm. During these days of looping and confinement, I listened as deeply as possible to the sounds and envisioned large circular loops of light slowly turning over the landscape. The landscapes themselves were of lush green fields and hills dripping in recent rain while the loops shimmered gold each holding their own shape. Loops Over Land continues what I have been calling since 1987 'image drones.' Image drones are drones that are meant to evoke a very specific image for the listener. I also consider these recordings to reflect my interest in 'romantic structuralism,' a term coined by filmmaker Ken Jacobs. It seems illogical to bring the theories of structuralism and romanticism together (this was the seed of the split between Boulez and Stockhausen). However, the power of the 'structuralist activity' (see Barthes) lies in the possibility of revealing hidden functions and existing structures. The function of tonal materials in the works of Mahler were intended to induce emotive states in the listener. What I have done is isolated 'tonal moments' and made manifest their explicit function. The loops of Loops Over Land are loops of emotion embodied in the traditional form of minimalist composition. Will the loops always evoke the same feeling in every listener? I believe they will come close, at least to the Western ear." --Andrew Deutsch

http://iasos.com/detalist/idm/

This is the album that began the genre of "New Age" Music, in 1975, along with Steven Halpern's "Spectrum Suite".

This can be thought of as a sonic journey through a great many realms - from etheric tropical to inter-planetary - great for "consciousness-travelling" via sound.

This album marks the very beginning of Iasos' recording career. It is a cd version of the original record album, as well asthe bonus track: "Angel Play".

Designed for focused listening - definitely not as "background music".

New Age Journal
"Iasos is a 29 year old musical genius. While other musicians have taken cracks at creating what might be called celestial music, Iasos has perfected the art. 'Inter-Dimensional Music thru Iasos' does point to a previously unheard musical wavelength . . . an excellent vehicle for travelling toward higher planes of consciousness. In this newly developing form of Space Age/New Age music, 'Inter-Dimensional Music thru Iasos' has set the standard to which others must aspire or from which they may depart."
(Peter Simon, 1975)

New Age Retailer magazine:
"When I put on his Wave 1: Inter-Dimensional Music, I thought I'd heard nectar from heaven."
(Carol Wright, July 2001)

Iasos is great stuff.

add to that:

arica (all)
michael sterns ancient leaves + planetary unfloding
craig kupka
j.d. emmanuel wizards
swami kriya ramananda - song of the golden lotus
malcolm cecil radiance

w/o noizz brd I would not know stars o the lid so thx dudes

IASOS is ill, thirded on that one

been listening to jeweled space a bit recently, it's dangerous. that one & the 'angelic music' CD.

if you guys are going there then I feel okay posting this: http://crystalvibrations.blogspot.com/2009/07/don-slepian-sea-of-bliss.html

& shasta, see you there 4 golden bowls: http://www.gracecathedral.org/music/overview/labyrinths/detail/index.php?eid=1433

the slepian 'sea of bliss' CD >>>>>>> original cassette mp3 rip, it's on CD baby & way worth it

steve roach owns this thread

roach owns ALL AMBIENT!!!

this thread is missing david parsons imo

tibetan plateau/sounds of the mothership

outside it is snowing

what other roach do i need, i have:
quiet music
streams & currents
structures from silence

was gonna ask the same. i only have the magnificent void. it's so deep

you don't have mystic chords and sacred spaces?

lol i think i've asked this before and you said that one

songs your pandora stations play

LOL

art of actual forgetfulness (no pretend)

X|

so that's the third time i recommended it?

his discog is ridic:

http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:wifrxqq5ldde~T2

the upcoming "live at grace cathedral" looks awesome

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zV7SUhx14-o

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51CmO-H8k9L._SL500_AA280_.jpg

http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/images/585x/TONE31.jpg

yeah that's teh shit

what other roach do i need, i have:
quiet music
streams & currents
structures from silence

― ♖♕♖ (am0n), Friday, January 8, 2010 3:48 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Magnificent Void is the one where he starts getting closer to dark ambient, almost black ambient, if you like that one go directly to Immersion: One, which is the first one that's more of an installation piece than a record, the first time I put that on I waited about two minutes before realizing 'this is it, the whole piece, this one doesn't have to go anywhere or do anything' and leaned over and hit the infinite repeat key on my CD player and just left it

so are you like still listening to it?

essentially

the upcoming "live at grace cathedral" looks awesome

― sir ilx-a-lot (cutty), Friday, January 8, 2010 4:40 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

grace cathedral is so great for this, just saw Karma Moffett play Tibetan Bowls there last week while one hundred very strange people slowly wandered the floor labyrinth. the acoustics in there, well it's a cathedral after all

just listened to golden bowls today, thx mp

did i post this yet? i cannot remember:

drape "dream words"

http://www.mediafire.com/?nhno2rzoyme

Leonardo Music Journal -- Awesome!!

AH SO

thx for lawrence engrish

morton feldman isn't ambient.

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 19 June 2006 19:17 (3 years ago) Permalink
he would be hostile to the very suggestion.

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 19 June 2006 19:22 (3 years ago)

listened to that feldman/kronos again last week and yeah it's not really ambient. of course i meant functionally ambient but still.

sorry mort.

on land

by brian eno

remember the (lol) 90s?

http://infoci.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/globalchillage.jpg

but i still say chillage

i prefer the other IF album with the orange cover

that one has more beats iirc. beatless is better for ambient

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/429108/The+Irresistible+Force.jpg

it takes a chillage to rave a child

looooooooool

Am good friends w/L4wrence's bro! He is an intense dude!

law english? Man, I should buy most things on Touch, so good.

http://1.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kwbe95CgSw1qzr6oao1_500.png

lol, is that dude wearing a liquid sky shirt? i used to rock a baseball hat w/that logo on it in the mid 90s

global chillage is an incredible album

^^

very nostalgic for the 90s IDMbient stuff right now

i used to rock a baseball hat w/that logo on it in the mid 90s

of course you did

knew you'd love it

JNCOs or UFOs?

very nostalgic for the 90s IDMbient stuff right now

name others? i guess global communication

the orb

those two for sure. biosphere?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substrata_(album)

Higher Intelligence Agency

seefeel

http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:0zfqxqljld6e

That Oneohtrixpointnever "Rifts" CD kinda goes to this place too you know.

never heard but am intrigued

i only have a couple oneohtrix point never tracks but theyre all ill

yeah, they rule. It's like a one-man, all-synth version of Emeralds, but the tracks are shorter and new-agier.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-mJPxUt8RE

yea biosphere def.

never heard this before either but i like it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3soucm9emO4

nice

hay guyz i know it's not really idm and maybe not even ambint, but i've been positively caning systemisch by oval over the past couple of days. hard to believe it came out 14 years ago

is it really based on samples from saw ii? i can kinda hear it in a couple of tracks

does detroit escalator company count as 90s idmbient

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4nWhISpc4E

oval is definitely ambient

he was loud as shit live

holy shit oneohtrix point never is dope!!!!

vv happy with the way this thread turned out tbh

mmmmbient

yeah really feeling oneohtrix point never. there's one amazing song on yt dat sounds like klaus schulze. ty 4 the heads up

this is so sick

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjuofAWXNG8

got into global chillage and flying high again... fucking great

oneohtrix so sick

yeah i could listen to that all day

Nate Boyce has done a video for Oneohtrix's "Russian Mind" that is totally amazing, just y'all wait til you see it. He's showing it at the Art Institute in SF this Friday (at a show with Wobbly and Ear, Nose & Throat) so go to that if you want to see the piece, it's killer.

ear, nose & throat lol

lovin RIFTS - but how do you pronounce 'oneohtrix'?

just how its spelled I think - aw-knee-aw-tricks

i thought it was one oh trix point never

103.never

would've said 1 o'tricks but that's at a guess

now I feel dumm

no stress i stress it's a guess

just got pop ambient 2010 and it is quite good. who is bvdub?

he's a dub techno/ambient dude from us i think

a good mix here

http://mnmlssg.blogspot.com/2008/04/mnml-ssgs-mix01-bvdub.html

nate's video for oneohtrix: http://www.nateboyce.net/menu14.html

they're working on a forty minute collaboration this year, they just want to do the same thing but llllonger

so looking forward to the concert on friday but it won't be ambient (neither will this)

looks like it was made on an amiga 4000 with video toaster

'retro is coming back' as they say

nate uses a lot of vintage 80's analog video gear for feedback effects / live mixing but it's all tied in through C74 / jitter

this bvdub record "we were the sun" is blowing me away. really beautiful.

gimme

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYDtObWGEGk

try this? if not i'll u/l

http://rapidshare.com/files/289939342/Bvdub_-_We_Were_The_Sun-QUIETUS006-CDR-2009-DRUM.rar.html

fans of oneohtrix point never should check out mr maxted & baron mordant "roehampton by day" from the latest mordant music ep. really sweet primitive electronics

much better than anything else i've heard from that label

sez the server's overloaded, i'll try later this afternoon

thx cutty

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBkenJs2hko

tetsu inoue's inland is p dope

rapidshare doesn't work for free in the daytime anymore

http://www.mediafire.com/?1yiinzyzzw2

^ Chmmr When Agitated (aka JW). real thick, synthy, abrasive ambient. pretty great. unfortunately 5 songs, only 10 minutes.

one more song http://www.mediafire.com/?zdmzcmu2zgo

http://www.residentadvisor.net/feature.aspx?1060

thanks for the reminder to check out that oneohtrix. other music raved about them in one of their email updates a while ago and I was kinda curious but forgot all about it.

plus they rave about a lotta stuff, who can keep up

is sunnO)))) ambient y/n

i guess you could say that. it's more what we americans call "DRONE"

is sunnO)))) ambient y/n

― I think ur a probotector (cozen), Thursday, January 21, 2010 3:37 PM (43 minutes ago)

subpop advertised Earth as "ambient metal" almost 20 years ago fwiw.

Results 1 - 10 of about 794 for "dylan carlson" "ambient metal". (0.31 seconds)

listening to fennesz - hotel paral.lel for the 2nd time today. sounds so good this time of year

it's weird. I love "aus" but i can take or leave the rest of that record!!!

yeah i guess "aus" is the light at the end of a dark tunnel. but you should stop and check out the stalactites sometime

the long drone track after "aus" is incredible

i think what turned me off to that record is that most of it (except for aus iirc) is just somewhat interesting music slowed down... NOTE: i could be confusing this with another seminal early MEGO release (ie, Get Out) with one stand out track surrounded by a lot of glacial stuff.

doesn't help i revisited this thread earlier this week either:
RFI: Pita - Get Out / Gate Lavender Head / Morricone Sample

i think the detail in this album is amazing. you start noticing how well composed even the most atonal sounding tracks are, like these perfectly crafted icy jewels

saying that, my fav track is "fa", maybe the closest fennesz gets to a rock song

actually right now my favourite fennesz is the last track on the instrument ep. really beautiful glacial drone

bvdub here: http://files.me.com/mcutt/rz91o4

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_u_OCavgR3F8/SWfQB6rYSWI/AAAAAAAAB5o/yuJqhrq4RvA/s320/EH.jpg

^^^this album is a bomb

that's ezekiel honig - surfaces of a broken marching band btw. so beautiful

thxxxxx

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Kx8ksfKNL._SS500_.jpg

actually right now my favourite fennesz is the last track on the instrument ep. really beautiful glacial drone

― anita bonghit (rionat), Thursday, January 21, 2010 6:22 PM (4 days ago)

i'm a huge fan of the "Plays"-era which I imagine includes "Good Man" which was the first song on his rarities comp ("Field Recordings").

is that the cd w/a tractor on the cover? on touch mb? iirc thats a doooooope track shld look to see where i put that

no one has formed an opinion on the bvdub stuff yet? best ambient i've heard in a long time.

haven't listened to it yet. need to get that pop ambient too. i had 2007 on my earbuds this morning

The stuff I heard off his latest one was really nice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKaYjoxmr2c

cutty it has been my study tunes all weekend

it's been my crying tunes.

;)

np: pop ambient 2010 ;)

http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=157054

^ Smart record that.

that boomkat review makes it sound horrible. seriously wish they would tone that shit down

this is fucking dope.
http://sunflowerchakramilk.blogspot.com/2009/09/stellar-om-source-rise-in-planes-lp.html

i LOVE Christelle (aka Stellar Om Source.)
She is the sweetest and her music is dope.
i kind of have a crush on her. she lives in new york every so often, for a few months at a time as visa issues permit. great taste in records, that one.

xpost-

I love bvdub, and have been jamming "I never cried a tear" for a long ass time- at first I felt guilty because it seemed a bit "chardonnay", but it's actually just great ambient music so fuck it

not really into that emeralds but i'll try it again. probably not chardonnay enough.

i hate that digital sound that starts off the record...

that emeralds doesn't get good until track 3

try this one

global chillaging

can't spell chillage w/out HILLAGE

http://www.hollowearth.org/images/prog/hillage.jpg

hell yeah. the best ever

i djed a warm up slot to a very empty club last year and ended up playing all of side 1. the bouncer complained that it sounded like yoga music

enjoying emeralds album now, thanks

:)

i was playing Rainbow Dome Musick in the chillout room one time and steve hillage came up to me and told me it was his. we recorded a bit together

such a great story

LOL requesting further info on "chillout room". also ysi hillage/jaxon jam?

u met him at a 90s rave??

mental hospital

Fred Bigot-"Mono/Stereo" reissue on Holy Mountain--dirty oscillators/piercing stereo-delayed sine waves inna Pan sonic stylee.

Full streamed samples on Boomkat: http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=237673

(Mediafire file also searchable for those inclined to sample with five fingers)

this here is great stuff: http://www.kompakt.fm/releases/music_for_lazy_people

actually that system 7 album with the orb and derrick may is pretty good

haven't heard the stuff w/ jaxon tho

jaxon is talking in the voice of alex paterson

i knew that would confuse some

Hillage was recruited back to the music scene by Dr. Alex Paterson of the Orb, who spun Hillage's Rainbow Dome Musick at London's Heaven one night while Hillage was there himself. The two became friends, and Paterson encouraged him to begin recording ambient house -- with Hillage's guitar explorations just as prominent in the mix as on his solo work.

yeah i got that too

this is the album i've got

http://www.discogs.com/777-777/release/176796

hillage guitar solos over soft airy techno

srsly cannot believe he hasn't recorded as "chillage" before

i did actually use part of Rainbow Dome Musick in my mix (folk/prog/ambient/cosmic)
http://noncollective.com/wp-content/MP3/Obscured%20By%20Crowds.mp3

maybe steve chillage is his dj name

quiet chillage

I have really been enjoying Lee Rosevere's 'The Ambient Baby'
http://www.archive.org/details/kzz006

thanks for linking those bvdub albums cutty

this is probably super corny but ive been playing endura's "black eden" a tonne lately

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_bMLCERpZHvA/SK4Tlb8vrHI/AAAAAAAABBA/MQyfE9mW-ng/s320/max-richter-24-postcards.jpg

I dig the sad solo piano trak on this^

i dig all of it. even the guitar track that sounds like a 90s tampax advert

http://www.discogs.com/Various-Starlight-Drift/release/1998007

http://rapidshare.com/files/338015522/Starlight_Drift.rar

"100% of the proceeds from the sales of this release were used to support the charity Toys for Tots."

*downloads*

*lols*

xmas is over

steve roach "quiet music" so good

i'm going to see oneohtrix point never next month. hopefully there'll be a merch stall as i don't wanna dl his shit

systemisch killing me tonight

new autechre has some really beautiful beatless ambient sections

http://static.boomkat.com/images/254059/333.jpg

http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=221513&highlight=221521

track name "catchy DAAD" from systemisch so gorgeous

ramses III such a great fukken record

kinda made me sad when i read this old sylvian interview where he's emphasising the beauty of fennesz' endless summer by dissing on oval (and pansonic) for being too clinical; it's like did you even listen to systemisch?

loooooove systemisch

fennesz discog aged really poorly for me. so many lame vst plugin sounds

checking out rameses thx

http://www.canadiancondom.com/Merchant/Images/R01B.gif

this one is good too: http://www.amazon.com/Basilica-Rameses-III/dp/B00128X6XW

rameses +1

its like if flying saucer attack ditched the distortion

new LOSCIL is pretty fuckin sublime

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_2gIsOuOmgSg/S19ZSqz9FgI/AAAAAAAAAvY/sYl9ni2kClA/s320/113544.jpg

thank u for recommending some AMBIENT

that's what we do here

& i ty u 4 it

http://i1.soundcloud.com/artworks-000000468872-d5gzk3-crop.jpg

pls leo thx

btw google docs rules for leonarding fyi

Folke Rabe - What??

^ that one's legendary for sure

recent for me, Michael Peters 'Field Recordings from Barbados' -http://www.gruenrekorder.de/?page_id=351

folke rabe is so so so ace.

obscurophiles, do not sleep on Black Meteoric Star (newish and on trendy label)... been jammin the comp 2x thru and just straight loving it.

anyone else enjoying this ghost sounds dude

http://www.discogs.com/label/Ghost+Sounds

http://www.myspace.com/relapxych0acoustics

kinda verging on IDMbient in places. time for a revival?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBfbbgOSsFI

atheus - soundscapes and drones album so good

thanks for recommended some ambient

as always

that's waht we do here

TAHNKS FOR THE AMBIENCE

atheus is sick. got that steve roach darkness.

holy shit this sounds awesome
http://www.souljazzrecords.co.uk/releases/?id=18685

nice one

http://www.clevelandindependent.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/emeralds.jpg

http://www.janawinderen.com/images/ult01.jpg

http://www.last.fm/music/Fluxion/Spaces

emeralds guy + oneohtrix guy=
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__xKUNzYXVn8/SaAeAaNea_I/AAAAAAAAAJ0/jHjS3JwleI0/s320/skyramps.jpg

:O

skyramps is doooooooooooooooope

http://dirge.byus.net/bbs/data/BANDLIST/coilelph.jpg

yessssssss 3rding the skyramps

diggin new stella om source "exises". i likes all this lofi bloopage

buttload of basinski albums on lala.com = nonstop ambient massage

skyramps is doooooooooooooooope

4thd I've been jammin that all week too

was just listening to it :))))

http://www.esp-institute.com/

Mix : Golden Age (1 hr 4 min) is amazing.

mb not technically ambient but jana winderen's energy field record is sublime

keeps getting better every time i listen 2 it

http://www.esp-institute.com/

/Mix : Golden Age (1 hr 4 min)/ is amazing.

thx dude!

ill try 2 remember 2 upload it when i get home but srsly bro u shld check out energy fields

Armed with four 8011 DPA hydrophones, DPA 4060 omni mics, a Telinga parabolic reflector mic and a Sound Devices 744T digital hard disk recorder, Jana Winderen studies and records wild places which have a particular importance in our understanding of the complexity and fragility of marine ecosystems.

The recordings were made on field trips to the Barents Sea (north of Norway and Russia), Greenland and Norway, deep in crevasses of glaciers, in fjords and in the open ocean. These elemaents are then edited and layered into a powerful descriptive soundscape. The open spaces of Greenland, northern winds, ravens and dogs in an icy landscape provide the setting for these haunting but dynamic pieces. Sounds of crustaceans, fish such as cod, haddock, herring and pollock recorded as they are hunting, calling for a mate or orientating themselves in their environment, are all included in the mix. The result is a powerful, mesmeric journey into the unseen audio world of the frozen north.

!!!!!!!!!

on that note, chris watson 2 thread

These boomkat vinyl reissues of Thomas Köner albums are good. Well, at least the La Barca one is. I've been listening to it on breezy nights with the windows open.

that ezekiel honig is v good

which one?

np http://www.discogs.com/Resilent-11-12-2/release/25925

side 2

s/d ambient chain reaction

s:
vainqueur - elevations
(not quite ambient.. but NO BEATS so close enough)

porter ricks - "spoiled"
(ok this one has a muted kick drum, still gauzy as hell; top track)

vladislav delay - multila
(well no brainer, this one)

porter ricks have several killer ambient jams.. i'm just not good w/titles

s: monolake, erosion, shinichi atobe

which one?

broken marching band

the elevations cd is amazing, there's a few a beats but they're really muted and subdued. multila has quite a few beats on it though no? been a while since i listened

i need to get those two fluxion cds. i hope all the cr cds get reissued at some point

4 yr consideration

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Dcotmp_sxg&feature=watch_response

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyDDuE6esQk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4tOsQ-4lBM

Oh man, Decay Product... I have been trying to figure out how to describe what's consistent in T++'s recordings, and that's like the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the sort of swirling depth he uses.

I kind of wish that all the CR releases got collected into a big metal cube.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B00004YLE5/ref=dp_olp_new?ie=UTF8&condition=new

speechless

http://vancootenshop.com/osshop/images/nilsen-short.jpg

not into that ambient listening club bullshit treading on our territory

am0n you should check out some of the stuff nilsen did with chris watson

i have the one they did called 'storm'

i feel bad for posting on the ambient listening club now

have you guys heard the new oval song that's leaked? starts out kinda nice and chilled but then he ruins it with these big rock drums that sound like one of the loops you get in garagband

http://incessantnoise.blogspot.com/2009/10/ingram-marshall-fragility-cycles.html

same blog has a transfer of the one truly good alvin curran album

new akira rabelais is very sick, highly rec'd

lol has anyone ever heard ry4n f4rish? the guy who singlehandedly created "the weather channel music" genre? (we rep him at work hence the googleproofing)

shit is too funny. serious cheesy new age/ambient.

F4rish has been a Weather Channel music staple for over a decade. His music has been an integral part in giving The Weather Channel (TWC) a musical identity.[3] Many of F4rish's works can be heard on TWC's Local on the 8s. One of his songs, "Holding Hands" is featured on The Weather Channel's CD released in October 2007, The Weather Channel Presents: The Best of Smooth Jazz. This compilation climbed to the No. 1 on the Billboard Jazz Album Chart. Farish's work with on TWC led to the channel commissioning an original score/theme for their primetime TV show "Storm Stories".

“Music, is a universal language. Powerful and meaningful, it can touch lives and speak through generations. With music, I hope to convey the following truth: Hope and faith exist to bring us together, and love endures forever. May this music shine light in a dark room, may it have purpose, in the service of Love.” - Ry4n F4rish

http://woob.bandcamp.com/album/repurpose

sick

hotel paral.lel such a sick album

http://sickness-still-abounds.blogspot.com/2010/06/genitor-lvminis-heliokrator-deam-adessa.html

yowza http://www.thefader.com/2010/06/17/emeralds-candy-shoppe-mp3/

That whole record is super-good as is the newer (re-release of cassettes though I think) Mark McGuire dbl LP

new Luc Ferrari CD of 1974/75 improvs 'Ephemere', worth it for the 51 minute 2nd track, acoustic guitar & overtones through tape delay, we've all heard pieces like this before but this is a real real gone one

http://www.soundohm.com/luc-ferrari/ephemere-i-ii/algen/

expo 70 "death voyage"

kyle bobby dunn "a young person's guide to kyle bobby dunn"!

http://gawker.com/5570005/ambient-music-replaces-drugs

he he he

http://t.douban.com/lpic/s1506394.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/88/262452831_d52d33103a.jpg

The opening track on the Oneohtr1x is great blown-out Pita/Hassell stuff, and Emeralds is nice too, but I really especially love the new Rene Hell as far as the bigger-label Young Noismische America newer releases go (LP has a bonus disc that I like just as much) on Type: http://typerecords.com/releases/porcelain-opera-2

really especially love the new Rene Hell

thank you

Really loving this Walls album.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ul4iTrbEXbg&feature=related

Lately I've been taking in the field recordings of "Sounds of South Africa: Vuvuzela Drones" by WorldCup - 2010.

ya, i click on the soccerball icon on youtube to add it to everything i listen to

not sure how this mix is yet, but look forward to listening
http://www.factmag.com/2010/06/28/fact-mix-162-oneohtrix-point-never/

edward elgar - dream of gerontius

lolwut

so i just got harold budd - pavillion of dreams

it's killing me; feel like i'm on a shopping trip in an episode of the jetsons

what should i go for next? the synthier the better...

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000000NGB.jpg

was hoping for more harold budd recommendations specifically but that looks good, thanks fthu

ah sorry. it is worth checking out. re budd i can only offer that the pearl and ambient #2 are great but you probably already know that.

no this is my first budd! i'll check those two out, thanks

those are both with eno, both piano rather than keyboard

i saw him live a couple of years ago. v. v. chill.

http://www.facebook.com/iasos.iasos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbLynJJzkE0

http://www.antarctica2000.net/sounds/seals.html

mind blown for realz

probably the closest i will ever get to Substrata II, so thanks

there was a deluxe looking LP of more Arctic/Antarctic sounds from Douglas Quin just a few months back. he did the sound in Werner Herzog's Encounters at the End of the World too.

ya, watching that movie last night was what hipped me to those sounds

love the seals

self--pedant me

Permalink

http://mlaudio.ornith.cornell.edu/audio/123436/123436.mp3

recording of Antarctic Waddell Seals. different recording than Douglas Quin's 'At The Sea Ice Edge'.

― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 23:16 (1 year ago) Permalink

^ awesome
these or similar were featured briefly in encounters at the end of the world

― sleep, Thursday, 11 December 2008 01:08 (1 year ago) Permalink

they just reused Quin's recording for the Herzog soundtrack instead of doing new location recording.

http://www.amazon.com/Antarctica-Douglas-Quin/dp/B000006HDM
http://xraybarbecue.blogspot.com/2007/11/douglas-quin-antarctica-wild-sanctuary.html

there are so many seals in the Quin recording, their descending whistles almost form a Shepard's Tone, sounds more like a multitracked modular than anything acoustic (i.e. it's been in every one of my DJ sets for the last two years, it goes with everything). it's a huge relief to have another recording to compare it to, on this one you can almost take this for something that actually happens

― Milton Parker, Thursday, 11 December 2008 01:41 (1 year ago)

can i get a reup

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-Zx2i_8Jrk

From his desolate arctic abode, a man once at home in the cities of our modern world has thrown his previous life away in search for the obscure splendor and natural desolation of his newly adopted homeland. Dan Quin has spent the last 10 years of his life mapping & mastering the animal & natural world of his promised land, the bottom of the earth, the South Pole, Antarctica, The End of the World---and apparently producing some of the newest in dark analog driven techno & house. Once a respected reporter for a prominent U.S. nature magazine, Quin went A.W.O.L. while on assignment documenting the mating habits of seals, only to reemerge as the founder of the 1st whale riding championship in history & the worlds only national liberation campaign for an unclaimed natural territory. An anti-social Steve Irwin with the heart of a lion and the cold skin of his beloved sea friends, his reputation among the few locals as a true hero & devoted follower of his adored native soil has earned him the title of duke of whales, and his presence, if not fest physically on the land due to his reclusive demeanor, is certainly felt spiritually as the saintly father of the region. Rumor has it that Quin was not seen for 6 months away from his arctic estate, apparently so entranced by the sea cries of his beloved seals that he was nearly lost in his own solitude, going on to record the beautiful cries that haunted him for so many nights. Determined to create what he called an artistic testament to the great Antarctic expanse, Quin employed the recordings on his 1st 12 release, the haunting and epic At The End of the World. We can only hope he continues to labor away in his igloo of inspiration, hearing further calls of primitive encouragement and continuing his crusade to bring the beautiful silence of the arctic to our warm & ready earlobes.

kyle bobby dunn "a young person's guide to kyle bobby dunn"!

loool was gonna rec this of course u already have.

it is really good!

monoton - soundsequence

did i find this on here? dude from yoga records which looks all kindsa awesome. http://www.yogarecords.com/
http://dublab.com/archive/douglas-mcgowan-the-new-age-mafia-massacre-060209/

also, these are fucking epic. 6 made me pass the f out on the bus today
http://dreamchimney.com/cosmix/6/
http://dreamchimney.com/cosmix/5/
http://dreamchimney.com/cosmix/4/
http://dreamchimney.com/cosmix/3/
http://dreamchimney.com/cosmix/2/
http://dreamchimney.com/cosmix/1/

You're going to wonder what this has to do with ambient, but gis just got a million times better.

he's right

good tip on those mixes jaxon. i've had #2 on this morning. 4th result of gis for "cosmic" is ideal listening environment for these imo

been feeling these two a lot over the past couple of nights

http://www.amoeba.com/dynamic-images/blog/beaver/susumu.jpg

http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/8876-the-boy-and-the-tree.jpg

what has everyone else been listening to lately?

i love the new bvdub:

http://www.residentadvisor.net/review-view.aspx?id=7761

seriously don't know much else that sounds like this guy... one of my favorites

https://files.me.com/mcutt/kq23jt

bvdub is rad.

the ambient club got me listening to the 'excursions in ambience' comps, and wow. also have been falling asleep to global communication for a few months now

been falling asleep to global communication for well over a decade :/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aij0xQQ2ZkE

love those two susumu albums the most r1o, and above track and some other from boy and tree but the one after that seemed overdone - are more recent ones good?

been falling asleep to global communication for well over a decade :/

if you could recommend more in this vein i would really appreciate it. something about early 90s/saw2-style ambient has been hitting the spot recently, but it's not like i ever forgot that i liked that stuff. think i just stagnated in the twinkly leaf/type/kranky-side of ambient for a bit longer than i perhaps should have

^ second this; also recommend track-wise

warp 69 - natural high (global communication remix)

http://hardwax.com/61467/

yeah, I foolishly bought one of those on limited vinyl release... but the trifecta cd set, oh yeah

man i had to try very very hard to restrain from buying the vinyls. i always regret buying ambient stuff on vinyl cuz you have to get up at some point to flip the record

I thought there was a skip, but it turns out permafrost has a click in one channel for a while. embarassing.

http://soundcloud.com/shamantis/j-biebz-u-smile-800-slower

ha was just gonna post that!!!

it's pretty amazing.

i was listening to it at work. my boss walked by and said it sounded really pretty. told her to check out my world 2.0

baby baby baby nooooooo

another one
http://soundcloud.com/richtard/cheryl-cole-parachute-richtarded-53-minute-version

i tried making one w/ ben sidran about love, but the justin bieber one just works so well

so good. Hadn't heard PaulStretch before, it sounds great. long history of other timestretch pieces, Stockhausen, Carl Stone, Leif Inge but usually executed on classical sources, and with a demo like this done with shareware I think we're in for a cavalcade

kind of amazing how mundane the chord changes are in the original song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9X-FXV0z_bU&fmt=18

does a noise dude listen to CELER

yes i do

there's a new lawrence engrish album out called a colour for autumn

http://nightmonsters.com/uploads/posts/2009-03/1238252461_lawrence_english.jpg

it's been out for a bit! it is good.

I've been listening to these two releases by On:
http://www.discogs.com/On-Something-That-Has-Form-And-Something-That-Does-Not/master/263601
http://www.discogs.com/On-Your-Naked-Ghost-Comes-Back-At-Night/release/1865085

ok it must be the vinyl that just came out then. either way it sounds good

yrs ago I really wanted to like this sort of stuff because something about the aesthetic seemed really appealing but I think I lacked the attention span. now stuff from 12k and type and the like are just really appealing

http://hydrogencafe.blogspot.com/2009/06/music-for-swiss-alps.html

♡♥♡ very pleasant ♡♥♡

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_3HTqD-rGA

in turners falls mass the next two weekends. go and bask. then come see me across the river at my record store.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9-104HXrpQ&feature=related

listening to "chronolyse" and "does it look like i'm here" back to back all weekend

new jefre-cantu ledesma record is nuts

err jefre cantu-ledesma

http://www.kompaktkiste.de/cd/_abc/_c/cad006.jpg

http://friendsound.wordpress.com/2009/01/29/%e2%80%a2-spacebow-big-waves/

Rutman's solo Steel Cello & metal ensemble records are amazing but usually a little more active / dissonant listening -- this is a collaboration with an electronic producer who doesn't synth or reverb out the acoustic steel sound, just kind of edits / tailors the most consonant moments into more of a nighttime listen

Mutant Sounds has two of Rutman's more intense / unedited steel cello albums -- I'm a big fan and I'm a little confused I hadn't heard about this one until now, it does have kind of a silly title

actually reading closer, it seems like this isn't as much edited as just the two of them playing his instruments -- it doesn't really sound edited, it's just more restrained / pretty than the other ones which are a little less afraid to wail

i like the steel cello record, but it isn't what id call relaxing

new jefre cantu-ledesma record is nuts

― cutty, Thursday, December 16, 2010 5:44 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

really nice, thanks. loving the drums

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CoO67g1_8gY/TFdwfgdJPxI/AAAAAAAADVQ/Kef5-gIj49Y/s1600/books_53.jpg

＜CONTENTS＞
裏のINTRODUCTION

クラスター・インタヴュー

STRANGE AGE 1960-1971
MEDITATION 1972-1982
SOUND ART 1983-1991
CHILL-SCAPE 1992-2001
PRESENT-FUTURE 2002-2010

flicked through today and it seems like a pretty comprehensive anthology of classic and more obscure ambient records up to the present day. want!

I take it it's in Japanese, right? Looks like a book w/companion CD according to what I saw.

been enjoying this album:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmgq_H5bc3I

i like that jefre whatshisname album too. the guy from tarentel. ned should hear that if he hasn't already. i like everything on Type Records.

this was one of my fave shows of the year. what a nice guy. the new album on robot records is really good too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQTnv0p2sGI

anyone read this? i've had it on my shelf for who knows how many years, but never read it. probably because it's too big to carry w/me to read on the way to work

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/413F0V6NSTL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg

http://www.amazon.com/Ambient-Century-Mahler-Evolution-Electronic/dp/1582341346

it's the kind of book that doesn't introduce you to anything new and makes all your favorite records sound boring. I must admit I only flipped through it but everywhere I landed it was 2-3 pages of argh.

straight-up tragedy christoph heeman couldn't land an SF show!

good thing i only paid $7 for it

ah I don't know I like the idea of his thesis of Mahler as proto-ambient, all the early 20th century orchestral music that was careening into pure texture, there's an argument to be made there. but hopefully by someone who's a little less dull

all I have is language, I respond with language, I respond, and as I respond, I sense the desire of the leech-child I carry on my back slowly being satisfied

xpost cut and pasted wrong thing sorry

but as long as I'm on the subject on this ambient thread, here is a link to japanese radical feminist poet Hiromi Ito speaking for 90 minutes about Trichotillomania:

Hiromi - Pulling Hairs: http://vimeo.com/2502167

xposts it is in Japanese yes, but it seems fairly light on text, most of the book is devoted to nice colour prints of the album covers. was impressed by the range of stuff it covered, the 90s section for example features obvious classics like SAW II and 76:14, alongside less well known things like Rapoon and Philus

manual the north shore very pleasant album imo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBJ1BoB1l4c

Mahler is ambient? WTF?

http://boomkat.com/vinyl/363812-winter-drones-blood-in-the-coffin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwTqmsx35iw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-NCPOkt1ts

soundtrack to vahalla rising was dope. was supposed to be mogwai apparently but they fell through

digging Graham Lambkin & Jason Lescalleet's new one, "air supply" a bit doomy for ambient, but im in favor of recordings of people doing nothing things

and then i check my email and see

01/15 @ 8:00pm - Jason Lescalleet and Graham Lambkin: Air Supply CD Release

http://www.issueprojectroom.org/2010/12/08/jason-lescalleet-and-graham-lambkin-air-supply-cd-release/

two new bvdub releases this month. goddamn.

http://www.normanrecords.com/images/covers/155/122155.jpg

ive been enjoying this a lot lately its a soundtrack to a short film but certainly works as a standalone record

same lable that put out the most recent kyle bobby dunn record that i highly recommend to noise dudes

Simon SCott is the guy from Slowdive right? Still never got round to hearing his solo stuff.

yeah - this is the first of his drone/ambient records ive heard as well

that cover is nice

a few new and old things i've been playing lately:

helm - to an end lp

http://s3.amazonaws.com/typerecords_site/photos/1827/helmlp1_medium.jpg

dark ambient in a In The Shadow Of The Sun style

harold budd/simon raymonde/robin guthrie/elizabeth fraser - the moon and the melodies

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B000005S3V.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

sounds exactly how you'd expect it to, budd brings the delicate arpeggios and cocteaus bring the swirl

alva noto - xerox vol. 2

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_sG_ol0ZWrtg/Sv2oHAGWbyI/AAAAAAAAAHI/QEHqCCz7slU/s400/alva+noto2.jpg

slept on this for a bit but it's seriously amazing, among the best ambient of the 00s

keith fullerton whitman - disingenuity

http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l8zimgvIIW1qztmuuo1_400.jpg

deep modular bubble bath

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSVjKcVTaio

free bvdub digital album:

http://www.bvdub.org/Q007d_OLLATS_Mp3.rar
http://www.bvdub.org/Q007d_OLLATS_Flac.rar

if those dont work try these:

http://www.bvdub.org/Q007d_OLLATS_Mp3.raraaaa
http://www.bvdub.org/Q007d_OLLATS_Flac.raraaaa

manual the north shore very pleasant album imo.

― ☆, Sunday, December 26, 2010 1:32 PM

http://www.mikogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/youtube-thumbs-up.jpg

sweet, I've been playing "The Art of Dying Alone" a lot over the last couple of months, looking forward to hearing whatever that album is

the track list for the bvdub record is p lol:

1 No Love Lost
2 My Only Friend
3 The House Above The World
4 Just You Wait
5 A Sisyphean Silence
6 One Last Look At The Sea
7 The Wall Between Us

xp Read an interview with Brock Van Wey the other day about that record, kind of a bummer really:

Can talk about the quote on your album, “We all die alone, but some make it their last work of art”. What is its source and effect on your inspiration for this album?

Its source is actually me. I would say it very much relates to this idea of how after you’re gone, others’ memory of you in their lives will intertwine with the story of their own lives, no matter to what extent. For me personally, the most beautiful way this can be achieved, at least in my ideal, is to somehow know the end is near, and to silently disappear to spend those last moments completely alone, thinking back on the life you lived, and then just vanish as easily and suddenly as you appeared.

This has always been an obsession of mine, but it had lay dormant for a while until one day about a year ago I asked someone what their ideal way to die was, and they answered very matter-of-factly, showing they had thought about it many times, that they wanted to die alone in a place no one had ever been. I thought that was such a beautiful answer (coupled with the fact it came from the mouth of someone around 19 years old, which was extremely unexpected) I honestly shed a tear, and every time I even think of it, including now, I do the same. Quite frankly, to me, even the thought of such a concept is truly a work of art.

No matter how many friends you make, how much your family loves you, or anything else that we arbitrarily attach to the meaning of life, we were intrinsically born into this world alone, and we will leave it alone. So to me, embracing that fact, and seeking to make that a time of beauty, makes much more sense than this absurd idea of being surrounded by loved ones etc. What possible good does that do? To me it’s just another attempt to distract ourselves from the inevitable, even when it’s weeks, days, or minutes away. I’d rather spend that time finishing the last few sentences of my own story on my own, rather than making others fumble through them on my behalf.

Basically the idea for the album, its title, and that quote all came about during an extremely low point for me, during a pretty much crippling depression I experienced when first moving back to China, when I was experiencing a loneliness that was really beyond all description. My mind being the tortuous Moebius that it is, I began to obsess on the thought of not only how truly alone I was, but the fact that I could easily disappear or meet my end and no one around me would truly care – it was the closest I had ever come to that point of being alone I had previously dreamed of as the perfect way for it all to end. And the lowness I felt, quite honestly, made me care less by the day as to whether the next day was the last. In fact, I reached one day where I literally didn’t care at all.

I don’t know what happened, but I all of a sudden decided to take that crushing weight and put it into music. I think quite honestly, it was a sort of last-ditch effort to see if I could feel something again. It wasn’t even depression anymore. I had gone numb. So thought the only thing I could do was attempt to put the experience to music, to see if I could come out of the tailspin by talking about it then only way I know how – with myself. It was the first time I had touched music since moving across the Pacific, but it seemed like the perfect time to start, to try to make something constructive happen from what I was fairly certain was a depression that might consume me.

Though from the title of the album to those of the tracks themselves, I think it’s fairly obvious how I was feeling at the time, but what I wasn’t expecting was the beauty that ended up coming through in the tracks (at least I feel it, I can only hope others do too). I think it’s the most overtly sad album I’ve ever made, but as I progressed through it, it began to take on more and more beauty along with the sadness, and before I knew it, it became as much a statement about the beauty of life as much as its futility. And really, I think it’s embracing both that futility and beauty, irrevocably intertwined, that can bring about that one last work of art – one’s ability to make that last stroke on the canvas of their life, alone, just as they were when they made the first.

on the fence about bvdub's sound, a little too http://www.sogoodblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/chester-cheetah.jpg

ok no longer on the fence after reading all that

My Dr being the tortuous Morbius that it is

Ha, he makes it somewhat awkward to have it playing in the background as soundtrack music to do chores to. xp

never ever read interviews with artists = my number 1 rule

"A Sisyphean Silence" = I am putting random words together

His thinking's not entirely alien to me, but I think at the moment I'm more into a bit of humour with this whole mortality business. Which is why I have it on shuffle with a bit of yakety sax.

Anyhow, been listening to the new Deaf Center quite a bit (Owl Splinters), it's good if you're into sinister soundtrack music meets err, modern classical (horrible phrase). Definitely a progression for them.

haha yeah but ill admit that i like that theres a dude that talks about & conceives of his music in this really large, nakedly emotional tone

recommended for noise dudes at night: jasper, tx 'mute harbour'

@ nick that deaf centre record is AMAZING so foreboding & fantastic

first time I clicked with "Art of Dying Alone" I was sat here

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3499/3755294480_e26c23641d_o.jpg

eating my lunch on my own, and it had been raining in the morning but the February sun suddenly went mad bright and started bouncing off all the plants and into my eyes at the same time as the music went all fake synth choir-y and my meds kicked in. So it was ordained to be a moment, whatever.

and I did actually lol at the cosmic cheesiness of it

Hey that's cheesy, but you have take lols where you find them right?

Sorry: "that's **NOT** cheesy"

fucking fingers

no it was stupidly cheesy, like something out of a bad film, was why I laughed. the light was pretty fucking incredible tho