Your nominations for the ILX AMBIENT ALBUMS POLL (nominations close on Friday, May 31st)

BoC have too many boring beats to be ambient.

"Boring" and "ambient" in the same sentence?! I never! *clutches pearls*

However I do agree that BOC don't really strike me as ambient.

However however I am tickled that we've basically got Colleen's whole discography now (only missing her Mort Aux Vaches).

Love Colleen but there’s not a single record of her that I’d consider ambient. Perhaps only Colleen et les Boîtes à Musique?

List of nominations looks great. Extremely stoked.

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Do we have a campaigning thread?

I'm sad that David Sylvian's Gone to Earth sides 3/4 can't go in because of sides 1/2.

I hate to my nominations so Brian Eno-centric because, duh, but we have to make sure this one is on there:

Brian Eno - Lux

very underrated album in his catalog imo

^^ was just listening to that the other day, quite nice

sadly i'm sure Another Green World will absolutely destroy it in voting, since AGW was nominated. i (of course) adore AGW but it would be difficult to classify as "ambient" under even the most generous interpretation, yadayadayada

Yeah, great album thought it is, can't see how that one fits. Almost half the tracks have vocals on them.

Yeah, It's all songs!

Détrée - Architectura Celestis

8/30

I will be voting for a fair amount of Eno, but not AGW

‘discreet music’ the only truly ambient piece for me

I kinda feel that beatless should be part of the criteria of ambient.

ambient music isn’t the same as chillout music or whatever

If AGW is ambient I'm out.

The voters are revolting.

*the undulating sounds of pickets waving gently in the air, slowly mixing in with the crackles of torches*

hard to see how E2-E4, Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill or Scenes from the South Island can be OK if AGW is out... fantastic records all, but ambient?

Just because it’s soft doesn’t mean it’s smooth

what is dead may never drone

I just want to say it’s ok to not know/understand things and it’s also ok to not understand something when you previously thought you did

at least we have some dope nomination lists

otm x 2

Taylor Deupree - Stil
Taylor Deupree -Northern
Main - Hz
Main - Firmament
Main - Dry Stone Feed
Ryuichi Sakamoto -Esperanto

6/30

Anjou - Anjou

Apologies for that needlessly combative AGW post!

I was listening to I Trawl the Megahertz yesterday and thought I should very probably have nominated that. What a beautiful (ambient) record.

I nominated Dragging a Dead Deer... if general consensus is to remove I’m more than happy to see that go. I love it but I also want this to stay true to theme. Same with Monoliths and Dimensions, I think a good deal of it is ambient but certainly not all of it.

I also back that AGW shouldn’t be on.

Also, Periphery by The Seven Fields of Aphelion is on the doc twice.

Two more:

Hecq - Night Falls
Miguel Ángel Tolosa - Ephimeral

17/30

OK fine can I withdraw my BoC and AGW nominations?

Arthur Russell's instrumentals probably shouldn't be on there either tbh tbf

Here are a few ambient vapor classics (2015 or prior) that should be up for consideration:

식료품groceries - 슈퍼마켓Yes! We're Open
Mindspring Memories - @_@
猫 シ Corp. - Palm Mall
仮想夢プラザ - 仮想夢プラザ (Telepath - virtual dream plaza)

Ok, as per your requests, I've removed Dragging a Dead Deer, Monoliths & Dimensions, Another Green World, and the Boards of Canada albums from the nominations. The nom list should now be up to date. Gman59 and Paolo, I'm sure you can count how many noms you still have left after these changes.

You can pull When - The Black Death too, my mistake.

Pontiac Streator and Ulla Strauss - Chat

Paolo, this appears to be an EP that's less than 30 minutes long, so it doesn't meet the poll criteria. You get one extra nomination.

You can pull When - The Black Death too, my mistake.

Okay, done.

I was listening to one of my own nominations, Debit - Animus, and I realised it's too intense to really count as ambient. So I'm gonna replace it with:

Natasha Barrett - Trade Winds

I remember browsing at record stores in the ambient section in the late nineties and even then you'd immediately be like "half of this isn't even ambient" and eventually the Internet allowed us to argue about which half

haha so true

good edits/retractions, everyone!

Looking forward to having a choice of 5 albums to vote for

And all of them are Eno.

Hopefully somebody can go thru the list with a fine-toothed comb and take out anything that might have beats, vocals, melodic progressions, do it properly.

Let's just restrict the poll to side one of Discreet Music and have done with it.

Pfft it's gonna take me years just to skim the multitude of nominations I'm unfamiliar with

Ok, so we’ll delay the poll for years while sleeve completes this important work

Let's do the poll as most ambient to least ambient

influenced by my reading of david toop this week, but is there a consensus 'extremely ambient gamelan' recording?

the one with the white dude playing gamalan on piano

BoC have too many boring beats to be ambient.

― Ned Caligari (Tom D.)

latter-era Sonic Youth has too many boring beats but you don't hear people complaining about the dull-as-dirt drumming on Murray St. fucking whingers

trip hop