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

‘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

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hHW1oY26kxQ

kevin drumm - second
ann annie - wander into
philip jeck - vinyl coda IV
dedalus•antoine beuger•jürg frey s/t

13/30

I dig how the ambient police operate

would you prefer that the beats call attention to themselves, so as to spoil 'the vibe' ?

Spoliling the vibe is exactly what they do!

I don’t see how Gas - Pop doesn’t win this poll.

Pop isn't even the highest rated Gas album in here, is it? I thought the consensus is that Königsforst is the best. (And I agree.)

Pop is also the least ambient Gas afaict

man i'd forgotten how beat-heavy 76:14 is

Fennesz/Sakamoto - Cendre

7/30

>'extremely ambient gamelan' recording?

the best recordings usually heat up by the end, more trance than ambient, but this is a good one that stays low-key. entire blog recommended, nothing random gets posted here.

https://music-republic-world-traditional.blogspot.com/2018/10/indonesia-indonesie-gamelan-kjahi-kaduk.html

There's 6 days left of nominating, and since it doesn't look like the list is overwhelmingly long, I'm gonna give everyone 10 extra noms. So you can nominate up to 40 records. Have fun!

that Antrilon album I nominated is a deep cut btw. I only heard it because it got sent to my college radio station. I love it though, very sci-fi sounding. first track reminds me of Otto Luening

Spoliling the vibe is exactly what they do!