― Ronan, Friday, 25 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Omar, Friday, 25 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Tom, Friday, 25 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
a cop out only in that it's easier than making some positive. but come on tom, you gotta agree dance tends to get good when it goes a little dark. not all the time, but...
― jess, Friday, 25 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
I do think certainly in the field of 'ambience' you find 'darkness' getting a little overdone - this is surely down to the subconscious need to differentiate it from new age heh.
― alex in mainhattan, Friday, 25 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Maybe. The thing that always struck me in regards Eno's On Land is how dark it sounds, whereas I was expecting something more light/happy since these were supposed to be memories of childhood places. It probably is, as Jess says, harder to make something positive (just can come up with some of these Boards of Canada minatures like 'Olson' as an example, arguably some tracks on SAW 85- 92).
― Mark, Friday, 25 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― bob snoom, Friday, 25 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Maybe "Bola- Soup"?
― Todd Burns, Friday, 25 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Mind Taker, Friday, 25 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
David Toop's Screen Ceremonies is good for when you want to feel like you're watching a sadistic ritual involving monkeys in the rainforest.
Also like Lamonte Young's Well-Tuned Piano and Morton Feldman's For Samuel Beckett lately, they're kind of ambient...
Miles Davis, He Loved Him Madly.
I always thought Systemische was Oval's best album. 94 Diskont is almost all one track, and it's kind of boring after a while.
Just the very words Chill Out bring on flashbacks...
― Ben Williams, Friday, 25 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Tracer hand, Friday, 25 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Phil, Friday, 25 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― justin case, Friday, 25 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
I will get that album Tracer - sold!
old Biosphere stuff Solar Quest: The Orgship the Freezone compilations on SSR lots of artist on extreme records like Lights in a fat city, Vidna Obmana, Paul Schütze Autechre: amber
going back into time indeed...
― Johan, Saturday, 26 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Billy Dods, Saturday, 26 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― chz whz, Thursday, 7 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― bnw, Thursday, 7 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― K_reg aka nick, Thursday, 7 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
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― Curt, Thursday, 7 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Paul, Thursday, 7 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Webmaster, Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― bob snoom, Friday, 15 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
golden claw music.
the ambient-techno-dub spin off by bloke from PWEI.
dug this out today as a random choice and loved every minute, all of which just made me seriously wish i was part of this weekends crusty-techno-dub weekend @ glade (orb/system 7/dreadzone/the grid etc etc)
― mark e, Monday, 14 July 2008 20:02 (fifteen years ago) link
this is my favorite ambient music of the year so far - and you made it (sorta):
http://www.inbflat.net/
― Z S, Friday, 4 March 2011 01:33 (thirteen years ago) link
playing around w/ that filled me w/ hope & happiness
― Lamp, Friday, 4 March 2011 01:53 (thirteen years ago) link
That's really cool ZS. Thanks for the link
― van smack, Friday, 4 March 2011 01:58 (thirteen years ago) link
at the end of the most recent Ultima Thule podcast they played a lot of Trans Aurora, the new one by James Gordon Anderson, whose stuff I don't otherwise know but Trans Aurora sounds pretty amazing to me - almost like an inverted Steve Roach in that the notes shift relatively rapidly but occur in a similarly beatless landscape, and retain their textures but aren't as bassy...very weird stuff to my ears, really good I think
― brad whitford, witchfynder general (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, 3 June 2011 09:27 (twelve years ago) link
lovin this Caretaker album. haven't fallen for an ambient record so quickly in ages
― thistle supporter (mcoll), Thursday, 16 June 2011 03:56 (twelve years ago) link
that Caretaker album is my album of the year flat-out at this point. also notable for having a solidly interesting concept; at first the startling jumps from track to track kinda threw me, but the more I think about it the more I figure that's what remembering stuff when you've got Alzheimer's actually feels like.
― XBOX BING GOATSE (jamescobo), Thursday, 16 June 2011 06:51 (twelve years ago) link
i really like the two new stephan mathieu records this year, 'a static place' on 12k and 'remain' on the line label/imprint.
http://12k.com/
http://www.lineimprint.com/editions/cd/line_047/
they could just as well go on the rolling drone thread, wherever it is.
it looks like there are lot of other good ambientish and ambient-related things on 12k, some moving over more into modern-composition/new-music territory.
― j., Friday, 17 June 2011 01:10 (twelve years ago) link
this michael ranta, mike lewis, & conny plank record, Mu, is blowing my mind lately.
check it out here: http://holywarbles.blogspot.com/2011/05/michael-ranta-mike-lewis-conny-plank-mu.html
― dronestreet, Friday, 17 June 2011 03:22 (twelve years ago) link
Of the things I've heard on 12k, I think my favourites were Lawrence English's A Colour for Autumn and Giuseppe Ielasi's August. The Marcus Fischer one had lots of good write-ups last year, I need to go and listen to that again. All these are on Spotify btw if anyone's ineterested.
― cloaca flocka flame (NickB), Friday, 17 June 2011 09:08 (twelve years ago) link
how about kenneth kirschner?
― j., Friday, 17 June 2011 09:16 (twelve years ago) link
Not someone I know, but heaps of mp3's on his website:
http://www.kennethkirschner.com/
― cloaca flocka flame (NickB), Friday, 17 June 2011 09:23 (twelve years ago) link
stillstream.com
internet radio station that is just unbelievably good
― pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Sunday, 4 September 2011 18:20 (twelve years ago) link
i came here to bluster that stillstream is no sleepbot, but it sort of is. +1
― ☆, Sunday, 4 September 2011 18:40 (twelve years ago) link
Alio Die - Suspended Feathers: Is this good?
― qpә (EDB), Sunday, 4 September 2011 23:58 (twelve years ago) link
I just bought it, and it is!
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Tuesday, 15 November 2011 17:55 (twelve years ago) link
"Seriously, you should try Ulrich Schnauss Far Away Trains Passing By"
werd. is that 9 years old already?
also:
http://www.amazon.com/Heart-Forest-Baka-Beyond/dp/B00000062C/ref=pd_sim_m_11
as sampled in:
http://www.amazon.com/Paths-1-7-Future-Sound-London/dp/B000003RVU/ref=sr_1_6?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1321542759&sr=1-6
― messiahwannabe, Thursday, 17 November 2011 15:13 (twelve years ago) link
Ambient songs I've discovered recently that I'm pretty into:
But yeah, recommendations would be appreciated.
― 3×5, Thursday, 27 December 2012 04:01 (eleven years ago) link
i'm recording an ambient album at the moment! i suppose it would be bad for to post my own work though. i'm taking most of my inspiration from eno, + a smattering of recent chillectronic indie stuff like toro y moi, bon iver (ok not electronic or strictly ambient, but close enough for inspiration) and adding that aesthetic to the stuff my indonesian bandmates normally do. so, looking for recommendations same as 3x5.
my 3rd and 4th cents: Blade Runner Esper Edition OST
i don't think eno sounds new age-y very often though. at least not the classics like on land, ending (an ascent) etc. did you *really* not like, say, music for airports? perhaps playing in the background in another room as you do something else? i've yet to hear cheesy new age stuff that sounds at all similar to music for airports
― messiahwannabe, Thursday, 27 December 2012 04:55 (eleven years ago) link
*bad form
Surprised Biosphere's substrata did not get mentioned as a "field recordings mixed with music" example. Also Cirque. Tetsu Inoue's World Receiver is a great call. I love these kinds of albums, they do funny things to my brain.
― brimstead, Sunday, 2 March 2014 19:12 (ten years ago) link
so sleepy so awake
http://soundcloud.com/etape/t-12
― cog, Sunday, 2 March 2014 19:50 (ten years ago) link
Sofie Birch
― default damager (lukas), Thursday, 22 February 2024 21:11 (two months ago) link
my pal Ceremonial Abyss put out a new one that's pretty lovely, to my ears.
https://ceremonialabyss.bandcamp.com/album/betrayal
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Thursday, 22 February 2024 23:37 (two months ago) link
I'd definitely follow the thread but not entirely sure what 'upbeat ambient' is!
― I would prefer not to. (Chinaski), Thursday, February 22, 2024 8:25 PM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink
you know, what got me thinking about it is putting on xtal by aphex twin. and sort of a go hawaii vibe by casino versus japan. that's sort of where my mind goes in this venture. maybe I'll do it, it would be seriously useful for me.
― Swen, Saturday, 2 March 2024 21:58 (two months ago) link
though I think daytime is a better descriptor than upbeat, I just don't want to feel like I'm swimming in dark underwaters when I'm working, although I pretty much would like to feel like that at all other times
― Swen, Saturday, 2 March 2024 22:03 (two months ago) link
The Detroit Variant group (cv313, Intrusion) just put out a bunch of lovely long form pieces. Kind of expensive ($18 each) but each one is 2 hours plus of some great clouds of sound.
https://variantsonics.bandcamp.com/album/analogue-oceans-w-digital-exclusive-limited-edition-set-variant-conductionhttps://variantsonics.bandcamp.com/album/suspended-in-a-moment-someplace-else-w-variant-refocushttps://variantsonics.bandcamp.com/album/depths-of-perception-submerging-waves-variant-submersionhttps://variantsonics.bandcamp.com/album/subtraktive-reprise-w-variant-etherscapes
― Psychocandy Apple Grey (Pyschocandles), Saturday, 2 March 2024 22:25 (two months ago) link
inoue’s ambiant otaku is so goddamned good
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 3 March 2024 12:25 (two months ago) link
am I the only one that gets into Iasos? I guess he's pretty (very? lol) new agey but I'm obsessed
― Swen, Wednesday, 6 March 2024 13:56 (two months ago) link
inter-dimensional music is an all time classic
― c u (crüt), Wednesday, 6 March 2024 14:40 (two months ago) link
yessssss so glad i didn't just out myself haha <3
― Swen, Wednesday, 6 March 2024 14:43 (two months ago) link
https://lakemary.bandcamp.com/album/its-okay-you-can-open-your-eyes-now
this was posted on the fahey thread, wonderful steel guitar work
― corrs unplugged, Thursday, 7 March 2024 12:01 (one month ago) link
:) lake mary is so good
― z_tbd, Thursday, 7 March 2024 15:58 (one month ago) link
this is one of those random records that blows up due to the youtube algorithm. pretty good i thought
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZacsXFFbWkWitan - Alchemy
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 26 March 2024 04:53 (one month ago) link
Really excited about this one:
https://htoo.bandcamp.com/album/cycle
― Evan, Thursday, 18 April 2024 16:34 (two weeks ago) link
https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a1283938153_10.jpg
Ooh! Great cover art, and that sample song is awesome. I'm excited now too.
― OneSecondBefore, Friday, 19 April 2024 18:21 (two weeks ago) link
love that art
― Swen, Monday, 22 April 2024 05:18 (two weeks ago) link