can a noise dude recommend some AMBIENT

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TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 12:41 (seventeen years ago) link

CHORD MEMORY
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whatever as long as it uses S&H LFOSHAPE
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REVERB
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BEAT REPEAT
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PING PONG DELAY

15%

TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 12:43 (seventeen years ago) link

plug in an omni mic to sample yr apartments room tone and mix that in with the sample rate reducer. type "mastered by frank at the hudplex" or something on your cover, make sure the font is sans serif! sit back relax and wait for that phone call from the discovery channel.

TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 12:47 (seventeen years ago) link

don't ever forget that a snaredrum preset run through 100% wet reverb, overcompressed to hell and back and then resampled at 3.6khz sounds so fucking amazing that you should play it over and over again for at least a minute at the beginning of every session

TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 12:51 (seventeen years ago) link

I seriously can't believe people like that Gas record

TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 13:08 (seventeen years ago) link

i also enjoy records made by people who know a few chords on an electric guitar

david allen grier (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 13:09 (seventeen years ago) link

it's a crazy world

david allen grier (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 13:10 (seventeen years ago) link

"I was struck immediately with the essence of the piano pieces,
as if Akira's treatments had focused rather than distorting,
had distilled rather than fermenting, the vitality between the notes."
- Joshua Maremont

TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 13:19 (seventeen years ago) link

jess do you ever think about how mongoloids are happier than you and me? thanks

TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 13:23 (seventeen years ago) link

cursed with knowledge, dude

david allen grier (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 13:25 (seventeen years ago) link

TOMBOT: "my kid can make better paintings than that"

plz to contain pointless anger to DC threads

lmaoborghini (eman), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 13:29 (seventeen years ago) link

wow, i'm an idiot
i should post on ILM

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)

TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 14:27 (seventeen years ago) link

excellent mod edit

TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 14:50 (seventeen years ago) link

it was either that or a lock, but since i agree w/ your overall point (just not your specific example) i went easy on ya.

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

lmaoborghini (eman), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 17:07 (seventeen years ago) link

jean francois laporte - mantra
elian radigue - kouma
stuart dempster - in the great abbey of clement vi
stuart dempster - underground overlays from the cistern chapel
elian radique - e=a=b=a+b
53 american bird songs and calls
the tiki gardens
mechanical music treasury
edward elgar - dream of gerontius
alvin lucier - bird and person dyning

-- (688), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 17:24 (seventeen years ago) link

ultimate ambient lp has to be this though

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

-- (688), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 17:26 (seventeen years ago) link

oh hi gareth

what's that silva lp like

milton parker (Jon L), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 17:36 (seventeen years ago) link

it sounds like 50 piano concerto records and 100 coltrane records played at the same time.

the fuckablity of late picasso (vahid), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 18:47 (seventeen years ago) link

I ordered a copy

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/

milton parker (Jon L), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 19:04 (seventeen years ago) link

not really ambient but i really need to get charlemagne palestine's "strumming music"

lmaoborghini (eman), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 19:07 (seventeen years ago) link

there is not enough ironical retro-cred given to FSOL. Lifeforms might be the blueprint for most of the worlds' evil these days but it has moments!

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?

TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 19:18 (seventeen years ago) link

tombot, if you think the Gas releases are lazy, meet Wolfgangs brother Reinhard

ferzaffe (flezaffe), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 08:48 (seventeen years ago) link

FSOL. Lifeforms

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


m coleman (lovebug starski), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 08:59 (seventeen years ago) link

man I been makin' fun of the voigt camp since back in IDMl days. don't act like I haven't spent $1000+ at forcedexposure.com in my lifetime, son.

TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 19:55 (seventeen years ago) link

you front like you're over it but you're going to be wanting back some of those records you sold off, someday

though probably not the jake mandell

milton parker (Jon L), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 20:18 (seventeen years ago) link

one year passes...

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

sanskrit, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 01:15 (sixteen years ago) link

i refilled my prescription of ambient today!

bell_labs, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 01:28 (sixteen years ago) link

nobody thought "voigt camp" was funny

El Tomboto, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 01:29 (sixteen years ago) link

bob snoom pwnd this thread in one post

El Tomboto, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 01:33 (sixteen years ago) link

invite that guy back

sanskrit, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 01:50 (sixteen years ago) link

retire 1 replicant

Snop Snitchin, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 15:13 (sixteen years ago) link

one year passes...

tim hecker

cutty, Saturday, 17 January 2009 19:26 (fifteen years ago) link

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

eman, Saturday, 17 January 2009 19:44 (fifteen years ago) link

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

dmr, Saturday, 17 January 2009 19:52 (fifteen years ago) link

ooh he has a new one on kranky

dmr, Saturday, 17 January 2009 19:53 (fifteen years ago) link

chihei hatakeyama

Women can be captains too, you know? (jim), Saturday, 17 January 2009 19:58 (fifteen years ago) link

kranky 032 & 036 still unfuckwithable imo.

, Saturday, 17 January 2009 20:00 (fifteen years ago) link

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

cutty, Saturday, 17 January 2009 20:36 (fifteen years ago) link

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

cutty, Saturday, 17 January 2009 20:37 (fifteen years ago) link

five months pass...

what's that?

ramón gastro (omar little), Friday, 19 June 2009 17:26 (fourteen years ago) link

expo '70

am0n, Friday, 19 June 2009 18:23 (fourteen years ago) link

http://www.exposeventy.com/

am0n, Friday, 19 June 2009 18:24 (fourteen years ago) link

Dudes are from Kansas City!

Trip Maker, Friday, 19 June 2009 18:25 (fourteen years ago) link

love that cover

ramón gastro (omar little), Friday, 19 June 2009 18:26 (fourteen years ago) link

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

am0n, Friday, 19 June 2009 19:14 (fourteen years ago) link

thanks

cutty, Friday, 19 June 2009 22:49 (fourteen years ago) link

just a thought here. i'm 20 beers deep!

i'm going through all my records, picking out everything i don't actively like. my partner's starting up an ongoing thrift store kind of thing with all proceeds going to her mutual aid group. so i'm trying to include things that i no longer like (of montreal hissing fauna, for example, or julia holter) that would get higher donations, in addition to the true dollar bin garbage (the knack). i'm trying to be hard on myself and take away some things i really like, in the process, if i think it will help.

and it strikes me that when i get to my ambient section, i can't bear to part with ANYTHING. like, not a single damn thing. which leads me to this conclusion: "ambient", at least for me, is more like a food flavor, almost in a biological way that you could map to certain sections of the tongue. you would never want to get "rid of" your sense of bitterness or sweetness. ambient is like that for me. there are very few famous ambient "songs" ("an ending (ascent)", "requiem for dying mothers pt 2" are the first two that come to mind for me). ambient is a zone. we know this. but because of that, i have a very hard time eliminating any zones from my collection. i like all of these zones.

@oneposter(✔️) (Karl Malone), Sunday, 15 November 2020 01:43 (three years ago) link

whereas, the knack, "my sharona", is not a zone. that is a pop song about a guy who always gets it up for the touch of the younger kind, my, my, my, aye-aye, whoa! it is a point. ambient is the zone

@oneposter(✔️) (Karl Malone), Sunday, 15 November 2020 01:45 (three years ago) link

will any serious music critic refuse to debate me in a public forum?

@oneposter(✔️) (Karl Malone), Sunday, 15 November 2020 01:46 (three years ago) link

I am completely with you on this one, dude, I’m just too baked atm to elucidate much further... but it’s like... ambient is a serious benign environmental alteration thing for me... duh eno definition of ambient... but yeah all these rooms and spaces to live in, I’m never not in the mood to visit Discreet Music side A, yknow? whereas like, “regular music” as Dave Berry puts it... foregrounds emotion in a way that (at my age or whatever) requires a specific emotional state to want to experience and actually enjoy. but yeah idk, over the years i’ve lost all taste for any kind of “extremely major key”/goopy “ambient” (see blech romantic sentimental ambient music), and a strong attraction towards more emotionally ambiguous/nebulous vibes.
so idk, do what you will with this post. <3

brimstead, Sunday, 15 November 2020 19:18 (three years ago) link

i will take your post and otm it

otm!

@oneposter(✔️) (Karl Malone), Sunday, 15 November 2020 20:09 (three years ago) link

most excellent!

brimstead, Sunday, 15 November 2020 22:42 (three years ago) link

I am completely with you on this one, dude, I’m just too baked atm to elucidate much further... but it’s like... ambient is a serious benign environmental alteration thing for me... duh eno definition of ambient... but yeah all these rooms and spaces to live in, I’m never not in the mood to visit Discreet Music side A, yknow? whereas like, “regular music” as Dave Berry puts it... foregrounds emotion in a way that (at my age or whatever) requires a specific emotional state to want to experience and actually enjoy. but yeah idk, over the years i’ve lost all taste for any kind of “extremely major key”/goopy “ambient” (see blech romantic sentimental ambient music), and a strong attraction towards more emotionally ambiguous/nebulous vibes.
so idk, do what you will with this post. <3

― brimstead, Sunday, November 15, 2020 2:18 PM (seven hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

such an otm post. i've been meaning to start a thread about this for a while

i basically only f/w emotionless/emotionally ambiguous ambient. i think i've listened to discreet music 8000 times. honestly a lot of eno's stuff is too emotional for me most of the time

i can handle some major key new-age stuff, but i really don't like any of the dark/minor key stuff

#1 from selected ambient works vol 2 is like my ambient music bliss point, whereas i'm just about never in the mood for #5 or #22. i really don't like ambient with a "scary" vibe that sounds like it could soundtrack horror, or the stuff that makes u feel queasy

flopson, Monday, 16 November 2020 02:51 (three years ago) link

https://soarer1983.bandcamp.com/album/--13

Beautiful dream ambient album from Peru

calstars, Monday, 16 November 2020 03:14 (three years ago) link

now playing: Klaus Schulze "Cyborg" live 2LP, man this really hits the spot

howls of non-specificity (sleeve), Monday, 16 November 2020 04:10 (three years ago) link

three weeks pass...

https://anaroxanne.bandcamp.com/album/because-of-a-flower-2

davey, Monday, 7 December 2020 14:53 (three years ago) link

three months pass...

https://virtualdreamplaza.bandcamp.com/track/--79

calstars, Thursday, 1 April 2021 02:46 (three years ago) link

You can't spell ambient without ambien

longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 1 April 2021 02:51 (three years ago) link

beard papa, Thursday, 1 April 2021 06:26 (three years ago) link

I fail so bad at posting. https://astrangelyisolatedplace.bandcamp.com/album/terrain

beard papa, Thursday, 1 April 2021 06:27 (three years ago) link

seven months pass...

Really nice 25 minutes by the microgram

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lZEbsTS2Bw

calstars, Sunday, 7 November 2021 12:53 (two years ago) link

https://dreamcatalogue.bandcamp.com/album/2814

ncxkd, Sunday, 14 November 2021 21:54 (two years ago) link


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