Welcome to /gotw/!
/gotw/, which stands for genre of the week, is an ongoing thread in which we vote for a genre and then spend the week listening to it. Every Saturday a new genre is chosen. Once a genre is used, it can’t be used again until the next year. We will listen to, rate, and discuss albums & other works in the genre. Then, once the week is over, we do it all over again. The goal is to expose others to music they may not have heard before, and to get more into genres.
This week’s genre is ambient.
>Finding music in that genre:
https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/Ambient/
>Pastebin of genres we’ve used this year:
http://pastebin.com/cBEM63ZU
>Chart creator for planning your week:
http://topsters.net/
https://www.neverendingchartrendering.org/
Last thread:
>>68357448
>Brian Eno - Ambient 4: On Land (1982)
This album wasn't as dark as I expected. I was told it was scary, and what I got was only a bit unsettling. I don't really get lost in it at all throughout. It's still pleasant to listen to and innovative of course as well, I was just a bit underwhelmed.
>6/10
KLF is next
>suggesting people find their music in rym
too bad rym is almost worthless for ambient specifically
>>68366830
what sites would you recommend then
Absolute essential series. Exclusive tracks (95% of them) made for these compilations by various artists.
I recommend 2001, 2014, 2012, and 2016 the most.
>>68367528
Discogs.
The genre tags aren't as on-point as RYM's, and you've got to go through multiple reissues of BoC and Eno albums to find the obscure stuff, but if you ask me that's part of the fun. It's like IRL crate digging but in digital form.
>>68367556
I'll add this in the sticky next time
>>68367556
Yeah but you're bound to find a lot of garbo on there, esp with a genre like ambient, once you know what you're doing its great, but for people just getting into it, just going through the top ambient list on rym is a pretty good start
>>68366830
rym is worthless for essentially everything. I got sick of having to add releases to their database.
does this include subgenres like dark ambient?
>>68369259
It fucking better
>>68367556
Personally I like digging through labels on discogs then just genres
>>68369259
Sure, dark, space, tribal, anything.
bumparoni