Will any ambient track ever top Eno's 1/1?

Do While

discreet music

2/2 is better
they're both shit tho, eno's pure ambient albums are trash

>>70406125
i think they're overrated in the context of his discography and people really tend to overlook his rock records, but i think at least Apollo and discreet music possess identifiable merit

The Ship tbqh.

Or William Basinski's Watermusic II

>>70406182
I just don't like how he approaches the genre in general, and it's stunted the evolution of the genre. The "as ignorable as it is interesting" quote is offputting to me because ambient can me so much more than background noise.
This causes his ambient albums to be soothing but very uninteresting and simple.

>>70406073
Stars of the lid - refinements of the decline

/thread

SAGE

>>70406247
yea i agree about that quote in particular, and now that I think about it it probably has led to a lot of misunderstanding towards the genre.

I think that's what makes Apollo one of his more interesting albums, the fact that he doesn't meander on certain tonalities and progressions for extended periods of time and they're all more or less centered around a specific theme.

>>70406219
>>70406125
>>70406253
>>70406254
no

>>70406247
> The "as ignorable as it is interesting" quote is offputting to me because ambient can me so much more than background noise.
wow, didn't know Eno could be 2 deep for anyone but damn here we are. >what is minimalism

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Any of the tracks in here
Also this >>70406125

>>70406125
>>70406247
shit taste
sounds like you're just impatient and focusing on it intently and can't into subtle progressions

>>70406420
Ambient 2 is the worst
even ambient 3 is better and Eno had basically no involvement in that

Ambient 1 > 4 >>> 3 > 2

>>70406450
The most emotive album is the worst yeah sure
2>>3>1>4

>>70406073
Literally every song on Ambient 2

>>70406839
>>70406849
literally shit taste contrarian choices
>1 isn't the most emotive
>3 and 2 aren't samey af all the way through
k

>>70406420
>>70406849
Damn beat me to it

>>70406450
Fukken pleb

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>>70406858
go to sleep

>>70406858
Listen to Above Chiangmai and An Arch of Doves and tell me how is it samey
3 I'm just shitposting in you
1 besides 2/2 its all the same

>>70406927
>1 besides 2/2 its all the same
>being this wrong

literally no track he has ever done sounds like 1/1
no two tracks on Ambient 1 sound even remotely similar desu unlike Ambient 2 which is fucking monotonous.
>8 posters ITT and 18 posts
>this much samefagging
peace I'm out

>>70406961
k go back to listening to the same chord progression for the next 20 minutes

>>70406961
Maybe people just like coherent albums you pleb? And regardless of that, 2 has the sweetest sound of any ambient youll find between a piano and a synth

>>70406973
lol as if I care about the opinion of someone who can't into minimalism or ambient
>>70406991
>"coherent"
>everything sounds the same and the structures are predictable
>good

>>70407096
Nigga there is a huge difference between "sounding the same" and coherent.

>>70406973
>i only have a 3 minute attention span
opinion disregarded

>>70407119
I know there's a difference but not on ambient 2.
Ambient 2 has literally 2 good and unique sounding tracks out of 10, the rest are 3 minute ideas that they didn't bother fleshing out into something socially or structurally interesting

>>70406073
Most of Eno's discography is superior to music for airports. It is only revered because it broke new ground. Far better ambient music has come about since.

>>70407176
>Far better ambient music has come about since.
can you link some?
The only ambient album he has done that has topped it was Apollo and the only tracks he's done that comes close to 1/1 are An Ending and 2/2 (also from Ambient 1)

>>70407137
Well right now it just comes down to opinion, I love all 4 ambient albums. but I also love anything Harold Budd has done as well. You should check some more of his work out, such as Translucense/Drift Music that he did with John Foxx

>>70407124
>attention span
>in furniture music
rmyt
>>70407096
cause minimalism is the only valuable ambient
>>70407222
follow the trips

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why does it seem like i'm the only one on this entire board that listens to music exclusively on soundcloud. seems to be so many more producers that just deserve a lot more recognition

https://soundcloud.com/tymelapse/sets/somnolent-sessions-vol-1

Eno topped it himself with Discreet Music but yes there are various other examples.

>>70407199
Stars of the Lid, Grouper, The Caretaker, Eluvium, Fennesz, Huerco S, Ian William Craig, Jon Hopkins, Julianna Barwick, Lawrence English, Taylor Deupree, Rafael Anton Israrri, TwinSisterMoon, Isengrind.

I prefer releases from all of those artists to ambient 1

Try Snow (Dusk, Dawn) by Taylor Deupree
AIA Alien Observer by Grouper
A Night of Raining Fire by Isengrind
Asleep Versions by Jon Hopkins

suck me off
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nL1-jnCkfw
>>70407472
>reads pitchfork once

>>70406073
Eno's best work is his Art Rock stuff.

>>70406087
FPBP

>>70406073
1/2

>>70407472
>Huerco S
"lol"

>>70407567
I read Tinymixtapes faggot.

>>70407676
Listen to Promises of Fertility. Perfect dong. Bows anything on ambient 1 out of the water.

>>70406073
1/1? What are its abilities?

Enos one of my fave artists and I appreciate his ambient series but it hasnt aged that great.People have progressed ambient pretty far since his conception of the genre. His work with fripp and discreet music is way better.

>>70408093
sounds like really derivative berlin school to me

>>70406073
2>2 > 1/1 > 1/2 > 2/1

>>70406073
(No Pussyfooting)
Cluster
The Disintegration Loops
Irrlicht
Metal Machine Music
Nature Unveiled
Earthquake Island
etc.

>>70408219
echo

>>70407472
Dude I really like loads of those artists but many of them aren't even really ambient artists, and there are certainly plenty who haven't topped Ambient 1.

>>70406073
I think I actually consider Discreet Music my favourite ambient track. It's a shame he ruined it with side two.

>>70407294
maybe because you're a fucking pleb

>>70408401
>The Disintegration Loops
avant teen shite

>trying to figure out THE BEST AMBIENT TRACK OF ALL TIME HURR!!!

I wish you fucking idiots just stuck with your pop music.

>>70406073
The entire minecraft soundtrack blows it out of the water

>>70406073
His best ambient track is the one you can't remember. It succeeded in truly being ambient.

Not even Eno's best.

Discreet Music
Swastika Girls
Always Returning

For example

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFY1Kahq5SQ

in two minutes it is one of the best ambient songs I've heard so.. I mean I just hope other people hear in this what I hear because it's honestly quite beautiful.

>>70411448
torn between saying this is the best ambient song and this is the best psychedelic song... it's very profounding and it's a fucking exciting journey this song makes you high when you listen to it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bjVqZucAko

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;_;