/ambient/ - Ambient General

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>>74562196
hi

>>74562196
>What is your cut off for what you consider ambient?


We were just talking about it in the old thread, but I don't really think Boards of Canada is really ambient. I think the ambient community sort of claimed them due to their immense popularity compared to other recent ambient artists. At the end of the day their music is far too busy to really be included in the genre.

>>74562304

For political reasons I think they are worth claiming as ours. If only to use as a bridge to the genre. Anyone who sticks with the genre and keeps them in their top four should be immediately dismissed though.

>>74562354

I'm not sure I agree with this reasoning. Music should stand on it's own merit.

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Divide through zero and you get this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOe0d0VhAgA

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One of my favorites.

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who /darkambient/ here?

Any recs for ambient/drone that use shoegazing techniques? I'm already a fan of W&C and Bowery Electric

>>74562789

Check out Gas - Nekropop

can we have one of these threads where people don't just post random ambient soundcloud artists. i honestly can't tell what is supposed to be serious.

>>74562543
stop promoting your shit. it's shit

>>74562789
simon scott - navigare
Jefre cantu ledesma - love is a stream

Can somebody recommend some meloncholic ambient music? Stuff that has a nice melody/isn't just drone. Kinda like this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltW-AKROlXQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NV_8-CvXuPE

thoughts on the new opn record
aoty material imo

>>74563142
Benoît Pioulard - sonnet
Marcus Fischer - monocostal

>>74563027

lol

Hell yeah

The more ambient on /mu/ the better.

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this is criminally underrated and night side is peak glacial drone

>>74563516

Added to the list anon.

>>74562789
Radio Amor or basically any Tim Hecker album before Virgins.

>>74563854

Favorite of his?

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Required listening if there ever was any.

>>74564087
Can't choose man. He's my favorite artist of all time. Have to go with Mirages or Ravedeath atm tho.

New to this kind of music. Is it like new agey?

>>74564294

Only ambient worth listening to is Aphex Twin.

I tried Brian Eno and it was just him occasionally playing piano notes.

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>>74564354

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Been obsessed with the picture presented although it's not a strict ambient.

I do really need some nice ambient from this year to fill my collection. I've really missed out on some stuff.

>>74564354
If you mean his stuff from Ambient 1 then I'm sad to say that Eno hasn't even played on the piano.

>>74562196
>What is your cut off for what you consider ambient?
I feel it is generally any music which puts emphasis on tone and atmosphere rather than ferocious performance, structure or rhythm.

>>74564294
A bit but it's less based upon being bright and twee, at least in my opinion. And it has even less of a structure.

>>74564354
ok dude even if you dislike Brian Eno's style of ambient you're missing out on a ton if you take that attitude. there's so much out there besides just SAW II and SAW II isn't the only album of that style either

regarding Eno, it sounds like you only listened to ambient 1 and it wasn't your thing. but what do you think of something like this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=It4WxQ6dnn0

>>74564493

Not bad.

>>74562196
ambient yes! perfect! the next addition to my budding list of filters

Project Droning anyone?

>>74564684

I really, genuinely hope you die soon.

>>74564828
Don't reply to trolls.

>>74564684
neckbeard, ahh yes! reddit!

>>74564836


sorry

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>>74562781
Gonna have to shill this one again

>>74564178
I'd rather listen to Wham! personally

>>74564481

Do you have a link to a decent copy of pictured?

>>74563142
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3NjyMSUSAo

I also highly recommend listening to his album wander/wonder EVEN if you don't really like this song. I'm newer to mu, but still, yet to hear anyone mention this guy.

>>74563142
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B31Yvg8Wa00&list=PLYLizwlan7tdjgazYXaC0HwoPRVOm4HnX&index=1
Deathprod - Dead people's things
Video doesn't work for me but it might for you

>>74565385

saved for later senpai

https://ericmatthewbowers.bandcamp.com/

This dude used to post a lot in bandcamp threads like 2 years ago, a lot of good ambient I actually found through /mu/ artist

>>74564997
Yup, ~650kbps FLACs, AFAIK it's from the original pressing
https://mega.nz/#F!uJFXlQSB!XS_l6j_YpmkJFCOc_pxKsQ

I WISH I could find their other release in such a good quality though.
I've got to respect my country's ambient scene too!

>>74564984
Harsh.
But it's still the worst part.

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HAVE Y'ALL FUCKING LISTENED TO THIS OR WHAT

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Nah und Fern by Gas has all his best releases put together. Pop, Zauerberg, Konigsforst and Gas. I heard them all together and assumed it was one 4-disc release so never needed to rank the individual works. I think they’re all brilliant. There are some very subdued minimal techno beats incorporated - not on all tracks - but also some of the most direct and beautiful soundscapes. The story is he did LSD and explored forests in Germany during the creation. Upon first listen, may not seem like much but it’s deceptively simple and not a daft track on the 4 CDs.

Celer all around analogue ambient, so many dependable records from the early days particularly. It was a husband and wife duo until the wife died in 2009. The love is there in the music. Capri is loads of short pieces that are wonderful. The wife titled them with exquisitely imaginative names like Bracelets Passed to Spanish Hands. Basinski’s Disintegration Loops are juicy as well in this somewhat similar vein. They both use tape loops and have seemingly covered piano in dust sonically to make it feel distant like a dream.

I like some Brambles. She offers more a stew of sounds but in its way is ambient.

For my money, Bengalfuel is king. It is often the simplest, most straight forward or "pure" experience on some albums, warm ambient pads. Also, Roeblin is a dark-ambient drone masterpiece. Some releases have tracks with beats and can get carried away but most of it is bloody well good ambient and the guy has some interviews that are spiritual that give some idea where the music is coming from so this may be part of my bias for the music, because I found it through a meditation playlist of sorts. It is relatively new yet their work Sadye, for me, rivals Wolfgang Voigt or Eno or anybody frankly as the quintessential ambient album. It’s almost 2 and a half hours and is a journey beginning to end, like a good story.

Good to see this thread. Ambient's my way to relax and has more value than any genre.

>>74565247
not ambient tho pal

>>74563168
The soundtrack you mean?

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Been really enjoying pic related recently

>>74562304
Agreed
>>74564087
Ravedeath is a very cohesive project but An Imaginary Country is very good too
>>74564294
There is some overlap but ambient is far more reliant on creation of atmosphere and slow moving textures
>>74564828
Dont feed trolls man
>>74565903
I find the work of GAS hard to rank too. I think it has to do with each album being so strong and the way they evoke different moods. Pop is very different from Konigforst etc.

>>74565762

What is it?

>>74566385
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkFtFtDQFUI&t=139s

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Anyone listened to this? Thoughts?

>>74566661

I added it to my list. Suggestions like this will be reported in future threads.

>>74566176
you probably heard this already but this thing right here is awesome
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6R_SLGYHE3g

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https://secretpyramid.bandcamp.com/album/distant-works-i
>basinski meets badalamenti

https://videogamemusic01.bandcamp.com/album/meditations-on-the-self-and-the-other
>like BOC's Olsen, all warblywoo, with readings from the tao te ching. great meditation music if you're into such things

https://infraction.bandcamp.com/album/echo-park
>like SOTL at their dirtiest. heavy dream music

https://padangfoodtigers.bandcamp.com/album/born-music
>sparse banjo-infused folk/alt-country ambience. think paris texas OST on valium

https://aeolian.bandcamp.com/album/wolf-notes
>slow burn strings and voice. requires deep listening. excellent, modern masterpiece.

>>74562748
what is it?

>>74566740

Sleep Research Facility - Deep Frieze

Listen to it in bed with the temperature as cold as you can get it. A personal favorite of mine.

>>74566756
nostramo is great too.

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>>74562196

> mfw listening to this based on this thread and the last track has vocals

>>74566870

wtf

>>74565903

nice write up

>>74567570
nice samefagging

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>>74567620

>>74567648
>ulrich schnauss
>reddit

>>74567710


I don't pretend to not browse reddit like 90 percent of the users here.

I've also yet to listen to ulrich. Is he any good?

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can someone rec me something in this style? i love ambient but havent found anything like this

>>74567791
try this:
https://echospacedetroit.bandcamp.com/album/white-clouds-drift-on-and-on

>>74567812

will do

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Just listened to this for the first time and it blew me away.

Any recommendations of where to go from here, either in Floating Points' discography or otherwise?

>>74567758
I've never once in my life browsed reddit myman and i'm fairly certain that's the same case for most of the people here

>>74568564

oh yeah

I'm sure buddy

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https://25000kittens.bandcamp.com
Ultra comfy ambient made in memory for the artist's two cats. The first track was for a cat they had a long while, the second for a kitten that passed early.

>>74569206
Cozy thing

>>74568564

Now youve done it

>>74569206
i was going to do my usual and just skip through 10s at a time and judge and make a snarky comment but that 2nd track is actually rather lovely and almost melted my cold cynical heart for a moment.

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>Andy Stott - Luxury Problems
Kind of on the fence about calling this ambient, but I just love his music so much.

>>74569771

Hmm

>>74569771
Andy gives some nice dub and ambient techno's for sure! His Boiler Room was fantastic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCmJ5KmCKMs

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Also recommending this to anyone who wants more comfiness. He uses a wind-powered analogue synth to sound kinda like Boards of Canada

https://justinwalter.bandcamp.com/album/lullabies-nightmares

>>74569771
His best album next to Faith in Strangers

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While we are sharing stuff might as well try it... Give some love to Zabriskie! Some drone-y stuff, some cinematic-like ambiance, some nice digital synths. Always in a mood for his album.

https://chriszabriskie.bandcamp.com/album/music-from-neptune-flux

>>74563142
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkNri98fUS0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUETCouLU0o

>>74569096
>>74569686
nope i swear on me mum

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>>74562781
me. i like lustmord.
shinjuku thief - medea too
and also cryo chamber, tho i havent heard all of the catalogue
https://cryochamber.bandcamp.com/music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSMaB_Fzks0&t=225s

>beats

Not ambient pal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiFV6uJhbkY

>2017

>unironically listening to elevator music

>>74562196

link to last thread?

>>74572282
this is why we can't have nice things :(

>>74572369

https://rbt.asia/mu/thread/74530844/

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>>74572702

cheers

>>74572873

first of all, how dare you

>>74572282
>being an uptight bellend who doesn't know how to chill
Must be the teen angst.

>>74566174
Soundtrack is great but it's really a companion to the movie. Go see good time, very worth it

>>74572282

Go somewhere else.

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this is one of my favorite releases, it's really short and really sweet

I've fallen asleep to it on countless occasions

https://dmtrec.bandcamp.com/album/memory-book

>>74569206
ooh thanks for this, i love it

>>74566739
Willamette was really nice, and i appreciate the brevity of the tracks (some ambient runs a little too long for me)

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https://celer.bandcamp.com/album/plays-liberace
celer's pretty hit or miss but this one's definitely a hit


>>74566739
oh fuck yes, I'm about to head to bed (work the graveyard shift) and I think I'll listen to this again while falling asleep. willamette has a solid, altho short, discog, but imo this is his best.

also also listen to my music it's on spotify now
https://play.spotify.com/album/3YCc1HhZe3KgY98bemWUgy

>>74566756
It was beautiful, ty anon.

Will rec How to Disappear Completely - Mer de Revs
in return

>>74574589
>It was beautiful, ty anon.

much obliged

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what do you guys prefer in terms of atmosphere?
dark drones? new age? old synths? field recordings? solo piano? Onkyo?

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>>74574927
old synths are god tier
pic related was created using the same synth eliane radigue used for her masterpiece, trilogie de la mort
best synth ever

>>74574979

Album name?

>>74575584
imperial distortion by kevin drumm

>>74562781
Hell yes. Saw Lustmord live few years back. The most evil concert I've been to.

Can I get some trippy ambient reccs?

>>74575693
Time Machines - Time Machines

made by guys from Coil, lots of rumors about it actually causing effects on listeners

>>74563142
Hammock

>>74563516
Just listened to Imperial Distortion, godly stuff

>>74564178
Masterpiece

>>74575760

Have you listened to Deep Frieze?

>>74562781
doesn't get any better than that Stalker collaboration album he did

>>74574133
thanks for sharing, this is lovely

>>74576005
nope, recommend me an album

>>74576084

Deep Frieze is the album by sleepresearch facility. It's my favorite ambient album.

>>74564178
William Basinski has done some amazing ambient albums but I've never understood the hype for the Disintegration Loops series.

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餓鬼玉

>>74562789
You have to listen to Experimental Audio Reasearch - mesmerized. It's pretty much exactly that and features Peter kember of spacemen 3 and Kevin Shields of mbv

>>74562789
lovesliescrushing

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>>74565903

>>74564178
It's a fine record, but what a load of bullshit that this is considered 9/11 art. Fuck him

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoJKpE165_w

favorite ambient project this year so far

Kinda random but this is U2's one ambient song. Which was probably made by brian eno

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sBzxUuD2tY

>>74578915


Eh

>>74580633
uh

>>74562304
Boards of Canada definitely has made many, many, many ambient tracks. I don't know what the debate here is.

>>74562280
Wow, this is fantastic

>>74580633
Hey, I said I liked the record. I'm just saying that it's not cool to cash in on tragedy like that.

>>74582118
Not a fair criticism imo. You're allowed to make art inspired by trajedy, or incorporate it into the aesthetics. He obviously felt strongly about the images and how it coincided with completion of the project. I don't think he was disrespectful, so he's perfectly justified.

>>74582402
The art was not inspired by tragedy. "Incorporate it into the aesthetics"... that is a rather euphemistic way of describing "hey, I can claim that this record is about 9/11 and throw a pic of 9/11 on the cover even though it was completely finished before the event".

But I can see both sides of the coin. My personal view is that the record would not be considered special and he would not have gotten so much clout if he didn't make it a 9/11 thing. Plus, again, I have to emphasize that the actual recording and production of the record was not conceptually tied to 9/11 in any way except retroactively. I just think it's cheap.

>>74582908


Huh

Not on spotify.

>>74583765
bandcamp/youtube

>>74576506
ON IT

>>74584027

hell yeah

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>>74564354
>I tried Brian Eno and it was just him occasionally playing piano notes.


Holy shit hahaha I think this may be THE MOST ill-informed post I've ever seen on mu. I'm so glad I came back this morning to be a part of this.

See you in another 3 years.

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Where do I go from here?

>>74582522
He has never claimed it was "about" 9/11 at all though.

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this shit right here.

>>74584565
STEVE ROACH
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>>74584643
I'm more partial to pic related, i can't even tell you how many times i've fallen asleep to it. glad to see him get some love though, underrated

Anyone have any ambient like this? Easily one of my favorite tracks of all time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2s0NrmbRbk

>>74584823
Yea that one has more dynamics too, i like it a lot as well, while animals is more purely ambient.

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recent faves

https://youtu.be/-o1D6ye5HFo
https://youtu.be/G4oOR4p1aco
https://youtu.be/C0JLEOWsWwg
https://youtu.be/BgbCzzG7ur0
https://youtu.be/1zGa8Bg-GNE
https://youtu.be/5_UDszzYZHI

>>74584823


I'm going in

How do you guys listen to this shit?

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>>74586221
with ears

>>74583765
>>74583804
or just fucking download it

>>74586444

I don't pirate on principal.

>>74586468
sorry to burst your bubble, but your principals are pretty fucked if you're relying on spotify over direct purchase either way

also it's a shit service regardless of how terribly it rewards the artists it actually does host

>>74586444
Nice trips.
>>74586468
It's 10 USD on Infraction Records' website, the label that put out Piano Text and continues to put out contemporary ambient. Go for it.
http://www.infractionrecords.com/
http://www.infractionrecords.com/shop/aloof-proof-piano-text-cd-infraction

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dronebient bestbient
more shit like eluvium, tim hecker, jefre cantu?

>>74564087
Radio Amor w Haunt Me as a close second, I'm more of a fan of his more pensive and quieter works