/ambient/ - Ambient General

90s ambient techno is so fucking cool

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Me4vSpsgrX4

Pausal - Avifaunal is AOTY

>>74719718
Yup

https://youtu.be/rXjZjovoqHw

>>74719839
Holy. Crap.
This sounds freaking great! The samples, the field recordings, all of it... It sounds like something I would do if wasn't sucking with my current music

>>74719618
So i'm an ambient newb; have listened to Amber, SAW and the BoC albums (not sure if this qualifies as ambient); where do i go from there?

Also, does anyone else think the Earth 2 qualifies as ambient music? I know it's primarily drone metal but feel it has a strong ambient bent.

>>74720694
sleepresearch_facility

>>74720694
Stars of the Lid are my favorite (not OP), so you should listen to that. Especially if you like the droney stuff. If you like the "heavier" droney stuff I'd check out dark ambient (Haxan Cloak is a good start). Or if you particularly like the blues rock thing, F#A# by GYBE is very droney and good (don't let the tryhards sway you)

Earth is kind of an outlier cause they're more of a rock band than a drone band imo. but Sunn O))) actually started as an Earth cover band I think, so maybe check out them

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currently listening to pic related which was given to me as an ambient rec

it's not really that ambient but it's pretty cool

does anyone here make ambient music? i've started doing it a bit in fl studio but i'm satruggling to find interesting sounds to use

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i've barely listened to anything from 2017

>>74720694
sure, without drums the guitars are pretty much just used for texture

>>74720694
My personal start was with these four: Brian Eno, Grouper, Tim Hecker, Basinski. And it all started from there. Stars of the Lid is a must. It all depends on what do you like most about ambient and what draw you into each release. But I would recommend Ravedeath, 1972 and/or Eno's Ambient tetralogy for the start.

>>74721256
I do, in a way. It's really hard to finding interesting sounds at the beginning but basically look for some cool VSTs and effects and just fuck around with that, there's no better way to do it imho. It's all try and error and some textures come naturally as you get yourself more into making it. Record some weird things and modulate them afterwards too. A few years ago I was basically making an ""ambient"" (albeit very shitty one) just out of field recordings and birds singing coming through the effects of different kind. So don't just start and end with FL and VSTs - think outside of the box!

>>74721312
>Drumm
>Gas
>SotL
>Mirror
>Preslav
>Cantu
>Ambarchi

Are you me?

>>74721256
m8 just eq a recording of your ac or pc fans for about 10 mins and maybe add a really subtle chord or two for about half the track

>>74720949
They are great man! I've recently found them and can't put them away. They're just so relaxing

/ambient/ generals are one of my favourite things that has happened to /mu/ recently
and people don't seem to invade them to shitpost like with other generals, which is always good

>>74721312
man i don't know half this chart, i'll defnitely work my way through it

>>74721312
Thanks for the chart

>>74722703
seriously. if you look through the archive it's always the same shitty outdated general charts. very hard to get into ambient on /mu/ and rym's not much better

>>74722996
how would you reccomend doing it then?

>>74722996
It's always going to be a lose-lose game either way so we might just as well stick here and make a nice, solid general and slowly adding new things and elements so it becomes more of a thing. But agreed - we need more and better charts.

>>74719618
Okay lads lets try to get some content going...

Anyone have any really good ambient dub recommendations? Really enjoy Echospace, especially Lumin's second disc. Looking for that "in the city at 4am" vibe. Maybe a more ambient Burial.

What are some artists or albums you just can't seem to get into? For me it's Endless Summer and really all of Fennesz's discography. I dunno why but it always seems too noisy for me.

>>74720694
None of those are ambient

Check out
Brian Eno-1,2,3,4
Biosphere-Substrata
Loscil-Endless Falls
SotL-Tired Sounds, Refinement if the Decline

>>74724751
Been on a Windy and Carl kick lately

>>74724751
Let's go!

>Anyone have any really good ambient dub recommendations?
I would say: Demdike Stare, The Orb, Woob, Vladislav Delay, Deadbeat. Can't remember exactly if they have that city vibe but you might start your search there

>What are some artists or albums you just can't seem to get into?
New age ambient in general. Wanted to get myself into Virginia Astley, especially "From Gardens..." and it's too bloody whimsical for me.

>>74724971
I feel you on some of the new age ambient stuff. I have a difficult time with stuff like Steve Roach, honestly. I know I'm supposed to like it, but sometimes it just feels like a goofy OST for a pre-installed Microsoft game.

>>74719618
Just going to keep churning out points for discussion:

What's the best/your favorite ambient album art?

What's the worst or cheesiest?

>>74725006
Oh yeah, papa Roach is hard for me to get to as well. My friend's super into his music and I still can't get it for some reason.

>>74725040
>What's the best/your favorite ambient album art?
In no particular order:
The Tired Sounds Of Stars of the Lid
Grouper's Ruins
Most of The Caretaker's (from the smoking rock)
Eno's Music for Films (loving that texture so bloody much)
Basinski's A Shadow in Time
A Winged Victory for the Sullen s/t

So well executed and 100% representation of their sound and what you are getting yourself into.

>What's the worst or cheesiest?
Mine :^)

>>74724971
>>74725006
might i suggest Hiroshi Yoshimura? I've been a pretty big fan of his work for a while now.

>>74725170
Good choice. For me at least Yoshimura's best at piano. His electronic ambient doesn't do anything for me. But hell if I don't enjoy these Postcards and Static for Piano for sure

>>74725040
Any Gas albums after the first one, if he counts.

>>74721256
i do, mostly guitar loop based. Takes a lot of messing with pedals and post processing to get nice textures. I'd like to try some true analog ambient.

>>74725676
>mostly guitar loop based
Hard to come by something good from that field. Good you're contributing!

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ambient's arguably my favorite genre yet i feel i dislike the majority of it because of how corny and/or lazy it can be

>>74726039
It's definitely a strange thingy of expectations towards a release versus what a release/artist can actually offer. The best way is to just find a niche, sub-genre, sub-category and stick with it.

https://soundcloud.com/augustas-markevi-ius/byzantine-raincoat/s-4S1VT

>>74726125
Sorry, I'm not into shilling

>>74726158
I am

>>74726168
That's kind of sad really

>>74726180
Aren't we all

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This shit is bonkers

>>74725040
If it counts: Ben Frost - By The Throat

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>>74726268
haxan cloak sucks. it and lustmord are the only dark ambient this board ever talks about

>>74722624
did u listen to deep frieze?

that might be a strange question but is there any good /mu/ (current and from the past) ambient stuff around?

>>74726906
no

>>74726972
good

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Albums are nice, but long track recommendations anyone? (1 hour and longer)
Here's one I really like
https://theflashbulb.bandcamp.com/track/solar-one

>>74721256
I make ambient in FL 12.5.
The plugins I use are:
>Sytrus
>Harmor
>Serum
>Omnisphere 2
>Absynth 5
>Dexed
And a whole lot of field recordings and sounds from freesound, archive.org and my own recordings.
Just recreate whatever's in your head.
Don't overthink it.
I get my inspiration from long walks, watching a bunch of movies and listening to a bunch of music.

Pic related. My current project (8 minutes and 24 seconds).
Three instances of Sytrus and one Absynth 5.

>>74727262
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_AOEzf6Qog

>>74719718
where can i buy time tourist by these guys?

>>74727262
Probably the best 74 minutes of drone [citation needed]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vN5OPrWSemo

Also "Compressions & Rarefactions" by Kenneth Kirschner. Includes two 2h track, one 1h track and two 0.5h ones. Music to zone out basically

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why don't anyone but me like Kettel?
pic related, his most ambient album

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What's some of /ambient/s favorite releases from this year? Got a lot of love for For Organ and Brass.

>>74723045
I don't really expect to come into a wealth of ambient or drone. I get reccs here and there and I bump into stuff and dig deeper into that in the hopes that I find something.
>>74725040
My least favorite (inb4 mine) is ambient works by oldboy. It's just a little too much red-line-noise. My favorite is probably Super Minerals - Clusters. I was never really sure of what it was as a little square on my computer, but I ordered the tape and it's a picture of some waves crashing onto a beach near a tree. The picture wraps around the entire side of the J-Card.
>>74726180
Yes, but don't shill. That's what /SC/ and /BC/ threads are for.

hi lads im here to share with u a fairly unknown piece of ambient that should really be considered an absolute essential

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvhqrVoc7aQ

>1967
>9
>6
>7

>>74727565
>1967
lmao step up your game
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k66nGplNRmQ

>>74727565
whoa this is...
nice

>>74727531
Nah, don't worry. I'm not that stupid to share my stuff here

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>Stellardrone - Light Years

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BINM5sCyUJU

>>74727307
>>74727389
Thanks, I'll check these out.

>>74727350
discogs

>>74724751
>>74724971
Demdike Stare - Liberation Through Hearing is the only ambient dub to really stick with me

>>74725040
A Winged Victory for the Sullen s/t is gorgeous, only reason I listened to the album and it became my favorite of the genre

music for airports - eno

>>74727519
one of my AOTY

>>74727439
Really good, check out his collaboration with Secede, "When Can"