this michael ranta, mike lewis, & conny plank record, Mu, is blowing my mind lately.
check it out here: http://holywarbles.blogspot.com/2011/05/michael-ranta-mike-lewis-conny-plank-mu.html
― dronestreet, Friday, 17 June 2011 03:22 (twelve years ago) link
Of the things I've heard on 12k, I think my favourites were Lawrence English's A Colour for Autumn and Giuseppe Ielasi's August. The Marcus Fischer one had lots of good write-ups last year, I need to go and listen to that again. All these are on Spotify btw if anyone's ineterested.
― cloaca flocka flame (NickB), Friday, 17 June 2011 09:08 (twelve years ago) link
how about kenneth kirschner?
― j., Friday, 17 June 2011 09:16 (twelve years ago) link
Not someone I know, but heaps of mp3's on his website:
http://www.kennethkirschner.com/
― cloaca flocka flame (NickB), Friday, 17 June 2011 09:23 (twelve years ago) link
stillstream.com
internet radio station that is just unbelievably good
― pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Sunday, 4 September 2011 18:20 (twelve years ago) link
i came here to bluster that stillstream is no sleepbot, but it sort of is. +1
― ☆, Sunday, 4 September 2011 18:40 (twelve years ago) link
Alio Die - Suspended Feathers: Is this good?
― qpә (EDB), Sunday, 4 September 2011 23:58 (twelve years ago) link
I just bought it, and it is!
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Tuesday, 15 November 2011 17:55 (twelve years ago) link
"Seriously, you should try Ulrich Schnauss Far Away Trains Passing By"
werd. is that 9 years old already?
also:
http://www.amazon.com/Heart-Forest-Baka-Beyond/dp/B00000062C/ref=pd_sim_m_11
as sampled in:
http://www.amazon.com/Paths-1-7-Future-Sound-London/dp/B000003RVU/ref=sr_1_6?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1321542759&sr=1-6
― messiahwannabe, Thursday, 17 November 2011 15:13 (twelve years ago) link
Ambient songs I've discovered recently that I'm pretty into:
But yeah, recommendations would be appreciated.
― 3×5, Thursday, 27 December 2012 04:01 (eleven years ago) link
i'm recording an ambient album at the moment! i suppose it would be bad for to post my own work though. i'm taking most of my inspiration from eno, + a smattering of recent chillectronic indie stuff like toro y moi, bon iver (ok not electronic or strictly ambient, but close enough for inspiration) and adding that aesthetic to the stuff my indonesian bandmates normally do. so, looking for recommendations same as 3x5.
my 3rd and 4th cents: Blade Runner Esper Edition OST
i don't think eno sounds new age-y very often though. at least not the classics like on land, ending (an ascent) etc. did you *really* not like, say, music for airports? perhaps playing in the background in another room as you do something else? i've yet to hear cheesy new age stuff that sounds at all similar to music for airports
― messiahwannabe, Thursday, 27 December 2012 04:55 (eleven years ago) link
*bad form
Surprised Biosphere's substrata did not get mentioned as a "field recordings mixed with music" example. Also Cirque. Tetsu Inoue's World Receiver is a great call. I love these kinds of albums, they do funny things to my brain.
― brimstead, Sunday, 2 March 2014 19:12 (ten years ago) link
so sleepy so awake
http://soundcloud.com/etape/t-12
― cog, Sunday, 2 March 2014 19:50 (ten years ago) link
Surprised Biosphere's substrata did not get mentioned as a "field recordings mixed with music" example.
I'm not sure if there are actual field recordings on that album? I remember reading a interview of him before the album was released, where he mentioned that the album was inspired by his visit to Tibet, and to some Buddhist monastery there. The interviewer then asked if he'd taken a recorder with him, to record the music of the Buddhists and use it on the album. And he said no, he felt that it would've been wrong to record their music and use it like this, because it's sacred to them. He then explained that he didn't have any recorder with him in Tibet; the album is thematically based on the Tibet trip, but what he did was try to recreate the sounds he heard there after he trip was over, in his studio. (Though of course it's possible he did some field recordings in Norway and used them on the album,)
That seems like an interesting approach to doing this sort of ambient music, and I think that between the lines he was also criticizing the cultural appropriation of the "world techno" artists of that era, such as Banco de Gaia, who were straightforwardly sampling the (sacred) musics of other peoples.
― Tuomas, Monday, 3 March 2014 08:08 (ten years ago) link
Though of course it's possible he did some field recordings in Norway and used them on the album,)Yeah I'm just talking about what I'm hearing on the record, not anything Tibet related. Incidentally, he did release an album of field recordings from mountain climbing in the Himalayas, it was pretty cool.
― brimstead, Monday, 3 March 2014 16:29 (ten years ago) link
Okay, I checked the interview, it's in the book that accompanies the Trance Europe Express 3 comp, I misremembered it a bit. It was Nepal where he went, not Tibet, but he did go to some Buddhist monastery. And he says he actually meant to bring a DAT machine along, but forgot to. He told one of the Sherpas helping him that some Westerners sample the music from this place and use it in their productions, and it was the Sherpa who said, oh, it's sacred music, they probably wouldn't be happy if you sample it. So in the end he says it was a good thing he forgot the DAT. In the interview he also explains how Substrata came to be formed by his experience in Nepal and the lack of recorder (the interview is from 1994, and he never mentions the name of the album he's working on, but I assume it's Substrata, because it was the next solo album he released after the interview, and it totally sounds like what he's describing there):
In the end, I had to use my brain as a sampler, just remember what I was hearing. You know how, sometimes you might pick a particular smell in a particular situation and then, afterwards, that smell will always bring back the original memory. I find sounds are like that too. I played my friends some stuff I was working on the other day, and they all said it brought back Nepal for them.
I guess the mountain climbing field record was done at another time, then? There's also that album he did with Higher Intelligence Agency, which was recorded live at a festival in his hometown, and which uses mostly just sounds recorded there, like the snow melting and cable cars creaking. That one's pretty good too, real old-school conceptual ambient.
― Tuomas, Monday, 3 March 2014 22:12 (ten years ago) link
https://musicophilia.files.wordpress.com/2018/04/musicophilia_00_various_-_translucence_1974-2018_cover.jpg?w=1536
Various – ‘Translucence‘ A Tribute to Brian Eno | (1974-2018) 01 [00:00] Yazz Ahmed – “Exhale” (2017) Egisto Macchi – “Le Genti del Deserto” (1974) Mnemonists – “Limbs” (1981) 02 [05:00] Earthen Sea – “Delicately In the Sunlight” (2017) Cliff Martinez – “Will She Come Back” (2002) 03 [09:50] Pauline Oliveros – “Suiren” (1989) Francisco – “Cosmic Beam Experience” (1976) Susumu Yokota – “Saku” (2000) 04 [15:50] Passengers – “Theme From ‘The Swan'” (1995) 05 [18:50] Luciano Cilio – “Studio for Winds” (1977) Paul Motian – “Psalm” (1982) Bernard Parmegiani – “Geologie Sonore” (1975) 06 [24:20] Daniel Littleton – “Elegy #1” (2002) Monoton – “HZ Waltz” (1982) David Sylvian – “The Wooden Cross” (1986) 07 [29:20] Huun Huur Tu – “Harmonics in the Wind” (1999) Brian Eno – “Unfamiliar Wind (Leeks Hills)” (1982) Peter Gabriel – “Powerhouse at the Foot of the Mountain” (1985) Matthew Herbert – “Forest Montage” (2002) 08 [34:20] Shoko Hikage – “Sakura Zukiyo” (2013) Chuck Johnson – “Riga Black” (2017) 09 [41:50] Yo La Tengo – “Shortwave” (2018) Tod Dockstader – “Approach” (2005) Gigi Masin – “Tharros” (1986) Michael Brook with Brian Eno – “Pond Life” (1985) 10 [46:00] Arvo Part – “Spiegel im Spiegel” (1976) Robert Fripp & Brian Eno – “Wind on Water” (1975) The Haxan Cloak – “The Mirror Reflecting (Part 1)” (2013) [Total Time: 56:30]
01 [00:00] Yazz Ahmed – “Exhale” (2017) Egisto Macchi – “Le Genti del Deserto” (1974) Mnemonists – “Limbs” (1981)
02 [05:00] Earthen Sea – “Delicately In the Sunlight” (2017) Cliff Martinez – “Will She Come Back” (2002)
03 [09:50] Pauline Oliveros – “Suiren” (1989) Francisco – “Cosmic Beam Experience” (1976) Susumu Yokota – “Saku” (2000)
04 [15:50] Passengers – “Theme From ‘The Swan'” (1995)
05 [18:50] Luciano Cilio – “Studio for Winds” (1977) Paul Motian – “Psalm” (1982) Bernard Parmegiani – “Geologie Sonore” (1975)
06 [24:20] Daniel Littleton – “Elegy #1” (2002) Monoton – “HZ Waltz” (1982) David Sylvian – “The Wooden Cross” (1986)
07 [29:20] Huun Huur Tu – “Harmonics in the Wind” (1999) Brian Eno – “Unfamiliar Wind (Leeks Hills)” (1982) Peter Gabriel – “Powerhouse at the Foot of the Mountain” (1985) Matthew Herbert – “Forest Montage” (2002)
08 [34:20] Shoko Hikage – “Sakura Zukiyo” (2013) Chuck Johnson – “Riga Black” (2017)
09 [41:50] Yo La Tengo – “Shortwave” (2018) Tod Dockstader – “Approach” (2005) Gigi Masin – “Tharros” (1986) Michael Brook with Brian Eno – “Pond Life” (1985)
10 [46:00] Arvo Part – “Spiegel im Spiegel” (1976) Robert Fripp & Brian Eno – “Wind on Water” (1975) The Haxan Cloak – “The Mirror Reflecting (Part 1)” (2013)
[Total Time: 56:30]
Really pleased with this "thick" ambient mix--I'd say it works per the "wallpaper music" definition but works even better as sound given your attention. Features a lot of heavy mixing of multiple tracks in a very seamless flow, and stumbled across a lot of great interactions--the blend between Shoko Hikage's koto and Chuck Johnson's pedal steel pieces at around 34:20 especially seemed as if they were born to be together. Hope you'll enjoy:
https://musicophilia.wordpress.com/2018/04/03/tribute-to-brian-eno-translucence/
― Soundslike, Saturday, 25 August 2018 17:31 (five years ago) link
Been listening to this tonight - really lovely! Did you use lossless sources at all? If so could I get a lossless copy?
― octobeard, Monday, 27 August 2018 03:59 (five years ago) link
Looks great, can’t wait to delve in. Thx soundslike!
― calstars, Monday, 27 August 2018 05:52 (five years ago) link
the meadow and the trees cracking up some bank holiday bevvies before climate change and developers pummel with fists
Melina Serser at Pluie/Noir https://soundcloud.com/pluie-noir/pluienoirpodcast079
and
Nathalia at Intrinsic https://soundcloud.com/experimentintrinsic/intrinsic-nathalia
― saer, Monday, 27 August 2018 07:26 (five years ago) link
deru - 1979 (full thing is on youtube)
really great and underrated
― Ross, Monday, 27 August 2018 16:37 (five years ago) link
Been listening to this tonight - really lovely! Did you use lossless sources at all? If so could I get a lossless copy?― octobeard, Monday, August 27, 2018 3:59 AM (yesterday
― octobeard, Monday, August 27, 2018 3:59 AM (yesterday
It was all sourced from 320 or V-0 mp3s, because I just don't have enough room (or good enough ears) to rip my collection in FLAC, tend to keep only absolute favorites in lossless (like maybe 200 out of 8000 albums). I think I uploaded it for download at 320 to minimize the effects of reencoding--suspect Mixcloud doesn't maintain the bitrate. Sorry : \ But glad you like the mix!
― Soundslike, Tuesday, 28 August 2018 23:37 (five years ago) link
the Taphephobia & Kave - Monuments album is really fucking good!
― calzino, Thursday, 8 November 2018 00:10 (five years ago) link
selected choice ambient cuts i have gathered over the years for those seeking sleeping/zoning music:
what happened - emeraldseingya - helioseveryone goes home when the sun sets - andrew chalkfrom gardens where we feel secure - virginia astleyexplanation II - the olivia tremor controllet night come on bells end the day - sarah davachiorgan dirges - kali maloneeclipses - robert AA lowe/rose lazaar
― meaulnes, Friday, 9 November 2018 00:12 (five years ago) link
I'd recommend H. Takahashi if you want something soothing like that
― Evan, Friday, 9 November 2018 14:45 (five years ago) link
happy to see OTC in that list above
― calstars, Saturday, 10 November 2018 01:10 (five years ago) link
I see Chuck Johnson briefly mentioned above, his Balsams album has healing powers: https://open.spotify.com/album/2rWkvguXepRyMmxIe8Brx3?si=9C9To1yqR06rqHa-Qx7WeQ
― niels, Saturday, 10 November 2018 12:28 (five years ago) link
https://soundcloud.com/kukka-dj/wintermix-vol-ii
Since winter has properly come here this week, I decided to do a sequel to a wintery ambient mix I made a few years ago. The link is above, maybe you will enjoy it too. It's not all strictly ambient but I did try to make the mood transitions smooth, hope it works.
Tracklist1. Lucette Bourdin - With Silver Claws2. Alio Die & Amelia Cuni - Apsaras3. Omni Vu Deity - Gobekii4. Cosmic Baby - Stille5. Zalys - Aftermath6. Mariolina Zitta & Alio Die - Suono ipogeo (Part II)7. Meg Bowles - Twilight Embrace8. Alquimia - Processión9. Ania Losinger - Ballet III10. Jlin - Anamnesis (Part 1)11. Mary Youngblood - Cold Wind
― Tuomas, Thursday, 20 December 2018 11:20 (five years ago) link
Nice. Any chance of turning on the download on soundcloud (or is that a premium feature now)?
― groovypanda, Thursday, 20 December 2018 12:40 (five years ago) link
Eh, I feel a bit dodgy doing that, since obviously I don't have the copyright for those tracks... But email me at tuomast dot alho at Google's mail, and I can help. :)
― Tuomas, Thursday, 20 December 2018 12:50 (five years ago) link
enjoying this, thanks T
― calstars, Saturday, 22 December 2018 12:21 (five years ago) link
Glad you like it!
― Tuomas, Saturday, 22 December 2018 20:12 (five years ago) link
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4NLOZNxzCHkLVn8DKC3WWx?si=lqv5b4qlQkWspdYhjvY3tA
playlist by tom lea of local action and others
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 17 January 2019 23:21 (five years ago) link
150 ambient songs isn’t nearly enough but it’s a start
― calstars, Thursday, 17 January 2019 23:29 (five years ago) link
My latest album is here (and there's 50% off thru the 31st with the code "synth"):
https://templo.bandcamp.com/album/roman-birds
Got a very nice writeup in Pitchfork this week as well.
― So, This Leaked (Capitaine Jay Vee), Friday, 18 January 2019 20:37 (five years ago) link
New SangamThis guy keeps getting better and better http://kudatah.bandcamp.com/album/you-make-me
― calstars, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 22:38 (five years ago) link
Abandoned 実体 - Virtual Graduation https://open.spotify.com/track/4pR6Mwf31ibgtMlICSJVyq?si=iA7p6z9ZTK-c0pbx3oRTtQ
― calstars, Sunday, 14 April 2019 03:07 (five years ago) link
Big Fauna vibes from leaf observer Takashi Kokubo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEgmpe8nToU
― saer, Sunday, 14 April 2019 13:55 (five years ago) link
lol that came up on my yt algorithm earlier. serene as hell but did feel like i needed to check on my stardew valley crops.
― devvvine, Sunday, 14 April 2019 14:18 (five years ago) link
Weird! it has 78,000 views and it came up randomly for me as well. Wonder whats making it be recommended, is it an alt-right anthem?
― saer, Sunday, 14 April 2019 14:51 (five years ago) link
can only hope yt finally fixed their shit so that it delivers people this rather than joe rogan clips
― devvvine, Sunday, 14 April 2019 15:12 (five years ago) link
+Minus - A Rainy Koran Verse [UK Live]
effing gorgeous
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Monday, 15 April 2019 05:47 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiHHR9I3XAc
Following on from the Takashi Kokubo is this 2004 release from Hiroshi Yoshimura, not sure if he died immediately prior to release or whether its a collection of earlier works
― saer, Friday, 19 April 2019 14:08 (five years ago) link
Kelela's done an ambient mix for the Warp 20th anniversary NTS thing and sung over the top. It's very nice
https://soundcloud.com/kelelam/aquaphoria
小久保隆 - 01 [00:00 - 04:06]Susumu Yokota - Hagoromo [04:06 - 7:52]Marc Cary - Rhodes Ahead Intro [07:52 - 10:07]Autechre - Altibzz [10:07 - 13:41]Jonny Nash & Suzanne Kraft- Beluga’s Song [13:41 - 18:04]Aphex Twin - Untitled [18:04 - 21:12]Oneohtrix Point Never - Physical Memory [21:12 - 23:22]Kareem Lotfy - FR3SH [23:22 - 26:55]Biosphere - Chukhung [26:55 - 28:34]Leila - Underwaters [28:34 - 31:28]OCA - Heaven Cent [31:28 - 34:49]Visible Cloaks - Screen [34:49 - 38:03]Jaco Pastorius solo (live w/ Joni Mitchell, 1977) [38:03 - 41:10]Iury Lech - Barreras [41:10 - 46:45]Cliffdiver - Digital Dreams [46:45 - 51:30]
― paolo, Monday, 15 July 2019 11:11 (four years ago) link
really feeling right now:
Polypores, the Impossibility Aiden Baker, Deer Park
Polypores has a newer one but I haven't heard it yet.
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Monday, 15 July 2019 13:36 (four years ago) link
Nice piece by vapor dreampunk kingpin HKE
https://nirvanaport.bandcamp.com/album/--4
― calstars, Monday, 19 August 2019 02:30 (four years ago) link
Loscil's latest, Equivalents, and Visions' cinematically spaced-out Temples are both quite good.
Looks like a new Steve Roach is imminent as well.
― pomenitul, Monday, 19 August 2019 10:33 (four years ago) link
super into Equivalents
― Papa Triste (Thee Macallan 18 Year), Monday, 19 August 2019 17:59 (four years ago) link
On the more 'tribal' end of things, Alio Die's latest, with a Persian duo from Paris named Indalaska, is worth investigating as well.
― pomenitul, Monday, 19 August 2019 18:03 (four years ago) link