Rolling ambient/chill out/drone/moodz thread: from 2010s 'til infinity!

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Dirk Serries + Rutger Zuydervelt - Buoyant (album preview)

has a sort of Fennesz/Stars of the Lid vibe.. pleasant

Eleh – Homage is incredible: http://open.spotify.com/album/5wiZraNKzkUN6CwbXJnVAF

I love this album art, too. Not sure if it was on the original or just the reissue.

http://importantrecords.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/release_full/imprec/homage_final_0.jpg

slsk'ing it now, thanks :)

You know when you come across an album and it's so directly in your sweet spot you might as well have pulled the thing out of your heart? Why did I only just discover Eyvind Kang's Live Low to the Earth, in the Iron Age? Absolutely glorious.

The Omni Vu Deity album that Tuomas recommended is really hitting the spot

In case you want to discuss more historical vibes, I've continued my poll series of years in ambient albums with a new 1992 poll:

1992, A Wonderful Year in Ambient Music: Poll and Discussion

And here are the earlier polls in the series:

1994: The greatest year for Ambient music? Poll and discussion

1993, A Great Year in Ambient Music: Poll and Discussion (with a corrected album list)

just now hearing the Lee Gamble album, KOCH (2014).. fucking excellent ambient music

this is really lovely, koto + piano with lots of tape and synth processing:
https://psychictroublestapes.bandcamp.com/album/maxwell-august-croy-kaniza

i wish people would use higher quality tape stock when putting albums out on cassette.. assuming the Croy release is a normal bias cassette. you've got labels like Notice Recordings putting their music out on chrome bias (type ii) and cobalt tape stock (at a cheaper price), and it sounds great. these Kaniza sounds are pretty sweet, btw. http://dustedmagazine.com/reviews/7113, the sample song is a real beaut.

i did a chrome tape last year and they came out really nice, thought it was relatively inexpensive too.

I'm not sure whether to post this here, or the techno thread (it has beats, but the mood is pretty ambient), but I'm vibing hard on Cio D'Or's new album on Semantica: https://semanticarecords.bandcamp.com/album/cio-dor-all-in-all-semantica-73cd

It kinda reminds of the album Monolake did a few years ago with all the PVC pipe percussion, except that her approach is more streamline and appealing, you can just zoom in on individual SOUNDS! Everything is so well-defined and meticulously placed, it's almost like anti-drone. Too bad I didn't get this album until this week, otherwise I would've nommed it in the ILM EOY poll.

(maybe wrong thread but) I've listened to the new Roly Porter 'Third Law' 3 times in a row now. It feels like being on a trip through the dark, deep space.

yeah i don't know whether to post things like that on the 'techno doing it wrong thread' or what

Countersign the Roly Porter rec. My robots at work said I would like it, and I didn't immediately believe them because I didn't recognize the name and it sounds goofy. But they were really right.

Whereas my own personal robots living inside my head were telling me, 'well this is most likely a very beats-oriented thing you won't care about', but they were wrong.

if i can be totally honest here, it's not quite beats-oriented enough for me.

chill beats vs phat beats

This Cio d'Or album sounds a lot like a chill-out version of The Delta.

okay going further back in time ... but just picked up Pelican Daughters - Bliss from another thread and it is *outstanding*. Pay what you want on Bandcamp.

this is really good: http://www.npr.org/2016/01/20/463189435/first-listen-daniel-wohl-holographic

Paul Jebanasam's Continuum on Subtext feels like a companion album to Roly Porter's Third Law. You're still in space except this time something's coming after you.

Full stream:
https://soundcloud.com/subtext-recordings/sets/continuum-paul-jebanasam

The link above for Daniel Wohl's album doesn't work anymore but you can hear the whole thing on bandcamp now
https://danielwohl.bandcamp.com/album/holographic
(which I plan to do next)

Jebanasam's Rites was do damn good. Can't wait to hear the new one.

leaving this here to remind myself to buy it later http://helaudio.bandcamp.com/album/last

(Θ – Last)

new IG88 album is gorgeous: https://ig88.bandcamp.com/album/hiding-in-my-hands

Shall i put this over here, underneath the awning

https://soundcloud.com/my-own-jupiter/melina-serser-manu-jelen-moj-mixes-5

ah, this is well good, makes being locked in the cellar not so bad after all

Byron Westbrook's Precipice from last year is really doing it for me. first track is like fifteen minutes of a melody trying and failing to escape from a vast sound wash.

New mary lattimore album is lovely, just harp and a few subtle electronic touches. Not entirely dissimilar to some of colleen's records or maybe duane pitre, a slowly unwinding contemplative thing

Jordan, thanks for the ig88 link, have been listening to that album a lot over the last week--really nice stuff

oh cool! his previous one is really good as well.

New mary lattimore album is lovely, just harp and a few subtle electronic touches. Not entirely dissimilar to some of colleen's records or maybe duane pitre, a slowly unwinding contemplative thing

This is very nice, thanks.

The Withdrawing Room is a gorgeous album. Yet to be convinced by the new one, but there's plenty of time.

Liking the new album from Ethernet - starts as twinkly synth ambient and morphs into a more minimal techno sound as it goes. https://open.spotify.com/album/3Dcsu8g9DIyVTsUrIjgg37

'well-known ambient musician' named adam (no last name given) accused of domestic assault. guessing we'll hear more... :(

https://twitter.com/LEAVINGRECORDS/status/710140831450025984

yup

fuck that guy

Huh, sorry to hear this if it is true just cause domestic abuse is bullshit and yeah fuck that shit (meaning not sorry it involved this dude, just sorry it happened AT ALL).

Always found this dude strangely aggro in interviews in re other people's work and his place within any given "genre" considering the music he made.

What a great thread. I have pretty much spotified the whole lot. Really liking Heathered Pearls but pick of the bunch for me is IG88.

In terms of recommendations in a similar vein, I'm enjoying Marconi Union.

this has been my soothing ambient go-to while washing the dishes lately:
https://apothecarycompositions.bandcamp.com/album/choir-and-room

That IS nice

Hmm, that was Jordan again. I might just have to lurk outside your windows note down and steal all your music favourites.

ha i appreciate that, as i usually feel like i'm posting tracks on the wrong thread for no one's benefit but my own.

apparently i never posted this record of processed piano pieces here, but i've listened to it a ton: https://beaunoise.bandcamp.com/album/pianoworks

and also the next release on Apothecary sounds very promising (out in a week): https://apothecarycompositions.bandcamp.com/album/-

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Marc Baron (live in Sydney 2014, extrait)

he put out a really good noise record called "Hidden Tapes" a couple years ago

I return to this thread a lot - ambient music is really important to me, though I approach it different from the way I've always approached music - like - I'm not a total fiend for details, but I always want to know where a band is from, what are they all about, am I listening to something early or late, is there biographical detail that informs the music, etc. same with classical and opera. I'm not totally uncurious about ambient composers/performers, but I allow myself to just sort of luxuriate in the sounds apart from any concerns about when or where it's from, whether it's well-regarded or corny, or whatever...Im kind of more decadent with this stuff, I just let it work on me. which is the long way of saying I may not post a lot here but this thread is my favorite bookmark on ilm.

late pass on this guy though - really amazing stuff from a retired machine worker, some people seem to think the story's too good to be true but man these are lovely sounds anyway

https://abulmogard.bandcamp.com/album/circular-forms

Listening to some of Mogard's remixes, too: beautiful. Must get Works!

The new Huerco S. belongs on here

Man, I am really looking forward to hearing that.