has anyone listened to Yu Su's Roll with the Punches (a 12" that's 32 minutes long)? who knows how to classify stuff like this, but it's also sort of balearic, dance, dub, other things. i really like this release a lot
― time is running out to pitch in $5 (Karl Malone), Sunday, 5 July 2020 20:26 (three years ago) link
sorry, full title is 泉出通川为谷 / Roll With The Punchescame out on second circle, which is maybe distributed by music from memory?
― time is running out to pitch in $5 (Karl Malone), Sunday, 5 July 2020 20:29 (three years ago) link
Second Circle is an MFM sublabel. Dunno what you'd really classify Yu Su's music as, all of the above I guess. Her Preparations For Departure EP is very good.
― paolo, Sunday, 5 July 2020 20:45 (three years ago) link
I love the You’re Me album, it’s a collab between her and somebody else:https://1080pcollection.bandcamp.com/album/plant-cell-division
― brimstead, Sunday, 5 July 2020 21:47 (three years ago) link
Forest Management puts out some great records
― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Sunday, 5 July 2020 22:00 (three years ago) link
Ooh nice, I’ll check that out!
― time is running out to pitch in $5 (Karl Malone), Sunday, 5 July 2020 23:16 (three years ago) link
KM at home listening to ambient and tending to his herb, is there a better life?
― calstars, Sunday, 5 July 2020 23:32 (three years ago) link
i have to admit, it's been a great weekend
― time is running out to pitch in $5 (Karl Malone), Sunday, 5 July 2020 23:33 (three years ago) link
Cheerz
― calstars, Sunday, 5 July 2020 23:44 (three years ago) link
i've put lightning in a twilight hour's cassette-only release from a couple years ago on youtube. it was ripped straight from the cassette, so the fidelity isn't amazing. music's wonderful though.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Monday, 6 July 2020 01:18 (three years ago) link
New Loscil. Loads of stuff like this about but he just seems to do it better/ deeper
https://open.spotify.com/track/0piAVJZfRRqqdC9W6jMKae?si=mk9uWBenQ8qJ13fPesfHRw
― the article don, Thursday, 23 July 2020 23:06 (three years ago) link
Yeah, enjoying this one. It is more "ambient" than a lot of his other records, which often have some underlying beats/oscilations/pulses.
btw there is a loscil thread, which I only point out because I think it's literally the only thread I've ever started in my 10 (?) years on this message board.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Friday, 24 July 2020 21:41 (three years ago) link
thanks for that recommendation, beautiful stuff
― corrs unplugged, Wednesday, 29 July 2020 12:49 (three years ago) link
2814 - Lost in a Dream
https://soundcloud.com/dreamcatalogue/2814-lost-in-a-dream-1
― calstars, Saturday, 1 August 2020 02:35 (three years ago) link
this worked well last night- https://marchasselbalch.bandcamp.com/album/long-time
― Lowell N. Behold'n, Saturday, 1 August 2020 04:34 (three years ago) link
good call pickles, this might well achieve what zolpidem can't
― the burrito that defined a generation, Saturday, 1 August 2020 04:40 (three years ago) link
New Loscil! Have to get on it. Love his work.
― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Saturday, 1 August 2020 15:40 (three years ago) link
ive been binging on non "distintegration loops" basinski. so much material, so much of it great. he really has a touch for selecting the most elegiac fragments of sound and presenting them beautifully
― Vapor waif (uptown churl), Saturday, 1 August 2020 16:01 (three years ago) link
dang. joanna brouk. i regret not having explored her music more after hearing her highlight track "lifting off" on the I Am the Center comp. but Lifting Off is just the first part of a 5-song "Maggi's Flute" sequence which is just the best. it's flute. with delay and reverb. it sounds really good and i wish i had a house in the country just so i could quietly play it through speakers outside. but the rest of the brouk comp it's on (NUMERO 069, Hearing Music) is also very good. it runs around $40-50 on discogs these days, but i need it
― The GOAT Harold Land (Karl Malone), Saturday, 22 August 2020 05:19 (three years ago) link
what's amazing about her music is that it has a sense of continuity and cohesion that sticks even with different instrumentations and themes. for example, check out "majesty suites - entrance of the queen of winter dawn", which seems to use french horn or something similar - it's a cousin to the Maggi's Flute sequence i mentioned earlier, not only with the reverb and delay setup, but also with the hard tape edits and the occasional glimpses of her throat (gasping for quick breaths when playing flute, snippets of some sort of guttural breath or half-syllable, delayed, on the majesty suites song)
― The GOAT Harold Land (Karl Malone), Saturday, 22 August 2020 06:05 (three years ago) link
btw, she's no one comp wonder - listen to "the space between". it's 21 minutes long, and even better than dave's version
― The GOAT Harold Land (Karl Malone), Saturday, 22 August 2020 06:22 (three years ago) link
i really like the album ‘peel’ by kmru on editions mego.
― flopson, Saturday, 22 August 2020 07:56 (three years ago) link
thanks for the Brouk tip Karl, listening now
― sleeve, Saturday, 22 August 2020 17:07 (three years ago) link
1 Mile North released a new record this year that's quite lovely.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYnakuHstsI
― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Monday, 31 August 2020 14:20 (three years ago) link
I was looking at that Brouk comp on Discogs and there’s quite a few people complaining that it’s a bad pressing
― I am using your worlds, Monday, 31 August 2020 16:18 (three years ago) link
yeah I would definitely check Discogs before buying any ambient music on recently pressed vinyl
― sleeve, Monday, 31 August 2020 18:26 (three years ago) link
see also the fiasco re: Nurse With Wound's "Trippin' Music" 3LP, bad packing ruined a bunch.
I loved 1 Mile North back in the day - will check the new one for sure.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Monday, 31 August 2020 18:51 (three years ago) link
It's pretty good upon listening to a few tracks, Chinaski. The sort of sound is exactly what I want sometimes.
― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Monday, 31 August 2020 20:32 (three years ago) link
the table is the table just made an excellent ambient recommendation in a secret, forbidden, non-indexed thread, so i wanted to put it out here:
https://privateelevators.bandcamp.com/album/la-looks
also, after purchasing that on bandcamp, it automatically went on to the next track in my "collection", which is a preview track from the william basinksi album coming out in November, Lamentations. the alert went out on the basinski thread a while back, and one listen to the preview track, "O, My Daughter, O, My Sorrow", was enough to make me click the pre-order button.holy shit, it is beautiful. the slow introduction of the voice - for some reason i strongly believe that the entire album will be a standout release for him, based off of these 6 minutes.
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 12 September 2020 21:57 (three years ago) link
Joanna Brouk is great.
I've been feeling the new album from Romeo Poirier. This could go in the Balearic thread as well because it sort of overlaps both (and he's a lifeguard, which is a very Balearic job). RIYL Jon Hassell, Jan Jelinek's ambient stuff.
https://sferic.bandcamp.com/album/hotel-nota
― paolo, Sunday, 13 September 2020 10:12 (three years ago) link
An artist I've been liking a lot recently is Motion Sickness Of Time Travel. The 12-album collection 'Ballades' and her self-titled album are two of my favourites.
― mirostones, Sunday, 13 September 2020 19:42 (three years ago) link
Thanks for the Romeo Poirier nod, paolo. Lovely stuff.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Monday, 14 September 2020 08:30 (three years ago) link
yeah it is wonderful
― boxedjoy, Monday, 14 September 2020 09:24 (three years ago) link
seeing as the thread has been revived, here's a pretty good in depth article about the original ambient house scene that's just been republished :
https://jointhefuture.net/2020/09/10/long-read-the-story-of-chill-out/
― mark e, Monday, 14 September 2020 10:37 (three years ago) link
Thanks for the Tetsu Inoue recommendation upthread! Listened this morning and can tell I'm going to revisit for awhile.
Things I've been enjoying lately:Sofie Birch - Themes For A Better Tomorrow Vol. II 'Hidden Terraces' (chill modular synth + field recordings)https://vaagner.bandcamp.com/album/themes-for-a-better-tomorrow-vol-ii-hidden-terraces
H. Takahashi - Sonne und Wasser (warm take on Japanese minimalism)https://wheretonow.bandcamp.com/album/sonne-und-wasser
Phil Struck - Schleswig-Holstein Aufnahmen (meandering/dark/warm soundscapes & miniatures, employs a drum machine or loops to a Cluster-esque affect at times) https://philstruck.bandcamp.com/album/schleswig-holstein-aufnahmen
also the Steve Roach 'Quiet Music' reissues...don't know about anyone else, but ambient is about 90% of my listening this year.
― dronestreet, Monday, 14 September 2020 13:33 (three years ago) link
That mix from the RBMA article on chillout is ace, thanks for pointing it out mark e
― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Monday, 14 September 2020 14:05 (three years ago) link
Another beautiful Poirier
https://kitrecs.bandcamp.com/album/plage-arri-re
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Monday, 14 September 2020 14:48 (three years ago) link
The Motion Sickness Of Time Travel was new to me and I'm liking it a lot! So thanks!
― the article don, Monday, 14 September 2020 18:19 (three years ago) link
this Kagami Smile album is huge sounding, seriously enveloping:https://vill4in.bandcamp.com/album/dream-residue
― brimstead, Monday, 14 September 2020 18:49 (three years ago) link
feel like on ilx we once started to feel out the boundaries of a kind of “urban” vs “rural” vs “cosmic” vs “drug trip” ambient map.. or maybe it was just me trying to justify my indifference towards Stars of the Lid... but anyway this is definitely “urban” ambient
― brimstead, Monday, 14 September 2020 18:53 (three years ago) link
Dark ambient def feels underrepresented in these threads.
― pomenitul, Monday, 14 September 2020 18:55 (three years ago) link
there was some of that in the ambient poll, too. seems impossible to pin down!
― Karl Malone, Monday, 14 September 2020 18:58 (three years ago) link
yeah I’m not a fan of dark ambient really, or “creepy” music in general.. love zoviet france tho, guess their stuff can get pretty dark
― brimstead, Monday, 14 September 2020 19:16 (three years ago) link
Deliberately creepy low-key horror dark ambient doesn't do much for me either but the cavernous, nocturnal and melancholy side of it definitely does.
― pomenitul, Monday, 14 September 2020 19:19 (three years ago) link
Enjoying this Kagami Smile recommendation brimstead
― I am using your worlds, Monday, 14 September 2020 19:27 (three years ago) link
I did that thing with Kagami Smile where I look (usually on RYM) at a band's discography, tut audibly at the sheer, daft size of it, and decide not to listen because overwhelmed.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Monday, 14 September 2020 19:41 (three years ago) link
Dark ambient is hard to make without being too cheesy. I do love some of it! I think my absolute "you have to hear this" from the past few years has been this David Terry record called Sorrow on Opal Tapes. He's in cult stoner weirdo group Bong, but this doesn't sound much like anything Bong has done.
I love thishttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_vSPsWJnEg&t=1188s
― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Monday, 14 September 2020 23:06 (three years ago) link
Apologies!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_vSPsWJnEg
― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Monday, 14 September 2020 23:07 (three years ago) link
But I also love New Risen Throne, Kammarheit, Gravetemple, and some other dark ambient stuff...The first two are particularly amazing when they're on.
― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Monday, 14 September 2020 23:08 (three years ago) link