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you are not alone

though still relatively few in number

-210. Environments 3 - Dawn & Dusk at New Hope, Pa

― (Jon L), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 04:07 (twenty-one years ago)

my favorite Eno is getting no love up in this bitch - "Music For Airports"

― joseph pot (STINKOR™), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 04:29 (twenty-one years ago)

-211. Spacetime Continuum - Sea Biscuit.
This is a band that gets surprisingly little love (though they got worse, album by album)

― M Carty (mj_c), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 13:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Aren't we forgetting;

-212...Nick Drake-Pink Moon
-213...Nick Drake-Bryter Later
-214...Nick Drake-Five Leaves Left
-215...Damien Rice-O
-216...Joni Mitchell-Blue

― Ed Bell, Tuesday, 12 October 2004 15:06 (twenty-one years ago)

... we're trying to

― Derridadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 15:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Tom Dissevelt - Fantasy in Space (Checkpoints)

I have this box now. 4 discs, 7 booklets. Basta is insane.

― Dominique (dleone), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 15:09 (twenty-one years ago)

What's that supposed to mean!!!
You're not a fan then?
What music are you into Derridadaismus?

― Ed Bell, Tuesday, 12 October 2004 15:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I have this box now. 4 discs, 7 booklets. Basta is insane.

Completely insane.

the electrosoniks 'electronic music'

― (Jon L), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 17:09 (twenty-one years ago)

-217. lull: time box
-218. rapoon + birds of tin: monomyth
-219. jeck / kirkegaard: soaked
-220. organum: vacant lights
-221. cisfinitum: vs
-222. matthias grassow: himalaya

― :|, Tuesday, 12 October 2004 18:42 (twenty-one years ago)

The Album Leaf - In a safe place

― hector (hector), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 20:46 (twenty-one years ago)

two weeks pass...

-223. monoton - monotonprodukt

― :|, Wednesday, 27 October 2004 07:56 (twenty-one years ago)

erm -224 of course. sorry.

― :|, Wednesday, 27 October 2004 08:07 (twenty-one years ago)

two weeks pass...

Vent de Guitares / Garlo : The geo acoustic ambient album
Zuni Pueblo Halona Idi Wana / Fernando Cellicion & garlo : Ambient + native american flute.

― gilbert tarmac, Wednesday, 10 November 2004 12:47 (twenty-one years ago)

the garlo album is #-137 -- and it is astounding. still for sale at cdbaby and mimaroglu music sales.

will have to check out the one with Cellicion.

― (Jon L), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 19:19 (twenty-one years ago)

two months pass...

the one with Cellicion is much more about the flute than the drone. is nice but not sure it competes with Vent De Guitares

-226. Joe Jones - Solar Music -- (wow)
-227. Alvin Curran - Fiori Chiari, Fiori Oscuri (the only record of his I truly love)
-228. Gordon Monahan - Speaker Swinging
-229. Buloshkin / Gubaidulina / Artemiev / Demisov / Schnittke / Nemtin / Kallosh / Kreitchi - Electroacoustic Music Volume IV: Synthesizer ANS 1964-1971

side 2 of Bayle's Erosphere, 'Toupie dans le ciel', masterpiece, reissued as an ep

― (Jon L), Friday, 14 January 2005 08:30 (twenty-one years ago)

three months pass...

-230. Tod Dockstader - Aerial

― milton parker (Jon L), Thursday, 21 April 2005 23:53 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

-231. Roger Winfield - Windsongs
-232. Roger Winfield - Voices of the Wind

(Windsongs came first, it uses recordings of Aeolian Harps and then layers & mixes them into eight short compositions -- Voices of the Wind is one long 60 minute nonstop piece more directly based on nothing but the basic drone of the Harps -- I like them both but play the latter more often)

― milton parker (Jon L), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 21:55 (nineteen years ago)

233. Marsen Jules - Les Fleurs

― Jena (JenaP), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 23:27 (nineteen years ago)

-234. Marconi Union - Distance
-235. Goldmund - Corduroy Road

― Treblekicker (treblekicker), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 11:03 (nineteen years ago)

236: scott tuma - hard again
237: thomas koner: kaamos
238: taj mahal travellers - entire ouvre
239: rafael toral: wave field
240: nijiumu - the era of sad wings
241: jon hassell: power spot
242: jon hassell - dream theory in malaya
243: seed: vertical memory
244: loveliescrushing - glissceule
245: microstoria: snd
246: microstoria - model 3 step 2
247: ennio morricone: ecce homo OST
248: triangles - triangles
249: nurse with wound: soliliquoy for lilith
250: jonathan bepler - cremaster 3 OST
251: zoviet france: mohnomishe
252: zoviet france - eostre
253: zoviet france: popular soviet songs & youth music
254: organum - submission
255: organum / prevost: flayed / crux
256: imas permas & asep kosahih - tembang sunda
257: eyvind kang: the story of iceland
258: eyvind kang - virginal co-ordinates
259: extended organ - XOXO

― bob snoom (vestibule), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 15:02 (nineteen years ago)

nice!

(242 & 249 are duplicates, so:)

242. Aeolian String Ensemble - Lassithi/Elysium
249. Henry Wolff / Nancy Hennings - Tibetian Bells II

260. Organum - Sphyx

― milton parker (Jon L), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 21:33 (nineteen years ago)

sp.

249. Henry Wolff / Nancy Hennings - Tibetan Bells II

― milton parker (Jon L), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 21:35 (nineteen years ago)

261. Excursions in Ambience: The Third Dimension (Warp compilation w/ that vinyl-only SAW II track that didn't get released on the CD version, and Spectrum's "Pulse Drone (Neon Sigh)" which singlehandedly made me truly deeply appreciate ambient music).

― less-than three's Christiane F. (drowned in milk), Friday, 29 September 2006 02:58 (nineteen years ago)

Picked this up at a charity shop the other day for £3, still can't quite believe my luck.

262. Space 'n' Bass - The Ultimate Ambient Collection

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Friday, 29 September 2006 03:05 (nineteen years ago)

263. Koop - Waltz For Koop (New album October 2!!!)
264. Arkestra One - S/T
265. Nicola Conte - Bossa per Due
266. Nuspirit Helsinki - S/T

― nicky lo-fi (nicky lo-fi), Friday, 29 September 2006 05:51 (nineteen years ago)

268 Robert Rich & B Lustmord: Stalker

― jeffery (jeffery), Friday, 29 September 2006 06:03 (nineteen years ago)

Dammit I forgot to Command-F. So that's three votes for Stalker!

― jeffery (jeffery), Friday, 29 September 2006 06:05 (nineteen years ago)

-- less-than three's Christiane F., September 29th, 2006.

wasn't this on astralwerks? pardon me if astralwerks is part of warp

― held tony (held tony), Friday, 29 September 2006 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

269. Infantjoy - Where The Night Goes
270. Songs Of The Humpback Whale
271. Sharkboy - Matinee

― hank (hank s), Friday, 29 September 2006 18:39 (nineteen years ago)

wasn't this on astralwerks? pardon me if astralwerks is part of warp

-- held tony (miscellaneousfrankum...), September 29th, 2006

Erm, yeah, that was... and no I don't believe it's part of Warp. It was my own mistake.

― less-than three's Christiane F. (drowned in milk), Friday, 29 September 2006 18:42 (nineteen years ago)

sorry to be such a pedant, we missed one for 268

268. Ruth Welcome - Zither Magic

272. Douglas Quin - Antarctica

― milton parker (Jon L), Saturday, 30 September 2006 03:17 (nineteen years ago)

Two questions:
1. Why isn't SAW II currently available in the U.S.?
2. Can someone compile a list of the albums here that are actually ambient?

― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Saturday, 30 September 2006 03:53 (nineteen years ago)

what is "actual ambient"?

― PRKLTR (flezaffe), Saturday, 30 September 2006 12:31 (nineteen years ago)

that sound like saw II

― boo berry (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 30 September 2006 12:50 (nineteen years ago)

i.e. please identify the boring albums...

― hank (hank s), Saturday, 30 September 2006 13:56 (nineteen years ago)

what is "actual ambient"?

Well, if I picked up Entroducing or Virgin Suicides expecting "ambient" music, I'd be pretty dissapointed. And I'm really into that "boring" shit right now, so I thought some informed person could apply that filter to this list. (2much2ask).

― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Saturday, 30 September 2006 16:44 (nineteen years ago)

I think your mileage will still vary, Bobby.

I'm not really fond of "ambient" as a catch-all term to encompass anything with low-to-no-BPMs which uses drifty soundscapey bits. So little of it paints a compelling portrait of 'place' or sonic geography in the way that, say, On Land did. My favorite so-called "ambient" music is more environmental - actual recordings of ambience or incidental sound, almost documentary in scope and intention. So, while I'd nominate something like Disinformation's R&D as an outstanding ambient work, it'd also likely give most ambient fans a dentist's-drill headache.

― Myke. (Myke Weiskopf), Saturday, 30 September 2006 17:04 (nineteen years ago)

Haven't heard it, but thanks for indicating the difference between recorded/mixed ambient (or found) sounds, and an ambient musical composition. The production means & results are not necessarily alike.

― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Saturday, 30 September 2006 17:38 (nineteen years ago)

ILM list thread golden rule: find a poster on this thread who's posting albums that you've heard of and like, then google the other ones he's posting

― milton parker (Jon L), Saturday, 30 September 2006 18:53 (nineteen years ago)

273. Tape - Milieu

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 30 September 2006 18:56 (nineteen years ago)

xpost - ohhhh... thnx!

― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Saturday, 30 September 2006 19:09 (nineteen years ago)

My favorite so-called "ambient" music is more environmental - actual recordings of ambience or incidental sound, almost documentary in scope and intention.

274. Monos: Nightfall Sunshine

― PRKLTR (flezaffe), Sunday, 1 October 2006 08:57 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

i prefer the 'environmental' to the 'musical' also, but im finding myself liking

chris meloche - recurring dreams of the urban

at the moment. i never really liked fax much as a label, but this is quite nice

― -- (688), Monday, 6 November 2006 17:50 (nineteen years ago)

the elian radique upthread that milton posted is really great though

― -- (688), Monday, 6 November 2006 17:50 (nineteen years ago)

eight months pass...

finally heard the Environments record I posted the Head Heritage link to upthread. It's unbelievable, just hundreds of human voices singing one note. 1976, so predates Prima Materia, David Hykes & the Harmonic Choir, Michael Vetter's Overtone Choir, etc.

all the Environments records need a complete CD reissue

275. Environments 7 - Intonation / Summer Cornfield

http://www.headheritage.co.uk/unsung/review/527
http://nonmusic.discogs.com/release/892588

― Milton Parker, Thursday, 26 July 2007 01:24 (eighteen years ago)

that is so cool, I have 4 or 5 of those but have never even seen that one.

― sleeve, Thursday, 26 July 2007 01:31 (eighteen years ago)

four months pass...

276. Aloof Proof - Piano Text (just reissued on CD and pretty great)
277. Wind Harp - Songs From The Hill
278. Lou Reed - Hudson River Wind Meditations
279. Michael Stearns - Planetary Unfolding

― Milton Parker, Friday, 14 December 2007 09:30 (eighteen years ago)

280. Earth - Pentastar
281. Bohren and Der Club Der Gore - Midnight Earth
282. Tangerine Dream - Phaedra
283. Tones on Tail - Pop

― Nate Carson, Friday, 14 December 2007 11:42 (eighteen years ago)

284. Oren Ambarchi - Grapes from the estate
285. Phil Niblock - G2 44 +/X 2
286. Rafael Toral - Sound Mind Sound Body

― boring, Friday, 14 December 2007 14:02 (eighteen years ago)

287. Waki - Music for Lazy People

― winston, Sunday, 16 December 2007 00:48 (eighteen years ago)

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