Ambient Recommendations

a cop out only in that it's easier than making some positive. but come on tom, you gotta agree dance tends to get good when it goes a little dark. not all the time, but...

I do think certainly in the field of 'ambience' you find 'darkness' getting a little overdone - this is surely down to the subconscious need to differentiate it from new age heh.

Maybe. The thing that always struck me in regards Eno's On Land is how dark it sounds, whereas I was expecting something more light/happy since these were supposed to be memories of childhood places. It probably is, as Jess says, harder to make something positive (just can come up with some of these Boards of Canada minatures like 'Olson' as an example, arguably some tracks on SAW 85- 92).

Maybe "Bola- Soup"?

David Toop's Screen Ceremonies is good for when you want to feel like you're watching a sadistic ritual involving monkeys in the rainforest.

Also like Lamonte Young's Well-Tuned Piano and Morton Feldman's For Samuel Beckett lately, they're kind of ambient...

Miles Davis, He Loved Him Madly.

I always thought Systemische was Oval's best album. 94 Diskont is almost all one track, and it's kind of boring after a while.

Just the very words Chill Out bring on flashbacks...

I will get that album Tracer - sold!

old Biosphere stuff Solar Quest: The Orgship the Freezone compilations on SSR lots of artist on extreme records like Lights in a fat city, Vidna Obmana, Paul Schütze Autechre: amber

going back into time indeed...

golden claw music.

the ambient-techno-dub spin off by bloke from PWEI.

dug this out today as a random choice and loved every minute, all of which just made me seriously wish i was part of this weekends crusty-techno-dub weekend @ glade (orb/system 7/dreadzone/the grid etc etc)

this is my favorite ambient music of the year so far - and you made it (sorta):

http://www.inbflat.net/

playing around w/ that filled me w/ hope & happiness

That's really cool ZS. Thanks for the link

at the end of the most recent Ultima Thule podcast they played a lot of Trans Aurora, the new one by James Gordon Anderson, whose stuff I don't otherwise know but Trans Aurora sounds pretty amazing to me - almost like an inverted Steve Roach in that the notes shift relatively rapidly but occur in a similarly beatless landscape, and retain their textures but aren't as bassy...very weird stuff to my ears, really good I think

lovin this Caretaker album. haven't fallen for an ambient record so quickly in ages

that Caretaker album is my album of the year flat-out at this point. also notable for having a solidly interesting concept; at first the startling jumps from track to track kinda threw me, but the more I think about it the more I figure that's what remembering stuff when you've got Alzheimer's actually feels like.

i really like the two new stephan mathieu records this year, 'a static place' on 12k and 'remain' on the line label/imprint.

http://12k.com/

http://www.lineimprint.com/editions/cd/line_047/

they could just as well go on the rolling drone thread, wherever it is.

it looks like there are lot of other good ambientish and ambient-related things on 12k, some moving over more into modern-composition/new-music territory.

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

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.

how about kenneth kirschner?

Not someone I know, but heaps of mp3's on his website:

http://www.kennethkirschner.com/

stillstream.com

internet radio station that is just unbelievably good

i came here to bluster that stillstream is no sleepbot, but it sort of is. +1

Alio Die - Suspended Feathers: Is this good?

I just bought it, and it is!

"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

Ambient songs I've discovered recently that I'm pretty into:

• Michael Hoenig - Voices of Where
• Eno/Fripp - Wind on Water
• Throbbing Gristle - E.Coli

• From the 70s
• Clocks in under, or around, 10 minutes, tops
• Stands the test of time. This doesn't mean it has to sound contemporary, but that it doesn't just sound like stock film score by today's standards, or 'New Age' in the most pejorative sense.

But yeah, recommendations would be appreciated.

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

*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.

so sleepy so awake

http://soundcloud.com/etape/t-12

love it, thanks

if yr into Alio Die, this is a sort of early music meets ambient harp sounds thing. Name your price, it's quite beautiful

https://hexpartner.bandcamp.com/album/requiem

I am in fact into Alio Die!

Also, former co-worker who is in the composition program at the university where i teach put this out, meditative piano stuff
https://jiqpsalm.bandcamp.com/album/down-a-deep-deep-hole

(She is very cool, we have a lot of similar tastes, I was a guest at her contemporary composition group back in the early autumn)

zakè has been on some run recently

4/5 albums already this year, all wonderful

was riveted by OHYUNG’s new one yesterday

https://ohyung.bandcamp.com/album/iowa

yes! it's superb

This is in the fake gamelan zone, but I was pretty blown away by it:
https://tylerfriedman.bandcamp.com/album/metlasr

I'm glad you posted this again as have been meaning to listen and forgot x

And I had a good workday recently listening to this guy's records:
https://damiandallatorre.bandcamp.com/album/i-can-feel-my-dreams

rote and disinterested sounding dx7 lines, some ms10, pleasant water splish-splash, very prominent meowing and sample collage
not saying i love it straight away but will revisit for sure
fans of shimizu’s ‘kakashi’ and ‘music for commercials’ should check it
https://soave.bandcamp.com/album/sullaccordo-mimetico

this is a reish on an italian label that seems pretty cool… but it looks like rvng put out a comp that got more love

i've mentioned it before and it may seem a bit strange given his hard dnb background, but I'm enjoying my new Technical Itch ambient LP

he's just put out volume 9 and made the previous 8 'pay what you like'. i had the first two and this has prompted me to pick up vol7 and it's just been playing on a loop ever since.

it's quite dark, reminds me of main at times.

https://technicalitch.bandcamp.com/

those are cool!

started listening to vol7 on my laptop ... purchased so I could play on my full system with sub ... MUCH better

Robert Turman has a new one, I haven't heard it yet

https://robertturman.bandcamp.com/album/andromeda-flx-260