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.
― Poacher (Chinaski), Saturday, 9 January 2016 14:30 (eight years ago) link
The Omni Vu Deity album that Tuomas recommended is really hitting the spot
― 0 / 0 (lukas), Monday, 11 January 2016 20:51 (eight years ago) link
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)
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 12 January 2016 21:05 (eight years ago) link
just now hearing the Lee Gamble album, KOCH (2014).. fucking excellent ambient music
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Thursday, 14 January 2016 03:27 (eight years ago) link
this is really lovely, koto + piano with lots of tape and synth processing:https://psychictroublestapes.bandcamp.com/album/maxwell-august-croy-kaniza
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Tuesday, 19 January 2016 15:02 (eight years ago) link
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.
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Wednesday, 20 January 2016 19:30 (eight years ago) link
i did a chrome tape last year and they came out really nice, thought it was relatively inexpensive too.
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Wednesday, 20 January 2016 21:05 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Tuomas, Friday, 22 January 2016 21:59 (eight years ago) link
(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.
― moans and feedback (Dinsdale), Friday, 22 January 2016 22:11 (eight years ago) link
yeah i don't know whether to post things like that on the 'techno doing it wrong thread' or what
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Friday, 22 January 2016 22:41 (eight years ago) link
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.
― glenn mcdonald, Saturday, 23 January 2016 01:04 (eight years ago) link
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.
― moans and feedback (Dinsdale), Saturday, 23 January 2016 05:55 (eight years ago) link
if i can be totally honest here, it's not quite beats-oriented enough for me.
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Saturday, 23 January 2016 06:07 (eight years ago) link
chill beats vs phat beats
― lute bro (brimstead), Saturday, 23 January 2016 06:08 (eight years ago) link
This Cio d'Or album sounds a lot like a chill-out version of The Delta.
― Siegbran, Saturday, 23 January 2016 09:33 (eight years ago) link
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.
― 0 / 0 (lukas), Wednesday, 27 January 2016 20:41 (eight years ago) link
this is really good: http://www.npr.org/2016/01/20/463189435/first-listen-daniel-wohl-holographic
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Thursday, 28 January 2016 22:17 (eight years ago) link
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 nowhttps://danielwohl.bandcamp.com/album/holographic(which I plan to do next)
― moans and feedback (Dinsdale), Thursday, 4 February 2016 22:07 (eight years ago) link
Jebanasam's Rites was do damn good. Can't wait to hear the new one.
― Poacher (Chinaski), Friday, 5 February 2016 10:10 (eight years ago) link
leaving this here to remind myself to buy it later http://helaudio.bandcamp.com/album/last
(Θ – Last)
― crüt, Friday, 19 February 2016 15:21 (eight years ago) link
new IG88 album is gorgeous: https://ig88.bandcamp.com/album/hiding-in-my-hands
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Monday, 29 February 2016 20:27 (eight years ago) link
Shall i put this over here, underneath the awning
https://soundcloud.com/my-own-jupiter/melina-serser-manu-jelen-moj-mixes-5
― saer, Monday, 29 February 2016 22:08 (eight years ago) link
ah, this is well good, makes being locked in the cellar not so bad after all
― saer, Monday, 29 February 2016 22:28 (eight years ago) link
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.
― 0 / 0 (lukas), Wednesday, 9 March 2016 18:13 (eight years ago) link
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
― François Pitchforkian (NickB), Wednesday, 9 March 2016 18:32 (eight years ago) link
Jordan, thanks for the ig88 link, have been listening to that album a lot over the last week--really nice stuff
― like Uber, but for underpants (James Morrison), Thursday, 10 March 2016 03:01 (eight years ago) link
oh cool! his previous one is really good as well.
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Thursday, 10 March 2016 04:18 (eight years ago) link
This is very nice, thanks.
― moans and feedback (Dinsdale), Thursday, 10 March 2016 11:06 (eight years ago) link
The Withdrawing Room is a gorgeous album. Yet to be convinced by the new one, but there's plenty of time.
― Poacher (Chinaski), Thursday, 10 March 2016 22:18 (eight years ago) link
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
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Thursday, 10 March 2016 23:06 (eight years ago) link
'well-known ambient musician' named adam (no last name given) accused of domestic assault. guessing we'll hear more... :(
― global tetrahedron, Tuesday, 15 March 2016 20:56 (eight years ago) link
https://twitter.com/LEAVINGRECORDS/status/710140831450025984
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Wednesday, 16 March 2016 16:37 (eight years ago) link
yup
― There was a hole bunch of problems whit his campaigns (crüt), Wednesday, 16 March 2016 16:39 (eight years ago) link
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.
― grandavis, Wednesday, 16 March 2016 18:01 (eight years ago) link
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.
― the article don, Thursday, 17 March 2016 21:22 (eight years ago) link
this has been my soothing ambient go-to while washing the dishes lately:https://apothecarycompositions.bandcamp.com/album/choir-and-room
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Thursday, 17 March 2016 21:32 (eight years ago) link
That IS nice
― like Uber, but for underpants (James Morrison), Friday, 18 March 2016 05:20 (eight years ago) link
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/-
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Friday, 18 March 2016 16:05 (eight years ago) link
https://youtu.be/ChUBT6n4o2g
Marc Baron (live in Sydney 2014, extrait)
he put out a really good noise record called "Hidden Tapes" a couple years ago
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Monday, 21 March 2016 05:02 (eight years ago) link
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.
― The bald Phil Collins impersonator cash grab (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Sunday, 15 May 2016 17:27 (eight years ago) link
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
― The bald Phil Collins impersonator cash grab (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Sunday, 15 May 2016 18:07 (eight years ago) link
Listening to some of Mogard's remixes, too: beautiful. Must get Works!
― 🐸a hairy howling toad torments a man whose wife is deathly ill (James Morrison), Wednesday, 15 June 2016 01:16 (seven years ago) link
The new Huerco S. belongs on here
― Immediate Follower (NA), Wednesday, 15 June 2016 01:37 (seven years ago) link
Man, I am really looking forward to hearing that.
― brimstead, Wednesday, 15 June 2016 02:42 (seven years ago) link
Big fan of all his stuff
― brimstead, Wednesday, 15 June 2016 02:43 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-kJphyQQNQ
― brimstead, Wednesday, 15 June 2016 02:45 (seven years ago) link
I can't remember if I first heard about this here or somewhere else (and am too lazy to search) but the Western Skies Motel album is gorgeous. The dude is Danish but this sounds like backporch Americana.
https://westernskiesmotel.bandcamp.com/album/settlers
― Sunn O))) Brother Where Art Thou? (Chinaski), Thursday, 16 June 2016 11:13 (seven years ago) link
Yup, new Huerco S is great
― brimstead, Monday, 4 July 2016 23:11 (seven years ago) link