Your nominations for the ILX AMBIENT ALBUMS POLL (nominations close on Friday, May 31st)

I nominated Dragging a Dead Deer... if general consensus is to remove I’m more than happy to see that go. I love it but I also want this to stay true to theme. Same with Monoliths and Dimensions, I think a good deal of it is ambient but certainly not all of it.

I also back that AGW shouldn’t be on.

Also, Periphery by The Seven Fields of Aphelion is on the doc twice.

Two more:

Hecq - Night Falls
Miguel Ángel Tolosa - Ephimeral

17/30

OK fine can I withdraw my BoC and AGW nominations?

Arthur Russell's instrumentals probably shouldn't be on there either tbh tbf

Here are a few ambient vapor classics (2015 or prior) that should be up for consideration:

식료품groceries - 슈퍼마켓Yes! We're Open
Mindspring Memories - @_@
猫 シ Corp. - Palm Mall
仮想夢プラザ - 仮想夢プラザ (Telepath - virtual dream plaza)

Ok, as per your requests, I've removed Dragging a Dead Deer, Monoliths & Dimensions, Another Green World, and the Boards of Canada albums from the nominations. The nom list should now be up to date. Gman59 and Paolo, I'm sure you can count how many noms you still have left after these changes.

You can pull When - The Black Death too, my mistake.

Pontiac Streator and Ulla Strauss - Chat

Paolo, this appears to be an EP that's less than 30 minutes long, so it doesn't meet the poll criteria. You get one extra nomination.

You can pull When - The Black Death too, my mistake.

Okay, done.

I was listening to one of my own nominations, Debit - Animus, and I realised it's too intense to really count as ambient. So I'm gonna replace it with:

Natasha Barrett - Trade Winds

I remember browsing at record stores in the ambient section in the late nineties and even then you'd immediately be like "half of this isn't even ambient" and eventually the Internet allowed us to argue about which half

haha so true

good edits/retractions, everyone!

Looking forward to having a choice of 5 albums to vote for

And all of them are Eno.

Hopefully somebody can go thru the list with a fine-toothed comb and take out anything that might have beats, vocals, melodic progressions, do it properly.

Let's just restrict the poll to side one of Discreet Music and have done with it.

Pfft it's gonna take me years just to skim the multitude of nominations I'm unfamiliar with

Ok, so we’ll delay the poll for years while sleeve completes this important work

Let's do the poll as most ambient to least ambient

influenced by my reading of david toop this week, but is there a consensus 'extremely ambient gamelan' recording?

the one with the white dude playing gamalan on piano

BoC have too many boring beats to be ambient.

― Ned Caligari (Tom D.)

latter-era Sonic Youth has too many boring beats but you don't hear people complaining about the dull-as-dirt drumming on Murray St. fucking whingers

trip hop

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hHW1oY26kxQ

kevin drumm - second
ann annie - wander into
philip jeck - vinyl coda IV
dedalus•antoine beuger•jürg frey s/t

13/30

I dig how the ambient police operate

would you prefer that the beats call attention to themselves, so as to spoil 'the vibe' ?

Spoliling the vibe is exactly what they do!

I don’t see how Gas - Pop doesn’t win this poll.

Pop isn't even the highest rated Gas album in here, is it? I thought the consensus is that Königsforst is the best. (And I agree.)

Pop is also the least ambient Gas afaict

man i'd forgotten how beat-heavy 76:14 is

Fennesz/Sakamoto - Cendre

7/30

>'extremely ambient gamelan' recording?

the best recordings usually heat up by the end, more trance than ambient, but this is a good one that stays low-key. entire blog recommended, nothing random gets posted here.

https://music-republic-world-traditional.blogspot.com/2018/10/indonesia-indonesie-gamelan-kjahi-kaduk.html

There's 6 days left of nominating, and since it doesn't look like the list is overwhelmingly long, I'm gonna give everyone 10 extra noms. So you can nominate up to 40 records. Have fun!

that Antrilon album I nominated is a deep cut btw. I only heard it because it got sent to my college radio station. I love it though, very sci-fi sounding. first track reminds me of Otto Luening

Spoliling the vibe is exactly what they do!

Narkopop is an ambient Gas album

thanking you milton!

Here's my 10 extra nominations:

Alio Die & Mariolina Zitta - La sala dei cristalli
Deborah Martin - Eye of the Wizard
DeepChord presents Echospace - Liumin / Liumin Reduced
Geinoh Yamashirogumi - Ecophony Rinne
Hildur Guðnadóttir - Saman
Lucette Bourdin - Radiant Stars
Lucia Hwong - Goddess Vol. 2: Celestial Realms
Move D / Namlook - XII: Space & Time
Tetsu Inoue / Jonah Sharp - Instant Replay
Ulla Straus - Big Room

(40/40)

Cool thanks, gonna submit more by Tuesday

I need to spend some more time with Tetsu Inoue

Alto Stratus – Region 5

19/40

Jean-Jacques Perrey - Prelude to Sleep (1957) (busy by modern definitions but begs inclusion due to prescient intent)
Gamelan Kjahi Kaduk, Manis Rengga – Gamelan Music from Java (1963)
Eberhard Schoener - Meditation (1973)
Klaus Wiese - Touch of Silence
Roland Kayn - Ultra Redundancy TR Megaphonie
Roger S. Payne - Songs of the Humpback Whale
Gordon Hempton - Dawn Chorus
Erik Satie (Alan Marks, piano) - Vexations
Daniel Lanois / Rocco Deluca - Goodbye to Language
Harry Bertoia - Sonambient F/W 1031 - Ocean Mysteries / Softly Played

Hey instead of arguing about BOC, what about Luck Ferrari? Ambient, sure, but music??

So many FPs on this thread

xxp good call re: Vexations.

>'extremely ambient gamelan' recording?

the best recordings usually heat up by the end, more trance than ambient, but this is a good one that stays low-key. entire blog recommended, nothing random gets posted here.

https://music-republic-world-traditional.blogspot.com/2018/10/indonesia-indonesie-gamelan-kjahi-kaduk.html

― Milton Parker, Saturday, May 25, 2019 5:40 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

god DAMN this is excellent. thanking you again.

en - already gone
14/40

Circle - Miljard
Aix Em Klemm - Aix Em Klemm
Philip Jeck - An Ark for the Listener
Rothko - No Chart No Anchor No Rudder No Sails
Oren Ambarchi - Grapes from the Estate
Taylor Deupree - Northern

(36/40)

sorry, but I'd like to retract my nomination of Huerco S.'s Colonial Patterns. I was at 15 earlier, so one retraction and six additions brings my tally up to 20:

Tholen - Sternklang
Stuart Dempster ‎– Underground Overlays From The Cistern Chapel
Piano Magic ‎– A Trick Of The Sea
Sleep Research Facility - Nostromo
Legiac - The Voynich Manuscript
Lull - Cold Summer

(20/40)

If you're going to have DJ Olive's Sleep and Buoy you ought to have:

DJ Olive - Triage