Francisco Lopez - La Selva
19/40
― Emperor Tonetta Ketchup (sleeve), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 18:11 (five years ago) link
There is no case to be made for E2-E4 to be considered Ambient.
― brotherlovesdub, Wednesday, 29 May 2019 18:23 (five years ago) link
I'm considering edge-case albums like Sleeps with the Fishes by Michael Brook/Pieter Nooten or Lanterna's s/t debut, both of which have vocals and a few songs with guitar lines/drums but are def. ambient.
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 18:25 (five years ago) link
Steve Roden - Crop Circles
20/40
― Emperor Tonetta Ketchup (sleeve), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 18:41 (five years ago) link
Please remove:
Schiller - Atemlos(way too many beats and vocals)
and add:
Troum - Eald-ge-stréon
38/40
― Siegbran, Wednesday, 29 May 2019 18:44 (five years ago) link
SPK - Zamia Lehmanni: Songs of Byzantine FlowersVoice Of Eye - Transmigration
― Siegbran, Wednesday, 29 May 2019 18:58 (five years ago) link
thank you, Tuomas, for deleting my nom.
do people really believe that Endless Summer (Fennesz) is ambient?
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Thursday, 30 May 2019 01:30 (five years ago) link
I do not, personally, although it's closer than any of his other ones except maybe Live In Japan
― Ambient Police (sleeve), Thursday, 30 May 2019 01:58 (five years ago) link
surprised nobody's nominated Xerrox Vol. 2 by Alva Noto
Alva Noto - Xerrox vol. 2Jakob Ullmann – Fremde Zeit - AddendumDirk Serries + Rutger Zuydervelt – BuoyantPhil Durrant/Thomas Lehn/Radu Malfatti - dachGraham Lambkin / Jason Lescalleet - Air Supply (fuck it, there are welcome surprises in here)Stephan Mathieu & Janek Schaefer - Hidden Name (if you like Philip Jeck, you might love this album)Bruno Duplant / Taku Sugimoto / Suidobashi Chamber Ensemble – Chamber And Field Works (2015-2017)Ryoko Akama | Bruno Duplant | Dominic Lash – Next To NothingRafael Toral - Violence of Discovery and Calm of AcceptanceMichael Pisaro / Taku Sugimoto - 2 seconds/b minor/waveAntoine Beuger / Michael Pisaro – This Place / Is LoveEva-Maria Houben – Air - Works For Flutes And OrganCristián Alvear* - Jürg Frey – Guitarist, AloneMarcus Schmickler, John Tilbury – TimekeepersStephan Mathieu - Wurmloch VariationenRadu Malfatti – Düsseldorf VielfachesRadu Malfatti / Klaus Filip - imaotoHaptic – Ten Years Under The EarthMichael Pisaro – Fields Have EarsTaku Sugimoto – Quartet / OctetStephen Cornford – Empty ReelsCem Güney – Five CompositionsStephan Mathieu - RadiolandJoseph Clayton Mills - SifrRafael Toral - Wave FieldStephan Mathieu - On TapeKlaus Lang – SAIS.
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― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Thursday, 30 May 2019 03:08 (five years ago) link
I do not, personally, although it's closer than any of his other ones except maybe Live In Japan― Ambient Police (sleeve)
― Ambient Police (sleeve)
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Thursday, 30 May 2019 03:22 (five years ago) link
fuck, i forgot to include Indeed by O'Rourke / Ambarchi ... so serene, even if it starts off a bit rocky. too late
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Thursday, 30 May 2019 03:24 (five years ago) link
Is this ambient?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvG-jqGsWSk
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Thursday, 30 May 2019 03:25 (five years ago) link
Peter Andersson - Music for Film and Exhibition IIMichael Brook and Pieter Nooten - Sleeps with the FishesJeff Greinke - Cities in Fog 2Lanterna - LanternaLustmord - HeresyLustmord - The Word as PowerRobert Rich & Lisa Moskow - YearningDirk Serries - The Origin ReversalStratosphere - DreamscapeStratosphere - AftermathVidna Obmana - The River of AppearanceVidna Obmana - Passage in Beautyv/a - A Brief History of Ambient, Vol. 1v/a - Ambient 2: Imaginary Landscapesv/a - Ambient 3: The Music of Changes
37/40 - hanging on to three in case I remember any others!
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Thursday, 30 May 2019 03:46 (five years ago) link
christophe charles - undirected 1986 - 1996christophe charles - undirected /dokchristophe charles - undirected 1992 - 2002_zoviet*france_ - loh land_zoviet*france_ - just an illusionkeith jarrett - hymns / spheresisolde - all things fall to marching menandrew chalk - the river that flows into the sandsnijiumu - era of sad wingsarve henriksen - sakuteikianna lockwood - glass world of anna lockwood
― massaman gai (front tea for two), Thursday, 30 May 2019 05:33 (five years ago) link
i think i have one left, sodreams (james ferraro) - dreams
― massaman gai (front tea for two), Thursday, 30 May 2019 07:46 (five years ago) link
ooh yes loh land is excellent.
― Siegbran, Thursday, 30 May 2019 11:16 (five years ago) link
so is Just An Illusion! so many good ZF records, gonna get tough when I make my ballot
― Ambient Police (sleeve), Thursday, 30 May 2019 13:54 (five years ago) link
Then nom list should be up to date again. Remember, tomorrow is the last day to nominate!
― Tuomas, Thursday, 30 May 2019 16:23 (five years ago) link
both Venice and Black Sea (maybe Agora, too) are less overtly bristling / burgeoning with energy.. they feel far more dynamic, subtle, and varied, throughout their respective durations
In light of this: Tuomas, can you remove Fennesz - Venice?
― In a station of the metro / My milkshake brings all the boys to the yard (Leee), Thursday, 30 May 2019 16:40 (five years ago) link
I’m gonna just go ahead and nominate Mort Garson’s Plantasia and Philip Corner’s Satie Slowly just to keep the xls thorough Also, I’ll nom Fennesz Venice
― Bitch, I Might Be Giants (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 30 May 2019 17:24 (five years ago) link
Philip Corner’s Satie Slowly
haven't heard this but i would really like to, if the title is accurate.
recently i was whining on a satie thread about how no one follows the instructions on the Trois Gymnopédies to play it as slowly as possible. the slower the better imo
― i will never make a typo ever again (Karl Malone), Thursday, 30 May 2019 17:29 (five years ago) link
recently i was whiningno pun intended
thanks for keeping track of the noms, Tuomas!
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Thursday, 30 May 2019 17:45 (five years ago) link
Also, I’ll nom Fennesz Venice
I don't wanna start a fight here, so if someone retracts their nomination, it can't be renominated by someone else, sorry.
― Tuomas, Thursday, 30 May 2019 17:55 (five years ago) link
Dennis Young - Quest
9/30
― Evan, Thursday, 30 May 2019 19:01 (five years ago) link
― Bitch, I Might Be Giants (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 30 May 2019 19:06 (five years ago) link
have you run one of these polls before? the arguing over the nominations is one of the most excruciating and tedious things imaginable. the correct answer to however the pollrunner wants to handle nominations is "ok, thanks. and thanks for spending an insane amount of your free time on this internet poll for my enjoyment"
― i will never make a typo ever again (Karl Malone), Thursday, 30 May 2019 19:08 (five years ago) link
That’s dumb as shit and ALSO thanks for spending an insane amount of your free time on this internet poll for my enjoyment
― Bitch, I Might Be Giants (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 30 May 2019 19:32 (five years ago) link
Whiney, as you well know, ambient is notoriusly hard to define. IMO it's much better that the "what is ambient?" discussion is happening here, and that it's reflected on the nominations, than if some controversial album makes it to the top 50 and people start arguing then. If multiple people have expressed doubt whether Fennesz belongs to the poll, and the person who nominated the album retracts it, I think you should respect that and not renominate it immediately afterwards. To me that feels like petty contrarianism.
― Tuomas, Friday, 31 May 2019 06:16 (five years ago) link
Anyway, today is the last day to nominate!
― Tuomas, Friday, 31 May 2019 06:20 (five years ago) link
i'd like to retract all everyone's nominations except my own please
― big gym sw0les (crüt), Friday, 31 May 2019 07:03 (five years ago) link
Les Joyaux de la Princesse & Regard Extrême - Die Weiße Rose
40/40
― Siegbran, Friday, 31 May 2019 07:52 (five years ago) link
recently i was whining on a satie thread about how no one follows the instructions on the Trois Gymnopédies to play it as slowly as possible. the slower the better imo― i will never make a typo ever again (Karl Malone)
― i will never make a typo ever again (Karl Malone)
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Friday, 31 May 2019 13:08 (five years ago) link
My nominations:
Strategy - The Infinity File Elodie - Vieux SilenceToumani Diabaté - The Mandé Variations Machinefabriek - MarijnThe Necks - AetherHisato Higuchi - Dialogue
― maarten, Friday, 31 May 2019 16:19 (five years ago) link
good call on "Aether."
― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Friday, 31 May 2019 16:31 (five years ago) link
The Fun Years - God Was Like, NoJohn Luther Adams - Become Ocean
I think I'm done. Thanks to Tuomas for making sense of all this!
― Good cop, Babcock (Chinaski), Friday, 31 May 2019 16:52 (five years ago) link
No prob. I'm going to sleep now, and I'm not gonna sort the final nominations until I get up, so you can still nom stuff until around 8am GMT tomorrow.
― Tuomas, Friday, 31 May 2019 21:26 (five years ago) link
good call on the fun years.. i wanted to cite 'baby, it's cold inside', but it sort of crescendos / plateaus in a celebratory way. there's a stretch midway through the album where it becomes this all-encompassing, shuddering tremolo--it sounds fantastic on the stereo. their music feels like a rough blend of philip jeck-styled sound art and something like CODY-era Mogwai
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Friday, 31 May 2019 22:24 (five years ago) link
*not a "rough" blend, but rather a very successful one
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Friday, 31 May 2019 22:26 (five years ago) link
why is fennesz not ambient?
― flopson, Friday, 31 May 2019 23:09 (five years ago) link
Sorry for the last minute noms, I'm on China time and it crept up on me.
Various - Pop Ambient 2006Various - Excursions In Ambience - The Third DimensionKazumasa Hashimoto - YupiBiosphere & The Higher Intelligence Agency - Birmingham FrequenciesDan HabarNam - From The Known
I really think Talk Talk's chill LP's should be allowed.
― viborg, Friday, 31 May 2019 23:15 (five years ago) link
I had no idea there were so many ambient fans still on ILM. I had no idea there were so many folks still on ILM at all, I thought it was all pretty much just five-ten recalcitrant stragglers. Is ILM actually more active than ever, and if so does that explain why dad rock dominates the site now?
Veering sharply into another realm of me being a nuisance, I really don't get some of the ambient hipsterism on display here. If you're truly averse to calming music, why focus on ambient at all?
I'll show myself out...
― viborg, Friday, 31 May 2019 23:16 (five years ago) link
...And another thing:
Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement - Ambient Black Magic
I really hope folks have given this a listen. Best ambient I've heard from the past ~decade.
― viborg, Friday, 31 May 2019 23:18 (five years ago) link
i don't know about best i've heard in the past decade, but it is pretty good.
xpost
― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Friday, 31 May 2019 23:23 (five years ago) link
I don't listen to that much new ambient to be fair. Checking out your list, I definitely like the Loscil but it is slightly treacly. RSE have a distinctive sound which as a hot take I'd rate higher.
The only other artist I recognize from yours is Sunn O)) but I'm not much of a drone fan if it's harder than SoTL (I do quite like their more droney cuts). Which other one would you rate as the greatest of the decade?
― viborg, Friday, 31 May 2019 23:50 (five years ago) link
Speaking of last minute, how about this Anthony Rother?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EOAqGAuWZk&t=3337s
I'm familiar with the last song which just popped up on my random but I haven't had a chance to check out the full release yet. Hi ho hi ho it's off to work I go...
― viborg, Friday, 31 May 2019 23:58 (five years ago) link
Link is borked?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EOAqGAuWZk
― viborg, Friday, 31 May 2019 23:59 (five years ago) link
I kind of feel that the intersection of drone and ambient is a pretty large overlap, and the sustained washes of Venice become texturally unobtrusive through its saturation, like minimalism through maximalism.
But as to why I denominated it, it's looking like I misread Lowell's post (I must have elided the "less"), haha oops.
Tuomas: please reinstate Fennesz - Venice.
― In a station of the metro / My milkshake brings all the boys to the yard (Leee), Saturday, 1 June 2019 01:11 (five years ago) link
thanks for the extension!
Thom Brennan – MountainsSeconds in Formaldehyde – Suchness 3Star Turbine – The Sleeping LandAndrew Pekler – Tristes Tropiques
26/40
― big gym sw0les (crüt), Saturday, 1 June 2019 01:23 (five years ago) link
sustained washes? are you thinking of another album?
― brimstead, Saturday, 1 June 2019 01:27 (five years ago) link