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
https://www.discogs.com/style/harsh+noise+wall
― brimstead, Saturday, 1 June 2019 01:34 (five years ago) link
https://harshnoisewally.tumblr.com/
― Sassy Boutonnière (ledriver), Saturday, 1 June 2019 02:35 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UerLIFo4d6k
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Saturday, 1 June 2019 02:45 (five years ago) link
One more nom Broken Hearted Dragonflies: Insect Electronica From Southeast Asia
― Bitch, I Might Be Giants (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 1 June 2019 02:48 (five years ago) link
Also don’t forget FM3 - The Buddha Machine
― Bitch, I Might Be Giants (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 1 June 2019 03:06 (five years ago) link
The Buddha Machine is not a record, so it's not eligible, sorry. If you want, you can nominate some of FM3's actual albums. Also, someone has already nominated Robert Henke's Layering Buddha, which is an album made by sampling the Buddha Machine, so you can always vote for that.
― Tuomas, Saturday, 1 June 2019 06:59 (five years ago) link
It doesn't look like I have the time to go through the nominations today, so I'm gonna give you 24 hours more time. The nomination process ends this time tomorrow.
― Tuomas, Saturday, 1 June 2019 07:01 (five years ago) link
Boris - FloodJulia Kent - TemporalJulia Kent - Character
― In a station of the metro / My milkshake brings all the boys to the yard (Leee), Saturday, 1 June 2019 07:52 (five years ago) link
I have that album (62 Minutes on Mars), and while it's not among my favourite FAX releases, it's indubitably ambient. So feel free to nominate it, if you wanna.
― Tuomas, Saturday, 1 June 2019 11:19 (five years ago) link
many xposts to Viborg, I really think that Richard Skelton's work (Landings in particular, as well as his work as A Broken Consort) is probably my highest-rated of the past decade after SotL. it's definitely more influence by Arvo Part and a sort of academic minimalism, but it has an emotional depth in its slight variations that make it really worth for me.
Here's one from Landings:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NTvcfkPq4Y
― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Saturday, 1 June 2019 15:52 (five years ago) link
and here is how his latest is described:
Music for the retreating ice-sheets of Iceland, produced whilst on a 'Frontiers in Retreat' residency in Seyðisfjörður in 2016. www.frontiersinretreat.org/artists/richard_skelton Front Variations is composed from sine waves subjected to increasing amounts of feedback in order to simulate the so-called 'ice-albedo' feedback mechanism. This is the process whereby the action of melting glaciers reduces the global surface area of ice, thereby reducing the amount of solar radiation that glaciers reflect, which in turn increases global temperatures and causes further glacial melting. Ring modulation and distortion were also used to further deteriorate the sound signal. Front Variations is also available as part of Quoin 4 - the annual publication for friends and patrons of Corbel Stone Press. Quoin 4 features data collected by the World Glacier Monitoring Service and aerial photography of arctic glaciers from the US Naval Oceanographic Office.
www.frontiersinretreat.org/artists/richard_skelton
Front Variations is composed from sine waves subjected to increasing amounts of feedback in order to simulate the so-called 'ice-albedo' feedback mechanism.
This is the process whereby the action of melting glaciers reduces the global surface area of ice, thereby reducing the amount of solar radiation that glaciers reflect, which in turn increases global temperatures and causes further glacial melting.
Ring modulation and distortion were also used to further deteriorate the sound signal.
Front Variations is also available as part of Quoin 4 - the annual publication for friends and patrons of Corbel Stone Press. Quoin 4 features data collected by the World Glacier Monitoring Service and aerial photography of arctic glaciers from the US Naval Oceanographic Office.
https://aeolian.bandcamp.com/album/front-variations-one-two
― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Saturday, 1 June 2019 15:54 (five years ago) link