Today I listened to nuijiumu's 'Era of sad wings': this is a group made up of japanese musiciams who normally play psych music (I got this as part of a CDR deal) and I kept thinking of that aphex twin record. It isn't the same in terms of instrumentation but in the way its used: in the drones and the really 'charged' atmosphere and Keiji haino's vocals (that something in the air was actually, somehow, translated to record). The feelings it bought were similar.
I didn't get the aphex twin record out tho' and haven't heard it in ages but I just wanted to get this out of my system.
anyway: creepy ambient music makes ambient more interesting in the same way psychedelic rock does with rock maaan!
recommend now!
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Saturday, 21 June 2003 20:52 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 21 June 2003 20:58 (twenty years ago) link
― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Saturday, 21 June 2003 21:30 (twenty years ago) link
― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Saturday, 21 June 2003 21:36 (twenty years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Saturday, 21 June 2003 21:37 (twenty years ago) link
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― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 21 June 2003 21:55 (twenty years ago) link
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― Mike Taylor (mjt), Saturday, 21 June 2003 22:26 (twenty years ago) link
Also, I think the first two Kluster (with a K) albums kind of qualify; pretty active music, use of some rock instrumentation, but played late at night they can have you checking underneath the bed.
― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Saturday, 21 June 2003 22:27 (twenty years ago) link
― EC, Saturday, 21 June 2003 23:07 (twenty years ago) link
― Johnny Badlees (crispssssss), Saturday, 21 June 2003 23:53 (twenty years ago) link
I wish I could tell you...I only had a bunch of MP3s that I discarded 'cause I couldn't sleep to them.
The sleepbot enviornmental broadcast is extraordinarily useful, no matter what your taste in ambience is.
― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Saturday, 21 June 2003 23:58 (twenty years ago) link
― Sommermute (Wintermute), Sunday, 22 June 2003 00:03 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 22 June 2003 00:18 (twenty years ago) link
― Mike Taylor (mjt), Sunday, 22 June 2003 01:00 (twenty years ago) link
the martian rock snakes scene (how many of us got our first taste then?)
― Paul (scifisoul), Sunday, 22 June 2003 01:17 (twenty years ago) link
― Josh (Josh), Sunday, 22 June 2003 01:30 (twenty years ago) link
― robin (robin), Sunday, 22 June 2003 01:34 (twenty years ago) link
― Chris Barrus (Chris Barrus), Sunday, 22 June 2003 03:03 (twenty years ago) link
― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Sunday, 22 June 2003 03:09 (twenty years ago) link
― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Sunday, 22 June 2003 04:31 (twenty years ago) link
― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Sunday, 22 June 2003 07:29 (twenty years ago) link
''julio, if you buy me a plane ticket and pay me four dollars I will come over and mutter outside your window''
josh 'wins'.
chris- which zoviet france?
thanks for all the recommendations.
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 22 June 2003 08:25 (twenty years ago) link
― Curt (cgould), Sunday, 22 June 2003 16:18 (twenty years ago) link
― dave q, Sunday, 22 June 2003 16:34 (twenty years ago) link
― bob snoom, Sunday, 22 June 2003 16:38 (twenty years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Sunday, 22 June 2003 16:56 (twenty years ago) link
― Joe (Joe), Sunday, 22 June 2003 16:56 (twenty years ago) link
Zoviet France - get Shouting at the Ground.
Also, Julio, seriously, get some Wolf Eyes.
― hstencil, Sunday, 22 June 2003 17:05 (twenty years ago) link
But other than a few tracks here and there (e.g. "They're eating the passengers"), I wouldn't call them creepy.
― fletrejet, Sunday, 22 June 2003 17:12 (twenty years ago) link
― bob snoom, Sunday, 22 June 2003 18:12 (twenty years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 22 June 2003 18:17 (twenty years ago) link
― robin (robin), Sunday, 22 June 2003 19:28 (twenty years ago) link
I do not know what that says about me... ;)
― Mike Taylor (mjt), Sunday, 22 June 2003 21:25 (twenty years ago) link
― Millar (Millar), Sunday, 22 June 2003 23:03 (twenty years ago) link
you said that just to make me respond, didn't you colin? is any available still?
― gaz (gaz), Sunday, 22 June 2003 23:11 (twenty years ago) link
It says many worthy things!
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 22 June 2003 23:16 (twenty years ago) link
― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Sunday, 22 June 2003 23:50 (twenty years ago) link
― gaz (gaz), Sunday, 22 June 2003 23:59 (twenty years ago) link
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― sherm, Friday, 25 June 2004 05:47 (nineteen years ago) link
sweet dreams
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― GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 06:18 (seventeen years ago) link
eric michael place's list does not contain NECROPOLIS, whose re-issued 'NECROSPHERE' i have just bought. terrifying stuff. i don't think it's been mentioned on ILX before. some dude from Irkutsk playing drones over field recordings from disused missile shafts.
― Just got offed, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 18:54 (sixteen years ago) link
Nothing, Cordell Klier, Veil of Secrecy, Veiled Illusions, Tribes of Neurot, Toy Bizarre, Bad Sector, Northaunt, Tidal, Bardoseneticcube, Kammarheit, Caul, Bestia Centauri, Heath Yonaites, Amongst Myselves, Amon, Never Known, No Festival of Light, Where, Voice Transmissions With The Deceased, Asmorod, Seth Nehil, Chris Hutton, Negative Thought, Atom Infant Incubator, Ex.Order, Aeolian String
― am0n, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 19:00 (sixteen years ago) link
actually it really has to be said: that list is probably the most crushingly unfathomable I've ever seen on ILM
― Just got offed, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 19:09 (sixteen years ago) link
Maybe ten or twenty of us can divvy up that list and do research?
I want to add the Super Metroid OST Soundtrack. Lots of great 16-bit creepy ambiance there.
I want to hear that Lull record...
― Nate Carson, Thursday, 20 December 2007 01:36 (sixteen years ago) link
Excellent call on Super Metroid, that's some awesome shit! Someone should put that out.
― myopic_void, Thursday, 20 December 2007 16:06 (sixteen years ago) link
And the Eraserhead soundtrack.
And Small Cruel Party!
― Michael Dudikoff presents Action Adventure Theatre, Thursday, 20 December 2007 16:56 (sixteen years ago) link
More good stuff:
. Rapoon (former :Zoviet France: member) . Terra Sancta - "Aeon" (barren industrial soundscapes, from Australia) . Rod Modell's "Waveform Transmission", recorded live and allegedly containing sounds of paranormal origin.
― no-nonsense, Thursday, 20 December 2007 17:07 (sixteen years ago) link
"Excellent call on Super Metroid, that's some awesome shit! Someone should put that out."
I ordered mine from Japan. So I can't read the liner notes.
It includes 5 orchestrally arranged versions of Super Metroid tunes, then the entire game soundtracks from the first two games. Also a short sound fx library.
The mastering on the old NES songs (my favorites) is not so great.
I guess it's way out of print now so I'm glad I sprung for it back when I did.
― Nate Carson, Thursday, 20 December 2007 22:01 (sixteen years ago) link
That massive block of band names from Eric Michael Place brings me to this thread via searches pretty much all the time. Delving into Lustmord and Jeff Grienke lately, The Word As Power and Cities in Fog 1 and 2. Must be the weather (just kidding, it's still like 96 degrees here)
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Sunday, 25 September 2016 05:41 (seven years ago) link
no mention of the caretaker or the stranger (both are james leyland kirby) but he's/they're pretty essential to the genre of *creepy* ambient imo
― davey, Sunday, 25 September 2016 20:28 (seven years ago) link
greinke's cities in fog is stunning; hard to believe it's from the mid 80s.
― clouds, Sunday, 25 September 2016 20:32 (seven years ago) link
https://soundcloud.com/pluver/ingwermix
― Wes Brodicus, Sunday, 25 September 2016 21:16 (seven years ago) link
Creepy ambient >>>>>> emo ambient
― brimstead, Sunday, 25 September 2016 22:14 (seven years ago) link
Nice timing. GAS BOX, 10 LP retrospective from Kompakt, will be released next month. :)
― Allen (etaeoe), Sunday, 25 September 2016 22:17 (seven years ago) link
http://loveallday.com/metal-ambient-vol-1-eternal-infernal/
― tylerw, Sunday, 25 September 2016 22:28 (seven years ago) link
hyped for that gas box, holy shit
― clouds, Monday, 26 September 2016 00:42 (seven years ago) link
i feel like i post this everywhere, but no kevin drumm mentioned itt?
imperial distortion, imperial horizon, tannenbaum
i'll have to look for i mean slsk cities in fog
― savvinesslessness (map), Monday, 26 September 2016 00:51 (seven years ago) link
you'll dig it, it's up yr alley
v murky and churning and gauzy
― clouds, Monday, 26 September 2016 01:44 (seven years ago) link
woah, love it.
― savvinesslessness (map), Monday, 26 September 2016 02:34 (seven years ago) link
tangerine dream 4 lurking clowns
― savvinesslessness (map), Monday, 26 September 2016 02:36 (seven years ago) link
haha, post apocalyptic mutant clowns maybe
― clouds, Monday, 26 September 2016 16:04 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6fRK_g8Phs#t=15m
Released in 1981, recorded in 1978 (incredibly)
― 3×5, Monday, 26 September 2016 18:27 (seven years ago) link
It starts getting ambient at about 9:15.
― 3×5, Monday, 26 September 2016 18:28 (seven years ago) link
Robert Ashley "Automatic Writing"― sherm, Thursday, June 24, 2004 11:57 PM (twelve years ago)
Is this the earliest example?
― sarahell, Monday, 26 September 2016 19:10 (seven years ago) link
creepiest music for me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1V4VN6pp5I
― dan selzer, Monday, 26 September 2016 19:14 (seven years ago) link
Some of the creepiest stuff I've heard is Tertium Non Data's first album, 'The Third is Not Given.' A couple of others (Dark Ambient and some not so):[...]
― Eric Michael Place, Friday, June 25, 2004 12:45 AM (fourteen years ago)
man idk, I listened to that Tertium Non Data album and it sounds like one of those video game soundtracks that gamers hype up as "sOmE oF tHe GrEaTeSt AmBiEnT oF aLl TiMe", but when you actually listen to it turns out to be a bunch of cheap dungeon synth jump scares, so you shrug and write it off as a "you had to be there" thing. ilx user ☆ seems to feel the same way, so I feel vindicated. Apophasis by Caul (ex TND member) was also underwhelming. I guess I should spend the next 20-30 years digging deeper into Eric's list?
two recent-ish dark ambient albums that deliver on their promise are Isobel Ccircle's The House in Harbour Park and Thomas P. Heckmann's Ghosts
― the yolk sustains us, we eat whites for days (unregistered), Tuesday, 10 July 2018 17:17 (five years ago) link
Things were different in 2004. Hell was further away.
― com rad erry red flag (f. hazel), Tuesday, 10 July 2018 19:01 (five years ago) link