Ambient Recommendations

a cop out only in that it's easier than making some positive. but come on tom, you gotta agree dance tends to get good when it goes a little dark. not all the time, but...

I do think certainly in the field of 'ambience' you find 'darkness' getting a little overdone - this is surely down to the subconscious need to differentiate it from new age heh.

Maybe. The thing that always struck me in regards Eno's On Land is how dark it sounds, whereas I was expecting something more light/happy since these were supposed to be memories of childhood places. It probably is, as Jess says, harder to make something positive (just can come up with some of these Boards of Canada minatures like 'Olson' as an example, arguably some tracks on SAW 85- 92).

Maybe "Bola- Soup"?

David Toop's Screen Ceremonies is good for when you want to feel like you're watching a sadistic ritual involving monkeys in the rainforest.

Also like Lamonte Young's Well-Tuned Piano and Morton Feldman's For Samuel Beckett lately, they're kind of ambient...

Miles Davis, He Loved Him Madly.

I always thought Systemische was Oval's best album. 94 Diskont is almost all one track, and it's kind of boring after a while.

Just the very words Chill Out bring on flashbacks...

I will get that album Tracer - sold!

old Biosphere stuff Solar Quest: The Orgship the Freezone compilations on SSR lots of artist on extreme records like Lights in a fat city, Vidna Obmana, Paul Schütze Autechre: amber

going back into time indeed...

golden claw music.

the ambient-techno-dub spin off by bloke from PWEI.

dug this out today as a random choice and loved every minute, all of which just made me seriously wish i was part of this weekends crusty-techno-dub weekend @ glade (orb/system 7/dreadzone/the grid etc etc)

this is my favorite ambient music of the year so far - and you made it (sorta):

http://www.inbflat.net/

playing around w/ that filled me w/ hope & happiness

That's really cool ZS. Thanks for the link

at the end of the most recent Ultima Thule podcast they played a lot of Trans Aurora, the new one by James Gordon Anderson, whose stuff I don't otherwise know but Trans Aurora sounds pretty amazing to me - almost like an inverted Steve Roach in that the notes shift relatively rapidly but occur in a similarly beatless landscape, and retain their textures but aren't as bassy...very weird stuff to my ears, really good I think

lovin this Caretaker album. haven't fallen for an ambient record so quickly in ages

that Caretaker album is my album of the year flat-out at this point. also notable for having a solidly interesting concept; at first the startling jumps from track to track kinda threw me, but the more I think about it the more I figure that's what remembering stuff when you've got Alzheimer's actually feels like.

i really like the two new stephan mathieu records this year, 'a static place' on 12k and 'remain' on the line label/imprint.

http://12k.com/

http://www.lineimprint.com/editions/cd/line_047/

they could just as well go on the rolling drone thread, wherever it is.

it looks like there are lot of other good ambientish and ambient-related things on 12k, some moving over more into modern-composition/new-music territory.

this michael ranta, mike lewis, & conny plank record, Mu, is blowing my mind lately.

check it out here: http://holywarbles.blogspot.com/2011/05/michael-ranta-mike-lewis-conny-plank-mu.html

Of the things I've heard on 12k, I think my favourites were Lawrence English's A Colour for Autumn and Giuseppe Ielasi's August. The Marcus Fischer one had lots of good write-ups last year, I need to go and listen to that again. All these are on Spotify btw if anyone's ineterested.

how about kenneth kirschner?

Not someone I know, but heaps of mp3's on his website:

http://www.kennethkirschner.com/

stillstream.com

internet radio station that is just unbelievably good

i came here to bluster that stillstream is no sleepbot, but it sort of is. +1

Alio Die - Suspended Feathers: Is this good?

I just bought it, and it is!

"Seriously, you should try Ulrich Schnauss Far Away Trains Passing By"

werd. is that 9 years old already?

also:

http://www.amazon.com/Heart-Forest-Baka-Beyond/dp/B00000062C/ref=pd_sim_m_11

as sampled in:

http://www.amazon.com/Paths-1-7-Future-Sound-London/dp/B000003RVU/ref=sr_1_6?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1321542759&sr=1-6

Ambient songs I've discovered recently that I'm pretty into:

• Michael Hoenig - Voices of Where
• Eno/Fripp - Wind on Water
• Throbbing Gristle - E.Coli

• From the 70s
• Clocks in under, or around, 10 minutes, tops
• Stands the test of time. This doesn't mean it has to sound contemporary, but that it doesn't just sound like stock film score by today's standards, or 'New Age' in the most pejorative sense.

But yeah, recommendations would be appreciated.

i'm recording an ambient album at the moment! i suppose it would be bad for to post my own work though. i'm taking most of my inspiration from eno, + a smattering of recent chillectronic indie stuff like toro y moi, bon iver (ok not electronic or strictly ambient, but close enough for inspiration) and adding that aesthetic to the stuff my indonesian bandmates normally do. so, looking for recommendations same as 3x5.

my 3rd and 4th cents: Blade Runner Esper Edition OST

i don't think eno sounds new age-y very often though. at least not the classics like on land, ending (an ascent) etc. did you *really* not like, say, music for airports? perhaps playing in the background in another room as you do something else? i've yet to hear cheesy new age stuff that sounds at all similar to music for airports

*bad form

Surprised Biosphere's substrata did not get mentioned as a "field recordings mixed with music" example. Also Cirque.
Tetsu Inoue's World Receiver is a great call. I love these kinds of albums, they do funny things to my brain.

I'd definitely follow the thread but not entirely sure what 'upbeat ambient' is!

Deepchord?

Sofie Birch

my pal Ceremonial Abyss put out a new one that's pretty lovely, to my ears.

https://ceremonialabyss.bandcamp.com/album/betrayal

I'd definitely follow the thread but not entirely sure what 'upbeat ambient' is!

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you know, what got me thinking about it is putting on xtal by aphex twin. and sort of a go hawaii vibe by casino versus japan. that's sort of where my mind goes in this venture. maybe I'll do it, it would be seriously useful for me.

though I think daytime is a better descriptor than upbeat, I just don't want to feel like I'm swimming in dark underwaters when I'm working, although I pretty much would like to feel like that at all other times

The Detroit Variant group (cv313, Intrusion) just put out a bunch of lovely long form pieces. Kind of expensive ($18 each) but each one is 2 hours plus of some great clouds of sound.

https://variantsonics.bandcamp.com/album/analogue-oceans-w-digital-exclusive-limited-edition-set-variant-conduction
https://variantsonics.bandcamp.com/album/suspended-in-a-moment-someplace-else-w-variant-refocus
https://variantsonics.bandcamp.com/album/depths-of-perception-submerging-waves-variant-submersion
https://variantsonics.bandcamp.com/album/subtraktive-reprise-w-variant-etherscapes

inoue’s ambiant otaku is so goddamned good

am I the only one that gets into Iasos? I guess he's pretty (very? lol) new agey but I'm obsessed

inter-dimensional music is an all time classic

yessssss so glad i didn't just out myself haha <3

https://lakemary.bandcamp.com/album/its-okay-you-can-open-your-eyes-now

this was posted on the fahey thread, wonderful steel guitar work

:) lake mary is so good

this is one of those random records that blows up due to the youtube algorithm. pretty good i thought

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZacsXFFbWk
Witan - Alchemy

Really excited about this one:

https://htoo.bandcamp.com/album/cycle

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a1283938153_10.jpg

Ooh! Great cover art, and that sample song is awesome. I'm excited now too.