can a noise dude recommend some AMBIENT

i cant hate on any hecker album. they are all huge glacial slabs of beautiful digital ambience.

harmony in ultraviolet is a good place to start, the new one i'm just getting into

http://camarilhadosquatro.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/expo-70-black-ohms.jpeg

what's that?

expo '70

http://www.exposeventy.com/

Dudes are from Kansas City!

love that cover

can't find a blog link but its worth hunting down for headphone chillin

thanks

cough

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loving expo 70

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thanks

kites - sky hammer

does everyone have this album? it makes my stoner 100 list easily. loooooooooooooooove it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oISucGq5dsk

YES SCOTT I LOVE HER

yes that is a sweet sweet album

not really ambient though? pastoral folky vocal ambient?

yeah, more field recording/pastoral/minimal than ambient, but the drift from song to song is so subtle and slow...i can see that dude from the orb being a fan. i don't even know why i thought of the dude from the orb. i guess virginia fits in more with durutti column and penguin cafe orchestra kinda stuff. which kinda connects with glass and eno too.

i've really been digging the noto/sakamoto collaboration stuff lately. so beautiful. best youtube description ever is "cyber-satie". their new thing on raster noton is just mind-boggling.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7az9jgc5wz8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evllPOj0wTo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjMvQHgAgjg

again, more minimal than ambient, maybe? but i can't get enough of their stuff and i have to share.

okay, it is minimalism, but i hope you all will indulge me.

that berlin thing KILLS me.

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http://waxidermy.com/images/ancient_leaves.JPG

not a stearns fan, in general, but this is very pleasant.

http://blackstag.podbean.com/2007/12/27/music-for-the-dead-days/

*sigh*

kevin drumm - imperial horizon
and i second william basinski - 92982

can anyone recommend some good digital ambient? i mean specifically stuff made on 80s/early-90s digital synths. i've got the shutov assembly, some steve roach, and there's that laurie spiegel album unseen worlds i need to get. some of the rapoon i've heard sounds like it could've been made on a wavestation or something. what else?

not sure if they correspond to your synth wishlist, but I've been digging these lately:

Mirror - Still Valley
Omit - Tracer

i haven't heard this one yet, just bought it. i remember it being pretty weird. michael william gilbert 'in the dreamtime' 82
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darren kearns 'optimal being' 83
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off topic, but was totally jamming to Robert Ashley's Perfect Lives last night and really catching the ambient groove and textures on that one. Reminded me very much of Manuel Gottsching's Dream and Desire (which i ~prefer~ to E2-E4, thx4 da challops) with some tabla and some sprinkly winter piano.

actually rio, if you're into late 70s/early 80s synth washes, the 2 records above should fit that mold nicely.

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this shit makes me feel like an 11th century benedictine monk

moments was my favourite album for years <3

these dudes do it right: http://www.myspace.com/duetforthereminandlapsteel

been listening to this all morning. so good.
http://justanothergarden.blogspot.com/2008/09/edge-with-michael-brook-captive-ost.html

cold summer > moments, iirc

cool, that's next on my list.

i like how moments has 99 tracks

np fripp & eno - morning star. is "an index of metals" the darkest eno?

eno - music for civic recovery centre

http://chacinski.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/bakerhecker_fantasma1.jpg

http://www.discogs.com/Robert-Henke-Piercing-Music/master/84721

this is so good

i will listen only to dark ambient for the month of januarys

i'm really digging:

Andrew Deutsch: Loop Over Land
Iasos: Inter-Dimensional Music

"Loops Over Land consists of about 50 min. of loops produced using an analog reel-to-reel tape deck and an analog tape delay system (provided by Neil Rolnick). The loops were constructed using random 'scissors clips' of Mahler's 5th Symphony and thus reflect the pastoral feel of his original composition. Some of what sound like drum beats in the loops are actually sloppy splices bathed in reverb. Production of the loops happened over the course of 2 days while I was confined to my apartment dodging an enormous snow storm. During these days of looping and confinement, I listened as deeply as possible to the sounds and envisioned large circular loops of light slowly turning over the landscape. The landscapes themselves were of lush green fields and hills dripping in recent rain while the loops shimmered gold each holding their own shape. Loops Over Land continues what I have been calling since 1987 'image drones.' Image drones are drones that are meant to evoke a very specific image for the listener. I also consider these recordings to reflect my interest in 'romantic structuralism,' a term coined by filmmaker Ken Jacobs. It seems illogical to bring the theories of structuralism and romanticism together (this was the seed of the split between Boulez and Stockhausen). However, the power of the 'structuralist activity' (see Barthes) lies in the possibility of revealing hidden functions and existing structures. The function of tonal materials in the works of Mahler were intended to induce emotive states in the listener. What I have done is isolated 'tonal moments' and made manifest their explicit function. The loops of Loops Over Land are loops of emotion embodied in the traditional form of minimalist composition. Will the loops always evoke the same feeling in every listener? I believe they will come close, at least to the Western ear." --Andrew Deutsch

http://iasos.com/detalist/idm/

This is the album that began the genre of "New Age" Music, in 1975, along with Steven Halpern's "Spectrum Suite".

This can be thought of as a sonic journey through a great many realms - from etheric tropical to inter-planetary - great for "consciousness-travelling" via sound.

This album marks the very beginning of Iasos' recording career. It is a cd version of the original record album, as well asthe bonus track: "Angel Play".

Designed for focused listening - definitely not as "background music".

New Age Journal
"Iasos is a 29 year old musical genius. While other musicians have taken cracks at creating what might be called celestial music, Iasos has perfected the art. 'Inter-Dimensional Music thru Iasos' does point to a previously unheard musical wavelength . . . an excellent vehicle for travelling toward higher planes of consciousness. In this newly developing form of Space Age/New Age music, 'Inter-Dimensional Music thru Iasos' has set the standard to which others must aspire or from which they may depart."
(Peter Simon, 1975)

New Age Retailer magazine:
"When I put on his Wave 1: Inter-Dimensional Music, I thought I'd heard nectar from heaven."
(Carol Wright, July 2001)

Iasos is great stuff.

add to that:

arica (all)
michael sterns ancient leaves + planetary unfloding
craig kupka
j.d. emmanuel wizards
swami kriya ramananda - song of the golden lotus
malcolm cecil radiance

w/o noizz brd I would not know stars o the lid so thx dudes

IASOS is ill, thirded on that one