Rolling ambient/chill out/drone/moodz thread: from 2010s 'til infinity!

(maybe wrong thread but) I've listened to the new Roly Porter 'Third Law' 3 times in a row now. It feels like being on a trip through the dark, deep space.

yeah i don't know whether to post things like that on the 'techno doing it wrong thread' or what

Countersign the Roly Porter rec. My robots at work said I would like it, and I didn't immediately believe them because I didn't recognize the name and it sounds goofy. But they were really right.

Whereas my own personal robots living inside my head were telling me, 'well this is most likely a very beats-oriented thing you won't care about', but they were wrong.

if i can be totally honest here, it's not quite beats-oriented enough for me.

chill beats vs phat beats

This Cio d'Or album sounds a lot like a chill-out version of The Delta.

okay going further back in time ... but just picked up Pelican Daughters - Bliss from another thread and it is *outstanding*. Pay what you want on Bandcamp.

this is really good: http://www.npr.org/2016/01/20/463189435/first-listen-daniel-wohl-holographic

Paul Jebanasam's Continuum on Subtext feels like a companion album to Roly Porter's Third Law. You're still in space except this time something's coming after you.

Full stream:
https://soundcloud.com/subtext-recordings/sets/continuum-paul-jebanasam

The link above for Daniel Wohl's album doesn't work anymore but you can hear the whole thing on bandcamp now
https://danielwohl.bandcamp.com/album/holographic
(which I plan to do next)

Jebanasam's Rites was do damn good. Can't wait to hear the new one.

leaving this here to remind myself to buy it later http://helaudio.bandcamp.com/album/last

(Θ – Last)

new IG88 album is gorgeous: https://ig88.bandcamp.com/album/hiding-in-my-hands

Shall i put this over here, underneath the awning

https://soundcloud.com/my-own-jupiter/melina-serser-manu-jelen-moj-mixes-5

ah, this is well good, makes being locked in the cellar not so bad after all

Byron Westbrook's Precipice from last year is really doing it for me. first track is like fifteen minutes of a melody trying and failing to escape from a vast sound wash.

New mary lattimore album is lovely, just harp and a few subtle electronic touches. Not entirely dissimilar to some of colleen's records or maybe duane pitre, a slowly unwinding contemplative thing

Jordan, thanks for the ig88 link, have been listening to that album a lot over the last week--really nice stuff

oh cool! his previous one is really good as well.

New mary lattimore album is lovely, just harp and a few subtle electronic touches. Not entirely dissimilar to some of colleen's records or maybe duane pitre, a slowly unwinding contemplative thing

This is very nice, thanks.

The Withdrawing Room is a gorgeous album. Yet to be convinced by the new one, but there's plenty of time.

Liking the new album from Ethernet - starts as twinkly synth ambient and morphs into a more minimal techno sound as it goes. https://open.spotify.com/album/3Dcsu8g9DIyVTsUrIjgg37

'well-known ambient musician' named adam (no last name given) accused of domestic assault. guessing we'll hear more... :(

https://twitter.com/LEAVINGRECORDS/status/710140831450025984

yup

fuck that guy

Huh, sorry to hear this if it is true just cause domestic abuse is bullshit and yeah fuck that shit (meaning not sorry it involved this dude, just sorry it happened AT ALL).

Always found this dude strangely aggro in interviews in re other people's work and his place within any given "genre" considering the music he made.

What a great thread. I have pretty much spotified the whole lot. Really liking Heathered Pearls but pick of the bunch for me is IG88.

In terms of recommendations in a similar vein, I'm enjoying Marconi Union.

this has been my soothing ambient go-to while washing the dishes lately:
https://apothecarycompositions.bandcamp.com/album/choir-and-room

That IS nice

Hmm, that was Jordan again. I might just have to lurk outside your windows note down and steal all your music favourites.

ha i appreciate that, as i usually feel like i'm posting tracks on the wrong thread for no one's benefit but my own.

apparently i never posted this record of processed piano pieces here, but i've listened to it a ton: https://beaunoise.bandcamp.com/album/pianoworks

and also the next release on Apothecary sounds very promising (out in a week): https://apothecarycompositions.bandcamp.com/album/-

https://youtu.be/ChUBT6n4o2g

Marc Baron (live in Sydney 2014, extrait)

he put out a really good noise record called "Hidden Tapes" a couple years ago

I return to this thread a lot - ambient music is really important to me, though I approach it different from the way I've always approached music - like - I'm not a total fiend for details, but I always want to know where a band is from, what are they all about, am I listening to something early or late, is there biographical detail that informs the music, etc. same with classical and opera. I'm not totally uncurious about ambient composers/performers, but I allow myself to just sort of luxuriate in the sounds apart from any concerns about when or where it's from, whether it's well-regarded or corny, or whatever...Im kind of more decadent with this stuff, I just let it work on me. which is the long way of saying I may not post a lot here but this thread is my favorite bookmark on ilm.

late pass on this guy though - really amazing stuff from a retired machine worker, some people seem to think the story's too good to be true but man these are lovely sounds anyway

https://abulmogard.bandcamp.com/album/circular-forms

Listening to some of Mogard's remixes, too: beautiful. Must get Works!

The new Huerco S. belongs on here

Man, I am really looking forward to hearing that.

Big fan of all his stuff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-kJphyQQNQ

I can't remember if I first heard about this here or somewhere else (and am too lazy to search) but the Western Skies Motel album is gorgeous. The dude is Danish but this sounds like backporch Americana.

https://westernskiesmotel.bandcamp.com/album/settlers

Yup, new Huerco S is great

The Heathered Pearls (Loyal) album has become a regular around these parts (my apt.)

the aphex Cheetah ep also applies to this relaxed/chill out mode, though it livens up a bit midway thru. it's still chill as ever

fun when you wonder "whatever happened to _____" and then look them up in Spotify and they've released three albums since you last listened to them. enjoying phonophani's s/t. spooky ambient but probably not in the way you're thinking.

https://soundcloud.com/shlohmo/11_9_10a
'Bad Vibes' is still a modern classic, and was a huge influence on a certain generation of producers imo.

I've been falling asleep to Moby's Long Ambients free 4 hour album the last few weeks after a friend recommended it.

http://moby.com/la1/

http://listen.hatnote.com

super nice stuff here, very much its own thing - hints of glitch n fuzz over a bed of synth-string drone and airy chiming sounds...worth a long look

https://dronarivm.bandcamp.com/album/the-voynich-manuscript

Album title alone is a winner.

Oooh, oooh, ooh, he did a 4.5-hr mix of the sort of music people here might like: https://reviews.headphonecommute.com/2016/02/09/roel-funcken-the-voynich-manuscript-mix/