I mean, if the one characteristic of ambient most people agree on that it's non-intrusive and doesn't call attention to it, then the jerky mood and rhythm changes of something like Spanners or Temple of Transparent Balls would absolutely disqualify it.
― Tuomas, Thursday, 16 May 2019 15:54 (four years ago) link
The first four Enya albums are amazing (the next four... less so) but I wouldn't call them ambient. Enya is Enya.
Would love to see everyone's top ten or twenty too!
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Thursday, 16 May 2019 15:57 (four years ago) link
Yeah, I love Enya, and there are many new age albums that are among my favourite ambient records, but her music isnt ambient, it's too song-oriented.
― Tuomas, Thursday, 16 May 2019 16:33 (four years ago) link
SAW1 shouldn't be eligible imho.
Let the great ambient gatekeeping begin.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 16 May 2019 16:42 (four years ago) link
hey tuomas, can i passionately argue for the inclusion of a field recording that i made of a train that's on my hard drive and no one else has ever heard, just so that i can be the one person that votes for it?
(jk)
― these are not all of the possible side effects (Karl Malone), Thursday, 16 May 2019 16:56 (four years ago) link
everything is permissible but nothing is ambient
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Thursday, 16 May 2019 17:10 (four years ago) link
FSOL and Banco De Gaia, ambient or not?
― Siegbran, Thursday, 16 May 2019 17:25 (four years ago) link
FSOL has to be, how can Lifeforms not be ambient?
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Thursday, 16 May 2019 17:36 (four years ago) link
Your nominations for the ILX AMBIENT ALBUMS POLL (nominations close on Friday, May 31st)
― Tuomas, Thursday, 16 May 2019 17:46 (four years ago) link
Zoning out to saw1 after too much drink and drugs when I was far too young, as the sun rose over the trees, where me and my friends sat in sleeping bags we needed only for comfort, in a bright light back room in the west of england, we knew we were already late for saturday jobs, but it was alright because this music
Isn't ambient?
― kraudive, Monday, 20 May 2019 03:03 (four years ago) link
Posted on the wrong thread. Not to be I suppose
― kraudive, Monday, 20 May 2019 03:10 (four years ago) link