^i did make a quick 10% time stretch of "you suffer", and it's the most ambient 20 second burst of pain you've ever heard
― these are not all of the possible side effects (Karl Malone), Thursday, 16 May 2019 18:37 (four years ago) link
so were conflating ambient and drone again
― brimstead, Thursday, 16 May 2019 18:39 (four years ago) link
anything without a pulse is ambient now
― brimstead, Thursday, 16 May 2019 18:40 (four years ago) link
tony Conrad - fine purveyor of furniture musicOk I’ll stop
― brimstead, Thursday, 16 May 2019 18:41 (four years ago) link
Irresistible Force - Global ChillageIrresistible Force - DreamfishBiospehere - PatashnikRather Interesting presents DOTSMasters of Psychedelic Ambiance - "Mu"Further - 5 Further JourneysMLO - IOFAX et al : The Ambient Cookbook vol. 1Future Sound of London - Lifeforms
― mark e, Thursday, 16 May 2019 18:41 (four years ago) link
i'm sure there's a whole thread on this, but there's not exactly a fine line
― these are not all of the possible side effects (Karl Malone), Thursday, 16 May 2019 18:42 (four years ago) link
Harold Budd - Lovely ThunderYagya - RigningSteve Roach - Structures From Silence
― omar little, Thursday, 16 May 2019 18:44 (four years ago) link
if I used it to fall asleep to at any point in my life, it's ambient :)
― Emperor Tonetta Ketchup (sleeve), Thursday, 16 May 2019 18:46 (four years ago) link
These Hammock LPsHammock - Kenotic Hammock - Raising Your Voice...Trying to Stop an Echo Hammock - Oblivion Hymns
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 16 May 2019 18:46 (four years ago) link
Grouper - A I A: Dream LossChubby Wolf - OrnitheologyTetsu Inoue - Ambiant OtakuHiroshi Yoshimura - GreenEleh - Location MomentumKyle Bobby Dunn - Kyle Bobby Dunn and the Infinite SadnessMarble Sky - Marble SkyCatherine Christer Hennix - Central Palace MusicChristopher Heemann & Andrew Chalk - Mirror of the SeaASC - No Stars Without DarknessKid606 - Recollected Ambient Works, Vol. 1: Bored of ExcitementAlex Cobb - ChantepleureIan William Craig - A Turn of BreathMarconi Union - WeightlessLoscil - Endless FallsDJ Olive - Sleep
16/30
― lowercase (eric), Thursday, 16 May 2019 18:48 (four years ago) link
Hijokaidan – Noise From Trading Cards
― brimstead, Thursday, 16 May 2019 18:48 (four years ago) link
sorry, j/k, promise I’m done
― brimstead, Thursday, 16 May 2019 18:49 (four years ago) link
well, in that case I should nom every classic era Moody Blues album
― mark e, Thursday, 16 May 2019 18:50 (four years ago) link
Christopher Heemann & Andrew Chalk - Mirror of the Sea
I love this one so much, thanks for nominating!
― Emperor Tonetta Ketchup (sleeve), Thursday, 16 May 2019 18:56 (four years ago) link
it's so good, gonna have to (try to) campaign for that one
― lowercase (eric), Thursday, 16 May 2019 19:01 (four years ago) link
Moss Harvest - Constructs Of Loss And Longing
17/30
There's definitely Ambient as a liise genre and Ambient as an even looser way of listening but hey
― Doctor Nu (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 16 May 2019 19:01 (four years ago) link
Anyway
Aloof Proof - Piano Text
(1/30)
― Doctor Nu (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 16 May 2019 19:03 (four years ago) link
Daniel Pemberton - BedroomSpacetime Continuum - Sea BiscuitAxiom Ambient - Lost in the TranslationMiles Davis - In a Silent WayDavid Sylvian/Holger Czukay - Flux and MutabilityJuno Reactor - Luciana
― mark e, Thursday, 16 May 2019 19:06 (four years ago) link
oh wait gotta correct the name tho lol
Christoph Heemann & Andrew Chalk - Mirror of the Sea
― lowercase (eric), Thursday, 16 May 2019 19:06 (four years ago) link
― brimstead, Thursday, May 16, 2019 2:39 PM (twenty-six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
https://pics.me.me/Facebook-Are-you-a-noob-4fa2f3.png
― dragged across concrète (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 16 May 2019 19:12 (four years ago) link
I will die never knowing the difference between hard bop and post bop.
― billstevejim, Thursday, 16 May 2019 19:16 (four years ago) link
xp way to miss the point but whatever's easiest for you i guess
some actual nomsDJ Olive - BuoyHeathered Pearls - LoyalRobert Turman - FluxStrategy - Noise Tape SelfTerekke - Improvisational LoopsVarious - Pop Ambient 2002Brian Eno - ReflectionRandall McClellan – The Healing Music Of Rana Vol. IIRandall McClellan – The Healing Music Of Rana Vol. III
(8/30)
― brimstead, Thursday, 16 May 2019 19:18 (four years ago) link
oops 9/30
― brimstead, Thursday, 16 May 2019 19:19 (four years ago) link
i'm just saying isn't the point of stuff like phil niblock for you to like listen to attentively so you can trip out and stuff?
― brimstead, Thursday, 16 May 2019 19:21 (four years ago) link
sorry sorry i'm done really
― brimstead, Thursday, 16 May 2019 19:22 (four years ago) link
The KLF - Chill OutThe Orb - Chill Out, World!New Dreams Ltd. - SleeplineJean-Michel Jarre - Waiting for Cousteau
(not sure which Orb albums really count here, and quite frankly I'm not sure about the other two either)
― frogbs, Thursday, 16 May 2019 19:23 (four years ago) link
Ben Frost - By the ThroatThere are a lot of competing definitions of ambient, coming up with submissions that fall under none of them is quite an achievement.
― but everybody calls me, (lukas), Thursday, 16 May 2019 19:26 (four years ago) link
If we're going broad, does Live From A Shark Cage count? Sowiesoso? No Pussyfooting?
― Good cop, Babcock (Chinaski), Thursday, 16 May 2019 19:34 (four years ago) link
Keith Fullerton Whitman - LisbonPetrels - HaeligewielleJD Emmanuel - WizardsEyvind Kang - Live Low to the Earth, in the Iron AgeBiosphere - SubstrataPeter Wright - An Angel Fell Where the Kestrels Hover Susumu Yokota - SakuraDaevid Allen - Seven DronesSun Electric - 30.7.94 Roly Porter - AftertimeRoy Montgomery - Scenes From the South IslandBirchville Cat Motel - Beautiful Speck Triumph Robert Ashley - Private Parts
13/30
Well aware some of these are pushing it!
― Good cop, Babcock (Chinaski), Thursday, 16 May 2019 19:45 (four years ago) link
Pete Namlook & Tetsu Inoue - 2350 Broadway IVSleep Research Facility - Deep FriezeBlamstrain - DisfoldJeff Greinke - Cities in FogNicholas Szczepanik - We Make Life SadColleen - Everyone Alive Wants AnswersLoscil - Sea Island1991 - No More Dreams
^playing it safe for now. wonder if I should be an asshole and nominate a bunch of deadmau5 albums in my next post
― lispectah deck (unregistered), Thursday, 16 May 2019 20:00 (four years ago) link
Huerco S. - Colonial PatternsPrurient - Rainbow Mirror
(10/30)
― lispectah deck (unregistered), Thursday, 16 May 2019 20:13 (four years ago) link
Chinaski: Whiney already nominated KFW's Lisbon!
― Soccer Team's Philosophies and Hypotheses (Leee), Thursday, 16 May 2019 20:15 (four years ago) link
Eck - I'm blind!
Bang on A Can - Music for AirportsMary Lattimore - The Withdrawing RoomAlva Noto - Xerrox Vol.1High Aura'd - Sanguine FuturesThe Dead Texan - The Dead Texan 1 Mile North - Minor ShadowsMotion Sickness of Time Travel- Motion Sickness of Time TravelKoen Holtkamp - Gravity / BeesMountains - Sewn
(22/30)
― Good cop, Babcock (Chinaski), Thursday, 16 May 2019 20:17 (four years ago) link
i guess i'm going to nominate a catchall ambient-era OPN release, even though it's sort of a comp:
Oneohtrix Point Never - Rifts
― these are not all of the possible side effects (Karl Malone), Thursday, 16 May 2019 20:18 (four years ago) link
Loscil - PlumeStars Of The Lid - And Their Refinement of the DeclineKasper Bjørke Quartet – The Fifty Eleven ProjectCFCF – ExercisesTommy Awards - Sessions IIWilson Tanner - 69The Fires Of Ork – The Fires Of Ork 2Hatchback – Zeus & ApolloVarious – (The Microcosm) Visionary Music Of Continental Europe, 1970-1986
(9/30)
The CFCF record is 8 tracks but don't think it's over 30 minutes
(And are comps allowed? Saw Ambient Cookbook was nominated upthread so thought they might be)
― groovypanda, Thursday, 16 May 2019 20:22 (four years ago) link
brian eno - the shutov assemblythomas köner - kaamosthomas köner - daikantetsu inoue - world receiversuperficial depth - digital superimposingtom heasley- where the earth meets the skytom heasley - on the sensations of toneenvironments 2 tintinnabulation special low frequency versionjim o'rourke - sleep like it's wintervangelis - invisible connectionsoren ambarchi - suspensiontetsu inoue - yololovesliescrushing - glissceuleevan parker / lawrence casserly - solar wind14/30
― massaman gai (front tea for two), Thursday, 16 May 2019 20:27 (four years ago) link
Comps are allowed, yeah, as long as they're not box sets or other such sets that compile multiple albums.
― Tuomas, Thursday, 16 May 2019 20:39 (four years ago) link
OK I'm going to break the seal:
Autechre - GarbageFennesz - VeniceRichard Skelton - LandingsJulia Kent - Asperities
― Soccer Team's Philosophies and Hypotheses (Leee), Thursday, 16 May 2019 20:44 (four years ago) link
11/30
― Soccer Team's Philosophies and Hypotheses (Leee), Thursday, 16 May 2019 20:50 (four years ago) link
A Broken Consort- The Shape LeavesBrian McBride- When the Detail Lost Its FreedomDavid Behrman- On the Other OceanHenry Flynt- You Are My Everlovin/Celestial PowerKammarheit- The StarwheelLoscil- Endless FallsNew Risen Throne- Shadows Over HumanityRobert Turman & Aaron Dilloway- BlizzardSeven Fields of Aphelion- PeripherySunn 0))) & Ulver- Terrestrials
― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Thursday, 16 May 2019 20:51 (four years ago) link
Harmonia & Eno – Harmonia & Eno ’76Kevin Drumm – Imperial DistortionEnvironments 6: Dawn And Dusk In The Okefenokee Swamp
― dragged across concrète (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 16 May 2019 20:52 (four years ago) link
Was wondering when someone was going to nominate "And Their Refinement of the Decline," groovypanda. Glad someone nominated it— it's my favorite of theirs.
Also, you nominated Plume, so I had to go with Endless Falls, which is my second favorite of his records.
― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Thursday, 16 May 2019 20:53 (four years ago) link
Shit, I forgot!
Windy & Carl- Depths
makes 11/30 for me
― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Thursday, 16 May 2019 20:54 (four years ago) link
FM3 - The Buddha Machine
http://www.fm3buddhamachine.com/v2/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/buddha-1-full-set.jpg
― dragged across concrète (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 16 May 2019 20:57 (four years ago) link
xposts - that's 3 Loscil nominations so far! I had a hard time choosing between Submers and Sea Island
― lispectah deck (unregistered), Thursday, 16 May 2019 20:58 (four years ago) link
table i nom'd endless falls so you have an extra spot
― lowercase (eric), Thursday, 16 May 2019 21:20 (four years ago) link
― lispectah deck (unregistered), Thursday, May 16, 2019 4:13 PM (one hour ago)
I think I'll actually retract Rainbow Mirror. it has too many dissonant moments even though a decent chunk of its runtime is ambient. anyways...
Secede - TryshaslaJustin Walter - Unseen ForcesJon Hassell - Last Night the Moon Came Dropping Its Clothes in the StreetJon Hassell - Listening to Pictures (Pentimento Volume One)Carbon Based Lifeforms - TwentythreeBiosphere - Dropsonde
(15/30)
― lispectah deck (unregistered), Thursday, 16 May 2019 21:25 (four years ago) link
Steve Roden - Forms of PaperOren Ambarchi - In the Pendulum's EmbraceIngram Marshall - Three Penitential Visions-Hidden VoicesBiosphere - N-PlantsBiosphere - Shenzhou
(6/30)
― Doctor Nu (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 16 May 2019 21:30 (four years ago) link
xpost to eric thought i'd caught all the Loscil, thanks for pointing that out.
― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Thursday, 16 May 2019 21:35 (four years ago) link
The Buddha Machine is not a record, so it's not eligible, sorry. If you want, you can nominate some of FM3's actual albums. Also, someone has already nominated Robert Henke's Layering Buddha, which is an album made by sampling the Buddha Machine, so you can always vote for that.
― Tuomas, Saturday, 1 June 2019 06:59 (four years ago) link
It doesn't look like I have the time to go through the nominations today, so I'm gonna give you 24 hours more time. The nomination process ends this time tomorrow.
― Tuomas, Saturday, 1 June 2019 07:01 (four years ago) link
Boris - FloodJulia Kent - TemporalJulia Kent - Character
― In a station of the metro / My milkshake brings all the boys to the yard (Leee), Saturday, 1 June 2019 07:52 (four years ago) link
Speaking of last minute, how about this Anthony Rother?
I have that album (62 Minutes on Mars), and while it's not among my favourite FAX releases, it's indubitably ambient. So feel free to nominate it, if you wanna.
― Tuomas, Saturday, 1 June 2019 11:19 (four years ago) link
many xposts to Viborg, I really think that Richard Skelton's work (Landings in particular, as well as his work as A Broken Consort) is probably my highest-rated of the past decade after SotL. it's definitely more influence by Arvo Part and a sort of academic minimalism, but it has an emotional depth in its slight variations that make it really worth for me.
Here's one from Landings:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NTvcfkPq4Y
― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Saturday, 1 June 2019 15:52 (four years ago) link
and here is how his latest is described:
Music for the retreating ice-sheets of Iceland, produced whilst on a 'Frontiers in Retreat' residency in Seyðisfjörður in 2016. www.frontiersinretreat.org/artists/richard_skelton Front Variations is composed from sine waves subjected to increasing amounts of feedback in order to simulate the so-called 'ice-albedo' feedback mechanism. This is the process whereby the action of melting glaciers reduces the global surface area of ice, thereby reducing the amount of solar radiation that glaciers reflect, which in turn increases global temperatures and causes further glacial melting. Ring modulation and distortion were also used to further deteriorate the sound signal. Front Variations is also available as part of Quoin 4 - the annual publication for friends and patrons of Corbel Stone Press. Quoin 4 features data collected by the World Glacier Monitoring Service and aerial photography of arctic glaciers from the US Naval Oceanographic Office.
www.frontiersinretreat.org/artists/richard_skelton
Front Variations is composed from sine waves subjected to increasing amounts of feedback in order to simulate the so-called 'ice-albedo' feedback mechanism.
This is the process whereby the action of melting glaciers reduces the global surface area of ice, thereby reducing the amount of solar radiation that glaciers reflect, which in turn increases global temperatures and causes further glacial melting.
Ring modulation and distortion were also used to further deteriorate the sound signal.
Front Variations is also available as part of Quoin 4 - the annual publication for friends and patrons of Corbel Stone Press. Quoin 4 features data collected by the World Glacier Monitoring Service and aerial photography of arctic glaciers from the US Naval Oceanographic Office.
https://aeolian.bandcamp.com/album/front-variations-one-two
― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Saturday, 1 June 2019 15:54 (four years ago) link
Kyle Bobby Dunn - From Here To Eternity
just came out, and it's really good
― i will never make a typo ever again (Karl Malone), Saturday, 1 June 2019 16:56 (four years ago) link
The Buddha Machine is not a record, so it's not eligible, sorry.― Tuomas, Saturday, June 1, 2019 2:59 AM (nine hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Tuomas, Saturday, June 1, 2019 2:59 AM (nine hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
This is an absolute horseshit decision, you can listen to it on spotify*
https://open.spotify.com/album/7COTnWvHjhkq10ph3q4xH4?si=koVhRwTiQLmeodVPb4NbMg
*also thanks for spending an insane amount of your free time on this internet poll for my enjoyment
― Bitch, I Might Be Giants (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 1 June 2019 16:59 (four years ago) link
Can I sneak in: M. Geddes Gengras - IshiOmicron - AcrocosmV/A - Plug In + Turn On Vol. 2Skyramps - Days of Thunder (is this ambient?)
― beard papa, Saturday, 1 June 2019 17:01 (four years ago) link
lol whiney
― i will never make a typo ever again (Karl Malone), Saturday, 1 June 2019 17:02 (four years ago) link
It has an entry on Discogs too, idk what else you need
https://www.discogs.com/FM3-Buddha-Machine/master/517873
― Bitch, I Might Be Giants (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 1 June 2019 17:04 (four years ago) link
According to that Discogs tracklist it’s too short!
― Siegbran, Saturday, 1 June 2019 17:32 (four years ago) link
Bonus time! I'll submit my final three:
Löwenritter - Prelude: Ten Seconds Before SunriseVangelis - Fais Que Ton Rêve Soit Plus Long Que La NuitCernunnos Woods - Awaken the Empire of Dark Wood
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Saturday, 1 June 2019 18:19 (four years ago) link
Cernunnos Woods, now there’s a name I haven’t heard in over twenty years.
― Siegbran, Saturday, 1 June 2019 22:02 (four years ago) link
Great call on Kasumasa Hashimoto, I must revisit his stuff, I love that little boutique label he was on, Noble Records, they have some lovely music, much better than Childisc.
― MaresNest, Saturday, 1 June 2019 22:17 (four years ago) link
dark forest ambient! it has some spoken word bits, but then so does the Harold Budd/Clive Wright stuff
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Saturday, 1 June 2019 22:19 (four years ago) link
Dang it *Kazumasa
― MaresNest, Saturday, 1 June 2019 22:20 (four years ago) link
was considering Midori Takada's "Through the Looking Glass" but it seemed a bit too dynamic.
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Saturday, 1 June 2019 22:23 (four years ago) link
Kazumasa Hashimoto can be a bit twee but I find it delicate and poignant at its best. I don't want to discriminate but it seems like the urge to sweeten the mood is a common strain in much of the Japanese electronic music I've heard. There's a Japanese artist called Pass Into Silence who's made releases on Kompakt, the songs are some of the most exquisite ambient creations ever (I'm not so familiar with LPs). But it definitely has a lullaby quality about it.
MaresNest, what else do you especially like on Noble Records?
― viborg, Saturday, 1 June 2019 23:00 (four years ago) link
Saw1
― kraudive, Saturday, 1 June 2019 23:05 (four years ago) link
I find that Japanese musicians have a hard time making garden variety flat-line ambient or drone, they like to add more movement in there than is common sometimes adding more unusual chords and so on...
For noble records, I would recommend maybe Cinq, Midori Hirano, World's End Girlfriend, oh and Yasushi Yoshida especially.
― MaresNest, Saturday, 1 June 2019 23:08 (four years ago) link
I have an urge to embitter the mood, but still keep it sweet, like a foodie dark chocolate bar.
― Sassy Boutonnière (ledriver), Sunday, 2 June 2019 05:39 (four years ago) link
Spotify playlist not *quite* three weeks long. Its growth really slooowwwwed in the last few days, with all the retractions and generous helpings of not-on-Spotify stuff.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Sunday, 2 June 2019 07:27 (four years ago) link
After consideration, I'm gonna allow the Buddha Machine in the poll. It's true that the individual loops only amount to 3 minutes of playing time, but on obviously the way it works means the music goes on as long as you want. And it certainly meets both the functional and aesthetic definition of ambient music perfectly.
― Tuomas, Sunday, 2 June 2019 11:21 (four years ago) link
The nominations are now closed, thanks to everyone for nomming such cool stuff! I'll finish the album sheet and probably will start the voting thread later today.
― Tuomas, Sunday, 2 June 2019 11:23 (four years ago) link
Thats too bad I forgot to nominate my refrigerator, it makes a very pleasant hum.
― Siegbran, Sunday, 2 June 2019 12:38 (four years ago) link
Eh I find your fridge to be a bit cold and empty with just a few stale old reheated ideas. Never enough to chew on and yet I keep coming back to it thinking there’ll be something new.
― Evan, Sunday, 2 June 2019 13:20 (four years ago) link
Fair enough, I retract the fridge.
― Siegbran, Sunday, 2 June 2019 14:10 (four years ago) link
Lots of found fridge sounds among the current noms tbf.
― pomenitul, Sunday, 2 June 2019 14:12 (four years ago) link
ILX AMBIENT ALBUMS POLL: the voting thread. Voting ends on Sunday, June 23rd.
― Tuomas, Sunday, 2 June 2019 14:22 (four years ago) link
Woooooo!
― Bitch, I Might Be Giants (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 2 June 2019 15:38 (four years ago) link
I haven't got a chuffing CLUE about how to rank my choices. Might have to go unweighted for the first time ever.
― Good cop, Babcock (Chinaski), Sunday, 2 June 2019 15:52 (four years ago) link
Weighting feels very counter to the ambient spirit ;-)
― specific goats my way (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 2 June 2019 17:04 (four years ago) link
XP - Rothko at the top plz :)
― MaresNest, Sunday, 2 June 2019 19:10 (four years ago) link
Can I at least hear the fridge to judge for myself before it's denommed to the abyss?
― Sassy Boutonnière (ledriver), Tuesday, 4 June 2019 03:51 (four years ago) link
of course, it's playing right now, you just have to listen for it ... very carefully
― but everybody calls me, (lukas), Thursday, 6 June 2019 13:25 (four years ago) link