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
Jan Jelinek - TierbeobachtungenCornelius Cardew - The Great Learning (Deutsche Grammophon, 1971)Ekkehard Ehlers - Ekkehard Ehlers PlaysManuel Göttsching - E2-E4
(4/30)
― eatandoph (Neue Jesse Schule), Thursday, 16 May 2019 21:46 (four years ago) link
so excited for this poll!!!!!
― :∵·∴·∵: (crüt), Thursday, 16 May 2019 21:51 (four years ago) link
Pulse Emitter - Planetary Scale Synth HypnosisPulse Emitter - Xenharmonic PassagesChristopher Willits - HorizonLeandro Fresco & Rafael Anton Irisarri - La EquidistanciaSarah Davachi - Qualities of Bodies PermanentJeremy Bible - Music for Black Holes
― :∵·∴·∵: (crüt), Thursday, 16 May 2019 22:04 (four years ago) link
Hash Jar Tempo - Under GlassVapour Theories - Decant500mg - Vertical Approach
14/30
― Soccer Team's Philosophies and Hypotheses (Leee), Thursday, 16 May 2019 22:12 (four years ago) link
Vektroid - Polytravellers 10/30that huerco s album is like my album of the decade but figured it had to much flickering and dirty shrapnel to be ambient
― brimstead, Thursday, 16 May 2019 22:44 (four years ago) link
1. Aphex Twin: Selected Ambient Works vol. 22. Arp: The Soft Wave3. William Basinski: Disintegration Loops4. Ken Camden: Lethargy & Repercussions5. Ian William Craig: A Turn of Breath6. Greg Davis: Mutually Arising7. Kyle Bobby Dunn: …and the Infinite Sadness8. Kyle Bobby Dunn: Bring the Head of…9. Brian Eno: Apollo10. Fennesz: Endless Summer11. Flying Saucer Attack: s/t12. Manuel Gottsching: E2-E413. Growing: Sky Runs into the Sea14. Growing: s/t15. Porya Hatami: Shallow16. Tim Hecker: Ravedeath, 197217. Daniel Lanois: Goodbye to Language18. Brian McBride: When the Detail’s Lost its Freedom19. Mountains: Choral20. Mountains: Centralia21. Jonas Munk: Absorb/Fabric/Cascade22. Andrew Pekler: Cue23. Hans-Joachim Roedelius: Selbsportrait II24. Richard Skelton: Landings25. Stars of the Lid: The Tired Sounds of…26. Stars of the Lid: …and Their Refinement of the Decline27. Keith Fullerton Whitman: Playthroughs28. Keith Fullerton Whitman: Lisbon29. Windy & Carl: Depths30. Windy & Carl: We Will Always Be
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Thursday, 16 May 2019 22:51 (four years ago) link
Pavilion of Dreams is probably my favorite album ever and I kinda want to nominate it, but it could never be background music in my household. You gotta crank Harold Budd imo
― these are not all of the possible side effects (Karl Malone), Thursday, 16 May 2019 22:51 (four years ago) link
xp a whole bunch of those were already nominated
― Emperor Tonetta Ketchup (sleeve), Thursday, 16 May 2019 22:52 (four years ago) link
Ohh this is shaping up nicely! Stoked for this, will send in my noms this weekend.
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 16 May 2019 23:11 (four years ago) link
I have no idea how I’m going to sort out the top 10 or so. A lot of these albums, already mentioned, are among my all-time faves. Also very excited to wade through some of the lesser known stuff. Tuomas’ nomnoms for the <2 min poll were really great, and I’m pumped to check out his ambient selections
― these are not all of the possible side effects (Karl Malone), Thursday, 16 May 2019 23:45 (four years ago) link
First 15:
Alio Die - Aura SeminalisAlio Die - Horas Tibi SerenasBlamstrain - DisfoldClive Wright - Taqsim to AntliaManual - BajamarManual with Jess Kahr - The North ShoreO Yuki Conjugate - EquatorRaison d'Être - Enthralled by the Wind of LonelinessRaison d'Être - In Sadness, Silence, and SolitudeRaison d'Être - Prospectus IRobert Haigh - Creatures of the DeepUlrich Schnauss - GoodbyeWoob - 1194Yagya - RigningYagya - Stars and Dust
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Friday, 17 May 2019 00:19 (four years ago) link
(make that first 13, Rigning and Disfold already nominated!)
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Friday, 17 May 2019 00:20 (four years ago) link
nice!
10 more personal favorites, even the beats on the Muslimgauze here are chilled out
Muslimgauze - Veiled SistersJonathan Coleclough - CakeNocturnal Emissions - SpiritfleshDatacide - FlowerheadThe Orb - Adventures Beyond The UltraworldNurse With Wound - Soliloquy For LilithNurse With Wound - Salt Marie CelesteZoviet France - Shouting At The GroundCoil - MegalithomaniaVladislav Delay - Multila
18/30
― Emperor Tonetta Ketchup (sleeve), Friday, 17 May 2019 00:21 (four years ago) link
it could never be background music in my household. You gotta crank Harold Budd imo
budd himself does not like being categorized as ambient
god i love multila. so we are allowing kick drums??
cuz in that case i nom:
154 - Strike
― brimstead, Friday, 17 May 2019 01:19 (four years ago) link
how tf is like unambient fennesz, tim hecker etc nommed but not one zoviet france until sleeve's post?????
zoviet france - assault & mirage
(12/30)
― brimstead, Friday, 17 May 2019 01:21 (four years ago) link
god i'm such a dick. i'm sorry folks, really this time
should be noted that the second disc of budd's 2005 album Avalon Sutra is a 69 minute remix of As Long As I Can Hold My Breath which is ambient as fuuuuuuuck
― these are not all of the possible side effects (Karl Malone), Friday, 17 May 2019 01:41 (four years ago) link
if you don't fall asleep to that song and dream about death, you're not even alive
― these are not all of the possible side effects (Karl Malone), Friday, 17 May 2019 01:42 (four years ago) link
On the one hand, I think brimstead is right to raise questions about what 'ambient' means with regards to a lot of these albums. On the other hand, a lot of music I really love is being included so it's going to be a great list, whatever we call it.
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Friday, 17 May 2019 01:54 (four years ago) link
Jonny Nash - EdenNovisad - NovisadH. Takahashi - Body tripH. Takahashi - Low powerX.Y.R. - ReflectionsBakground - Saved Data TrilogyNovisad - SeleyaMicrostoria - SNDRob Theakston - I Am Waiting For You To Stop Being Mad At MeDolphins Into The Future - Canto ArquipélagoCraig Kupka – Crystals - New Music For Relaxation 2
(23/30)
― brimstead, Friday, 17 May 2019 01:54 (four years ago) link
Robert Fripp and Brian Eno - Evening Star
1/30
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Friday, 17 May 2019 01:56 (four years ago) link
Steve Hillage - Rainbow Dome Musick
2/30
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Friday, 17 May 2019 01:59 (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