so excited for this poll!!!!!
― :∵·∴·∵: (crüt), Thursday, 16 May 2019 21:51 (five 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
(6/30)
― :∵·∴·∵: (crüt), Thursday, 16 May 2019 22:04 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five years ago) link
xp a whole bunch of those were already nominated
― Emperor Tonetta Ketchup (sleeve), Thursday, 16 May 2019 22:52 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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
Garlo - Vent de Guitares
3/30
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Friday, 17 May 2019 02:02 (four years ago) link
Brian Eno - NeroliLocal News - A Simple Dream PassMilieu - A Warm Wooden Hollow
(26/30)
― brimstead, Friday, 17 May 2019 02:13 (four years ago) link
thank you tuomas for running this thing!
― brimstead, Friday, 17 May 2019 02:32 (four years ago) link
Sarah Louise - Nighttime Birds and Morning StarsHead Phone Over Tone - Solar Sails
5/30
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Friday, 17 May 2019 02:44 (four years ago) link
Michael Stearns “Planetary Unfolding”David Casper “Crystal Waves”David Behrman “On The Other Ocean”
― vmajestic, Friday, 17 May 2019 02:50 (four years ago) link
Michael Stearns - EncounterMarsen Jules - BeautyfearThe Seattle Harmonic Voices - Harmonic Voice
9/30
― :∵·∴·∵: (crüt), Friday, 17 May 2019 02:57 (four years ago) link
sweet noms brimstead, haven't heard a bunch of those, glad that u love Zoviet France as much as I do
― Emperor Tonetta Ketchup (sleeve), Friday, 17 May 2019 03:01 (four years ago) link
Not yet mentioned:
Various Artists - Music for Films Vol. 3Sunn O))) - The Grimmrobe DemosSteven Stapleton & David Tibet - The Sadness of ThingsRobert Rich - Trances/DronesMain - Firmament IVLaurie Anderson - The Ugly One with the JewelsLaraaji - Essence/UniverseJon Hassell & Brian Eno - Fourth World Vol. 1: Possible MusicsJon Hassell - FascinomaHarold Budd - The White ArcadesHarold Budd - The RoomHarold Budd - PerhapsDeep Listening Band - The Ready Made BoomerangDavid Lynch & Marek Zebrowski - Polish Night MusicDavid Hykes & the Harmonic Choir - Harmonic MeetingsAlvin Curran - Songs and Views of the Magnetic Garden
Maybe not:
David Lynch & Alan Splet - Eraserhead soundtrack- If you could cut out the scary bits and keep the industrial hiss and distant Fats Waller
Laurie Anderson - United States Live- Too many non-ambient pieces across the four discs to qualify as a whole, but 23 out of the 78 tracks are on my sleepytime/ambient playlist. That voice talking is probably the closest I get to an ASMR trigger.
― Hideous Lump, Friday, 17 May 2019 04:07 (four years ago) link
strumming music by Charlemagne Palestine.. ambient? really?
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Friday, 17 May 2019 04:43 (four years ago) link
joda clément - i hope you like the universe+minus - a rainy koran verse [UK live]c schulz & hajsch s/t
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Friday, 17 May 2019 04:50 (four years ago) link
Hideous Lump, are you nominating those albums under "not yet mentioned"?
― Tuomas, Friday, 17 May 2019 05:25 (four years ago) link
ach, wanted to nom mohnomishe & eostre but figured they were too industrial
whatevs, i nom15: _zoviet*france_ mohnomishe16: _zoviet*france_ eostre17: levantis: romantic psychology vol.118: philip jeck: stoke19: anthony manning: islets in pink polypropylene20: arve henriksen: chiaroscuro21: christina kubisch: mono fluido22: deep listening band & the long string instrument - suspended music23: organum: submission
― massaman gai (front tea for two), Friday, 17 May 2019 05:33 (four years ago) link
24: jim o'rourke: long nights
― massaman gai (front tea for two), Friday, 17 May 2019 05:34 (four years ago) link
is Lanterna's first self-titled album ambient?
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Friday, 17 May 2019 05:36 (four years ago) link
Karma Moffett - Golden Bowls of CompassionNASA Voyager Space Sounds - Symphonies of the PlanetsDouglas Quin - AntarcticaAndrew Skeoch & Sarah Koschak - Spirit of the OutbackJohn T Bullitt - Night of a Thousand SongsTod Dockstader - Aerial 1Alain Kremski - Music for an Unknown TempleRoland Kayn - TektraThomas Köner - PermafrostSteve Roach - Immersion OneElse Marie Pade - Et Glasperlespil (for Faust Suite, 1962)Stuart Dempster - Underground Overlays from the Cistern ChapelAsmus Tietchens - EisgangJoe Jones - Solar MusicPeter Warren & Matt Samolis - Bowed Metal MusicDavid Tudor - RainforestRoy Montgomery - Temple IVRoger Winfield - Voices of the WindEnvironments 7 - IntonationRostov ChimesRagnar Grippe - SandBrian Eno - Neroli (disc 2 - New Space Music)Francois Bayle - ErosphereVangelis - Tegos TapesThe Iatmul Of Papua Niugini - Music of OceaniaPaul Schutze - Apart (disc 2 - Sleep)Stephen Kent - Family Tree (disc 2 - Deep Space)Don Slepian - Sea of BlissGeoffrey Chandler - StarscapesLuc Ferrari - Éphémère II
― Milton Parker, Friday, 17 May 2019 07:01 (four years ago) link
michael t. bullock + andrew lafkas - ceremonies to breathe uponjohn tilbury / keith rowe / kjell bjørgeengen - sisseloren ambarchi / john tilbury - the just reproachjürg frey - l’âme est sans retenue Ihaptic - abeyance
8/30
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Friday, 17 May 2019 07:08 (four years ago) link
Brian Eno - Neroli (disc 2 - New Space Music)Paul Schutze - Apart (disc 2 - Sleep)Stephen Kent - Family Tree (disc 2 - Deep Space)
If these are multi-disc albums, you can't just nominate one disc, you have to nom the entire album.
― Tuomas, Friday, 17 May 2019 07:14 (four years ago) link
Kraftwerk - Autobahn
― paolo, Friday, 17 May 2019 07:16 (four years ago) link
I noticed one of my nominations (Novus Magnificat) had already been nommed by Dan Worsley, so I have one more nomination to use:
Meg Bowles - Blue Cosmos
(30/30)
― Tuomas, Friday, 17 May 2019 07:23 (four years ago) link
>If these are multi-disc albums
just consider those as shout-outs to how good their second halves are then
― Milton Parker, Friday, 17 May 2019 07:49 (four years ago) link
Brian Eno - Music For FilmsSteve Reich - Music For 18 MusiciansGlobal Communication- Pentamerous MetamorphosisTangerine Dream - PhaedraMax Richter - SleepIasos - Inter-Dimensional MusicDaniel Lanois - Purple VistaSystem 7 - Point 3: Water
(17/30)
― groovypanda, Friday, 17 May 2019 07:54 (four years ago) link
24: loren chasse - the air in the sand25: takehisa kosugi - catch wave
― massaman gai (front tea for two), Friday, 17 May 2019 07:59 (four years ago) link
Might as well nominate Scum at this point.
― pomenitul, Friday, 17 May 2019 08:12 (four years ago) link
Eluvium - Lambent MaterialJulianna Barwick - NepentheAutechre - NTS Session 4Global Communication - Remotion: The Global Communication Remix Album
4/30
― The Pingularity (ledge), Friday, 17 May 2019 10:13 (four years ago) link
Scum is a stretch obv but I’ll hold off nominating Darkspace or Lustre.
― Siegbran, Friday, 17 May 2019 10:23 (four years ago) link
What about Filosofem? Or dungeon synth in general?
― pomenitul, Friday, 17 May 2019 10:25 (four years ago) link
Hoedh - HymnvsInade - AldebaranLustmord - The Place Where The Black Stars Hang
― Siegbran, Friday, 17 May 2019 10:29 (four years ago) link
Various - I Am the Center: Private Issue New Age Music in AmericaHenry Wolff & Nancy Hennings - Tibetan Bells IV: Bells of Sh'ang Sh'ung
7/30
― Dan Worsley, Friday, 17 May 2019 11:51 (four years ago) link
Yes I'm nominating those.
― Hideous Lump, Friday, 17 May 2019 12:12 (four years ago) link