Ambient Recommendations

no, the voices are a dealbreaker, sorry

don't think this has been mentioned, but it just got repressed & floated to my attention

LOG - LOG ET3RNAL on Experiences Ltd (Ulla + Perila)
https://bblisss.bandcamp.com/album/log-et3rnal

the Ulla upthread is fantastic and i'd say this is up there in a similar albeit more fractured-dub way

Yeah that’s great, I’m waiting for it to come on the mail <3

this album is good, and plus they made a cool little installation/walkthrough/listen website: https://niklaskramer.github.io/Habitat/

enjoying this PWYC ambient album, an appealingly lo-fi/bedroom take on Boards of Canada, DNTEL, Benoit Pioulard type stuff. sounds good real loud.

http://www.quoteunquoterecords.com/qur112.htm

oh and happy 4/20 everyone

Samples of this sounded great & interesting. Haven't listened to it front to back yet.

https://experimentalrooms.bandcamp.com/album/ambient-waves-from-niigata

Experimental Rooms is a label founded to bring together talented people to collaborate on a project celebrating Niigata, a sea-facing city in Japan. Niigata in Kanji can be translated as 新 “new,” 潟 “lagoon,” and 市 “city,” three eternal themes explored widely within Ambient Waves From Niigata.

Textural and organic, Ambient Waves from Niigata is a full-on sensorial experience and glimpse into a vital community of musicians and artists. Not only is the music from residents of Niigata, but the album’s design, sound treatment, cover photo and translations were done by Niigata’s music community as well.

don't think this has been mentioned, but it just got repressed & floated to my attention

LOG - LOG ET3RNAL on Experiences Ltd (Ulla + Perila)
https://bblisss.bandcamp.com/album/log-et3rnal

the Ulla upthread is fantastic and i'd say this is up there in a similar albeit more fractured-dub way

― dronestreet, Friday, April 9, 2021 3:16 PM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

This is great, thanks

really been enjoying the first blank gloss album ('January' on Night Young records) that came out last year and totally passed me by. kind of mixture between gigi masin/gaussian curve and labradford:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9qImWEP2Ns

new one out soon on Kompakt

some good bass vi action on there if my ears aren't mistook

that's incredible, thx

This is perfect, cheers.

I've made a compilation of this sort of stuff, using a title I think I nicked from someone on here: Yoga, Hungover.

yours is better than mine.

xp Fantastic. I'll be playing this constantly until the new album comes out. Their track from Pop Ambient, which is kinda like "Sweet Flag", will be on it.

Yours is pretty great boxedjoy! And I stole your title. And you have better hair. So.

Nice preview and snippets of the new album here xp

https://kompakt.fm/releases/melt

ah those clips sound great, thank you!

saw this recommended by roman flugel in a dj mag piece, new (gorgeous) thomas fehlman album

https://thomasfehlmann.bandcamp.com/album/b-ser-herbst

Listening to this one now, really lovely

https://pitp.bandcamp.com/album/unfailing-love

xp Thx map, that new Fehlmann sounds amazing on first flip-through

xp Yeah that label delivers the goods very well. Ended up subscribing to zake in full.

I used to be obsessed with Honigpumpe so I'm glad to hear about some new Fehlmann

Honigpumpe is a fucking class album btw!

If I could be bold and recommend myself.

It began as sort of a salute to Tetsuo Inoue's 'World Receiver', one of my favourite ambient records.

Lot's of radio voices and environmental recordings tied with 12 pieces borne out of little keyboard improvisations in one hour-long track.

There's even a very loose version of a Broadcast tune.

https://nowherians.bandcamp.com/album/rabbits-make-mochi-on-the-moon

If you need something soothing and lord knows I do, I can't recommend this Takashi Kokubo collection enough (very much on the new age end of Kankyo Ongaku):

https://takashikokubo.bandcamp.com/album/healing-collection-quiet-comfort

Latest Blank Gloss is lovely: https://blankgloss.bandcamp.com/album/melt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6p4u7XT_CY

I thought for sure this revive was going to be about this:

My condolences to all the ambient artists linked in Samuel McLemore's @toneglow blurb for the new Space Afrika recordhttps://t.co/uwHe6yesT2 pic.twitter.com/HUSkQGxDEQ

— Joshua Minsoo Kim (@misterminsoo) September 6, 2021

Has that not hit ILM yet? Or is it happening in another thread?

Oof. Is it The Disintegration Loops he's referencing in that last paragraph?

Ah nm, seen there's actual links to those getting dissed on the review on the website

Blank Gloss has been a really nice discovery for me, very into January (2020) and look forward to checking out Melt

not sure it qualifies as ambient but Hideyuki Hashimoto's minimal, subdued piano pieces have been hitting the spot for me lately https://hideyukihashimoto.com/

what's up with that Samuel McLemore dude, seems very negative, maybe time 2 chill 2 sum ambient tunez

Ah, I kept seeing odd emails about "ambient" on Twitter yesterday but couldn't make any sense of them.

those tone glow review panels offer a safe space for today's youth to engage in rampant consequence-free challoping in bafflingly microscopic arenas, fuckin love it

i too came here for that revive

love the careerist dig. god forbid someone make a living (or even $20) from their (ambient) music! lol, what an incredibly remote possibility

not that this is news for any of you, but as someone who works weekends at a record shop with an above-average "left-field/electronic" section...99% of our customers don't know who any of those artists linked in that piece are. afaic, anyone who likes music and is open to new music is cool by me. any gateway into a new genre (esp one as niche as 'ambient') for a listener is rad + should be celebrated. and i like saying "this record sux" as much as anyone

hmmm, on one hand i completely agree with you.

but on the other, maybe ambient music is just way too popular now and it's starting to get a little annoying for ambient dudes to recommend stuff that other people have already heard. and plus the new people who like ambient don't properly understand what made the top-tier stuff so good. also, the new ambient music likers probably buy face masks and do yoga and stuff like, but not like the people in the 80s did it, back when all that was very very underground

the gates of ambient music must be kept strong. a gate is not a gate if everyone passes through. a fully realized gate must create and enforce ingroups and outgroups. and at the top of that gate are the keepers. i reside in the castle, eating raw onions and spitting all over myself

here is a new ambient album I like: https://nueen.bandcamp.com/album/circular-sequence-2

take that tweet to the pitchfork thread or trend forecasting thread something, wtf who cares

here are a few cool records

https://nikolaienko-faitiche.bandcamp.com/album/rings

https://dust-editions.bandcamp.com/album/varispeed-hydra

https://v-i-s.bandcamp.com/album/wanderung-durch-wald-und-flur

sorrrrrrrry

don’t apologize, I apologize for not knowing about that tweet before this thread revive and for not caring and for posting ambient recommendations that might not be ambient. we’re all sorry

no, that was an ambient sorry!

*looks deep down into the infinite well*

"sooooorrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

jks all around of course <3

i am working my way through these recommendations, as always. i drifted off to the new Blank Gloss last night and quite enjoyed that! and now i'm listening to the Circular Sequence release. bongo do you know how many tapes there were before it sold out?

ohhhhhhhhh ok shit sorry KM

I gotta say i’m not really into the mallet ambient stuff or clean cleansing ambient or overly healing crystal ambient. And I admit I did roll my eyes when I saw the dude from grizzly bear put an album out on music for memory. what does this dude think about proflific post-vaporwave ambient eg Dream Catalogue and adjacent? I don’t think I want to know!

this dude: Samuel tweet guy. Ok done posting.

seconding the good tip on that Blank Gloss -- recall hearing + liking that track on Pop Ambient and completely spaced on them afterwards

xp yeah i've never read the sam dude or the toneglow substack, either! they seem angry and disappointed at the state of ambience though.

i think sometimes it's dangerous to get too deep into things. i'd rather be the little wooden thing rolling against the lip of a tibetan singing bowl

Cherry picking ambient albums that have a "gimmick" whether authentic in their attention or indeed for marketing purposes, doesn't really address all of the not so "stagnant" examples out there. Surely if there is a surge in popularity there will be an influx of good AND "bad"...

Omg weird did my hands type "attention" when I meant "intention"? I meant intention*