'Creepy' ambient music

Nothing, Cordell Klier, Veil of Secrecy, Veiled Illusions, Tribes of Neurot, Toy Bizarre, Bad Sector, Northaunt, Tidal, Bardoseneticcube, Kammarheit, Caul, Bestia Centauri, Heath Yonaites, Amongst Myselves, Amon, Never Known, No Festival of Light, Where, Voice Transmissions With The Deceased, Asmorod, Seth Nehil, Chris Hutton, Negative Thought, Atom Infant Incubator, Ex.Order, Aeolian String

actually it really has to be said: that list is probably the most crushingly unfathomable I've ever seen on ILM

Maybe ten or twenty of us can divvy up that list and do research?

I want to add the Super Metroid OST Soundtrack. Lots of great 16-bit creepy ambiance there.

I want to hear that Lull record...

Excellent call on Super Metroid, that's some awesome shit! Someone should put that out.

And the Eraserhead soundtrack.

And Small Cruel Party!

More good stuff:

. Rapoon (former :Zoviet France: member)
. Terra Sancta - "Aeon" (barren industrial soundscapes, from Australia)
. Rod Modell's "Waveform Transmission", recorded live and allegedly containing sounds of paranormal origin.

"Excellent call on Super Metroid, that's some awesome shit! Someone should put that out."

I ordered mine from Japan. So I can't read the liner notes.

It includes 5 orchestrally arranged versions of Super Metroid tunes, then the entire game soundtracks from the first two games. Also a short sound fx library.

The mastering on the old NES songs (my favorites) is not so great.

I guess it's way out of print now so I'm glad I sprung for it back when I did.

That massive block of band names from Eric Michael Place brings me to this thread via searches pretty much all the time. Delving into Lustmord and Jeff Grienke lately, The Word As Power and Cities in Fog 1 and 2. Must be the weather (just kidding, it's still like 96 degrees here)

no mention of the caretaker or the stranger (both are james leyland kirby) but he's/they're pretty essential to the genre of *creepy* ambient imo

greinke's cities in fog is stunning; hard to believe it's from the mid 80s.

https://soundcloud.com/pluver/ingwermix

Creepy ambient >>>>>> emo ambient

Nice timing. GAS BOX, 10 LP retrospective from Kompakt, will be released next month. :)

http://loveallday.com/metal-ambient-vol-1-eternal-infernal/

hyped for that gas box, holy shit

i feel like i post this everywhere, but no kevin drumm mentioned itt?

imperial distortion, imperial horizon, tannenbaum

i'll have to look for i mean slsk cities in fog

you'll dig it, it's up yr alley

v murky and churning and gauzy

woah, love it.

tangerine dream 4 lurking clowns

haha, post apocalyptic mutant clowns maybe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6fRK_g8Phs#t=15m

Released in 1981, recorded in 1978 (incredibly)

It starts getting ambient at about 9:15.

Robert Ashley "Automatic Writing"
― sherm, Thursday, June 24, 2004 11:57 PM (twelve years ago)

Is this the earliest example?

creepiest music for me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1V4VN6pp5I

Some of the creepiest stuff I've heard is Tertium Non Data's first album, 'The Third is Not Given.' A couple of others (Dark Ambient and some not so):[...]

― Eric Michael Place, Friday, June 25, 2004 12:45 AM (fourteen years ago)

man idk, I listened to that Tertium Non Data album and it sounds like one of those video game soundtracks that gamers hype up as "sOmE oF tHe GrEaTeSt AmBiEnT oF aLl TiMe", but when you actually listen to it turns out to be a bunch of cheap dungeon synth jump scares, so you shrug and write it off as a "you had to be there" thing. ilx user ☆ seems to feel the same way, so I feel vindicated. Apophasis by Caul (ex TND member) was also underwhelming. I guess I should spend the next 20-30 years digging deeper into Eric's list?

two recent-ish dark ambient albums that deliver on their promise are Isobel Ccircle's The House in Harbour Park and Thomas P. Heckmann's Ghosts

Things were different in 2004. Hell was further away.