For the discussion of ambient, drone, dark ambient, progressive electronic, new age, etc.
/amb/ ambient general
Owen Garcia
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William Nelson
next stars of the lid when
Isaiah Price
anyone know any good guitar-based / guitar loop ambient? i'm a big fan of:
July Skies - Dreaming of Spires [maybe my favorite ambient album]
julyskies1.bandcamp.com
Sad Souls - Apeiron
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Robin Guthrie & Harold Budd - After the Night Falls
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Andrew Cruz
fennesz, durutti column, windy & carl
try them
Evan Lopez
thanks amigo, i've heard of fennesz and windy & carl, i'll give those all a listen
Sebastian Green
Hammock maybe?
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Mark McGuire?
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Not my area of expertise but hopefully you like those.
Justin Scott
Did anyone else listen to Ben Frost's new thing with Steve Albini? I thought it was okay. Bit of a letdown.
Gabriel Hill
Hammock is another one i like that i should have mentioned, great stuff
Mark McGuire sounds cool, this is pretty dreamy indeed
thanks!
Blake Hughes
William Basinski - A Shadow In Time
Biosphere - Substrata
Povarovo - Tchernovik
Aphex Twin - Selected... Vol II
Cluster - Cluster & Eno
Tim Hecker - Harmony in Ultraviolet
The Caretaker - An Empy Bliss...
Rhys Chatam - A Crimson Grail
And of course: Brian Eno - Ambient1/Music For Airports and Ambient4/On Land
John Kelly
Faith In Strangers by Andy Stott
Anthony Ward
any good techno ambient reccs? except for gas of course.
Luke Gonzalez
The Field.
Start with... Hmm. "Looping State Of Mind" is good: youtube.com
"Raise The Dead" is a little more ambient leaning youtube.com
"Reflecting Lights" and "A Paw In My Face" are my favorites though.
Julian Torres
autechre - incunabula
move d - kunststoff
john beltran - ten days of blue
Logan Sullivan
Nathaniel Jones
FUCK NEW AGE
DRONE AMBIENT FOREVER
Aiden Gonzalez
Nathan Thompson
Dettinger - Intershop
Minimal and repetitive, but masterful about it. Same label as Gas and the Field. youtube.com
Any Taylor Duepree fans here?
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Parker Garcia
that's because you don't know it
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Cameron Reed
deupree is fantastic. i think he's a cut above his comtemparies in a lot of ways. i've only listened to faith, stil and snow however. any idea where i should go next? also have you listened to many other artists on the 12k label?
Zachary Morgan
entry level as fuck, jesus
Brayden Ross
pls post good ambient that i can listen walking to work as the sun's coming up preferably around 30 minutes in length
the only record i know that works really well is tomorrow's harvest
Ian Sanchez
you misunderstand. the 'concept of new age' must die. and i know all of these man. yoshimura is the standout, but his sensibilities lean away from the 'relaxing new age' and more toward the the emotive, the evocative found in average settings
Carter Rivera
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Cooper Hall
this one if you're feeling particularly emotional youtube.com
Hudson Lopez
Been really digging Loscil lately, anyone got anything similar?
God its been too long
Seconding hammock, good shit
Bentley Perry
I love taylor deupree's music
hopefully I'll work up the courage to send him some music to master someday. His studio looks insane. I often wonder how he affords that setup, working with such a niche genre.
pic related
there's so much fucking money in this picture, how does he do it?
Nathaniel Jackson
Alva Noto - Xerrox Vol1, 2 & 3
Ryuichi Sakamoto & Fennesz - Cendre
Fennesz - Endless Summer
Fennesz & Jim O'Rourke - It's hard for me to say I'm sorry
William Basinski - Disintegration Loops
David Murphy
aaah i had forgotten about this, this album is fucking great for just melting in your bed completely high
Leo Powell
i had totally forgotten about this
this thread is full of old friends
Elijah Barnes
Best Basinski
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Jack Cooper
at this rate never
Jeremiah Smith
we need more ambient generals
Adrian King
Brock Van Wey's White Clouds Drift On And On is the soundtrack to every sunrise
Alexander Johnson
Brandon Anderson
and then keep looping the next 10 secs cause then the music starts and it really doesnt fucking match
Joshua Wilson
this one is so underexposed
love this album
William Sanchez
Anyone got anything similar to Grouper? Its close enough to ambient for me desu
Connor Martinez
okay, I haven't really into ambient that much, and I would really love to, does anyone have a flow chart to help me out?
also I have absolutely fallen in love with Time Machines, that third track is something completely out of this world
Julian Brooks
Ambient generals are comfy
Hunter King
stars of the lid was my gateway
tracks like articulated silences are so beautiful
Lincoln Campbell
sygur ros/radiohead is entrypoint, then you fall more and more progressively into a droning bliss
Alexander Phillips
sotl are still my #1 fav
Cameron Allen
Jace Hill
Luxury Problems is better.
Alexander Bell
if youre into anco at all, campfire songs
Luis Rodriguez
Do you have a link?
Xavier White
this guy is correct Campfire Songs is fucking awesome, like if Grouper was really happy and hung out in the woods a lot
Also hi guys. I keep finding myself coming back to Belong's October Language, does anyone know of any similar stuff with a lot of noise over a looped tune? The closest I know of are Going Places and Tim Hecker's incurably optimistic!
Austin Baker
Not the same guy, but just so happens I'm listening to Articulate Silences right now.
Brayden Bell
stars of the lid is what people will say but imo you should start with A Winged Victory For The Sullen's self titled, it's half of stars of the lid but with a pianist, which imo makes it more accessible (it's also my favorite ambient album)
Ryder Cook
Is there a pastebin for this /general/?
Gavin Thompson
idk if this is what youre looking for, but the hecker track has always reminded me of this youtu.be
Regardless, still an awesome release
Jacob Harris
E M E R A L D S
why'd they have to break up man
Jaxson Williams
Tomorrows Harvest is so incredible, I wish more people appreciated it
Benjamin Wright
This is not what I was expecting but it's awesome thanks so much for the rec
Dominic Gutierrez
If you enjoyed that, id recommend this aswell youtu.be
Very short but beautiful. Made in the 80s by a japan artist utilizing samples from french films. Personal 10/10
Jordan Smith
It's OK. I was so excited to hear they worked on this together.
Blake Anderson
Jose Parker
Yes
Levi James
Hey friends. I have a question for you: what was your first experience with ambient music? When did it happen to you? Can you remember the song?
For me it was realizing the harold budd song "Dead Horse Alive With Flies" was really doing something to me, emotionally, when it came on a pandora station in 8th grade.
What about you?
Connor Miller
i love him
the song "Negative Snow" is immense and enveloping
Jeremiah Morris
GAS - Zauberberg
Ryuichi Sakamoto and Fennesz - Cendre
Alva Noto and Ryuichi Sakamoto - Vrioon
Ryoji Ikeda - Dataplex
Autechre - Confield
Tim Hecker - Love Streams
Michael Morris
What are the best ambient records made by the anons here (talking about the self promo threads)
Isaiah Cox
Listening to "The tired sounds of stars of the lid" and thinking "what is this? it's nothing"
And then realize, after more listens, that that nithing was beautiful
Jacob Johnson
bzaurie i think posted here once and it is so good soundcloud.com
Owen Perez
negative snow is amazing
Easton Johnson
first time smoking weed at a radiohead show and they start doing some 20min really slow drony-tier jam and i cant stand anymore so i sit in the floor with my head between my knees and its really windy so i go to heaven for the next 20 min while my head is being directed through all these dreams by their sound
from then on i became a fan of listening to music moments before sleeping/waking up in that moment when you are half awake half asleep and you become synesthetic, good ambient is god tier cause it doesn't freak you into waking up but isn't boring enough to sleep you so you ride that astral space for as long as you can
Joshua Reed
mah man
James Cook
I know all these albums fuckerrrrrrrrrrr
Gabriel Wood
Ryder Kelly
Xavier Lewis
what Time Machines is this?
Jaxson Turner
coil (1998), most specifically the track 3. "5-Methoxy-N, N-Dimethyl (5-Me0-Dmt)"
Caleb Jones
Benoît Pioulard does the drone/ambient folk thing pretty good imo also check out Mirroring - Foreign Body if you haven't already it's a collab grouper did with Tiny Vipers
Christian Ross
I used to love post-rock in high school and I saw This Will Destroy You in their drone phase
I hated it and was very disappointed
Gradually though projects like Hammock, July Skies, and Sigur Ros' Valtari got me into ambient
Michael Parker
Been really digging the new Ellen Arkbro
Well on tour apparently they've had new equipment so I'm hoping soon
Landon Smith
Any ambient album that sounds like SFTB?
i really dig the feeling and aesthetic of the more ambient songs on that album. Especially mellothumb and the beautiful days.
John Garcia
>Ryuichi Sakamoto and Fennesz - Cendre
This one is really comfy, too bad the other releases aren't as good.
Kevin Moore
listening to this at the moment. love space vibes dark ambient, any recommendations like it?
Michael Lee
a shadow in time is easily one of basinski's worst records
people only like it because melon finally reviewed him
for christ's sake the sax loop is god awful and the drone piece is merely passable then it gets ruined with the ending being a loop he's used twice already before to greater effect
if you want a good basinski record, melancholia
Jonathan Edwards
Something David Firth put in his animations.
I think it was An Ending (Ascent) he used in a Salad Fingers animation. It was that or either 1/1.
I just remember he used a lot of Brian Eno, BoC, and AFX and that got me into experimental and ambient music when I was in middle school.
Lucas Campbell
Boards of Canada sidetracked me into Stars of the Lid and went from there
Connor Murphy
I'm listening to it right now. Sounds good so far.
It seems closer to By The Throat than to Aurora, which is not a bad thing (although I love both records equally).
I wish he stopped making soundtrack for fucking dance shows and worked on his personal stuff more.
Lucas King
What do you think of Watermusic II?
I could listen to that all day. Beautiful sounds.
It's the closest I can get to another Jurgen Muller album.
Lincoln Foster
I know if it's not proper ambient, but By The Throat started it for me.
It's one of those records I wish I could get knock on the head and lose memory so I can discover it again.
William Morris
im going to post it until everyone agrees with me
Christopher Ramirez
it's been a while since i've listened to watermusic ii, gonna pop that on now
good album
Jack Gomez
basically all he had to say about disintegration loops was that they're generic
das it
oh and "MUH NINE ELEBBEN"
John Davis
so you're just stupid then
Isaiah Cruz
that's all he had to say
the first half of the video he gives some context and history of loop based music, which is great and all, but then immediately after he says "he's done it again," he gets so unbelievably triggered by an artist making art that all he says boils down to "I think the loops are generic and have some cheesy effects" and "but 9/11 guys 9/11 guys hey 9/11 fuck you"
Aaron Thomas
Thinking of getting into ambient.
Are Brian Eno and Steve Roach good places to start?
Leo King
Yellow Swans in their gentler releases. I'm pretty sure one of the guys in YS dated Liz too
Allegory of Allergies is one of my favorite drone albums
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Fripp & Eno - No Pussyfooting when I was around 15 or 16, since I just discovered Roxy Music and KC.
Camden Morris
yes but keep in mind that they're not representative of the genre.
brina eno invented ambient but his sound dated a lot, and steve roach it's a little too 80s and new age-y.
op's pic is a modern masterpiece.
Daniel Cruz
Ok cheers for the advice lad
Tyler Anderson
Not necessarily space themed but I think it'll do the trick
Matthew Nguyen
Shadow is the best thing he made in a long time because:
> 1st track has something else than your regular sustain piano or strings. Plus it's two distinct separate loops going in and out of sync. Something new for him.
> 2nd track is something else than your regular sustain piano or strings.
The only bad thing about the album is recycled Melancholia loop.
Landon Ramirez
> Plus it's two distinct separate loops going in and out of sync
big whoop
Caleb Anderson
Does anyone have a download of October Language in 320?
Wyatt Hall
eno's early work is anything but dated, if you discount ambient 4, maybe and stuff mid 80s onward. you've works like discreet music and ambient 1 that are timeless classics.
one might say that their conception of ambient, then, is outdated. perhaps this meshes more for the fully-realized ambient 1, but i'd still say those early works have meshed to fit the current emotive qualities of the ambient style
Jackson Murphy
use soulseek
Eli Scott
basinski is a visionary when it comes to loops, no doubt about that. some may criticize the sheer output of relatively-similar releases, yet his catalogue has honed his abilities to a T-- covering a wide breadth of spaces. i'd even say his disintegration loops release helped shape the state of current ambient / drone music