Last thread is now dying. The best discussion on ambient I've seen in a long while. I actually bookmarked it for later use.
Opening question for this thread: What is your cut off for what you consider ambient?
/ambient/ - Ambient General
Luis Robinson
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Josiah Foster
hi
Cooper Harris
>What is your cut off for what you consider ambient?
We were just talking about it in the old thread, but I don't really think Boards of Canada is really ambient. I think the ambient community sort of claimed them due to their immense popularity compared to other recent ambient artists. At the end of the day their music is far too busy to really be included in the genre.
Jaxson Perry
For political reasons I think they are worth claiming as ours. If only to use as a bridge to the genre. Anyone who sticks with the genre and keeps them in their top four should be immediately dismissed though.
Christopher Stewart
I'm not sure I agree with this reasoning. Music should stand on it's own merit.
Noah Wright
Divide through zero and you get this:
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Carter Hughes
One of my favorites.
Carson Rogers
who /darkambient/ here?
Jack Taylor
Any recs for ambient/drone that use shoegazing techniques? I'm already a fan of W&C and Bowery Electric
Luis Smith
Check out Gas - Nekropop
Brayden Young
can we have one of these threads where people don't just post random ambient soundcloud artists. i honestly can't tell what is supposed to be serious.
Andrew Smith
stop promoting your shit. it's shit
Gabriel Jackson
simon scott - navigare
Jefre cantu ledesma - love is a stream
Oliver Harris
Can somebody recommend some meloncholic ambient music? Stuff that has a nice melody/isn't just drone. Kinda like this
Hudson Ward
thoughts on the new opn record
aoty material imo
Hudson Lopez
Benoît Pioulard - sonnet
Marcus Fischer - monocostal
Grayson White
lol
Kayden Cook
Hell yeah
The more ambient on Sup Forums the better.
Luke Martin
this is criminally underrated and night side is peak glacial drone
Brandon Bell
Added to the list user.
Nolan Brooks
Radio Amor or basically any Tim Hecker album before Virgins.
Brandon Edwards
Favorite of his?
Tyler Flores
Required listening if there ever was any.
Chase Sullivan
Can't choose man. He's my favorite artist of all time. Have to go with Mirages or Ravedeath atm tho.
Matthew Miller
New to this kind of music. Is it like new agey?
Colton Bell
Only ambient worth listening to is Aphex Twin.
I tried Brian Eno and it was just him occasionally playing piano notes.
Grayson Mitchell
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Jose Miller
Been obsessed with the picture presented although it's not a strict ambient.
I do really need some nice ambient from this year to fill my collection. I've really missed out on some stuff.
If you mean his stuff from Ambient 1 then I'm sad to say that Eno hasn't even played on the piano.
>What is your cut off for what you consider ambient?
I feel it is generally any music which puts emphasis on tone and atmosphere rather than ferocious performance, structure or rhythm.
A bit but it's less based upon being bright and twee, at least in my opinion. And it has even less of a structure.
Adam Thomas
ok dude even if you dislike Brian Eno's style of ambient you're missing out on a ton if you take that attitude. there's so much out there besides just SAW II and SAW II isn't the only album of that style either
regarding Eno, it sounds like you only listened to ambient 1 and it wasn't your thing. but what do you think of something like this?
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Christopher Sanchez
Not bad.
Caleb Garcia
ambient yes! perfect! the next addition to my budding list of filters
Christopher Martinez
Project Droning anyone?
John Cox
I really, genuinely hope you die soon.
Xavier Cox
Don't reply to trolls.
Blake Hill
neckbeard, ahh yes! reddit!
Ryan Allen
sorry
Jackson Hill
Gonna have to shill this one again
Benjamin Barnes
I'd rather listen to Wham! personally
Henry Adams
Do you have a link to a decent copy of pictured?
Zachary Russell
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I also highly recommend listening to his album wander/wonder EVEN if you don't really like this song. I'm newer to mu, but still, yet to hear anyone mention this guy.
Caleb Thomas
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Deathprod - Dead people's things
Video doesn't work for me but it might for you
Anthony Thomas
saved for later senpai
Asher Flores
ericmatthewbowers.bandcamp.com
This dude used to post a lot in bandcamp threads like 2 years ago, a lot of good ambient I actually found through Sup Forums artist
Isaac Rodriguez
Yup, ~650kbps FLACs, AFAIK it's from the original pressing
mega.nz
I WISH I could find their other release in such a good quality though.
I've got to respect my country's ambient scene too!
Harsh.
But it's still the worst part.
Gavin Sanders
HAVE Y'ALL FUCKING LISTENED TO THIS OR WHAT
Christian Murphy
Nah und Fern by Gas has all his best releases put together. Pop, Zauerberg, Konigsforst and Gas. I heard them all together and assumed it was one 4-disc release so never needed to rank the individual works. I think they’re all brilliant. There are some very subdued minimal techno beats incorporated - not on all tracks - but also some of the most direct and beautiful soundscapes. The story is he did LSD and explored forests in Germany during the creation. Upon first listen, may not seem like much but it’s deceptively simple and not a daft track on the 4 CDs.
Celer all around analogue ambient, so many dependable records from the early days particularly. It was a husband and wife duo until the wife died in 2009. The love is there in the music. Capri is loads of short pieces that are wonderful. The wife titled them with exquisitely imaginative names like Bracelets Passed to Spanish Hands. Basinski’s Disintegration Loops are juicy as well in this somewhat similar vein. They both use tape loops and have seemingly covered piano in dust sonically to make it feel distant like a dream.
I like some Brambles. She offers more a stew of sounds but in its way is ambient.
For my money, Bengalfuel is king. It is often the simplest, most straight forward or "pure" experience on some albums, warm ambient pads. Also, Roeblin is a dark-ambient drone masterpiece. Some releases have tracks with beats and can get carried away but most of it is bloody well good ambient and the guy has some interviews that are spiritual that give some idea where the music is coming from so this may be part of my bias for the music, because I found it through a meditation playlist of sorts. It is relatively new yet their work Sadye, for me, rivals Wolfgang Voigt or Eno or anybody frankly as the quintessential ambient album. It’s almost 2 and a half hours and is a journey beginning to end, like a good story.
Good to see this thread. Ambient's my way to relax and has more value than any genre.
Evan Moore
not ambient tho pal
Camden Allen
The soundtrack you mean?
Jacob Turner
Been really enjoying pic related recently
Agreed
Ravedeath is a very cohesive project but An Imaginary Country is very good too
There is some overlap but ambient is far more reliant on creation of atmosphere and slow moving textures
Dont feed trolls man
I find the work of GAS hard to rank too. I think it has to do with each album being so strong and the way they evoke different moods. Pop is very different from Konigforst etc.
Nicholas Edwards
What is it?
Jackson Brooks
Cameron Ross
Anyone listened to this? Thoughts?
Nathan Martinez
I added it to my list. Suggestions like this will be reported in future threads.
Isaac Bennett
you probably heard this already but this thing right here is awesome
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Eli Baker
secretpyramid.bandcamp.com
>basinski meets badalamenti
videogamemusic01.bandcamp.com
>like BOC's Olsen, all warblywoo, with readings from the tao te ching. great meditation music if you're into such things
infraction.bandcamp.com
>like SOTL at their dirtiest. heavy dream music
padangfoodtigers.bandcamp.com
>sparse banjo-infused folk/alt-country ambience. think paris texas OST on valium
aeolian.bandcamp.com
>slow burn strings and voice. requires deep listening. excellent, modern masterpiece.
Camden Lee
what is it?
Camden Myers
Sleep Research Facility - Deep Frieze
Listen to it in bed with the temperature as cold as you can get it. A personal favorite of mine.
Joseph Turner
nostramo is great too.
Daniel Clark
> mfw listening to this based on this thread and the last track has vocals
Isaac Russell
wtf
Connor Gutierrez
nice write up
Connor Smith
nice samefagging
Jonathan Scott
...
Jonathan Nelson
>ulrich schnauss
>reddit
Austin Diaz
I don't pretend to not browse reddit like 90 percent of the users here.
I've also yet to listen to ulrich. Is he any good?
Liam Hughes
can someone rec me something in this style? i love ambient but havent found anything like this
Michael Green
John Jones
will do
Zachary Lopez
Just listened to this for the first time and it blew me away.
Any recommendations of where to go from here, either in Floating Points' discography or otherwise?
Nathan Walker
I've never once in my life browsed reddit myman and i'm fairly certain that's the same case for most of the people here
Nolan Garcia
oh yeah
I'm sure buddy
Jeremiah Murphy
25000kittens.bandcamp.com
Ultra comfy ambient made in memory for the artist's two cats. The first track was for a cat they had a long while, the second for a kitten that passed early.
Caleb Sullivan
Cozy thing
Matthew Rogers
Now youve done it
Asher Lewis
i was going to do my usual and just skip through 10s at a time and judge and make a snarky comment but that 2nd track is actually rather lovely and almost melted my cold cynical heart for a moment.
Cameron Roberts
>Andy Stott - Luxury Problems
Kind of on the fence about calling this ambient, but I just love his music so much.
Angel Cruz
Hmm
Mason Peterson
Andy gives some nice dub and ambient techno's for sure! His Boiler Room was fantastic: youtube.com
Thomas Harris
Also recommending this to anyone who wants more comfiness. He uses a wind-powered analogue synth to sound kinda like Boards of Canada
justinwalter.bandcamp.com
His best album next to Faith in Strangers
Kayden Martin
While we are sharing stuff might as well try it... Give some love to Zabriskie! Some drone-y stuff, some cinematic-like ambiance, some nice digital synths. Always in a mood for his album.
Grayson Ortiz
nope i swear on me mum
Eli Miller
me. i like lustmord.
shinjuku thief - medea too
and also cryo chamber, tho i havent heard all of the catalogue
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Lucas Brown
Eli Mitchell
>beats
Not ambient pal
Samuel Diaz
Camden Powell
>2017
>unironically listening to elevator music
Jayden Gutierrez
link to last thread?
Jeremiah Peterson
this is why we can't have nice things :(
Levi Fisher
Henry Ortiz
cheers
Jack Peterson
first of all, how dare you
Jonathan Cruz
>being an uptight bellend who doesn't know how to chill
Must be the teen angst.
Connor Carter
Soundtrack is great but it's really a companion to the movie. Go see good time, very worth it
Dominic Richardson
Go somewhere else.
Oliver Lee
this is one of my favorite releases, it's really short and really sweet
I've fallen asleep to it on countless occasions
dmtrec.bandcamp.com
ooh thanks for this, i love it
Willamette was really nice, and i appreciate the brevity of the tracks (some ambient runs a little too long for me)
Jordan Rivera
celer.bandcamp.com
celer's pretty hit or miss but this one's definitely a hit
oh fuck yes, I'm about to head to bed (work the graveyard shift) and I think I'll listen to this again while falling asleep. willamette has a solid, altho short, discog, but imo this is his best.
also also listen to my music it's on spotify now
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Easton Williams
It was beautiful, ty user.
Will rec How to Disappear Completely - Mer de Revs
in return
Jordan Hall
>It was beautiful, ty user.
much obliged
Luke Phillips
what do you guys prefer in terms of atmosphere?
dark drones? new age? old synths? field recordings? solo piano? Onkyo?