I tried listening to it and it was boring. Maybe ambient is not for me, but perhaps I am not doing it correctly. Do you concentrate only on the music, or do you listen to it while doing other stuff?
Also is pic related a good gateway to the genre?
I tried listening to it and it was boring. Maybe ambient is not for me, but perhaps I am not doing it correctly. Do you concentrate only on the music, or do you listen to it while doing other stuff?
Also is pic related a good gateway to the genre?
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this is not real ambient, it's 70's bullshit ambient and even as that it's lackluster
it's the worst way to get into ambient
I concentrate on the music, so if you can't do that then ambient probably isn't for you.
Came here to post this, Eno is one of the worst examples of ambient, all the people he was ripping off did it better for one but many people after him did great as well
What's real ambient then?
sample some:
stars of the lid
william basinski
celer
tim hecker
bengalfuel
gas
I pooped in your face yesterday xD
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that's not ambient music in the sense of what people call ambient these days, way too melodic and structured. as bad an example as eno
Kill yourself
oh im sry. here u go chums
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might be moar ur speed
For the record, ambient music as an idea proposed by Eno is fucking retarded since he viewed it as background music but a lot of the best ambient music is actually incredibly rich when you give it your full attention whereas Eno's lacks any sort of substance whatsoever
Like, what he did wasn't good ambient, good drone or good minimalism, it was just bland
*this* is ambient
This.
Also Grouper and Julianna Barwick
jesus
This is bad
for REAL ambient listen to the "piano in the background" playlist on spotify
i usually read while i listen to ambient, i never even tried because i am sure i would get pretty bored only concentrating into ambient
am i a retard?
THIS
go home tripfag
OH ANGELO
>neo Sup Forums hates twin peaks
jfc this board has really gone to legit shit.
Ambient is by far my favorite genre, I think Ambient 1 is a good segway but I can see how you found it bland
People will rec you Stars of the Lid but imo you should start with A Winged Victory For The Sullen instead. It's the side project of Adam (half of SotL) and Dustin O'Halloran (great pianist) and it's a more structured entryway into the genre.
Here's some stuff to try out.
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Twin Peaks is great but it's not an entryway to ambient you twat
Ma fuckers gotta get sum more of dat
sweet ass Fennesz up in this shit.
this
this
if you don't like this, you won't like ambient
>legit criticism of the non-ambient track you posed
>lol u must just like this garbage
Okay.
How long has Bengalfuel been posted on here? Seen it a lot recently. What gives?
Budd/Eno's The Pearl is one of the better works of ambient, bar none.
Eno's ambient work may be dated but his influence is certainly important.
>tfw half of what i listen to is called ambient but its actually fairly lively, melodic, rhythmic and furthermore i dont like purely ambient music
why are genres such bullshit
...
how
Care to recommend another film soundtrack?
That's wrong eno album.
Try On Land
I like a lot of ambienty stuff and I'm not very fond of this album. I know that it is a heretical opinion so I don't often share it. I prefer Tim Hecker, Jefre Cantu-Ledesme and Max Richter. Way more fun to listen to.
I love how tacky this shit is.
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Listen to Tim Hecker
cool i like ambient now thanks fellas
I really rate Music for Airports as background music that you drift in and out of but tend to agree that it doesn't stand up to a deep listen
That isn't the point of it though - it was literally made to defuse the stressful/busy atmosphere in a place like an airport, not to sit and listen to with your headphones on doing nothing else
Amen, also Deathprod for more dark ambient/drone direction
word add that fennesz and some chihei hatakeyama
>Do you concentrate only on the music?
For ambient music yes if you were autistic, otherwise no
fuck what a video too, saved. thanks user.
He wrote the track when he left his home of 18 years, it shows.
>Also is pic related a good gateway to the genre?
It's alright, but ambient encompasses more than just the soundscapes available on that one album, and I got into ambient without ever paying attention to Brian Eno.
I'll have a read of the thread before dropping recs I think might be appropriate.
You disgust me
>How long has Bengalfuel been posted on here? Seen it a lot recently. What gives?
Bengalfuel is very simple drone ambient. Alright, but way overhyped on Sup Forums
Digging the Tim Hecker though, that's quality. Good rec.
Fuck off.
Biosphere's very hit and miss for me. Still, I'm hyped for the Shenzhou reissue dropping soon.
Okay, now my recs.
You're gonna have to be okay with going on bandcamp cause a lot of this is difficult to find on youtube.
Mathias Grassow
pestproductions.bandcamp.com
(got plenty of solo work from his own bandcamp page, but this collab with Agalloch is a good intro track)
Eternell
eternell.net
Helicalin
gv-sound.bandcamp.com
Cousin Silas
weareallghosts.bandcamp.com
Posting to bump. Will post more. I tend to rec a lot of dark ambient on Sup Forums, but I'm trying to start with stuff I don't usually get to rec when I do.
>Tripfags
>A fag
Checks out
twin peaks music poster is just used to a different kind of concept of ambient. he meant well. global communication as a post by him was an improvement. maybe still too beat-y.
from what i know of bengalfuel, it's not even ambient. the two releases i have tracks off have beats that sound like autechre and one off that big cancer compilation that is really experimental. that video track is choice, though. deceptively simple.
i love celer, very reliable ambient releases. pop by gas has some really rich ambient with a few beat tracks. it's hyped for a reason. it's the real deal for ambient music. saw ii is a combo of what i feel like is great ambient and some aphex tracks that are basically i care because you do. most of it is ambient. it's a world. for some people ambient just means it's a world to go into without a typical musical arrangement. like a lot of videogame soundtracks, even mindcraft. but for the purist here in the way it seems to be interpreted, it means strictly soft synths or pads or more breathy sounding music that allows one to drift with no melody but more of an atmosphere.
>mindcraft
Snufmumriko
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Wintersilence
el-culto.bandcamp.com
tsone
stereoscenic.bandcamp.com
Olan Mill
dronarivm.bandcamp.com
Frozen Thoughts
glacialmovements.bandcamp.com
I admit I haven't heard much Bengalfuel. What I've heard is what people have linked to, which is the stuff without beats. When asked to rec something similar, I rec:
Blank Embrace
blankembrace.bandcamp.com
Posting to bump. I could keep posting recs if this is useful for anyone.
Crimson Sails
crimsonsails.bandcamp.com
Duff Egan
duffegan.bandcamp.com
Lilly
lilly33.bandcamp.com
Hoshin
cryochamber.bandcamp.com
... I was bound to link a cryo chamber release eventually.
Anyway I'm hungry so I'm gonna abandon thread. If it's still up when I'm back I could continue, but if not, anyone wanting ambient recs, if you ask constantly enough you'll catch my attention sooner or later.
thank you
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Just skip to ambient 4
I find that one to be my favorite
>Do you concentrate only on the music, or do you listen to it while doing other stuff?
I listen to ambient while doing other stuff, the 2 big ones being I listen to ambient while I am online, and when I am going to sleep.
It has become a part of my day, to the point where I could not be on the internet or try going to sleep without ambient music playing. The silence would be uncomfortable to me.
Yeah, as the poster of these
I always queue up a couple of hours of ambient music before tucking myself into bed.
I'm more in the "concentrating on the music" camp. I need it to latch onto while I'm in bed, but whilst I'm browsing online, I don't have a specific preference for ambient as background music.
I always found the music for airports albums to be pretty bad but stuff like music for films or the pearl are great.
Ok so to continue with my recs. My "in" into ambient was through Ulf Söderberg/Sephiroth, this Swedish tribal ambient producer. He released on this now defunct label, Cold Meat Industry, so I'm going to have to break from linking to more recent bandcamp stuff for this.
Sephiroth
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Under the Sephiroth moniker, his "ambient" sound is very drum driven as above, with a few more ambient tracks. Under his real name, that ratio is flipped, with more ambient to drum driven.
Ulf Söderberg
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After that, it was this German duo who became obsessed with the Sumerians.
Herbst9
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So really from the beginning of getting into ambient, I've been into more specifically, dark ambient. Through Herbst9, I discovered other artists on the Loki Found roster, as well as becoming aware of other labels apart from Loki Found whom Deep Audio distributed.
Inade
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When I got onto bandcamp (I first used bandcamp for the psybient/psytrance/downtempo releases on Ultimae), I decided to hunt out a lot of dark ambien there.
Dronny Darko
dronnydarko.bandcamp.com
Through Dronny Darko, I discovered Cryo Chamber, about the most prolific dark ambient netlabel putting out some of the most consistently high quality stuff.
Treha Sektori
trehasektori.bandcamp.com
I first heard Treha Sektori on Kalpamantra's Apogee V/A, which I believe I found through Deep Audio. Through that, I not only discovered Kalpamantra, but also Cyclic Law. Although I think Phurpa also played a part there. Phurpa are these people in Russia who perform these Bön/Tantric Buddhist rituals that can barely be defined as music, but I don't see the point in linking here.
The rest gets a bit blurry as I more actively searched for music.
OP, if that was boring try Ambient 3
Jesus
Biosphere is the lord of ambient music. You can argue with me if you'd like, but it won't change facts.