hi.. anyone listen to ambient
 

wow this is the first time i've visited this forum. y is it that there are threads like stoner rock which could go to the rock and metal forums, and aint ska part of the alternative forums? oh and i'm surprised there aint no pop threads around, i guess times have changed.
ok anyway there are so many genres out there and i'm not going to stick to rock and metal all my life. i've recently been interested in rock/ambient sound eg. palm muted delay and reverb effect, i dont know whether i'm correct in classifying bands like dredg under that genre.if i'm right, can you guys recommend me some bands..

If you like ambient, check out some of Brian Eno's stuff. Really good ambient stuff.

I don't think that you'd class Dredg as ambient.

But you should listen to EightMilesHigh and get Brian Eno anyway, his music is great.

What exactly is ambient?

[quote=The All Mighty Wikipedia]The term was first coined by Brian Eno in the late 1970s to refer to music that would envelop the listener without drawing attention to itself, that can be either "actively listened to with attention or as easily ignored, depending on the choice of the listener".[/quote]

S'kood.
Get [i]Music for Airports[/i].
Aphex Twin's [i]Selected Ambient Works[/i] are also good, with [i]85-92[/i] being more electronica and [i]Vol. II[/i] being more minimalistic.

i love ambient music, here's some help, ambient music links/artists:

1. Bill Laswell
2. Kaya Project
3. Gaudi
4. [URL="http://www.ultimae.com/"]http://www.ultimae.com/[/URL]
5. [URL="http://www.ambient.us/"]http://www.ambient.us/[/URL]
6. Brian Eno (as mentioned)
7. Androcell [URL="http://www.androcell.com/"]http://www.androcell.com/[/URL]
8. [URL="http://www.interchill.com/"]http://www.interchill.com/[/URL] (label where you'll find Kaya Project and Gaudi along with other groups/artists)
9. [URL="http://www.nativestaterecords.com"]http://www.nativestaterecords.com[/URL]
10. [URL="http://www.omnimotion.com/"]http://www.omnimotion.com/[/URL]
11. [URL="http://www.solarfields.com/"]http://www.solarfields.com/[/URL]
12. Aes Dana
13. Steve Roach [URL="http://www.steveroach.com/"]http://www.steveroach.com/[/URL]
14. [URL="http://www.spiralight.com/"]http://www.spiralight.com/[/URL]

there's a lot out there to explore

[QUOTE=cigaro88]wow this is the first time i've visited this forum. y is it that there are threads like stoner rock which could go to the rock and metal forums, and aint ska part of the alternative forums? oh and i'm surprised there aint no pop threads around, i guess times have changed.
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and yes, as "big" as the forum seems it's actually quite limited with regards to musical "genres" imo as well as other things, but anyways i digress

Oh if you want to know ambient...and the pioneers behind it, then this is for you:

This is my 4-hour ambient mix with over 75 tracks in it! It took a while to make...carefully edited. you can download the entire mix (220mb) called 'The Love' and/or it's 3 component parts ('The Roam', 'The Fall', 'The Rise') below it. The tracklistings are all there. Please take a listen and tell me what you think! The tracklisting is a virtual who's-who of the ambient/ambient dub/experimental sound world.

I've been wanting to do this for a long, long time...My way of paying homage to the great texture-paving pioneers and purveyors of these amazing soundscapes. I really hope you enjoy this...whether for spacing out or as a background wallpaper for your day/night...Peace!!

[Artwork for 'The Love' by DE ES. All others by Beksinski. Google them...They're utterly astounding!]

THE LOVE

MIX DOWNLOAD:
[url]http://www.yousendit.com/download/LHUyCA2m4oB5TA%3D%3D[/url]

[IMG]http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e98/collageking/Mixes/THELOVE.jpg[/IMG]

1.) SETI - 'Signal 001'
2.) Tetsu Inoue - 'Mood Swing'
3.) Vangelis - 'Blade Runner Blues' [from the motion picture Blade Runner]
4.) The Drum Club - 'Furry Meadows'
5.) Future Sound Of London - 'Cerebral'
6.) Dallas Simpson - 'Abha'
Dallas Simpson - 'Adoration, 1st Movement'
7.) Natural Language - 'Sylvanshine'
8.) Woob - 'Giant Stroke'
9.) Terre Thaemlitz - 'Fina_Departure'
10.) A Small, Good Thing - 'Ostrichism'
11.) Dallas Simpson - 'Waterpump'
12.) Deep Space Network - 'Zenn La'
13.) The KLF - 'Last Train To Trancentral' (Mu D. Vari-Speed Version)
14.) A Small, Good Thing - 'Gulch'
15.) Terre Thaemlitz - 'Fat Chair'
16.) Material (Bill Laswell with William S. Burroughs) - 'The End of Words'
17.) Friends, Lovers & Family - 'The Seaside'
Sad World (Dr. Atmo) - 'Harsin'
18.) Mike Kandel - 'Slow Boat To China'
19.) Mia - 'Savannah'
20.) Fognode - 'Thin Faces'
21.) Art of Noise - 'Momento'
22.) Mark Fauver - 'Return To Innsmouth'
23.) Miasma - 'Miasma'
24.) Future Sound of London - 'Among Myselves'
25.) Beatsystem - 'Endlessly Downward'
26.) Woob - 'Gate'/'Pondlife'
27.) O Yuki Conjugate - 'Still Breath'
28.) Phauss - 'Radiator (for Amanita Muscaria & Mark McCloud)'
29.) Woob - 'Strange Air'
30.) Belt - 'Under The Sunset'
31.) Elliot Sharp - 'InSERGEncy' [electronic altering of Timothy Leary saying 'LSD has been discovered.']
32.) Beatsystem - 'Invade Areas Where Nothing's Definite'
33.) The Orb - 'We're Pastie To Be Grill You'
34.) Terre Thaemlitz - 'Still Life With Numerical Analysis'
35.) Sub Dub - 'Babylon Part 2'
36.) The Orb - 'Log Of Deadwood'
37.) Bedouin Ascent - 'Mammon'
38.) Michael Kamen & Orbital - 'Event Horizon' [from the motion picture Event Horizon]
39.) Air (Pete Namlook) - Trip 4
40.) Air (Pete Namlook) - Trip 6
41.) Lucid Dreams 0096 - 'Nightmares'
42.) Pink Floyd - 'A Saucerful Of Secrets'
43.) Terre Thaemlitz - 'A Means From An End [Reduction of Contents]'
44.) Aphex Twin - 'Analogue Bubblebath 3'
45.) Electric Skychurch - 'Outside'
46.) Love Spirals Downward - 'Kykean'
47.) The Pelican Daughters - 'The Bicycle Ride'
[aural rendition of Albert Hoffman's infamous accidental excursion
& therefore the first L.S.D. trip ever, 1943, Switzerland]
48.) Brian Eno & Jon Hassell - 'Delta Rain Dream'
49.) Spooky vs. Scanner - 'Kybernetes'
50.) Sequential - 'The Mission' (live from the Outer Zone)
51.) Adam Shaikh - 'Vapor'
52.) Young American Primitive - 'Expanding'
53.) Dubtribe - 'Memory' (edit)
54.) Aphex Twin - 'Parallel Stripes'
55.) Evolve Now - 'Impetus'
56.) Silence [Pete Namlook & Dr. Atmo] - 'Heaven' (aw-Cut)
57.) Tangerine Dream - 'Phaedra' (edit)
58.) Killing Joke - 'Requiem' (A Floating Leaf Always Reaches the Sea dub mix)
59.) Spacetime Continuum - 'Ping Pong'
60.) Orgship - 'Liquid Sky'
61.) Prototype 909 - 'Understand' (live)
62.) 4 Voice - '4VI Outro'
63.) Harold Budd - 'Flowered Knife Shadows'
64.) Mysteries of Science - 'The Technological Womb'
65.) L.S.G. - 'Jillianity'
66.) Hawkwind - 'Space Dust'
67.) Cabaret Voltaire - 'Exterminating Angel'
68.) Roger Eno - 'Voices'
69.) Sheila Chandra - 'True'
70.) Kitaro - 'The Field'
71.) Sigur Ros - '( ).4'
72.) 777 [System 7] - 'Sirenes' (Tranquility mix)
73.) Brian Eno - 'An Ending (Ascent)'
74.) Silence [Pete Namlook & Dr. Atmo] - 'Sweet Angels'
75.) Vaughan Williams - 'The Lark Ascending'

THE ROAM

MIX DOWNLOAD:
[url]http://www.yousendit.com/download/LHUOCc42BId5TA%3D%3D[/url]

[IMG]http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e98/collageking/Mixes/THEROAMBeksinski2.jpg[/IMG]

1.) SETI - 'Signal 001'
2.) Tetsu Inoue - 'Mood Swing'
3.) Vangelis - 'Blade Runner Blues' [from the motion picture Blade Runner]
4.) The Drum Club - 'Furry Meadows'
5.) Future Sound Of London - 'Cerebral'
6.) Dallas Simpson - 'Abha'
Dallas Simpson - 'Adoration, 1st Movement'
7.) Natural Language - 'Sylvanshine'
8.) Woob - 'Giant Stroke'
9.) Terre Thaemlitz - 'Fina_Departure'
10.) A Small, Good Thing - 'Ostrichism'
11.) Dallas Simpson - 'Waterpump'
12.) Deep Space Network - 'Zenn La'
13.) The KLF - 'Last Train To Trancentral' (Mu D. Vari-Speed Version)
14.) A Small, Good Thing - 'Gulch'
15.) Terre Thaemlitz - 'Fat Chair'
16.) Material (Bill Laswell with William S. Burroughs) - 'The End of Words'
17.) Friends, Lovers & Family - 'The Seaside'
Sad World (Dr. Atmo) - 'Harsin'
18.) Mike Kandel - 'Slow Boat To China'
19.) Mia - 'Savannah'
20.) Fognode - 'Thin Faces'

THE FALL

MIX DOWNLOAD:
[url]http://www.yousendit.com/download/LHUlkJ0wz4N5TA%3D%3D[/url]

[IMG]http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e98/collageking/Mixes/THEFALLBeksinski.jpg[/IMG]

1.) Art of Noise - 'Momento'
2.) Mark Fauver - 'Return To Innsmouth'
3.) Miasma - 'Miasma'
4.) Future Sound of London - 'Among Myselves'
5.) Beatsystem - 'Endlessly Downward'
6.) Woob - 'Gate'/'Pondlife'
7.) O Yuki Conjugate - 'Still Breath'
8.) Phauss - 'Radiator (for Amanita Muscaria & Mark McCloud)'
9.) Woob - 'Strange Air'
10.) Belt - 'Under The Sunset'
11.) Elliot Sharp - 'InSERGEncy' [electronic altering of Timothy Leary saying 'LSD has been discovered.']
12.) Beatsystem - 'Invade Areas Where Nothing's Definite'
13.) The Orb - 'We're Pastie To Be Grill You'
14.) Terre Thaemlitz - 'Still Life With Numerical Analysis'
15.) Sub Dub - 'Babylon Part 2'
16.) The Orb - 'Log Of Deadwood'
17.) Bedouin Ascent - 'Mammon'
18.) Michael Kamen & Orbital - 'Event Horizon' [from the motion picture Event Horizon]
19.) Air (Pete Namlook) - Trip 4
20.) Air (Pete Namlook) - Trip 6
21.) Lucid Dreams 0096 - 'Nightmares'
22.) Pink Floyd - 'A Saucerful Of Secrets'
23.) Terre Thaemlitz - 'A Means From An End [Reduction of Contents]'
24.) Aphex Twin - 'Analogue Bubblebath 3'
25.) Electric Skychurch - 'Outside'

THE RISE

MIX DOWNLOAD:
[url]http://www.yousendit.com/download/BUhjvqkDkY95TA%3D%3D[/url]

[IMG]http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e98/collageking/Mixes/THERISEBeksinski.jpg[/IMG]

1.) The Pelican Daughters - 'The Bicycle Ride'
[aural rendition of Albert Hoffman's infamous accidental excursion
& therefore the first L.S.D. trip ever, 1943, Switzerland]
2.) Brian Eno & Jon Hassell - 'Delta Rain Dream'
3.) Spooky vs. Scanner - 'Kybernetes'
4.) Sequential - 'The Mission' (live from the Outer Zone)
5.) Adam Shaikh - 'Vapor'
6.) Young American Primitive - 'Expanding'
7.) Dubtribe - 'Memory' (edit)
8.) Aphex Twin - 'Parallel Stripes'
9.) Evolve Now - 'Impetus'
10.) Silence [Pete Namlook & Dr. Atmo] - 'Heaven' (aw-Cut)
11.) Tangerine Dream - 'Phaedra' (edit)
12.) Killing Joke - 'Requiem' (A Floating Leaf Always Reaches the Sea dub mix)
13.) Spacetime Continuum - 'Ping Pong'
14.) Orgship - 'Liquid Sky'
15.) Prototype 909 - 'Understand' (live)
16.) 4 Voice - '4VI Outro'
17.) Harold Budd - 'Flowered Knife Shadows'
18.) Mysteries of Science - 'The Technological Womb'
19.) L.S.G. - 'Jillianity'
20.) Hawkwind - 'Space Dust'
21.) Cabaret Voltaire - 'Exterminating Angel'
22.) Roger Eno - 'Voices'
23.) Sheila Chandra - 'True'
24.) Kitaro - 'The Field'
25.) Sigur Ros - '( ).4'
26.) 777 [System 7] - 'Sirenes' (Tranquility mix)
27.) Brian Eno - 'An Ending (Ascent)'
28.) Silence [Pete Namlook & Dr. Atmo] - 'Sweet Angels'
29.) Vaughan Williams - 'The Lark Ascending'

Uhm... wow, thanks lolz... I guess I'll download those eh... srsly cool mix...

yeah try Thievery Corporation and Zero 7 for some chill stuff. They're probably like.. the leading ambient artists out there.

60's-70's Kroutrock (exp. ambience) is worth looking into, specifically Popol Vuh.

Oh god why has no one mentioned this

[SIZE="7"]Biosphere[/SIZE]

for the love of god he is amazing

ps- zero 7 pwns im listening to [i]in the waiting line[/i] right now

Waldemar you molded all these tracks together in a collage lolz cool I guess but Idk which is which, still cool I think.

Tim Hecker and Biosphere are pretty cool, and i guess you could call
Sunn O))) ambient too.

Tim Hecker I don't get. I couldn't get much from his music.

This band called Belong makes good ambient though.

[I]Harmony In Ultraviolet[/I] is what got me into his music. I downloaded [I]Radio Amor[/I] but I can never sit through the whole thing.

[QUOTE=Waldemar;13769359]


[Artwork for 'The Love' by DE ES. All others by Beksinski. Google them...They're utterly astounding!]

[/QUOTE]

Dude those artworks are freakin' intense. Awesome stuff. Not sure if I can be bothered about the music...so mammoth...can you recommend one of the three parts?

Tangerine Dream. I can't believe no one has mentioned the founders of the genre.

...because they didn't found it

I listen to ambient on occasion but I'm not really a huge fan.

[QUOTE=madeyadams;13770581]yeah try Thievery Corporation and Zero 7 for some chill stuff. They're probably like.. the leading ambient artists out there.[/QUOTE]
they're not ambient.

[QUOTE]...because they didn't found it[/QUOTE]
Who did, if not Tangerine Dream?

[QUOTE=antiant;13776492]they're not ambient.[/QUOTE]

Zero 7 is leaning towards more of downtempo style

[QUOTE=sgrevs;13771931]Dude those artworks are freakin' intense. Awesome stuff. Not sure if I can be bothered about the music...so mammoth...can you recommend one of the three parts?[/QUOTE]

Well the first one (The Roam) is mostly terrestrial/organically based and layered with nature sounds...it gets darker in the end. The Fall is all dark ambient...some gothic, some a bit spooky, and some downright disturbingly twisting sound but gets a bit positive in the end. The Rise is almost all ethereal/spacey ambient...very positive. I hope this helps. The second one is a bit dark for most ambient lovers taste, but of course the dark ambient lovers...well...they love it. lol.

I hope this helps!

As for the cue list...I should have made one after deleting the project in my Adobe Audition where I created it...oops. However, I do have cue/track uncompressed wav versions of all 3 mixes if you'd like; They sound a helluva lot better of course, and there are track marks at the appropriate tracks.

:)

[QUOTE=La Revolucion;13776519]Who did, if not Tangerine Dream?[/QUOTE]

Brian Eno founded and coined "ambient music," as someone else pointed out before.

Kudos to the man who mentioned Biosphere, he is awesome. 'Silene' is a gorgeous, moody track that has many wintry connotations to it.

[QUOTE]Brian Eno founded and coined "ambient music," as someone else pointed out before.
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Oh, I didn't know Eno did that.

Anyone like Trentemoller?

robert rich - [i]humidity[/i]

Your links have expired for your 4 hour mix, can you upload them again and post the links? I'd appreciate it a lot.:thumb:

Shpongle, Boards of Canada, and The Dust Brothers need mention here.

Boards of Canada are awesome