hi.. anyone listen to ambient

[Spiritofmosa]

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..

[EightMilesHigh]

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

[The_Passenger]

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.

[Mazeppa]

What exactly is ambient?

[Killtacular]

Originally Posted by 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".

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

[antiant]

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

[antiant]

Originally Posted by 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.

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

[Waldemar]

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:
http://www.yousendit.com/download/LHUyCA2m4oB5TA%3D%3D



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:
http://www.yousendit.com/download/LHUOCc42BId5TA%3D%3D



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:
http://www.yousendit.com/download/LHUlkJ0wz4N5TA%3D%3D



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:
http://www.yousendit.com/download/BUhjvqkDkY95TA%3D%3D



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'

[Africa]

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

[madeyadams]

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

[The Masked Marvel]

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

[guitar forum likes chobey]

Oh god why has no one mentioned this

Biosphere

for the love of god he is amazing

ps- zero 7 pwns im listening to in the waiting line right now

[Africa]

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

[bleep_bloop]

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

[Kayetan]

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

This band called Belong makes good ambient though.

[bleep_bloop]

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

[sgrevs]

Originally Posted by Waldemar

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

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?

[Zebra]

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

[The Masked Marvel]

...because they didn't found it

[AlienEater]

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