Ambient - The Megathread

[QBLA]

we're going to be releasing an old ambient album by Arthur Dent & Deeper Than Space later in 2012. It was originally released on Silent Records back in 1995. That's some good drone space type ambient! It will have an extra track and will probably be double disc considering the length of the tracks. I was looking for youtubes, but didn't find anything on this album.

 

old schoolers from the Bay area "might" remember this.

[Guest alin]

Check these two ambient songs performed live by Röyksopp (good audio quality):

 

Shores of Easy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2Pe1I-ktAA

 

Electric Counterpoint III (modified version of Steve Reich's track)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_eWizFmi5c

 

* you can download for free "Shores of Easy" from their website

 

 

Other amazing ambient songs:

 

Röyksopp - Curves

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rc5-fVkO4nQ

 

Solar Fields - Sol

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNiD9M59FQE

 

Carbon Based Lifeforms - Vortex

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekg62OUZsLY

 

The Field - Sun & Ice

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhdqW7m4a9g

 

 

Reload - Le Soleil et la Mer

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28leylkt08g

 

Reload = Global Communication

 

 

 

Opus III - Cozyland

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=almcgBFF0WY

 

 

 

Slowdive - Good Day Sunshine

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rx25tWvIPPs

 

 

 

Primal Scream - Inner Flight

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thr0MiwRUgo

 

 

 

... and of course Global Communication, Aphex Twin (SAW 85-92, SAW2), Brian Eno (Ambient series, Apollo (Atmospheres & Soundtracks)), Tangerine Dream, Jean Michel Jarre (Oxygene, Equinoxe), Biosphere, Ulrich Schnauss, GAS, FSOL (Lifeforms), Vangelis, The KLF (Chillout), and so on.

[Redruth]

David Sylvian - Gone to Earth (not entirely ambient, but it has its moments)

 

instrumentals version might be more appropriate?

 

+

 

porn sword tobacco - porn sword tobacco

kettel - volleyed iron

jóhann jóhannsson - englaborn + the miners hymn

suum cuique - midden

lusine Icl - language barrier

murcof - (all)

[Guest alin]

Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygene 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ek5u5jl7Ads

 

NEU! - Isi

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiMQ5r5y78g

(check also "Seeland")

 

Amorphous Androgynous - Mountain Goat

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gi6kkjo31fY

 

Kraftwerk - Franz Schubert

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJqnc_0mZmA

 

...and the fantastic track

 

FSOL - A Glitch in Cellular Memory

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVDMOixkaKw

[SR4]

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the Pop Ambient series is gorgeous

 

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[youtubehd]tV9uFkVSGq8[/youtubehd]

 

[youtubehd]ou_1Hw5aMNY[/youtubehd]

 

[youtubehd]EZqCAFmjxXQ[/youtubehd]

 

[youtubehd]jYjwFNUoD-Y[/youtubehd]

 

[youtubehd]9wSyAlo7AUA[/youtubehd]

[SR4]

[youtubehd]Tv6Z7lyb_AY[/youtubehd]

 

[youtubehd]L-zmMuAZB1w[/youtubehd]

[ghOsty]

I just discovered this guy, he's pretty good:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXdggEC6k0c

 

i fucking love loscil ... plume and first narrows are amazing

[logakght]

yo yo yo dumping some tribal

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnOEGDMjq08

[Macca]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHW4S768LWc

 

more people must know the wonders!

[Meadows and Labyrinths]

group from my hometown area:

 

[youtubehd]3agl3unOH8U[/youtubehd]

wait, what? is your hometown Shepherdstown? you know Woodworkings? Kyle is a coworker and a good friend of mine.

 

also, i loved that Twinsistermoon album that came out recently.

Edited September 2, 2011 by Luke Fucking Hazard

[Redruth]

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[Capsaicin]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lzV-sci6P8

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnoFSGFpeeE&feature=related

[Capsaicin]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWJy03HLG1E

This is one of the most groggy, tired, and fuzzy sounding ambient albums I've ever listened to. It's like waking up early, early, early in the morning when the whole world is just completely silent and you're not entirely thinking straight.

[Guest headonist]

Just continue with Steve Roach and you'll be fine.

 

Otherwise, check out my recommended ambient albums on this page:

http://www.discogs.com/lists/Essential-Ambient/2949

[Capsaicin]

Does anyone remember the name of that one internet ambient radio station? It wasn't on soma.fm, and the guy who hosted it uploaded his massive collection of ambient music online and organized it by how it sounded. It was a great website but I've lost the bookmark and the name escapes me.

[Capsaicin]

Found it! Sleepbot is the name. The website cataloging his excellent taste in ambient music is right here: http://sleepbot.com/ambience/

 

The radio webpage is right here: http://sleepbot.com/seb/

 

The first link hasn't been updated in years, but there's still plenty of great music to go off of.

[ghOsty]

[BOCfan]

 

Word indeed.

 

Lots of great music in this thread, will need to sit down and listen properly. Also:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aa1EkpkjsxY

[Guest dextermex]

psy-amb.blogspot.com has a lot of free ambient mixes for download too

[TRiP]

not sure if it's been posted already, but:

 

 

Benn Jordan's (The Flashbulb) Pale Blue Dot. Its just an absolute gem of perfection and beauty. Travel through both space and time.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjqBq8J1n-E

Edited September 13, 2011 by TRiP

[DeadlyTowers]

The Voyager space probes launched by NASA gathered field recordings of the interaction between the solar wind and the magnetosphere of various planets and moons in the Solar System.

 

This interaction results in vibration within the range of 20 Hz to 20 kHz, which is also the range of human hearing. When returned to Earth these field recordings can be made audible, allowing us to hear the distinctive sounds that planets and moons generate in the solar weather.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAPNfKADA7Y

[soundwave]

[mcbpete]

I completely forgot I downloaded this free compilation album last year until I refound it a couple of days ago:

 

 

Download here - http://web.mac.com/a.../TheOrtica.html

 

It's a 'mash-up' of various dark ambient artists mulched together into a lovely droney soup of sound. The album consists of the following:

 

 

Track 01. Earthbound

• Biosphere: “Camp 1: Himalayan Nightflight”

• Brian Eno: “Lantern Marsh”

• Peter Gabriel: “Running to the Rain” The Rabbit-Proof Fence OST

• Harold Budd / Brian Eno: “Lost in the Humming Air”

• Brian Eno: “Riverside”

• Brian Eno: “The Lost Day”

• Brian Eno / Harold Budd: “First Light”

• Sigur Rós: “Dogun”

• Polmo Polpo: “Oarca”

 

Track 02. Civilized

• Vangelis: “Memories of Green” Blade Runner OST

• Porcelain in the Backpack: “Touching the Ground Crossing the Air”

• Brian Eno: “Tal Coat”

• Shriekback: “3 AM”

• Digitalis: “Arab”

• Peter Gabriel: “Go Away Mr Evans” The Rabbit-Proof Fence OST

• Peter Gabriel: “Moodoo’s Secret” The Rabbit-Proof Fence OST

• Sigur Rós: “Ba Ba”

• Monolake: “Mass Transit Railway”

• John Foxx: “Fog Structures”

 

Track 03. Leaving

• Vangelis: “Main Title and Prologue” Blade Runner OST

• John Murphy: “The Fifth Crew Member” Sunshine OST

• Sigur Rós: “Ti Ki”

• Vangelis: “Blade Runner Blues” Blade Runner OST

• Vangelis: “Main Titles” Blade Runner OST

• Monolake: “Bicom”

• Kwook!: “Apolloguiltily (Black Spectres Mix)”

• Vangelis: “Los Angeles November 2019” Blade Runner OST

• Vangelis: “The Prodigal Son Brings Death” Blade Runner OST

• Ellende: “Ten years a Second”

• Kazumichi Grime: “Drift”

 

Track 04. Approach

• Biosphere / Namlook: “Gebirge”

• Carbon Based Lifeforms: “Refraction”

• Biosphere: “Rotation”

• Monolake: “Credit”

• Flimmer: “It Was Really Nothing”

• OCP: “Atmos Two”

• Pandemia: “Venus Urania 01”

• film clip: 2010: Odyssey Two

• Biosphere: “Shade”

• Biosphere: “Laika”

• Peter Gabriel: “The Rabbit-Proof Fence” The Rabbit-Proof Fence OST

• Nine Inch Nails: “Closer (Precursor)”

• Idle Sunder: “Digitarian Solstice”

• Idle Sunder: “Analyse”

• Mathieu Ruhlmann: “Hares Honey Blood”

• film clip: 2010: Odyssey Two

• M__: “Ilion 03 (none)”

• Polmo Polpo: “Complete Breath”

• Idle Sunder: “Closing In”

• Cisfinitum: “Part 2”

• Biosphere: “Thermal Motion”

• Biosphere: “Field”

• Cisfinitum: “Part 3” / “Part 4” / “Part 5” / “Part 6”

• Cisfinitum: “District Delta”

• Krzysztof Penderecki: “De Natura Sonoris No. 1”

• Cisfinitum: “Landschaft I”

• Vangelis: “On the Trail of Nexus 6” Blade Runner OST

• Idle Sunder: “Folded Space”

• Konntinent: “Nasse”

• film clip: 2010: Odyssey Two

• Pandemia: “Venus Urania 02”

• Idle Sunder: “Orbital Drift”

• John Foxx: “Serene Velocity”

• Carbon Based Lifeforms: “Flytta Dig”

 

Track 05. Outside

• Brian Eno: “A CLearing”

• Brian Eno / Harold Budd: “Above Chiangmai”

• Harold Budd: “The White Arcades”

• John Foxx: “Avenham Collonade”

• Biosphere: “Yard”

• Idle Sunder: “Cryoscope”

• Con_cetta: “Intentionality Imbrication”

• audio clip: Russians

• Carbon Based Lifeforms: “Transmission / Intermission”

• Lomov: “Dachfenster”

• Idle Sunder: “Signal Interference”

• film clip: 2010: Odyssey Two

• Sascha Neudeck: “Disarray”

• Carbon Based Lifeforms: “Comsat”

• Lezrod: “Masato”

• John Foxx: “Radial Harmonics”

• Harold Budd: “The Room”

• Juno Reactor: “Luciana”

• John Murphy: “From Inside / Minus 273 Degrees Celsius” Sunshine OST

• David Lynch: “I. Station”

• Biosphere: “Biosphere”

• Muhr: “Prefaces”

• Muhr: “I Dream of Unfolding the Knots”

• John Murphy: “Repairs” Sunshine OST

• Biosphere: “Antennaria”

• audio clip: Russians

• S.E.T.I.: “Journey”

• Brian Eno / Harold Budd: “The Plateaux of Mirror”

• John Murphy: “Searl See the Sun” Sunshine OST

• John Foxx: “Shifting Perspective”

• Transcendent Device: “Degree Absolute (part one)”

• film clip: 2010: Odyssey Two

 

Track 06. Findings

• SleepResearch_Facility: “A-Deck”

• Biosphere: “Microgravity”

• Biosphere / Deathprod: “Journey to the Centre of the First 1.1”

• Peter Gabriel: “Unlocking the Door” The Rabbit-Proof Fence OST

• Phoenelai: “THX.2”

• film clip: 2010: Odyssey Two

• Biosphere: “Miniature Rock Dwellers”

• Con_cetta: “Hexagram”

• Con_cetta: “Hornplant”

• Biosphere: “Grandiflora”

• Biosphere / Deathprod: “Katedra Botaniki”

• Gustav Holst / Montreal S.O.: “Neptune, the Mystic”

• Pandemia: “Venus Urania 03”

• John Murphy: “Mercury” Sunshine OST

• David Lynch: “II. Porticos”

• Stephen Walter: “Section 1”

• Nine Inch Nails: “6 Ghosts I”

• Takeshi Nakamura: “Presentiment”

• Sigur Rós: “Di Do”

• Lezrod: “Hojas”

• Lezrod: “Azules”

• Sascha Neudeck: “Stringent #3”

• Sgnl_fltr: “Quanta 1 (remake)”

• Muhr: “The Local Existence and Uniqueness Theorem”

• film clip: 2010: Odyssey Two

 

Track 07. Following

• SleepResearch_Facility: “B-Deck”

• Brian Eno: “Signals”

• Biosphere: “Probe”

• Takeshi Nakamura: “Array”

• Peter Gabriel: “The Tracker” The Rabbit-Proof Fence OST

• Juno Reactor: “Luciana”

• Sigur Rós: “Leit ao lifi”

• Biosphere: “Fluvialmorphologie”

• Biosphere: “Micro Sound - Music for Insects”

• Biosphere: “Moistened and Dried”

• Idle Sunder: “Data Stream”

• Sigur Rós: “Veröld ny og óo”

• Idle Sunder: “Bending Space”

• Idle Sunder: “Marooned”

• Muhr: “Le Dernier”

• Idle Sunder: “Paradigm Shift”

• Krzysztof Penderecki: “Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima”

• Lezrod: “XX”

• The Dust Brothers: “Chemical Burn” Fight Club OST

• Lezrod: “Arqsoni”

• Kazumichi Grime: “100f”

• M__: “Ilion 04 (war)”

• Krzysztof Penderecki: “The Dream of Jacob”

• Pandemia: “Venus Urania 04”

• Carbon Based Lifeforms: “Artificial Island”

• John Foxx: “Floating Islands”

• John Murphy: “What Do You See?” Sunshine OST

• Carbon Based Lifeforms: “Epicentre (First Movement)”

• Brian Eno: “Alhondiga”

• Eluvium: “Area 41”

• This Mortal Coil: “Andialu”

• David Lynch: “III. Grey”

• Biosphere: “Spindrift”

• Biosphere: “Mir”

 

Track 08. Plateau

• SleepResearch_Facility: “C-Deck”

• Robert Rich: “Hayagriva”

• Phoenelai: “Structure One and Visiting Two (2 part)”

• Eluvium: “Untitled 2 (For Orchestra)”

• Muhr: “The Borromean Fields”

• Peter Gabriel: “Crossing the Salt Pan” The Rabbit-Proof Fence OST

• Biosphere: “Two Ocean Plateau”

• Carbon Based Lifeforms: “World of Sleepers”

• Idle Sunder: “Observatory II”

• Lezrod: “North Coast”

• Brian Eno: “Cavallino”

• Darren McClure: “Hillside”

• John Foxx: “City As Memory”

• Gyorgy Ligeti: “Requiem for Soprano...” 2001: A Space Odyssey OST

• Idle Sunder: “Mind of a Supercluster”

• Eluvium: “Under the Water It Glowed”

• Mathieu Ruhlmann: “Waterglass Anthers”

• Eluvium: “Everything to Come”

• Idle Sunder: “Folding Light”

• Stephen Walter: “Section 2”

• Monolake: “Nucleus”

• Transcendent Device: “Golden Wound”

• Biosphere: “Levende Fangst”

• Biosphere / Deathprod: “Twin Decks”

• Biosphere / Deathprod: “Warp / Warble”

• Sascha Neudeck: “Seitendick #3”

• Brian Eno: “Francisco”

• Idle Sunder: “Bildlicht”

• Sascha Neudeck: “160 mg”

• Lezrod: “Digi4”

• Lezrod: “Mu”

• Sigur Rós: “Sigur Rós”

• Polmo Polpo: “High Breathing”

• Juno Reactor: “Luciana”

• Pandemia: “Venus Urania 05”

• Nightech: “As Low As Possible”

• John Foxx: “Invisible Architecture”

• Muhr: “Le Gouffre en Nous”

• Biosphere: “Inverse”

• Brian Eno: “Matta”

• David Lynch: “IV. History”

• Brian Eno: “The Secret Place”

• Transcendent Device: “Degree Absolute (part two)”

 

Track 09. Sphere

• SleepResearch_Facility: “D-Deck”

• Monolake: “Wasteland”

• Biosphere: “Vibratoire”

• Transcendent Device: “Infinite Procession”

• Biosphere / Deathprod: “Journey to the Centre of the First 1.2”

• Letna: “Deliblatska Pescara”

• J. S. Bach / Hilliard Ensemble: “Christ lag in Todesbanden #1”

• Arvo Pärt: “V. Como cierva sedienta”

• Ensemble Sreteniye: “Cherubic Hymn (Georgian chant)”

• Arvo Pärt: “IV. Como cierva sedienta”

• Ensemble Sreteniye: “Psalm 104 (Valaam chant)”

• Letna: “Fruska Gora”

• Biosphere: “Microtunneling”

• Esther Venrooy: “Micro Insubordination”

• Juno Reactor: “Luciana”

• John Murphy: “A Star Within a Star” Sunshine OST

• Idle Sunder: “Deep Scope Detection”

• Sascha Neudeck: “Knochen Kraut”

• Polmo Polpo: “Mid Breathing”

• Phoenelai: “Structure Two”

• Stephen Walter: “Red Shift”

• Idle Sunder: “Aether II”

• John Foxx: “Infinite in All Directions”

• John Murphy: “The Last Message” Sunshine OST

• Brian Eno: “2/2”

• Mathieu Ruhlmann: “Brumal”

• John Murphy: “The Icarus I” Sunshine OST

• Phoenelai: “Visiting Three”

• Ellende: “Sleepsoup”

• Biosphere: “Sphere of No-form”

• Vangelis: “Tears in Rain” Blade Runner OST

• Brian Eno: “under Stars II”

• Robert Rich: “Sunyata (Emptiness)”

• David Lynch: “VI. Black”

 

Track 10. Within

• SleepResearch_Facility: “E-Deck”

• David Lynch: “VIII. Distortion”

• Phoenelai: “Tearing Down the Structures”

• Polmo Polpo: “Low Breathing”

• Gyorgy Ligeti: “Lux Aeterna” 2001: A Space Odyssey OST

• Brian Eno: “Drift”

• Mathieu Ruhlmann: “The Body of the Stones”

• Mathieu Ruhlmann: “Aymasa”

• audio clip: the sun’s heartbeat

• I.T.B.A.: “Will”

• Robert Rich: “Wheel of Earth”

• Shriekback: “Below”

• Biosphere: “Modifié”

 

 

It's pretty darn nice !

[ZoeB]

Seeing as there's been nowhere near enough mention of Pete Namlook on this thread, try these:

• Silence (Silence 5 is even better!)
  
• Air
  
• Shades of Orion
  
• 2350 Broadway is quite popular, although I don't really get it myself...
  
• The Fires of Ork
  
• Dreamfish
  
• The Putney
  
• Ambiant [sic] Otaku is another popular Tetsu Inoue one that's OK but I much prefer, say, Selected Ambient Works Volume II...
  
• From Within
  
• Outland (underrated in my opinion)
  
• Psychonavigation
  
• Organic Cloud (another Inoue one that seems too popular to me...)
  
• Jet Chamber
  

Many of these are collaborations, and some aren't really ambient, but they're amongst the cream of the Fax label as far as I can tell. Spyra's Phonehead and Peter Benisch's Waiting for Snow are great too, although don't have any Namlook involvement besides him releasing them, as far as I know.

Edited September 14, 2011 by ZoeB

[soundwave]

Seeing as there's been nowhere near enough mention of Pete Namlook on this thread, try these:

• Silence (Silence 5 is even better!)
  
• Air
  
• Shades of Orion
  
• 2350 Broadway is quite popular, although I don't really get it myself...
  
• The Fires of Ork
  
• Dreamfish
  
• The Putney
  
• Ambiant [sic] Otaku is another popular Tetsu Inoue one that's OK but I much prefer, say, Selected Ambient Works Volume II...
  
• From Within
  
• Outland (underrated in my opinion)
  
• Psychonavigation
  
• Organic Cloud (another Inoue one that seems too popular to me...)
  
• Jet Chamber
  

Many of these are collaborations, and some aren't really ambient, but they're amongst the cream of the Fax label as far as I can tell. Spyra's Phonehead and Peter Benisch's Waiting for Snow are great too, although don't have any Namlook involvement besides him releasing them, as far as I know.

 

 

 

 

these were live studio jam sessions between Namlook and Inoue recorded 'as is' with no post editing

 

personally I think they're very immersive especially 1-3 back to back

 

 

Shades of Orion 2 and Russian Spring are also worth a listen

Edited September 14, 2011 by soundwave