Ambient - The Megathread

[Squee]

One of my favorites...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PX2oYPzr3jY

It's weird. I don't even listen that much to it.

 

EDIT: Hmmmm... not much of an ambient track, I guess.

 

Well, then there's Oort by Murcof.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3973285/Oort_MKE%20Edit.mp3

I've edited it slightly because there are elements in the original that I do not like.

[Tauhid]

Don't know why I just listed artists in the first post.

 

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

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ux-vUvt1pdo

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZqOuSLygh8

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNoZK9qyMk4

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2KaJnVs8N4

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7taENGacowo

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PliyzhLEDY4

Edited August 25, 2012 by Tauhid

[Guest drukqs]

B. Eno: Real, Water on Water (or well that album with Fripp)

Hikikomori: 1 (album)

Bipshere: People are friends

Bass Communion: Drugged

Akira Yamaoka: Day of Night, World of Madness, Forest

Jacaszek: Windhover

Leyland Kirby: Sadly the Future... (most of them, yeah)

Origami Galaktica: Flukt

Seefeel: Signals

Tetsuo Inoue: Low of Vibration

 

Ah yes, Akira Yamakoa. I really am partial to the song Memories and Pulsating Ambiance. 2nd one isn't beatless though.

 

Also, does this count as ambient? It helps me relax and shut everything out:

 

http://homophoni.com/david%20kirby%20-%20coronary.mp3

David Kirby - Coronary

[Guest Sprigg]

Stars of the lid- don't bother they're here. My favourite ambient track ever made.

[kichiguy]

Fellow WATMMer 3six of course. Took the liberty to reup a mix he did showcasing some of the 'prettiest' moments of his discography. Link.

[logakght]

feel free to browse my collection of ambient stuff in my YT playlists:

 

http://www.youtube.com/user/eetherealflux?feature=mhee

[logakght]

this is my one of my favorites pieces. it's like the music you hear that moment, when you realize how beautiful is the life.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8el2kqWFB4w

 

and this one is like the sound our souls hear when they travel through the wormhole from "Nowhere" to our carnal form:

[Npoess]

A few more:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYEJB8XMvZI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rb8wsZtnInU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BT_15o5oZWo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuDm78sDT1k

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ek8O61ppyg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjrPpzNeNZ0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zF86zwJ5EzY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgfCb0P4vpg

Edited August 27, 2012 by Npoess

[Friendly Foil]

Biosphere - Poa Alpina

Biosphere - Sphere Of No-Form

Biosphere - From a Solid to a Liquid

Gas - Pop 2

Gas - Pop 5

Gas - Zauberberg 1

Gas - Zauberberg 7

Bvdub - A Final Goodbye

The Caretaker - No One Knows What Shadowy Memories Haunt Them To This Day

Thomas Köner - Ilira

Thomas Köner - Andenes

Thomas Köner - Permafrost

Tim Hecker - Sketch 3

Tim Hecker - Blood Rainbow

Tim Hecker - Harmony In Blue I-IV

Tim Hecker - Her Black Horizon

Tim Hecker - Currents of Electrostasy

Tim Hecker - Azure Azure

Tim Hecker - Balkanize-You

Tim Hecker - The Piano Drop

Tim Hecker - Studio Suicide, 1980

All of the Disintegration Loops by Basinski. Also, Melancholia, Vivian & Ondine and A Red Score In Tile

 

I quite like those.

[logakght]

bumping this because this is a never ending quest

[Redruth]

[youtubehd]Uqhc9DdvZAE[/youtubehd]

[mcbpete]

Fellow WATMMer 3six of course. Took the liberty to reup a mix he did showcasing some of the 'prettiest' moments of his discography. Link.

Absolutely, 3six has done some insanely good ambient over the last few years - Droney ambient beauty in its purest most beautiful form.

[awepittance]

 

[kaini]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VT0C7j85rU

 

 

(not so much pretty as terrifying)

 

Edited August 28, 2012 by kaini

[kaini]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEKpYSI2rzw

[Guest Enter a new display name]

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

 

So this came out in 1988? I must say I am impressed...

[chenGOD]

It's amazing how language can have such different meanings for people.

For example, while I love Tim Hecker's Harmony in Ultraviolet, and think that it is some truly beautiful music - I don't htink I would ever describe it as pretty. I would say much the same about Substrata actually - although it contains possibly my favorite ambient piece of all time (kobresia!!) it haunts me....

The Tetsu Inoue piece that Awepittance posted, and the Loscil piece that Redruth posted are both what i would call pretty (as examples on this page, there have definitely been others in the thread).

Anyways some good recommendations that I haven't heard before...

 

And robbie you can probably answer this - how much involvement did Mark Spybey have in Zoviet France?

[Alcofribas]

i have no idea how to post a youtube vid from my ipad (my cat urinated all over my laptop) but here's a pretty one:

 

lovesliescrushing "sovfx"

 

[luhwindan]

http://www.deadvoicesonair.com/doing/refacsf/writings.html

[Alcofribas]

you are watmm's ZF guru

[awepittance]

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

 

So this came out in 1988? I must say I am impressed...

 

right!? Almost all of ZF's 80s works are highly impressive. They nailed the whole lofi hauntology thing long before it became a trend.

[luhwindan]

[Guest mrx]

deep forest. my fav

[chenGOD]

http://www.deadvoice...f/writings.html

Cheers for that - very interesting read :)

[chim]

Some great suggestions in this thread. As always, everyone forgets about Vidna Obmana. The River Of Appearance album is the most beautiful and nostalgic thing I have ever heard.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoVMWoIbE80

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ufvhNGf1lY

Edited August 30, 2012 by chimera slot mom