Ambient - The Megathread

[Guest Greg Reason]

Harold Budd - The White Arcades

[Guest ruiagnelo]

 

Spacetime Continuum - Sea Biscuit

 

forgot this one as well.

Jonah Sharp brought us great music in the past.

[chenGOD]

 

I have added to your fine list :)

[Guest headonist]

Steve Roach - Immersion : One

Oöphoi - Hymns To A Silent Sky

Robert Rich - Echo Of Small Things

Alio Die - Suspended Feathers

Harold Budd - Avalon Sutra

Daevid Alien And Micro Cosmic - Sacred Geometry

Robert Henke - Layering Buddha

Thomas Köner - Nuuk

Tuu - All Our Ancestors

Monolake - Gobi. The Desert EP

Alva Noto - Xerrox Vol.1

Rapoon - Time Frost

Joel Tammik - Eluline

Fennesz - Venice

Bass Communion - Bass Communion II

Tetsu Inoue - World Receiver

[Guest bitroast]

Not sure about favourite, but most influential would probably be the dungeon music from the Zelda64 soundtracks if those count (heard it when I was <10, was the first time I was consciously aware of there being more types of music out there than what was played on the radio).

 

yes!

 

 

 

[youtubehd]eAw_wUb5XQI[/youtubehd]

[youtubehd]6XgFM3NxrzQ[/youtubehd]

[youtubehd]n-Jxok-5W9M[/youtubehd]

[youtubehd]TuKdoJfXMHU[/youtubehd]

 

 

 

[o00o]

Its weird I like these pretty much even so they are on CD and the artwork is pretty unspectacular

 

 

 

while this one is not near as good as the releases listed above but the artwork is totally awesome:

 

 

I assume thats because its about 20 years old but I will listen to it more to see if my impression will shift

[Guest bitroast]

i really like aphex's saw2, bvdub, black to comm's alphabet 1968, oneohtrix point never's rifts, and a whole lot of william basinski. autechre - Perlence subrange 6-36 is good too.

[Guest bitroast]

global communication 76:14

alva noto - xerrox vol1 & vol2

susumu yokota - sakura

 

i look forward to checking out alot of the stuff in these pages^^

Edited October 18, 2010 by pigster

[jeremymacgregor87]

Brian Eno - Ambient 1: Music for Airports... why has this not been mentioned yet?

[Guest headonist]

steve roach's dreamtime return and quiet music

 

I think I'll get this once I have money!

[Guest ruiagnelo]

steve roach's dreamtime return and quiet music

 

I think I'll get this once I have money!

 

you need to get it!

[Guest Richy]

Alva Noto - Xerrox Vol. 1 & 2

Gas - Zauberberg

Robert Henke - Layering Buddha

Jasper TX - Black Sleep

Machinefabriek - Marijn

Deaf Center - Pale Ravine

Svarte Greiner - Knive

Jacaszek - Treny

Elegi - Sistereis

Solo Andata - Solo Andata

Thomas Köner - La Barca

Basinski's Disintegration Loops

AFX - SAW 1 & 2

Shuttle358 - Frame

Loscil - Plume

Autechre - Amber

The Sight Below - Glider

Aidan Baker - I Will Always and Forever Hold You In My Heart and Mind

Aidan Baker - The Sea Swells a Bit

Marconi Union - Tokyo

Christopher Bissonnette - In Between Words

Helios - Eingya

The Dead Texan - The Dead Texan

The Caretaker - Persistent Repetition of Phrases

Biosphere - Substrata

Janek Schaefer - Alone At Last

Stephan Mathieu - Radioland

Fabio Orsi & Gianluca Becuzzi - The Stones Know Everything

Marsen Jules - Les Fleurs

d_rradio - Leaves

[Mellow U]

Adam Pacione - Sisyphus

Gas - Konigsforst

Stars Of The Lid - The Ballasted Orchestra/Avec Laudenum (tie)

Aphex Twin - SAW II

Eliane Radigue - Trilogie De La Morte

Pub - Single

David Tagg - Fundamentals Of Orchid Biology

Vladislav Delay - Entain

NASA Voyager Recordings - Symphonies Of The Planets

Aidan Baker - Gathering Blue

Deepchord - DC10-DC14

[eh Speedy]

the klf's chill out

global communication's 76:14

 

forgot these two

 

if you forgot them, that means they're doing their job.

[Soloman Tump]

JB x800 slower

[o00o]

what early stars of the lid is worth it? all of it?

 

I currently have "And Their Refinement of the Decline" and "The Tired Sounds Of Stars Of The Lid"

[Mellow U]

what early stars of the lid is worth it? all of it?

 

I currently have "And Their Refinement of the Decline" and "The Tired Sounds Of Stars Of The Lid"

 

It's all guitar-only stuff on Music For Nitrous Oxide, Ballasted and Avec Laudenum. I personally think this was their best period, I don't really subscribe to the band's sound once strings came into the picture. Considering you enjoy that though, you may find the earlier stuff too "dry"...at least some people do. Not much comes close to this though:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETvKeB9SL0E

 

I think I could comfortably call that SOTL's "Stone In Focus"

[Capsaicin]

what early stars of the lid is worth it? all of it?

 

I currently have "And Their Refinement of the Decline" and "The Tired Sounds Of Stars Of The Lid"

 

It's all guitar-only stuff on Music For Nitrous Oxide, Ballasted and Avec Laudenum. I personally think this was their best period, I don't really subscribe to the band's sound once strings came into the picture. Considering you enjoy that though, you may find the earlier stuff too "dry"...at least some people do. Not much comes close to this though:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETvKeB9SL0E

 

I think I could comfortably call that SOTL's "Stone In Focus"

Ballasted Orchestra is a beautiful album, and yes, that is one of the best songs on the album.

[Guest tht tne]

the orb - orbvs terrarvm

[doorjamb]

was anybody into Main? (the Loop guy)

 

I always thought he had a unique take on ambient

[splesh]

Lotsa good stuff mentioned in this thread but I want to second the notion that William Basinski is really amazing.

[eh Speedy]

Miles Tilmann - 3D Concepts Part 1

 

 

way underrated.

[EdamAnchorman]

David Tagg - Fundamentals Of Orchid Biology

 

i love this album, along with "waist deep seas of milk". and brian, your "cursive light" album is beautiful as well.

 

NASA Voyager Recordings - Symphonies Of The Planets

 

hardcore ambient.

 

 

my favorites have to be:

 

koda - movements

early stars of the lid

and most of hakobune's albums

[Mellow U]

Miles Tilmann - 3D Concepts Part 1

 

 

way underrated.

 

All three parts are fantastic! Though to be fair to the thread I'd consider those ambient techno, as opposed to strictly ambient...

 

David Tagg - Fundamentals Of Orchid Biology

 

i love this album, along with "waist deep seas of milk". and brian, your "cursive light" album is beautiful as well.

 

NASA Voyager Recordings - Symphonies Of The Planets

 

hardcore ambient.

 

 

my favorites have to be:

 

koda - movements

early stars of the lid

and most of hakobune's albums

 

Thanks a lot man. David's WDSOM is definitely up there for me as well but something about Orchids just does it every time.

 

And yeah, that NASA stuff is incredible. Still continues to amaze me at how musical and accessible it is, considering the source.

[Guest narkeworld]

Donis - Vacuum

Tidal - Golem and Man

Asmus Tietchens - Eine Menge Papier

Christian Renou/Anemone Tube - Transference

Archon Satani - In Shelter

Robert Scott Thompson - At The Still Point Of The Turning World

Markus Reuter - Digitalis

Autocreation - Mettle

Asmus Tietchens - Epsilon-Menge

 

There are more but these definitely do it for me. The Asmus Tietchens one are a little heavy on the electro-acoustic side and the Autocreation stuff has beats in it but these ones have a quasi-ambient feel to them, so they pass imo.