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I'm posting the track listing to asphodel's 'drone' comps which i haven't heard, and you tell me which of the artists individual releases you have heard, liked/disliked etc:

http://www.asphodel.com/cat/asp_0966.html

http://www.asphodel.com/cat/asp_0953.html

http://www.asphodel.com/cat/asp_0952.html

I have already heard and really love maryanne amacher and paul dolden.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Saturday, 6 December 2003 21:28 (twenty-one years ago)

julio have you heard lull's cold summer? it's got that nice "eraserhead"/radiator steam vibe.

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 6 December 2003 21:31 (twenty-one years ago)

otherwise i plead total ignornace.

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 6 December 2003 21:33 (twenty-one years ago)

no i haven't but sounds good from the way you describe it.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Saturday, 6 December 2003 21:34 (twenty-one years ago)

ned reps it too, but dont let that turn you off.

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 6 December 2003 21:36 (twenty-one years ago)

haha that will be difficult but I'll try.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Saturday, 6 December 2003 21:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I remember these from back in the day. Good dark ambient, if that is your bag.

Stalker by Robert Rich and Brian Lustmord is great dark ambient.

Substrata and Shenzhou by Biosphere are heavenly.

― Nihilist Pop Star (mjt), Saturday, 6 December 2003 21:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I am aggreived! But pleasantly.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 6 December 2003 23:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Alan Lamb's "Night Passage" is nice and eerie, Jeff Greinke's pretty good dark ambient, Vidna Obmana's a bit fourth world from what I've heard of it and Patrick Ascione's excellent musique concrete.

― udu wudu (udu wudu), Sunday, 7 December 2003 01:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Biosphere : Substrata
- heavenly indeed! Insanely vast arctic ambience w/ field recordings

Lull : Moments
- Cold Summer is ok but Moments has the hugest furnace rumbling anywhere ever

James Plotkin / Mick Harris : Collapse
- similar to Cold Summer, hot and chilly at once. Track 2 = Cluster 71 revisited!

James Plotkin : A Strange, Perplexing / A Peripheral Blur
- Eraserhead influence II - the drones are not as deep as Lull's but Plotkin's guitar sounds like the deformed baby

James Plotkin / Brent Gutzeit : Mosquito Dream
- sloooooow foggy drone

Jeff Greinke : Cities in Fog 1 & 2
- like Eno's On Land, only colder

Michael Stearns : Sorcerer
- ~~overproduced~~ baroque subtropical horror ambience, lots of field recordings

DJ Spooky : Songs of a Dead Dreamer
Robert Fripp / Brian Eno : No Pussyfooting
Robert Rich / Lustmord : Stalker
- hated them, sold them, forgot why

― Wintermuté (Wintermute), Sunday, 7 December 2003 05:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I like these compilations a lot. They were assembled by Naut Humon, whose tastes certainly tend towards gothic dark ambience, but there's also lots of very aggressive, rude noise in spots on these discs, and many of these 'drones' are not restful at all, they're menacing, buzzing, encroaching walls of sound. Naut sequenced and even actively recomposed several of the pieces, they track together as coherent 65-75 minute pieces, but they still represent the authors' work, they'll turn you on to a lot of stuff.

Disc 1 of 'Storm' is composed entirely of pieces from the consistently excellent Canadian label empreintes DIGITALes.

― (Jon L), Sunday, 7 December 2003 08:18 (twenty-one years ago)

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