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This is kind of the opposite of Wyndham Earle's synthy horror thread. Tonight I have been playing Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld by The Orb, which remains as pretty, funny, careless and evocative as the first day I heard it. Afterwards I put on Chill Out by the KLF, and then....nothing. Stumped. What else should I own in this vein? These are pretty, um, 'canonical' after all.

Oh - this vein = ambient records that are sentimental, that you can go to sleep to or get lost in, but that are paradoxically full of charming individual moments. Lots of great samples would be a plus, ha!

I do have a bit of other ambient - mostly not on CD which is one reason I can't put it on - but I'm not going to start listing the CDs I rejected cos it might limit your choices.

― Tom, Thursday, 24 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

There's a young man by the name of Richard James who I hear is quite promising.

Moving beyond the 'duh, Eno' factor -- Lull and Thomas Koner are both very good if not exactly merry.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 24 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Actually I will start talking about the CDs I rejected - no isolationism or dark ambient or drone stuff, please, not cos its bad but cos I have enough and am rarely in the mood to get more. (Sorry Ned!).

― Tom, Thursday, 24 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I happen to quite like Zeit and Phaedra by Tangerine Dream, but I may be alone on that.

― Melissa W, Thursday, 24 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

certain tracks by Lexaunculpt. "Keep Drowning Chum" is a first class train to ambiantville.

― chippy, Thursday, 24 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Sorry Ned!

WELL. Hm...weird as it may sound, you could almost call His Name is Alive's second album ambient. Then again, there's always Vangelis.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 24 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

mike ink/wolfgang voigt "gas" project is very nice .Zauberberg,Oktember & Köenigsforst in particular. Pop gets the 4 1/2star rating on amg,but i thought it was the weaker of his five releases under this name.

― william, Thursday, 24 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Labradford - _E Luxo So_

― Dan Perry, Thursday, 24 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I'm actually particularly interested in records that *do* the kind of things I'm talking about but which you wouldn't call ambient.

― Tom, Thursday, 24 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

yah yah, lexaunculpt man, lexaunculpt.

― chaki, Thursday, 24 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Labradford - _E Luxo So_

Ah, bless you, Dan, of course. Mi Media Naranja also does the business, as does a fair amount of Stars of the Lid.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 24 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

you can't beat chill out, although klf did space as well, which comes fairly close. i like to get mellow to isan. (not as many samples, but plenty of beeps)

― dbini, Thursday, 24 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Robert Leiner - visions of the past, is a sublime ambient album Robert Leiner - Bio - it has depth, variety of tempos and is definately one of the finest electronic albums of the 90s.

― DJ Martian, Thursday, 24 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Great call on 'Mi Media Naranja.' Also, maybe 'Zuckerzeit' by Cluster? Very pretty stuff... Also 'Cluster and Eno' perhaps.

― Clarke B., Thursday, 24 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Yeah, those two Labradford albums are perfect for this. Although there's a point in E Luxo So - no idea what track, the piano- led one - where it suddenly sounds like a drumkit falls down a flight of stairs.

Aix Em Klemm, p'rhaps? (Is this a collaboration between someone from Labradford and someone from Stars of the Lid or did I dream that?) Less drone-y/more interesting than SOTL.

― clive, Thursday, 24 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Just picked up something you may find suitable: Motorlab #3 features Barry Adamson and Pan Sonic composing for a choir + electronics, and there is one piece by them, and then the same piece "remixed" by Hafler Trio. Listened once, and it sounds great.

I'll also second Melissa's recommendation for Tangerine Dream's Phaedra.

― Sean Carruthers, Thursday, 24 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I'm just gonna guess Cocteau Twin's "Victorialand" is one of the ones you rejected. Otherwise..

Gavin Bryars "The Sinking of the Titanic" (granted, it's quite Enoistic)
Hochenkeit "omu4h 4aholab/400 Boys" (though it's more on the dreamy eastern sounding krautrock tip)

I could go into a whole realm of spacey, weird ambience a la Hash Jar Tempo, Bugskull, and more.. but I'm reluctant in fear of effigies of me stamped "ROCKIST" being burned.

― Brian MacDonald, Thursday, 24 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

What rockist answers! ;-) (Admin: please note wink).

Tom, try: Ultramarine's Every Man & Woman Is A Star, if you haven't already. Also obviously: The Beloved's "The Sun Rising".

For blissful undulating ambience, there's Global Communication's 76 14 and Dettinger's Intershop. I'm currently listening to Miss Dinky's Melodias Venenosas which is quite charming rippling-but-dinky ambient synth pieces, but I'm not quite sure if I'd recommend it unreservedly yet.

As for the spacy wacky samples... that's trickier. Arguably this tendency in Orb and KLF is more a nod towards the contemporary Acid House/DJ Records boom rather than something that is inherent to much ambient. So I could see, say, early 808 State fitting the bill, but they were only ambient in fits and bursts ("Sunrise" is great though).

― Tim, Thursday, 24 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

i told you this already tom, but kompakt all the way. the two pop ambient collections and in moll by that markus somebody i mentioned earlier that i'm too lazy to dig the record out now.

― jess, Thursday, 24 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

three cheers for Gas - Pop! its such a chill album. def. one of my favorites to fall alseep to.
― Brock K, Thursday, 24 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

melissa is right on with the TD suggestion. This is an unoriginal choice I'm making here, but the album I keep coming back to is Selected Ambient Works v.2, aphex twin. of course selected ambient works 85-92 isn't too bad either......
― patrick, Thursday, 24 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Sweet Trip Halica, part of Darla's Bliss-Out series. Unlike others in the series, it's a full-length. And come to think of it, I should dash over to that wordless vocal thread, cause Halica has them and they're absolutely divine.
― Curt, Thursday, 24 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Tetsuo Inoue - World Receiver

― Tracer Hand, Friday, 25 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Cluster - Sowieso and that Rhythm & Sound compilation, if you don't get lost in that last 15 minute track your name might as well be Theseus. ;)

― Omar, Friday, 25 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Tang. Dream solo albums! - Klaus Schultze 'Trancefer' is a good one

― michael, Friday, 25 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Tom's making it tough here. Ambient but not ambient. But we all love a challenge..;-) It seems like you're looking for something light, fun, pleasant but not too new agey. This rules out all Gas 'cept for Pop, which only gets dark at the end (and which you really should hear.) Thinking about this meade me realize how much ambient stuff I listen to has a darker flavor. Anyway, a few off the top of my head:

Susumu Yokota - Sakura or Grinning Cat (definitely fits in w/ your request for something "sentimental", and I think you'll like the variety.)
Mouse on Mars - Vulvaland
Oval - 94diskont ("Do While" seems like it could be what you're looking for)

― Mark, Friday, 25 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Luomo, Vocalcity

― M. Matos, Friday, 25 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Luomo, Vocalcity

I need to hear this.

― Mark, Friday, 25 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Well the original question is a bit tougher than I thought it might be. Cos as I was saying to Jess last night, Chill Out is seen as this great seminal record but in fact almost nothing sounds much like it.

― Tom, Friday, 25 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

maybe what we need to look into then are actual field recordings...i think i have my research project for the rest of the day.

― jess, Friday, 25 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I've never heard Chill Out (something I've been looking for used for years...all I ever find is many copies of White Room.) What's it sound like?

― Mark, Friday, 25 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

tom and i sort of both happened upon the field recording aspect at the same time, and it really does. conceived (although it's really to lazy to be conceptual, although everything they did was conceptual) as a "travelogue" it's sort of like an extra horizontal, americana version of "the orb's adventures beyond the ultraworld" replacing the cosmic-ness with unmanipulated samples of elvis songs, etc. it's pretty damn unique.

― jess, Friday, 25 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

really too lazy, of course.

― jess, Friday, 25 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

It's basically meant to be a drive at night across some part of America (might be an imaginary America), drifting in and out of consciousness with the radio on. There's a great bit where it goes into a bit of Last Train To Transcentral, giving the impression that the whole album is a dream one of the other KLF records is having.

― Tom, Friday, 25 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I read some article about it, possibly written by someone here, I'm not sure and it sounded like the best album ever. I will have it.

― Ronan, Friday, 25 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

How timely, just bought Chill Out this week, it miraculously escaped purchase through the years. Anyways, it is pretty unique. The thing I found a bit touching was how positive it sounded. It really feels naive in that "Acieed Culture is going to change things" sorta way.

― Omar, Friday, 25 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

That's what I like about it too Omar and kind of the point of this thread. It's such a cop-out making 'dark' records, don't you think?

― Tom, Friday, 25 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

It's such a cop-out making 'dark' records, don't you think?

a cop out only in that it's easier than making some positive. but come on tom, you gotta agree dance tends to get good when it goes a little dark. not all the time, but...

― jess, Friday, 25 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I'm just following my whim of the day. I'd try being a candy raver but I don't really have the waistline.

I do think certainly in the field of 'ambience' you find 'darkness' getting a little overdone - this is surely down to the subconscious need to differentiate it from new age heh.

― Tom, Friday, 25 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Obviously Boards of Canada Tom, though I know you don't like them. In the AMG they are filed under ambient techno whereas the Orb and KLF are filed under ambient house but who cares. "Everything You Do Is a Balloon" is a wonderful piece of music to doze and dream to. One of the few tracks I know I'd like to put on repeat and fall asleep to. I have not yet listened to the whole of "Music Has the Right to Children", but what I have heard was good. The difference between BoC and the Orb is definitely that the Orb's music is more trance-like whereas BoC is warmer (the stuff I have listened to at least is). There are lots of samples in BoC's music. Maybe "Geogadii", the new one to come out soon is for you Tom.

― alex in mainhattan, Friday, 25 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

It's such a cop-out making 'dark' records, don't you think?

Maybe. The thing that always struck me in regards Eno's On Land is how dark it sounds, whereas I was expecting something more light/happy since these were supposed to be memories of childhood places. It probably is, as Jess says, harder to make something positive (just can come up with some of these Boards of Canada minatures like 'Olson' as an example, arguably some tracks on SAW 85- 92).

― Omar, Friday, 25 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I think it’s the combination of "positive" and "good" ambient music that makes it tough. Think of how many soothing new age records are floating around (I am fascinated by the ambient/new age connection, & how the borders are much more porous than experimental electronic producers would like you to believe. There's a good article in there somewhere.)

― Mark, Friday, 25 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

bernhardt gunther is great in an uneasy not quite sure what emotional message is being conveyed. i like the later stuff better where it's more tonal and the sounds are actually sourced from instruments. beatless - it should be borne in mind, but kinda like what i expected morton feldman to sound like before i heard his stuff. ie traces of classical rhetoric are GONE. crossing the river(night music); time, dreaming itself ; and brown on blue (or vice versa - cannae remember) (for mark rothko) are super special nothingness - recommended by me (dubious?)

― bob snoom, Friday, 25 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Markus Guentner, Jess. And yes, it's fantastic.

Maybe "Bola- Soup"?

― Todd Burns, Friday, 25 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I think 'Orbvs Terrarvm' is underrated.

― Mind Taker, Friday, 25 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Modulations and Transformations 4 on Mille Plateaux is my favorite one of all their overblown comps. Ambient but with lots of surprises.

David Toop's Screen Ceremonies is good for when you want to feel like you're watching a sadistic ritual involving monkeys in the rainforest.

Also like Lamonte Young's Well-Tuned Piano and Morton Feldman's For Samuel Beckett lately, they're kind of ambient...

Miles Davis, He Loved Him Madly.

I always thought Systemische was Oval's best album. 94 Diskont is almost all one track, and it's kind of boring after a while.

Just the very words Chill Out bring on flashbacks...

― Ben Williams, Friday, 25 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

PS Blissful ambient got old real fast, believe me.

― Ben Williams, Friday, 25 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I can't imagine "World Receiver" being made without "Chillout" as an example. Music and field recordings together like transparencies. But if "Chill Out" is a drive across America, "World Receiver" is a train under the sea, running from freight depots in Sweden to caves under the Brazilian jungle, to a dirty bit of sidewalk in Hong Kong, and you're sort of deliberately letting your attention wander from thing to thing. Get it Tom.

Inoue's also written a piece called "Waterloo Station" that supposedly interpreted architectural drawings of the station as musick?? Has anyone heard this?

― Tracer hand, Friday, 25 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I like Inoue's work with Atom Heart, esp. Datacide's Flowerhead, better than any of his solo stuff that I've heard. Flowerhead is just gorgeous, especially at low volume levels -- though there's a ton of stuff going on that you can only fully hear when you turn it up, it still feels full and intriguing at quiet volume. A very rich album -- when I first got it, I think I listened to it almost every night for about 2-3 months, without getting tired of it at all.

― Phil, Friday, 25 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Somebody's already mentioned it, but Victorialand by the Cocteau Twins has got to be one of the all time great "ambient" albums. I would also recommend "Strange Cargo III" by William Orbit and "Journey into Sacchinanada" by Alice Coltrane (although this gets a bit frenetic in parts).

― justin case, Friday, 25 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

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Thanks for the M. Sage album recommendation. Gorgeous stuff.

― I would prefer not to. (Chinaski), Monday, 16 October 2023 15:22 (one year ago) link

We're still doing the radio show, but I haven't been posting them here (or anywhere, lol).

Latest episode: https://www.mixcloud.com/DublinDigitalRadio/no-place-like-drone-041023-lowercase-laments/

1. Zvuku - Part 2 Bridge - The Slow Loss - Frontend Synthetics (08/23)
2. Autechre - notwotwo - Quaristice - WARP (2008)
3. Kuma - The Holy Ocean Of Eternity - We Have Dark Friends - Frosti (09/23)
4. Infinite Limb - Electric Reeds - Of Ambience and Americana - Centripetal Force (09/23)
5. Savvas Metaxas - pt.4 - Magnetic Loops III - LINE (04/23)
6. Akhira Sano - Look Back To Differentation - Phase Contrast From Recollection - 12k (06/23)
7. Stephen Vitiello & Steve Roden - The Spaces Contained In Each - The Spaces Contained In Each
8. Elijah Knutsen - Vending Machine Sound - Music For Vending Machines 1 (2023 Remaster) - Memory Color (2020/2023)
9. Hatsü- Meraki - Meraki - Not On Label (08/23)
10. Natalia Beylis - Mermaids - Mermaids - Touch Sensitive (09/23)
11. Stephen Roddy - Leviathan - Leviathan- Fiadh Productions (06/10/22)
12. Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement - Refuges From Black Magic - Black Magic Cannot Cross Water - Hospital Productions (2012)
13. Conducive - Vendedor Ambulante - Modern Prophecy - V33 Records (01/23)
14. Worriedaboutsatan - Keygen Variations 2 - - These Clouds… sound in silence (05/23)
15. Grischa Lichtenberger - 0611_26_lv_1_c - Works for Last Work - raster - artistic platform (04/23) 16. Arian Shafiee - Sillage - Engines In Unity - VDSQ Records (09/23)
17. Maria W Horn - Towards the Diamond Abyss / The Navigators - Celestial Shores (w/ Mats Erlandsson) - B.A.A.D.M. (09/23)
18. Andrea Marutti - The Pulsating Silence - The Subliminal Relation Between Planets (Live In Archiaro) - Nextera (2008)
19. Yann Novak - Traversing the Substrate - The Voice of Theseus - Touch Music (07/23)
20. 400 Lonely Things - Parlor Tricks - Mother Moon - Cold Spring (04/23)
21. Kate Carr - Shy, typically alone or in pairs - A Field Guide To Phantasmic Birds - Room40 (17/11/23)

― droid, Tuesday, 17 October 2023 15:00 (one year ago) link

one month passes...

Surprised to be putting this here but this is a nice collection of very moody modular drone

https://vinceclarke.bandcamp.com/album/songs-of-silence

― Iain Macdonald, Monday, 11 December 2023 10:45 (one year ago) link

Keep coming back to the new Mister Water Wet:

https://sodagong.bandcamp.com/album/cold-clay-from-the-middle-west

― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Tuesday, 12 December 2023 16:07 (one year ago) link

Made a mix with some of my favorite ambient/drone/compositional/etc. tracks from 2023:

'The Unease,' a short mix of my favorite ambient, textural, drone and experimental music of 2023:https://t.co/To9Lu6nIvV

with Richard Skelton, Tim Hecker, @karenvogtmusic Natalia Beyils & Eimear Reidy, Chuck Johnson, Mizu, @KumaTKG @Sailclothsounds @LaurelHalo Hilary Woods pic.twitter.com/rvOYVI05jW
— Musicophilia - @musicophilia.bsky.social (@musicophiliamix) December 21, 2023

https://musicophilia.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/musicophilia_00_various_-_unease_2023_cover-front.jpg?w=3600

Various – ‘The Unease’
2023
01 [00:00-03:20] Richard Skelton – “Hypervelocity” (‘Selenodesy’ 2023)
02 [02:45-07:50] Ian Manire – “Evensong, Part Five” (‘Evensong’ 2023)
03 [07:35-10:05] Tim Hecker – “Total Garbage” (‘No Highs’ 2023)
04 [09:15-13:45] Karen Vogt – “Losing the Sea” (‘Losing the Sea’ 2023)
05 [10:00-21:10] Natalia Beylis & Eimear Reidy – “The Whistling Dust” (excerpt) (‘She Came Through…’ 2023)
06 [15:45-18:45] Daily Rituals – “Wild Dusk Singing” (‘Aftersongs’ 2023)
07 [18:05-24:20] Old Saw – “Spinner’s Weave” (‘Sewn the Name’ 2023)
08 [20:50-25:10] Chuck Johnson – “Interrogation” (‘Burdon of Proof’ 2023)
09 [24:40-28:35] Mizu – “Prelude (An Eternity of Light)” (‘Distant Intervals’ 2023)
10 [28:35-32:40] Samuel Adams – “Shade Studies” (excerpt) (‘Current’ 2023)
11 [31:40-36:05] Kuma – “All We Can Do Is Carry On with Grace” (‘We Have Dark Friends’ 2023)
12 [33:40-37:05] Sailcloth – “Civil Twilight” (‘Resting Fields’ 2023)
13 [36:35-40:50] Laurel Halo – “Earthbound” (‘Atlas’ 2023)
14 [40:30-43:20] Hilary Woods – “Burial Rites” (‘Acts of Light’ 2023)
15 [43:05-46:40] J.P.A. Falzone – “Sublunar Harmonies” (excerpt) (‘Sublunar Harmonies’ 2023)
[Total Time: 46:40]

https://musicophilia.wordpress.com/2023/12/21/year-end-the-unease-2023/

― Soundslike, Friday, 22 December 2023 05:16 (one year ago) link

https://thme-sound.bandcamp.com/album/nocens

quite calming

― Lowell N. Behold'n, Friday, 22 December 2023 18:54 (one year ago) link

Great discounts on one of my favorite long-form producers. Gorgeous suites of various spaced sonics and muted beats. https://variantsonics.bandcamp.com/ Code is xmas23

― Psychocandy Apple Grey (Pyschocandles), Sunday, 24 December 2023 08:40 (eleven months ago) link

Donnacha Costello is shutting down his bandcamp and everything is pay what you like. There's some fantastic stuff in there.

https://donnachacostello.bandcamp.com/

― droid, Sunday, 24 December 2023 14:23 (eleven months ago) link

23 for 23.

https://www.mixcloud.com/DublinDigitalRadio/no-place-like-drone-271223-23-for-23/

1. Fortresses - Hear - Dragon’s Eye (07/23)
2. Kate Carr - Unlikely to be heard - A Field Guide To Phantasmic Birds - Room40 (11/23)
3. Jeannine Schultz - Picture No. 1 - Pure - Polar Seas (08/23)
4. Sebby Kowal - Goodnight - Wonders - Decaying Spheres (29/12/23)
5. Savvas Metaxas - 01 - Magnetic Loops III - Line (04/23)
6. Tape Loop Orchestra - Part 2 - Onde Sinusoïdale Et Bande Magnétique - Quiet Details (11/23)
7. Ian Hawgood - Movement VIII - and then there was nothing - Home Normal (06/23)
8. Andrew Heath & Anne Chris Bakker - Muen - Solia - Polar Seas (08/23)
9. Marja Ahti - Shrine (Aether) - Tender Membranes - Black Truffle (09/23)
10. Lawrence English & Lea Bertucci - Dust Storm - Chthonic - American Dreams (08/23)
11. Natalia Beylis - Black Sea, 1967 - Mermaids - Touch Sensitive (09/23)
12. Brian Eno - And Let It In (Instrumental) - Foreverandevernomore (Forever Voiceless Edition)
13. Cv313 - suspended in a moment [someplace else] - Suspended In A Moment [Someplace Else] W/Variant Refocus - Not On Label (03/2023)
14. Ola Sandberg - 3/3 - Invisible Room Volume Two - Castles in Space (10/23)
15. Linnley - Foregone Delusion - Filiform - Space Surgeries (12/23)
16. Isolated Community - Into The Mirror - Pit Full of Ghosts - See Blue Audio (01/23)
17. Marta Salogni & Tom Relleen - March - Music for Open Spaces - Hands In The Dark (05/23)
18. Yara Asmar - three clementines on the counter of a blue-tiled sun-soaked kitchen - Synth Waltzes And Accordion Laments - Hive Mind Records (10/23)
19. K-Group - Occasional Garden - New Series 1 - Knotwilg (09/23)
20. Lia Kohl - became daily today - The Ceiling Reposes (03/23)
21. Liz Helman - The Colour of Water - The Colour of Water - Flaming Pines (11/23)
22. Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - Severed Belonging - Severed Belonging (09/23)
23. Anja Lauvdal - Silk - Farewell to Faraway Friends Vol 1 & 2 - Small-town Supersound (08/23)

― droid, Tuesday, 2 January 2024 19:10 (eleven months ago) link

three weeks pass...

will be cool to check out.

realizing i may have misplaced my cassette copy of Ambient 1 and i'm super bummed. hoping to find it when i move soon.

― Swen, Monday, 29 January 2024 18:49 (ten months ago) link

three weeks pass...

wondering if would be apt to start a thread for "daytime ambient" or "upbeat ambient" - stuff i listen to while i'm at work

would anyone else have a need for this / know of a thread that already exists / is this useless given the availability of other threads?

― Swen, Thursday, 22 February 2024 16:11 (ten months ago) link

I'd be interested in that thread!

― OneSecondBefore, Thursday, 22 February 2024 18:14 (ten months ago) link

For awhile I had an 'office techno' (very distinct from business techno obviously) playlist, very minimal/dubby/repetitive stuff. Can't remember what was all on it but like Basic Channel, the new Donato Dozzy would fit, etc.

― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Thursday, 22 February 2024 19:21 (ten months ago) link

I'd definitely follow the thread but not entirely sure what 'upbeat ambient' is!

― I would prefer not to. (Chinaski), Thursday, 22 February 2024 20:25 (ten months ago) link

Deepchord?

― Evan, Thursday, 22 February 2024 20:26 (ten months ago) link

Sofie Birch

― default damager (lukas), Thursday, 22 February 2024 21:11 (ten months ago) link

my pal Ceremonial Abyss put out a new one that's pretty lovely, to my ears.

https://ceremonialabyss.bandcamp.com/album/betrayal

― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Thursday, 22 February 2024 23:37 (ten months ago) link

I'd definitely follow the thread but not entirely sure what 'upbeat ambient' is!

― I would prefer not to. (Chinaski), Thursday, February 22, 2024 8:25 PM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

you know, what got me thinking about it is putting on xtal by aphex twin. and sort of a go hawaii vibe by casino versus japan. that's sort of where my mind goes in this venture. maybe I'll do it, it would be seriously useful for me.

― Swen, Saturday, 2 March 2024 21:58 (nine months ago) link

though I think daytime is a better descriptor than upbeat, I just don't want to feel like I'm swimming in dark underwaters when I'm working, although I pretty much would like to feel like that at all other times

― Swen, Saturday, 2 March 2024 22:03 (nine months ago) link

The Detroit Variant group (cv313, Intrusion) just put out a bunch of lovely long form pieces. Kind of expensive ($18 each) but each one is 2 hours plus of some great clouds of sound.

https://variantsonics.bandcamp.com/album/analogue-oceans-w-digital-exclusive-limited-edition-set-variant-conduction
https://variantsonics.bandcamp.com/album/suspended-in-a-moment-someplace-else-w-variant-refocus
https://variantsonics.bandcamp.com/album/depths-of-perception-submerging-waves-variant-submersion
https://variantsonics.bandcamp.com/album/subtraktive-reprise-w-variant-etherscapes

― Psychocandy Apple Grey (Pyschocandles), Saturday, 2 March 2024 22:25 (nine months ago) link

inoue’s ambiant otaku is so goddamned good

― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 3 March 2024 12:25 (nine months ago) link

am I the only one that gets into Iasos? I guess he's pretty (very? lol) new agey but I'm obsessed

― Swen, Wednesday, 6 March 2024 13:56 (nine months ago) link

inter-dimensional music is an all time classic

― c u (crüt), Wednesday, 6 March 2024 14:40 (nine months ago) link

yessssss so glad i didn't just out myself haha <3

― Swen, Wednesday, 6 March 2024 14:43 (nine months ago) link

https://lakemary.bandcamp.com/album/its-okay-you-can-open-your-eyes-now

this was posted on the fahey thread, wonderful steel guitar work

― corrs unplugged, Thursday, 7 March 2024 12:01 (nine months ago) link

:) lake mary is so good

― z_tbd, Thursday, 7 March 2024 15:58 (nine months ago) link

two weeks pass...

this is one of those random records that blows up due to the youtube algorithm. pretty good i thought

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZacsXFFbWk
Witan - Alchemy

― budo jeru, Tuesday, 26 March 2024 04:53 (eight months ago) link

three weeks pass...

Really excited about this one:

https://htoo.bandcamp.com/album/cycle

― Evan, Thursday, 18 April 2024 16:34 (eight months ago) link

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a1283938153_10.jpg

― Evan, Thursday, 18 April 2024 16:34 (eight months ago) link

Ooh! Great cover art, and that sample song is awesome. I'm excited now too.

― OneSecondBefore, Friday, 19 April 2024 18:21 (eight months ago) link

love that art

― Swen, Monday, 22 April 2024 05:18 (eight months ago) link

four weeks pass...

xpost to traditional Japanese music thread

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzwoO7DIZ0A

― Deflatormouse, Tuesday, 21 May 2024 05:15 (seven months ago) link

The daddy is back

https://loscil.bandcamp.com/album/umbel

― Iain Macdonald, Friday, 24 May 2024 22:14 (six months ago) link

one month passes...

https://oxherding.bandcamp.com/album/point-of-incidence

― z_tbd, Thursday, 11 July 2024 21:51 (five months ago) link

this is nice

https://badabingrecords.bandcamp.com/album/dreamloops

― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Monday, 15 July 2024 20:24 (five months ago) link

^ whoa, very cool

― brimstead, Wednesday, 17 July 2024 19:30 (five months ago) link

Absolute bargain from this Australian tape label at $7 for their digital discography.

https://perceptualtapes.bandcamp.com/album/the-softest-lace

― droid, Thursday, 18 July 2024 11:31 (five months ago) link

https://earthtraxonline.bandcamp.com/album/dreams-whispers

recommended by max, p sherburne, me

rhythmic ambient with a tropical tinge

― default damager (lukas), Thursday, 18 July 2024 19:02 (five months ago) link

that’s the dude from ptaki, dope

― brimstead, Thursday, 18 July 2024 19:54 (five months ago) link

I don't know which one of you weirdos turned me on to this but it's v enjoyable

https://lennyibizarre.bandcamp.com/album/ambient-collection-vol-4

― default damager (lukas), Thursday, 25 July 2024 18:47 (four months ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXkATAvL49U

― brimstead, Saturday, 27 July 2024 15:08 (four months ago) link

two months pass...

LocalGarda posted about this on the Music From Memory thread but reposting here.

The second volume of the Virtual Dreams series is now out and looks amazing:

https://music-from-memory.bandcamp.com/album/virtual-dreams-ii-ambient-explorations-in-the-house-techno-age-japan-1993-1999

― groovypanda, Wednesday, 23 October 2024 17:30 (one month ago) link

Personally not going to call this new Music from Memory compilation ambient but it's magnificent all the same.

― I would prefer not to. (Chinaski), Wednesday, 30 October 2024 18:00 (one month ago) link

two weeks pass...

I like Dylan Henner 'performs Raymond Scott's Soothing Sounds for Baby'. It's in that nu-new-age space but more the Green-House or even Penguin Cafe end of new age, if that makes sense.

https://dylanhenner.bandcamp.com/album/performs-raymond-scotts-soothing-sounds-for-baby

― I would prefer not to. (Chinaski), Monday, 18 November 2024 15:22 (one month ago) link

a pretty nice collab track between Carbon Based Lifeforms & Erot:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ad1FDkddGAA

― StanM, Thursday, 21 November 2024 19:15 (one month ago) link

two weeks pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxskjQvGb-s

Local News - A Simple Dream Pass (2011, 2:00AM Tapes)

― brimstead, Wednesday, 11 December 2024 06:14 (one week ago) link

Love Comes Quickly reworked in a modular synth style

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWNhPRJCQfA

― the_article_don (Iain Macdonald), Friday, 13 December 2024 11:53 (one week ago) link

love this

― Paul Ponzi, Friday, 13 December 2024 13:40 (one week ago) link

Getting around to upsammy's record from this year and it's delicious

https://topo2.bandcamp.com/album/strange-meridians

― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Tuesday, 17 December 2024 15:39 (five days ago) link

Enjoying the Röyksopp ‘Nebulous Nights’ album which is very Chill Out/Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld which suits me just fine.

― Dan Worsley, Tuesday, 17 December 2024 17:38 (five days ago) link

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