ambient garage ?

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spoke to a auld drinking partner in deepest kumbria who's making ambient garage rekkids - i can't really imagine garage as rural - maybe glacial/Scando perhaps ? - is there other ambient garage oot thar and does it work for you ?

― a-33, Tuesday, 9 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

snd, no?

(yes, this is a sentence.)

― jess, Tuesday, 9 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Is the new SND record good? It looks good. But someone tell me about it please.

I've heard a couple of garage tracks that sound a bit like early LTJ Bukem or Foul Play (contrary to popular opinion, early MJ Cole does not = garage's LTJ Bukem, but rather its Alex Reece) - billowy harps, swirling synths and gorgeous but bizarre beat programming. Sort of halfway between that beautiful, now nearly- extinct strain of flutter-pop garage (Amira's "My Desire (Dreem Teem Remix)"; Valerie M's "Tingles 2000 (Artful Dodger Remix)"; Y-Tribe's "Enough Is Enough" - all absolute faves of mine) and the more shadowy atmospherics of Horsepower Productions. Don't know who the producers are though.

Otherwise... some of Manitoba's stuff, maybe?

― Tim, Tuesday, 9 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I know very little about garage, but I've heard Four Tet's remix of the Pole track on the Pole v. Four Tet EP on Leaf described as such. If so, it's got more than enough "ambient" in it to fit this description. It's fantastic, too.

― Mark, Tuesday, 9 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I thought the 2nd SND alb was a big let-down after their wonderful debut rec - too much variety or something...

― Andrew L, Tuesday, 9 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The SND record is what you'd imagine it'd be from hearing about it: very minimal usual-suspect sounds (clicks, fuzz, ambient tones) arranged in gradually crystalizing 2-steppish/R&Bish grooves. It's a subtle, soothing listen and the broken rhythms create a nice sense of animation that's missing from a lot of glitch-style records. I just wish the central structures and arrangements of the tracks had inherited 2-step/r&b influences as well instead of merely tracing outlines.

― Honda, Tuesday, 9 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

four tet remix of pole is one the most gorgeuos records i own. but i dont think it's really garage. you'd have to pitch it up by about +20 to get it anything like the right speed, for a start. its more of an r'n'b thing.

my nomination for this: fridge "kinoshita terasaka"

― ambrose, Wednesday, 10 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Re the Pole, that makes sense. I don't know what makes something garage, exactly (I know the basic structure of the beat, which I think the FT/Pole track has) but somebody somewhere had used the word to desribe the track. It's a good one, anyway.

― Mark, Thursday, 11 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Ambient garage. Now there's a thuoght. Maybe Phuturistix' (= Zed Bias) Blind Faith (Locked On 2000) qualifies.

― JoB, Thursday, 11 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

twenty-one years pass...

Maybe Burial was inspired by this thread

― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Sunday, 1 October 2023 15:14 (two years ago)

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