Ambient Music

[Duffman]

Just a thread for posting good ambient stuff


Pole - Vol 3:

William Basinski - The Disintegration Loop

The Caretaker - A Stairway To The Stars

The Orb - Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld

[Electric_Head]

I just want to mention a few.

Solar fields
OTT
Younger Brother
KillaWatts
Sideliner
Schulman
Stress Assassins
Zero Cult

[gorillabearbear]

Richard Skelton has some great stuff like this. His Clouwbeck stuff is great as well

[JBoy]

Badmarsh and Shri.

[brettheaslewood]

now im at work with no sound, when you say ambient do you mean 'track with fuck tona reverb on it'? or ...

check out some Robert Fripp for some guitar based amibence soundscape thats nice!

or


or is this to 'heavy' haha

[Genevieve]

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[garethom]

That Pole track OP posted is sick, the whole album is top. For anyone that knows the album, those little horns/chord things on the track Taxi. Did Burial sample those for a track? I swear I've heard them with loads of reverb applied in one of Burial's tracks, I just can't pin it down.

I know it's probably an obvious choice, but Brian Eno - Apollo Atmospheres & Soundtracks is one of the sickest ambient albums going.

[Viineri]

Biosphere - Substrata is the only ambient album I need/own/love/heard/etc.

[exfox]

Also, I don't want to post single videos of that album cause it wouln't make it justice, but Halve Maen by Double Leopards is one of my favorite records of all time. Unknown masterpiece which you should check out.

[Electric_Head]

Biosphere - Substrata is the only ambient album I need/own/love/heard/etc.

I`m a huge fan of cirque.

Also I remembered Carbon Based Lifeforms.
Brilliant ambient

[Electric_Head]

just adding Autechre to the list.
boards of canada

[exfox]

[AxeD]

I decided to sample ambient stuff to make risers or even pads. Anyone else doing this?

[cogidubnus]

A lot of stuff in this thread I've not heard, will need to go on an ambient listening spree very soon..
I will just say:

Future Sound of London - Lifeforms
Amorphous Androgynous - Tales of Ephidrina

[jameshk]

Good stuff going on in this thread!

More shameless promo but you'll might like this.

Soundcloud

[Duffman]

That Pole track OP posted is sick, the whole album is top. For anyone that knows the album, those little horns/chord things on the track Taxi. Did Burial sample those for a track? I swear I've heard them with loads of reverb applied in one of Burial's tracks, I just can't pin it down.

I got the album the other day, it's amazing.


And yeah when I heard those stabs the first thing I thought of was Burial I still don't know whether he did sample it or whether it just sounds very Burial esq. I also wonder whether was Burial influenced by the guy, considering the use of crackles in his music.

[garethom]

That Pole track OP posted is sick, the whole album is top. For anyone that knows the album, those little horns/chord things on the track Taxi. Did Burial sample those for a track? I swear I've heard them with loads of reverb applied in one of Burial's tracks, I just can't pin it down.

I got the album the other day, it's amazing.


And yeah when I heard those stabs the first thing I thought of was Burial I still don't know whether he did sample it or whether it just sounds very Burial esq. I also wonder whether was Burial influenced by the guy, considering the use of crackles in his music.

Yeah, I questioned whether it was just something very similar but listen to the the little 2 note stab exactly 10 seconds in. It's really frustrating me, because I'm sure it's in a Burial track. I'll find it.

[Duffman]

The background of 'The Disintegration Loops' album in the op is actually quite interesting:

William Basinski's four-disk epic, The Disintegration Loops, was created out of tape loops Basinski made back in the early 1980s. These loops held some personal significance to Basinski, a significance he only touches on in the liner notes and we can only guess at. Originally, he just wanted to transfer the loops from analog reel-to-reel tape to digital hard disk. However, once he started the transfer, he discovered something: the tapes were old and they were disintegrating as they played and as he recorded. As he notes in the liner notes, "The music was dying." But he kept recording, documenting the death of these loops.

These recordings were made in August and September of 2001. Now, this is where the story gets impossible. William Basinski lives in Brooklyn, less than a nautical mile from the World Trade Centers. On September 11, 2001, as he was completing The Disintegration Loops, he watched these towers disintegrate. He and his friends went on the roof of his building and played the Loops over and over, all day long, watching the slow death of one New York and the slow rise of another, all the while listening to the death of one music and the creation of another.

[Electric_Head]

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[Viineri]

AH-A! Found Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works Vol 2, going to give it a listen (I've never been a huge Aphex Twin fan, I like his mellower tunes tho!)