trying to find an ambient artist

there have been some great suggestions so far. I've added a few albums to my wish list. listening to sound samples of bitter sweet by sawako - sounds great!

just a few more that are in regular rotation on my ipod

Akira Rabelais - Spellewauerynsherde

Lloop - Bulbbs

William Basinski - El Camino Real

Fluorescent Grey - Ambiente

Popul Vuh - "The Best of Popul Vuh" should do it

Es - Sateenkaarisuudelma

  sneaksta303 said:

Try DMX Krew

Tidal - Golem And Man

Donis - Vacuum

One of my ambient favorites (not all of them are like SAWII, but ah well):

William Basinski's Melancholia

Origami Galaktika - Horisont

Collothen - Translation. I recently found this one, free for download here: http://www.xynthetic.com/xsn022.php

Nordvargr - Awaken

Fennesz - Venice

And also Deathprod - Morals and Dogma and his split with Biosphere (Nordheim Transformed).

  Atop said:

Desolation Wilderness!

great recommendation! Isolate records was going to sign them shortly before Wai(the owner) died, i really enjoyed the demo they sent to him, have they done an official release yet?

also i didn't see anybody mention

Coil VS Elph - worship the glitch which has a lot of loopy rhythmic ambient similar to SAWII

  ieafs said:

none of this is very like SAWII though is it? my life in the bush of ghosts?

so far not really, i think most of these just fall under the ambient category

and in that case ill mention other ambient albums that rarely get mentioned but are very influential to a lot of the newer ambient acts

Zoviet France - Loh Land or Monomishe (mid 80s ambient that is extremely ahead of it's time)

Tetsue Inoue - Psych-acoustic or World Receiver

and for those a little turned off by Brian Eno's extreme dominance over the invented narrative of 'inventing ambient' check out the guys that influenced him, Cluster

Markus Popp/Oval , his So album is good.

A few albums to get you started..

Matt Borghi - Huronic Minor

A very thematic album about a storm in the early 20th century. Droney and somewhat repetitive but very emotional and lots of warm synth drones.

DJ Olive - Sleep

Different drones and psychedelic atmospheres.

Steve Roach - Darkest Before Dawn

Very spacey, cold and trance inducing.

Robert Rich - Somnium

7 hours of Robert Rich doing his thing. Very sleep-conductive and subliminal.

William Basinski's Disintegration Loops, Melancholia and Movement in Chrome Primitive

Basinski is definitely one of my favourite artists.. Very original, tape broken and melodic sound. He seems to be liked by alot of WATMMers.

Atom Heart, Bill Laswell and Tetsu Inoue's Second Nature

Excellent album by three ambient legends.

Between Interval's Secret Observatory

Good stuff from sweden.

Northern - Drawn

Bass Communion's Ghosts on Magnetic Tape

Classic, sparse sound, very subliminal.

Alio Die's Expanding Horizon, il Tempo Magico di Saturnia Pavonia and Suspended Feathers

Antonio Testa's Inframundis

Adham Shaikh - Journey to the Sun

good japanese artists; Tetsu Inoue, Akira Rabelais, Naoki Ishida, Oren Ambarchi, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Toshiya Tsunoda

The Pop Ambient series might be interesting to you as well.

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Akira Rabelais - Spellewauerynsherde

Lloop - Bulbbs

William Basinski - El Camino Real

Fluorescent Grey - Ambiente

Popul Vuh - "The Best of Popul Vuh" should do it

Es - Sateenkaarisuudelma

Excellent suggestions!

Oren Ambarchi is Australian!

You can't be wrong when Enter a new display name recommends ambient:

Biosphere - Substrata

Christopher Bissonnette - In Between Words

Fennesz + Sakamoto - Cendre

Gas - Zauberberg

Gel-Sol - IZ

Julien Neto - Le Fumeur De Nuage

Loscil - Submers

Lusine Icl - Language Barrier

Marsen Jules - Les Fleurs

Stars Of The Lid - Per Aspera Ad Astra

Strategy - Drumsolo's Delight

The Dead Texan - The Dead Texan

Tim Hecker - Haunt Me, Haunt Me Do It Again

William Basinski - The Disintegration Loops I-IV

Been listening to Stars of the Lid and it is really nice ambient stuff, check it.

  ieafs said:

* Terre Thaemlitz

this.

Feck ieafs owns.

Well I have no idea whats actually going on, so everything kind of fits I guess.

lol

I think like most of us I know what nene's looking for, but could only recommend good dream-sparking Ambient, not anything that has this direct processing of dream-melodies Richard went for. I agree with pretty much all of the suggested albums I'm familiar with as being very dreamy, still none of them are just like saw2. I don't want to add too much to that list, I just encourage you to give this a try:

Vir Unis - Aeonian Glow

It's a tranquilizing but intense streaming thing, liquid drone of sorts (I'm not good at cathegorizing...). I thought it was nothing special at first but now it's probably become my most played album. His "The Drift Inside" is similar in style, but not as subliminal for me, a bit more untroubled.

  chimera slot mom said:

Robert Rich - Somnium

7 hours of Robert Rich doing his thing. Very sleep-conductive and subliminal.

My opinion on him varies a lot from album to album. I think Echo of Small Things is very nice. I heard Somnium has bird samples towards the end which made me back off a little, even though the concept sounds very interesting (I don't like waking up hearing birds, or worse, going to sleep hearing them)

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Bass Communion's Ghosts on Magnetic Tape

Classic, sparse sound, very subliminal.

Could you elaborate on this one a bit (sparse sound?), title and theme appeal to me...

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Steve Roach - Darkest Before Dawn

Very spacey, cold and trance inducing.

Only thing I know by Roach is a colab he did with Vir Unis called Blood Machine, which I found to be very trance incuding (not to be confused with the genre of trance music) too... interesting. I've been wanting to check him out anyway

Terpen tint lol what?

lol mannhiem steamroller in ieafs list.

Unfortunately, most ambient sux.

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My opinion on him varies a lot from album to album. I think Echo of Small Things is very nice. I heard Somnium has bird samples towards the end which made me back off a little, even though the concept sounds very interesting (I don't like waking up hearing birds, or worse, going to sleep hearing them)

I like most of his work, the sleep concerts especially, the whole idea of making music solely for sleep and doing it so well is what keeps me coming back.

Somnium is excellent, I wouldn't really say it has alot of bird noise. His sound is VERY smooth in that sense, no percussive or high frequency noise at all, everything evolves into something else in extremely drawn out intervals.

I've fallen asleep to somnium several times, and only woken up after another track in the playlist has started and interrupt the sound, so it's excellent for a 7 hour sleep.

It starts out with very expansive ambient with the trademark oriental flute he does in almost all his sleep work.

Eventually it starts to mellow down into a more drone-type sound. The drones are accompanied with smalln ature sounds (forests, crackling bonfires, rain, wind) throughout most of the album. I don't think any artist does this better, to start out with details that keep your interest when you're basically waiting to fall asleep, and slowly reduces those details while you drift out of consciousness, seemingly parallel to the sound.

I like the second part of the album alot, because it develops a very cool, icy and ultra-minimal sound. The deep sleep part, basically. Makes me think of cryogenic sleep.

I don't know much of the third part, because I've never heard it awake. That must count for something as to the effect of this album.

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Could you elaborate on this one a bit (sparse sound?), title and theme appeal to me...

It's a bunch of processed vinyl and piano bits. It's very minimal. It's abit dark and nightmarish, but beautiful at the same time.

samples here:

http://www.sleepbot.com/ambience/album/ghsttape.html

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Only thing I know by Roach is a colab he did with Vir Unis called Blood Machine, which I found to be very trance incuding (not to be confused with the genre of trance music) too... interesting. I've been wanting to check him out anyway

I actually don't like much of Roach's work, alot of it sounds too clean and "well-produced". It lacks abit of personality, in a sense. Still, Darkest Before Dawn is one of the best ambient works I know..

You can listen to and rip it here:

http://www.imeem.com/artists/steve_roach/p...ore-dawn-album/

opiates +downers +talkbox

popol vuh:

# Affenstunde (1970)

# In den Gärten Pharaos (1971)

# Hosianna Mantra (1972)

# Seligpreisung (1973)

# Einsjäger und Siebenjäger (1974)

# Das Hohelied Salomos (1975)

# Aguirre (1975)

# Letzte Tage - Letzte Nächte (1976)

# Coeur de Verre (1977)

# Nosferatu (1978)

# Brüder des Schattens - Söhne des Lichts (1978)

# Die Nacht der Seele (1979)

# Sei still, wisse ICH BIN (1981)

I'm sure the rest are good but definitely get "In den Gärten Pharaos", "Brüder des Schattens - Söhne des Lichts" and "Coeur de Verre" . Those are the best 3 imo. "Affenstunde" is very synthy and drony but less melodic. "Einsjäger und Siebenjäger" is fucking fantastic as well but it is more ambient rock.

Steve Roach - Structures From Silence

lustmord or robert rich

just get some William Basinski. IMO, a lot of his stuff is better than a lot of SAW II.