Ambient - The Megathread

  On 5/3/2013 at 1:26 AM, Alcofribas said:

can either of you fellas recommend any other andrew deutsch albums?

Loops Over Land is the only one I've heard so far. I checked out the samples of his other solo albums that Mimaroglu has in stock, but wasn't feeling them. His stuff is hard to find. It's all OOP and no one seems to have uploaded any of it.

http://www.mimaroglumusicsales.com/artists/andrew+deutsch.html

@Chimera, those are good. Really digging the Vidna Obmana + Jeff Pearce.

Let's keep this guitar train goin':

I've posted this somewhere on the forum before. Not sure if in this thread or not. One of my all time favorites.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ug7drWGz5Bk

http://shiningskullstudio.bandcamp.com/album/conversations-with-myself

Too lazy to upload to youtube.

Just discovered this lovely album last week called Summer Mix by The Automatics Group - which, using FFT manipulation, creates a 'mix album' from tracks by : Swedish House Mafia/PJ feat Velvet/Roll Deep/Paul Van Dyk/Deepest Blue/Supermode/Deadmau5/Mason vs Princess Superstar/Riva Starr/Sash!/Motorcycle/4 Strings/PPK/D.H.T./Tiesto/Sonique/Grace/Gouryella/Roger Sanchez/Eric Prydz. At this point you must think I'm taking the piss, however what is done using the manipulation process ends up sounding bloody lovely. To quote -

"The information contained in an audio CD can be considered

a waveform describing the movement of your loudspeakers’

cones over time. Using a mathematical process known as a

discrete Fourier transform the same information can be dealt

with as a collection of sine waves of different frequencies and

phases. In this album the phase data is reset, discarding half

the information in the music. What does the half removed

represent? It is difficult to say exactly, but it is related to time

and structural relationships. In most cases you would expect

each event in the original audio to be smeared over the

duration of the transformed track. However, when the process

is applied to music that contains highly repetitive structures,

certain aspects audibly survive the transformation process. "

And what does it sound like - well a bit like flicking through a really upbeat Gas or Deepchord presents Echospace album and fiddling with the EQ so pretty much only the top end survives. Here's an extract -

I`ll recommend some classic free albums I`ve been enjoying recently.

Lucette Bourdin - Golden Sun http://relaxedmachinery.com/earthmantra/release-detail.php?id=83

I reckon this is one of the best Ambient albums I`ve heard, think Roach, Loscil and SAW II Aphex, but with a charm and beauty of it`s own.

Kit Watkins - Thought Tones 2 [91] http://relaxedmachinery.com/earthmantra/release-detail.php?id=59

Circle [93] http://relaxedmachinery.com/earthmantra/release-detail.php?id=55

This Time and Space http://relaxedmachinery.com/earthmantra/release-detail.php?id=49

Anything on Free Floating music http://freefloatingmusic.bandcamp.com/album/783-hz and Earth Mantra http://relaxedmachinery.com/earthmantra/releases.php

Do you guys/gals know any good ambient blogs? Places where people look to find new music?

My favorite ambient artist: bvdub

All time favorite ambient song: autechre - vletrmx21

  On 5/26/2013 at 10:15 PM, slightlydrybeans said:

Do you guys/gals know any good ambient blogs? Places where people look to find new music?

astrangelyisolatedplace.com is very active:

http://astrangelyisolatedplace.com/

http://www.ambientblog.net/blog/index.php

http://psy-amb.blogspot.com/

Forgot to add this:

http://lowlightmixes.blogspot.com/

which is probably the best if you're looking for drone-ambient mixes to sample.

For some reason I've been listening to a lot of ambient lately. Besides the usual stuff (The KLF, The Orb, FSOL, Biosphere, ...) I've listened to these:

Rosy Parlane - Willow

BJ Nilsen - Vinyl

Lotide - Moonless

V/A - Pop Ambient 2013

The last track on Pop Ambient 2013, Terrapin's cover of Cirrus Minor, is fucking trippy. I had fallen asleep while listening to the compilation and woke up when Cirrus Minor was playing. For a moment I thought I had dropped acid or something.

I've been on a huge Pan American kick lately - solo project of Mark Nelson of the also amazing Labradford. Glitchy and slightly noisy. -

Also amazing is tehn's (one half of monome) music - http://nnnnnnnn.org/

Also also on rotation for me is the Tim Hecker/Daniel Lopatin (OPN) split. I've been giving it another chance after being kinda eh about it, but I'm liking it more this time around, very improv-y. -

Oh, and I also need to add Seesaw's Poetry. Good stuff.

  On 5/26/2013 at 10:36 PM, M360 said:

Forgot to add this:

 

http://lowlightmixes.blogspot.com/

 

which is probably the best if you're looking for drone-ambient mixes to sample.

Thanks! I'm actually looking for someplace to submit my stuff. I'm going to be making a new track every day this summer.

I did it last year too. :) I thought it might be the kind of thing a blog would do a writeup on.

Here's the one from last year. http://dailyambient.tumblr.com

The whole thing (75 tracks) is also on archive.org here > https://archive.org/details/dailyambient-2012

Thanks for the tips!

Just realized the tumblr is quick dead. This works better. >> http://tellmesomethingnice.com/category/music/dailyambient

Fah's Halftone Bin is awesome. I wish he'd do more ambient stuff.. I think it's available for free on internet archive

I've slept on this thread for too long. Some lovely stuff here, particularly Andrew Deutsch.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcoIEsOB0g0

Only the beginning is "proper" ambient.

It's so goddamn good.

  On 5/26/2013 at 10:15 PM, slightlydrybeans said:

Do you guys/gals know any good ambient blogs? Places where people look to find new music?

Here are some review sites that feature a lot of ambient music:

http://reviews.headphonecommute.com/tag/ambient/

http://earslend.blogspot.com

http://www.fluid-radio.co.uk

http://wajobu.com

http://hawai.wordpress.com

  On 5/3/2013 at 2:06 AM, Tauhid said:

 

  On 5/3/2013 at 1:26 AM, Alcofribas said:

can either of you fellas recommend any other andrew deutsch albums?

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ug7drWGz5Bk

 

thoroughly enjoying this

http://fora.tv/2006/06/26/Will_Wright_and_Brian_Eno

Have you guys ever watched/listened to this? It's fascinating as shit.

  On 5/31/2013 at 5:00 PM, funkaholic said:

 

  On 5/3/2013 at 2:06 AM, Tauhid said:

 

  On 5/3/2013 at 1:26 AM, Alcofribas said:

can either of you fellas recommend any other andrew deutsch albums?

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ug7drWGz5Bk

 

thoroughly enjoying this

 

Cheers. Never get tired of that one.

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  On 6/4/2013 at 8:08 AM, Tauhid said:

 

  On 5/31/2013 at 5:00 PM, funkaholic said:

 

  On 5/3/2013 at 2:06 AM, Tauhid said:

 

  On 5/3/2013 at 1:26 AM, Alcofribas said:

can either of you fellas recommend any other andrew deutsch albums?

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ug7drWGz5Bk

 

thoroughly enjoying this

 

 

Cheers. Never get tired of that one.

 

 

what's going on here with my andrew deutsch inquiry?

  On 5/3/2013 at 2:06 AM, Tauhid said:

 

  On 5/3/2013 at 1:26 AM, Alcofribas said:

 

can either of you fellas recommend any other andrew deutsch albums?

Loops Over Land is the only one I've heard so far. I checked out the samples of his other solo albums that Mimaroglu has in stock, but wasn't feeling them. His stuff is hard to find. It's all OOP and no one seems to have uploaded any of it.

 

http://www.mimaroglumusicsales.com/artists/andrew+deutsch.html

i got your reply a while back but then it seemed like, b/c of the way things got quoted, your reply was the 1958-2009 tape and i was like

Haha, oh. Yeah I don't know, dude is really under the radar. Couldn't even find a website for his label.

yeah it's weird. like you said, "loops over land" is so lush but the stuff on mms is very meh. i'd be really interested in anything else with a "loops..." vibe.

andrew pls