Ambient - The Megathread

I love Stars of the Lid! Brian Eno also has some good stuff, particularly Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks, though my fave Eno song is 2/2 from Music for Airports. William Basinski is a great ambient composer and who among us hasn't gone to sleep while listening to The Disintegration Loops? Loscil is cool too, but a bit more relaxing than sleepytime music, not that Basinski is only good for "lullabyes".

  On 2/21/2010 at 7:17 PM, Smettingham Rutherford IV said:

Anything by Vidna Obmana....excepting his earlier noise works that were just re-released....

fuck, haven't listened to him since i was a teenager. he was one of the first ambient guys i got into. maybe i'll check some of his albums out again.

  On 2/22/2010 at 3:46 AM, vproc said:

I love Stars of the Lid!

check out Porzellan.

Ontayso - 24 Hour Project

Thomas Köner - Nunatak Gongamur

Kontakt Der Jünglinge - 0,1,-1,n

Planetary Unfolding ~ Michael Stearns

Sonic Seasonings ~ Wendy Carlos

La Barca ~ Thomas Koner

In The Pendulum's Embrace ~ Oren Ambarchi

Emphasis ~ Dirac

Cima Verde ~ Chris Watson

Harold Budd, Loscil, Bisophere, Aphex, Terre Thaemlitz, Tetsu Inoue.... ZZZZZZZZZZ

been really diggin my old Instinct Ambient cds, particularly Mysteries of Science and Terre Thamlitz

  On 2/11/2010 at 12:53 AM, purlieu said:

The Orb: Adventures and Terrarum are the only two I really class as ambient

KLF: Chill Out

yes. also live 93. there's no greater album for playing loud and laying down in the grass in your back garden while trashed on cider.

unfortunately i bought the lp of chill out from selectadisc in notts ages and ages ago, which turned out to be the bootleg, which seems to have been mastered from mp3s. there's even the 2 sec gap in between tracks...

i'd like to add dead eros' "the life in the world of existence is done", just cos i like droning on about that album.

p.s. i have a cd i bought from you ages ago called "purlieu". i assume you're second thought. it's rather good, so i'm nominating it in this thread.

Oh wow, thank you! That is indeed me. Have we crossed paths before?

yeah, many many years ago on dirty.org forums....my name on there was carp dreamer. good to see you again mate!

  On 2/11/2010 at 12:53 AM, purlieu said:

FSOL: Lifeforms, Environments II, and pretty much everything really

The Orb: Adventures and Terrarum are the only two I really class as ambient

Biosphere: Most of it, but particularly Substrata and Cirque

Spacetime Continuum: Sea Biscuit

Aphex: Both Ambient Works, particularly II

Eno: Ambient 1 and 4

Global Communication: 76:14

KLF: Chill Out

Gas: Zauberberg (never really dug the other three)

Woob: 1194

And a whole heap of other obvious stuff

 

Also,

Apollyon: Veror Aesik

Encomiast: Espera

Off-Land: Commute

Wintermute: Widescreen

Carbon Based Lifeforms - Hydroponic Garden

And anything of Underworld's that's mellow and chilled, which is a fair bit.

I havent long joined this bboard and have been browsing through some of the topics but i felt i needed to reply and say thanks for putting my album Veror Aesik as one of your favourite ambient music albums :)

ApollyoN is now retired but its still nice to think that my swan song album is still liked.

So...erm...thanks :D

Kent Sparling - Leaf Spring

Approaching Silence - David Sylvian

  On 5/31/2010 at 9:36 PM, Roysterfivenine said:

I havent long joined this bboard and have been browsing through some of the topics but i felt i needed to reply and say thanks for putting my album Veror Aesik as one of your favourite ambient music albums :)

 

ApollyoN is now retired but its still nice to think that my swan song album is still liked.

 

So...erm...thanks :D

Still gets played around these parts, yeah! Such a shame H/S doesn't put stuff out these days, it was a brilliantly consistent label.

(You might also want to check my thread in the WATMMixers forum ;) )

I have good memories of listening to Disintegration Loops while taking a long walk as the sun is setting

because as the songs slowly disintegrate, the sun slowly starts to set

gas-pop and konigsforst

jochem paap's ambient releases on FAX

The Seven Fields Of Aphelion. I just found this last week. She is a member of Black Moth Super Rainbow and realesed her first solo album in Febuary. I really love it, simply beatifull.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIEmFXa48XY

can anyone recommend some 80s albums/artists? all I've listened to from that period is steve roach, robert rich and ambient #4: on land.

  On 1/23/2010 at 2:33 AM, chimera slot mom said:

harold budd & brian eno - the plateaux of mirrors

thomas koner - nuuk

I was totally blown away when I discovered those albums earlier this year.

  On 6/2/2010 at 2:52 AM, thief said:

can anyone recommend some 80s albums/artists? all I've listened to from that period is steve roach, robert rich and ambient #4: on land.

You should definitely check out Planetary Unfolding by Michael Stearns.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAd81chckhk

Steve Roach's Dreamtime Return and Quiet Music. Actually, everything steve roach has created.

Biosphere, Carbon Based Lifeforms and Brian Eno.

Chris Watson - Weather Report

Rotor+ - Aileron & Map Key Window

Gas - 0095

Alan Lamb - Night Passage

Mount Vernon Arts Lab - One Minute Blasts Rising To Three & Then Diminishing

Stylus - The Last Seaweed Collecting Hut At Freshwater West

Lots of other stuff I have has already been mentioned eg Biosphere, Thomas Koner, Vidma Obmana, Rapoon etc

Have added that Apollyon album to my Save for later list on eMusic.

Haven't read the replies but my favourites are:

Shuttle358 - Frame

Loscil - Plume

Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works Vol. II

Autechre - Amber

Gas - Pop, Zauberberg

The Sight Below - Glider

Aidan Baker - I Will Always and Forever Hold You In My Heart and Mind

Marconi Union - Tokyo

Deaf Center - Pale Ravine

Elegi - Sistereis

William Basinski - The Disintegration

Christopher Bissonnette - In Between Words

Marsen Jules - Les Fleurs

Helios - Eingya

The Dead Texan - The Dead Texan

The Caretaker - Persistent Repetition of Phrases

Biosphere - Substrata

Pole - 1 2 3

Robert Henke - Layering Buddha

Janek Schaefer - Alone At Last

Stephan Mathieu - Radioland

Thomas Köner - La Barca

Fabio Orsi and Gianluca Becuzzi - The Stones Know Everything

Jasper TX - Black Sleep

  On 6/2/2010 at 8:46 PM, Richy said:

Haven't read the replies but my favourites are:

 

Loscil - Plume

Autechre - Amber

Gas - Pop, Zauberberg

The Sight Below - Glider

Aidan Baker - I Will Always and Forever Hold You In My Heart and Mind

Deaf Center - Pale Ravine

William Basinski - The Disintegration Loops

Christopher Bissonnette - In Between Words

Marsen Jules - Les Fleurs

The Dead Texan - The Dead Texan

Biosphere - Substrata

Stephan Mathieu - Radioland

Thomas Köner - La Barca

Fabio Orsi and Gianluca Becuzzi - The Stones Know Everything

Excellent picks. Fabio Orsi's solo material is awesome.

some more that haven't been mentioned(I think)

Minima Moralia - Chihei Hatakeyama

Electronic Ambient Remixes One - Chris Carter

Grijsgebied - Liquid Morphine

Zeotosis - Telomere

Zenith - Tetsu Inoue And Carlos Vivanco

Mare Tranquillitatis - Oöphoi

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5UZz0nxALU&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Gi0EISEm6I&feature=related

yep

Eluvium is nice