Ambient - The Megathread

  On 10/21/2010 at 1:54 PM, Hasselbalch said:

One of my favorites

 

Bass Communion - I

 

Bass Comm is fucking excellent, Ghosts on Magnetic Tape is sheer win

The new album by Brian McKenzie (one-half of Stars of the Lid) is released. Highly highly recommended!

http://boomkat.com/cds/338199-brian-mcbride-the-effective-disconnect

i havent read much of this thread

im not much of an ambient fan save for old eno stuff for some reason but i do like dubby sorta ambient stuff. like monolake's "hong kong" and yagya and whatnot.

  On 10/26/2010 at 4:18 PM, Capsaicin said:

The new album by Brian McKenzie (one-half of Stars of the Lid) is released. Highly highly recommended!

 

http://boomkat.com/cds/338199-brian-mcbride-the-effective-disconnect

Album of the year, fuck Brian Eno!

  On 10/26/2010 at 5:59 PM, disparaissant said:

i havent read much of this thread

im not much of an ambient fan save for old eno stuff for some reason but i do like dubby sorta ambient stuff. like monolake's "hong kong" and yagya and whatnot.

"Mass Transit Railway" (the last track of that album) is one of my favorite ambient compositions. Truly epic.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSwf3OSbedM

hong kong really is top notch

has anyone mentioned The Necks???

listening now to their "Aether" album. ambient made with real instruments.

pentamerous metamorphosis

  On 10/26/2010 at 6:12 PM, Enter a new display name said:

  On 10/26/2010 at 4:18 PM, Capsaicin said:

The new album by Brian McKenzie (one-half of Stars of the Lid) is released. Highly highly recommended!

 

http://boomkat.com/cds/338199-brian-mcbride-the-effective-disconnect

Album of the year, fuck Brian Eno!

 

 

Isnt it Brian McBride ?

  On 11/3/2010 at 5:58 AM, beatfanatic said:

  On 10/26/2010 at 6:12 PM, Enter a new display name said:

  On 10/26/2010 at 4:18 PM, Capsaicin said:

The new album by Brian McKenzie (one-half of Stars of the Lid) is released. Highly highly recommended!

 

http://boomkat.com/cds/338199-brian-mcbride-the-effective-disconnect

Album of the year, fuck Brian Eno!

 

 

 

Isnt it Brian McBride ?

lol, I never noticed that typo.

Quique by Seefeel is ambientish

Plastikman - Consumed (don't think that's been mentioned yet)

Orb - Orbus Terrarum

Gas - Pop

Burger/Ink - Las Vegas

Autechre - Amber

On the more classical side of things

Philip Glass - Music in Fifths, Music in similar motion, music in twelve parts

Feldman - Rothko Chapel

Reich - Music for 18 musicians, electric counterpoint, four organs

La Monte Young - The Well-Tuned Piano

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21qwJpoDDRM

this is so incredibly awesome

Great song

  On 11/3/2010 at 10:59 PM, dr lopez said:

Plastikman - Consumed (don't think that's been mentioned yet)

 

Orb - Orbus Terrarum

 

Gas - Pop

 

Burger/Ink - Las Vegas

 

Autechre - Amber

 

On the more classical side of things

 

Philip Glass - Music in Fifths, Music in similar motion, music in twelve parts

 

Feldman - Rothko Chapel

 

Reich - Music for 18 musicians, electric counterpoint, four organs

 

 

 

La Monte Young - The Well-Tuned Piano

The Burger/Ink isn't ambient though...

yah well pretty much everything else i posted isn't "ambient" either...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDrhT4aXh9k

akira kosemura - polaroid piano

ambient, piano driven beauty.

  On 11/23/2010 at 4:47 AM, dr lopez said:

yah well pretty much everything else i posted isn't "ambient" either...

Ha ha... Ok?

That album is one of my all time fav's... *****

Markus Guentner - 1981 - [This is a must listen/own]

For an ambient album by Tangerine Dream, you probably cannot top Zeit from 1972.

Swod, Sekunden & Gehen

The Fun Years, Baby's It's Cold Inside

Lusine

Biosphere, Substrata & Dropsonde

Global Communication, 76:14

Gas, Pop

Johann Johannsson, IBM 1401, A User’s Manual

Brian Eno, Ambient 1: Music for Airports

Oval, '94 diskont

AM/PM, The Ends I & II

So, So

Marsen Jules, Herbstlaub

Denzel + Huhn, Paraport

Mira Calix, 3 Commissions

Port-Royal, Afraid To Dance

[youtubehd]s3GtOYyQE_s&hd=1[/youtubehd]

Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto's UTP album from 2009 is fantastic. There are few flaws here and there but it's definitely one of the best ambient albums from the last couple of years.

[youtubehd]3pcliv4112o&hd=1[/youtubehd]

Then there's Brian Eno and Harold Budd's "The Pearl" which is a classic. Beautiful!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KUqCvLhI_M

I'm also a big fan of Murcof's Cosmos album even though I've heavily edited a few of the tracks because there are some parts that completely ruin it for me. I'm listening to the original now and I had almost completely forgotten how annoying some of those shock-elements are.

I think Cosmos is quite fine unedited.

meloncholia is p.good, mon.

  On 11/25/2010 at 12:07 AM, Capsaicin said:

I think Cosmos is quite fine unedited.

Hells no. I never listened to any of the more ambient-ish tracks from the album (Cuerpo Celeste and Oort) before I removed all the annoying bits and pieces.