Corny New Age Music

  On 6/23/2015 at 12:05 AM, varius said:

 

  On 6/22/2015 at 9:16 PM, Danny O Flannagin said:

 

Is this cultural appropriation?

 

 

nah...

 

i'd say this just might be:

 

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or this

If I remember right the Deep Forest one was more offensive because not only was the sample unauthorized but the linear notes had some very condescending tone about how this kind of music harnessed primitive and raw emotions from the music of naive and innocent "native" culture from tribes and ethnic groups living outside of modern society, and yet the music was some industry standard breakbeats + uncleared use of archived music recorded and preserved by ethnomusicologists. This shit made the producers very rich very fast.

World music in the form of new age and hybrid genres has always had a turbulent history since the 80s because it was literally born in a conference and created as a marketing genre and category. I took a class about world pop music (i.e. music made outside of Western countries that infuses western pop and styles with local ones, not the other way around) and we spent a couple classes about the "World Music" phenomenon. Most of it centers around Graceland which unlike many other "world music" albums after it was actually culturally sincere and critically acclaimed, but basically ushered the term the public conscious.

  On 6/26/2015 at 6:34 AM, Danny O Flannagin said:

 

  On 6/26/2015 at 6:27 AM, joshuatx said:

I have an embarrassing amount of these on cassettes. Goes hand in hand with my enjoyment of vaporwave and underground synth drone. Lot of Narada, Windham Hill, American Gramaphone, etc. Sampling with with my pitch shift capable cassette deck is something I never got around to (yet)

 

This is one of the greatest things to happen to mankind

 

It's a Sony model with 30% +/- too. It's fucking magical.

It's more of xmas album, but nonetheless a favorite of mine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evxxpqcQKF0

What's also incredible about this genre is the corny stuff is very far removed from groundbreaking and objectively important and excellent releases in ambient, experimental, and ethnic music in terms of sincerity and context but musically is often only different in subtle ways and instrumentation. Kitaro is a good example of an artist who bridges the gap between both. Yanni's first album, released without fanfare/notice in 1980, is actually decent.

As someone who likes collecting old tapes, I've noticed people bought and made mixtapes of stuff we'd consider awesome and stuff we'd consider dentist waiting room muzak together. A good example of the Pure Moods compilation.

We know of it as this:

But the original release had a far different tracklisting, with Eno and Orb on the same disc as Kenny G and Enigma.

Yeah, in the 90s The Orb sometimes got categorized as new age music in shops which is why they parodied self-help tapes etc on at least Orbus Terrarum.

  On 6/26/2015 at 6:34 AM, Danny O Flannagin said:

 

  On 6/26/2015 at 6:27 AM, joshuatx said:

underground synth drone

 

 

whats some good underground synth drone?

  On 6/28/2015 at 12:27 PM, funkaholic said:

 

  On 6/26/2015 at 6:34 AM, Danny O Flannagin said:

 

  On 6/26/2015 at 6:27 AM, joshuatx said:

underground synth drone

 

 

whats some good underground synth drone?

 

Off the top of my head, Emeralds, Pulse Emitter, Motion Sickness of Time Travel, stuff like that. Synth is a little too specific I guess, lot of their peers do guitar based ambient / drone too.

ah wicked thanks, emeralds i love, if you have anymore names off the top of your head lemme know ;)

not sure if this suits here, maybe more vapor? still though, propa wicked

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https://youtu.be/6O_yPWBn5Hw

  On 6/28/2015 at 7:53 PM, funkaholic said:

wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait, no enya?

 

https://youtu.be/6O_yPWBn5Hw

HEY! Enya isn't corny

Corny in the good way

everything i saw at glastonbury was corny new age music to me.

  On 6/28/2015 at 10:17 PM, Danny O Flannagin said:

 

  On 6/28/2015 at 7:53 PM, funkaholic said:

wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait, no enya?

 

https://youtu.be/6O_yPWBn5Hw

HEY! Enya isn't corny

 

if terrible means corny, well she's corny.

  On 6/28/2015 at 10:26 PM, delet... said:

everything i saw at glastonbury was corny new age music to me.

  On 6/28/2015 at 10:17 PM, Danny O Flannagin said:

 

  On 6/28/2015 at 7:53 PM, funkaholic said:

wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait, no enya?

 

https://youtu.be/6O_yPWBn5Hw

HEY! Enya isn't corny

 

 

if terrible means corny, well she's corny.

even her song boadicea!?

hehehehehe, lol, oh shit i accidently quoted from the song.

Yuji Ohno is my fav composer evur.

JoshuaTX already posted some Himekami but whatever:

Also, this massive collection, courtesy of Legowelt's twitter:

http://www.soundsofthedawn.blogspot.nl/

  On 6/26/2015 at 7:49 AM, joshuatx said:

What's also incredible about this genre is the corny stuff is very far removed from groundbreaking and objectively important and excellent releases in ambient, experimental, and ethnic music in terms of sincerity and context but musically is often only different in subtle ways and instrumentation.

Kat Epple really needs to be noted here as a great example of the latter.

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  On 6/30/2015 at 1:35 AM, Leon Sumbitches said:

Also, this massive collection, courtesy of Legowelt's twitter:

 

http://www.soundsofthedawn.blogspot.nl/

This is fucking amazing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbtMicT61rY

Just listen to Ray Lynch's Deep Breakfast. David Lanz's Christofori's Dream is great too! Cheesy and beautiful. I love all these songs.

some m1 sounds and even a plastic recorder flute n stuff, sorted to the proper thread we hope

https://soundcloud.com/baadsheep/01-sketch-mar-14-20154studiodagbok

Come on guys, Enya, Enigma and Robert Rich aren't corny!!

  On 6/28/2015 at 11:46 PM, th555 said:

Yuji Ohno is my fav composer evur.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbNF1v_KaLA

Wow, great stuff!

bought these cassettes in a dublab pack a few years ago. i'd never even heard of the guy, really nice new age/ambient music.

http://www.discogs.com/Daniel-Emmanuel-Wizards/release/2908133

http://www.discogs.com/Daniel-Emmanuel-Rain-Forest-Music/release/2254714

http://www.discogs.com/Daniel-Emmanuel-Trance-Formations-I-Ancient-Minimal-Meditations/release/776032

http://www.discogs.com/JD-Emmanuel-Trance-Formation-I-Ancient-Minimal-Meditations/master/340615

http://www.discogs.com/JD-Emmanuel-Peaceful-Kingdom-Concert-1982/release/3386478

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWFUt7w6ZOM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksNlqTMamlo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elVJ1N6duKE

  On 7/8/2015 at 10:41 AM, chim said:

Come on guys, Enya, Enigma and Robert Rich aren't corny!!

 

  On 6/28/2015 at 11:46 PM, th555 said:

Yuji Ohno is my fav composer evur.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbNF1v_KaLA

Wow, great stuff!

 

But he's mostly famous for his Lupin III soundtrack I think (havent heard/seen it).