anyone recommend some really warm fluffy ambient?

yeah, as title..

 

 

i love ambient but i usually just stick on drone-zone.. its not always to taste. who makes some fluffy lush?

  On 7/10/2015 at 1:00 PM, lala said:

i love ambient but i usually just stick on drone-zone.. its not always to taste. who makes some fluffy lush?

Yeah, it's strange that there's just so much down-beat stuff out there - I love the genre but it's sometimes quite a grind to get though.

 

Celer makes some more happier ambient, I recommend this one that sounds like the sun setting real slowly on a summer's evening - https://celer.bandcamp.com/album/evaporate-wonder

 

Also Stars Of The Lid - ...and Their Refinement of the Decline is generally quite an upbeat ambient album

 

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

if i want warm i usually meditation/yogic-type stuff, but thats its own genre in itself, dont always want some geezer chanting mantra and ringing bells :)

I know what you mean about wanting light, not sure about these, but they are staving off the dark for me at the moment...

 

https://donnachacostello.bandcamp.com/album/love-from-dust-2

https://tomfurse.bandcamp.com/album/the-planets-as-viewed-by-satellite

http://amalgamatedwondersoftheworld.bandcamp.com/track/soiree-at-the-simplitz-saloon-live-2014

 

...plus Harold Budd has a million gorgeously beautiful afternoon yawns.

nice! thanks peeps

Stephan Mathieu circa 2008 (RADIOLAND LP)

Deru - 1979

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpaISor7uQs

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtXmoLlVL3E

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BR1vkGXseJY

 

 

In the same vein as Celer, Former Selves makes some pretty upbeat, albiet still drone-y, sounding ambient

 

  On 7/10/2015 at 1:46 PM, telefunken said:

Stephan Mathieu circa 2008 (RADIOLAND LP)

Bought the CD copy of that a few years back and haven't heard it for ages. In my memory all the tracks start off nice an light (almost reminding me of Cliff Martinez's OST for the Solaris remake) and then some layers come in near the end making it all supaspooky and discordant. Gonna have to revisit it again, been too long

 

EDIT: From checking those previews I think my memory is tricking me, the first one really reminds me of:

 

I have a deep love for anything by Matt Hillier - Ishq, Ishvara, Elve, Colourform, Indigo Egg. Just puts me in another world listening to it.

 

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I think his "warmest" releases are probably under the Elve moniker. That's the more natural, earth-inspired stuff. Lots of samples of rain, leaves, wind, etc. But you really can't go wrong with anything by him, it's all gorgeous.

wow, thanks for the responses

 

snap!

 

 

and love love love Donnacha Costello

Edited July 10, 2015 by lala

great recommendation so far

 

elve/ishq is indeed loveloy

 

bluetech

 

 

kettel ambient tracks. I'm listening as I speak to choo choo india from kettel. amazing

 

secede

Edited July 10, 2015 by murphythecat8

  On 7/10/2015 at 4:23 PM, Mesh Gear Fox said:

all fans of ambient music should check out stars of the lid. if you think "drone" means something exclusively dark, or chanting etc. you are in for a treat as they are none of that. SoTL are like a lovely warm bath, and the music is always moving along, never boring imo.

 

yeah more often than not the drone ambient I listen to is upbeat, reflective, warm, etc. maybe melancholy in a nostalgic sense but not dark and foreboding

 

 

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

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8Xv-5i6G5Y

 

 

this label is a nice starting point for warm ambient

 

more synth-y stuff

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZr9wVJev4A

 

lala, I would hit up deion sanders as well, he's one of the ambient gurus here

Edited July 15, 2015 by joshuatx

nice one

I was gonna post Ishq in the cheesy new age thread lol. It's legit good tho.

Motion Sickness of Time Travel is great as well, I really like this track with the amazing bass tones.

 

 

https://semya.bandcamp.com

Edited July 10, 2015 by Dpek

https://archive.org/details/earman049

 

http://lucettebourdin.bandcamp.com/album/golden-sun

 

http://freefloatingmusic.bandcamp.com/album/highlands

 

https://softrecords.bandcamp.com/album/movements-for-an-absent-mind

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvU3H-iiax0

I think it needs to be reapeated

 

SECEDE

http://reviews.headphonecommute.comare a reliable source of ideas for ambient stuff.

Abstract Aprils - Blossom Ends is a fantastic piece of light, warm ambient.

https://abstractaprils.bandcamp.com/album/blossom-ends

 

And of course Global Communication:

 

If soundcloud wasn't borked at the moment I'd link you to Tom Middleton's "Ambitracks" - which are unreal in their gorgeousness.

 

Mountains makes some great warm bright ambient - not always droney (but their best stuff is)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_uHG1SJfvc&list=PL2BD98CFBA1AB5818

 

And definitely second the Donnacha Costello recommendations.

 

Also if you're going the SOTL route - you'll end up at A Winged Victory for the Sullen eventually. And you'll be happy when you do.

threadfull of wins

also, ive been listening for a couple of months to

Olafur arnalds and Arve henriksen.

its no ambient per say, but so warm, musical, beautiful music.

Edited July 10, 2015 by murphythecat8