What's the greatest ambient album of all time?
I've only got one ambient album tbh, Oren Ambarchi - Grapes from the Estate. My opinion is that one.
>>51183141
I would have to say that one OP
>>51183141
The ones that combine noise and ambient are the best always.
That's a great one.
My favorites are:
The Disintegration Loops
The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid
Structures from Silence
The Nature of Nature
Ignore the inevitable "backpack ambient" faggots. They never have any real criticisms.
>>51183141
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92 - YouTube
>https://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CCUQyCkwAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DXw5AiRVqfqk&ei=CDRaVNyjDMetmAXgwoGYCA&usg=AFQjCNHk3cE-vQw4Fl6ET0Mgu57mXMWPLA&bvm=bv.78677474,d.dGY
>>51183169
We'd get along. Download "Solo for Wounded CD" by Yasunao Tone and play it over any ambient album of your choosing. It instantly transforms the album into something much more. It's a really useful album on its own and paired with others.
>>51183193
Do people actually think "backpack (genre)" is an actual criticism?
>>51183198
I laughed, I guess.
>>51183206
Interesting idea, never really paired any albums together like that, also I don't know how to do so in a computer, so that might have something to do with it.
>>51183193
I haven't heard of The Nature of Nature but I love those other albums
>>51183212
>Do people actually think "backpack (genre)" is an actual criticism?
Dude I don't even know what it's supposed to mean
>>51183141
pic related or Virgins by the hecker man
>>51183220
I recommend it. It's one 70 minute long, shimmering drone. Really great music to exist in for a while. It's by JLIAT.
>>51183212
>Interesting idea, never really paired any albums together like that, also I don't know how to do so in a computer, so that might have something to do with it.
Just open it in youtube or a streaming service. It's really great. I recently did it with Ben Frost's "Steel Wound" and it was really nice.
![aijf3LT[1].png](https://i.imgur.com/YWhNuFb.png "aijf3LT[1].png")
>>51183234
You know, like a how a "backpacker" listens to underground or conscious hip hop as opposed to other kinds.
So I guess backpacker ambient would be like that, but I don't even know how the fuck people would classify ambient as conscious or underground.
>>51183278
so in other words, it's meaningless and thrown around to insult people who stir insecurities in you with their taste in music
>>51183294
Yeah, pretty much. Like the more hip hop version of calling something "hipster music".
Is anyone else into the Pop Ambient series? It's a shame they're not on the archive
/ambient/ general so I'm really enjoying this right now
Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement - Jungle Black Magic and Highlands Green Sorcery
>>51183366
What's it like?
ambient techno isn't ambient, it's techno.
>>51183371
Sounds like the name. Damp, rainy, deep green, windy, tribal.
>>51183302
>>51183294
>>51183278
>>51183234
>>51183212
>>51183193
it's called backpambient you plebs.
>>51183399
be gone spirit
>>51183278
Backpambient used to refer to uninspired generic stuff like Helios but like all slangs on /mu/ it has come to lose it's original meaning with time.
>>51183250
muh nigga
Instrumental Tourist is underrated imo
Anyone know of stuff similar to Recondite- On Acid? I know that it's not ambient but I feel like this thread might have some good recs for it
>>51183141
This is my favorite.
>>51183294
It's more an insult for people who gloat in their "superior" hip hop taste because they listen rap with "meaningful" lyrics
I know 'P4k-core ambient' is frowned upon but honestly, I've never heard anything else that even comes close to the beauty of this album.
>>51183457
i've only heard Virgins and Radio Amor, i'll get on with the Hecker man when NBBMN is over
though i really doubt ill find anything that tops virgins
>>51183141
this is my favorite
idk about best but i never get tired of listening to it
>>51183616
ravedeath 1972 is his best though get on it asap
>>51183141
>inb4 tycho or any other downtempo gets posted
>>51183141
On Land; most transportingly evocative anyway.
>>51183502
nice pick, ive been listening to his first few albums recently and they are god tier. im pretty sure all those retrosynth guys like OPN and whatever took their aesthetic right out of stuff like this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AR4j19sMG1E
Literally anything with Jefre Cantu-Ledesma
cant get enough of his blend of ambient and noise.
My go-to albums lately:
Alio Die & Zeit - Il Giardino Ermeneutico
SleepResearch_Facility - Dead Weather Machine
Thomas Köner - Teimo
Brian Eno - Ambient #4: On Land
Steve Roach - Immersion : One
DeepChord Presents Echospace - Liumin (*** Disc 2 ***)
Emeralds - Allegory Of Allergies
Steve Roach & Dirk Serries - Low Volume Music
Not the best, but one of my top ones
>>51183713
Kek
>>51183673
I have most of his stuff. The early berlin school sounding albums are pretty great to me.
Be careful, it's like an entry drug. You'll realize one day you spent hours listening to tribal/new age recordings and pondering existence.
>>51183688
>>51183640
Ive found that his work takes a lot of listenings to get into, but sure, if it's as good as Virgins i'll sacrifice some hours of nbbmn
I dunno if bvdub counts, but I listen to Serenity frequently
>>51183699
thanks I'm going to look into some of these
>>51183687
Check out anything by lovesliescrushing and All the Stars Will Fall by Astrobrite. I feel like Jefre is heavily influenced by Scott Cortez.
>>51183699
dubs for solid taste
>gone from the internet for most of last year because i was in hospital
>life back to normal early 2014
>only found out last week that oöphoi fucking died last year
jesus fucking christ
>>51183729
dont worry brother, i have been doing this for years
no going back
>>51183141
That's one of my favourites. But I'd have to go with The Tired Sounds of Stars if the Lid.
>>51183908
Austin Texas Mental Hospital gives me feels I never thought possible
>>51183193
>Ignore the inevitable "backpack ambient" faggots. They never have any real criticisms.
Stars of the Lid are very good, but I find their sound a little too polished and innocuous. Same thing for Kyle Bobby Dunn's latest album: it's really nice and soothing, but doesn't go much further than that. I prefer ambient that's a little more evocative.
>>51183159
>I've only got one ambient album tbh, Oren Ambarchi - Grapes from the Estate. My opinion is that one.
Well at least it's a good one.
>>51183626
Biosphere is one of my favourite ambient artists. Substrata is his masterpiece, but Microgravity (ambient techno) and Shenzhou (based on Debussy) are also great. And Dropsonde too.
>>51183386
>ambient techno isn't ambient, it's techno.
You've got a point, although the difference isn't always clear-cut in my opinion... Gas and Selected Ambient Works 85-92 are too techno to be really ambient, but a few beats here and there don't hurt.
It's not like the difference between drone and drone metal or noise and noise rock, which are very different in spirit.
>>51183699
Great selection; I've got quite a few favourites in common with you.
Last time I posted in an ambient thread I started a chart but didn't get around to finishing it, I should work on it now...
In the meantime, a few more recommendations:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXdggEC6k0c&list=PL37F99A58695CDB7C
Loscil – Plume
(soothing)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jD_q5SVjZVU
Nautic Depths – North Passage
(dark/cold)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=He5hj_S0el4
Isnaj Dui – Duodecim
(acoustic, introspective)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNIwp-MSz8g
Monolake – Gobi
>>51183809
Sorry to hear that, I didn't know. I'm not very familiar with him but I remember liking Bardo.
>>51184119
Biosphere fans unite!
if you say stars of the lid you are a fucking pleb tbh
>>51183278
From what I've seen backpambient is any ambient that is popularly posted here which doesn't make any sense because that's the opposite of what the backpacker part implies.
Amber, try denying it's one of the best albums of the genre.
>>51184252
its by far the best ambient techno album out there
still, its far too beat driven to be considered ambient, although nine and yulquen are both some of the best ambient tracks theyve ever done
>>51184227
Not that guy, but I always pop in ambient threads looking for new material but it's like the same posts all the time.
>check this obscure dark ambient project
>muh Tycho
>[posts IDM/ambient techno]
>all I know is Hecker and SotL
I think there's room for everyone, but we lack diversity
>>51184212
Maeror Tri is pretty good, do you like Troum and :zoviet*france: too? They have more ties to tribal ambient and tape/industrial music, especially :z*f:, but I hear some resemblance between them.
>>51184230
Holy Dance is fantastic.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YoeeNe0swQ
>>51184275
I consider it to be ambient though. Not being pretentious or anything, but some beat is good with ambient, Biosphere style or like pic related (fucking great album).
>mfw I just realised it's some films soundtrack.
Speaking of soundtracks, who else loves Akira's soundtrack?
>>51184341
>Maeror Tri is pretty good, do you like Troum and :zoviet*france: too?
aw ye! Troum is two doods from Maeror Tri so the resemblance is not surprising.
>>51183366
Just checked this out, it's actually super rad, i've been looking for an album with this exact feel, very rainy and foresty. thank you anon
>>51183896
MUH FUCKING NIGGA
Vienna's list of elite ambient albums
Kyle Bobby Dunn - A Young Person's Guide to Kyle Bobby Dunn
Philip Jeck - Stoke
The Orb - The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld
Stars of the Lid - And Their Refinement of the Decline
Alio Die & Zeit - Raag Drone Theory
Forrest Fang - The Blind Messenger
Gareth Flowers - A Beginner’s Guide to Lucid Dreaming
The Fun Years - Baby, It's Cold Inside
Grouper - Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill
Tim Hecker - Haunt Me, Haunt Me Do It Again
Jüppala Kääpiö - Sporing Promenade
Stars of the Lid - The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid
>>51184484
Am I supposed to know who this tripfag is?
this
Honestly?
fucking hell all you ambient techno faggots fuck off
the correct answer is the tired sounds of stars of the lid
It's a tie between Alio Die - Il Tempo Magico Di Saturnia Pavonia
and
vidnaObmana - The River Of Appearance
https://projektrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-river-of-appearance
>>51186939
>the correct answer is
You make me want to post ambient techno again :^)
>>51183626
my nigger
>>51184585
mah nigga
