For the discussion of ambient, drone, etc.
Previous thread >>60154516
>Essential ambient #1:
http://i.imgur.com/dKFf5ss.jpg
>Essential ambient #2:
http://i.imgur.com/IHuTSbc.jpg
>2000s ambient:
http://i.imgur.com/tsKQh56.jpg
>Dark ambient:
http://i.imgur.com/Idgibn5.jpg
'sup guys? How's your day going? I've been listening to Sleep Research Facility's Deep_Freeze as it's been a dark grey morning so far. Probably listen to Color For Autumn later though as it's bonfire night here in the UK.
Another point for discussion, why do you think Tim Hecker is so popular? I like a lot of his stuff that I've listened to, but he seems unexplainably popular as far as ambient goes.
>>60175312
fantano, p4k hype etc.
Deep Frieze is probs my 2nd favourite ambient album of all time tho
>>60175346
What's your favorite ambient album?
>>60175364
loscil - first narrows desu senpai
if you classify gas - zauberberg as ambient then that would be my favourite tho
![BersarinQuartett_III_300px[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/gmj10X1.jpg "BersarinQuartett_III_300px[1].jpg")
The new Bersarin Quartett is coming out tomorrow. I'm hyped!
I only just realised how great the Kranky label is. I was aware of them because of Stars of the Lid but I wasn't aware they were also responsible for Loscil, Steve Hauschildt, Tim Hecker, GY!BE, Benoit Pioulard, and others.
Are there any other labels other than 12K that have such a great roster of ambient, etc artists?
https://soundcloud.com/llllll-openaiid/without-boundary
good morning
i love this artist
http://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/bfi-film-releases/epic-everest
There was a showing of the excellent 1924 'Epic of Everest' on BBC4 the other night, with a new soundtrack by Simon Fisher Turner.
I would recommend it to anyone who loves ambient music and old footage of mountain exploration. It's a beautiful combination.
>The restoration by the BFI National Archive has transformed the quality of the surviving elements of the film and reintroduced the original coloured tints and tones. Revealed by the restoration, few images in cinema are as epic – or moving – as the final shots of a blood red sunset over the Himalayas.
>A newly commissioned score composed, orchestrated and conducted by Simon Fisher Turner (The Great White Silence) features a haunting combination of electronic music, found sounds, western and Nepalese instruments and vocals.
loving this at the moment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgxk9oNAMBc
>>60176872
This sounds great, I'll look it up on iplayer.
can anyone rec where to go next with Birchville Cat Motel after Beautiful Speck Triumph? he has like a billion albums
>>60175480
Touch
> every essential ambient chart is missing "The Pearl"
Okay guys, please continue. Don't want to keep you from listening to your bland "essentials."
Reminder that Eno is still a God amongst mortals
>>60177412
probably just pick one of his better rated albums on RYM
as good a metric as anything
>>60177498
he's super overrated and his ambient work has aged pretty badly - nice of him to coin the genre name though
>>60177365
Yeah it's pretty incredible.
Thank god we have BBC4 who are willing to broadcast stuff like this
https://chubbywolf.bandcamp.com/album/the-darker-sex
any suggestions for things like this (subtle tones but really complex arrangement, lots of layers weaving in and out, etc)
question for all the ambient producers - what is your work flow and process when putting a piece of ambient music together like?
I tried making some a while ago but was honestly pretty lazy and just covered slowed down piano samples in reverb
>>60175312
I think Tim Hecker just has a strong vision. Each of his albums sound very different, each has a special feel and theme to it. His production is tight, his ambient isn't just waves of monolithic sound but its very detailed and eventful and compositionally interesting (I mean, Virgins...). At times its melodic, at times noisy and imperfect, at times forceful, at times tender and quite "human" for electronic music. Personally I also like that he uses a lot of real instruments in his work like organs, pianos and guitars, and I get his fascination with analog and digital garbage and things like that, which is his central theme.
The thing with ambient like SotL or Celer etc., the long drawn out waves of sound type of ambient, is that their formula or sound palette just isn't that different over the albums. Hecker's music is quite colourful and non-same-y in comparison (even his most same-y release Haunt Me... is more sonically interesting). Its ambient made to be listened to actively, because at any point in time its full of little things that you would miss otherwise. I know this comment sounds like an ode at this point but most ambient artists I know (I don't know them all, but I know a lot) just aren't that deep. Their music just isn't that deep, even if its double LP, its all surface level sound that you enjoy for a few listens and never go back. You can get lost in Heckers albums because, even though they tend to be shorter, they feel full and not empty as other ambient albums do.
>>60177635
I think if you had to decide whether a track was Celer or Chihei Hatakeyama based on listening alone it would be quite uncertain
But Tim Hecker is very idiosyncratic and I think (and hope) that we'll get more followers of his ambient aesthetic
>>60175480
I myself am a FAX +49-69/450464 guy
Lots of variety, even with not so many artists
Cool album art too
best thread
any ambient musicians here?
show me your stuff
>>60177530
Nah
>>60178072
https://thelaver.bandcamp.com/
literally a joke but i think it mostly still sounds pretty nice
Recommendations similar to Tycho?
>>60178362
Ulrich Schnauss - A Strangely Isolated Place
Boards Of Canada
>>60177530
totally agree :D
>>60178072
http://drugsintokyo.bandcamp.com/album/a-welcome-momentary-release
i wanted to make more noise-ambient cause I couldn't find much to listen to
Does Pomegranates qualify as ambient or is it too strange for that?
>>60177412
There's a guide on RYM: https://rateyourmusic.com/list/RPExecutor/checking_in_to_the_birchville_cat_motel__an_annotated_guide_to_bcm_/
I've only heard three so far but I like Came a Great Stallion Whose First Leap Sparked the Celestial Star a lot.
>>60177489
I haven't heard it but since it's by Eno and Budd I expect it's upbeat and new age-y?
>>60177489
"I don't know any of the albums on the list but they don't have this album I like so they must all suck"
How mature
I don't think I've listened to an album more in a week than I have with Lustmord's and Robert Rich's album, Stalker. Is there more like this, /mu/?
This album has really gotten me into ambient.
When this place isn't being spammed with ebin memes, the music discussions can be pretty good, btw.
>>60178072
https://j-e-b.bandcamp.com
Just repetitive ambient I made in GarageBand. I'm a total amateur and I had no idea what I was doing, really made it to put me to sleep
more on the drone/progressive electronic side of things, but does anyone have any thoughts on pic related? one of my all time favorites desu
i think we should add this to next thread opener
best sources to find new ambient music :
Siren sound
Headphone commute
Ambient blog
a stationary travels
a strangley isolated place
anymore guys ?
>>60178072
Very fennesz. I normally play in a prog rock band so it's still a little songy for ambient.
https://eulala.bandcamp.com/album/affections
>>60177530
>he's super overrated and his ambient work has aged pretty badly
His ambient works has all aged pretty badly and is overrated, except for Ambient 4. But, his art rock stuff and his production works are amazing.
>>60178072
https://theambiguity.bandcamp.com/album/adventures-of-a-letdown
Tried to see if I could sound like Tim Hecker's Ravedeath and Atrium Carceri's The Old City: Leviathan OST
>>60178072
https://epiglottis.bandcamp.com/album/take-me-to-the-burning-waters
Some dark ambient on woodwinds and brasses. Idk.
Also, if we get this general going how about an /AMB/IENT compilation?
>>60182669
Apollo aged really well, and so did Discreet Music.
what do you guys think of Rafael Anton Irisarri - A Fragile Geograph ??
it's beautiful
https://ericmatthewbowers.bandcamp.com/track/awkward-movements-through-troubled-youths
Fuck yeah ambient General! Just uploaded a new song
Is any of this bandcamp ambient actually good or it just paulstretch-core?
>>60183769
Most of it's trash. But then again 90% of ambient is also quite boring. The good stuff does seem to rise to the top and even the generic stuff can be at worst pleasant at times.
Need an album to go to sleep tonight, give me something i can easily find on soulseek
>>60183161
its good
I maintain this is possibly the best dark ambient album ever made.
If anyone can prove me wrong, I welcome it, because I fucking love me some dark ambient.
>>60185800
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KwhvmmYRbY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbT3OhHBydc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QymToRPYmLY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kA5TUX884U
>>60185800
It's really good, but the tracks are much too short; 1-2 minutes really aren't enough for ambient. It's perfect in the game though.
I wish Akira Yamaoka would make a stand-alone ambient album.
>>60185755
duh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ld5uEuA0Fg
>>60186034
>I wish Akira Yamaoka would make a stand-alone ambient album
couldn't agree more
I also wish darren korb would make a standalone trip-hop album
>>60179002
Not at all. Melancholic and mellow, kind of evokes a sense of longing and despair. It really should be ranked amongst some of Eno's greatest work.
Still not the greatest collaboration between these two though, that goes to Ambient 2: The Plateaux of Mirror.
How do I into Klaus Schulze?
>>60175433
ah no-shit.
Thanks anon
>>60177489
The Pearl is fantastic. Harold Budd has lots of hidden gems.
>>60178072
I make long-form, deep ambient music. This album became one of the bestsellers of may 2014 on bandcamp
http://slumbr.bandcamp.com/album/hibernate
>>60177625
It helps to have a vision of what you want to hear. For me it's a very long process that I try to divide into separate parts, such as field recording, putting contact mikes in weird places, recording instruments, experimenting with textures and digital treatments that eventually make their way into finished pieces. I don't like much pitching or stretching, the sound loses fidelity and feels like a lazy way to produce. Lots of stuff is recorded but never used, until something stands out. if one idea gains momentum it gets easier to build on that and refine
>>60186929
What equipment are you using mate?
Good shit
heres my first attempt at making ambient music - its not very musical so i guess its more of a 'soundscape' its also unintentionally glitchy listening back to it so i'll have to figure out what went wrong there
https://soundcloud.com/george-grant-190906695/bering-sleeps
>>60187146
Bunch of stuff, zoom and sontronics mikes, self built contact ones, guitars, flutes, various outboard gear by mackie, alesis, roland, korg and some other stuff. computer and ableton of course. Lots of great drones to be found in free VSTs, HG Fortunes old experimental stuff like alio noctis is a good example, I use it religiously
>>60179812
dunno about that but I liked solar bridge
>>60187433
Not good anon, try making a 1-2 minute ambient composition before you start using the stretch tool in audacity.
>>60175433
Holy shit
