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What's your favourite ambient album?
That one, and Gas-Pop
Favorite dark ambient at least
I have a hard time letting go of Helios. This album in particular.
>>66431099
nice ass
>>66431115
that's sexist
cluster & eno
slowdive - Pygmalion
>>66431185
Is it?
dis one
>>66431249
yes
>>66431231
or this
>>66431266
What if I like both?
>>66431308
still yes because sexism applies to both sexes
some of my fav ambient albums
>>66431000
This is the only ambient album that's worth actively listening to (as opposed to just playing in the background).
>>66431000
Gotta be Chill Out by the KLF
>>66431351
Is Space Is Only Noise really ambient, though?
this changed how I viewed ambient
>>66431396
in some ways yes. if you don't think so, replace it with superstorms self titled album
Wounded Galaxies Tap at the Window blew me away when I first heard it.
>>66431000
>>66431025
saw2 is just saw 85-92 no drums edition, not ambient
>>66431077
>memebert rich
>mememord
get out
>>66431231
tim hecker is the furthest thing from ambient senpai
>>66431341
dub techno and field recordings ain't ambient either
also what OP posted
>>66431371
No it isn't, it's strictly background music. That's why the tracks repeat and never change.
>>66432314
It would be more on the drone side of things, then?
>>66431099
good stuff. thanks
>>66432314
>tim hecker
>not ambient
nigga what
>>66431371
listen to more and better ambient
>>66432645
don't post no fucking chimps
>>66431000
>>66431387
I concur. This and Biosphere's Substrata.
>>66434241
Was gonna post this
All of Eno's stuff too.
I am disappointed in you
Can someone help me find a certain Ambient group?
If I remember correctly they are an ambient group but all I can remember is what one of their album covers looks like.
It has a person with a hood over their head standing on a box or something.
The album was considerably darker than their last.
Anyone have any idea of what I'm talking about?
>>66431099
Why would you want to? I love Eingya
>>66432314
What defines ambient and what's a good example of an ambient album? I ask because I'm new to the genre and thought all of those were ambient
It sucks that no one talk about it around here, probably one of the most atmospheric releases in the genre
the guy killed himself too
>>66432326
>>66431168
great taste
solar fields anyone?
>>66431258
winner
>>66431000
>>66431025
>>66431231
>>66431258
All of these are absolutely fantastic.
>>66432645
I'm assuming "he's a noise artist"
>>66435243
That's pretty fucked up. What do you like about this? Completely unfamiliar to me.
It's so hard for me to pick just one album. Also I'm surprised to see that Kyle Bobby Dunn hasn't been listed.
Out of all of the small artists I know, I'd have to Haunter's Pershing Road. Local drone artist that I hold very highly. He's playing his last show tonight before moving out to Thailand.
https://haunter0.bandcamp.com/album/perishing-road
Is there a more pretentious genre? You don't actually 'enjoy' the 'music'. You enjoy telling other people that you 'like' ambient music. End yourself.
>>66434271
i would call it more noise but noice
>>66436033
I actually enjoy the music. You're even more of a fucking prick for assuming the motives of other people's listening habits of other people. Way to go!
>>66436033
surprised you were able to learn how to turn a computer on given your godawful intuition
bumpity bump bump for the drones
>>66435415
Yes. That and Carbon Based Lifeforms - TwentyThree are some of my favorite ambient albums. IDK if the rest of them are considered ambient though
>>66436033
This
Only retards listen to intentionally boring music
>>66436913
It's not boring if you actually listen to it. All music is boring if you don't pay attention and don't care.
>>66436913
i think this is bait... but i'm not sure. this worries me.
>>66432314
>>memebert rich
>>mememord
shit taste alert. fuck off you pedantic piece of shit.
>>66437392
Eh, it's better not to give them the benefit of the doubt that they aren't trolling.
Whatever happened to that guy making a new ambient flowchart a few weeks ago?
>>66437586
That guy, here. I was discussing the idea with the rest of the dudes in the bandcamp threads and they camp to the conclusion that it'd be best to separate each subgenre into a separate flowchart. They also recommended a (warm/cold x organic/synthetic) chart and that's also a good idea. I have roughly 30 artists that I'd be putting on the chart.
I haven't gotten around to it from there.
>>66437644
I expected nothing less
>>66437668
I tried to make something with four axes and it was complete shit. I'll give it another go and see what I can do. I have some other musical projects I've been working on, as well.
>>66434241
Ah finally...an actual pure ambient album.
>>66431000
>be me
>listening to ambient music and wikipedia surfing various artists
>realize that Eingya was released when Keith Kenniff/Helios was a sophomore or junior in college
>I'm at that point in my life and my releases have had success on only a minuscule scale
>tfw never gonna be famous
>>66435165
>We’ve mistaken “ambient music” for something it’s not. Thinking that the term refers simply to music or sound of a largely atmospheric bent, we’ve forgotten how ambient is an adjective meaning “[l]ying round, surrounding, encircling, encompassing, environing” (OED, A.3.), and how it’s etymologically derived from the Latin ambire, meaning to go about or around the sides of a certain object. As such, we’ve lost touch with how ambient is actually a form of music distinguished by its indirectness, by its unwillingness to confront its subject matter head-on. We assume that the genre is planetary in scope, “the musical version of a geological survey,” when on the contrary, it’s not so much a direct representation of the immensity of the Earth or the cosmos as a refusal to represent anything directly.
http://www.tinymixtapes.com/music-review/olivia-block-aberration-light
