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Ambient/Chill

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  • #2
    DominoDub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,572 ✭✭✭DominoDub


    Good List ....looks like a list of stuff I was playing and buying 10 years ago.

    Starting to feel old, when I see a rebirth in interest in "Classic" electronic music !

    http://www.discogs.com/user/DominoDub


  • #3
    cornbb
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    Good stuff Felix, I'll have a trawl through emusic.com over the weekend to see if any of those releases are available. Hell I'm getting paid soon, I may even go out and buy some plastic discs...


  • #4
    Scubadevils
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    cornbb wrote: »
    Good stuff Felix, I'll have a trawl through emusic.com over the weekend to see if any of those releases are available. Hell I'm getting paid soon, I may even go out and buy some plastic discs...

    That emusic is pretty good, they have lots of the fax releases. If you do decide to spend some money, I would recommend the 'Tetsu Inoue - Ambiant Otaku' album. It is very ambient, to the point of not having a single beat and ideally should be listened to in the dark and without interruption - almost a form of meditation! It has sent me to sleep many a night where I would have lay awake otherwise (I tend to think about the day when I go to bed and have trouble nodding off as a result, ambient music is a great solution to that :) )

    Another album well worth mentioning here is The KLF - Chill Out

    http://www.discogs.com/release/128812


  • #5
    mike65
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    Okay its not strictly ambient but Blade Runner (esp Esper Soundtrack) is damned atmospheric. I should play Apollo more, but I don't listen to very much ambeint as I'm too busy making it :)

    Mike.


  • #6
    Scubadevils
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    Yeah Blade Runner is excellent alright, wouldn't send me to sleep though.

    Be interested to hear your ambient music, on a laptop at the moment but when back to my pc later in the week I'll have a listen.


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  • #7
    bogmanfan
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    Some ambient faves:

    Stars Of The Lid (especially The Tired Sounds Of...) - fantastic in Whelans last year.
    Gas - already mentioned, but worth mentioning again I think.
    Keith Fullerton Whitman - I love Playthroughs especially
    Swod - on the Morr Music label, lovely crackly piano stuff
    Growing - the first album anyway

    These have lulled me to sleep many times


  • #8
    mike65
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    Felixdhc wrote: »
    Be interested to hear your ambient music, on a laptop at the moment but when back to my pc later in the week I'll have a listen.

    Feel free, just click the sig link. :)

    Mike.


  • #9
    Scubadevils
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    mike65 wrote: »
    Feel free, just click the sig link. :)

    Mike.

    Will download some over the weekend. Cheers :)


  • #10
    John
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,135 ✭✭✭✭John


    bogmanfan wrote: »
    Stars Of The Lid (especially The Tired Sounds Of...) - fantastic in Whelans last year.

    Agreed, one of the best gigs I've been to. I love listening to them while driving, calms me down no matter what jerks pull out in front or get too close from behind.

    As for Growing, I only know their more recent stuff. I like what I've heard but never remember to pick up any more of their albums.

    I'd like to recommend two Nurse With Wound albums. Soliloquy for Lilith is an ambient masterpiece. 3CDs of very weird atmospherics, one of the most unique and brilliant musical experiences I've encountered. As good as it is, it's still not as amazing as the more recent Salt Marie Celeste which although ambient, is as far from chill out music as is possible. It is more chilling really. Somehow, Steve Stapleton manages to create the atmosphere of an empty ship adrift at sea. Haunting stuff.


  • #11
    Spunge
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    I love biosphere - substrata, been listening to it for over a year and its still great.


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  • #12
    Scubadevils
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    Spunge wrote: »
    I love biosphere - substrata, been listening to it for over a year and its still great.

    Yeah it's a fantastic album, definitely up there with the very best ambient albums.


  • #13
    Scubadevils
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    mike65 wrote: »
    Feel free, just click the sig link. :)

    Mike.

    Just got to listen to some of your music tonight. Very impressed! A selection of these will definitely go on to my MP3 player for bedtime listening (any other genre and the musician would take offence to that but in this case it's a compliment :D )


  • #14
    mike65
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    Glad you like what you've heard.

    I'll be posting a new track in the next week or so - The Long Wave which is pretty much designed to send the listener to sleep! :)

    Mike.


  • #15
    cornbb
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    Not exactly ambient in the sense that we've discussed so far but I must recommend Morton Feldman's Coptic Light. Its an orchestral piece, guaranteed to have you off to sleep ASAP (in that good way).


  • #16
    Scubadevils
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    Another to add here is from Vladislav Delay. The album is 'The Four Quarters' and is a very strange yet ambient and addictive album. Its worth reading what people have said on discogs as they do sum up the album - quoted below from discogs members -
    zthrockm, Dec 12, 2005

    I was a bit disappointed by Demo(n) Tracks, Delay's previous release; it seemed like more of the same old Delay rehashing the same old sounds that characterized his Chain Reaction releases. Thus, upon hearing The Four Quarters, I was pleased to hear him escape from the vibrant yet cold, almost claustrophobic sound and embrace a similarly stripped-down, engaging but overall warmer sound. The Four Quarters is every bit as lush as his previous releases, but this release evokes a coziness thus far exhibited by Delay.

    Highlights include the entire first track, which bounces & shambles like a pleasantly intoxicated, mellow fellow stumbling around a martini bar.
    FuzzyCogitator, Oct 10, 2006
    All music is different, but this album is unique on its own level. Really unlike any composition I have heard; things are moving around in different directions quickly and all at once. Elements change tempo and texture, yet surprisingly I find it to be very listenable. It goes against many of my own notions of how tracks should be formed, but that is really the best part about it.

    'The Four Corners' totally shatters expectations and remains strangely enjoyable. The album flows as one large improvisation; tracks will start to form and then be redirected on a whim. Some areas are rough and bumpy, while other patches are totally chill ambient. Other times I find myself trying to remember what album I am listening to, as if there are so many sound segments it becomes impossible to remember and recognize a specific point in the album. Indeed this fleeting quality has some beauty in it.
    mohlao, May 22, 2006
    This release is a continuation of his previous album, Demo(n) Tracks concerning the soundscapes and type of creating the whole record.The interesting about this masterpiece is that all the quarters are bouncing and floating free, not just a regular song that just has an a ongoing rhythm but it comes playable, unexpected and sometimes really spacy.
    It feels like you experience the image of an factory in full working state.The wonderful sounds of nature manipulated in The Four Quarters and the clicks and dub sounds, and sometimes an deformed voice in it.This is relaxing at the most trippy way.

    http://www.discogs.com/release/516574

    I also picked up his most recent album the other day 'Whistleblower' which is equally good.


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