Ambient & Downtempo Thread

new Biosphere album out next month
http://www.kudosrecords.co.uk/index.php?page=detail&product=TO84
I'll be all over this like a cheap suit

Scubs, gotta give you credit for pointing me in the direction of this album. Stunning stuff. Really love this.

Jonsi & Alex

A bunch of ambient mixes here from myself and the weareie cru. Feel free to ignore the waffle:

1. Brian Eno - Brian Eno Speaks - Editions EG (Sonora Portraits LP)
2. Aphex Twin - Blue Calyx - Warp (Selected Ambient Works 2 LP)
3. Alarm Will Sound - Blue Calyx - Cantaloupe (Alarm Will Sound performs Aphex Twin LP)
4. Brian Eno - Sparrowfall 1 - Editions EG (Music for Films LP)
5. Seymour|Van Hoen -Tema - Leaf (Invisible Soundtracks 2 EP)
6. Brian Eno - Sparrowfall 2 - Editions EG (Music for Films LP)
7. Seefeel - E-Hix2 - Rephlex (Chi-Vox LP)
8. Daniel Figgis - Alison Creaking - Rough Trade (Skipper LP)
9. Dust Devil - Blood - Blood (Blood EP)
10. Brian Eno - Lanzarote - Opal (The Shutov Assembly LP)
11. Zrs - Wuhan: Dynamoelectric Frog - SoundTransit Field Recordings
12. Autechre - To Day Retreival - Thrill Jockey (Tortoise/Autechre EP)
13. Nick Miller - New York: Walk in Central Park West - SoundTransit Field Recordings
14. Brian Eno - Discreet Music - Editions EG (Discreet Music LP)
15. Kopernik - The Sea and the Marsh are One - Eastern Developments (Kopernik LP)
16. Queen - In the Death Cell - Elektra Asylum (Flash Gordon O.S.T.)
17. Sean O'Neill - Vientiane: Night Sounds, Bats, Crickets - SoundTransit Field Recordings
18. Biosphere - Startoucher - Apollo (Patashnik LP)
19. Godflesh - Pure II - Earache (Pure LP)
20. Tim Hecker - Arctic Loner's Rock - Substractif (Haunt Me, Haunt Me, Do it Again LP)
21. Oval - Do While (Christian Vogel Remix) - Diskont (Do While EP)
22. Hex - Shiny - Ninjatunes (Digital love EP)
23. Derek Holzer - Mooste: Walk in the Rain - SoundTransit Field Recordings
24. Ennio Morricone - Contamination - Varese (The Thing O.S.T.)
25. Brian Eno - Innocenti - Opal (The Shutov Assembly LP)
26. Tim Hecker - Untitled (5) - Substractif (Haunt Me, Haunt Me, Do it Again LP)
27. Seefeel - Me01 - Rephlex (Succour LP)
28. Brian Eno - Events in Dense Fog - Editions EG (Music for Films LP)
29. Goblin - Monster Child - Cinevox (Phenomena O.S.T.)
30. Eno - Kites II - Opal (Kite Stories LP)
31. Aphex Twin - Side D Track 2 - Warp (Selected Ambient Works 2 LP)
32. Joe Meek and The Blue Men - Glob Waterfall - RPM (I Hear a New World LP)
33. Vangelis - Deserters - OWM Bootleg (The Bounty O.S.T).
34. Krzysztof Penderecki - Psalmus - Phillips (Prospective 21e Siecle LP)
35. Future Sound Of London - Dirty Shadows - EBV (I.S.D.N. LP)
36. Aphex Twin - Side E Track 2 - Warp (Selected Ambient Works 2 LP)
37. Being - Cue - Leaf (Invisible Soundtracks 1 EP)
38. Deasy – Haul (Ambient mix) - The Fear (Unreleased)
39. David Bowie/Brian Eno - Moss Garden - RCA (Heroes LP)
40. Reza Tahami - Manjil Wood: River and Insects - SoundTransit Field Recordings
41. Michael Brook/Brian Eno/Daniel Lanois - Mimosa - Editions EG (Hybrid LP)
42. Autechre - VLetrmx - Warp (Garbage EP)
43. Brian Eno - Unfamiliar Wind (Leeks Hills) - Editions EG (On Land LP)
44. Tim Hecker - Untitled (6) - Substractif (Haunt Me, Haunt Me, Do it Again LP)
45. Christophe Havard - St Nazaire: Man with a Broom - SoundTransit Field Recordings
46. Howie B - Music For Babies - Polydor (Music for Babies LP)
47. Jon Hassell/Brian Eno - These Times - Editions EG (Fourth World Possible Musics Vol. 2: Dream Theory in Malaya LP)
48. Hex - Surf - Ninjatunes (Digital Love EP)
49. Harold Budd/Brian Eno - Lost in the Humming Air - Editions EG (The Pearl LP)
50. Bedouin Ascent - If Mountains Could Sing - Leaf (Invisible Soundtracks 2 EP)
51. Gyorgy Ligeti - Requiem for Soprano, Mezzo Soprano, Two Mixed Choirs and Orchestra - MGM/Polydor (2001 O.S.T.)
52. Eddie Newmark - Serenity: The Silent Surf - Audio Fidelity (Ambience: An Adventure in Environmental Sound LP)
53. Craig Safan - Joey’s Wet Dream - Varese (Nightmare on Elm Street 4 O.S.T.)
54. Deasy - St Theresa - The Fear (Unreleased)

http://www.weareie.com/2006/06/shwantology-revisited.html

1. Nesa Popov - Berlin: Underground Passage - SoundTransit Field Recordings
2. John Baker – Structures - Rephlex (Music from the BBC Radiophonic Workshop LP)
3. Sunken Foal - Foathing - Front End Synthetics (FEStering LP)
4. Jawzah Taqsim - Unknown - World Gala Records (Music of Iraq: World Gala Collection LP)
5. Sesselberg - Eintrachtkreis-Paranoia - Sesselberg (Synthetik 1 LP)
6. John Hopkins - Oslo: Echo Chamber - SoundTransit Field Recordings
7. Heldon - Michel Ettori - Urus Records (Allez-Teia LP)
8. Phoenica - Orinca - Schematic Records (Brown Out LP)
9. Deep Space Network - Ten Waves (Live at XS) - Rising High (Chill out or die Vol.2 LP)
10. The Caretaker - Memory 28 - VVM (Theoretically Pure Retrograde Amnesia LP)
11. Alireza Mashayekhi - Ost-West II (Opus 80) - Retro Records (S/T LP)
12. Brian Eno/Robert Fripp - Wind on Water - Editions EG (Evening Star LP)
13. DJ Food - The Sky at Night - Ninjatune (Kaleidoscope LP)
14. Harold Budd/Eraldo Bernocchi - Fragment 5 - Sub Rosa (Fragments from the Inside LP)
15. Cedic Peyronnet - HongLinh: An evening in HongLinh - SoundTransit Field Recordings
16. The Warsaw Radio Studio of Experimental Music - Warsaw 4 - Phillips (Electronic Panorama (Warsaw Disc))
17. David Bowie - Subterraneans - RCA (Low LP)
18. Toru Takemitsu - Ki, Sora, Tori (Tree, Sky, Bird) - ECJC Japan (Concert: 20-21)
19. Godspeed - Static (end section) - Constellation (Raise your skinny fists LP)
20. Stol - 04:26 - Kitty Yo (LC2816 12")
21. The Caretaker - Memory 70 - VVM (Theoretically Pure Retrograde Amnesia LP)
22. Biosphere - Green Reflections - Touch Records (Shenzhou LP)
23. Byrne and Eno - Mountain of Needles - MLITBOG LP - Sire Records
24. Jara Schirris - Vientiane: Bees in Vientiane - SoundTransit Field Recordings
25. Slag Boon Van Loon - Pedals - Planet Mu (Slag Boon Van Loon LP)
26. Slag Boon Van Loon - Spc-Ch-Pn - Planet Mu (Slag Boon Van Loon LP)
27. Brian Eno - Thursday Afternoon - Editions EG (Thursday Afternoon LP)
28. Harold Budd/Eraldo Bernocchi - Fragment 3 - Sub Rosa (Fragments from the Inside LP)
29. Arcon II - Wasteland/ Inter 90/Freefall - Reinforced (Arcon 2 LP)
30. Vangelis - Tears in the rain - Atlantic (Blade Runner OST)
31. Friends, Lovers and Family - Turning the screws - Rising High (Chill out or die Vol.2 LP)
32. Arturas Burmsteinas - Vilnius: Video camera left on - SoundTransit Field Recordings
33. Faultline - Closer Colder - Leaf (Closer Colder LP)
34. Harold Budd - The Algerbra of Darkness - All saints (The White Arcades LP)
35. Jaques Thollot - Quiet Days in Prison - Futura (Quand le son devient aigu, jeter la girafe a la mer LP)
36. Vangelis - love theme - Atlantic (Blade Runner OST)
37. Coil vs Elf - Cowboys in Bangkok 1995 - T & B Vinyl (Chris and Cosey Present... Twist LP)
38. A Silver Mount Zion - Sow Some Lonesome Corner So Many Flowers Bloom (Middle Section) - Constellation (This is our punk rock LP)
39. Heldon - Perspective 3 - Cuneiform (Agneta Nilsson LP)
40. Fleishmann - The rise and fall of a drinker - Leaf (Invisible Soundtracks 4 EP)
41. Muziq - Sick Porter 2 - Rephlex (Bluff Limbo LP)
42. Cluster and Eno - Steinsame - Water Records (Cluster and Eno LP)
43. Tortise - Millions now living will never die (Oval mix) - Thrill Jockey (Millions Now Living Remix 12")
44. Thomas Koner - Serac - EFA (Teimo/Permafrost LP)
45. *** ******* - ********** * * - *** ***** ***** - *****
46. LFO - Nuture - Warp (Tied Up Remix 12")
47. Ruben Garcia/Harold Budd/Daniel Lentz - Pulse Pause Repeat - Gyroscope (Music for 3 Pianos LP)
48. The Warsaw Radio Studio of Experimental Music - Warsaw 1 - Phillips (Electronic Panorama (Warsaw Disc))
49. Derek Holzer - Belem Para: Frogs by the bridge II - SoundTransit Field Recordings
50. Pete Namlook - Escape (Trip To Mars) - Rising High (The Definitive Ambient Collection Vol.2 LP)
51. LFO - Tied Up (Spiritualised' Electric Mainline Remix)- Warp (Tied Up Remix 12")
52. Hex - Interference - N-tone (Antistatic EP)
53. A Silver Mount Zion - 13 Angels Standing Guard 'Round The Side Of Your Bed - Constellation (He Has Left Us Alone... LP)
54. Burial - Nightbus - Hyperdub (Burial LP)
55. Bioshere - Chukhung - Touch Records (Substrata 2 LP)
56. Jan Philm - Berlin: Sozialpalast elevator - SoundTransit Field Recordings
57. Aphex Twin - Side E Track 2 - Warp (Selected Ambient Works Vol.2 LP)
58. Bass Kittens - Another rainy day - Mephisto (Another rainy day EP)
59. Peter Kolman - E15 - CECM Records (Anthology Of Slovak Electroacoustic Music 1966-1991)
60. Req - Crack - Skint (Frequency Jam LP)
61. Richard Thomas - Muffin Spencer-Devlin/Hawaii 2 - Leaf (Invisible Soundtracks 2 EP)
62. Harold Budd - Ice foles in eden - All Saints (Lonely thunder LP)
63. Spectrum - sounds for a thunderstorm - Space age recordings (Forever alien LP)
64. Howie b - Cry - Polydor (Music for babies LP)
65. To Rococo Rot and d - a3 - City slang (Set this sandy piece EP)
66. Bernard Herrmann - Nocturne the flashlight - Varese (The Day The Earth Stood Still OST)
67. **** ***** - ****** - ******* (****** **)
68. Rufige Kru - Fabio's ghost (Shwantology re-edit) - Reinforced (Ghosts of my life EP)
69. Mira Calix - Little long gone - Warp (Skimskitta LP)
70. Aphex Twin - Side D Track 2 - Warp (Selected Ambient Works Vol.2 LP)
71. Derek Holzer - Skaftafell: Mountain Stream - SoundTransit Field Recordings
72. Gavin Bryars - The Sinking of the Titanic - Venture (The Sinking of the Titanic LP)
73. Peter Green - Witches - Rephlex (Macbeth EP)
74. Harmoanius Gloop - Closetface demo - The Fear (Unreleased)
75. Tim Tetlow - a cyreinc - Planet Mu (Planet Mu 7")
76. Uli Schuster - Adlershof parc: A park with some bird sounds - SoundTransit Field Recordings

http://www.weareie.com/2006/07/blogariddims-1-shwantology-2.html

1. 00:00 Kenneth Young - Edinburgh, Nursery Playground (www.soundtransit.nl)
2. 00:00 Popol Vuh - To A Little Way - Egg (Nosferatu O.S.T)
3. 00:00 Slug - Piano rec remix - The Fear - (Unreleased)
4. 00:00 On the J.Z. in Yugoslavia – The world of steam – Argo/Decca (Sound effects LP)
5. 00:02 Krystof Penderecki - Polymorph - Warner Brothers (The Shining OST)
6. 00:04 Ilhan Mimaroglu - Prelude for Magnetic Tape II, 1966-67 - AGP30 (Turnabout TV 34177)
7. 00:04 Tangerine Dream - Auferstehung - Ohr (Electronic Meditation LP)
8. 00:04 Davey Spillane – Lament for the dead of the north – Realworld (Lament LP)
9. 00:05 Deaf Center - The Clearing - Type Records (Pale Ravine LP)
10. 00:08 Supersilent - [Bonus Track] - Rune Grammofon (Supersilent 7 DVD)
11. 00:08 Joe Zawinul – In a silent way – Atlantic (Zawinul LP)
12. 00:11 Cotom - Loscil - Loscil.com (Stases LP)
13. 00:12 Svarte Greiner - Traditional Wood on Trees - Miasmah (Silva Comp)
14. 00:13 Alexander's Annexe - Push door to exit - WARP (Push door to exit EP)
15. 00:13 Brian Eno - Music for I Dormenti - Opal (Music for I Dormenti CD)
16. 00:14 Weightless – Reconciliation – Liquid records (Interaction LP)
17. 00:16 Unknown Concrete piece - Unknown - Unknown (Unknown;))
18. 00:16 Slug - Harp - The Fear - (Unreleased)
19. 00:17 Biosphere - Translation - Touch (Autour de la Lune LP)
20. 00:17 Slug - Zeta remix - The Fear (Unreleased)
21. 00:17 Jacob Druckman - Incenters - Nonesuch (ANIMUS III, synapse>VALENTINE LP)
22. 00:17 Mestre Geraldo e sua bateria – Mistura #2 – Soul Jazz (Capoeira LP)
23. 00:17 The Soul Gun Warriors – Computer skit – (Unreleased)
24. 00:19 P16.D4 - He's afraid of the way the glass will fall.... - Oddsize (Kuhe In 1/2 Trauer LP)
25. 00:20 Shankar – Twilight Mood – Angel/ EMI (Improvisations-west meets east- album 3 LP)
26. 00:21 Library Tapes - Broken piano pt.2 - Resonant(Alone in the bright lights of a shattered life LP)
27. 00:22 Rachel's - 4 Or 5 Trees - Quarterstick Records (Systems/Layers LP)
28. 00:22 pt.Bhimsen Joshi - Raga:Gaud Sarang Khayal Vilambit Ektaal - EMI (Musical genius LP)
29. 00:23 The Theatre of Eternal Music - The Tortoise, His Dreams and Journeys - Bootleg - (The Tortoise, His Dreams and Journeys)
30. 00:24 Ryan Teague - Study for Prepared Violin - Miasmah (Silva LP)
31. 00:27 Lull - Long Way Home - Sentrax (Cold Summer LP)
32. 00:27 Thomas Koner - Untitled (5:06) - Barooni (Nunatak Gongamur LP)
33. 00:27 Peter Goodchild/Tony D’Amato – A guide to better listening (excerpt) – decca (A guide to better listening LP)
34. 00:29 Caldara – Make me carry the death of Christ – Buddah records (Stabat mater LP)
35. 00:30 Pete Namlook - Silence - Rising High (The definitive Ambient Collection)
36. 00:31 J.K. Randall - Mudgett: Monologues by a Mass Murderer - Nonesuch (Computer Music LP)
37. 00:32 VVM - Disc 1 Track 3 - VVM (The Death of Rave LP)
38. 00:32 Ensemble Nipponia - Echigojishi - Electra/Nonsuch (Dances of the world LP)
39. 00:35 Slug - Slowsic remix - The Fear - (Unreleased)
40. 00:37 Colleen - The Happy Sea - Leaf (The Golden Morning Breaks LP)
41. 00:37 Church bells – Cambridge surprise major (8 bells) - EMI (Sound effects LP)
42. 00:38 V/A - -¬¦æ¦ñ·ü - BMG Pacific (Ancient Music in Imperial Court LP)
43. 00:40 Esmerine - Ebb Tide, Spring Tide, Neap Tide, Flood - Madrona Records (Aurora LP)
44. 00:40 James Eloy - Fushiki-e (75' environ) - AGP19 (Gaku-no-Michi LP)
45. 00:40 Antranik Askarian and Khatchadour Khatchaturian – Song of complaint – Realword (Passion-sources LP)
46. 00:42 Rachel's - With More Air Than Words - Quarterstick Records (The Sea and the Bells LP)
47. 00:44 Mira Calix - Eeilo - Warp (Eyes Set Against The Sun LP)
48. 00:45 Tortoise - Cobwebbed - Thrill Jockey (A Lazarus Taxon LP Disc 3)
49. 00:46 Ennio Morricone – Hamlet (version1) – Virgin (Hamlet OST)
50. 00:46 Hans Peter Haller - Workshop II - AGP39 (European Electronic III (Freiburg, Utrecht))
51. 00:48 Fennesz - City of light - Touch (Venice LP)
52. 00:48 Tangerine Dream - Mysterious Semblance at the Strand of Nightmares - Virgin (Phaedra LP)
53. 00:50 Colleen - Will You Gamelan for Me? - Leaf (Colleen et Les Boites a Musique EP)
54. 00:52 Unnamed Ney flute musician – Le Berger solitaire – Arion records (Algeria field recordings LP)
55. 00:54 Battles - Uw - Warp (C EP)
56. 00:54 Riehn - Chants de Maldoror - AGP39 (European Electronic III (Freiburg, Utrecht) LP)
57. 00:54 Deasy – The open door – The Fear (unreleased)
58. 00:55 Biosphere & Deathprod - Twin Decks - Rune Grammofon (Nordheim Transformed LP)
59. 00:57 J.K. Randall - Mudgett: Monologues by a Mass Murderer - Nonesuch (Computer Music LP)
60. 00:57 Na Miola Mora – Reconciliation – Natural Symphonies (Two stories in one LP)
61. 00:58 :Zoviet*France: - Moresca - No Mans Land (Gris 10")
62.00:58 By midnight - Deasy - The Fear (unreleased)
63. 00:59 Popol Vuh - Vergegenwärtigung - Kosmische Kuriere (Aguirre O.S.T)
64. 00:59 Ryan Teague - Seven Keys - Type Records (Coins and Crosses LP)
65. 01:00 Rachel's - Seratonin - Quarterstick Records (Handwriting LP)
66. 01:00 Tommy Potts – The dear Irish boy – Ceirnini Records (‘The Liffey Banks’ LP)
67. 01:01 Toru Takemitsu - KWAIDAN Ki - AGP24 (Kwaidan OST)
68. 01:01 Rachel's - Expect delays - Quarterstick Records (Systems/Layers LP)
69. 01:01 Battles - BTTLS - Warp (B EP)
70. 01:02 Deathprod - Cloudchamber - Rune Grammofon (Morals and Dogma LP)
71. 01:04 Aphex Twin - Side D Track 4 - WARP (SAW2 LP)
72. 01:04 Ashkhabad – Ketshpelek – Real World (City of love LP)
73. 01:05 Encre - Plexus II - Miasmah (Plexus II LP)
74. 01:06 Dieter Schnebel - Schubert-Phantasie - AGP15 (Bearbeitungen Nr. 5 LP)
75. 01:06 The Timberwolf Enviroment – Ryko records ('Timberwolf' field recording)
76. 01:08 Phil Niblock - A trombone piece (1978-94)- XI Records (YPGPN LP)
77. 01:08 Cluster - Part 7 - Gyroscope (One Hour LP)
78. 01:10 Supersilent - 4.7 - Rune Grammofon (Supersilent 4 LP)
79. 01:12 Lustmord - - Heresy IV - Soleilmoon Recordings (Heresy LP)
80. 01:14 Rachel's - Night at Sea - Quarterstick Records (The Sea and the Bells LP)
81. 01:15 Aphex Twin - Side C Track 4 - WARP (SAW2 LP)
82. 01:16 Planktone - Borgerhout, thunderstorm (www.soundtransit.nl)

http://www.weareie.com/2007/04/blogariddims-20-shwantology-3.html

This ones all irish ambient and electronica:

1.The Soul Gun Warriors - A Beginning - (Unreleased)
2. Slug - f minus d - The Fear Recordings (Unreleased)
3. Dennis McNulty - BabyBarioPool - Sao Paulo Se - http://dennismcnulty.com/
4. Deasy - The Closing Door (extract) - Music is not Hygiene - The Fear Recordings
5. Decal - Carpenter - 404 Not Found - Planet Mu
6. Deasy - New Generation MIx - Shut Up and Make - The Fear Recordings
7. Naphta - Tough Love (extract) - DEAF 2003 Sampler
8. Rollers Sparkers - Spumeral - Second Level Crossing - LazyBird
9. Sunken Foal - Colloidal Silver - Fallen Arches - Planet Mu
10. Daniel Figgis - Egg & Anchor - Skipper - Rough Trade
11. Decal - Remembering Waves - Little Sketches - http://www.decal-artifacts.com/
12. Margaret Noble - The walk home on Ashland - Acroplane
13. Ambulance - Hymn - Planet Mu
14. Solen - Block - Alphabet Set
15. Deasy - Pondlife (droid + slug's Pondeath mix) - The Fear Recording (Unreleased)
16. Spectac - Cyborgs in the face of every child - Front End Synthetics
17. Booger - Majik - Front End Synthetics
18. Colz - Salvia Remix - http://www.myspace.com/deejaycolz
19. Twoc - Attica Blue - Alphabet Set
20. BEW - Glock Dub - Acroplane

http://www.weareie.com/2008/06/blogariddims-44-iretronica-underground.html

A live ambient set at the national gallery:

http://www.weareie.com/2006/08/ambient-punk.html

And more:
http://www.weareie.com/2008/01/electro-acoustic-ambient-mix1.html
http://www.weareie.com/2007/12/blogariddims-33-allegorical-mix.html

This was the final performance of Berlin Alexanderplatz for 2011. It was also the culmination of 12 month's work - recording, composing, performing and improvising the material in a continuous cycle at events around Europe.
This along with 12 other improvised performances will form the basis for the next album.

Free download. Enjoy folks.
http://soundcloud.com/mixile/mixile-berlin-alexanderplatz-2

Yell0 Man, could you recommend me some Synkro to start out on? Always a name I've seen but never really listened to.