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Ady Cardiac 
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Joined: December 29 2012 Location: Witney , UK Status: Offline Points: 396 |
 Topic: Ambient Music...Posted: July 15 2013 at 02:56 |
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Hi....i've been getting into ambient music recently.....i have dabbled before but got into it again.....really like stuff by Brian Eno and have just been discovering bits and bobs on me own.....so have no idea where to go really.....kind of prefer stuff i've heard so far like Steve Roach, Blanck mass , Stars of the lid and prob some others......so if anyone can recommend some ambient stuff that would be great.....nothing cheesy....
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progbethyname
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Posted: July 15 2013 at 03:37 |
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Ah cool. Venturing into the real of chill huh? Nice.
Look no further than... Robert Henke--The Sound of noise Klause Shultze--Moondawn and Kontinuom are great places to start with him. :) Seefeel---Polyfusia Carbon Based Life forms--all of their stuff! Artificial intelligence---Ambient compilations VOL 1&2 Autechre-- some of their stuff. It's mostly IDM though, but tracks like VLETERMX you can't pass up hearing. :) ApHex Twin--Selected ambient works vol 1&2. (this stuff is brilliant.) Zone--all their stuff. Anyway. Hope this helps. Have a great time. Serenity now!!! Lol |
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progbethyname
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Posted: July 15 2013 at 03:39 |
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Sorry. That's. signal to Noise by Robert Henke.
And it's a must. :) |
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progbethyname
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Posted: July 15 2013 at 03:47 |
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Oh almost forgot.
NINE INCH NAILS--GHOSTS pt1-36 That is crazy good. :) Ok. I think that's enough for now. Lol |
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Aussie-Byrd-Brother
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Posted: July 15 2013 at 03:57 |
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Actually, Nick, I was surprised to find you not pimping some of those later period Tangerine Dream albums you love so much!
and I'd say `Go right ahead, good sir', because I think they're great as well! |
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smartpatrol
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Posted: July 15 2013 at 04:06 |
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Prog Archives' very own Vompatti. He's also a member of the band Hanashukketsu (though that's a bit more experimental) and has a new project, Succubus Station (but that's a bit more on the noise side).
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tamijo
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Posted: July 15 2013 at 04:36 |
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For a while, my favorite Ambient album (sorry Brian) have been : Paul Horn – Inside sometimes refered to as Inside the Taj Mahal.
Review here :
More resent the latest fripp and travis :
Both albums are very flute based, flute is a wonderfull instrument for chill music.
Edited by tamijo - July 15 2013 at 04:37 |
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Prog is whatevey you want it to be. So dont diss other peoples prog, and they wont diss yours
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HolyMoly
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Posted: July 15 2013 at 08:01 |
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Some of my favorites:
Paul Schutze - "Site Anubis" or "Abyssmal Feelings" Brian Eno - "Ambient 1: On Land" Djam Karet - "Suspension and Displacement" (their only album in this vein that I'm aware of) Steve Roach - "The Magnificent Void"
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Guldbamsen
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Posted: July 15 2013 at 08:34 |
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^The new Pam Soiré album The Trip does actually interveawe some rather beautiful ambient sections with a slow Krauty rock feel. The ambient part of the equation though is more reminiscent of early TD and Klaus Schulze though
 For recs, I'd say these are a fair start, which covers good ground without getting cheesy(I think I know what you mean btw )For old school start with something like Cluster. There's a reason why Eno hooked up with these guys prior to his ambient period. A lot of folks seem to forget that Cluster among with a handful of other artists pioneered what Eno made the public aware of. I love Eno, especially on his collaborations with Bowie, but sometimes he gets credited for something that he was never guilty of. Godfather of ambient music and all that. Rubbish.: For "new school" - probably try out something like mid period Lustmord. His live album for instance is breathtaking. Feels something like like looking into a black hole: Or perhaps you'd want to go in the complete opposite direction and get some danceable ambient music? Sounds like some squidgy music sticker I know, but F*ck Buttons Tarot Sports actually managed to remould the old ambient Krautrock drones into a highly modern and dare I say original sound. It's ambient, but also huge in scope.....and you can dance to it.: The one group that took this thing the furthest is probably Taj Mahal Travellers. As with F*ck Buttons, people don't normally associate the music with ambient, but on here it's perhaps too obvious and in your face. There's a lot of free form music going down too with trumpets, crazy percussion features and the works, but the moods are often kept in the same sort of hovering Zeit state. Never quite the same, but still that intergalactic zoom flowing out of the music: I'm not quite sure as to what you're really into though, but I could suggest a lot of different takes on the style depending on what you're looking for. |
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“The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”
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Svetonio
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Posted: July 15 2013 at 08:55 |
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progbethyname
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Posted: July 15 2013 at 09:34 |
Absolutely right again. I just thought that 'new age' ambience is more what he is looking for due to his appreciation for ENO and Roach. They're far more mellow, but I did chuck in' that REZNOR GHOSTS album for some edge!! I'm one of these  More often than not, so I just had to. 
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Svetonio
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Posted: July 15 2013 at 13:24 |
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dr wu23
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Posted: July 16 2013 at 10:48 |
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Eno and TD about all I have in my collection that are specifically ambient but there are many lists online....
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Ady Cardiac
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Posted: July 17 2013 at 15:02 |
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yeah thanks all for the recommendations.......slowly working through them but if anything i don't want to get into anything to "feedback" sounding or sounding "dark".......i do like eno stuff like "thursday afternoon"....which is just the right side of "new age" music for me.......well new age for me is all that whale song/waterfall type stuff......i do do meditation you see and have been making myself do it everyday of late......so its just something nice to have on afterwards....or late at night to have on in this hot and sticky weather.
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Svetonio
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Posted: July 17 2013 at 15:07 |
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Svetonio
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Posted: July 17 2013 at 15:15 |
Then you'll like this stuff, from the album Rainbow Dome Musick (1979) by Steve Hillage: Edited by Svetonio - July 17 2013 at 15:31 |
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Guldbamsen
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Posted: July 18 2013 at 09:12 |
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Allright, I think I have a fairly good idea of what you want then
 For meditation purposes, I'd strongly recommend Manuel Göttsching: With Michael Hoenig off of Agitation Free here on the Early Water sessions: Bohren & der Club of Gore: Then there's Global Communication, although I probably wouldn't use this as meditation music. It is however impossibly pretty. Ambient meets IDM: GAS is equally brilliant. I suggest Königsforst for starters: Oh and not to forget the master of space ambient, Klaus Schulze. I'm not sure whether you know of his work, but his latter day material has a gentle smoothness to it that completely escapes his earlier more dark material. For what you're looking for, his latest effort Shadowlands should suit perfectly methinks: Edited by Guldbamsen - July 18 2013 at 09:13 |
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lucas
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Posted: July 18 2013 at 15:26 |
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You should have listened to my show of July 1st on iskc internet radio station :
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"Magma was the very first gothic rock band" (Didier Lockwood)
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Apsalar
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Posted: July 18 2013 at 21:16 |
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good to see another Stars of the Lid fan.
first thing coming to mind is Andrew Chalk. i find Eliane Radigue good for meditation, but her sound is probably different from what you are looking for. |
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Barbu
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Posted: July 18 2013 at 22:02 |
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