Ambient general

Post your favorite ambient tracks/albums. I personally love dark ambient. https://dreamcatalogue.bandcamp.com/album/--18 https://dreamcatalogue.bandcamp.com/album/rain-temple https://geometriclullaby.bandcamp.com/album/towers

>>4555 couple ones I like https://erang.bandcamp.com/track/silent-bones-2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIY2s12XV_A

I find this to be a pretty underrated ambient album, someday I will listen to it on it's entirety in one sitting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMOptjfEYr4

I'm a huge Tim Hecker fan. My favorite albums by him are probably Radio Amor, Harmony In Ultraviolet, and Virgins. There's just something about his style (i think it might have to do with how he messes around with volume alot) that i really cling to.

I do like my ambient with a bit of form, whether its a hint of drums or a nice old synth melody. pure ambient is hard to get into - meditative, but i dont always want to be in a void. >Mark Shreeve - Embryo (Extract) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRtgeYt4ERY >Ashra - Deep Distance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCSqbVbSe8o >Oneohtrix Point Never - Chrome Country https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfifDOUOUKE >Jon Hopkins - Immunity https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8eQR5DMous

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just the thread i needed https://soundcloud.com/honeydew-734719971/aftershock

https://bludhoney.com/album/--2

I am totally in love with Carbon Based Lifeforms https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9pgIVcB3rk

>>4799 This, I would buy their albums if I wasn't a poor user.

Here are some tracks I like >Sync24 - The tale of the lonely apothecary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lT7Ikrzb0Y >36 - Sine dust https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAlycWaUf1A >Carbon Based Lifeforms - Terpene https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0FmGMPWp9M >Aphex Twin - #3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAoTsU7JlSI

>>4555 >Biosphere - Substrata https://youtu.be/xL3MBMim36E >Maeror Tri - The Beauty of Sadness https://youtu.be/82T9f4CuTr4 >Troum - The Self-Playing Ocean (Mare Idiophonika) https://youtu.be/bQmGS3Es39A

https://ajna1.bandcamp.com/album/elusive-spaces-outtakes Anja is pretty good

To feel like in a spaceship. roly porter - Departure Stage https://rolyporter.bandcamp.com/track/departure-stage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJv5IXsHWUs Anders Brørby - From The Window Above The Lake https://gizehrecords.bandcamp.com/track/from-the-window-above-the-lake https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIMv2AoaKBw Paul Jebanasam - eidolons beginning p = (m2A 2 am to (rho​-​z​)​-​y ∂t​+​(​ρ see to wait dz​/​dt = it xy that I -beta* do not z countless https://pauljebanasam.bandcamp.com/track/eidolons-beginning-p-m2a-2-am-to-rho-z-y-t-see-to-wait-dz-dt-it-xy-that-i-beta-do-not-z-countless https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uGEhWh-GX4

is there anything like nuages out there? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RMHHwJ9Eqk like more melodic/rythmic ambient music

Soma FM has some great stations with this vibe. I'm partial to Groove Salad myself, though there are other stations that are more quiet and slow. http://somafm.com/

>>4598 this him and grouper are both ambient gods. also anything on kranky is generally good to great

>>4842 Thank you for this on-topic: Deaf Center - Owl Splinters https://deafcenter.bandcamp.com/album/owl-splinters Deaf Center - Vintage Well https://deafcenter.bandcamp.com/album/vintage-well Deaf Center - Recount https://deafcenter.bandcamp.com/album/recount

>>4555 If you like dark ambient, you should check out the album, If You're Into It I'm Out of It by Christoph De Babalon. The album is mainly dark drum & bass but it has some great ambient tracks that are pretty dark and foreboding. Here's some links to some of the tracks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3-_4Vo2KDc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2o7GbmHiORM

Blink - Hiroshi Yoshimura: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RHmeCjqnfw Tobiume - Susumu Yokota: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23V8ItRKa0A Rhapsody in Green - Mort Garson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VndbXaMdGYc All three songs come from great albums, especially the first: Hiroshi Yoshimura's Music for Nine Post Cards.

At first I was like "wasn't there another ambient music thread?", then I realized "holy soykaf half the threads I was following a month ago are gone". I think this board is getting some serious traffic now.

>>5587 Either way, Loscil is my perfect "background music for zoning out on tedious work". It's like it was grown in a lab especially for me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lv5WwSCXT2E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-GsFL70ECk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OytNSAgFwJ8 Moby's ambient music is great for anything more relaxing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxzXcJKIFoM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4BQxwpw4Co& https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsTmrD1JqVM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpOfMgN6O40 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWe22qSitJQ

Check out this this great otherworldly, soundscape by Klaus Schulze. Krautrock, like this, is just great in general if you love ambient. Does anyone have any good ambient krautrock recs? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AWUzuVFQcE

>>5588 I love Loscil too. Plume was one of the first albums I listened to when I got into ambient actually. Pic related is still in my top 5 despite it being one of the earliest I listened too, though that may be a bias of mine. Listening to it in January on a lazy Saturday afternoon in 0 degree temps really helped.

>>5588 >>5627 Just checked out Loscil and it's pretty chill! Thanks for the rec! Does anyone here like Machinefabriek? Definitely check them out if you haven't https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrtmGE-yH3Y

>>5576 >Hiroshi Yoshimura god tier https://secretpyramid.bandcamp.com/ https://corporatedisaster.bandcamp.com/ Also just Students of Decay in general

>>4826 Here's some great space-themed ambient tracks: B. Aldrian - Harald Grosskopf: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeGQxEAPFIU Shizukesa no Nakade - Kitaro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neMBh-zibzg Ondulation - Moebius: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNVOqYR5PNg If you are looking for space music, check out krautrock; space-sounding music is kind of a hallmark of the genre. Also, Brain Eno's Apollo is great and a classic

>Cemeteries - The Wilderness https://youtu.be/TEjYC2Jra_A >Cemeteries - Barrow https://youtu.be/ttw12Np1zwY I highly recommend these albums. Listening to them feels like experiencing sudden nostalgia while lost in the woods at the same time.

>>4799 Carbon Based Lifeforms is absolutely amazing. My favourite albums are the 24 bit releases of Derelicts and World of Sleepers. Bought their entire discography on bandcamp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH_liqx0fuI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5o_uF1L5l6o

>>4555 Bull of Heaven - project notorious for creating extremely long pieces of music. They have some very good ambient-like pieces. Here is a selection of some more popular tracks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jcy2hMyV5GI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ibu4bdRWCZQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzEahueSin0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x76H_41Bf-k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzPSCwtVcgo

Klaus Schulze is great for concentration/working on stuff. Here's a link to one of his albums. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkXeOMSwdZQ

I love space ambient in general also. It always puts me in the zone and is great for anything coding/tech. This youtube channel is great, but this was my first introduction to the genre. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VfuELVQjaA

http://www.musicforprogramming.net/

>>5681 This is awesome! It reminds me of stoner rock but it is a little different somehow. The first piece linked just feels absolutely relentless, like an powerful force that you couldn't stop if you tried; despite that, it is also pretty chill. I have really been vibing with Oval recently; they make some really interesting ambient electronic music, pretty hypnotic. Check them out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wn8mxzDYdbE

>>5747 Schulze is great. Irrlicht and Cyborg are my current go tos, but i haven't really moved beyond those.

Some tracks/albums that aren't exactly ambient but definitely scratch the same itch: > Boris - Flood https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZDstZ1-EAI > Spacemen 3 - An Evening of Contemporary Guitar Music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_qA0nelfNc > Krausened - Bitchin Bajas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2K8er09bq8

>>4799 >>4800 >>5670 I you like CBL, maybe you'll like (if you don't already know) Access to Arasaka https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dx1LLBs85EM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FF-l9SoB73Y This guy rocks

>25,000 Kittens - self titled: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_Dh949lZyk I love cats and feeling sad from drone noises. Therefore this is a personal must-listen. Im also very surprised that no one has posted burial. His music is falls in that category of ambient, but has a garage foundation which does not sound dated at all when looking at some of his early work in the mid 2000's. >Burial - Kindred (listen to his full albums; they are absolutely unique. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wC16FJTI6XM

Here's some ambient that has been on my turntable lately: Emeralds - Goes By https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kj5qcqOObOo Laurie Spiegel - Applachian Grove II https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTc16FIpz9s Cluster, Eno - Schöne Hände https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OBYefrtY5k

Scattered Purgatory have made some excellent atmospheric drone rock albums. https://scatteredpurgatorygggb.bandcamp.com/album/lost-ethnography-of-the-miscanthus-ocean-2 https://scatteredpurgatorygggb.bandcamp.com/album/god-of-silver-grass https://valeurdusage.bandcamp.com/album/burial-chamber-sessions

Anyone who like Carbon Based Lifeforms should check out Solar Fields. Gothenburg just makes the best ambient

>>6073 This is a lovely album, thanks anon

deserted skies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CqKmfiIEqU shortwave nights: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-iMwuXIOVM

>>4598 his blend of ambient with noise/glitch-esc soundscapes is unreal, i'd say my fave from him would be mirages. if you like him check out some of fennesz's stuff if you haven't. venice is his best imo

>>4555 Really nice stuff there. I'll share some too. https://www.hooktube.com/watch?v=KvLg6kPGqdQ https://www.hooktube.com/watch?v=YeT0t1C_y20

>>4555 Oneohtrix Point Never Rifts. It's massive and great. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqUD7LO2gYI

>>4555 OP here. Since creating this thread I have learned that the albums I posted are not in fact "Dark Ambient" but "Dreampunk" instead. Just wanted to correct myself in case any lainons wanted to find similar music. Also here's some more /cyb/ Dreampunk for you: https://subaeris.bandcamp.com/album/the-city-in-rain https://bludhoney.com/album/--2 https://bludhoney.com/album/lonely-streets https://dreamcatalogue.bandcamp.com/album/hk Sweet dreams.

Not sure if this completely fits the bill but I really like these songs and the style they're in https://devinvibert.bandcamp.com/track/gravity-well https://devinvibert.bandcamp.com/track/singularity https://devinvibert.bandcamp.com/track/objects-in-mirror https://devinvibert.bandcamp.com/track/find-me-on-a-whim Could anyone point me to more music like this?

>>6298 I am not the guy you replied to but I also really enjoy Tim Hecker. I decided to check out Fennesz like you said and they are really good, especially Venice. Thanks for the rec! Separately, here is some ambient and ambient-like music I have been enjoying. > Warren Burt - Music For Tuning Forks > Solely composed of the hums of tuning forks played seemingly at random, together the tones somehow come together to produce cohesive, entrancing tunes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LK0WdW1HDzQ > Jan Jelinek - Loop Finding Jazz Records > Minimal techno accented with jazz. Great night music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hIgBEXuQD8 > Gigi Masin - Wind > Dreamy synths and piano with a bit of a jazz influence https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4Ws3jTM_cQ

Shameless self plug here https://particlehaus.bandcamp.com/releases

>>5576 Yoshimura is the best.

>>4555 https://youtu.be/ibiel0Sak34

>>6326 What's up Houston Lainon I like your stuff I'll plug an old ambient drone track I made in 2012 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgNPdnEnzEQ

A pretty beautiful ambient track from Yves Tumor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Z2UHLoZy1E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5UwYfb95sM

https://beautifuldeath7.bandcamp.com/album/the-wanderer It might be a bit more melodic than would be considered ambient, so I'm not sure if it counts.

>Steve Roden - The Radio Station at Nome https://youtu.be/Lxi7QO66ars The opening track from his 2017 album 'Walking From Savoonga to Gambell', a lowercase style song with pleasing harmonious tones.

>>4598 >>4843 Tim Hecker[0] and Grouper (Liz Harris[1]) are a pair of ambient musicians who's work has stayed with me for years. I keep coming back to Dragging a Dead Dear Up a Hill. Just to allow discovery a bit easier here are a couple of sample tracks from them: Grouper - Heavy Water/I'd Rather Be Sleeping https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NynkFRDlWtY Tim Hecker - Hatred of Music I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUpA8R01d50 [0] Hecker also wrote a weirdly interesting PhD on really loud human-made noises between 1880-1930. Features a lot of examples of organs destroying ceilings, giant horn bands and a guy who became so accustomed to fog horns that he would stop speaking every 30sec. See attached [1] Her other shoegaze work under Helen is also fantastic. Also some old ambient under Mirroring is pretty good, though a little cheesy to me.

Here's some high quality ambient dub techno https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gp2hZfP59fU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzQ_e9kVQDI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gi4vzEoJXHU >>4837 i'd highly recommend the american dollar, similar melodic ambient sound https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERH5bvVtRUw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOv5BEN8zI8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IckB_RkafYI Also maybe check out tristeza? they have some real good like half melodic half ambient tracks with a very chill vibe, not quite ambient though, but almost https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y46B5cWeJE8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNPez_8PjmQ

>>6241 I think they are the same person

Some more Dreampunk: https://youtu.be/DmwVEpfO5-4 https://youtu.be/sZnA3bMBOA0 https://youtu.be/lX6PJ_NgXzw

https://siddharthabarnhoorn.bandcamp.com/album/antichamber Great soykaf, extremely laid-back yet mystical.