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mnoelloczp
07-03-2008, 08:28 PM
it's nice that i met at least one person in this forum who, like me, is enjoying ambient music.
are there more people here into this genre?

for me, ambient music is the missing of hectic and strong defined rhythms and melodies, and concentrating on frequencies and general atmosphere.
there are many albums sold for chillout, labeled ambient, which don't capture the essence of ambient related sound in my opinion.
ambient makes it easy to imagine whatever environments, journeys, atmosphere, and
includes the possibility for intensive experiences of the full range of feelings.
i use to secretly include musical genres like musique concrete and harsh noise with the ambient term; i think it's the same thing for a great part.
haven't heard much ambient cd's with rain, flowing water, or other nature environmental sounds, though i'd like it.

i know some artists.
biosphere is great, substrata album - chukhung alone, but other tracks likewise.
of course there are also brian eno's piano ways, steve reich's horizons,
kammarheit, offering me wide dark icy deserts under a starlit sky; the starwheel is a fine album.
a bit in the melancholic direction perhaps goes deaf center; i like levende the most.
i'm not talking to much about my emotions with this music, there'd be to much words needed.
styles hopeless or a little despaired, dark, like beyond sensory experience,
apoptose, skadi or deathprod.
we could step deeper into the darkness, fear like atrium carceris seyshinbyouin, really high quality, but scary like nothing else.
but it doesn't have to be dark, could have classical elements and be
exciting like max richter's blue notebooks or a journey from tetsu inoue's world receiver, thomas köner's unerforschtes gebiet. oh, and let's not forget global communication and its 76.14, i recommend it, melodies strings and other sounds.
i also often enjoy the meditative drum pace of rapoon, or be stunned by zoviet france's
digilogue or other makings.

ok, there is also a more noisy experimental side, and that is what i most want to hear.
hafler trio, cluster, jacob kirkegaard maybe, and i skip nearly the whole musique concrete and harsh noise part.
just today i heard aube's blood brain barrier, it was great. the only soundsource used were brain waves through an electroencephalogram. distorted and kinda harsh but exciting nonetheless.


now i'm even more curious, what ambient music do you listen to?

Eric86
07-03-2008, 09:33 PM
I mostly listen to the darker and harsher ones.


Abruptum
Amaka Hahina
Atrium Carceri
Beyond Sensory Experience
Burzum (first few cds are also black metal)
Dargaard
Darkspace (also black metal)
Karl Sanders
Letum
Negura Bunget (also black metal/folk)
Parca Pace
Puissance
Raison D'ętre
Sephiroth
Za Frumi



You might also want to look into some doom metal, particularly funeral doom, drone doom, and doom/black, since they create similar atmospheres to dark ambient.


Sun O)))
Earth
Khanate
Moss
Hjarnidaudi
Esoteric
Skepticism
Evoken
Beyond Black Void
Black Shape of Nexus
KTL
Funeralium
Dolorian
Nortt
Worship
Shape of Despair
1000 Funerals
Tyranny

Ytterbium
07-04-2008, 04:56 AM
I like ambient, not very into it like you two seem to be however. Music for airports ftw.

schwartzie
07-09-2008, 07:16 AM
not exactly like an airport. In our house, pretty much 24/7, unless it's doing some other audio, one of the computers streams radio, such as DI.fm (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)'s ambient channel, which I like because they stream the playlist in addition to posting it on their website at di.fm/ambient (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)

ssrprotege
07-09-2008, 08:02 AM
My former INTJ mentor exposed ambient music to me. I don't know whether you listeners have heard of him: Tim Hecker. Somehow, I find ambient music a bit complicated and difficult to understand. He says I have to relax and just enjoy the ambient music as it is, because it's the point of listening to 'ambient' music. I don't know, it doesn't come natural to me..

schwartzie
07-09-2008, 08:31 AM
My former INTJ mentor exposed ambient music to me. I don't know whether you listeners have heard of him: Tim Hecker.[quote]
montreal guy? interesting work ....
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[quote]Somehow, I find ambient music a bit complicated and difficult to understand. He says I have to relax and just enjoy the ambient music as it is, because it's the point of listening to 'ambient' music. I don't know, it doesn't come natural to me..
...mebbe work on that F. ... :)