Ambient Music

I personally love ambient music to death- as a person with synesthesia it makes a profound emotional and visual journey for me every time I hear it.

My personal favourite by far is Aphex's Selected Ambient Works Volume 2- everything has such intensely deep and warm emotions evoked from the songs.

What about you? Share your experiences with ambient music, and please post your favourites or at least tell who some of your favourite ambient musicians are.

Also, I have a question for people that can easily distinguish different moods and settings of ambient music-- anybody know where I could find songs pertaining to vastness or large abandoned areas that are significantly beautiful? May be quite the task, but just putting that out there 8)

If I might recommend Steve Roach.

His stuff varies quite a bit between two extremes however; you have his tribal stuff with powerful rhythmic pulses, and his beatless stuff with synthesizer waves. A massive discography too; 30-40 albums, often with multiple discs. He's been doing this a long time.

A couple of my own recommendations, since I haven't heard too much of his stuff admittedly:

Structures from Silence (for the beatless)
The Serpent's Lair (for the tribal)
AND ESPECIALLY Egg Chamber Dreaming as a song from the latter. I've rarely heard anything as powerful.

Steve Roach, Robert Rich, Harold Budd, Brian Eno, Tim Hecker, Biosphere.

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Steve Roach, Harold Budd, Tim Hecker

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yah bro

Isan is nice too :3
Isan - Meet Next Life

I don't know if I would consider Isan to be ambient... Definitely not in the way we are talking about here.

Yes! I am a huge fan of ambient space music. Steve Roach is a great performer of it. I also really like Kevin Braheny, Dominic Woosey, Robert Rich, Michael Stearns, Michael American, and especially these two...

Jonn Serrie:



Dwight Ashley:

http://www.last.fm/music/Dwight+Ashl...umbs?autostart

Oooh, very nice. Spacey stuff is real nice.

I'd look up Benn Jordan's Pale Blue Dot album and listen to that from start to finish. Quite the journey through space.

http://www.last.fm/music/Bluetech/_/...r%20the%20love

this is ambient but it has a nice beat.

Of course, there's Stars of the Lid too.



Couple more on the edges of my head: Ulrich Strauss, Klaus Schulze (the great german synth pioneer), Biosphere, Emeralds, and of course all the droners you can find quietly hiding on obscure netlabels.

If you're looking for something a bit different, you might want to look into the classical minimalists. Steve Reich, Phillip Glass, Arvo Part, etc...

Mathias Grassow, really spacey ambient.
Celer for happier, ethereal drone stuff,
Mirror (and Andrew Chalk's solo stuff) and Oöphoi for some darker stuff.

I really agree with Steve Roach, Robert Rich, John Serrie, Eno and I have to add Pete Namlook, Thom Brennan and Mathias Grassow I already mentioned. There seems to be tons of this kind of stuff and personally I'm just getting started with it.

I don't know much about Ambient music. I have only heard a few and I'd say I LOVE Space Ambient. Here's what i've found some days ago.

This thread is turning into a gold mine. I know there is a whole world of phenomenal ambient space music out there that I still haven't discovered, and this is a good place to start exploring it. I plan to check out everybody mentioned in this thread. Just then, I listened to some stuff by this guy...

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Mathias Grassow

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http://www.last.fm/music/Mathias+Gra...ting?autostart

Extremely good space music. I definitely plan to get my hands on that CD. Finding him on last.fm led me to this...

http://www.last.fm/music/O%C3%B6phoi...ries?autostart

I forgot to mention another one-- Jon Iverson. I think he only has one album, and his stuff is hard to find. You can get samples of his music on Amazon and order his CD.

http://www.amazon.com/Alternesia-Jon...4817795&sr=8-2

I wish I had the first track of the album, it's really the starter to the whole psychological journey Pale Blue Dot takes over with-- the names are really relevent to the point in the experience that takes place (starting with looking to the stars, then ascending to space, then leaving earth, etc etc to very deep space and then returning home)

I really do recommend getting it and just listening to it all from start to finish.

You have synesthesia!?
Oh man, I'm am JEALOUS!
I've been trying to induce synesthesia lol
I think I've got something that would work, if it doesn't work for me I'm gonna try it on my kid if I have one in the future. Since it's apparently cross wiring between the senses, it shouldn't be too hard to purposely induce with a young, flexible mind.
I sound like an evil scientist lol But really it can only be a good thing to have it.

Also, Brian Eno, Enya.
Also I imagine some trance stuff would be good, although not strictly ambient, it has the same feel in a way, really soft trance like Sarah McLaughlin's Silence trance remix.

When in an appropriate situation, it's really awesome to just relax and completely overwhelm myself in movies of the music or out of my surroundings. Sometimes it really interferes, however- sometimes I feel like I'm deaf but I'm not really deaf, I just can't recognize some words as they feed off into "shapes" and linear directions that seem to similar to visuals in music and sounds or just other words spoken. Other than that it's really awesome to relax and listen to music, gives you some serious trippy experiences that's for sure :P

Minimal objects also seem to give off certain emotions and larger concepts- as if everything in the world to me is a metaphor. A white cube, for instance, is complete relaxation and heaven like feelings encompassing me whilst deeply concentrated on the gentle transition between the shades on each side of it. One of many thousands of examples >_> I just really like white cubes though.

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This thread is turning into a gold mine. I know there is a whole world of phenomenal ambient space music out there that I still haven't discovered, and this is a good place to start exploring it. I plan to check out everybody mentioned in this thread.

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I disagree, this thread pretty much already is a goldmine :P

How has anyone not mentioned the first of their kind, seriously? Tangerine Dream! Every self-respecting ambient-head should know the first four albums, especially Phaedra and Zeit.

Nebulous Dawn intro (from Zeit)

Zeit (from Zeit....;))

Sequent C (from Phaedra)

(if I might recommend something by Mathias Grassow, Mind Riders, The Clear Light of Death and Elixir are incredible, but I have yet to hear an album by him that wasn't incredible...)

I'm definitely going to check out all of the names mentioned here that I haven't heard yet. Keep them coming and thanks for all the great ambient :P

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I disagree, this thread pretty much already is a goldmine :P

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Okay then, it's turning into a diamond mine.

Im listening to steve roach right now actually :banana: <- thats how his music makes me feel. I'm still new to ambient, I haven't really explored other great artists. So thanks for the other recommendations!

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Minimal objects also seem to give off certain emotions and larger concepts- as if everything in the world to me is a metaphor. A white cube, for instance, is complete relaxation and heaven like feelings encompassing me whilst deeply concentrated on the gentle transition between the shades on each side of it. One of many thousands of examples >_> I just really like white cubes though.

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http://www.kopeikingallery.com/media...ite%20Cube.jpg

I wish I could join you :(

Holyshit I want that room.

Brighter lights and I'd be gasming, seriously x___x

Ever played Portal? Pretty much that game is astounding to me with it's mostly white surfaces and very cleanly sported things. Allows me to really connect and feel myself within the spaces, so to speak (that's what it essentially feels like in a minimalist space, anyhow).

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Minimal objects also seem to give off certain emotions and larger concepts- as if everything in the world to me is a metaphor. A white cube, for instance, is complete relaxation and heaven like feelings encompassing me whilst deeply concentrated on the gentle transition between the shades on each side of it. One of many thousands of examples >_> I just really like white cubes though.

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You got a mac? :lol:
You'd definitely be a fanboy haha Just chilled all day.

I forgot about Zoviet France. Something a bit different again.

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You got a mac? :lol:
You'd definitely be a fanboy haha Just chilled all day.

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I gotta say I prefer the look of Macs a thousand times more than PCs :P I don't own one though.

Also, if anyone knows where to find ambient music pertaining to futuristic things (anything, really. Just futuristic in general) please please enlighten me ;)

Yeah I just remembered Mac's now have silver instead of white covers/cases I think on all of them, ah well.

FSOL (Future Sounds of London) has some good futurists ambient.
This is one of my favourite songs....
It's a bit more trancey, but I would still say it's ambient too, especially if you just don't turn it up too loud.

I haven't listened to any of their other songs so I don't know what they're like in general.
Same with this one, more trancey but definitely some ambient in there too.
Listen to the whole thing coz some of it is way more trancey while some is definitely ambient and just beautiful

If you like that sort of music, see the movie One Perfect Day, it's an Aussie movie, you can probably get it online or on torrents, that second song is on it, except a remix. It's a REALLY fucking good movie. It's great for inspiration.

A little more on the trancy but I've always found that kind of trance to give off the feeling of a good ambient tune... so nevertheless I quite liked those, especially the second one.

I just remembered, this is almost what I'm looking for exactly, just looking for some diversity within songs that may sound like this:



It's for this kind of stuff that I'm in love with Aphex Twin.

Some stuff sounds a bit more upbeat but just zoning out to it really does push your conscious thoughts away.

go listen to kilowatt's 'undercurrent' on last.fm.

:shock:

Here's the link http://www.last.fm/music/KiloWatts/_...Love?autostart

It's ok, not really my thing, sounds like a midi file.

Yeah I agree. It's cool 'n all, but not really what I'm looking for in an ambient tune.

This, however, is (ignore the ring at the start, not part of the song)

wtf you guys! i was talking about the album as a whole! >_<

I'm just going by the links posted!!!! But okay, I might check the whole thing out.

Hmm...I often love to have the radio on when I'm home, no matter what I'm doing. Even for HW, it's fine for me. But, I don't strictly listen to ambient music.

The game Myst and its sequels have ambient music that stirs the emotions.

I'm not a fan of that kind of stuff. I'm Green Day punk rockin' all the way man!

Cool story bro.... How about you GTFO then?

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The game Myst and its sequels have ambient music that stirs the emotions.

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Oh yes, I've quite loved playing through those games-- the atmospheres are just spectacular.

Anyhow I've come in touch with about 50 Brian Eno albums-- there's a lot of nice stuff he has. I especially love his album "Textures" which focuses on stuff like water/rivers/landscapes... good stuff.

This is an old obscure group called Popol Vuh.

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I just noticed a typo two and a half months after I left the post. It's Michael Amerlan.

You like Xtal, Spenner? The Field might be right up your alley.

That's pretty good stuff, Dragon. More so the first volume of Selected Ambient Works by Aphex's style than traditional ambient stuff, which I quite like from time to time. Gives a much different mood overall, but in a good way that's still structured like ambient music.

Hello Friends.....

Ambient music is a musical genre that focuses largely on the timbral characteristics of sounds, often organized or performed to evoke an "atmospheric","visual"or "unobtrusive" quality.

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I just dived into the Ambient Music Realm, and I think it's great! Very relaxing.

Excellent ambient artist: Max Corbacho . I listen to his music from the early beginning and I must say keeps fascinating me again and again. Atmospheric music of great quality, not too melodic, not too abstract, similar to Steve Roach, but with a personal touch. Try with some of his albums: "Ars Lucis", "BreathStrean" and anything from him.
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Hah, I just realized I already have the song Over The Ice by Field o_O I completely didn't make the association when it shuffled within this big trance album compilation I have >_> hehe. Great song.

I just got a hold of Steve Roach's Mystic Chords and Sacred Spaces. Man, this stuff is just fantastic. Very powerful and deeply mind numbing. I'm really loving this.

When I'm doing my writing I divide my playlists in six seperate ambience genres: General, Dreamy, Uplifting, Tension, Panic, and Nightmare. Tension is by far the most packed playlist I have, with Lustmord, rips from Hitman: Contracts by Jesper Kyd, rips from Twisted Metal: Black and Head-on from the Twisted Metal music team, and Mortal Kombat, amongst other miscellanious artists I've come across on Last.fm through the dark ambience group I've joined.

Depending on what I'm feeling, I'll fall asleep with whatever playing in the background. I've been trying to have nightmares lately, but the Nightmare and Tension music isn't working.

If you're looking for a very uplifting and dreamy set of ambient songs that play for about 10-20 seconds each (they're looped in the game), then rip the songs from Mirror's Edge. I was pissed off to find that the soundtrack only had remixes of the song's main theme, and didn't have the background ambience that plays in the background, so you may have to do a bit of research before downloading the "music from the game", definately worth it, though, not to mention they're low in size because of their duration.

Holycow, I just came across this site o_O

http://www.sleepbot.com/ambience/

Great stuff if you're looking for something specific. I actually feel like I need to get in touch with some more dark ambient stuff. Like the stuff you hear in 99 Rooms.

Ash Ra Tempel (who later became Ashra) is considered by some to be a pioneer ambient group. They are also sort of rock, but I guess they are ambient enough to be posted in here. I definitely think they are phenomenal .

Bump because I want to inform that I ordered the 4 disc, 5 hour long box set Mystic Chords and Sacred Spaces :D this is probably the most spiritually connected ambient music I've ever heard, just draws you right into the realm of a distance galaxy within moments of starting the experience.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKAFU-9HmZA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMVMB9Ha6jo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-5VCE4NiTE

Mmm...

As well, I discovered Yagya... just fantastic and beautiful to listen to. Really rare to come across though (a CD by them is upwards of 200 bucks o_O)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9IjrD7N0rA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1OH4ozkOPM

I don't really like Steve Roach... I downloaded some of his tracks for meditation, and although the music really does take you places, its too dark for me. All his stuff I've listened to seems to be very dark, whereas I prefer music that's more uplifting.

I'm a big fan of Altus. You can download all his music for free save for one album.

My favorite ambient:

Aphex Twin (SAW I & II)
Autechre (Amber)
Akira Yamaoka (Silent Hill 2 OST)
COIL (Time Machines, Astral Disaster)

I really love the Silent Hill 2 OST. Has a great atmosphere that's both dark but also blissful and dreamy... Some of the best music in a game, especially for the time it was made :)

I recently (like, within a few days ago :P) got in touch with some Coil stuff-- The Ape of Naples and The New Backwards as well as Snow EP are all I have at the moment, but they're definitely someone I want to check out more of :)

Today I listened to Ulf Söderberg's Vindarnas Hus album, which sound wickedly ancient. At times it builds up with some awesome tribal ambient beats, but otherwise it's rich and atmospheric and wonderful.

@Eonnn: a ton of Steve Roach's music has a darker spiritual nature, even if it's in there subtly; there are definitely a ton of more uplifting things in his discography though. Albums like Dreamtime Renewal and Dreamtime Return are... well, pleasantly dreamy :P

Personally I welcome the dark nature of most of his work. I'm all about that rich alternate mental world, whether or not it's a spooky place...

YouTube - TheAmbientSpace's Channel

There you go :)

I'm really digging the stuff by "Aalborg Soundtracks" :D reminds me of stuff from Half Life when they add in that kind of tense post-apocalyptic city ambient theme. Great stuff.

Some stuff:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8J2ecUE_0E
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPQtJ2OQvr8&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TW1uQvhjmDI
v this one is interesting, very dark though. Imagining I'm at the base of a cave is what I feel most relevant.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YY_0FsVVcU

Some of the music I listened to to create spaces since I was 14 years old...

FSOL - Lifeforms Parts 1 &2
Ozric Tentacles - Any of it
Return to the Source - sacred sites
Gas
Stars of the Lid
Leftfield
Dreadzone
Rhythm and sound
The Orb

Ambient music is great, definitely one of the genres I listened much to at one point. Personally I find that a lot of it is just headache inducing, though I do come across the occasional brilliant stuff.

Solar Fields, edging somewhat on ambient, though still implementing a defined rythm in most of his stuff, I find this guy pretty interesting. This particular track can really take you places.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79hWNzSwjR8


Recently I've also looked into Jami Sieber. She doesn't actually do ambient stuff, but rather electric chello. If you've played the game Braid, you've heard a lot of her stuff.

The album Hidden Sky is pretty interesting.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kWo8N4QNXM

I'll pour some more of my real ambient stuff in here later.

Bump because G A S is amazing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYjwFNUoD-Y&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCy_6xlA6FQ&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5rzS18XozU&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfqDE9V-t1U&feature=related

This is one of my favorite bands, most of there stuff is classified as post rock but feel like a lot of it is ambient.
http://youtu.be/8L64BcCRDAE

check it out and tell me what you think!

For sure, Sigur Ros is in my top artists as well :) definitely have an ambient vibe to their dreamy pieces... Ágætis byrjun is my favourite :D

I somehow feel that even their really loud/epic tracks are still ambient. It doesn't seem possible, until you hear it.

Hell yeah Sigur Ros is amazing. I fall asleep to either their album Agaetis Byrjun or Hvarf-Heim almost every night, I just let my mind wander and go where the music takes me ha ha.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erOVB0bZi1A

BRIAN ENO!! the undisputed father of ambient music

I am obsessed with this song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QM1QdRpFxU&feature=related

Baths, Geotic, Aphex Twin, Black Moth Super Rainbow, Vincent Diamante's soundtrack for Flower, The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble...

This music is awesome. So is the video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V__-...B275D66CE0553A

my all time favourite genre!
favourite ambient albums:
stars of the lid | and their refinement of the decline
grouper | dragging a dead deer up a hill
windy & carl | a dream of blue
fennesz | endless summer
gas | pop

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My personal favourite by far is Aphex's Selected Ambient Works Volume 2- everything has such intensely deep and warm emotions evoked from the songs.

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I'm listening to that right now, it's awesome! It's not really ambient, but do you listen to Shpongle? The Gates of Delirium by Yes is another great song for synesthetics, if you like prog rock. It takes you places that can't even be found in dreams...

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You have synesthesia!?
Oh man, I'm am JEALOUS!
I've been trying to induce synesthesia lol
I think I've got something that would work, if it doesn't work for me I'm gonna try it on my kid if I have one in the future. Since it's apparently cross wiring between the senses, it shouldn't be too hard to purposely induce with a young, flexible mind.
I sound like an evil scientist lol But really it can only be a good thing to have it.

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I'm curious about your idea of inducing synesthesia and if it could make mine more vivid. It's very mild for me, most noticeable when I'm tired or meditating.

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I'm curious about your idea of inducing synesthesia and if it could make mine more vivid. It's very mild for me, most noticeable when I'm tired or meditating.

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Try it out. Do you have a piano or keyboard or something? The idea is pretty simple, basically it is just to play single notes, and display a piece of coloured paper associated with each note that is played. You just do this over and over again until you know which colours go with which notes. Of course you already have colours associated with notes, but it could intensify it.

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Try it out. Do you have a piano or keyboard or something? The idea is pretty simple, basically it is just to play single notes, and display a piece of coloured paper associated with each note that is played. You just do this over and over again until you know which colours go with which notes. Of course you already have colours associated with notes, but it could intensify it.

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I don't see colors, I see where the sounds are and and their shape, but I don't really "see" it, I just know where it is and see it in my head. It's hard to explain and probably sounds weirder than it really is.

I also have time space synesthesia, that one is more vivid. I actually thought it was normal until I learned about synesthesia and can't imagine it being any different.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oc4FFW3pgCw

Boards of Canada, Marconi Union. Sorry I'm late to this thread, I will be attending regularly in the future.
(I'm a bit deep in the hole with ambient.)

Here's a contribution for the present:
Sleepbot Environmental Broadcast.

10 hours of ambient. I think the artist is Austin Sistrunk. You can sleep all night to this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JsG_fWWojM

Like you Spenner, I love ambient. Of course tastes vary but I could post a cross-section of my likes. Vast abandoned areas - Flatlands by Delirium http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CF3q3k3FSI
All Thom Brennan but particularly "Mist" If you like either of those I've got others I can post here...1 or 2 a day They're not all necessarily pure ambient but they are certainly good for boosting mood and spirituality

Here's Mist http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GljAVfqKU5w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Chn-KxaYukQ

http://youtu.be/sFB3SS9-qa0

http://youtu.be/Fn6Ge1YaIbk

I didn't know about Simon Wilkinson. He's awesome. I have a new space musician to get really into.

I'd love to see how a composer works in such long projects. 10 hours of music must be quite a feat, or is it more simple than I think?

Also, thanks you guys for taking the time to post these, I'm really enjoying what I'm hearing so far :)

This was a thing last year:

Band creates the 'most relaxing tune ever' - Telegraph

Kinda funny little study. I checked out all the songs that were considered and most of them I would consider to be upbeat, but I gotta admit the winner was a heavyweight. Marconi Union. I listened to quite a few more of their tracks and I really dig them now as an ambient group.

Marconi Union - Weightless - YouTube

It reminded me of this:

Portal Soundtrack - Self Esteem Fund - YouTube

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I'd love to see how a composer works in such long projects. 10 hours of music must be quite a feat, or is it more simple than I think?

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I have tried hard to get to the bottom of the story on that music. Apparently some guy named Austin Sistrunk posts his music on YouTube but doesn't have any CD's or MP3's I can find anywhere. His name doesn't show up on Amazon or Google, aside from links to his YouTube videos. The song is repetitive, so I think he used some kind of looping. It pretty much does the same thing over and over for 10 hours. I still love it. He also posted 10 hours of rain sounds, and he has a composition that combines the space composition with the rain sounds.

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That is incredible. I just posted it and the article on Facebook.

http://youtu.be/VYYwOSjloAc

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I'd love to see how a composer works in such long projects. 10 hours of music must be quite a feat, or is it more simple than I think?

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It's "drone" music...basic looped patterns with overlaid additional melody and/or sound effects...it's ideal for today's interest in chill-out relaxing music

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kbu4V4PIng&feature=share&list=PLAE4986303 9FF96A7

Albums I listen to while falling asleep (some named in previous posts)...

Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works Vol. 2
Bark Psychosis - Hex/Code: Dustsucker
Boards of Canada - Geogaddi
Coil - Time Machines
Gas - Pop
Global Communication - 76:14 (was going to link to this one but I can't yet)
The Orb - The Orb's Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld
Oval - 94diskont
Sigur Rós - Ágætis Byrjun
Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden/Laughing Stock
Tangerine Dream - Phaedra
William Basinski - The Disintegration Loops
Some stuff by Eno (especially Ambient 4 On Land!)

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Albums I listen to while falling asleep (some named in previous posts)...

Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works Vol. 2
Bark Psychosis - Hex/Code: Dustsucker
Boards of Canada - Geogaddi
Coil - Time Machines
Gas - Pop
Global Communication - 76:14 (was going to link to this one but I can't yet)
The Orb - The Orb's Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld
Oval - 94diskont
Sigur Rós - Ágætis Byrjun
Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden/Laughing Stock
Tangerine Dream - Phaedra
William Basinski - The Disintegration Loops
Some stuff by Eno (especially Ambient 4 On Land!)

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love phaedra. i even refer to the driving force of my subconscious as phaedra.. and she is helping me see through dreams and pulls me into lucid ones :)

*would also like to add this great album. not full ambient, its mixed with the distant melancholic sorrows which make up the black metal scream, while maintaining ambience.

ive posted this before and here it is again.

http://youtu.be/d6heH6b22wA

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http://youtu.be/sFB3SS9-qa0

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i like the space ambience!

http://youtu.be/fZmEJQg279w

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

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Marconi Union - Weightless - YouTube

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I found another good one by them a few days ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6kCB5aK2pE

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I found another good one by them a few days ago.

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Good stuff indeed. I like this one too:

Marconi Union - A Shower of Sparks (better sound) - YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtoVqHrJ1WE&list=WL4DB275D66CE0553A

http://youtu.be/9k0d65eGCz8

Really glad this thread is still up and running, you've all had some great finds here!

Here's something fairly rare, but I love how it integrates with acoustics later on:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsojVTdtt2E

Another very rare one:

Ansiform Composition III - YouTube

I have so many Ansiform tracks, they used to be available for free all on this site I Stumbleupon'd to one day. Haven't been able to find it all again.

http://youtu.be/NQXVzg2PiZw

Biosphere does it well, so do these guys-- capture that cold, wintery, desolate mood. I listened to this once on a bright sunny day in the middle of nowhere, nothing around me but snow. Was like a white room that had sensory deprivation. The experience was beautiful, and I think this music really captures that "cold beauty" aesthetic.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlG7wn2v_h0

The rest of the album is this with dub techno elements, which I really dig.

http://youtu.be/ZVa1iAXeFOc

http://youtu.be/aFGB9HJaVXA

I like drone, but rather than making a new thread I'll post here. I suppose ambient and drone are similar enough, although I haven't been crazy for much of the music I listened to from here. I like Stars of the Lid a bit, but pretty much just as background music. I prefer drone music that sort of takes from other genres. Such as:

Bohren & der Club of Gore - jazz / drone
Sunn - black metal / drone
Earth - post-rock (?) / drone
Burial - trip-hop / drone

Anyone have more suggestions like that?

Fatal Nostalgia's a fairly good blackgaze type band.

They released a more ambient verysion of their self-titled debut, called Halcyon Nostalgia. Very calm amd dreamy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTXeWIL1vhA

Wow what a nice thread! It's a lot of good stuff in here.^^ I would like to recommend Hammock. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQW9yrYtjEw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqUVxDD3TrE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJAjHTlmLlM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVemWCm_uzE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcTq5HR-syo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiS9J9Y9o5Q

Zoviet France is good

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PhFrfIDlD8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLNsxDaKnpo&list=WL4DB275D66CE0553A

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgAO32KBZiU&list=WL4DB275D66CE0553A

I'm glad to have found this thread. Here's what i listen too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqQUwOTP8Ac Big fan of Susumu Hirasawa music.



A little something different chiptune ambient. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WqQFjtHKHA

For anyone listening I recommend Port Blue. Some of his stuff is on itunes but most of it is on youtube. Amazing stuff, the artist himself describes the music as the background to his dreams.

I might venture to say that this is the best one I have posted so far.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjbKJPieW-A

This is another one by Oophoi. I love a lot of ambient space musicians, but I am starting to lean toward the idea that Oophoi is my favorite of all of them. There is stiff competition, though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTNC3cdETBU&index=35&list=PLP1nR-nquTmQjtztMZ-WE6_yqnAzsba5H

I discovered this lately and really love it too. It's original and unique.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2L-lA0xqzKo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmKniRAGC4k

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqmb0GoBW38

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcT6TesVCpI


These are technically remixes of completely different songs but they still sound pretty neat.

http://youtu.be/KVBTaFEDC34

SOMETIMES - I feel like I want to fly Reach out to the painted sky A prisoner to the wind A bird on the wing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHTzs2TjwQo

Uhm... I don't really know if I posted this here already but it's truly wonderful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUiB2EPR9-A

This is all good, but track 3 is especially good. It starts at 25:17. I bought this CD in the 90's and found it on YouTube pretty recently.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPGOK39MHYM&index=28&list=PLP1nR-nquTmQjtztMZ-WE6_yqnAzsba5H

This is more than three hours of space ambient from many different acts. It's excellent.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1XG8GSdF8U&index=38&list=PLP1nR-nquTmQjtztMZ-WE6_yqnAzsba5H

I just discovered another five star ambient act.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQYXC7bC8Ow&list=PLP1nR-nquTmQjtztMZ-WE6_yqnAzsba5H&index=44

I have been combing YouTube for the best space ambient out there. This is some of the best of what I have discovered recently.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jXbnydhNjU&index=61&list=PLP1nR-nquTmQjtztMZ-WE6_yqnAzsba5H

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDE7MpKwP0M&index=58&list=PLP1nR-nquTmQjtztMZ-WE6_yqnAzsba5H

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJIempdqOdU&index=62&list=PLP1nR-nquTmQjtztMZ-WE6_yqnAzsba5H

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ub6...WE6_yqnAzsba5H

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anybody know where I could find songs pertaining to vastness or large abandoned areas that are significantly beautiful? May be quite the task, but just putting that out there 8)

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I've got just the thing

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBZrlVphYZ8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pmrbMyVgF0

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOIMxlJOEX4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmb1-p2067U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGV_1sITYu0&list=PLP1nR-nquTmQjtztMZ-WE6_yqnAzsba5H&index=48

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRKBBrqChao&list=PLP1nR-nquTmQjtztMZ-WE6_yqnAzsba5H&index=59

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZUr8t8OVIk&list=PLP1nR-nquTmQjtztMZ-WE6_yqnAzsba5H&index=71


This is my YouTube space ambient playlist:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...WE6_yqnAzsba5H

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jXbnydhNjU&index=61&list=PLP1nR-nquTmQjtztMZ-WE6_yqnAzsba5H

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Tim Hecker is awesome. An old friend use to rave about him years ago, but his music first 'clicked' for me I believe early last year.

Ambient music is tough for me. Since obsessing over Tim Hecker, I've wanted to find some more stuff. But this music requires so much more time than most genres, at least for me. I can't just skip through a track and think, "Yea, I like this." I should pay more attention to this thread.


Edit: I guess I can contribute: I like Bohren & Der Club of Gore, so somebody recommended me this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awUsLrEb1EU

I´d suggest that in the future we post all the videos in a spoiler because it takes forever to load the page if there are like 20 videos embedded on it. Or do spoiler tags not actually prevent that?

Anyway here is some stuff.

Spoiler for stuff:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePWycN68sD4


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ift_jgavBE

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I´d suggest that in the future we post all the videos in a spoiler because it takes forever to load the page if there are like 20 videos embedded on it. Or do spoiler tags not actually prevent that?

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The thread looks cooler when you can scroll down and see all the video thumbnails as you go.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROQM6yRmzD4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogBpRkOz8HY

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjse9snMZuM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_94BWLLusA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8MklyhCKs0&index=87&list=PLP1nR-nquTmQjtztMZ-WE6_yqnAzsba5H

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNAhptuYamc
Just a highlight from the album. I really enjoy trampique's music. Worth the listen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIDk6yNPIBA

http://www5.pf-x.net/~schwarzwald/pyrus_pyrifolia.mp3

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

Yes! Ambient, more Ambient! I'll probably drop by here from time to time to share a few links. Here's something by Pausal, and here's something by Christina Vantzou. Also, The Dead Texan.

My fav one is Princess of lust by Enigima.

Chouchou - Teardrop

Spooky Action at a Distance by lotus plaza is ambient album.

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Spooky Action at a Distance by lotus plaza is ambient album.

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You might have your genres confused. "Spooky Action" belongs to the Indie Rock genre. This is Ambient.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsDBl72hsbo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yj_wyw6Xrq4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11JITPeYAWs

Universal Mind, you have made my day. This album is awesome.

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Universal Mind, you have made my day. This album is awesome.

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Oh, good. I just discovered the album last night.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0m_3Bd1Jfs&index=4&list=RDZYQbhDELXHY

I know most would think of ambient music as something associating with light and the astral, but I prefer dark ambient (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_ambient). Maybe because I like working with dark energy, who knows. Anyways, I get a weird and POWERFUL tingles throughout my body as I listen and a sense of strength that rests underneath my flesh. This is music I tend to lose myself with as my body tenses up significantly getting tight. Nothing compared to what ASMR can do to me.

I do not know of any artists from the top of my head sadly but here is a video of a mix of some dark ambient tunes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qgx4BBPGefU

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

This should count as ambient music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXf-B_DiJ6Q

More videro game anbient goodies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NqDlIMUl0g

I love ambient music! It's so relaxing.

Also, does anyone know the genre of the song in this film?
https://vimeo.com/93031018

Glad I found this thread been getting into ambient music lately. I'm checking out the artists suggested. :)

Great to see some of my favorite ambient composers being mentioned here. Steve Roach is definitely the best ambient composer in the history of planet Earth.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fn5Hk5Kr7cQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hatKtCHpfo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEWcqY6-lE4

This song is especially nice with headphones :nytacodance:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJFMSikzmok