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First off Kakoroto, I am asking for a pretty specific sound. Unlike many of the other threads, I don't just want any and all ambient or downtempo stuff. I want stuff that sounds like what I listed. Now I realize I can browse the links you have kindly listed, but again. One is comparing ambient and chillout, with hardly any tracks that I find to be relevant to the discussion here. Another was a short thread that linked to four other discussions, all of which pertain to ambient trance (nothing even close to what I want). Demoted's thread (your second link) was a lot closer to what I'm looking for, but still was far too broad for me. The last link was right up my alley for the first page, then the trance chill out crowd seemed to take it over. Anyways, get off your pedestal, I have no idea why I wrote you such a response when you clearly don't deserve it.

Sorry I haven't been replying to your suggestions, I'll try to get to all them... Here are ones I listened to that I liked and were what I'm looking for. I suppose I am leaning more toward post-rock influenced electronica (I hope that makes sense)

Imogen Heap, if only most their songs weren't killed for me already.
Postal Service, but same problem.
Explosions in the Sky, definitely. Good suggestion, demoted.
Thom Yorke (The Eraser album)
Omnimotion
Bitcrush
Console
Mogwai
Mum
Sigur Ros

Clovis:
-I owe you a lot for turning me on to Console.

Lebezniatnikov:
-The Moby stuff was sick, I have really only been exposed to his mainstream stuff, so this was nice to hear.
-Eno and Glass are great, but not really what I'm looking for. I would say eno is too ambient for what I want and Glass is not "electric" enough, although Aguas de Amozonia was really cool.
-Emiliana Torrini is great, but once again not what I was looking for

Demoted:
-Figurine wasn't really my style.
-Frou Frou has only one track I like, Let Go
-Schnauss actually inspired this thread (not in a good way). I thought his new cd was going to have more post-rock leanings, but it turned out to be much of the same. Oh well.
-Metric and Broken Social Scene were too much rock
-Thanks for all the good suggestions though (especially omnimotion)

Spirit5:
-Boards of Canada, for some reason I just can't get into their stuff.
-Autechre, far too leftfield
-Enigma, not a huge fan and not really what I'm going for.
-Slowdive, no offense, they sound like a bunch of whining pussies.
-Tangerine Dream, great, but again not what I'm looking for.
-The Future Sound of London, I guess most of your suggestions I would describe as being too electronic. If that makes any sense.

I'll try to get to more later.

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Originally posted by idoru Edit: Oh, and I suppose that this thread is as good as any to mention that I'm working on a Chillout/Downtempo mix. I don't know when I'll have it done because I'm taking my time finding the right tracks for it, but... yeah... soon, hopefully.

Oh snap, I'll def. be keeping an eye out for it! Seems like we've been listening to much of the same music, so I'm sure I'll enjoy it.

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Originally posted by kush paintings Lebezniatnikov: -The Moby stuff was sick, I have really only been exposed to his mainstream stuff, so this was nice to hear.

Try his Hotel CD 2: Ambient and Play's B-Sides, as well as his Ambient album (released in 93 I think). Those are his most comprehensive releases of ambient/downtempo stuff. The rest of the tracks I suggested are scattered sporadically through some of his other albums (like Animal Rights and Play).

Also, I think M83's non-single stuff bears a strong resemblance to Moby or Trentemoller sometimes, and definitely has that rock feel you're looking for. Try "Lower Your Eyelids To Die With The Sun", "Dead Cities, Red Seas, and Lost Ghosts", and "In The Cold I'm Standing". Or M83's remix of Depeche Mode's "Suffer Well".

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Originally posted by kush paintings First off Kakoroto, I am asking for a pretty specific sound. Unlike many of the other threads, I don't just want any and all ambient or downtempo stuff. I want stuff that sounds like what I listed.

It doesn't deserve another thread. You are like EDM itself. You are creating a bunch of unnecessary sub-threads of topics that can all fit under the same category.

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Originally posted by kush paintings Spirit5: -Boards of Canada, for some reason I just can't get into their stuff. -Autechre, far too leftfield -Enigma, not a huge fan and not really what I'm going for. -Slowdive, no offense, they sound like a bunch of whining pussies. -Tangerine Dream, great, but again not what I'm looking for. -The Future Sound of London, I guess most of your suggestions I would describe as being too electronic. If that makes any sense.

- Boards of Canada take time to get into. At first listen on their latest CD (the only one I own thus far), I couldn't get into it, but after listening to it over the past few months, it's finally clicked in. You have to let it soak in.

- Autechre takes even more time to get into, but in the mess of noise and bleeps and blops, there is some beauty going on, something deep. But definitely...leftfield, experimental, minimalistic.

- Enigma's old music maybe not, but for downtempo stuff, definitely A Postetori, but again, it's not for every one. Their older stuff was more new age/ambient-pop/dance music.

- Slowdive..well they are shoegazer and the whinning, droning sound is part of the whole shoegazing thing. Slouvaki is nice though, probably their most accessible, and probably the only album i'll buy from them. The others are strange.....

- Tangerine Dream is classic progressive rock/kraut-rock/ambient, and although it might not be what your looking for, I am sure they influenced the bands you might be (the same with Pink Floyd).

- The Future Sound of London are quite electronic, but with some rock influences here and there. But yea probably not...

I think your definitely looking for something like Sigur Ros. Also check out "Tortoise" they are another post-rock band.

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schnauss's new album on beatport is pretty dope,

Looks like Spirit5 had a pretty decent taste after all..

And Schnauss hasn't got a new album out. He did a couple of collaborations and remixes lately, but his last full lenght was Goodbye from 2007.

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Originally posted by sljiva Looks like Spirit5 had a pretty decent taste after all.. And Schnauss hasn't got a new album out. He did a couple of collaborations and remixes lately, but his last full lenght was Goodbye from 2007.

I saw Goodbye has been rereleased with a slightly different tracklisting and a new/different mastering. I should give it a listen.

lol @ Spirit5, he was a good guy. I didn't realize this thread was from 2007 until i saw his posts.

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If you're into the post-rock Sigur Ros / Explosions In The Sky part of it, check out Red Sparrows, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, A Silver Mt. Zion (although the latter might be a bit too dark in relation to the general post rock scene). There's also a good Japanese post-rock band, but I don't remember their name.

Good finals music too

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Originally posted by LoveHate schnauss's new album on beatport is pretty dope,

According to his myspace page, his latest is Stars EP.

Speaking of Ulrich, whatever the hell happened to him??? He looks OLD:



If you're looking for Ulrich Schnaussy type of music, research 'shoegaze' and look at Ulrich's influences.

Check out Album Leaf, good band from San Diego:



And while I'm not a big fan, try Secede:




Junior Boys, Boy Robot.

If you're partial to ambient techno, see Yagya, The Field, Speedy J:

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Originally posted by Lebezniatnikov Philip Glass

I recently restored from dead a set of expensive audiophile speakers that I got for free and felt like being a pretentious audiophile - sitting and listening to high-quality Philip Glass recordings on them
Glass is an acquired taste!

P.S. Second the suggestion for Schiller, how could i forget.

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