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Posted by Hiram-D on Mar-22-2007 05:37:

Dark Ambient

Greetings All,

Anyone into Dark Ambient? I came across a site awhile back that was really unique and trippy, to say the least. Lots of free mp3 album downloads of their work. Here is an example:

http://mp3.wp.pl/p/strefa/sciagnij/98512.mp3

Their site can be found here:

http://www.dark-ambient.rox.pl/

Thought some of you may be interested in checking this out.

Enjoy!

Hiram-D

Posted by winston on Mar-22-2007 12:51:

people labeling music ftl

Posted by Mr.Mystery on Mar-22-2007 16:07:

And of course you wouldn't be associated with this site in any way. You just wanted to register and make your first post about it out of sheer enjoyment.

Posted by winston on Mar-22-2007 16:41:

quote:
Originally posted by Mr.Mystery
And of course you wouldn't be associated with this site in any way. You just wanted to register and make your first post about it out of sheer enjoyment.

you stole my avatar?

what is dark ambient? some aphex twin i guess.

Posted by Mr.Mystery on Mar-22-2007 16:49:

quote:
Originally posted by diggerz
you stole my avatar?

You're Storm Thorgerson?

Posted by theognis1002 on Mar-22-2007 16:50:

where are the free downloads on this site

Posted by Faust_UA on Mar-22-2007 18:11:

quote:
Originally posted by diggerz
what is dark ambient? some aphex twin i guess.

Noup. It's something like Lustmord and Bad Sector.

Posted by Lilith on Mar-22-2007 20:56:

quote:
Originally posted by diggerz
what is dark ambient? some aphex twin i guess.

Soma & Black Lung come to mind.

Posted by stren on Mar-22-2007 21:45:

I'd like to know what dark ambients is, but the sample link don't work, and neither does the download section on the site

quote:
Originally posted by diggerz
what is dark ambient? some aphex twin i guess.

lol

Posted by winston on Mar-23-2007 02:45:

quote:
Originally posted by stren

lol

oh well, pardon me. im not into labeling music or styles.

Posted by distant on Mar-23-2007 03:09:

Lustmord - Black Star is pretty fuckin' heavy. One of my favorites by him since quite a while back. The genre as a whole doesn't really cut it for me though. I need rhythm.

And lol @ Aphex Twin being dark ambient... no dice, bwoy.

Posted by winston on Mar-23-2007 03:55:

quote:
Originally posted by distant
Lustmord - Black Star is pretty fuckin' heavy. One of my favorites by him since quite a while back. The genre as a whole doesn't really cut it for me though. I need rhythm.

And lol @ Aphex Twin being dark ambient... no dice, bwoy.

quote:
The genre did not have a single pioneering musician or persons who invented the term or genre, it somewhat evolved on its own, similar to that of the IDM genre. The roots of dark ambient can be seen in several of Brian Eno's early collaborations that had a distinctly dark or discordant edge, notably "An Index of Metals" (from Evening Star (1975)), a collaboration with Robert Fripp that incorporated harsh guitar feedback, the ambient pieces on the second half of David Bowie's Low (1977), and Fourth World, Vol. 1: Possible Musics (1980), a collaboration with Jon Hassell. source wikipedia

Therefore I can deduce that Richard D. James was greatly influenced by dark ambient electronica. If you are interested to see where im coming from, listen to this album and please tell me if the influence from Eno and Fripp is not there...

Posted by MrJiveBoJingles on Mar-23-2007 04:03:

"Gwarek2" is really dark. Some amazing sounds in there as well.

His "Selected Ambient Works" also contain dark ambient stuff. But he does a hell of a lot more than ambient and dark ambient, of course. One of my favorite musicians.

Posted by distant on Mar-23-2007 04:11:

quote:
Originally posted by diggerz
Therefore I can deduce that Richard D. James was greatly influenced by dark ambient electronica. If you are interested to see where im coming from, listen to this album and please tell me if the influence from Eno and Fripp is not there...

AvB has done house music, doesn't mean he's a house artist.

Aphex Twin is such a vague example in this context. He's done so many things within the electronic music spectrum, it'd be unfair to call him dark ambient.

Posted by winston on Mar-23-2007 04:13:

quote:
Originally posted by distant
AvB has done house music, doesn't mean he's a house artist.

Aphex Twin is such a vague example in this context. He's done so many things within the electronic music spectrum, it'd be unfair to call him dark ambient.

agree.

Posted by Noisician on Mar-24-2007 03:30:

quote:
Originally posted by stren
I'd like to know what dark ambients is, but the sample link don't work, and neither does the download section on the site

here's one example (sample, 2:35, 3.55mb)