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Posted by Atom-B on Apr-23-2007 15:41:

REAL Ambient vs. Trance Chillout

Seriously, I am tired of mother******s saying shit like "Oh, ambient? You mean DJ Tiesto- Traffic (Ferry Corsten & Solarstone's Chillout Mix), right?" NO!!!!!!!!!!!! AMBIENT Ambient. I'm talking Rich, Roach, Reich, and Eno. Which do you like better, Trance Chillout or Ambient, and what are your favorite tunes?

Posted by SMC on Apr-23-2007 16:13:

I agree, ambient is a misused word.

Some of my favorites are Steve Roach, Vidna Obmana, Vir Unis, Craig Padilla, Robert Rich, Pete Namlook and artists on labels like Spotted Peccary and Ultimae Records.

Some of my favorite releases:

Harold Budd & Brian Eno - The Pearl
Jon Jenkins - Beyond City Light
Solar Fields - Extended
Vidna Obmana - The River Of Appearance
Steve Roach - New Life Dreaming
Robert Rich - Calling Down The Sky
Vir Unis - Aeonian Glow

Posted by jupiterone on Apr-23-2007 16:20:

Everyone focuses so much on genres now that they all lose credibility and after time there really is no more tracks that fit under a certain genre.

Posted by Atom-B on Apr-23-2007 16:23:

Namlook is genious, Etheral Being is beautiful.

My list is-

Pete Namloon- Etheral Being
Lucid Picnic- Dilemma Millenia
Steve Roach & Loren Norell- Eceiposis
Milieu- Windy Hills
Aphex Twin- Rhubarb
Aphex Twin- Blue Calx
Aphex Twin- Mold
Brian Eno- An Ending (Ascent)
David Sylvian & Robert Fripp- Bringing Down The Light

Posted by Sykonee on Apr-23-2007 16:54:

hehe... 'Ambient'... the original 'electro'.

Posted by Psy-T on Apr-23-2007 17:23:

quote:
Originally posted by Sykonee
hehe... 'Ambient'... the original 'electro'.

Posted by Psy-T on Apr-23-2007 17:24:

unlike in most genres, i do have a favorite ambient track:
Blaine L. Reininger, Dr. Atmo, I.N.G.O. & Michael Pagenstedt - Soundtrack Of My Dreams (Fax)

Posted by sljiva on Apr-23-2007 20:55:

Well I don't have favourite ambient tunes, because that genre is pretty album-oriented so here are my favourite ambient albums:
Dominic Woosey - Straylight
Dreamfish - Dreamfish
Eno - Music For Airports
Neutron 9000 - Lady Burning Sky
Atom Heart - Orange

Posted by Lebezniatnikov on Apr-23-2007 21:25:

Brian Eno and Moby generally do it for me. Montana's dub mixes are fantastic though.

Posted by idoru on Apr-23-2007 21:38:

Global Communication

/thread

Posted by Arraias on Apr-24-2007 00:34:

well i don't know about genres but my favs albums are

Chicane - Far From The Maddening Crowds
Ulrich Schnauss - Far Away Trains Passing By
L.S.G. - Into Deep
BT - This Binary Universe
Mirco de Govia - Chronoscale (the chill out tracks of the album)
Paul van Dyk - Seven Ways
Healer - Higher Grounds
FSOL - Lifeforms

Posted by Sykonee on Apr-24-2007 00:37:

Frameless Structure by Norman Feller is class.

Posted by Dojomaster26 on Apr-24-2007 01:52:

Moby's "Hotel - Ambient" is what I put on when in an Ambient mood. I also like a lot of the Brian Eno stuff.

idoru: 76:14...What a classic

Posted by RapidFire on Apr-24-2007 02:23:

quote:
Originally posted by Arraias
Paul van Dyk - Seven Ways

Posted by Arraias on Apr-24-2007 02:27:

quote:
Originally posted by RapidFire

some tracks sound like ambient, chill out trance whatever to me but you right is a trance album not ambient, same for Chronoscale.

Posted by LeopoldStotch on Apr-24-2007 03:21:

"The K&D Sessions"
/thread

but to tell you the truth, i do like some of the mellow "so called trance ambient" stuff, like solar stone. i like their 2 disc Euphoria mix cd a couple of years back.

also following along the same lines of ambient and chillout, i am a big fan of acid jazz.

Posted by eRRaTiK on Apr-24-2007 03:45:

lol @ genre whores needing to classify everything.

do you have ambient or chilled underwear today?

Posted by Spirit5 on Apr-24-2007 03:47:

I like both, it doesn't matter. But I prefer more melodic ambient stuff to soundscapes. I would use soundscapes like what Robert Rich or Steve Roach make as meditation type music, but on a daily basis, I prefer stuff that is ethereal-ambient melodic music like Ulrich Schnauss, Amethystium, Enigma, Blue Stone, Delerium etc.

Posted by SMC on Apr-24-2007 03:51:

quote:
Originally posted by eRRaTiK
lol @ genre whores needing to classify everything.

do you have ambient or chilled underwear today?

Yeah, and all fuckin idiots using different words for different things. Why don't we just call every type of food "banana", that would make communiacation a lot easier.

Posted by wotyzoid on Apr-24-2007 04:03:

quote:
Originally posted by jupiterone
Everyone focuses so much on genres now that they all lose credibility and after time there really is no more tracks that fit under a certain genre.

+1000

Posted by Kakoroto on Apr-24-2007 05:10:

I agree with the the OP, chilled trance is NOT true ambient. I still enjoy some of it though. These are the genres I consider to be under the ambient guise and ones that I typically listen to - dark ambient, down-tempo, psy-chill, drone(minimal), idm, glitch, euphoric(chilled-trance), trip-hop. That being said, ive been listening to a lot of Roach lately. Namely, Dreamtime Return, New Life Dreaming, and Mystic Chords and Sacred Spaces, especially right before I hit the sack. Ive got way too many good artists on my HD though. I can never decide what to listen to when im in the mood.

Posted by Existo22 on Apr-24-2007 13:59:

try VA - artificial intelligence on the warp label.

Posted by Zayatz on Apr-24-2007 15:08:

henrik b - kryoniks

the best..shame he makes so bad music nowadays,,

Posted by SMC on Apr-24-2007 16:23:

quote:
Originally posted by Zayatz
henrik b - kryoniks

Very nice album indeed.

Posted by _Ocean_Drive_ on Apr-24-2007 16:38:

Skysurfer is amazing

But also are Airstream, Reno, Cell and others like that.

Ambient Trance - is this chilled out mixes of trance tracks? I'd say Chicane was Ambient Trance?? What are the exact definitions?

I often plug it, but Ministry of Sound's Chillout seession 2003 is spectacular, as is Ibiza Chill Session 2006

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