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Posted by infiniteJEST on Jan-05-2010 04:05:

New Age Music

Anyone a fan? I'm no believer in healing crystals or astrology, but the tunes these guys make are pretty solid.

Currently listening through Enigma's monumental MCMXC a.D. I also have some stuff from Tangerine Dream, & Wang Xu-dong's Acupuncture For Mind is what got me into the stuff in the first place.

Any albums I should check out?

Posted by PETRAN on Jan-05-2010 04:29:

All albums by Amethystium (the best in my opinion), Mythos, Deep Forest, Cusco, Mike Oldfield, some albums by Vangelis such as "Direct" and "Voices" etc., Delirium (also i used to like them less), Adiemus (for a more symphonic/choral less synth-driven account), Era (for a more medieval account!)

Posted by SYSTEM-J on Jan-05-2010 04:32:

The closest I get these days is the Ultimae ambient/psy chill stuff that leans in that direction. Full-on new age is pretty sickening stuff.

Posted by Darkarbiter on Jan-05-2010 05:02:

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Originally posted by PETRAN
All albums by Amethystium (the best in my opinion), Mythos, Deep Forest, Cusco, Mike Oldfield, some albums by Vangelis such as "Direct" and "Voices" etc., Delirium (also i used to like them less), Adiemus (for a more symphonic/choral less synth-driven account), Era (for a more medieval account!)

Vangelis-Spiral is better.

I'd hardly call vangelis new age though.

Here's a nice new age trance sortof track

Posted by RapidFire on Jan-05-2010 05:51:

check out E.S. Posthumus. specifically their Unearthed disc. very nice stuff.

Posted by KilldaDJ on Jan-05-2010 06:57:

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Originally posted by PETRAN
Amethystium

word to it brother.

oh ya and vangelis too like someone else mentioned

Posted by kingchinc on Jan-05-2010 21:48:

the ultimate karaoke song is...

Enigma - Return to Innocence

Posted by Lews on Jan-05-2010 22:04:

I was visiting my Aunt and Uncle's and one of her New Age cd's had Saltwater on it. I lol-ed.

Enigma and Deep Forest is the closest I'll venture, on occasion. If you count Vangelis then him too.

Posted by Schadenfreude on Jan-05-2010 22:12:

i'm pretty sure that if i drank enough, i might give yani a hand job.

the hair, i dunno, it is powerful.

Posted by Sykonee on Jan-05-2010 22:46:

I'll always put forth that Enya's first album -The Celts- is vastly underrated, though that's almost 4AD darkwave in tone than New Age.

Posted by PETRAN on Jan-06-2010 22:14:

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Originally posted by Sykonee
I'll always put forth that Enya's first album -The Celts- is vastly underrated, though that's almost 4AD darkwave in tone than New Age.

4AD FTW! Legendary dark ethereal stuff Dead Can Dance, Cocteau Twins, This Mortal Coil, Clan Of Xymox etc. etc. I still listen to this stuff from time to time. More awesome (experimental and arty) than the majority of new age IMO.

And yes Vangelis is not New Age though some of his end-of-80s/90s albums like the ones i mentioned sound very new-agey. Listen to "Direct" and you will find a lot of similarities with Enigma's first albums and "Voices" coming out after the "Columbus" soundtrack is like a sweet spiritual version of that soundtrack. Vangelis was generally an electronic pioneer and some of his 70s and 80s works (like "Spiral" as one mentioned) were probably groundbreaking.