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Post your favorite recent or old ambient music here, just been listening to this new half tribe all day:

https://halftribe.bandcamp.com/album/archipelago <-Really relaxing, kind of like "for summer or forever"

And a few more:

https://mmmmalibu.bandcamp.com/album/one-life-2 <-This blew me away and still does

https://neotantra.bandcamp.com/album/t-ntr-ii <-I generally don't like compilations but this one is really well put together and flows nicely.

https://astrangelyisolatedplace.ban...hors-for-things<-Recently out on ASIP, very nice and floaty.

https://astrangelyisolatedplace.ban...cia-en-la-brisa<-Another recent ASIP release

https://lineexplorations.bandcamp.c...levitate-oceans<-Found randomly but was pleasantly surprised, a bit more melodic and eclectic.

https://ascetik.bandcamp.com/album/nung-river<-This album was inspired by the film "Apocalypse Now" and contains some samples from the movie.

https://templerecordsofficial.bandc...osmos-movements

Halftribe has really been doing it for me. I'm glad he's got a new album out because I've played all his other ones to death. There's something about his music, that inexpressible quality that all great ambient music has, that is so simple but so satisfying. Lots of other artists make ostensibly similar music, but none of it is as pleasing to me.

A couple of more drone-y artists I've been listening to loads recently are Gallery Six and Poemme. Nothing groundbreaking, just good music to play quietly at work. I can leave their discography playing through on Spotify for hours.

I also tend to match my ambient listening to books I'm reading. Recently I seem to reading lots of Americana (currently reading some Faulkner) and Pan-American has been my go-to guy. Lots of beautiful steel guitar conjuring images of dusty, sun-beaten landscapes and endless telephone wires. Some of the singing on a few tracks can be distracting - his 2004 album Quiet City is a good starting point as it mostly avoids this.

Also on the subject of guitar-driven ambient, this album from Pablo Bolivar in collaboration with Garcia Smith is sheer class.

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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J Pan-American has been my go-to guy.

Glimpsed into his discography and pressed play on his most recent album. Instant purchase. Thanks.

I'm digging through and enjoying the Archives catalog at the moment. Lots to explore there.

Also the Past Inside The Present catalog.

Global Communication - 76:14
https://www.discogs.com/Global-Comm...14/master/16236

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Originally posted by DOOMBOT Global Communication - 76:14 https://www.discogs.com/Global-Comm...14/master/16236

Or: "the only ambient album I've ever heard of."

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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J Or: "the only ambient album I've ever heard of."

It still holds king for me. Wasnt it you who put me on to this one? Was a while ago someone recommended it here.

I can't really take any credit for recommending one of the most classic ambient records of all time.

Although if you liked that, Donato Dozzy's album 12H from last year has a very similar vibe:

I will check it out. I honestly haven't kept up with anything Dozzy has been doing for quite a while. Thanks!

I like how Jack was a bit of a dick and Doombot was just totally chill

Halftribe has been great for me lately, but I'm also going the minimal piano route, atm, likely based off following Jack's Spotify listens. Probably more piano works than anything strictly electronic, to be honest.

Really nice album from 1988, recently reissued.

I play lots of 90s ambient in my mixseries. This episode for example:



01. Farmers Manual - Explorers We #10 [OR - 1998]
02. Egebamyasi - The Early Christmas Dinner Of The Cockroach [UGT Recordings - 1995]
03. Biosphere - Microgravity [Origo Sound - 1991]
04. Edge Of Motion - The Third Wave [Djax-Up-Beats - 1993]
05. In The Nursery - Cesare (Exclusive Mix) [Sub Terranean - 1997]
06. A Produce - Heart Of The Dunes [Trance Port - 1994]
07. Global Communication - 4:14 [Dedicated - 1994]
08. Steve Roach - Towards The Dream [Fortuna Records - 1988]
09. Foundland - Strange Event Northern Sky [Xource Records - 1996]
10. Rising Sun - Ocean View [ESP Records - 1993]
11. The Optic Crux - The Optic Crux [Djax-Up-Beats - 1994]
12. Age - Lancet [Mille Plateaux - 1994]
13. Tapeworm - Chemical [Sub Terranean - 1996]
14. Still Thinking - Mot [A13 - 1994]
15. Optica - Evolute [Kinetix - 1997]
16. 310 - Jet Pack Time [Leaf - 1999]

More obvious advices would be to check out anything Biosphere has ever done as well as most releases on Namlook's Fax label. em:t is another label to explore.

Does it have to be electronic music? Because I really love Erik Satie. I bought Gymnopedies, Gnossiennes, et Sarabandes played and recorded by Hakon Austbo. Just gorgeous (piano) music which I guess could qualify as ambient?

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Originally posted by Silky Johnson Does it have to be electronic music? Because I really love Erik Satie. I bought Gymnopedies, Gnossiennes, et Sarabandes played and recorded by Hakon Austbo. Just gorgeous (piano) music which I guess could qualify as ambient?

Love Satie. His music has subtle density.

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Originally posted by Tangil Love Satie. His music has subtle density.

Yeah. It's sparse but lush.

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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J .I also tend to match my ambient listening to books I'm reading. Recently I seem to reading lots of Americana (currently reading some Faulkner) and Pan-American has been my go-to guy. Lots of beautiful steel guitar conjuring images of dusty, sun-beaten landscapes and endless telephone wires. Some of the singing on a few tracks can be distracting - his 2004 album Quiet City is a good starting point as it mostly avoids this.

I loove Pan American, I have Quiet City on vinyl lyring around somewhere. I used to hate anything with guitars when I was younger but these days I'm listening to a ton of that Kranky-type Postrock and Shoegaze stuff.

Just a few of the ambient things I liked recently-ish...

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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J Halftribe has really been doing it for me. I'm glad he's got a new album out because I've played all his other ones to death. There's something about his music, that inexpressible quality that all great ambient music has, that is so simple but so satisfying. Lots of other artists make ostensibly similar music, but none of it is as pleasing to me. A couple of more drone-y artists I've been listening to loads recently are Gallery Six and Poemme. Nothing groundbreaking, just good music to play quietly at work. I can leave their discography playing through on Spotify for hours. I also tend to match my ambient listening to books I'm reading. Recently I seem to reading lots of Americana (currently reading some Faulkner) and Pan-American has been my go-to guy. Lots of beautiful steel guitar conjuring images of dusty, sun-beaten landscapes and endless telephone wires. Some of the singing on a few tracks can be distracting - his 2004 album Quiet City is a good starting point as it mostly avoids this. Also on the subject of guitar-driven ambient, this album from Pablo Bolivar in collaboration with Garcia Smith is sheer class.

Nice recommendations here, I made my way through a few of the Gallery six and Poemme albums on bandcamp over the past week so far, and they are all great and can be played for hours as you said. Since I recently started working from home, I am able to play music on speakers, and just having some ambient on in the background is really soothing and relaxing, especially with the drone/pad/texture type stuff. I'll check out that Mind Groove album, I didn't notice they released another one, but I really liked Sailor and the Mountain.

My cousin told me he recently started painting with ambient music in the background, while I don't have the ability to paint, soft music can set a nice atmosphere for just about anything.

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Originally posted by DOOMBOT Global Communication - 76:14 https://www.discogs.com/Global-Comm...14/master/16236

Speaking of which, Tom Middleton played a set on 9128.live last weekend, I should have posted about it in this thread. Tom said they have the masters ready for the "official" repress of this album and Pentamerous Metamorphosis, so that should be coming out soon, along with a new Global Communication album, which he premiered a few tracks of.

https://9128.live/ , plays ambient 24/7, generally a playlist of ambient tracks on shuffle but they do have programming and album premieres sometimes. They will be having an Astral Industries take over the weekend of April 4th and 5th. I saw a posting on instagram story, some of the artists include Anthony Linell, ASIP, Claudio PRC, Deepchord, Grant Aaron, LF58, Multicast Dynamics, Sonmi451, Waveform Transmission, Wolfgang Voigt, should be a good show.

Nils Frahm's new album was released last week and it's really nice as long as you don't have a problem with classical piano.

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Originally posted by lonne Nils Frahm's new album was released last week and it's really nice as long as you don't have a problem with classical piano.

Cheers for the heads up. I've said elsewhere around here that the gap between "ambient" and "classical piano" is dissolving all the time. I could have listed loads of contemporary/minimal classical in this thread.

Hard for me to talk about ambient in terms of artists and labels anymore (yes yes, except for Kompakt and their list of annual offenders), or really any other genre, because of the way I search for music. My process for years had always been the hard way: open up the 'Electronica' tap in Beatport, hunker down, and (quickly) go through each sample of each day of each week one by one. Incredibly tedious, with an absolutely horrid crate-to-skip ratio, but still very rewarding, as it's turned up ambient that I no doubt would have never come across using filters, and tags, and other refinement tools:







I've got such so much of this stuff downloaded to my hard drive, so very much more still sitting in crates, and countless other tracks from the months I've missed that I'm sure I would fawn over.

There's such a vast amount of good ambient and even so many good "sub-genres", keeping organized is becoming a bit of a task. The problem is that I've got many, many tracks written down in Evernote and loved on Last.fm, but as in this genre individual tracks (though almost always captivating) aren't always very "memorable" in terms of content, I try to keep track of them by writing down adjectives describing their mood in parentheses after the track's name.

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Originally posted by JEO There's such a vast amount of good ambient and even so many good "sub-genres", keeping organized is becoming a bit of a task.

Emphasis on vast.

Anyone else enjoy the darkness that is Cryo Chamber?

ive been on a bit of a mad one with vinyl this week....



lots of stuff on kompakt label

ultimae is another good label for ambient stuff like aes dana, miktek, sync24, connect ohm..... older carbon based lifeforms [re-issues/reprints on blood music label]

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Originally posted by Midlothian Emphasis on vast. Anyone else enjoy the darkness that is Cryo Chamber?

Well... just a bit.

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Originally posted by capricorn15 Speaking of which, Tom Middleton played a set on 9128.live last weekend, I should have posted about it in this thread. Tom said they have the masters ready for the "official" repress of this album and Pentamerous Metamorphosis, so that should be coming out soon, along with a new Global Communication album, which he premiered a few tracks of. https://9128.live/ , plays ambient 24/7, generally a playlist of ambient tracks on shuffle but they do have programming and album premieres sometimes. They will be having an Astral Industries take over the weekend of April 4th and 5th. I saw a posting on instagram story, some of the artists include Anthony Linell, ASIP, Claudio PRC, Deepchord, Grant Aaron, LF58, Multicast Dynamics, Sonmi451, Waveform Transmission, Wolfgang Voigt, should be a good show.

Everything he is involved with is pretty amazing, even the sleep focused stuff he�s been into lately. He did a twitch stream about it during the original quarantine here last year. My all time favorite, although not technically ambient, is his solo production �Yukon�. Just an incredible soundscape.

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Originally posted by Sykonee Well... just a bit.

Hey I knew that, aksually. Good to see you're keeping that up.

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