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Koldorn
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Registered: May 2007
Location: Lincoln, England

Ambient/Downtempo Techno

Looking for some tracks in this style for a personal mix. Hard genre to find good tunes for it seems, least for a layman like me.

here are some tracks I would label as such.

Serafin - Liquid Daydream
Theorem vs Swayzak - Break in at apt. 205 (kind of understated tune but I find it brilliant)
Theorem - Fallout
Agnes - Things recur
Theorem vs Stewart Walker - Recoil
Minilogue - Birdsong
Trentemoller + Buda - Gamma (made myself a nice version mixed together with an edited by me minilogue remix)

I was going to add the Agnes remix of Carbonela, but im not sure it would suit. Damn I love that track though, I'll have to do a second mix based around that one perhaps. A kind of part 2 with mix one building up to that kind of level maybe.

Anyway, I digress. Looking for Ambient or Downtempo Techno recommendations please. I actually love soundscape type stuff, so if you are aware of a DJ whom I could track down some mixes of that makes nice soundscapes out of this genre that would be great too. As it seems these genres are ripe for layering and making real nice mixes even for an amateur like myself. Initial attempts have been good at trying this out. I understand not everyone likes it, but I love long drawn out mixes, with finding tunes that can be layered over eachother. Most likely 'The Orb' are to blame for this as its them I started out with electronic music with, and they made beautiful soundscapes early on (im digressing again ).

Hope some folks can help. I love this style and its just damn tough to find that many good tunes like this. I care not how old the tunes are.

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Aug-13-2007 19:44 England

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SPAWNmaster
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Registered: Jun 2006
Location: Boston, USA

Re: Ambient/Downtempo Techno

quote:
Originally posted by Koldorn
Looking for some tracks in this style for a personal mix. Hard genre to find good tunes for it seems, least for a layman like me.

hardly, there's so much good music especially in this genre!...anyway here are some recommendations:

check out anything recent by-

Laudert
Chris Fortier
Alexi Delano
Stephan Bodzin**
Paul Woolford
Bionik Phunk (you have to sort as they have a range of styleS)
Bienmesabe
Marc Romboy
Gui Boratto**
Billy Dalessandro
Itamar Sagi
AC/OT

enjoy! it's quite a great genre to explore

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Aug-13-2007 20:24 United States

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bubbleguuum
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Registered: Jan 2006
Location:

Re: Ambient/Downtempo Techno

quote:

Theorem vs Swayzak - Break in at apt. 205 (kind of understated tune but I find it brilliant)

Agreed!

look for these artists:

- Deafcenter (ambient)
- Detroit Escalator Company (ambient techno)
- Biosphere (ambient, ambient techno)
- B12 (ambient techno)
- Maurizio (dub techno)
- Rod Modell, Deepchord, Echospace (dub techno)
- Convextion (dub techno)
- newworldaquarium, 154 (alias)
- Anders Ilar (dub techno)
- Aroy Dee (dub/deep techno)
- D5 (deep techno)
- Lawrence / Sten (some of his stuff) (deep tech)
- Stasis (deep techno)
- labels: basic channel, styrax, delsin,...

Last edited by bubbleguuum on Aug-13-2007 at 21:06

Aug-13-2007 20:47 France

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Koldorn
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Registered: May 2007
Location: Lincoln, England

Thanks for the suggestions guys. Slowly working my way through, starting with the ones I havent heard anything of before. I am absolutely blown away by 'Maurizio' as suggested by bubbleguuum, amazing artist. Talk about tunes standing the test of time, those 1997 tunes sound like they could have been released last week.

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Aug-13-2007 22:37 England

SMC
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Registered: Sep 2003
Location: Sweden

Re: Re: Ambient/Downtempo Techno

quote:
Originally posted by bubbleguuum
- Biosphere (ambient, ambient techno)

Biosphere - Microgravity

Aug-13-2007 23:20

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Floorfiller
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Registered: Apr 2002
Location: Illegal Pete's

honestly most techno artists have some experimentation into more ambient moods so it's definitely out there. just make sure you are checking out all the aliases...

Aug-14-2007 04:42

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Psionic
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Registered: Apr 2003
Location: Boston, MA

Joris Voorn has had a few nice tracks produced lately on the atmospheric/melodic side.

Aug-14-2007 15:04 Israel

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idoru
You Can Call Me Al

Registered: May 2004
Location: Cascadia

I highly suggest just taking a day or two to listen to SomaFM's stations Drone Zone (Ambient) and Groove Salad (Chillout/Downtempo).

Aug-14-2007 15:34

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Koldorn
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Registered: May 2007
Location: Lincoln, England

quote:
Originally posted by idoru
I highly suggest just taking a day or two to listen to SomaFM's stations Drone Zone (Ambient) and Groove Salad (Chillout/Downtempo).

I wasnt aware of that place, many thanks for the link. Ive been enjoying some nice tunes on there for the past couple hours. Unfortunately quite a few dont seem to be for download at Beatport, such a shame as im hearing some real nice stuff there.

Particularly loving that ambient type of station, just what I was looking for in order to create some 'soundscape' type mixes for myself.

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Aug-15-2007 10:11 England

evo8
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Registered: Aug 2004
Location:

probably way off the mark here but some of the tracks on Collabs 3000 (Liebing & Speedy J) maybe?? - especially Modish Ride but this could be deemed hard enough i suppose