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| OZzz |
When do you listen to Ambient music? Im not all too familiar with the genre as far as artists and what not are concerned, but I really like some of it. Im listening to drone zone on I tunes right now and the music is really great. They have 29 streams of strictly ambient channels which I think is pretty impressive. This music might be useful during meditation or astral projection practices
What are some premier ambient artists? |
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| Demoted |
| I listen to ambient every now and then, but I'm not all gung ho about it. I like the Electric Calm cds by The Forth that have come out on Global Underground. I probably couldn't list a whole bunch of artists, but I listen casually. |
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| torontotrance |
| Global Communication - 76:14 |
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| Mike_Foyle |
| quote: | Originally posted by kadomony
i like dark/melancholy ambient stuff.
here's somethin i made similar to what i listen to:
kadomony-thisismemaster.mp3 |
i would call that chilled out trance, not ambient. the word ambient usually refers to an environment or something's surroundings.
this is what i would call ambient music:
example 1
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| lateforwork |
| They play Ambient at spas a lot... my aunt works at one and has to listen to it all day... relaxation helps with it, but other than that, I don't know how great it is. |
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| keithos27 |
| quote: | Originally posted by torontotrance
Global Communication - 76:14 |
excellent recommendation....
i've also heard good things about the ambient cookbook releases... |
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| Chang monkey |
| pete namlook - ambient cookbook II 4xcd |
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| OZzz |
| quote: | Originally posted by Mike_Foyle
i would call that chilled out trance, not ambient. the word ambient usually refers to an environment or something's surroundings.
this is what i would call ambient music:
example 1
example 2 |
i do like this stuff. its fun to put on some abstract music, lay down, close your eyes and see where your imagination takes you. |
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| Majutsu |
i love ambient
in fact, first trance night i went to in 1991, i actually hated it. i was a huge death metal guy, and remember thinking "i like the girls and hate this music." even after the x kicked in i was still miserable and bored. then it was 2am and some anonymous black man with a ponytail and a kimono showed up with a trunk full of records and turntables. said he does this all night. he got out, plugged in to the PA, and began to spin: fsol, omicron, thaelmitz, namlook, hawtin, deep space network, roach, eno, humate, hypnotist (91), union jack (93) slowed to 33rpm . . . the hundreds of people cleared out immediately. only ten people were left, looking very different, unique, and un-ravish. acid and weed followed like a sweet relief the shallow x, and people talked about life, death, hopes and fears with strangers with above sounds trailing about an empty hall and the adjoining field. people would just spin off the group in private dervish whirls, then fold back later into the group :) very cool, went out the next morning after less than an hour of sleep and bought every trance compilation i could find. this is what "old trance" was really all about. this is the big fight about "new" trance: that after 1998 or so, people forgot that this "ambient" was really always the deepest heart, the center of gravity of trance life on which everything else depended. ambient became a very bogus and boring chillout which is tragically unlistenable. the word ambient was reapplied to new age crap. the word trance was reapplied to a disco-dance music that had nothing to do with reaching primitive trance states in sound and ritual, but at best a social-x euphoria with an upbeat sound. the original was dark, frightening at times, maddening, somewhat tribal and sloooooowwwww. congratulations on gravitating to ambient. you are a true trance lover. this might make some heads spin, but real oldsters actually are very optimistic about progressive trance. it's slowing down, beat is fracturing, sounds are trippier, and all-in-all its starting to sound like real trance a little . . .
try namlook, future sounds, deep space network, omicron, human mesh dance, etc to start. as for "use", i listen to good music when i want to hear good music :stongue:
p.s. i suck greatly, but since everyone is pushing their ambient tracks to show their idea of ambient, here are two tracks which are an old man's reminiscence of what ambient's heyday was like, except i lack the technical skill to bring my vision to life, but i'm working on it:
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