AmbientMusic

[Encyclopedia]

Is anyone here into ambient music? I am. Few music styles make me feel things like ambient does. Especially dark ambient.

Aphex Twin's Selected ambient works II is one of my favorite albums of the genre.







Wow.

Biosphere is another good ambient artist.



^ Perhaps my favorite ambient tune.





I can't be the only one on here who adore this kind of music?

 

[Wiegert]

Selected ambient works II is a brilliant album. Easily one of my favourite albums outright. Love some of the dark themes on offer there.

My favourite right now. Two from the same album stitched into one:



Enough of reason why I think Hecq should concentrate more on ambient sounds rather than Dubstep.

 

[Encyclopedia]

Nice to hear new artists and songs. It reminded me alot of Mass Effect, especially the second half. 👍

On the subject of games, The homeworld series has got some beautiful ambient in them.





^Amazing.





The best game soundtracks of all time in my opinion, and some of the finest ambient I've ever heard.

 

[Wiegert]

Very nice too. 👍


And I almost forgot about Deus Ex: Human Revolution's ambient tracks:










Top four from the soundtrack for me. And still my favourite game soundtrack.

 

[Encyclopedia]

Good stuff. 👍 Slightly different from the type of ambient I prefer, but still beautiful work.

 

[Michael88]

Yes, I'm a fan of ambient tracks. This thread immediately reminded me of Painkiller's impressive ambient OST. (Which is pretty surprising for a hardcore action game)






Also some creepy stuff.

 

[Encyclopedia]

This is rapidly turning into a videogame music thread.

I remember playing a demo of painkiller. The physics are pretty spectacular and it's good fun! 👍

 

[Michael88]

This is rapidly turning into a videogame music thread.

True, lets counter that trend with movie soundtrack.

 

[disinfected]

How about some of these?

Chill Carrier - Chemical Reactions


High Park - Verandah


Liquid Zen - Starless


Rei Harakami - Cape


DJ Shadow - Midnight In a Perfect World (His more ambient works are amazing.)

 

[Encyclopedia]

In my opinion, most of those are a bit borderline genre wise. Not sure you could call some of them ambient. Chill nonetheless though. 👍

I prefer the darker more mysterious stuff though. If anyone's got any of that please post.

Like this:











Goosebumps!

 

[disinfected]

Not a Youtube video, but...it's downright creepy.

http://soundcloud.com/spf5-3/purity-ring-lofticries-spf5-live-ambient-drool-edit

 

[Michael88]

 

[Wiegert]

Stumbled upon this dark ambient piece last night (just happens to be pony related, but whatever):

 

[Encyclopedia]

Stumbled upon this dark ambient piece last night (just happens to be pony related, but whatever):

Now that's what I'm talking about. More of that.

 

[Roger the Horse]

I find ambient music a little slow, not enough going on, but Treefingers off Kid A is one of Radiohead's most underrated masterpieces.

 

[OK8]

Ambient is magnificient, the most important thing to me musically (music is already the most important thing, so it's at the top of the top).

Some very good pieces:

Michael Brook's album Hybrid (made with Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois), very fascinating piece towards the end of the album called Earth Floor (very good album all throughout, you can listen to it all in this video):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=VlGFOZy-D1s#t=1933s

Gas (Wolgang Voigt), who's made some of the most amazing loopy, trippy stuff. Listen deep to this one, there's so much stuff in the backround you can get lost in the maze of sound:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkiqIY4La-k

Ulf Lohmann. Brilliant, just brilliant:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_yCHBInuCs
(from my own youtube channel)

So very calming, it can take all stress away immediately
Krill.Minima - Submarine poetry:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1NwPZ9tyt4

Vladislav Delay. This is a bit more dubby, deeper stuff. Might be a bit hard to get into at first but some of the most breathtaking musical experiences I've had listening to this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQZgDEnLVjw

And finally, the one piece I've listened to more than anything in my whole life (when I was 15 I went to London for a week and every single day I listened to this one on repeat, constantly.. Left a very weird image in my memory of the journey):
Brian Eno - Signals:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYEJB8XMvZI

 

[astrosdude91]

Maybe this?



Discovered this song the other day.

 

[Encyclopedia]

Gas (Wolgang Voigt), who's made some of the most amazing loopy, trippy stuff. Listen deep to this one, there's so much stuff in the backround you can get lost in the maze of sound:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkiqIY4La-k


So very calming, it can take all stress away immediately
Krill.Minima - Submarine poetry:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1NwPZ9tyt4

I really like these. 👍

 

[Encyclopedia]

I like this one by The Orb. A bit new-agey perhaps but really nice.

 

[Wiegert]

Like many artists I'm glued to these days, Ochre is highly underrated:



His work is more uplifting and pleasant rather than dark however. This being one of his most ambient pieces




EDIT: Seefeel's (CH-VOX) album has a strong SAW Vol. 2 feel to it (Warp allowed them release it on Rephlex as a promise made to RDJ), so it's pretty creepy/dark as you'd expect: