Bahamut

Heat Only watched it a loooong time ago. Completely awesome. Also great soundtrack. Such an epic ending. 10/10

Scriabin - Etude Op. 2 No. 1 performed by Horowitz: You must hear this. Apparently the composer wrote it when he was 15 or so.

REDSHIFT - HALO awesome

For example, Roach occasionally goes into (hyper)active mode... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5ZgetkWl-c&fmt=18 Check second half especially.

For some sweet Latin electronica I recommend the compilation series 'Break n' Bossa' and 'Brazilectro'. Only the quality is very variable... one track can be very mediocre, while the next is the coolest latin summer chillout music you can imagine. I've been listening to this music a lot these days. Great stuff. Lively, psychedelic and very groovy. Brings nice summer vibes to these cold times.

Steve Roach - Holding the Space: Fever Dreams 2

It's impossible to tell when I like a certain four-to-the-floor tune or not. Could be trance, could be techno, or something in between, or anything else. Genre classifications have nothing to do with it. I couldn't care less about all the (sub)genres and differences within dance music. I simply like the best of it all. :posford:

Brian Eno - Dunwich Beach, Autumn, 1960 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNzSczbuV_I This requires some imagination.

That's not a piece. But I guess you mean Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp minor "Quasi una fantasia", Op. 27, No. 2, Movement 1: Adagio sostenuto. Popularly known as the "Moonlight" Sonata.

selected Steve Roach musik, no competition

Vangelis - Theme From Antarctica Absolutely wonderful synthesizer classic.

I'm not really into techno, but I have to say it can be pretty god damn motherfucking awesome. Speedy J, now there's a Dutch artist to be proud of.

Rachmaninov - Piano Concerto No. 2, movement 2 No doubt one of the greatest and most beautiful pieces of music in the history of mankind. :drama: This is the piece I am going to play when I'm old and dying. While listening I will remember the best moments in my life one more time, and after those final chords I will be at peace with my fate: "All is good". Then I'll leave this world.

I also strongly recommend Steve Roach - Arc of Passion. The title track is simply a glorious, soul stirring work of electronic music. While other long-time electronic artists, with similar big discographies, are only shadows of what they once were (like Klaus Schulze, Tangerine Dream, Vangelis), Steve Roach just keeps getting better, reinventing his art. This guy lives for ambient, he breathes ambient, he is ambient. And he is able to make a living of his music/website. What an amazing artist, I can't praise him enough. Also looking forward to his latest collaboration album Stream of Thought, which sounds very interesting and diverse. http://www.steveroach.com/store/store.php?item=409

Jilted Generation without a doubt. From the first moment I heard some fragments of it at a friend, I knew I was gonna like it forever.

I didn't include the old greats. So naturally, the answer for the ultimate 'chill' track is Klaus Schulze - Floating (from the original master). This track is the universe, while your tracks are just grains of sand. :wank:

Ozrics are awesome. Waterfall Cities Erpland Arborescence

Sasha - Baja (By my own definition of 'Chillout', which can be similar to, but is not the same as Ambient. To me Chillout generally has beats, a more 'standard', song-like structure and more obvious use of melody.)

Nice, those first 3 are among my all time favorites! Don't expect instantly gratifying music. I recommend some serious headphone sessions. Give it some time, and then maybe some more time. Also Mirage is never qualified as 'dark ambient', but the first half definately has dark ambientish characteristics.

The album you are looking for, which I have recommended many times, is the grand synthesizer masterpiece, the holy grail of anything that is both ambient, spacy & psychedelic, created in 1981: Michael Stearns - Planetary Unfolding. It doesn't matter that it is old. Once you have listened to it a few times with headphones and eyes closed, you will look with a different perspective at a lot of (modern) electronic music that you thought was good.

Nope. But I think it has guitar work which I don't like in dark ambient. Among the albums I didn't recommend there is (live) rehashing of old material (Rising), more stuff with metal guitars (Pigs of the roman empire, Juggernaut), or even drums and cliche melodies (Metavoid), or it's just not as good and original as the earlier albums (Carbon core).

bunch of recommended albums: Lustmord - Heresy, Place Where The Black Stars Hang, The Monstrous Soul, Purifying Fire, Zoetrope, Stalker (with Robert Rich) Herbst9 - From a Dark Chasm Below, Eta Carinae Inade - Aldebaran, The Crackling of the Anonymous, Samadhi State Jeff Greinke - Cities in Fog 1, Cities in Fog 2 Steve Roach - The Magnificent Void, Early Man, Well of Souls (with Vidna Obmana) Raison D'Etre - In Sadness Silence and Solitude, Metamorphyses Robert Rich - A Troubled Resting Place, Bestiary (weird) Pete Namlook & Bill Laswell - Outland 1, Psychonavigation 2 Troum & Yen Pox - Mnemonic Induction Lull - Cold Summer Top 5 greatest dark ambient tracks of all time: 1. Klaus Schulze - Velvet Voyage (original release) 2. Steve Roach - Altus 3. Delerium - Wavelength 4. Raison D'Etre - Metamorphyses Phase IV 5. Lustmord - Metastatic Resonance

Nice! I really digged some tunes on Involver. Gotta check it out.

If there's a substitute for the offtopic forum I'd like to know. To be honest I miss offtopic, even it was only for posting my thoughts on something... Or to engage a bit in discussion about some interesting, cool or weird subject. Or to laugh at the great humor, weird members and totally unreal threads never seen before on the internet (radi). I felt there were some like-minded people here, with similar tastes and attitude in life. The forum kind of filled a social gap. That sounds emo, but it's just an honest observation. I have good friends IRL, but still some things I would enjoy more discussing on psynews than with my friends, like music, movies, or philosophical subjects etc. because most of my friends have such awful tastes and different views on things. So basicly that's why I like(d) this forum. :posford:

Too bad. I guess this is goodbye. The general forum is not enough for me to keep coming back.