Ormion Posted December 24, 2004 Share Posted December 24, 2004 I realized that the ambient I love most is this extremely chilled and relaxing style with atmospheric ethereal sounds and the most important without percussion at all! I'll give you some examples: TIP-Under The Overtones (the first half) No melodies,no kick, just smooth sounds floating around. OOOD-Hartley's Ambient Jam (the second half) UVX-Mandrax You can add also Optic Eye-Anacoluthon I tried a lot of artists but most of them are Shpongle-style or they using tribal percussion and vocals. Any ideas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pr0fane Posted December 24, 2004 Share Posted December 24, 2004 Check out one of the pioneers of ambient: Brian Eno. I also think Ishqs album would be something for your taste. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moai Posted December 25, 2004 Share Posted December 25, 2004 ANYTHING FROM: alio die / Sola translatio Steve Roach Vidna Obmana that's all u need to know Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gnome Posted December 25, 2004 Share Posted December 25, 2004 Check out Matthew Florianz and of course Selected Ambient Works 2 from Aphex Twin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kailash Posted December 25, 2004 Share Posted December 25, 2004 Synestesia - This is really perfect ambient music, they are also Front Line Assembly and Delerium, and as Synesteia project ... HUH! Perfect ambient! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seraph Posted December 25, 2004 Share Posted December 25, 2004 Robert Rich Brian Lustmord They made one album together called Stalker, amazing piece of music. There is also Brain Eno - On Land with similar structure you are looking for or Robert Henke - Floating Point or album by Steve Roach, Reyes and Saiz called Earth, but there are some tribal patterns inside that album... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Insejn Posted December 25, 2004 Share Posted December 25, 2004 Check out Zvuki Belovodya. It's all about floating sounds and soundscapes. Perfect to put on after a hard day in school, or at work. Altho I haven't found it in any store I only have it on mp3. It's a promo from 2003 so I wonder if it will ever get released. Anyway, it's the best floating-sounds-only-album I've ever heard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manuser Posted December 25, 2004 Share Posted December 25, 2004 Jeff Pearce Thom Brennan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bahamut Posted December 25, 2004 Share Posted December 25, 2004 STEVE ROACH - THE MAGNIFICENT VOID one of electronic music's finest hours, and the best work of pure electronic soundscape ambient ever an incredible electronic symphony that will take you to far edges of the universe, or the complete nothingness, or whatever your imagination comes up with once you're used to it (I hated it at first, it takes patience and lots of listening), you will realize it isn't really that dark or scary... you can just put it on and completely get lost in the vastness of the void... perfect for sleeping as well there's so much more going on than you'd think at first listen. analazy the first track and see how subtlely he plays with sounds and manipulates them... a work of infinite depths, of incredible beauty, of contrast between light and darkness, harmony and disharmony, the work of a genius ok, did I praise it enough already? (note: I really have to be in the mood for it to be able to enjoy this music. Best way is in bed with headphones) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sherlockalien Posted December 25, 2004 Share Posted December 25, 2004 maybe check out ishq... some of their stuff is amazing.. but "and the most important without percussion at all! " omg, I know its all about taste, but how comes, man?! hahaha percussion is just so great =) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psytones Posted December 25, 2004 Share Posted December 25, 2004 Why dont you test Biospehere? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gargouille Posted December 25, 2004 Share Posted December 25, 2004 Just Try "Ambient Meditations" (Return To The Source)... Amazing... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bomble Posted December 25, 2004 Share Posted December 25, 2004 Some artists to try out... Steve Roach, Tetsuo Inoue, Global Communications (especially 7614), Ashera, Shuttle 358, Jeff Pierce, Steve Reich (for "classical" ambient... especially Music for 18 Musicians & Drumming), Toru Takemitsu (e.g. raintree), Aphex Twin selected ambient works vol.2, Moby (on his ambient cd in Everything is Wrong ltd. edition, and maybe Moby Ambient though I haven't heard it). Lots of artists on Em:t records old stuff also do this kind of music ( e.g. Gas, Miasma, Woob...) really the list is endless, but there are some starting points... (thanks to Epic Automata for several introductions...) bomble Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ormion Posted December 25, 2004 Author Share Posted December 25, 2004 WOW! Some many artists Thanks for the info guys! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dragonflier Posted December 25, 2004 Share Posted December 25, 2004 Why dont you test Biospehere? 207982[/snapback] Second that, except it's spelled Biosphere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bahamut Posted December 25, 2004 Share Posted December 25, 2004 track: Robert Rich - The Other Side of Twilight opinion: totally awesome Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dr papa Posted December 26, 2004 Share Posted December 26, 2004 Saafi Brothers - Mystical cigarettes. Amazing chill-out... Hard to come by, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Telepatu Posted December 26, 2004 Share Posted December 26, 2004 Try "Rihmasto" if you can find it. http://www.rihmasto.com/ Cool stuff. Actually I don't think anything like shpongle should be called ambient, because it's not what it is. Ambient is very experiemental, almost all so called "psy-ambient" is a form of shpongle-wannabe project. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grahf Posted December 26, 2004 Share Posted December 26, 2004 Saafi Brothers and Synaesthesia are both great, but they both have percussion, and Ormion was looking for percussion-less ambient. Here's my picks from my collection: TIPWorld - Twelve compilation. Most of the tracks here are beatless ambient. Ornament - Bleu. Very deep ambient, occasionally a hint of rhythm, kinda reminds me of Biosphere. Don't forget oldschool Tangerine Dream. Check out Phaedra. It's just a single track, but surely one of the most beautiful: Amorphous Androgynous - Mountain Goat. HUVA Network - Distances has some nice contemplative ambient tracks, e.g. Time Circles. Interchill Record's Floatation compilation is really really good. Padmasana's self titled EP on Dakini; 3rd track Holistic Resonance is pure floatiness. Mystery of the Yeti #1 1st and 3rd tracks! And the first track on Yeti part 2, by Process. Anybody ever played the 1st person shooter Quake? Trent Reznor did the soundtrack, and it's spooky dark ambient. an interesting record label i found that specializes in the stuff: http://www.councilofnine.co.uk/ I got Maitreya - Telluric waves from there and it's pretty interesting, organic, constantly changing sound. Phew, ok, that's all i can think of right now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benevolent_demon Posted December 27, 2004 Share Posted December 27, 2004 I am very surprised there is no mention of Pete Namlook (www.2350.org) Tetsu Inoue is another good one,Biosphere, Rapoon is good, I am not sure how to classify them...very hypnotic music but tribal so you may have to get past the minimal drums. always Future Sound Of London-"Lifeforms" . I would like to add another vote for the tip compilation simply titled "Twelve" --this is good stuff,some percussion on the first couple tracks...Im generally not too fond of what passes itself of as ambient from a lot of the psytrance labels but this is good. and if you are up to something to really take you to places in yourself that are unknown I would suggest Merzbow for a sonic exorcism. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fosku Posted December 27, 2004 Share Posted December 27, 2004 If you don't want any melodies, try Pan Sonic - Vakio or Otomo Yoshihide - Cathode (but they're not smooth at all) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
banjankri Posted December 27, 2004 Share Posted December 27, 2004 try "go to sleep" by healer and Doof's "grandchester meadows remembered". But be warned... they'll make you doze off and merge you out of time and out of mind beyond reality. I also recommend that you tune into "cryosleep" ambient radio channel on your winamp (add media) This morning, a grey-blue fog was over my city and i sat down by the water and stared into emptiness while listening to "under the overtones" by TIP, and i gotta tell you.... i felt like a painting or a poem inside. it was just such and incredible sense of serenity and peace. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bahamut Posted December 27, 2004 Share Posted December 27, 2004 some more favorites Tetsu Inoue - Ring of Power Lustmord - Metastatic Resonance Klaus Schulze - Bayreuth Return Jonn Serrie - Fantasy Passages Stars of the Lid - Music for Twin Peaks Episode #30 part 1 Brian Eno & Robert Fripp - Wind On Water + Evening Star Pete Namlook, Klaus Schulze & Bill Laswell - Obscured by Klaus part 6 enjoy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
auryn Posted December 29, 2004 Share Posted December 29, 2004 Mike Ink's "Gas" project is my ambient favourite (try the album "Pop" for a really nice soothing ride). He currently owns his own techno label in Cologne, called Kompakt records. Each year around x-mas they release a compilation of nice beatless ambient tracks, called "pop ambient", the most recent (just released) is "pop ambient 2005". Amazing, beautiful, yet also very intimate and emotional. Alex Paterson (The Orb) is a great fan of their releases, so if you don't take my word for it, take his! Since I discovered this stuff I almost never listen to psy-ambient anymore. Oh, and you can get it on vinyl too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anoebis Posted December 29, 2004 Share Posted December 29, 2004 I just had the new hesuis dome - farewell Waltz from Psy Harmonics! That's exactly where you are looking for, perfectly chilled music, with soft floating sounds without any rhytm... It will be soon available at Saikosounds Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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