recommend me some ambient music

Chris Viennas Soundtrack to American McGee's Alice. Though it's a bit horrorshow.

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radiohead - sail to the moon)
any and all sigur ros (especially viðrar vel til loftárása and ny batteri)
the notwist - off the rails (and the rest of the album)
yo la tengo - night Falls on Hoboken
air - alone in kyoto
slowdive - souvlaki space station

i need to run, but if you like these, i'll suggest more later :]

cheers

hm. i have that slowdive album but i haven't listened to it yet (along with some other slowdive). i also have some sigur ros and i suppose you are correct, that would work.

I posted albums from last year for that thread.

Here are some newer ones:

Raul Midon - State of mind
Feist - let it die
Lizz Wright - dreaming wide awake
Povo - we are povo
Lippok & B. Morgenstern - tesri

These are some from different directions of music. And with all of them you will have a very smooth and ambient atmosphere. If you are more looking for background music i would recommed compilations
like all those "Coffe lounge moccha bar compilations"

Next year i will have my own flat, too. And it really is time for that ;)

I hope that helped you a little.

Get some Nuuro, he kicks ass. I even got his previous tracks that he doesn't have available anymore, woot.

Nuuro

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Ok, sorry about that but I didn't see that you can't use a link tag, anyways the address is:

http://nuuro.net/

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Some genre defining ambiance (and some not so ambient) from Aphex Twin, who's coincidentally often compared to Beethoven:

1. Pulsewidth
2. Analogue Bubblebath
3. Blue Calx
4. Xtal
5. Pancake Lizard
6. a twin medly
7. Finger Bib
8. Rhubarb
9. .215061
10. cat 00897-aa1
11. Polynomial
12. Commodore 64
13. Flim
14. Goon Gumpas
15. Ageispolis
16. Cordialotron
18. Girl-Boy Song
19. Schottkey 7th Path
20. Ptolemy
21. Outside
22. Beatnik 2
23. Heliosphan
24: Feelings on a Screen
25: Hy A Scullyas Lyf Adhagrow
26: Jynweythek Ylow
27: Lichen
28: Jedi

ya know, i hear a lot about aphex twin and i've seen a few videos of his but i've never actually looked into the music. thanks for the suggestion.

and imrik, i'll check out those artists too.

brian eno's "music for airports" is kind of the cornerstone for an ambient music collection.

and it's good too.

Sunrise Projector and the Science of Patterns are both good albums.

Check them out at http://www.tychomusic.com/ and http://www.iso50.com/ , respectively.

Pinback - Bluescreen Life and Summer in abadon

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try to check out the new coldplay album, its great to relax to.

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skip Ambient St. and go straight to Classical Rd. or Opera Dr.!

Anything by The orb.

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Aural Imbalance - Different Perspective
(laid-back atmospheric drum & bass)

_ enfusion
_ www.ambiescent.com

Oh, also the compilation "Electric Calm v2" from Global Underground.

_ enfusion
_ www.ambiescent.com

The new Coldplay like ommmie said, and then their old ones, and maybe even The Postal Service. Also some Death Cab for Cutie, and Frou Frou.

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i wouldn't consider coldplay ambient or even decent music. also, the postal service and death cab, while good bands, are too attention-heavy to create an atmosphere. they attract too much attention to themselves.

the album leaf has some good tracks.

Nuuro it is then.

http://nuuro.net/

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mum
tosca
dirty three
gorecki
boards of canada
bowery electric
hood
jakob
low
throbbing gristle
peace orchestra
cat power
hayden
...

portishead
blockhead
prefuse 73

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Amazon would come in handy here, right?

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i'd give my 2c but err, yeah..
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the previous two posts make no sense to me. i must be a mental midget.

i meant most users posted alotta stuff which i was gonna suggest mojo
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Zero 7 - When it falls

And I meant the Amazon Suggestion engine. Doesn't take much to put 2 and 2 together now does it?

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If you haven't already, give St. Germain a try. I'm a big fan of their Tourist Album, but if thats too much for ambient then try Cafe Printemps.

Chopin - Fantasie Impromptu
Haydn - "Emperor" quartet
Bach - Toccata and Fugue in D minor
Bach - Fugue in G minor (Little Fugue)
Santana - El Farol
Santana - Samba Pa' Ti
Santana - Europa
Mozart - Symphony # 40
Ravel - Bolero

and my favorites: KJAH and CHATTERBOX FM from GTA3.

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ah i see. i understand now.

:)

btw you still owe me ten bucks
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Hi Mojomonkee! You HAVE to check out Explosions in the Sky. Amazing instrumental music! Absolutely gorgeous.




http://www.explosionsinthesky.com

Funk Porcini - Fast Asleep, great album.
God Speed You Black Emporer - Sleep

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Also, there's a lot of compilations cds: Bar lounge, Lounge connection, Café lounge etc.

.iko

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mojo knows EITS, he introduced me to the them, like, a million years ago.

I would say, besides the friday night lights soundtrack, their music is way too dynamic and engaging to be used as aural filler. But it does gush atmosphere.

They are the shit sandwich.

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EITS rocks! But, damit, when will their site be up!?!?

>>I'm a Captain without any shipmates.

Banco de Gaia 'Last Train To Lhasa' 2CD (c)1995
Banco de Gaia 'Big Men Cry' (c)1997
Banco de Gaia '10 years' 2CD (c)2002

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Solar Fields 'Reflective Frequencies' (c)2001
Solar Fields 'Blue Moon Station' (c)2003


All these albums are masterpieces. Esp. Solar Fields.
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The channel "Groove Salad" on the winamp radio always playes good stuff.

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This maybe is weird food for some people. But that is my world of music.

http://www.takagimasakatsu.com//

If i would be free to make what i want to i would like to learn from this person. He really impressed me the first time i heard and saw something from him. Especially because the person which is very close to him is called Pia, too ...

If you do like him Mojomonkee you will have the perfect music.

Takagi Masakatsu is fabulous! His music is very soothing and has a certain Zen vibe to it. Very euphonious.

Sorry for this double post, but check out Yuichiro Fujimoto as well. Yuichiro and Takagi are similar in vein, but the former is slower and has less percussion. Both are instrumental, however.


http://www.yuichirofujimoto.com/

Thank you very, very much. Takagi really makes very intense music with which i connect a lot of thoughts and memories.

slipknot, hatebreed, disturbed, cannibal corpse are all pretty good choices

Er, ambient? That's like death metal dude.

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i'm suprised garon didn't add hi5 or the wiggles to that list ... lol :D

as far as EITS goes... too much crescendo and climax to be considered "ambient". try falling asleep to EITS. it's a futile exercise. you'll doze off to something like "the moon is down" and wake up to cymbals and a driving bassbeat while a high pitched guitar wails. no good.

same goes for anyone on constellation records... gybe, silver mt. zion, etc. although valley of the giants might work for ambient sounds. that self titled album of theirs is golden even if it is a semi-failure of a concept album.

oh snap i forgot. if anyone wants some sweet-ass-sweet minimal piano check out eluvium's new album "an accidental memory in the case of death". he's on the same label as EITS and his new album is the bee's knees. his other album "lambant material" makes some good guitar soundscapes too.

anything by Sam Prekop or Tortoise.

I forgot someone too, Télépopmusik. They are one of my favorite groups, and they are french, woot. Their music is real shallow and mellow and I think it falls into the catergory as ambient.

i'm suprised garon didn't add hi5 or the wiggles to that list ... lol :D

Er, I'm not sure what you mean by that but whatever

oh, totally forgot about Britney Spears. check out her earlier work if you're looking for something mellow to fill up the room. there are a few lyrics, but they definitly add to the ambientness of the whole work. and try some DMX; he's a little iffy, but he generally does nice, soothing stuff.

And finally there is my music. Maybe it´s ambient enough for you

http://www.4impressions.net/zip/audio/Preview.mp3

This is the long preview for the coming debut album. It will be in the store in the end of august. Together with prints in A5, A4, and A3. I will post everything new i can tell you :)

iso50.com 's soundtrack

(quick) i sang justin timberlake - senorita to a girl at a party
(quick) she slapped me

Thank you for the Eluvium suggestion, mojo. I'm really really liking this. Mellow and melodic goooodness. I'm also a sucker for piano.


Imrik, you sure are the Renaissance man! Amazing artwork, coding, websites, designs, and now music! Awesome guitar work. I'll definately buy your upcoming record.

I love ambient music so I do have a handful of stuff I can recommend. I hope you see this post and take up some of my recommendations :)

(Single) Ludwig van Beethoven - SonSonata No. 14 in C Sharp Minor, Op. 27 No. 2 - 01 - 'Mondschein' - Adagio Sostenuto (aka "Moonlight Sonata")
(Single) Amadeus Mozart - Pachabel Canon in D
(Single) Samuel Barber - Adagio for Strings
(Single) Final Fantasy X - Tidus and Yuna's Theme
(Single) Requiem for a Dream - Lux Aeterna
(Single) Requiem for a Dream - Lux Aeterna (Two Towers Remix)
(Single) ATB - First Love
(Single) ATB - Underwater World
(Single) Ayla - Dreamland
(Single) John Williams - Schindler's List (Theme)
(Single) Yo-Yo Ma, Edgar Meyer, Alison Krauss - Slumber My Darling

(Album) Café del Mar Vol. 12 - Ambient
(Album) Yo-Yo Ma - Inspired by Bach
(Album) Yo-Yo Ma, Ennio Morricone - Yo-Yo Ma Plays Ennio Morricone
(Album) Band of Brothers - Soundtrack

And my most favorite album that I would consider ambient, Sasha - Airdrawndagger. It's my muse when I need inspiration and wisdom when I study.

I hope you like these selctions.

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The new 2Raumwohnung album

"Melancholisch schön"

Wonderful acoustic music with such beautiful lyrics, german lyrics.

U.K. band The Early Years....very Eno and Kraftwerk

godspeed you black emperor
hrsta
1-speed bike
bottleskup flenkenkenmike
bright eyes (though some of it isnt really melodic)
elliot smith
rufus wainwright
!!! (though more indie-dance pop)


yah thats all i can think of off the top of my head at this point (through 34 hours of work in 3 days im glad i can think at all).

zero 7, perhaps?

edIT Crying over Pros for No Reason
Federico Aubele Granhotelbuenosaires
Frost Melodica
Loden In Zee
Nuuro All Clear
Ochre Lemodie
Tycho Past Is Prologue