Unfortunately no, I don't... my full want list is just a hard copy, hand-written on paper! I actually have some of my "to buy" titles listed on the website of a local used CD shop... they have an inventory/wishlist system which automatically notifies you if something you're looking for shows up in stock at one of their locations. It's a pretty handy system, and I've found tons of rare & obscure titles over the years... but unfortunately their database is missing quite a few of the titles on my list. The system has a couple other flaws that are a little annoying too, but overall I'm glad to have it available for use... I'd say about 8o% of my CD purchases during the past decade have been through this particular store!
Endlichkeit. it is mostly all ambient BM style. very good stuff. it does have some lyrics but mostly ambient music. https://endlichkeit.bandcamp.com/album/endlichkeit-i-ii this is their first release more of them on the same page.
The Basinski vinyl box is on my want list. I've come close a few times on eBay. Unfortunately, I've not had great luck with the ambient(ish) titles I do have. They're not quite in the Eno school, but the Fennesz tecord I have, and to push it even further the Jan Jelinek I have sadly aren't on super quiet vinyl. Luckily Jan is fond of the fake pops and hoss anyway, so I can just pretend it's part of the music.
That one's on my wishlist, but I'm not keeping my fingers crossed to ever find a copy.... apparently it's super rare.
I wish! Me, I'm just some guy. Whereas there might be someone. Right now. In these forums. Reading this very thread! Who may have sufficient motivation and access to the right people and resources, knowledge of licensing, k nowledge of the genre and sub-genrae, good production sense, etc etc to pull this off. Any takers? Heck, Hearts of Space managed to build a franchise around Celtic stuff in the '90s. I'd certainly buy or subscribe to a good 'This is Ambient' series! There's enough in this thread for a series!
I picked this up and have been enjoying it, but I don't find it scary, although I have been listening to it in the daytime! Thanks for the tip, and for the Carbon Based Lifeforms as well; I picked up Twentythree and think it's great.
Picked up volume I of this (with Dlp 1.1 and 2.1) and also his Watermusic. Disintegration Loops is a pretty compelling listen. When 1.1 started I wasn't too sure I could take an hour of it, but I stayed with it the whole time (was on the bus home) and was glad I did. Quite unusual, but very interesting.
Play it real loud, in the dark, in the car, in the boonies. Between Interval has 3 other albums which sound nothing like it. I would suggest you check out Radio Silence first. As for Carbon Based Liforms, Sleepers and Garden are real nice at midnight with the lights off and the windows open. Play them at real low volume and just chill out.
I am not sure if this is 'ambient music' but I really enjoyed Pete Townshend & Lawrence Ball's Method Music collaboration. I bought the 2CD set for a few dollars a couple of years ago, I see a used CD is going for $500 at Amazon, yikes, so if you see a copy at a reasonable price I'd grab it. The story behind the music is interesting too.
Secret Extra Terrestrial Intercourse The droning sounds of radio waves stretch off into the distant atmosphere, out on their journey thru space. Within this constant drone, the chatter of alien voices can be heard. Detection, direction, distance and decipherment all come into play. It is plain language, scientific discussion mixed with metallic machinery. The orbitals are communicating with the spheres. Carbon Based Lifeforms VERY LARGE ARRAY describes this all quite well. It could be the sound of massed radio telescopes directed at a single point in space. Its hour long ambient drone shifts unnoticeable, changing but not changing, constant yet shifting. This track can be found on the album “Twenty Three” in its shortened 10 minute form. It can also be found in its true 60 minute length on its own standalone album titled “VLA”. This is true space music made for the alien among us. It is what SETI does on a daily, or should we say, nightly, basis. The acronym Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence is a bold face lie. In actuality it is Secret Extra Terrestrial Intercourse. That is right. They are listening. Listening and deciphering the alien code in the sky around us. Close up, scattered across our atmosphere, our Moon, their Mars. Sure, you thought they were a company that listened to the stars, searching for signs of life in the cosmos. A company that has been a complete failure even though it has been given a billion dollars to keep its doors open. A company who’s leader always makes television appearances, talking about how different alien life would be compared to the human, carbon based lifeform. But of course their doors are not open. They are an offshoot of our space program. A space program with military beginnings. A military that, since the 40’s, have had their heads in the black shadow of the government. If I know they are here, and millions of other earthlings know they are here, then you can bet the Air Force knows they are here. And if they know then NASA knows. And if NASA knows that they are here then JPL knows they are here. And if JPL knows they are here then SETI knows the aliens are here already. And they are listening to them on a daily basis. But I digress, if anyone wants true ambient music, try out the long version of VLA.
The new album Clockworking by Nordic Affect might be considered ambient. It's chamber music for electronics, strings and harpsicord
Another classical album that might qualify is last year's release Silver Threads by Jacob Cooper. It's music for electronics and soprano. The vocals are wordless.
Just been researching contemporary ambient in the past few days and have made some wonderful finds. 1. Otto A. Totland - Pino (blurry solo piano compositions incl. ambience of Totland in his seat, breathing, playing, etc) 2. Tor Lundvall - his latest two albums (sans vocals, the earlier stuff has vocals, but his singing is awful) The Shipyard and The Park. Low key ghost ambient. Smooth. 3. Loscil - Sea Island. 4. Mountains - any of their albums, clean sounds, 'ambient' in the sense of field recordings, mixed with minimalism, tones, guitar. 5. Anything by William Basinski, if you dig repetition and decay. 6. Anything by Fennesz, but particularly Venice and Black Sea. My problem with ambient as a vinyl-only listener is that so much wonderful stuff from the last decade is only available on CD.
I was just turned on to this and another album by the same artist....Talk To The Sea is the other one. This album was selling for over $1K before it was re-released this year. It's selling out as fast as they press them up. Three runs this year..... These albums are 30 years old....
Some from the last ten years, some differ from the eno camp Natural snow buildings -play guitars to crest long form drones try any of the over 45 min tracks(not the new one) Loscil-plume Any of Rachel Evans projects- motion sickness of time travel,etc And a forebearer Eliane radigue - falls more in drone category, but too much a milestone not to sample Labradford - indie rock slowed to the point of ambient
was going to mention VLA! if you want ambient that is like being strapped to a moving sidewalk through desolation.. Juno Reactor - Luciana if you want to be saved by the angels .. (improv harmonic singing in a water tower) http://www.discogs.com/Jim-Cole-Spectral-Voices-Sky/release/727780 http://www.spectralvoices.com/secondpg.htm