Top Five Ambient: Your Choices?

Discussion in 'Music Corner' started by tvstrategies, Aug 23, 2015.

  1. katstep

    katstep Professional Cat Herder

    1. Music for Airports
    2. Music for Airports
    3. Music for Airports
    4. Music for Airports
    5. Music for Airports
     
  2. Hooterdear

    Hooterdear Well-Known Member

    With respect to katstep and Brian Eno...

    1. Nicholas Szczepanik
    2. Nicholas Szczepanik
    3. Nicholas Szczepanik
    4. Nicholas Szczepanik
    5. Moneyball OST
     
  3. Em.

    Em. Forum Resident

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    SoCal, USA
    Yes!
    His previous album, Königsforst, is beautiful, too.
     
  4. DJ LX

    DJ LX Forum Resident

    Location:
    Madison WI
    Since I've last posted in this thread I've acquired three more albums of ambient, all excellent:

    The Magnificent Void - Steve Roach
    Strata - Steve Roach & Robert Rich
    The Bestiary - Robert Rich
     
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  5. MC Rag

    MC Rag Forum Resident

    The Orb - Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld
    KLF - Chill Out
    An MLO Production - Io
    Loop Guru - The Third Chamber
    Planet Dog - Feed Your Head compilation
     
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  6. Crazyhorse11

    Crazyhorse11 Hoser

    Location:
    Edmonton, AB
    So many classics already listed so I'll offer up some contemporary releases that need attention:

    emeralds
    -does it look like I'm here? (2010)

    Steve Hauschildt (ex Emeralds)
    -Tragedy and geometry (2011)
    -where all is fled (2015)

    Jon Porras (Barn Owl member)
    -light divide (2014)

    Evan Caminiti (Barn Owl member)
    -When California falls into the sea (2011)
    -Dreamless sleep (2012)

    Barn Owl
    -Any album though they straddle the line between ambient and drone.
     
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  7. phish

    phish Jack Your Body

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    Biloxi, MS, USA
    This is a new to me album that came out in the mid 80's. Just beautiful stuff.

     
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  8. drumzNspace

    drumzNspace Forum Resident

    Location:
    New Yuck City
    Iannis Xenakis - Pleiades
    Keiko Abe - Michi for Marimba
    Floyd - Saucerful/Careful-Axe/More/Obscured instrumentals
    GOGD - Grayfolded
    Miles Davis - In A Silent Way
     
  9. TheLazenby

    TheLazenby Forum Resident In Memoriam

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    Pittsburgh
    As much as people will hate me for this.... the Pink Floyd Limited Edition Trance Remix CD's (Atom Heart Mother, Meddle, Obscured, Dark Side, WYWH, Animals, Momentary Lapse and Division - plus a 'Great Dance Songs' clone) are my go-to 'chill out' CD's.
     
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  10. Neonbeam

    Neonbeam All Art Was Once Contemporary

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    Planet Earth
    These GAS albums could definitely use a reissue. Oop in all formats:(:(
     
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  11. phish

    phish Jack Your Body

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    Biloxi, MS, USA

    Those were re-released back in 2008, but I'm not sure in what numbers.
     
  12. Neonbeam

    Neonbeam All Art Was Once Contemporary

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    As cd box and double vinyl. The latter is one of the most bizarre reissues EVER since it includes ONE track from each album. What were they thinking? Kicking myself for not getting "Zauberberg" at least when the vinyl still was in the shops:(:)
     
  13. phish

    phish Jack Your Body

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    Biloxi, MS, USA
    It was odd that the vinyl portion of the set only had a single track from each.
     
  14. ShawnX

    ShawnX Forum Resident

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    Detroit, Michigan
    This is really nice. Another difficult album for me to find! Love it!! :)
     
  15. phish

    phish Jack Your Body

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    Biloxi, MS, USA

    I had to buy my LP from discogs.
     
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  16. Scope J

    Scope J Senior Member

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    Michigan
    Listening now on Bandcamp .

    Have a colab' of he & Alio Die .

    http://lorenzomontana.bandcamp.com
     
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  17. Tom Ellis

    Tom Ellis New Member

    Location:
    Gower, Wales
    David Sylvian/Holger Czukay Flux + Mutability
    David Sylvian/Holger Czukay Plight & Premonition
    David Sylvian Gone to Earth tracks on disc 2 (with Robert Fripp, Bill Nelson and B.J. Cole)
    Jon Hassell Last Night The Moon Came Dropping Its Clothes In The Street
    Harold Budd By The Dawn's Early Light

     
  18. tvstrategies

    tvstrategies Turtles, all the way down. Thread Starter

    Coincidence, I'm listening to Recollections from Miles Davis Complete Bitches Brew Sessions as I read your post, which has a lot of Silent Way sensibility in it, and I thought the same thing... Definitely, a lot of '70s M.D. belongs in the ambient-crossover-electronica-east-Indian genre... beautiful, easy to get lost in!
     
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  19. tvstrategies

    tvstrategies Turtles, all the way down. Thread Starter

    Just got into a Jon Hassell binge, bought Moon, Fourth World, and Power Spot. Immersive. A little spooky. Will have to listen to more David Sylvian. Only know Darshan...
     
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  20. scompton

    scompton Forum Resident

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    Arlington, VA
    I listened to Morton Gould's String Quartet No. 2 the other day. Six hours of ambient minimalism.
     
  21. drasil

    drasil Former Resident

    Location:
    NYC
    Morton Gould's string quartet no 2 is second in my mind only to 4'33" by John Williams.
     
  22. It's Felix

    It's Felix It's not really me

    Yes what a great great song - he loved him madly
     
  23. the sands

    the sands Forum Resident

    Location:
    Oslo, Norway
    Brian Eno - Discreet Music
    Brian Eno - Ambient 1: Music for Airports
    Biosphere & Deathprod - Nordheim Transformed
    Biosphere - Substrata
    The Fireman - Rushes
    Tindersticks - Les Salauds
    Tindersticks - Ypres
    Fripp & Eno - (No Pussyfooting)
     
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  24. Maurice

    Maurice Senior Member

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    North Yarmouth, ME
    I tried to limit this to pieces that fall under Brian Eno's dictum of music that's as ignorable as it is interesting, which at least for me ends up ruling out a lot of pieces that have already been mentioned, as I can't bring myself to ignore The Orb, Tindersticks, the Sylvian/Czukay pieces and many others mentioned in this thread. I also found it pretty hard to limit to this to just 5!

    GAS - Pop
    Voices From The Lake - S/T
    Brian Eno - Music For Airports
    Max Richter - Sleep / From Sleep
    Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works Vol. 2
     
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  25. Ivor Hugh J'ampton

    Ivor Hugh J'ampton Member

    Location:
    Canada
    Well tvstrategies, I would recommend you look up the large Stapleton Nurse With Wound list - only that you stipulated "a LITTLE scary."

    Try TransMillenia Consort lps, Plot Zero and Spectre.

    Flamende Forsok "I Dreamt A Dream" (or something like that) is all Lovecraft.
     
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