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PostPosted: Sun Aug 16, 2009 9:59 pm 
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Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works vol 2 makes me feel like my brain is turning into a bubble


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Brian Eno is a great start for those who want to get into quality ambient.


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I have No Pussyfooting with Robert Fripp on my list of albums to listen to. Is that a good starting point?


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noodles wrote:
I have No Pussyfooting with Robert Fripp on my list of albums to listen to. Is that a good starting point?

Better start with "Ambient 1: Music for Airports" but the Fripp/Eno's great just...more difficult.


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Yet to really delve into Eno, but I do like the darker ambience of Mortiis etc sometimes.


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Not a genre I've explored as much as I'd like to but I do love Aphex Twin. I like his later stuff as well.


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It's all about psychadelic ambient, sometimes known as psybient.

My three favourite acts are:

Adham Skaikh (best album: Drift)
Pete Namlook (best album: From Within I)

and MOST ESPECIALLY:

An Israeli act called Shulman, whose name makes it sound like it's one guy, but it's actually 2 guys. Anyway...

Their two albums "Soundscapes and Modern Tales" and "In Search of a Meaningful Moment" are in my opinion, the greatest ambiance ever recorded by anyone, anywhere.

Listen on mushrooms for best results!


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Teh Burzums :cool:

Pantaleimon - Folk/Ambient

Blakagir - Folk/Ambient/Classical/Viking

Wongraven - Dark Ambient.

My favourites


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Thievery corporation nice chill music..


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stevelovesmoonspell wrote:
Thievery corporation nice chill music..

Thievery Corporation is trip hop with light-dub elements, not ambient.


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Some names:

Stars of the Lid
Loscil
Fennesz
Tim Hecker
mwvm
Eluvium

Different styles in there.


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If you want to hear something truly haunting that will scare you to death. I have a Funeral songs compliation that includes a band called Shinjuku Thief "procession of souls"

Highy Disturbing. Give it a shot. It would make a perfect soundtrack for a metalhead horror movie. It's so disturbing it will haunt you for the rest of your life! :ph34r:
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Velvet Cacoon's Atropine is quite good. It's limited to 1000 copies, though.


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Jinsoo Bae wrote:
If you want to hear something truly haunting that will scare you to death. I have a Funeral songs compliation that includes a band called Shinjuku Thief "procession of souls"

Highy Disturbing. Give it a shot. It would make a perfect soundtrack for a metalhead horror movie. It's so disturbing it will haunt you for the rest of your life! :ph34r:
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What's the title of the compilation CD?


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The Compliation is called Funeral Songs. The album cover is posted(red). It has 16 bands of pure torment, disturbing soundscapes. There is a band called N.O.D/ambient band that did a song called "three little pigs" that will always haunt you for the rest of your life. Pure horror music. I really like Sigh "12 Souls" from start ot finish, it's just pure horror soundtrack well exeucuted!
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Sigh's "Black Curse" is also haunting, perfect pace, slow, mid-ancient piano...the part when he sings "I am calling the Devil's name...then he sings into this wierd Japanese language calling out the devil. I always play that song to scare the shit out of non-metal people.


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Uhhhh, I don't know, Tomhet by Burzum?


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Coil.


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Dago, You really ought to try Janvs from Italy. Just one song called "Vega" they sing in Italian and it's a mixture of Ambient/Doom/Black and just pure sadness. Cheers!
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I'll try that out, thanks.


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Jinsoo Bae wrote:
Dago, You really ought to try Janvs from Italy. Just one song called "Vega" they sing in Italian and it's a mixture of Ambient/Doom/Black and just pure sadness. Cheers!
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I've reviewed both their albums here. :cool:


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