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What got you into ambient?

 
    • msnvwls disse...
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    • Dez 6 2004, 4h29
    Two words:

    Aphex Twin

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  • Mainly from listening to jungle/drum n bass.. even the most hardcore drum n bass listener like me could not withstand the obnoxious rolling basses, bpm-pushing beats, and incessant amen-soundclashing 24/7. Got into the more "soothing" sounds of chill out dnb/intellijungle and it opened the door to other ambient sounds. Also from AMP: yeah MTV sucks but they used to play some good videos on AMP back in the day that opened the door.

  • Stumbled on some Global communications mp3s on audiogalaxy one day, then I found David Parsons and from there I branched off into tons of other ambient by finding the ambientrance website.

    • vaxis disse...
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    • Dez 31 2004, 19h51
    It's quite weird. I was a black metal fan a few years ago. One of the most famous bands of the genre, Burzum, due to many reasons changed their music to something dark ambient-like. I liked it. Then I read that the founder of dark ambient genre is Lustmord. Well, here's where it all started. :-)

    • oeu disse...
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    • Fev 21 2005, 5h08
    I guess Bill Laswell introduced me to ambient. Most particularly, his "Outland" project with Pete Namlook. I think "Outland 2" was my first. Then I started from the beginning with Brian Eno's Music For Airports.
    After researching and listening to many ambient albums throughout the last 8 years, I'd have to say these are essential:

    Brian Eno - Music For Airports
    Biosphere - Substrata
    Robert Rich & Brian Lustmord - Stalker
    Bill Laswell & Pete Namlook - Outland 2: African Virus...
    Lustmord - The Place Where The Black Stars Hang
    David Sylvian & Holger Czukay - Plight & Premonition
    Robert Rich - Seven Veils or Trances/Drones
    Tim Hecker - Haunt Me, Haunt Me, Do It Again
    Tetsu Inoue - Ambient Otaku
    Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works Volume II

    If you're a big fan of ambient music and you're missing any of the above titles, you are missing out!

    • Hannuh disse...
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    • Fev 21 2005, 18h27
    Way back in 1994 I bought my first ambient albums: Selected Ambient Works II by Aphex Twin and a compilation called Chill Out Or Die 2 (released on Rising High Records), and that got me hooked :-)

  • I don't know - i feel that there's too much mediocrity in popular music.

    I think that my interest turned to something bigger after i listen to "I Care Because You Do" by Aphex Twin (i was 14 at that moment)

  • Here Come The Warm Jets

    Brian Eno!

    • dikbozo disse...
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    • Abr 28 2005, 6h37

    The In Sound from Way Out!

    I first heard this when my oldest sister brought it home. I think it was 1967. It was the first commercially successful work in electronic music, but it does sound like a curiosity piece now. If you listen carefully, you can hear the roots of most subsequent genres. I moved on to Walter then Wendy Carlos' works because there was nothing else to listen to in North America that was available from the public library. My resources were very limited, so I made do with my library card. In 1973, there came into my life Tangerine Dream and away I went...

    This album caused my continued fascination with electronically created burbles, whorps, bleeps and snarls.
    I blame Kingsley and Perrey for wasting so much time and money, and I bless them.

    http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:ep6xlf0ehcqq

    Editado por dikbozo em Abr 28 2005, 6h42
    • boburt disse...
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    • Mai 17 2005, 23h42
    black metal sideprojects. i've always loved videogame music though (specifically old SNES RPG tunes).

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    • Mai 18 2005, 9h55

    hmmmm.....

    i think it was Orb - live 93 2CD set. i went to a seaside music festival and after the concerts i listened to the orb on a jetty, at sunrise, at about 4 in the morning. ace experience.

    • oscist disse...
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    • Jun 17 2005, 20h27
    The soundtrack to Solaris. Damn, that was great. Ever since I've been hooked... Currently listening to a lot of 1 mile north.

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    • Set 4 2005, 22h05
    Last year, Arve Henriksen's last release :)

  • it was 1993...

    Very cool. I liked the Hitch Hiker's soundtrack too, never realised Terry Riley was involved. Must track it down...

    Anyway, I grew up with Kraftwerk, Jean Michelle Jarre, Vangelis, Erik Satie, Debussy and Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata so it was a logical progression.

    I remember seeing a poster for a band called "the orb" when I was 13 or 14 and I thought they sounded interesting - I think I'd just seen Barbarella or Woody Allen's Sleeper.

    I got "U.F.Orb" for xmas. Soon after, a friend of a friend gave me a tape full of ambient music but without a tracklisting. Me and my roommate at the time listened to it non-stop.

    Now I have tracked down all the tracks which included: Aphex Twin, Sun Electric, Higher Intelligence Agency, A Positive Life, Original Rockers, Banco de Gaia, Irresistable Force, etc.

    Then I discovered Brian Eno - through David Bowie, Roxy Music.

    Still going strong...

    Editado por cuppacoffee em Set 10 2005, 21h01
  • it was 1993...

    double post!

    Editado por cuppacoffee em Set 10 2005, 21h00
    • tonepoet disse...
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    • Out 6 2005, 7h35

    Since, um, 1987

    A friend let me borrow Vangelis' Ignacio and after breaking up with a girlfriend, I listened to it all day every day for about a year. Mostly Vangelis, leading to other ambient things.

    Never be too busy making a living that you forget to make a life.

    http://embark.to/sleep
    • nizur disse...
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    • Out 6 2005, 22h59
    I needed music that I could work to. Something that wouldn't distract me. I found the Radio feature of iTunes, scanned a lot of channels and found several I liked in the ambient genre. Ever since then, I've been a fan.

    • Horoma disse...
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    • Out 20 2005, 11h07
    Early nineties, I read an article mentioning Aphex Twin, so when I got to the music store, I took home his "Selected Ambient Works Vol. 2". I was sold right away and bought some of his other albums. I'm still a big fan, and also listen to Brian Eno, Biosphere, Tangerine Dream, Raison d'être, ...

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    • Horoma disse...
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    • Out 20 2005, 11h07
    double post

    Trancelater At:
    Ask me about: The Legendary Pink Dots (+ side-projects), Front 242 (+ side-projects), N.L.C./Nouvelles Lectures Cosmopolites and Hula
    Editado por Horoma em Out 20 2005, 11h10
    • Horoma disse...
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    • Out 20 2005, 11h07
    double post

    Trancelater At:
    Ask me about: The Legendary Pink Dots (+ side-projects), Front 242 (+ side-projects), N.L.C./Nouvelles Lectures Cosmopolites and Hula
    Editado por Horoma em Out 20 2005, 11h09
    • einna disse...
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    • Out 27 2005, 0h09
    my brother lent me Selected Ambient Works Vol.2 aphex twin! also like brian eno, brother introduced me to him aswell. some of sigur ros songs are ambient but wouldnt call em an ambient band still great though

  • Final stroke came when I ran into Reload's album A Compilation of Short Stories. Reload is basically same project as Global Communication. That album defines ambient to me :)

  • I've always been a music hunter... found various ambient things over the years... starting off with occasional dark skinny puppy ambience, moving on to Aphex Twin (via Come to Daddy.)

    Then I swung away and went all folk-pop.

    Then Boards of Canada dragged me back in... investigations with friends turned up Aspen, Woob, Lull, Chris and Cosey's Electronic Ambient Remixes Volume 1, Susumu Yokota's Grinning Cat.

    Got into post rock, and those artists blurring the lines between rock and ambient (GY!BE, Sigur Ros.)

    And my collection has grown... Stars of The Lid, Signer, In The Nursery's soundtrack work, Labradford.

  • The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld, and my friend introducing me music by Richard H. Kirk, Pete Namlook and the whole em:t records thing...

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