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What got you into ambient?

 
    • jvglion disse...
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    • Nov 21 2005, 3h25

    Ambient

    Didn't really get into Ambient music much until a co-worker played it a lot at the office. I liked how it was smooth, calming, and overall found it extremely imaginative. The first group I really ever got into, were the The Starseeds.

    " is spiritually revolutionary, and the message is divine. The message content opens the eyes of the people to the evils of the system…as inside the music are the seeds of destruction of the said shitstem." -- Peter Tosh
    Editado por jvglion em Jan 18 2006, 17h39
    • Amarvl disse...
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    • Nov 27 2005, 13h50
    I thought I was genious enough to invent a genre that was beatless atmospheric trance let later on I found out someone beat me to it. Ambient Trance is nowadays my favourite genre.

    • SlimPvC disse...
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    • Dez 9 2005, 22h02
    Hearing "Jenseits" from Ash Ra Tempel (feat. Klaus Schulze) on the radio way back in 1973. For a moment, I really though that there was music coming 'from the other side" (which is what 'jenseits' means).
    My taste in ambient changed since then, but this is a classic.

    BTW - am I the oldest person listening to ambient electronics?

    I'm talking 1973!!! Aphex Twin was only 2 years old then :-)

  • I discovered ambient music when I was making music on my Amiga computer in the late 80's. Man, I miss that thing.

    • redgloam disse...
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    • Jan 18 2006, 6h51
    I got into ambient when I discovered Bill Laswell. I discovered his music over at acidplanet.com from a few sample libraries, and I was very impressed. Then I started branching out, listening to Brian Eno, Aphex Twin, Black Ether, Boards of Canada. Like a lot of people, before I really got into it, I kind of associated it with New Age, which I am a fan of, like Enya, Kitaro, Enigma, etc.
    Next: I really want to find the soundtrack to Blade Runner. I finally saw this movie the other day and fell in love with the music.

  • I think it was the ambient house movement of the late 1980s/early 1990s when i first heard the likes of KLFs 'chillout' and the Orbs 'adventures beyond the underworld' as well as an odd but good compilation album called give peace a dance, volume 2: the ambient collection released in 1991.

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    • Abr 4 2006, 18h52
    Godspeed You! Black Emperor's "Lift your skinny fists..." and "F#A# Infinity" albums. Stuff like the the end of "Storm", the whole first part of "Static", most of "Antennas to Heaven", or the whole end of "East Hastings" captivated me even more than the whole "musical buildup" sections that the band are so revered for. They started off my interest in ambience.

    • Wompo disse...
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    • Abr 14 2006, 23h17
    Uhm... I always liked some of those ambientish soundscapes on some of the TV channels' "intermission cuts" or how would you call them, hehe. For example when something goes wrong and they have to stop the show to fix it. Then they bring up some "Please wait for a moment" screen which may have some atmospheric music on the background. Those kind of things.

    I also liked as a kid if some children TV shows etc. happened to have some cool soundscapes. Maybe they meant me even more then than now. Some ambient pieces nowadays even remind me of my childhood somehow.

    Well, I guess it truly began when I started listening to netradios like Digitally Imported's and SomaFM's ambient channels (the more upbeat ones). I could listen to them for hours. That way I found artists and you can figure out the rest.

  • www.804noise.org

    thats what did it along with other areacode noise things i had no idea till i found that stuff.

    We whore ourselves through technology.

    Man/Woman - Harsh drones. Harsh tones.
    http://www.last.fm/music/Man%252FWoman
    www.myspace.com/howtoremainalone

    Acheronian - Washington, DC Drone/Doom/Punk (Is Sleeping, 2009)
    www.last.fm/music/acheronian
    www.myspace.com/acheronian
    • nauk1971 disse...
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    • Abr 17 2006, 11h51

    The KFL - Chillout

    I bought The KFL's ‘Chillout’ album in 1990 and it blew me way. As I had never heard anything like it before. The strings in ‘Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard’ still moves me to tears today.

    Got heavily into The Orb. Saw them live at ‘Manchester Academy’ in April 1993 on ‘The Orb Mission’ tour. Also went to a few ‘Mega Dog’ nights, which were wicked (featuring the likes of ‘System 7’ etc). Also in 1993 saw ‘Jean Michel Jarre’ at ‘Manchester Main Road’ on his “Chronologies’ tour. Which is a bit ironic as has he dissed The Orb’s remix of ‘Oxygen’ called ‘Toxygene’. JMJ would pay for it so The Orb released it themselves. I love both versions and got to see them performed live in the same year!

    Then I got well into the ‘Café del Mar’ chillout CDs. And was in ‘Ambient Heaven’ in 1994 when I final went to the “Café del Mar’ itself and watch the sunset as wonderful ambient tunes wash over me.

    I have loved ambient music ever since.

    Manchester so little to answer for
  • Been Ambient lovers since we can remember. It started with Brian Eno and his projects. Harold Budd, Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze and many others followed. Joined this site and group just a few days ago and found great music on it.

    The last few years we composing Ambient Songs to go with our works of art and thus providing them with the audio realm we love.

    Greetings
    Willem & Madeleine

  • It's KLF - Chill Out for me as well. I caught a glimpse of the cassette(!) cover in my local record shop & thought it was the weirdest album cover i'd seen - I couldn't figure out why somebody would put a field of sheep on the front of their album! £6.99 later I was hooked.
    Was also drawn to The Orb in the early nineties (especially U.F.Orb) probably through their connection with Pink Floyd (who me & my mates was heavily into at the time).
    I know a lot of ambient fans look at KLF - Chill Out as a bit of a novelty album nowadays, but it's just a classic of the genre I can still listen to it anytime & not get bored of it.

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    • Jul 6 2006, 12h45

    What got me into this stuff.....

    It all started when I was about 18, I started to experiment with cassette tapes (putting batteries in different way, made work slower?) I 'prepared' my piano at home by putting tape / foam on the hammers. Went to art college, utilised my interest in cage, stockhausen, jazz, elevator music - created sound installations and the like. Gradually my listening world became larger and larger.........and hopefully still grows to this day. I would be gratefull of any feedback on some of my stuff at: http://www.last.fm/music/Felixdroid/Odd+Dots+and+Squiggles

  • Getting into Ambient

    Hi
    I was into Eno, a lot of 70's prog groups like Gong and Floyd that used Ambient elements, even Bowie stuff like Low, heroes etc.I also liked 80's rock bands like , spacemen 3/ Sonic Boom. As I got into techno, I became aware of more ambient offerings. I also worked as a sound engineer,so have always been interested in the music of sound.
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  • Sigur Ros actually. I understand they aren't ambient but from there I heard of album leaf, which just opened the door to so much more.

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    • vitreus disse...
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    • Out 17 2006, 7h28
    without a doubt, it was TocarRadiator.


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    • vitreus disse...
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    • Out 17 2006, 7h29
    ThisIsMedia said:
    www.804noise.org

    thats what did it along with other areacode noise things i had no idea till i found that stuff.

    richmond. nice.


    listen to the noise i make and leave me a comment about it.
    check out my music journal at www.o-discordia.blogspot.com
  • Zoviet France - and of course John Cage!

    • Srage disse...
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    • Out 19 2006, 0h22
    Troum, Yen Pox, Thomas Köner

    • L0V3R disse...
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    • Out 23 2006, 17h19
    my brother started listening to it, and i always liked bands with an ambient feel to them, so i looked up some bands and boom.

    i am windextor. i will clean your SOUL.
    • anderai disse...
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    • Out 29 2006, 13h57
    Like quite a few other people through the Orb, KLF and William Orbit, Global Communication, Tomita, FSOL etc. Then got into earlier Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream, Steve Reich as well....

  • My Dad bought me Brian Eno's Ambient 1/Music For Airports for my 18th birthday, which sparked an interest in the genre. It took me ages to actually break into the genre properly though.

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    • Nov 5 2006, 5h15
    The late John Peel introduced me to the genre. I heared the broadcast of the first orb peelsession (the one with the best version of 'A Huge Ever...')while on holiday in England (early 90s... I was 18 then). After that, I discovered Biosphere and FSOL and went on from them.

  • my interest in ambient music was sparked by a black metal band called velvet cacoon. they had a few ambient tracks and in an interview they mentioned brian eno and steve roach. first time i think i heard about them. i think aphex twin's selected ambient works vol II was the first ambient album i listened to.

  • Fennesz

    I heard one of his songs on last.fm radio and I was amazed.

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