I don't know about the rest of you but who else has an interest in ambient music?

This harks back to the musicianship thread as this sort of music is very minimalistic and simple but is amazing to listen to in a dark room inside your own thoughts.

My interest for it mainly came from listening to movies soundtracks as they are made to convey an atmosphere and emotion. Plus plenty of early electronic music

Stuff like: An Ending (Descent) Brian Eno, Angel by Massive Attack, Prophecies by Philip Glass, Tomhet by Burzum, Promise (Reprise) by Akira Yamaoka (from Silent Hill 2) and theres loads more.

"Ambient Music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting."Brian Eno

I like to chill out to Ultraviolence or Aphex twin. Headaches rule.

i crave a bit of ambient, some of my faves are boards of canada, M83, global communication etc.

massive attack are trip-hop though, sound very different to ambient imo

Is ambient music like the stuff they play in shopping centres? If so, I don't like it very much. There's only a certain number of times you can hear Nothing Compares 2 U before you start thinking about ways you'd like to see Sinead O'Connor hit by a dust-bin lorry.

sinead o connor? really?

i love ambient music, my fav has to be the space/cosmic meditation ambient music

I've never know where to start with ambient, although I'm sure I would like a lot of it.

By the way, I once fell asleep with Tomhet playing, and had a strange hallucination/dream that the eerie lute melody was being played by a peasant who was on the run because he had been condemed to death - he knew he would soon be executed, but he didn't care because he was so engrossed in creating this one final melody surrounded by an untainted rural landscape. Quite strange.

James wrote:I've never know where to start with ambient, although I'm sure I would like a lot of it.

By the way, I once fell asleep with Tomhet playing, and had a strange hallucination/dream that the eerie lute melody was being played by a peasant who was on the run because he had been condemed to death - he knew he would soon be executed, but he didn't care because he was so engrossed in creating this one final melody surrounded by an untainted rural landscape. Quite strange.

James, i wish i had your mind sometimes. can we move away and start a medieval pagan village, where we can wear loin cloths, large pointy hats and hunt witches all day?

Harrold Budd is essential ambient listening, and for a really interesting modern progressive songwriting approach to ambient, check out Fovea Hex. there once was an amazing web database for ambient music called Sleepbot, i wonder if it is still around. yes indeed,

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The most i really listen too is Neurosis and they arent straight up ambient at all. Theres a guy named John Cage that is guilty for creating it, even though Brian Eno coined the phrase (and his stuff is hardly ambient anyway).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVN_mxVntXk

The logical conclusion of "Ambient" is Roger Karmanik & his Cold Meat Industries label, which has been releasing this sort of stuff for decades. I had the misfortune of being given the BRIGHTER DEATH NOW - "Great Death I-II" double CD limited edition boxset in '93. This was Roger's own project. I don't think I ever listened to it the whole way through. A couple of hours of a monotone drone is not my idea of entertainment.

Sub-genres are allegedly "Power Electronics", "Death Industrial" & "Dark Ambient". Don't ask me to try and explain the difference though, ha ha

I used to get a lot of this stuff coming through my letterbox when I was working for Terrorizer.
I must admit, I am not a fan. However, I do like 70s Tangerine Dream ("Ricochet" especially), a bit of Klaus Schulze - stuff in that ilk. However, there is a lot of early 70s Krautrock overtones in those albums and they are not as monotonous as some ambient.

Mortiis was trying to do something similar with his early ambient stuff. Back then, it seemed almost every well known Black Metal band member was doing an ambient side project release.

I don't know about ambient music, but I like to chill out to new age electronic music. One of my current favourite projects is Amethystium from Norway. E. S. Posthumus are worth checking out as well, blending electronic music with movie-score-style classical music

Godspeed.

Progresses from quiet shimples to loud amazingness.... epic

godspeed are post rock, totally different

oh noes

not totally different... slow build ups and all that....

was listening to some crazy ambient music at my mates house, apparantly you're supposed to sleep to this stuff we were listening to... it was weird... wish i could remember what it was called!

Creeping Dan wrote: even though Brian Eno coined the phrase (and his stuff is hardly ambient anyway).

I dunno stuff like the Apollo album, Music For Airports and On Land all sound fairly ambient to me

Been listening through Future Sound Of London's Lifeforms album today which is quite good.

Also a side note has anyone tried one of the spatial environment test (like virtual haircut)....this is quite interesting in the fact it tricks the brain into where you think the sound is coming from, i wonder if this has been or could be implemented into ambient music.