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@ hamilton

Fair cop, but personally I find the 'textures' of Yokota's music rich and distinctive. Not really heard his straight deep house though.

Alas, horses for courses.

Yeah, personal taste is quite a diverse thing, it's part of the beauty of human beings. Ambient music (like dubstep) seems to attract people from many 'genres' and lifestyles.
Yakota is a nice guy and i give him props for doing what he does. Perhaps it is the naivety of his methods that create the textures you (and many others) enjoy. Simplicy is the lifeblood of Ambience.
If texture is something you enjoy, you might like the music of these guys -

http://www.kyoto-sound.com/

usually dont recommend music to others, but i think you will enjoy it ......

harold budd, daniel lanois & brian eno "the pearl" LP
Editions Eg Records

***imo, the blueprint LP for the whole ambient genre.

robert fripp & brian eno "the equatorial stars" LP
Inner Knot Records


harold budd, liz frazier, robin guthrie, simon raymonde "the moon and the melodies" LP
Relativity Records


harold budd "lovely thunder" LP
Editions EG Records


cocteau twins "victorialand" LP
4ad


brian eno "ambient 3 :a day of radiance"
Editions EG Records

Lots of good shizzle there Seckle. I feel like I've only scraped the surface of people like Eno's catalogue!

Thanks for the recommendation Hamilton, will check it out.

dug out FFWD by the Orb with Robert Fripp the other day.
not hardcore ambient but very enjoyable anyway.
lot's of serene/searing frippertronic textures with the occasional bit of music-hall surrealism.

again, i wouldn't really call it ambient, strictly, but Double Leopard make some pretty good drone music. quite strange and involving.
i do like a good drone-off now and then.

Eno: On Land and Neroli are both excellent ambient albums.
On Land is beautiful.

Early The Orb stuff like Blue room, Towers of dub & Little fluffy clouds. Niceness.

Amorphous Androgynous (FSOL) "Tales of Ephidrena" album.

love Brian Eno and his ambient works, his work with Talking Heads and the No New York comp too, but fucking U2?! worst band ever

Coil
A Produce
Muslimgauze
Zoviet France
Controlled Bleeding
KLF's "Chill Out"
Biosphere's "Substrata"
Laurent Garnier
Hafler Trio
Lycia
Steve Riech
Peter Bourke
Ben Watt
Steve Hillage
Thomas Koner
Werkbund-Neue Deutche
Raison D'etre
Nocturnal Emissions
Woob
Michael Brook
Steve Roach
Black Tape For A Blue Girl
Terry Riley
Robert Wyatt
Nurse With Wound
Current 93

and of course,

Brian Eno
Robert Fripp
Phillip Glass
Daniel Lanois
David Sylvian
Laraaji
Harold Budd
Robin Guthrie
Lee Perry
Dead Can Dance
John Cage

Mudda wrote: -(A bit of) Global Communication

Dude!Did you ever hear the Global Communications remix of Chapterhouse's "Blood Music" album?It's brilliant.They took this entire shoegaze meets Acidy Madchester meets Byrds jangle pop record and turned it into 5 "phases"(Alpha,Beta,Delta,Gamma,and Epsilon).On it's own,it's a right proper ambient journey,but if you are a Chapterhouse fan(like myself)and know the album,it is one of the greatest re-interpretations of an entire record I've ever heard.You know it's Chaptehouse,and it's entirely new all at the same time.And it doesn't have the "cheese factor" of some,say like (and I hate to say this as much as actually like it) Easy Star All Stars dub re-interpretation of Pink Floyd's "Dark Side Of The Moon".

How come no one has mentioned Tangerine Dream yet?

selector.dub.u wrote:lots of stuff i haven't heard yet mentioned in this thread. I am going to have fun checking it all out.
parson- your braod knowledge of a wide range music amazes me and your avatar's roving eye ball freaks me out

Echo Wanderer wrote:

Mudda wrote: -(A bit of) Global Communication

Dude!Did you ever hear the Global Communications remix of Chapterhouse's "Blood Music" album?It's brilliant.They took this entire shoegaze meets Acidy Madchester meets Byrds jangle pop record and turned it into 5 "phases"(Alpha,Beta,Delta,Gamma,and Epsilon).On it's own,it's a right proper ambient journey,but if you are a Chapterhouse fan(like myself)and know the album,it is one of the greatest re-interpretations of an entire record I've ever heard.You know it's Chaptehouse,and it's entirely new all at the same time.And it doesn't have the "cheese factor" of some,say like (and I hate to say this as much as actually like it) Easy Star All Stars dub re-interpretation of Pink Floyd's "Dark Side Of The Moon".

I was just listening to the original of blood music yesterday. Anyway I heard a story that the guys from Chapterhouse cried when they heard the GCs remix album. Which I interpreted to mean that they were so blown away by the remix, rather than they hated it and cried.

scoz wrote: I was just listening to the original of blood music yesterday. Anyway I heard a story that the guys from Chapterhouse cried when they heard the GCs remix album. Which I interpreted to mean that they were so blown away by the remix, rather than they hated it and cried.

Really?That's awesome.I know that after "Whirlpool" they broke up for a while with Andrew Sherrif going off and getting into Acid house and Scouse house and dub.I think the album was underrated.I think,as a band,they were criminally overlooked.A lot of shoegazers Stateside either didn't seem to get them,or passed them of as Slowdive clones,whom they sound nothing like!Plus they were out in '89,which puts them more in the same family as MBV,Secret Shine,and The Charlottes(Simon Scott's[from Slowdive] first band) as in terms of pioneering the sound.

Ambient and Dubstep, my two loves of the world at the moment. Interesting to see the pearl get a few mentions her as the blueprint as I bought that a year or around about ago and bigged it up in my head and listened to it a few times and was left a bit uninspired by it.... But I'll have to relisten to it again soon as there's something I'm clearly missing. Apollo by Brian Eno is gorgeous.

With ambient I guess that my favourite stuff is recorded and manipulated ambient and the types of ambients really exploring drones and new sounds. My pick of the ambient bunch off the top off my head is:

Stars of the lid!
Keith Fullerton Whitman
Deaf Center
Tim Hecker
ES
Paavoharju
Julien Neto
William Basinski

The whole type records label is a must to explore for anyone interested in experimental and ambient music. Vaccine mentioned Helios earlier in the thread who is indeed very good, as is Xela.

Also if anyone has a passing interest in experimental/ambient/psychadelic then please check out my band in the myspace link beneath, would be very much appreciated. We're doing an album for Type which should hopefully be out soon.

I have an ambient mix for download at www.dubsoundsystem.com just scroll down, it is called "Woodblock Prints"

Tracklist:
1. dome. Municiple
2. subways. Tlon
3. uki reflection. Sabi
4. twilight. Manual
5. faraway swimming pools. Mum
6. breezeplate. Kiln
7. the lights they are stars. Max Spransy
8. there isn't. Pulse Programming
9. only the circle. Deru
10. chasing skirt. Severed Heads
11. magham allahwaisy and hernaji. Ali Akbar Mordi
12. serenade. Marsen Jules
13. touched. Twine
14. strom. Bjork
15. kontake, strukur II. Stockhausen
16. gong. Icarus
17. x-rate. Zhang Jiangang
18. tears from the compound. Boards of Canada
19. tomorrow we'll see. Konrad Bayer
20. bicycle riders. Vangelis

municiple wrote:I have an ambient mix for download at www.dubsoundsystem.com just scroll down, it is called "Woodblock Prints"

Tracklist:
1. dome. Municiple
2. subways. Tlon
3. uki reflection. Sabi
4. twilight. Manual
5. faraway swimming pools. Mum
6. breezeplate. Kiln
7. the lights they are stars. Max Spransy
8. there isn't. Pulse Programming
9. only the circle. Deru
10. chasing skirt. Severed Heads
11. magham allahwaisy and hernaji. Ali Akbar Mordi
12. serenade. Marsen Jules
13. touched. Twine
14. strom. Bjork
15. kontake, strukur II. Stockhausen
16. gong. Icarus
17. x-rate. Zhang Jiangang
18. tears from the compound. Boards of Canada
19. tomorrow we'll see. Konrad Bayer
20. bicycle riders. Vangelis

looks pretty tasty. except for mum who i have a pretty low tolerance of. will check it out regardless. big up!

Ambient i am feeling at the moment:

Jan Jelinek - Tierbeobachtungen

Pan American - For Waiting, For Chasing
- The River Has Made No Sound

Loscil - Submers

Geir Jenssen - Cho Oyu 8201m - Field recordings from Tibet

Michael Santos - Soft Pocket

Porn Sword Tobacco - Porn Sword Tobacco


All of these are good but Tierbeobachtungen and The River Has Made No Sound are percies.


Check this stuff out.

Yeh and nice mix municiple

- That bjork track:

14. strom. Bjork


What is this from? where can i find it - it is dark.

Strom is on the "Drawing Restraing 9" soundtrack album she did.

I am listening to the new Stars of the Lid lp "And Their Refinement of the Decline" right now for the first time and it is very ambient. I'm big into the soundtrack vibe right now too, Vangelis and such.