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Anyone have some other ambient works similar to Eno's? Preferably something more landscapey like music for airports or Apollo. Some of my favorites include St
by candiddevmike 4y ago
Anyone have some other ambient works similar to Eno's? Preferably something more landscapey like music for airports or Apollo.
Some of my favorites include Stars of the Lid, Eluvium, Robin Guthrie (So Many Short Years Ago), Brian McBride (Overture for other halfs), and Helios.
- pimeys 4y agoI didn't find him from the mentions yet so I'll add Gas. Start with Zauberberg, Königsforst and Pop, and if you like them get completely lost with the rest of his productions.
- adriancooney 4y agoThanks for the recommendations. Some of my fav ambient(ish) albums that might fit in that list: - William Basinski - The Disintegration Loops - Jon Hopkins - Music For Psychedelic Therapy - Erland Cooper - Music for Growing Flowers
- pixelrevision 4y agoStars of the lid and Steve Roach have a lot of comparable stuff.
- have_faith 4y agoBurial (his ambient tracks like State Forest, Forgive), Huerco, Biosphere
- eej71 4y agoYou may enjoy Patrick O'Hearn - particularly something like Still Standing from the Slow Time album.
- swayvil 4y agoTycho. Eno's experimental ambient collab with Fripp is maybe a bit heavy. Some of M83 Lots of Boards of Canada might fit Explore Am Boy and Teen Daze Clocolan maybe Lorn Sarin Sunday try Freescha, but it's kinda depressing
- justincormack 4y agoSteve Reich was another tape loop pioneer.
- leokennis 4y agoI love ambient music. Some favorites in the same corner of the genre as Eno: Pauline Oliveros - Deep Listening Virginia Astley - In Gardens Where We Feel Secure Machinefabriek - Slaapzucht Biosphere - The Hilvarenbeek Recordings (anything Biosphere is sublime but a lot of it is darker ambient than Eno) I could go on forever. But check these out. Also, every release from this label is gold: http://www.slaapwelrecords.com/ http://www.slaapwelrecords.com/
- SanjayMehta 4y agoTry the EoN app from Jean-Michel Jarre.
- maupin 4y agoMilieu's soundtrack to Eufloria, https://milieumusic.bandcamp.com/album/eufloria https://milieumusic.bandcamp.com/album/eufloria
- tebbers 4y agoYou might like https://ambientsleepingpill.com/ https://ambientsleepingpill.com/
- heed 4y agoCheck out the album “Tape Loops” by Chris Walla, artist Loscil, and John Cage’s “In a Landscape”.
- acdanger 4y agoKEXP out of Seattle has a good program on Sunday mornings with music that often falls in this genre. https://www.kexp.org/shows/pacific-notions/ https://www.kexp.org/shows/pacific-notions/ Also, the blog Headphone Commute has some excellent ambient showcases. Suggest finding their year-end lists and listening through: https://headphonecommute.com/ https://headphonecommute.com/ https://headphonecommute.com/best-of-lists/headphone-commutes-best-of-2021/ https://headphonecommute.com/best-of-lists/headphone-commute...
- rwmj 4y agoIn the 1990s Virgin released a 2 CD sampler followed by a whole series: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Brief_History_of_Ambient https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Brief_History_of_Ambient https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_Ambient_series https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_Ambient_series The first pair of CDs is basically a "who's who" of ambient artists up to that point.
- pbronez 4y agoBT did a pair of ambient albums in 2019 that I really enjoy: Everything You’re Searching For Is Between Here and You I also appreciate Brain FM [0]. It makes it easy to dial in background music that matches my mood and activity. [0] https://www.brain.fm https://www.brain.fm
- ggrelet 4y ago« Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works Vol. 2 » Vol. 1 is not really ambient but is a masterpiece nonetheless.
- 12bits 4y agoCheck out Astral Industries (https://www.astralindustries.co.uk/ https://www.astralindustries.co.uk/) and Silent Season (http://www.silentseason.com/ http://www.silentseason.com/) - this is another good place to "dig" for ambient stuff https://daily.bandcamp.com/best-ambient https://daily.bandcamp.com/best-ambient - cheers!
- jjulius 4y agoThis should cover a bunch of different Ambient styles, but all of the artists are absolutely fantastic and worth digging into. I'm definitely leaving out a fuckload more, but there are a ton of great suggestions in the other responses, too. Happy listening! :D Biosphere Ryuichi Sakamoto Loscil A Strangely Isolated Place (record label & mix series) Silent Season (record label) Kelly Moran Rafael Anton Irisarri Harold Budd Steve Roach Terre Thaemlitz Gel-Sol Koss Nils Frahm FAX Records Pete Namlook Hiroshi Yoshimura Benoit Pioulard Carlos Nino Woob (particularly woob1194) ASC Autumn of Communion Wanderwelle Celer Christina Vantzou Julianna Barwick Mary Lattimore Grouper Suzanne Ciani MPU101 Deru Lusine (Language Barrier in particular, his only full-Ambient album)
- omnimus 4y agoBiosphere for sure. Also William Basinski who is somewhat hated but if you love endless loops its great.
- and0 4y agoThe Disintegration Loops is lovely and I found it very thought-provoking. The concept of hearing the medium being destroyed, in this sort of breathing / heartbeat / day and night cycle, is a very powerful way to think about mortality. One of the tracks still sounds like you're hearing someone drowning over the course of 17 minutes and it's terrifying. It's the first track here, though I believe they are named / ordered incorrectly. Just comparing 2 minutes in vs 15 minutes.. it still creeps me out.
- lukeh 4y agoGreat suggestions, to which I would add Marty Hicks.
- devindotcom 4y agoNice list. I would second Ryuichi Sakamoto, Loscil, Julianna Barwick, Mary Lattimore, and Grouper for sure and there are lots of other good ones on there. I'd add Windy & Carl, A Winged Victory for the Sullen, Yui Odonera (lots from the Serein label actually), Max Richter, and most of all Stars of the Lid.
- QuizzicalCarbon 4y agoYou might try Deus Arrakis by Klaus Schulze https://youtu.be/UPCq1o4yvow https://youtu.be/UPCq1o4yvow
- zeruch 4y agoI'd look into stuff like Harold Budd, William Basinski, or Jon Hassell (who in turn influenced Eno; you can hear some similarities but also radical differences because Hassell played processed trumpet and had a much more dense sound palette. Albums like "Fascinoma" or "The Surgeon of the Night Sky Restores Dead Things By he Power of Sound" for starters, but they did one album together in the early 80s called "Possible Musics" worth a listen)
- tarboreus 4y agoLook into Japanese environmental music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jx7CyMZVhHY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jx7CyMZVhHY
- anthk 4y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9UtpJ2iAQA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9UtpJ2iAQA
- jollyllama 4y agoJordan De La Sierra https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kGay5yTzELiOx8fbgq-7_FMCRyWu9b_qw https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kGay5yTzELiOx8...
- photochemsyn 4y agoMadis, Sea of Tranquility, Ambient Edit (2020) is really good.
- valdiorn 4y agoI absolutely love "Music for REAL Airports" by The Black Dog. An obvious poke at the original, it features a darker, moody and slightly unsettling ambience, with some minimal percussive elements in a couple of tracks. It's meant to remind you of the real experience of being in an airport, which isn't exactly a pleasant experience :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icnjrONRCdQ&list=OLAK5uy_lxKUdbH_CEoU6J5HX-kMMMl02P5yvwsb0&index=1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icnjrONRCdQ&list=OLAK5uy_lxK...
- readingnews 4y agoThere is a label called Past Inside the Present that does a lot of landscape/soundscape/dreamscape recordings. They are on bandcamp and https://www.pastinsidethepresent.com/ https://www.pastinsidethepresent.com/ (I am not affiliated, I just have a fair number of their recordings). Check out Zake (I think he is the owner too) and also 36.
- greenie_beans 4y agonot quite like eno but still great ambient album, green by hiroshi yoshimura: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jx7CyMZVhHY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jx7CyMZVhHY
- jupiter90000 4y agoI like Eno, Eluvium and Helios and these are some artists that have similar music I’ve found that I didn’t see mentioned so far: Ryuichi Sakamoto (sample piece: solari) Roedelius (sample piece: A Short Walk in the Hills) Vangelis (sample piece: Memories of Green)
- anthk 4y agoJun Fukamachi - Quark https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9UtpJ2iAQA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9UtpJ2iAQA
- rchaud 4y agoIf you like Robin Guthrie, you may like the ambient music of Harold Budd, one of his collaborators. One of the their cool joint projects is the instrumental score for the film Mysterious Skin from 2004.
- ceravis 4y agoKyle Bobby Dunn (apparently he's done some unkind things in the past, but the music stands alone): https://open.spotify.com/album/2NVB7DIA1wTUEM7KmXnWeZ https://open.spotify.com/album/2NVB7DIA1wTUEM7KmXnWeZ Hotel Neon: https://open.spotify.com/album/4qpdELAzEbL1nI8fvWtLLE https://open.spotify.com/album/4qpdELAzEbL1nI8fvWtLLE
- qbasic_forever 4y agoListen to this radio show on KEXP: https://www.kexp.org/shows/pacific-notions/ https://www.kexp.org/shows/pacific-notions/ It's every Sunday early morning Pacific time but you can listen to recent shows in their streaming archive. The whole show is modern ambient and similar music, it's absolutely fantastic and a great way to hear new artists in the genre. edit: lol someone already posted it. This should give you an idea of how good this show is if multiple people are suggesting it. I've never heard any other show/podcast/or anything as comprehensive about new ambient music as this one.
- acdanger 4y agoIt's fantastic. I also really enjoy the blues show the immediately follows it, Preachin' the Blues. Bit of a contrast but the curation on both shows is stellar.
- dmurdoch 4y agoThe band The Glitch Mob maintain an ambient playlist on spotify that I listen to constantly while working. They update it really regularly (4 day since last song added right now). https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1sJKFhnCYglVaDXtA2y7Ao?si=b42506b9d47c4a0d https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1sJKFhnCYglVaDXtA2y7Ao?si=...
- sbf501 4y agoSteve Reich did a number of pieces that are loopy and programatic in the 1960's and 70's, but with analog instruments. Kind of like Javanese Gamelan but more western style. Music for 18 Musicians The Desert Music Drumming I think it is debatable if they are "ambient", since some get quite loud, but they are meditative.
- FireBeyond 4y agoUlrich Schnauss (a bit more of a beat, but still extremely minimal) - Far Away Trains Passing By, A Strangely Isolated Place.
- tjakab 4y agoI'll throw in the 'Ghosts' series by Nine Inch Nails. These land somewhere between Eno and Aphex Twin and were basically a precursor to Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross's soundtrack work (some of which may also be worth a listen).
- patchorang 4y agoI slightly different flavor of ambient, but I love this playlist. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0FRsEBJWjCWOyia0Yyz7ak?si=4f035a5d8d4540f0 https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0FRsEBJWjCWOyia0Yyz7ak?si=...
- RHSman2 4y agoVery musical ambient compared to Eno but I love this currently: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2aGCFk3Mvhs9Am7JHwoyRr?si=CimcaEGSSGGJ6WLNdP7C5g https://open.spotify.com/artist/2aGCFk3Mvhs9Am7JHwoyRr?si=Ci...
- jmclnx 4y agoThis free stream: http://echoesofbluemars.org/ http://echoesofbluemars.org/ various artist including Brian Eno. Listening to the bluemars stream now :)
- elsyx 4y agoMusic for Programming[0] is a nice site with mixes of music, most of it ambient, intended to provide focus while programming. Each mix has a setlist so you can follow along and perhaps find some new artists to explore. [0] https://musicforprogramming.net/ https://musicforprogramming.net/
- munificent 4y agoMore soundscapey: Warmth, 36, Azure State, Purl, Poemme, Hilyard Other ambient I like: Global Communication, Balmorhea, Marconi Union
- draegtun 4y agoDavid Sylvian & Holger Czukay produced two wonderful ambient albums together in the 80s... Plight & Premonition - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plight_%26_Premonition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plight_%26_Premonition Flux + Mutability - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flux_%2B_Mutability https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flux_%2B_Mutability Couple of articles about their collaboration: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/david-sylvian-holger-czukay-plight-and-premonition-flux-and-mutability/ https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/david-sylvian-holger-cz... | https://thequietus.com/articles/24916-david-sylvian-holger-czukay-plight-premonition https://thequietus.com/articles/24916-david-sylvian-holger-c...