Celer - Capri [2009]

Celer is an incredibly underrated drone group. It's a married couple that individually distributes all their work. They have a huge catalog of stuff ranging from minimalism to what most people would consider post-rock. This is their most acclaimed (and recent) release, and I would imagine any fan of the ambient genre could find some substance in this album. Fans of Windy & Carl and Stars of the Lid should definitely check them out.


1: Mouthfeels Of Capreae (3:03)
2: Polaroid Family Portrait (3:40)
3: Unequal Temperament (2:06)
4: Ascensionaires (3:19)
5: A Pause (0:42)
6: An Erne Of A Sigh (3:00)
7: With Ice, Anent The Steam (1:05)
8: We Missed You Favonian (4:21)
9: Listen To The Inverted Sounds, Falling (2:22)
10: Op.0 (0:33)
11: Is Lands (2:40)
12: Bracelets Passed To Spanish Hands (1:29)
13: Paired Plateaus (2:08)
14: When Ice Makes You Weep (2:13)
15: Transposing Piano (1:08)
16: In Characteristic Form (4:17)
17: Transcribe This Past (1:38)
18: Still Running (3:24)
19: In A Past Of Haze, These Beaches (0:58)
20: I’ve Got My Love To Keep Me Warm (2:19)
21: Sonata For Dual, Unaccompanied Piano (3:04)
22: Craven Gardens (3:51)
23: Lint White (7:27)
24: Others World (1:21)
25: Symtolomny (2:28)
26: Anacapri (4:18)
27: Lists Of Sycophants And Wishing (3:01)
28: Rich Telescopes (4:10)
29: A Sorted Ending (1:18)
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Fennesz/Biosphere/Hazard - Light [2001]

Upped by request.

1: Hazard - Meteosat (5:52)
2: Fennesz - C-Street (5:00)
3: Biosphere - When I Leave (Finely Tuned Version) (6:48)
4: Biosphere - Algae & Fungi (Candelaria Version) (5:44)
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Bülent Ortaçgil - Benimle Oynar Mısın? [1974]

I picked this up from a waffles article a while back and just listened to it this morning. I can't stop! This guy is almost like a Turkish version of Donovan, and these tracks are like candy. Basically recommended to anyone who trusts my taste in music.



1: Günaydin (2:04)
2: Kediler (3:33)
3: Olmali Mi Olmamali Mi (2:34)
4: Anlamsiz (1:34)
5: Hersey sevgiyle baslar (3:05)
6: Suna Abla (1:54)
7: Bahar türküsü (2:23)
8: Benimle Oynar Misin (2:09)
9: Yagmur (3:47)
10: Sen varsin (2:11)
11: Yüzünü dökme küçük kiz (2:18)
12: Sik Latife (3:46)
13: Dört kisili düs (3:13)
14: Günaydin II (1:52)
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William Basinski - 92982 [2009]

I'll just leave this here...


1: 92982.1 (12:54)
2: 92982.2 (22:45)
3: 92982.4 (19:59)
4: 92982.3 (07:07)
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Mokira - Persona [2009]

Andreas Tillander is well known for his work in IDM and Glitch, but this is his first ambient release I've found listenable. Huge swells and drones that sound distant.

1: About Last Step And Scale (10:34)
2: Lord, Am I Going Down? (7:39)
3: Contour (5:25)
4: Valla Torg Kraut (10:47)
5: Oscillations And Tremolo (9:45)
6: Ode To The Ode To The Street Hassle (2:10)
7: Invitation To Love (6:52)
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anbody out there?

Ateleia - Formal Sleep [2007]

Listening to this album today inspired me to share some wommmmmmmms with the world. This dude makes delicious harmonies. Good mixture of minimal drones with pops and glitches.



1: Of Isthmus (8:06)
2: Salt Horse Sculpture (9:30)
3: Formal Barrier (5:57)
4: Brine, Coming To Rest (9:28)
5: A Doubtful Shore (5:49)
6: Bridget Riley (9:10)
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Ennio Moriconne - Metti Una Sera a Cena [1969]

Not ambient at all. Not really like anything I've ever heard. Personal favorite from Moriconne.








1: Metti, Una Sera a Cena (4:29)
2: Sauna (4:55)
3: Vuota (3:09)
4: Alla Luce Del Giorno (3:05)
5: Croce D'Amore (2:28)
6: Uno Che Grida Amore (4:31)
7: Ric Happening (3:23)
8: Amami (2:19)
9: Nina (4:48)
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Raison d'être - The Empty Hollow Unfolds [2000]

Cold Meat Industry is pretty well known name to fans of dark music, especially ambient and industrial. Some people even use the labels name as a genre classification for the music. Raison d'être has been around for quite a bit, but I think this is his best one. Swedes and Norwegians always create some pretty gothic stuff, but this isn't overdone. Metal on metal, choral chants, field recordings, the works.

1: The Slow Ascent (5:40)
2: The Hidden Hollows (10:17)
3: End of a Cycle (7:54)
4: The Wasteland (9:28)
5: The Eternal Return and the Infinity Horizon (20:09)
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Funckarma - Psar Dymog [2009]

The first ambient release from Funcken brothers. The engineering and production is excellent. Lot's of orbs getting tossed around with varying volume/direction. Great headphone music.




1 Amon Velvet (4:52)
2 Jenz Amd (3:38)
3 Spine Ent (5:09)
4 Ymadyn Line (4:45)
5 Raud Bumb (4:48)
6 Bee Zaine (6:03)
7 Ambo Atin (5:24)
8 Dnr Ambin (3:32)
9 Stamp Dirn (5:20)
10 Tubed Infend (5:21)
11 Psar Dymog (5:07)
12 Pipe Screen (5:16)
13 Screed Reasched (2:57)
14 Noire Dane (5:22)
15 Kardane Syco (5:03)
16 Fanil Dredged (4:20)
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needs moar wommmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

M.J. Harris & Martyn Bates - The Murder Ballads [1998]

A personal favorite, but recommended only to fans of neofolk. Mick Harris (Napalm Death, Lull, Scorn, Somnific Flux) collaborating with Martyn Bates. The three albums (Drift, Passages, Incest) were made between 1994 and 1998 and put into a collection. Harris' eerie but calming ambient matched with poetry sung in a meter I can't pick out. Each track is a story of something terrible but sung in a lullaby fashion. Standout tracks like The Two Brothers and Long Lankin sound like something from medieval or renaissance times. Truly strange music.

Disc one : DRIFT
1: The Death of Polly (14:09)
2: The Fowler (18:32)
3: Lucy Wan (4:39)
4: Long Lankin (16:04)

Disc two : PASSAGES
1: The Bramble Briar (13:27)
2: The Cruel Mother (11:24)
3: The Banks of Fordie (13:07)
4: The Murder of Maria Marten (17:32)

Disc three : INCEST
1: The Bonny Hind (12:11)
2: Sheaf and Knife (12:06)
3: The Two Brothers (17:08)
4: Edward (17:41)
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Various Artists - The Throne of Drones [1995]

A perfect example of my favorite vein of music. Spaced out, minimal, harmonic, brazen, and isolated. Soundscapes with texture.









1: Simorgh Sleeps on Velvet Tongues, The - Robert Rich (10:15)
2: Mobius III - Ray Guillette (3:25)
3: In the Catacombs (Again) - Steve Roach (7:44)
4: Smudgeon - Iso Ambient Orchestra (2:57)
5: Pool of Mercury - Xopher Davidson (5:13)
6: Equal Distance - Vidna Obmana (9:38)
7: Retina Volt Stream - Gregory Lenczycki (5:27)
8: Low Ceiling - Jeff Greinke (4:45)
9: Filament in Strata, A - Rhythm & Noise (3:22)
10: En Trance - Biosphere (4:47)
11: Etude For T.O.D. - David Darling (5:15)
12: Sound Characters - Maryanne Amacher (9:47)
13: Le Segue - Naut Humon (1:14)
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Best of 08

#1
Aidan Baker & Tim Hecker - Fantasma-Parastasie

Tim Hecker teamed up with Nadja's Aiden Baker to create an album that blew me away. Droning guitar through feedback loops that are textured and booming with sound. A giant mix of doom, drone, and ambience. If your soundsystem can handle it, remember that maximum volume yields maximum results \m/.


tracklist condensed
1: Phantom On A Pedestal (5:50)
2: Hymns To The Idea Of Night (5:19)
3: Auditory Spirits (3:45)
4: Skeleton Dance (3:02)
5: Gallery Of The Invisible Woman (7:19)
6: Dream Of The Nightmare (4:20)
7: Fantasma - Parastasie (4:51)
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Best of 08

#2
Fennesz - Black Sea

Most of you have probably already checked this one out, but for those that haven't, consider this as a "you're welcome" in advance. Fennesz uses a mixture of electronics and loops with guitar to create a noisy, droned out effect. Overall this is a very solid album.

1: Black Sea (10:11)
2: The Colour of Three (8:07)
3: Perfume for Winter (4:36)
4: Grey Scale (4:10)
5: Glide (9:22)
6: Vacuum (3:59)
7: Glass Ceiling (5:49)
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Best of 08

#3
Matthew Robert Cooper - Miniatures

Most of you know Cooper by the alias Eluvium. This year's Miniatures falls nothing short of his previous records. Dense layers of the dreamiest synth and piano that drone in and out. Cooper takes a simple idea and throws it at you until you've got shivers in your spine. Seeing him play live is gut wrenching and emotional, as any good soundscape should be.

1: Miniature 1 (5:39)
2: Miniature 2 (1:28)
3: Miniature 3 (5:34)
4: Miniature 4 (3:43)
5: Miniature 5 (2:43)
6: Miniature 6 (1:22)
7: Miniature 7 (5:44)
8: Miniature 8 (1:05)
9: Miniature 9 (6:11)
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Best of 08

#4
Growing - All the Way

Growing has always done a great job of taking noise and experimental sounds and turning them into something more delicate, more smooth. . As the album progresses, the tracks remain consistent and playful. Random hisses of noise thrown in to the mix guaranteed to tickle your brain.

1: Green Flag (6:16)
2: Wrong Ride (6:13)
3: Rave Pie Only (6:22)
4: Innit (6:39)
5: Lens Around (5:30)
6: Reconstruction (5:57)
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Best of 08

#5
Library Tapes - A Summer Beneath the Trees

This year hasn't been too exiting for the ambient genre, but I've come across a few hits. This particular release often leaves me confused from track to track. Many tracks are accompanied by a violin, giving off a dreary orchestral sound (much like Esmerine/Set Fire to Flames). Other tracks are doodles on the piano, showing influences from Max Richter and the early ambient Eno recordings. Fans of Hammock and Windy & Carl would definitely follow this album well because it has a really droned out dramatic tone.

1: The Sound Of Emptiness Part 1 (1:30)
2: Pieces Of Us Were Left On The Tracks... (7:22)
3: Above The Flood (3:55)
4: A Summer Beneath The Trees (2:39)
5: The Fragile Tide (2:38)
6: The Modest Triumph (4:06)
7: The Sound Of Emptiness Part 2 (1:35)
8: The Rivers Turned To Cobblestone (3:19)
9: ...And The Rain Did Fall (10:49)
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Lustmord - Heresy [2004]

Lustmord is the kingpin of dark ambient music. He's been doing it since the 80's and since then his style has been emulated to death, such as many great artists. His music uses tones that are meant to inspire fear, and he goes to absurd lengths to make sure of it. One of my favorite things about him is his signature sound: a tibetan horn that sounds like a battle cry. Listening to lustmord can turn any room into the deepest pit of hell. Eeerie rumbles accompanied with wind that fill up the room around you.

1: Heresy Part I (7:26)
2: Heresy Part II (10:16)
3: Heresy Part III (16:04)
4: Heresy Part IV (6:35)
5: Heresy Part V (7:47)
6: Heresy Part VI (14:42)
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William Basinski - The Disintegration Loops III [2003]

William Basinski's Disintegration Loops are truly unique and beautiful. Circa 2001, Basinski set out to take old loops he made in the early 80's and convert them to digital. When he put the reels on the rod and began recording, brittle pieces of metal began chipping off the loops. The music was literally dying in front of him. I can't imagine what it would feel like to be Basinski, watching a masterpiece made 20 years earlier getting destroyed.

1: dlp 4 (20:07)
2: dlp 5 (52:21)
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