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offline CS2x from London (United Kingdom) on 2005-03-22 14:29 [#01540998]
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Is anybody into this genre? It's got connotations with
crappy new age music sometimes, but it's a far cry from
relaxing nature music (even if artists involved in it are
signed to labels that put out that stuff.)

I'm talking about artists like: Steve Roach, Robert Rich,
Alio Die, B Lustmord, and Ian Boddy (as well as early
Tangerine Dream albums like Ziet and Pheadra.)



 

offline ecnadniarb on 2005-03-22 14:30 [#01541000]
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Nah man, I don't like the mastering and the organisation of
some of the sounds. What do you think?


 

offline r40f from qrters tea party on 2005-03-22 14:31 [#01541002]
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what's your favorite lustmord record?


 

offline earthleakage from tell the world you're winning on 2005-03-22 14:34 [#01541005]
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X'D


 

offline CS2x from London (United Kingdom) on 2005-03-22 14:34 [#01541007]
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hmm, forget it.


 

offline r40f from qrters tea party on 2005-03-22 14:36 [#01541008]
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they are just teasing you. this is a good topic. please
recommend a lustmord record to me. thanks.


 

offline CS2x from London (United Kingdom) on 2005-03-22 14:38 [#01541011]
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My favorite Lustmord album is "Stalker", where he
collaborated with Robert Rich. It's a very very dark, slow
moving, tense piece. But it's never boring and there are
moments of lightness and release....It's simply a brilliant
atmospheric trip basically.


 

offline r40f from qrters tea party on 2005-03-22 14:41 [#01541016]
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this record looks pretty great! i've got to check this out.
thanks


 

offline CS2x from London (United Kingdom) on 2005-03-22 14:43 [#01541019]
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Wicked. Hope you enjoy it.

In the right conditions it can be a pretty scary experience.
A bit like the Silent Hill games for some reason.


 

offline weatheredstoner from same shit babes. (United States) on 2005-03-22 14:48 [#01541024]
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I love steve roach, i wouldn't really say its dark ambient,
more like Tribal Ambient :P



 

offline Mertens from Motor City (United States) on 2005-03-22 14:53 [#01541030]
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One word: Deathprod.


 

offline CS2x from London (United Kingdom) on 2005-03-22 14:54 [#01541031]
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Well, you're right; a lot of his stuff is tribal ambient.
But albums like "Darkest Before Dawn" and "The Magnificent
Void" is not tribal. If you haven't checked those two out,
you really should. :)


 

offline Mertens from Motor City (United States) on 2005-03-22 14:54 [#01541032]
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Another word: Boxset.


 

offline virginpusher from County Clare on 2005-03-22 14:57 [#01541036]
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Actually i really dont know much about the artists in this
genre. I do hope that over the upcoming weeks and months
that i will be freeing up space to check these things out.

Alot of my time is crunched making new sounds.


 

offline Zeus from San Francisco (United States) on 2005-03-22 14:58 [#01541038]
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sorry to be a spammer... but I got some dark ambient stuff
if youre interested...

Violet Flower

Orchestralish Thingy

video game background music

Amber Thorns

The Stalking Of A Small Creature

An Animal Alone In The Snow

these are all rather old pieces of mine... working on new
stuff at the moment...


 

offline kurrrak from Bialystok (Poland) on 2005-03-22 14:59 [#01541040]
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Roach, Robert Rich,
Alio Die, B Lustmord...they are not DARK ambient.
And generally, Germans are best in dark ambient.


 

offline r40f from qrters tea party on 2005-03-22 15:02 [#01541044]
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how do you define dark ambient?


 

offline virginpusher from County Clare on 2005-03-22 15:04 [#01541048]
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I have heard "Orchestralish Thingy" had can say that i like
it indeed.

I will be checking out your other works today.


 

offline r40f from qrters tea party on 2005-03-22 15:04 [#01541049]
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this page disagrees with you... i'm curious why you
would make that assertion.


 

offline CS2x from London (United Kingdom) on 2005-03-22 15:05 [#01541050]
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Well, some of their releases are darker than others.
"Fissures" is beautiful and very uplifiting in places, while
Stalker is generally a lot more brooding and unsettling and
mysterious.


 

offline kurrrak from Bialystok (Poland) on 2005-03-22 15:05 [#01541051]
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Something to lead you to the right way
(starting from the best):
Thomas Koner
Tho-So-Aa tho so aa - aqueduct.mp3
Yen Pox
Troum



 

offline kurrrak from Bialystok (Poland) on 2005-03-22 15:08 [#01541052]
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wikipedia is not too competent in many domains, don;t you
agree? They didn't even mention the essential dark ambient
artists. LIsten to Thomas Koner, you will have a definition
of dark ambient.


 

offline r40f from qrters tea party on 2005-03-22 15:11 [#01541055]
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ok, fair enough. i am curious - i will find some thomas
koner.


 

offline CS2x from London (United Kingdom) on 2005-03-22 15:12 [#01541056]
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Thanks a lot! I remember hearing a clip of Thomas Koner's
but the name escaped me as of late. He's brilliant.


 

offline DJ Xammax from not America on 2005-03-22 15:21 [#01541060]
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That mp3 is nice, got any more?


 

offline CS2x from London (United Kingdom) on 2005-03-22 15:24 [#01541061]
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But I disagree: Yes, some albums by the artists I mentioned
are not "dark" ambient, but many of them are. In fact,
that's why I love those artists in particular, as their
sound shifts from glorious uplifting moments to the depths
of Hell.

Zeus, I like your music! :)


 

offline DeadEight from vancouver (Canada) on 2005-03-22 15:25 [#01541063]
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yeah, i second the Troum and Yen Pox suggestions... and of
course Deathprod's latest album is essential if you're into
this sort of thing... some others that might fall along the
same lines (although people seem to have a pointlessly
specific definition of dark ambient which might not include
all of the following, despite the fact that they play
ambient music that is dark):
Maeror Tri
Stilluppsteypa
Sigtryggur Berg Sigmarsson
Brent Gutzeit
TV Pow
Zbiegniew Karkowski
Mnortham
Lasse Marhaug
Minamo

a lot of these artists are not exclusively dark ambient, but
i reckon they come close enough... at times, anyhow (lots of
Marhaug is straight up noise, for example, but his collab
with Kevin Drumm might be applicable here...)



 

offline DJ Xammax from not America on 2005-03-22 15:27 [#01541069]
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Just wondering.. is there any music you haven't heard yet?


 

offline DeadEight from vancouver (Canada) on 2005-03-22 15:29 [#01541071]
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always... and i feel very fortunate for this fact...


 

offline X-tomatic from ze war room on 2005-03-22 15:31 [#01541074]
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lmao,

and deadeight,

Maeror Tri
Stilluppsteypa
Sigtryggur Berg Sigmarsson
Brent Gutzeit
TV Pow
Zbiegniew Karkowski
Mnortham
Lasse Marhaug
Minamo

how the hell did you ever find out about these artists! ;)
I mean "Sigtryggur Berg Sigmarsson", c'mon!
Will try to check it out though.


 

offline 1up from greater manchester (United Kingdom) on 2005-03-22 16:30 [#01541139]
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my fave 'dark ambient'?

bola ;)
throbbing gristle
coil
some alec empire

ley me know how i can improve my collection hahahahaha


 

offline 1up from greater manchester (United Kingdom) on 2005-03-22 16:44 [#01541151]
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howd i 4get the cabs?


 

offline Justin from Middelburg (Netherlands, The) on 2005-03-22 16:45 [#01541153]
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What about Biosphere. Substrata is the best ambient album
there is IMO.


 

offline disasemble from United States on 2005-03-22 17:15 [#01541172]
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stars of the lid (earlier stars of the lid)

mirror (www.brainwashed.com/mirror--excellent guitar drone
duo, with releases on die stadt and their own three
poplars)

mark spybey, especially his album with james plotkin-a
peripheral blur

brent gutzeit and deathprod was mentioned, and i suggest
those as well.

lustmords a bit too "hey look at me im dark ambient" for my
tastes, though he's got some great stuff here and there.


 

offline chambre noire from Iceland on 2005-03-22 18:12 [#01541220]
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www.white-noise.tk -> hei - laivoja ja junia . greatest
stuff!


 

offline evolume from seattle (United States) on 2005-03-22 18:31 [#01541228]
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i used to listen to Scorn which is more industrial ambient
and a little repetative!


 


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