Ambient Desert Island Discs

JayC5

So, compiling a study background-music playlist and calling on you folks for some help

Any recommendations for beatless ambient or seriously downtempo stuff? - minimal piano along the likes of Max Richter also?

My list so far:

Hammock
Aix Em Klemm
Stars of the Lid
Brian McBride
Language of Landscape
Max Richter
Eluvium
Nest
A Winged Victory For The Sullen
The Dead Texan
Belong

Anything I'm missing?

SilverScreen

Here's some ambient albums you could add:

Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works Volume II
Windy & Carl - Drawing Of Sound
Auburn Lull - Alone I Admire
Brian Eno - Music For Airports
Grouper - Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill
The Azusa Plane - Tycho Magnetic Anomaly And The Full Consciousness Of Hidden Harmony
Natural Snow Buildings - The Dance Of The Moon And Sun
Blanck Mass - Blanck Mass

Eileen Down

Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto album "summvs" made last year is a absolute pleasure to the senses.

old gregg

you could add Biosphere - Substrata and pretty much anything from Canadian artist Loscil.

Scubadevils

I'd suggest also 'Music for Real Airports' by The Black Dog, lots by Global Communication and worth digging into the Fax label too... the 'From Within' series on Fax being a firm favourite for me, well there are lots on Fax tbh that are really great.

Substrata as per above post is a really really really essential slice of ambience! An ambient thread simply cannot be discussed without its inclusion...

bogmanfan

Anything by Gas, but particularly Pop.
Keith Fullerton Whitman - Playthroughs
Jim O'Rourke - I'm Happy and I'm Singing and a 1, 2, 3, 4

For Max Richter type stuff, check Johan Johannson, Rachel's and William Basinski

Eileen Down

it might be nice to add 5-9-78 by the boards of canada to your play list, just to make all those who

listen feel a little bit happier to be alive and maybe sixtyniner, just for the fun of it.

Scubadevils

Some more while I think of them...

Blamstrain - Disfold
http://www.discogs.com/Blamstrain-Disfold/release/777189

Gel-Sol ‎– IZ
http://www.discogs.com/Gel-Sol-IZ/release/1316822

Reagenz - Reagenz
http://www.discogs.com/lists/Ambient-list-by-avg-trackratings/16710

BlackYogurt

Anything by William Basinski....

J_E

If there was just one I could take it would be Substrata by Biosphere.

DominoDub

R.I.P Pete Namlook

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cv3iD86hSpc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jd3OVdqzT8M

Setun

BlackYogurt wrote: »

Anything by William Basinski....

Basinski's new release sounds very promising, 11 minute preview of it on pitchfork: http://pitchfork.com/features/update/8983-william-basinski/

Biosphere/Deathprod's Nordheim Transformed is one of the best ambient music albums I've ever listened to, and would be a non-genre specific Desert Island Disc for me. It changes your vision of the surrounding landscape.

BlackYogurt

Setun wrote: »

Basinski's new release sounds very promising, 11 minute preview of it on pitchfork: http://pitchfork.com/features/update/8983-william-basinski/

Biosphere/Deathprod's Nordheim Transformed is one of the best ambient music albums I've ever listened to, and would be a non-genre specific Desert Island Disc for me. It changes your vision of the surrounding landscape.

Sounds promising indeed...... The Disintegration Loops boxset is going for £299.99......

Setun

Wow, is it all on cd? Or are you getting the original tapes with that deal too?

Setun

**** I hadn't noticed that Pete Namlook had died, very sad. His music will gain a new atmosphere now when I listen to it. The Chillage Idiots on XFM Dublin must be devastated, their radio show also featured plenty of Namlook.

BlackYogurt

Setun wrote: »

Wow, is it all on cd? Or are you getting the original tapes with that deal too?

I would love that but they're disintegrated..lol I'm not going to get it, a bit too much, even if it is a lovely package.


http://boomkat.com/vinyl/561223-william-basinski-the-disintegration-loops-deluxe-box-set