Electronic/Ambient Recs

[hockeyguitar99]

I'm looking for some new electronic recommendations as well as some ambient stuff. I'm open to pretty much anything that might fall under those categories, and I understand they're pretty broad.

[kearn1tm]

Boards of Canada -- Music Has the Right to Children
The Avalanches -- Since I Left You
Muslimgauze -- Baghdad
Stars of the Lid -- The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid

[IWasaCamera]

Boards Of Canada. Discography. Go.

[Hey Kevin]

M83 - Digital Shadows vol 1
and his stuff before Saturdays = Youth you might be interested in also
Atlas Sound - Let The Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Fee (weird stuff)l
Black Dice/Wolf Eyes - Chimes in Black Water (fucked up and intense)
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing (ambient instrumental hip hop)
the Twin Peaks soundtrack
and Boards of Canada as you can see

[IWasaCamera]

Metaform released a really good instrumental hip hop album last year as well. Overshadowed by Los Angeles by Flying Lotus yet arguably better.

[BJW7191]

the album leaf
say hi(to your mom)

[Pawan1993]

All good albums and artists, especially The Album Leaf, and then there's also Hammock. Brilliant ambient band. Oh and have you checked out Sigur Ros?

[hockeyguitar99]

Metaform released a really good instrumental hip hop album last year as well. Overshadowed by Los Angeles by Flying Lotus yet arguably better.

I already have Los Angeles, but if Metaform is better, I'm sure I'll love it.

[Praetor]

Metaform released a really good instrumental hip hop album last year as well. Overshadowed by Los Angeles by Flying Lotus yet arguably better.
Nice, didn't know you liked that Metaform album. Better than Los Angeles imo, as far as hype-hop goes.

[Praetor]

Better than Los Angeles. Lol.

Check out Blue Sky Black Death - Late Night Cinema, anything by Telefon Tel Aviv (obvious), The Mercury Program - A Data Learn the Language (obvious-er), Madlib's Beat Konducta series, MF DOOM's Special Herbs series.


A few of those are instrumental hip hop, but I bet you'd dig it.
I love it, just think it's a bit overrated.

[Derekx]

Brian Eno

[Pat k]

I always come into these threads to recommend Brian Eno. The new Black Dice is really awesome. Obviously Animal Collective is good. Eluvium. I wouldn't recommend Stars of the Lid. So boring.

[bradnewman]

Sigur Ros.......... also, A Silver Mt Zion

[DilesMavis]

Every band I wanted to say has been mentioned, and I doubt that this is really what you're looking for, but maybe Röyksopp?

[the thread]

Helios, God Is An Astronaut, Metavari

[BJW7191]

A Silver Mt Zion

God Is An Astronaut


this for sure

[checkered.stars]

Hood

[ThisIsNotDan]

definetly any Burial if you haven't already

[Stephen Chamberlain]

If anyone says the Postal Service, I'll report them. This is definitely my area of expertise, so I'll have to limit it to recent favorites or I'd overwhelm both myself and you. There's everything from terrifying drone to Swedish tunes made for dance parties in bucolic fields. My blog, steedebonnet.wordpress.com, specializes in uploads of these genres.

The Fun Years - Baby, It's Cold Inside; Life-Sized Psychoses
Fabio Orsi - Before Long, Before Anyone, the Stars Will Be Walls in My Mind; The Wild Light of the Moon
Max Tundra - Parallax Error Beheads You
Fennesz - The Black Sea; Venice; Endless Summer
Max Richter - The Blue Notebooks
Air France - No Way Down EP
Svarte Greiner - Kappe; Knive
Xela - The Dead Sea; In Bocca Al Lupo; For Frosty Mornings and Sumer Nights
Koen Holtkamp - Field Rituals
Mountains - Choral; Mountains; Sewn

[murrich]

Steve Reich.

[chipdip18]

Electronica/"Indie"/Rock you might like is Caribou's Andorra.

[duffe]

Helios

[reckoner]

black moth super rainbow
the octopus project

[AdamChildress]

Boards Of Canada. Discography. Go.


I could not agree with you more...They never cease to impress/amaze me.

[AdamChildress]

To post a list of some of my favorites...

Here it goes....

From my Itunes in Alphabetical order...

One Day I'll Be On Time-The Album Leaf
Self-Titled-The American Dollar
The Entire Boards Of Canada Discography


I stopped posting, I will update this later...

[IWasaCamera]

I already have Los Angeles, but if Metaform is better, I'm sure I'll love it.
It's entitled Standing On The Shoulders Of Giants by the way.

[hockeyguitar99]

It's entitled Standing On The Shoulders Of Giants by the way.

Alright, thanks.

[Hey Kevin]

he new Black Dice is really awesome.

oh man its fucking awesome!
did you ever listen to their old stuff from 98 and 99?

[PenThrive]

Air
Royskopp

[hockeyguitar99]

Air
Royskopp

Any particular Air album?

[Stephen Chamberlain]

Any particular Air album?
10,000 Hz Legend or Moon Safari.

[hockeyguitar99]

10,000 Hz Legend or Moon Safari.

Noted. Thanks.

[PenThrive]

Any particular Air album?


Talkie Walkie by a long shot.

[joss d.]

glad to see metaform discussion, i'm also going to have to throw out arms and sleepers as well as flica

[alltimecam]

decomposure

[Praetor]

glad to see metaform discussion, i'm also going to have to throw out arms and sleepers as well as flica
Yes yes yes yes yes, please nobody sleep on this. Flica is amazing.

[Wobbie]

Eluvium

http://www.myspace.com/eluviumtaken

[raychull]

Heroic Me. Try their song Bright Skies.

[ugman_2000]

Four Tet - Either Everything Ecstatic or Rounds
Leftfield - Leftism
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
Sneaker Pimps - Becoming X
Portishead - Dummy

[IWasaCamera]

Listen to Autechre.

[TriangularDuck]

These are ambient recommendations.

Stars of the Lid - Avec Laudenum [this is the king of ambient albums.]
Keith Fullerton Whitman - Playthroughs
Ulver - Teachings in Silence
Arvo Part - Tabula Rasa
Brian Eno - Ambient 1: Music for Airports
Raison d'Etre - The Empty Hollow Unfolds

Enjoy, you lucky motherfucker.

EDIT: Anyone who muttered A Silver Mt. Zion, God is an Astronaut or Sigur Ros doesn't know what the fuck ambient is, because there's no way they're electronic. It's post-rock, not ambient, goddamnit. Get off my lawn. Well, GiaA is a little bit electronic. I'll let that slide. But you other people.

I wouldn't recommend Stars of the Lid. So boring.

I wouldn't recommend you. So boring.

[bard]

air
m83
black moth super rainbow
royksopp

idk, everything else here. my fav is m83

[Pat k]

oh man its fucking awesome!
did you ever listen to their old stuff from 98 and 99?

I haven't heard anything but Repo and Load Blown. Good?

These are ambient recommendations.

Stars of the Lid - Avec Laudenum [this is the king of ambient albums.]
Keith Fullerton Whitman - Playthroughs
Ulver - Teachings in Silence
Arvo Part - Tabula Rasa
Brian Eno - Ambient 1: Music for Airports
Raison d'Etre - The Empty Hollow Unfolds

Enjoy, you lucky motherfucker.

EDIT: Anyone who muttered A Silver Mt. Zion, God is an Astronaut or Sigur Ros doesn't know what the fuck ambient is, because there's no way they're electronic. It's post-rock, not ambient, goddamnit. Get off my lawn. Well, GiaA is a little bit electronic. I'll let that slide. But you other people.



I wouldn't recommend you. So boring.

I'm not boring; you're the one who likes boring records.

[Stephen Chamberlain]

Stars of the Lid is great, but Avec is not even their best record, much less the "king of ambient albums."

[joss d.]

avec is probably their 3rd or 4th best release

[Stephen Chamberlain]

Word. Tired Sounds is my fave.

[Robototron]

Even after reading this thread I'm still not sure what the hell the OP is looking for (Ambient? Ambient House/Techno? General Electronic recs?), but here goes:

Donnacha Costello - Together Is the New Alone
Gas - Nah Und Fern (this is a boxset of all his shit)
The Field - From Here We Go Sublime (this is basically Gas x Techno)
Andy Stott - Unknown Exception
Claro Intelecto - Metanarrative
Deadbeat - New World Observer
Agoria - Go Fast OST

Pretty much everything Sasu Ripatti has done as well: Uusitalo, Vladislav Delay, and, to a lesser extent, Luomo. Haven't heard his stuff as Sistol or Conoco or his collaborations with his wife yet, though.

[Hey Kevin]

I haven't heard anything but Repo and Load Blown. Good?


its like good chaotic post hardcore/screamo
when Hisham Bharooca (soft circle) played drums

[TheWolf]

I'm sure most of these have been mentioned but I'll post anyways:

Efterklang
Caspian
The Album Leaf
Deerhunter
M83
Teitur

[IWasaCamera]

The Tired Sounds would be top Lid album for me.

[tfar06]

tim hecker

[KarolaBloch]

Eric Wollo

So many ambient experts in here. :rolleyes:

[Blakebear]

Well, you have more than enough to go on but...

Kraftwerk? Seriously an entire thread and no mention?

[joss d.]

tired sounds >music for nitrous>the ballasted>the desire for a life aquatic>avec>per aspera
a rough list, it's pretty hard to choose but tired sounds is def number 1
dead texan and brian mcbride's albums are ace as well
i think i just love them too much

ps kraftwerk is ace but not what op was looking for i think

[Hey Kevin]

tim heidecker

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[Stephen Chamberlain]

tired sounds >music for nitrous>the ballasted>the desire for a life aquatic>avec>per aspera
a rough list, it's pretty hard to choose but tired sounds is def number 1
dead texan and brian mcbride's albums are ace as well
i think i just love them too much

ps kraftwerk is ace but not what op was looking for i think
You forgot the amazing And Their Refinement of the Decline.