atmospheric music(recemondations...)

Meditation by Eberhard Schoener

Blacksword wrote: superprog wrote: for 'atmospheric' and 'calm down' nuthin beats classic 90s Ambient electronic music: Biosphere - Substrata The Orb - Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld Global Communication - 76:14 Future Sound of London - Lifeforms   At last! Someone who has heard Global Communication's 76:14!!

As an occasional chillout/ambient DJ, I've often heard of this 76:14... reading these recommendations, I've just purchased same & looking forward to hearing it.

Some recommendations from my own collection:



Peter Mergener - Instinctive traveller: think classic late 1970's period Tangerine Dream with David Gilmour on guitar, then chill it right down; a blinding album from start to finish.



Kozo - Planned Penetration: Japanese chilled electronica overlaid with Harmon-Mute'd jazz trumpet; niiiice



Hesius Dome - The Age Of Steam; great double CD album. CD1 is relaxing downtempo beat electronica (with the kind of bass to test your speakers) & CD2 takes you deeper with a selection of serious ambient textures.

hahaha as fer post rock not sure abt it being chill down but on bad days it will sure WIND YOU UP!!!!!  all that emo-shoegazing can get to one seriously...........

Jim Garten wrote: Jim Garten wrote: Blacksword wrote: At last! Someone who has heard Global Communication's 76:14!! As an occasional chillout/ambient DJ, I've often heard of this 76:14... reading these recommendations, I've just purchased same & looking forward to hearing it. Got it on Friday & have been listening to it almost continually ever since; you can really tell this is written music played by proper musicians as opposed to electronics geeks (as is sadly the case with a lot of ambient ); wonderful album - thanks for the recommendation

Glad you enjoyed it, Jim. It's one of my favorite ambient albums.

I'm still waiting for my copy of the Kozo album to come from a seller in the US. Looking forward to it!

Incidentally, if you didn't already know, Global Communication were well known on the chill out room circuit in the early 90's. Mark Pritchard and Tom Middleton are the guys, and if you ever see a copy of their remix album 'Remotion' please let me know. The last time I saw it on Amazon it was going for over £100! It's an excellent album. It's remixes of other artists work, but re-worked so much it may as well be their own material. It includes a remix of a Chapterhouse song, and 'Amor Real' by Jon Anderson.

Edited by Blacksword - June 16 2008 at 12:13

Well spotted Jim! Cheers. I may have to place a bid..

proger wrote: thanks to everyone, I love your bands, and also into Acit jazz right now... any1 know any good acid jazz bands? something very jazzy not hip hip, but still acid...

Jamie Cullum? Jamiroquai? Excellent ones from now on, very relaxing. Check Jamiroquai's early stuff.

When it comes to atmospheric, depressing music, I just love to spin any record from Sigur Rós.