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recommend me something lush & ambient

tbf bonobo are hardly ambient. more noodly jazzy hip-hop, unless they've had a radical change of direction since last time i heard them.

orang has already posted several recommendations in this very thread if you want to check out what he likes.
 
Nathan Fake's 'Drowning in a sea of love' is very good, and he's got a new album out soon. Apparently he wrote his dissertation at uni about the influence of electronic music on contemporary pop music!
 
^^^ I have played it loads and each time it sounds different. Just read that they are realesing a second CD in June and coming to London to play. info at www.amiina.com

To the OP ...have you listened to any Indian classical music? I have a few on repeat. ATM it's Hariprasad Chaurasia 'Rag Ahir Bhairav'
 
can't say i have, unless ragas count, and only a few of them.

what do you recommend other than that? i expect it's a fairly wide field...
 
Not quite Indian classical music, but Ry Cooder and V.M.Bhatt's 'Meeting by the River' has to be one of the lushest albums ever recorded in India or anywhere else!
 
How about Grouper?
I only found out about her via my annual visit to pitchfork.
I downloaded it and didn't listen to it for a few months. Its on right now and while its not SOTL its definatly got a lush ambient vibe.
wiki link (not much out there about her)
I really like it though.

EDIT: Check out her album "Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill"
 
miniGMgoit said:
How about Grouper?
I only found out about her via my annual visit to pitchfork.
I downloaded it and didn't listen to it for a few months. Its on right now and while its not SOTL its definatly got a lush ambient vibe.
wiki link (not much out there about her)
I really like it though.

EDIT: Check out her album "Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill"
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I just got a copy of this album yesterday - on a first distracted listen it sounded pretty good - need to give it a proper listen though.
 
No one said 'Bola Soup' yet?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Soup-Bola/dp/B00009L56H

(my favourite ambient album)

This review from amazon sums it up nicely
This is an extrememly intense, melancholic meander through experimental electronic sound!

Subtly industrial and quite heavy in places, the far-out ambient soundscapes transport you into something resembling a huge rumbling train passing through vast expanses of misty rocky wilderness during the early hours.

This unique downtempo creation has the potential to amaze, but only if youre ready for it, I wouldnt recommend it as background music in any a social setting - Its far too introspective.
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has anyone mentioned Murcof yet?

I absolutely love his stuff, its like a mixture of lovely classical movements, dark atmospherics, minimal techno overtones and delicious bleeps and blips. The albums 'Martes' and 'Remembranza' are so good its untrue.

hmmmm....what else that hasn't been mentioned.... Aphex Twin.. only kidding, of course you have heard of him....

:)
 
moonsi til said:
One of my faves...and bought from someone on here suggesting it some time back when I did a similar plea.

I'm trying to buy My Fun Years after so many thumbs up on here. Been able to read about but not buy it. I might have to learn how to download..:oops:
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There's a copy going for $13.99 on Discogs right now:

http://www.discogs.com/sell/item/9869200?ev=bp_titl


e2a:

And one going for $18.99, but that's Discogs for you.
 
braindancer said:
I just got a copy of this album yesterday - on a first distracted listen it sounded pretty good - need to give it a proper listen though.
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Its pretty good.
So far I'm enjoying the first half of the album more than the second but its a grower.
Very different to the "usual" ambient options. Theres a bit more going on but it doesnt sound forced.
I like.:)
 
killer b said:
can't say i have, unless ragas count, and only a few of them.

what do you recommend other than that? i expect it's a fairly wide field...
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Yes it's a huge field but I reckon have a listen to some of Hariprasad Chaurasia and take it from there. Simple way of looking at a raga is as a piece of a complete piece of music so ragas counts. Ragas vary in length can be 10 minutes can be 60 minutes.

Another fave of mine is 'Bouquet of Ragas' by Vishwa Mohan Bhatt. I have been to a few concerts and bought Cds there but also use amazon and nimbus website.
 
click on the 'try' link. then you can try the whole album for free.

it's not entirely legal btw. but i doubt the feds will kick your door in quite yet...
 
killer b said:
you might be able to find a 'review' copy here...
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Ah thats the site I found where I could DL for a fiver. To my shame only thing I have ever DL is episodes of ER and Crapston Villa from Ch4OD. I imagine I could DL then burn off a CD?*

*I'm just going to omit the red faced smilie!

edit: ah...LOL!
 
killer b said:
you might be able to find a 'review' copy here...
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Great site
Ended getting sucked in by the Kurt Vile album. Its really good btw :)

EDIT: Now giving The Fun Years a listen.

Also. I find out about more great music via the ambient and drone threads that crop up on here than I do from anywhere else :) Cheers Guys

EDIT 2: Really enjoying The Fun Years too.

I've taken the plunge and cued up the GAS comp on what.cd
My ratio is not to bad at present so I can afford a bit of a splash out :)
 
gabi said:
Ullrich Schnauss. He fits the bill.

Best listened to on headphones with a cold beer in ya hand on a boat in the gulf of thailand about to dock at ko pha ngan for a party. mmmm....

check out 'a strangely isolated place'.
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I was going to recommend this myself, truly gorgeous stuff. :)

I would also like to add:

Bonobo
Odd Nosdam
The Cinematic Orchestra
 
miniGMgoit said:
I've taken the plunge and cued up the GAS comp on what.cd
My ratio is not to bad at present so I can afford a bit of a splash out :)
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you could always get it here if you want to cancel it...

btw. as discussed earlier, bonobo & cinematic orchestra are not ambient. :mad:

i'm not looking for music people smoke weed to...
 
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