Anyone into it ? Anyone can give me nice hints ? Time, particular style, etc. does matter. Need imput to find more material. Ambient, drone, ritual all welcome.

http://www.discogs.com/sell/list?style=Ambient&sort=price%2Casc http://www.discogs.com/sell/list?style=Noise&sort=price%2Casc http://www.last.fm/tag/no-fi http://www.last.fm/tag/noise http://www.last.fm/tag/ambient It’s a huge world of strange music out there. Hunting for the great artists is half the fun! These links should get you started.

“Ambient” covers a lot of ground. Care to be more specific about what you’re looking for? BTW, all music has a beat. It may not be emphasized, as it is in most pop and dance music, but it’s always there.

Ambient is a bit broad. I’ve always been into avant garde keyboard artists and off the path mood music. www.di.fm is a free stream and has an Ambient channel. Also, you can custom make your own with Pandora. Did you want artist suggestions or just sources?

@PipenSnusnSnuff Not trying to start an argument here, just making a point: (VOLUME WARNING! and SLIGHTLY NSFW video) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bN14upNp6U This song does not have a beat. If you have a very loose definition of “beat” then it is a very non-static beat.

I must be getting old. Didn’t like that at all. edm

I like the drone of the Tambura.

@pikemopers I’m sure glad my tripping days are over. That was terrible. I don’t get how talent is just thrown out the window. A monkey could make that music. Literally. I hope these people don’t make money off that. I wasted half my life trying to get somewhere making music and this is just terrible and I hope they’re not signed. You want torture? Lock someone up in a cell with that playing for even a few minutes. Jesus.

@mustangii it wasn’t you or your age lol, don’t worry.

Of cource my tripping days were back in the seventy’s. Doobie Brothers, Kansas, CCR, Bad Company, Ozark Mountian Daredevils, #3 Dog Night and others too numerous to list. Now all great Classic Rock. And sometimes Elevator Muzac, lol edm

Strange stuff. Reminds me of trying to chainsaw a steel garbage can.

@spryo . yep difm is my new favorite station i have it on my phone soma fm is also a good station

Not sure I would consider that music, but hey YMMV.

Heh, didn’t think I would get THAT strong of a reaction from that video.

@Prismaster That´s quite a huge field. The spectrum at Ambient music alone is huge. My favourites in the Dark Ambient style are clearly Lustmord, but beware: this would be a bad trip music. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koj-Cnxf-hc Cold Meat Industries have quite a large and strong line up of solid Ambient artists. Deutsch Nepal for instance. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29AwceNNwUg A lot to be discovered in that genre alone.

MiB you’re wrong about lustmord they’re great for “traveling” places.

No offense meant, Pike.

@bob Couldn´t speak from own experience, but a friend of mine said he had a cruel “journey” in a certain state of mind listening to it. It´s highly dependent of the specific listeners state of mind. Some people freak out when they see spiders or snakes, others are breeding them - angels to some, demons to others.

Also I would consider the didgeridoo an ambient instrument.

Brian Eno is well known ambient artist, maybe one of the first. I personally only like his 4 early vocal albums, which I love!

Try ‘Lux Aeterna’ by György Ligeti or ‘Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima’ by Krzysztof Penderecki or ‘Metastasis’ by Iannis Xenakis or ‘Parole’ by Luciano Berio. The ethereal ‘Lux Aeterna’ was used by Stanley Kubrick in ‘2001 A Space Odyssey’ . Consider - Fractal music Musique concrète Aleatoric music

“BTW, all music has a beat. It may not be emphasized, as it is in most pop and dance music, but it’s always there.” Not always. In early 20th century atonal works like Stravinsky’s ‘Le Sacre du Printemps ‘ the meter can change after almost every bar-line such that metric periodicity is constantly displaced. Later on the complexity (in some works) of constantly changing fractional meters combined with irrational note values destroyed a sense of meter altogether. At this point the bar-line was abolished by some composers and their music written as graphic scores where both the pitch and time continuum is indeterminate (aleatory music). It could, however, be argued that this is not music.

@MiB that Lustmord track is pretty awesome. I am not a fan of most purely electronic music but that was quite impressive. There are some great albums that cover a spread of experimental music out there. Archive.org has many great compilations and free albums from electronic and experimental artists, just search around. I would highly recommend any number of John Cage’s works and especially his work with tape collage and ambient music. Brian Eno is another favorite (try out Music for Airports).

I liked Musical Starstreams when it used to air on FM. The last time I tried accessing the old episodes online tho it had devolved into some pay site. One thing I’ve noticed about the members here is that there seems to be a rather large percentage of musicians.

For drone, I’d recommend some of the Southern Lord bands. Sunn O))), OM, and Boris all do drone on at least a few of their albums. Out of those, I’d recommend “White1” by Sunn O))), “Variations on a Theme” by OM, and “Amplifier Worship” by Boris. Also worth checking out is Sleep’s “Dopesmoker.” Going back in time a bit,there are people like Glenn Branca and LaMont Young who laid much of the early groundwork for drone as a genre. If you’re at all interested in going even further back, yet, you may wish to investigate some free jazz. 高柳昌行 New Direction, Masayuki Takayanagi’s solo work, and “夏の背骨 [The Back Bone Of Summer]” by 石塚俊明、 浦邊雅祥 (Toshiaki Ishizuka and Masayoshi Urabe). Black Funeral did an album called Moon Of Characith that was supposed to be a pagan/magical ritual in sound form. You might also enjoy some post-rock, like Godspeed You! Black Emperor and Explosions In the Sky, as the genre tends to be mostly long instrumental tracks. I had some others in mind, but forgot them whilst tracking down various album titles and names. Edit: Remembered what I’d wanted to add, it was a few sites rather than more bands. First, there’s http://bandcamp.com/ which you can listen to anything up on the site for free by streaming. They allow artists to determine the price point of their music, with some albums being free, others a set price, and then a bunch are offered on a “pay what you feel it’s worth” scheme. Not the type you’re asking for, but an album for our geekier members: http://random.bandcamp.com/album/black-materia-final-fantasy-vii Often bands will also include bonus content in their bandcamp digital editions. Next, there’s http://www.jamendo.com/en/, an open-source type music distribution site. All the music on the site is offered under the creative commons license, meaning you can stream, download and share it for free, and without limit, provided you don’t try and pass it off as your own. I was also going to list magnatune, but apparently they’ve implemented a $15/month subscription fee now. It’s still not a terrible deal, since you get unlimited access to their 1000+ album catalogue for it, but not everyone would want to pay. Bandcamp and jamendo also allow you to search for music by tags, so they can be a pretty nice way to find new music and give it a listen before purchasing, without needing to worry about a DMCA notice or court summons popping up in the post.

noisex check them out if you can. Premature ejaculations if you’re in for some creepy music.

Not much into noise, although I think the band YES’s album Relayer is great!

YES it is Mr. Bear.

Also, check out Sun Ra if you’re into free/experimental jazz. Fantastic stuff.

Just saw the Sun Ra Arkestra play last month. Definitely a fun group to see live, with the costumes and all.

@shikitohno Had no idea the Arkestra was still playing! I’ll have to look up their tour dates. If you’re into Sun Ra, be sure to check out the documentary “Sun Ra: A Joyful Noise”. Interesting look into his philosophy of music.

I don’t know how often they play these days, but I saw them at the Bang On A Can marathon. http://bangonacan.org/marathon/schedule It was quite the show, though sadly I had to leave midway through the Branca set.