Great article - Neither scene nor heard: a journey through ambient music

[warrendaly]

Neither scene nor heard: a journey through ambient music

http://www.astrangelyisolatedplace.com/blog/2014/10/12/neither-scene-nor-heard-a-journey-through-ambient-music

sorry if it's been shared before, I really enjoyed some of the points made.

Warren

[seismic1]

That was a good read, and a reassuring one too. It sums up my feelings about ambient in its various forms.

[warrendaly]

I was also very encouraged by the hypnagogue podcast https://hypnagoguepodcast.com/2016/12/29/episode-201/

I believe 2017 is going to be another fantastic year for Ambient...

[Ambire Seiche]

I can see how 90's trance would have it's influence on ambient, BT certainly, I'd say Underworld too. The way they makes tracks flow cat get pretty blissful, plus the sound textures on Second Toughest for example. I've always loved their vocals/lyrics, "found poetry" which complements the whole atmosphere, but I think they used vocals with perfection on their Cool Kids of Death remix.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQ3wbhPA7t8

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcQLyiIJzKM (not 90's but is among their best I think)

[warrendaly]

Thanks for sharing, it's been a while since I heard those.

[noise_construct]

Lots of wonderful music, even if I'd had to stretch my personal definition of ambient to include that all to a list.

Woob's 1194 and especially "On Earth" is huge in the particular vein ASIP grows from, and the likes of Oöphoi, Greg Haines and Thom Brennan could certainly deserve a mention in any list discussing modern ambient, so let's add them here now

Check out the Portals while there, I found great new music reading them.