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Hello peeps,
I've known about AO for a couple of months now, since trying to "raise my profile" at SoundCloud. The are quite a few artists here who I am already following, and enjoying their music.
I guess that, for the moment at least, I am here as a fan.
My own music cannot be considered to be "ambient" and I certainly do not tag it as such. But I am certainly going to give it a go... Sooner rather than later
Just a brief account of my own listening pleasures...
I have been into electronic music since watching Dr Who, back in the sixties, when all the incidental music was created by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. I'd be about six or seven at the time. As a child, however, I didn't do anything about that interest, and I don't think the the BBC Radiophonic Workshop even released any work of theirs anyway.
I remember Popcorn being played on the radio, but I was nine then, and it never even occurred to me, at the time, to go and buy a single... we didn't even have a record player back then anyway...
So my first album purchase, when I was about ten, was Planet Suite, by Gustav Holst. I had to pester my parents to buy that for me, after I visited the London Planetarium on a school trip. I also listened to some of my dad's classical stuff too, on his Rigonda record player. It wasn't a large collection, as we were not that well off back then, but it was a start.
In my teenage years I went through the usual phase of listening to whatever was playing on the radio at the time, so I bought singles by bands such as Sweet, Cozy Powell, Suzi Quatro, etc. I did prefer the more rockier stuff I guess. But one night, while listening to some late night radio, I heard some synthesiser music playing, and I waited until the end in the hope that the DJ would give some details. It turned out to be Tangerine Dream, and that was pretty much it for me... I became a big fan of theirs. I bought Rubycon in 1975 and I wore that album out...
Prior to that, Kraftwerk had released Autobahn, in 1974, so that was really my first proper synth album.
Then in 1976, Jean Michel Jarre released Oxygène. So, although being quite different from Tangerine Dream, I had to have that, because it was synth stuff.
If there was a synthesiser in it, back then, I had to get it, when funds allowed. Having said that... There is lots of stuff that I didn't get. Even to this day I have never listened to any of TONTO's Expanding Head Band!
On the ambient side, I guess my personal collection is a bit thin on the ground. I have Waiting For Cousteau by JMJ and Music For Airports by Eno, but that's about it. But I find that there is ambient stuff in my collection that is not actually "sold" as ambient, it just is, if you know what I mean...
Anyway, enough of that, and thanks for getting this far...
I'm going to take a hike now and see if I can work on some nice evolving soundscapes so I can contribute something to the ambient world
cheers for now,
andy
I've known about AO for a couple of months now, since trying to "raise my profile" at SoundCloud. The are quite a few artists here who I am already following, and enjoying their music.
I guess that, for the moment at least, I am here as a fan.
My own music cannot be considered to be "ambient" and I certainly do not tag it as such. But I am certainly going to give it a go... Sooner rather than later
Just a brief account of my own listening pleasures...
I have been into electronic music since watching Dr Who, back in the sixties, when all the incidental music was created by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. I'd be about six or seven at the time. As a child, however, I didn't do anything about that interest, and I don't think the the BBC Radiophonic Workshop even released any work of theirs anyway.
I remember Popcorn being played on the radio, but I was nine then, and it never even occurred to me, at the time, to go and buy a single... we didn't even have a record player back then anyway...
So my first album purchase, when I was about ten, was Planet Suite, by Gustav Holst. I had to pester my parents to buy that for me, after I visited the London Planetarium on a school trip. I also listened to some of my dad's classical stuff too, on his Rigonda record player. It wasn't a large collection, as we were not that well off back then, but it was a start.
In my teenage years I went through the usual phase of listening to whatever was playing on the radio at the time, so I bought singles by bands such as Sweet, Cozy Powell, Suzi Quatro, etc. I did prefer the more rockier stuff I guess. But one night, while listening to some late night radio, I heard some synthesiser music playing, and I waited until the end in the hope that the DJ would give some details. It turned out to be Tangerine Dream, and that was pretty much it for me... I became a big fan of theirs. I bought Rubycon in 1975 and I wore that album out...
Prior to that, Kraftwerk had released Autobahn, in 1974, so that was really my first proper synth album.
Then in 1976, Jean Michel Jarre released Oxygène. So, although being quite different from Tangerine Dream, I had to have that, because it was synth stuff.
If there was a synthesiser in it, back then, I had to get it, when funds allowed. Having said that... There is lots of stuff that I didn't get. Even to this day I have never listened to any of TONTO's Expanding Head Band!
On the ambient side, I guess my personal collection is a bit thin on the ground. I have Waiting For Cousteau by JMJ and Music For Airports by Eno, but that's about it. But I find that there is ambient stuff in my collection that is not actually "sold" as ambient, it just is, if you know what I mean...
Anyway, enough of that, and thanks for getting this far...
I'm going to take a hike now and see if I can work on some nice evolving soundscapes so I can contribute something to the ambient world
cheers for now,
andy
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