Music: New Age/Ambient/Trance

[Bjornar Moxnes]

How many fellow hfboard members and hockey fans in general are fans of a more tranquil type of music? These three are my favourite genres by far, and I'd love it if I could hear the type of music that fits these genres that all of you like to listen to.

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[Shareefruck]

Based on what I've tried so far, I think New Age is just trash. Ambient is one of the genres I seem to gravitate to and love most. With Trance/EDM/IDM, there's alot of crap, but alot of stuff I love as well.

These are my favorites.

5.0 (Masterpiece)
1. Selected Ambient Works Vol. II by Aphex Twin
2. Possible Musics by Jon Hassel
3. Ambient 4: On Land by Brian Eno

4.5 (Brilliant)
4. E2-E4 by Manuel Gottsching
5. I Care Because You Do by Aphex Twin
6. Ambient 3: Days of Radiance by Laraaji

4.0 (Flawless)
7. Music Has the Right to Children by Boards of Canada
8. Tri Repatae by Autechre
9. Richard D. James Album by Aphex Twin
10. A Rainbow in Curved Air by Terry Riley
11. Atem by Tangerine Dream

3.5 (Great)
12. Orbital 2 by Orbital
13. Disintegration Loops by William Basinski
14. Geogaddi by Boards of Canada
15. Amber by Autechre
16. Selected Ambient Works 85-92 by Aphex Twin
17. Ambient 1: Music For Airports

3.0 (Very Good)
18. Trans Europe Express by Kraftwerk
19. Pop by Gas
20. U.F.Orb by The Orb
21. Haunt Me, Haunt Me, Do it Again by Tim Hecker
22. Lifeforms by Future Sounds of London
23. Music for Films by Brian Eno
24. Cluster and Eno by Cluster and Brian Eno
25. Discreet Music by Brian Eno
26. Adventures Beyond Ultraworld by The Orb
27. Go Plastic by Squarepusher
28. Cyborg by Klaus Schulz
29. Incunabula by Autechre
30. Electronic Meditation by Tangerine Dream

 

[Bjornar Moxnes]

Based on what I've tried so far, I think New Age is just trash. Ambient is one of the genres I seem to gravitate to and love most. With Trance/EDM/IDM, there's alot of crap, but alot of stuff I love as well.

These are my favorites.

5.0 (Masterpiece)
1. Selected Ambient Works Vol. II by Aphex Twin
2. Possible Musics by Jon Hassel
3. Ambient 4: On Land by Brian Eno

4.5 (Brilliant)
4. E2-E4 by Manuel Gottsching
5. I Care Because You Do by Aphex Twin
6. Ambient 3: Days of Radiance by Laraaji

4.0 (Flawless)
7. Music Has the Right to Children by Boards of Canada
8. Tri Repatae by Autechre
9. Richard D. James Album by Aphex Twin
10. A Rainbow in Curved Air by Terry Riley
11. Atem by Tangerine Dream

3.5 (Great)
12. Orbital 2 by Orbital
13. Disintegration Loops by William Basinski
14. Geogaddi by Boards of Canada
15. Amber by Autechre
16. Selected Ambient Works 85-92 by Aphex Twin
17. Ambient 1: Music For Airports

3.0 (Very Good)
18. Trans Europe Express by Kraftwerk
19. Pop by Gas
20. U.F.Orb by The Orb
21. Haunt Me, Haunt Me, Do it Again by Tim Hecker
22. Lifeforms by Future Sounds of London
23. Music for Films by Brian Eno
24. Cluster and Eno by Cluster and Brian Eno
25. Discreet Music by Brian Eno
26. Adventures Beyond Ultraworld by The Orb
27. Go Plastic by Squarepusher
28. Cyborg by Klaus Schulz
29. Incunabula by Autechre
30. Electronic Meditation by Tangerine Dream

Enya, Enigma, Libera, Celtic Woman (I kinda consider them New Age), Adiemus, etc. etc. are excellent. But most of the hippie ones (Don't mean to offend anyone) is well yeah not great.

 

[Shareefruck]

I'll give'em a shot. Thanks.

 

[kihei]

I'll give'em a shot. Thanks.

Do you consider any of Philip Glass' work ambient or is it more like just straight minimalism to you (or mere movie soundtrack doodlings)? No big deal either way, just curious. (At the moment, I'm thinking specifically, though by no means exclusively, of some of the music on Glassworks).

For reference:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Stu7h7Qup8

 

[Shareefruck]

Do you consider any of Philip Glass' work ambient or is it more like just straight minimalism to you (or mere movie soundtrack doodlings)? No big deal either way, just curious. (At the moment, I'm thinking specifically, though by no means exclusively, of some of the music on Glassworks).

For reference:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Stu7h7Qup8

I don't think of it as ambient for some reason, but I think it's somewhere in the middle between regular tangible/melodic music (classical?) and minimalism. Definitely don't think of it as noodling, and if I did think of it as Ambient, I definitely would have listed him.

I think Music With Changing Parts and Music in Twelve Parts are fantastic, but I've never really clicked with Glassworks. Worth another shot?

 

[bigdirty]

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2. Possible Musics by Jon Hassel
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Could be wrong (not able to check at the moment) but wasn't this a collaboration with Eno?

Fantastic album either way.

 

[Shareefruck]

Could be wrong (not able to check at the moment) but wasn't this a collaboration with Eno?

Fantastic album either way.

It was, but I'm giving Hassel the majority of the credit.

Also, otherwise, the whole list would have been plastered with Eno.

 

[Aladyyn]

Incredible project.

Hopefully dungeon synth is ok here, there tends to be some overlap with ambient stuff.

 

[kihei]

I don't think of it as ambient for some reason, but I think it's somewhere in the middle between regular tangible/melodic music (classical?) and minimalism. Definitely don't think of it as noodling, and if I did think of it as Ambient, I definitely would have listed him.

I think Music With Changing Parts and Music in Twelve Parts are fantastic, but I've never really clicked with Glassworks. Worth another shot?

Probably not. These days when I listen to Glass, it is usually the "Low" Symphony.