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rynne:

--- Quote from: fish across face on 18 May 2009, 20:53 ---Haven't heard Converge or Bannon, but there was quite a bit of icy ambience in the late 90s/ early 00s from former metallers like Justin Broadrick (Jesu / ex-Godflesh), Mick Harris (Napalm Death) and James Plotkin (Old Lady Drivers / Khanate).  Brrr.

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If you're looking for stuff in the isolationist vein, Nurse With Wound's drone albums---particularly Soliloquy for Lilith--- are quite good.

I’ll put in a plug for Loess, who're like BoC or Aphex Twin's minimal/ambient stuff.  They're a couple guys I knew when I was growing up, quite nice fellows.  They're on Mike Cadoo's (Bitcrush) record label.

valley_parade:
I love pretty much anything Aiden Baker does. Thanks for that, dogg.

fish across face:

--- Quote from: Daft pun on 19 May 2009, 06:45 ---Not quite ambient, verging on minimal techno, but lots of good stuff can be downloaded from Thinner or Autoplate.

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Yeah, there's some great stuff on both of those labels.  Autoplate definitely tends to the more ambient end of things, e.g. this Marsen Jules release and these two from Off The Sky.  Off The Sky has done a lot of free stuff that I'd recommend actually.


--- Quote from: valley_parade on 19 May 2009, 10:04 ---I love pretty much anything Aiden Baker does. Thanks for that, dogg.

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He has a lot more stuff available as MP3s.  Discogs is a great way to browse for more stuff by a particular artist, becuase it shows formats... so basically gives you all the info on what's available for download, most of which usually turns out to be free. 

Some of the other stuff I've listened to from there is more like jams around drum machines and so on, I like the drones the most.

TheFuriousWombat:
I tend to recommend Jasper TX for kind of dark, drone-y, compelling ambient stuff. For something very minimal, Seaworthy is a good choice (new album 1897 especially). If you want scarier/darker ambient, go for Svarte Greiner or Deaf Center. For pretty/haunting ambient stuff, Grouper is a good choice. For more classical music inspired ambiance, Olafur Arnalds and Johann Johannsson are worth listening to. For weirder, more propulsive, tribal, noisy, chaotic, down right awesomeness, check out Tarentel's albums from the past couple years. Finally, I will always recommend Eluvium (and related projects Matthew Robert Cooper and Concert Silence) to anyone and everyone looking for good ambient music. For my money, he's the best. 

Koremora:
This topic has gone on too long without mention of Stars of the Lid.

Seriously, Stars of the Lid are THE BEST. (Also seconded on Eluvium.)

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