Post #164540 by Tiki-bot on Wed, Jun 8, 2005 3:42 PM

On 2005-06-08 14:54, BaronV wrote:

Be careful with Aphex, Richard James has dabbled with ambient (Selected Ambient Works II), but most of his stuff is on the level of thrashcore/drill n bass/acid/noise (even Selected Ambient Works 85-92 isn't what most would consider ambient). All of his work is quite good in my opinion, but (other than SAW II and some parts of Drukqs) not for 'chill' purposes.

Global Communications 76:14 is a fantastic album too.

All true. And I agree, GC 76:14 is a great, spacey chill album. I always forget about it since none of the tracks have names and by default it falls to the bottom of any playlist in iTunes.

Some more great chill:

Michael Brook's "Hybrid" (as mentioned in the Eno thread, has a great, almost exotica tune with distant drumming and dreamy horn sounds of Jon Hassel)

Pieter Nooten & Michael Brook's "Sleeps with the Fishes" (has sad-core vocals by former Xymox founder Nooten)

Brook also has an album with Indian musician U. Srinivas called "Dream". It's pretty ambient and features Brook's atmospheric processing of Srinivas' & his guest musicians' traditional instruments.

I never get tired of the compilation "em:t 2000 em:t 2295" either. Lots of experimental weirdness and vocal samples from whoknowswhere.

Tiki-bot

[ Edited by: Tiki-bot on 2005-06-08 15:58 ]