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Is ambient music dead?

Personally, I love ambient music. But it seems that it's only used as soundtracks for games. I mean, just listen to this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yN9l8sQFHGs

Lyrics in Latin: Aetas sancto aetas nam regna
Aetas sancto aetas nam regna
Recessus animae sancta
Recessus animae sancta

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Reply 1

Fingersmith

No, it just sounds dead. :tongue:

Reply 2

517340

It's not dead! It's.. ambient :P

Just keep looking and you'll find some :biggrin:

Reply 3

Fingersmith

seriously though - love your Assassins' Creed clip. It's much more melodic than I would usually associate with ambient; I love the combination of strings with Gamelan instruments.

Reply 4

problemsolver

Well I had never heard of it. Can something be "dead" if it was never alive?

Is that ambient?

this came out in september and it is beautiful.

There is a lot of modern ambient as well, Stephan Mathieu is another favourite. Tim Hecker and some of the later lovesliescrushing releases could be considered as ambient, they carry drone elements as well

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Reply 7

Pheylan

Original post by problemsolver

Well I had never heard of it. Can something be "dead" if it was never alive?

"I have never heard of X, therefore X does not exist"

Reply 8

concubine

Original post by subzero0137

wat

No. Like basically every other genre of music it's still very much alive. As bro above pointed out, just because you're not being exposed to it (which seems really odd if you genuinely like it) doesn't mean it's not there.

This is as dumb as people going around stating that all modern music sucks and that good music 'died' in the 70s.

Reply 9

problemsolver

Original post by Pheylan

"I have never heard of X, therefore X does not exist"

Fair enough I was partly just looking for something to post as I hadn't posted for a while.

But from what I've heard over the last few hours of ambient music, I'd say that this "ambient music" isn't very alive, regardless of how popular it is.

Reply 10

subzero0137

Original post by concubine

No, I did not say that. I'm just saying that it's not as mainstream as some of the others. I know the music is out there, but I don't understand why more people don't listen to it.

Reply 11

concubine

Original post by subzero0137

No, I did not say that. I'm just saying that it's not as mainstream as some of the others. I know the music is out there, but I don't understand why more people don't listen to it.

I never said that you did.

People don't listen to it because most people aren't interested in it. Just as most people are not interested in orchestral music, jazz, black metal or didgeridoo music.

It's not cool or popular, so those that don't really spend time looking into music aren't exposed to it, and most are happy to listen to whatever shallow, 'catchy' **** is currently polluting the charts.

Reply 12

metalthrashin'mad

I hate that this has moved away from a discussion about the awesome genre that is ambient music so I'm gonna leave this here.

Reply 13

username540512

Original post by metalthrashin'mad

I hate that this has moved away from a discussion about the awesome genre that is ambient music so I'm gonna leave this here.

Ravedeath was amazing. Love all of that album, but Hatred Of Music (all 3 parts) stand out as INCREDIBLE for me.

Other great artists: Brian Eno, Fennesz, Aphex Twin, Biosphere, Harold Budd, Kettel, The Kilimanjaro Dark Jazz Ensemble, Loscil, Nicolas Bernier, The Orb, Pan American, Proem, Autechre (don't shoot me), Secede, Maps and Diagrams, Ryuichi Sakamoto (also comes in combination with Alva noto, Fennesz and Hecker).

Ben Frost

My personal favorite right now is Loess. Ambient IDM, wonderful, and MASSIVELY underappreciated.

Also; Arovane.

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Reply 14

MrJoeyUK

Jesper Kyd is the main.. I love all of his work.

especially his work on blood money.. but I guess that isn't really ambient.

Reply 15

concubine

Original post by metalthrashin'mad

I hate that this has moved away from a discussion about the awesome genre that is ambient music so I'm gonna leave this here.

There wasn't really any discussion regarding that though bro. u mad

Reply 16

hogso

Original post by Aisha~~

Ryuichi Sakamoto (also comes in combination with Alva noto, Fennesz and Hecker)

Under which guises some truly wonderful records have been released this year. OP should check them out for sure

Reply 17

username540512

Original post by hogso

Under which guises some truly wonderful records have been released this year. OP should check them out for sure

All I have to say is: Summvs. Christ, I've never heard anything which embodies beauty better. If I could give one record to everyone I know, it would be that (or Insen).