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by Eksvplot_Archive
yeah, i dig the "ambient" music -- as long as there aren't any cheesy trip-hop beats and/or bad vocals on top.
re: kompakt. the best kompakt ambient track i've ever heard is "manana" by gustavo lamas. if you often partake in their "pop ambient" series this might lead you to think they have tons of whole releases like that, but i've found that often times those tracks are one-off chill out tracks from artists who make much more dancey (usually bad) music. (also, for what it's worth, i have yet to hear a kompakt track with vocals on it that didn't make me fucking _LEAP_ for the skip button.)
i have a special place in my heart for seefeel's music. one of my favorites of all time. their excellent album quique, on too pure, was recently put up on iTunes after being out of print for years.
experiemental audio research have some laughably dated albums, but "the koner experiment" totally rules. (even steve would like it.)
pauline oliveros' album deep listening is pretty cool. it consists of these huge natural drones that are the result of a few musicians playing sparse notes in a giant sistern. it might be too quasi new age for some, but fuckit.
i like a lot of ambient stuff that could probably be more accurately classified as noise or experimental/modern composition/avant-garde/wahtever. basically, i dig minimalism as long as the music in question isn't just two or three loops being repeated over and over on a computer with little variation. there's a track by keith fullerton whitman called "acgtrsvp" that really manages to be both ambient and dynamic.
but i'm not very educated about music. i just gravitate toward what i like. it'd be nice, at some point, to take a survey of ambient music course, something that would incorporate non-western stuff too.
like Deep Forrest.
