Guest musiclistener Posted September 13, 2002 Share Posted September 13, 2002 can someone write definition and the difference beetween this styles? and what is shpongle for example ... i think it is organic chillout ...is that right? thank you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest 42 Posted September 13, 2002 Share Posted September 13, 2002 Shpongle = Perfection Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest 42 Posted September 13, 2002 Share Posted September 13, 2002 Ambience = Boring Long synths Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest 42 Posted September 13, 2002 Share Posted September 13, 2002 Ambient = Sub genre of Chill Out Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Zaramatu Posted September 13, 2002 Share Posted September 13, 2002 No way, 42. Ambient is WAY older than chill-out. Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, Brian Eno and others were creating the stuff back in early 70's, and maybe even earlier! And ambient and spacemusic isn't boring. Not if it's good. It's music to relax to or sometimes have as background music. Of course, it took me a while to get used to it. I think it was the KLF that invented the term "Chill-out" with their album with the same name. Ambient is WAY older than chill-out! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bugbread Posted September 13, 2002 Share Posted September 13, 2002 Zaramatsu: Ambient is older than chill-out. Yet it is a sub-genre. That is, chill-out has always existed, but didn't have a name. Ambient had a name since way back (The Microsoft Sound's Brian Eno ). Chill out was just used to refer to "ambient and stuff kinda like ambient, but not so ambient, just relaxed". So it absorbed ambient without even asking permission The way I personally divide the two is: If I hear it, and I dance real slow and listen, it's chill-out. If I hear it, and I sit down and listen, it's ambient. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khogg Posted September 13, 2002 Share Posted September 13, 2002 My 2 cents... Ambient tends towards soundscapes and long long sweeping sounds and can have no or almost no beats at all. It's aural wallpaper. Chill-out has beats and you can dance to it, and is basically slower music. It can be a fine line though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Full Lotus Posted September 13, 2002 Share Posted September 13, 2002 I thought Chill out music was music to, you know 'chill out' too, not necessarily ambient. I know people who chill out to full on psy trance.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bugbread Posted September 14, 2002 Share Posted September 14, 2002 Well, you're all right. Brian Eno, at least, envisioned ambient as music that would be listened to at the edge of non-hearing - VERY quiet, beatless, basically, truly ambient sound. Swishes, birds, water, low rumbles, that sort of thing. "Sound" more than music. Chill-out tends to be music to relax to, so ambient sound is part of that spectrum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strumpling Posted September 16, 2002 Share Posted September 16, 2002 great name, 42!! rofl I believe in an interview with Simon Posford he replied "42" to the question of "What is the meaning of life?" -=- Matt/Strumpling -=- and of course Shpongle = Perfection Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strumpling Posted September 16, 2002 Share Posted September 16, 2002 and Full Lotus, I chill-out to albums like The Lone Deranger sometimes - I've heard some of these so many times its more of a details-search instead of stompin to the beat, ya know? :-D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shpongled Posted September 16, 2002 Share Posted September 16, 2002 Matt... that 42 thing comes from a book called The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams............. There is a computer that has been built to get an answer for meaning of the life... after meny years calculating it spits out the answer "42". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shpongled Posted September 16, 2002 Share Posted September 16, 2002 Btw... I'm not that '42'-dude up there although I'm Posford fan and have same umm... what's this called --> (---.elisa.omakaista.fi) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest spacemonkey- 604 Posted September 17, 2002 Share Posted September 17, 2002 well the computer did several million years to calcutate the answer, and when people didn't understand, he tolld them they didn't understand the question fully. he advised them to build a new computer as big as a planet, and call it earth, after a couple of million years (this can be done because hte dinosaurs skeletons are just placed here the humoer us) the right question was finally formed, and ques what the question was? and while your quesing there are also two realy intellegent creatures on earth the dolphines and the.....? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bugbread Posted September 17, 2002 Share Posted September 17, 2002 As Spacemonkey said, the answer was 42, but the question wasn't "What is the meaning of life?" Instead, the computer was built to answer the question of Life, the Universe, and Everything. That's why they had to build a SECOND computer to figure out what the actual QUESTION was. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest green mouse Posted September 17, 2002 Share Posted September 17, 2002 bugbread is right, listen to him... it is good to find experts on the HH guide in the phorum... have you guys heard the original Hitchhikers Guide BBC radio shows? If not, you have to.,....it just sounds so....so much as it should... aa..good, now i remembered that i have to track down the guy who had them on vinyl and have him make me a copy on cd....digitally mastered to get rid of all the crackle-pop of vinyls... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ktrance Posted September 17, 2002 Share Posted September 17, 2002 I have them on tape, great fun to listen to while you are relaxing(guess it makes it anbient then ) It was a tragedy that Douglas adams died at so an age. -Ktrance Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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