Which style of ambient you prefer the most?

[Ormion]

I hae to choose Melodic, but I also love beatless and of course old school.

 

Actually Old School-Goambient IS melodic but I chose to add an extra option for it.

[frozen dream]

i thought about it for some time, all i could come up with was 'the nice one' usually very melodic!

[Time_Trap]

Wow, you missed the most essential, TRUE AMBIENT ,from the likes of Steve Roach , Vidna Obmana, Robert Rich, Brian Eno, Biosphere, Tom Heasley, Vir Unis etc

[snowball]

oldschool because of fsol,tip, etc

 

tt is right....but if you had put the option I would have had a hard time deciding which one to clik on

[dr papa]

Dark Ambient is definitely my number one style:

 

LUSTMORD: The Place Where The Black Stars Hang, Rising

AMON: Mopula, Gateway, Time is Waiting, Osirion,

LULL: Lost Sanctum, Long Way From Home, Slow Fall Inwards

 

Mystical/Space Ambient:

MATHIAS GRASSOW: The Old Park, Siddharta, Selina, Nightveil

JONN SERRIE: The Far River

JON MARK: Eye of the Falcon, Sirocco

And occasionally, PETE NAMLOOK: Asbendos, Winter, The Flight

 

Psymbient:

SHPONGLE: all tracks

SAAFI BROTHERS: Mystic Cigarettes and Midnight's Children-albums

INFINITY PROJECT: The Answer, When Sound Becomes Color, Mystical Experience

ENTHEOGENIC: Absolute Love, Twilight Eyes, Pagan Dream Machines, Invisible Landscapes

YOUNGER BROTHER: Ribbon on a Branch, Sleepwalker, Psychic Gibbon, Safety Zone,

GALAXY

SOLAR FIELDS

 

Various:

MODULA GREEN

FULL MOON FASHIONS

 

I never considered Shpongle ambient, by the way. Occasionally they move into ambient territory on tracks like Invocation, Shpongle Falls and And The Day Turned to Night, but I believe that Shpongle is a genre in itself. There are just too many crossovers to accurately define it as a style.... which is pretty much a style in itself.

[Drosophila]

If I really need to space out in a hammock or in my bed I prefer beatless old and new stuff...

 

If I am doing stuff I like a good mixture... too much of the same style bugs me a bit! But I have to name a favorite style it might be.. fuck I dunno

 

(btw Ultimae isn't really beatless is it well the Sync24 album and Oxycanta could be called that... but the rest??! Some I would even call trance-ambient (as in 4x4 beats) or as someone once said here trance on tranquilizers )

[djmeghan]

I love breakbeat oriented ambient, like tracks by Slackbaba and Nagual Sound Experiment. I also really like Aes Dana's tracks! Nice and slow 4/4.

[agia_igoumeni]

i'd prefer a cup of avant garde psychedelic electronic voodoo punk rock from PSY-HARMONICS finest blend plz..

[Bahamut]

beautiful, atmospheric, original, inspired, imaginative, deep, spaced out, psychedelic, not-too-minimal & free-of-genre-restrictions ambient

[abasio]

(btw Ultimae isn't really beatless is it well the Sync24 album and Oxycanta could be called that... but the rest??! Some I would even call trance-ambient (as in 4x4 beats) or as someone once said here trance on tranquilizers )

even those aren't beatless! subtle beats are very nice.

I like nice floaty ambient with subtle beats that come in a nd out but aren't the focal point of the track.

[traveller]

The kind that isn't boring

 

 

I find all that sound scape stuff rather numbing. Like I find myself thinking "fuck why doesn't anything happen, can't the next tune start already..".. and that's not relaxing at all.. :wank:

 

On the other hand I can enjoy very minimal music..uh there's a paradox here

[Bahamut]

Yeah sometimes I love minimal music and sometimes I despise it, but it´s hard to tell exactly when I like it or not... comes down to very personal taste.

Like Stars of the Lid, they make minimal drone music in their own specific style and I really like their album the Ballasted Orchestra, but then I got ´The Tired Sounds Of...` and I found it exactly like the title says, dreadfully boring and tiresome

[Tatsu]

I'm not really sure about the different genres of ambient so I've played save and voter for melodic of any kind, that always fits. I like stuff like Shpongle or Enthogenic but also Kuba, Ott, Kukan Dub Lagan and Khooman. As long as something is happening I'm fine with it.

[Drosophila]

even those aren't beatless! subtle beats are very nice.

I like nice floaty ambient with subtle beats that come in a nd out but aren't the focal point of the track.

u are right... thats why I said it could be called that cus yes there are subtle beats in most tracks... but I guess really "beat"less would some floating soundscapes like Michael Stearns - Planetary Unfolding or something like that... I haven't heard much of that lately though... (I mean new releases)

[Divine]

Dark and spacey ambient...like this for example:http://www.myspace.com/umos

[seraph]

I practically like every ambient genre you named and whenever there is some quality release, I enjoy in it as much as possible. I agree with Time Trap of not including the essence of old school ambient music : Brian Eno, Robert Rich, Steve Roach, Brian Lustmord, Pete Namlook, Geir Jenssen, Tetsu Innoue, Bill Laswell and the likes... But from your list I have to choose Old School - Goambient genre

 

Favourites from that genre :

 

Transwave - Ulysses Pt.III

Shakta - Earthrise

Cosmosis - Afterglow

MFG - Metamorphosis

Total Eclipse - 51 Pegasus

Astral Projection - Ambient Galaxy

SUN Project - Deeper And Deeper

Man With No Name - Azymuth

Dimension 5 - Mind To Mind

Celtic Cross - Kathmandu

X-Dream - Relax Vortex

M-Sphere - Serum X

Jaia - After The Rain

SUN Project - Solitude

Chi-A.D - Tranquilicy

Dimension 5 - Flow

Prana - Geomantik

Chi-A.D - Creator

Tarsis - Broken

Ra - To Sirius