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Steve Roden - For You This Sun
Release date: July 21st, 2008 Genre: Ambient Notes: Sketch for a live appearance as part of a cancelled festival. Was once hosted on the artist's site and linked from his Blogspot account. |
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frail - care / ugly
Release date: 2022 Genre: Ambient Notes: Frail is the perfect name for this project. I can't think of anything more delicate or fragile than these drones. Like frost flowers on a windowpane in the morning, or a tiny pale blossom in the forest. |
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Abandoned Ballroom - Abandoned Ballroom
Release date: May 16th, 2015 Genre: Dixieland, plunderphonics, turntable music Notes: Please don't brush this off as a Caretaker clone; there's beauty hidden here. Like a different location within the same haunted world. |
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Datavis & Forgotten Light - Prism Projector
Release date: 2012 Genre: Drone, ambient Notes: Peaceful, worn out, faded tape drones. Bare tree branches against a winter sky, or wandering around an empty art exhibit all alone. |
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teasips - Live
Release date: 2016 Genre: Ambient, noise Notes: 23 minutes of improvised, sparse non-harsh noise phenomena, and 22 minutes of ambient-ish free improvisation. |
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the sushi high-rollers - just a friend, side b
Release date: 2017 Genre: Ambient Notes: Delicate, adorable crush-themed ambient. Field-recording infused, slice-of-life. |
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the sushi high-rollers - just a friend
Release date: 2017 Genre: Ambient Notes: More cute digital ambient. Reminds me of In Love With A Ghost. |
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Jason Crumer - On A Hill
Release date: 2013 Genre: Dark ambient Notes: A peculiar piece of dark ambiance, seemingly performed entirely with physical instruments. Definitely cursed. Nothing good is going to happen to you on that hill, I can tell you that much. |
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❀ - emotion anaesthesia
Release date: June 9th, 2022 Genre: Drone, ambient Notes: Very pretty deathdream-influenced meditative drones. |
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fur-trash - me and my mistakes (gothicwvlff cover)
Release date: 2023 Genre: Ambient, experimental, spoken word Notes: A unique piece of someone's life. I have yet to hear any other remix that includes an entire monologue to the original artist. |
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gna - RURAL WASHINGTON SNOW PLOWING SOUNDTRACK
Release date: 2020 Genre: Ambient Notes: Wintery ambient for snowed-in days alone at home. |
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Mega Doll - Moon Server pt. 1
Release date: 2019 Genre: Cinematic ambient Notes: Mega Doll is more usually known for their breakcore, but they're definitely competent enough at cinematic ambient too. Who knows what this originally was a part of, or the lost context it was made in. |
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Yoichiro Yoshikawa - The Miracle Planet
Release date: 1988 Genre: Television Music, New Age, Ambient, Neoclassical New Age, Space Ambient Notes: Pleasant background music for wondering at existence and things big and small. Also some top tier samples in here; if you do vaporwave or stuff like that, check it out. |
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Projekt Thule - Cosmic Law
Release date: 1999 Genre: Neofolk, ambient, dungeon synth Notes: Esoteric dark ambient with ties to the neofolk scene (Projekt Thule once being linked as a friend on DI6's site,) but pretty bizarre. The crop circle on the back cover does it justice - it's less pagan posing and more extraterrestrial conspiracy theorist. Weird stuff. |
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teasips - w/greyghost
Release date: 2015 Genre: Ambient Notes: Lo-fi ambiance for foggy sick days. Recommended for fans of Steve Roden. |
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Heaven's Emperor - Love Variance
Release date: March 11th, 2019 Genre: Ambient, noise, drone, plunderphonics Notes: One of the less bleak of Heaven's Emperor's projects, but still with their lovely style of distorted drones suffused with warmth like the final stages of hypothermia. |
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teasips - Singles
Release date: 2015 Genre: Ambient Notes: Odd, warbly ambient with sound collage elements. Very comfy. |
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Jessica Walrus - Sleepy Ambient Improvisations + Sets
Release date: 2020 Genre: Ambient Notes: One DJ set of electronica, two tracks of comfy synth ambient. |
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angel.kiss - rosemary
Release date: 2022 Genre: Ambient, drone, noise Notes: An odd, surreal project, all the moreso because the artist (tiddlywinks) diverged from their usual silly breakcore to personal ambient that rides the fine line between peaceful and unsettling. |
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Sorry about my face - uncanny valley
Release date: January 23rd, 2018 Genre: Dark ambient, drone, noise Notes: Dreary greyness. |
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Bland Music - The Dusk of the Jazz Age
Release date: 2015 Genre: Paulstretch ambient, field recordings Notes: Coffee shop field recordings, layered over paulstretched samples. At once comfy and slightly *off*, like being in a large public space alone. |
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@pat_16120 - low quality headfone music (mix)
Release date: May 6th, 2024 Genre: Ambient trance Notes: Ambient, trance, and various hybridizations thereof. I'm happy I was able to download this, since it was only online for a day. |
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only mononyms - revolving silence
Release date: 2019 Genre: Ambient, experimental Notes: An Octa Möbius Sheffner record, seemingly lost to time. So much going on flickering and panning around you, but so soothing at the same time. Sleeping on the floor of a data center. |
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the sushi high-rollers - people get tired in february
Release date: 2018 Genre: Ambient Notes: Twee ambient? Small simple songs for hidden and sensitive feelings, love letter held close to one's chest. |
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Ima - The Lorian Project (Part 1)
Release date: 2022 Genre: Ambient, BGM Notes: Presumably the soundtrack to some video game, either real or hypothetical. |
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gothicwvlff - proship ashton - antis, i hate em (gothicwvlff shitmix)
Release date: 2023 Genre: Dark ambient, ambient techno Notes: Calm down, son, it's just a drawing. |
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sorry about my face - Ignis fatuus
Release date: September 25th, 2017 Genre: Dark ambient, drone, ambient, noise Notes: Dreary greyness in audio format. Ongoing storms, stay inside. |
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iluvnya!! - ambient tracks
Release date: 2022 Genre: Ambient, ambient techno Notes: Odd, skittery nocturnal electronica. |
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tom beek - homesick
Release date: 2019 Genre: Ambient Notes: Three short (70 seconds or less,) kinda sad vignettes of homesickness and reunification. |
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Chriddof - Incidents
Release date: 2012 Genre: Ambient, dark ambient Notes: Very brief drone pieces by someone who I believe was more well-known for their surrealistic YouTube content. |
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魚魚 - Aquarium
Release date: 2023 Genre: Fishvapour Notes: I'm not sure if aquasoft, coralpunk, fishvapour, or glubtone should be considered "real" genres, but if any artist could be said to actualize them, it's 魚魚. |
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onlooker - bat quartet
Release date: January 2019 Genre: Ambient, glitch Notes: Pleasant surreal wonky glitchery, quite comfortable and gentle despite the constant swirl of digital warps, beeps, hums, and malfunctions. |
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sleepsereneslewndreams - sleep serene slewn dreams
Release date: April 14th, 2024 Genre: Ambient, noisegaze Notes: Reuploaded back to Bandcamp; please support there. |
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sleepsereneslewndreams - soma
Release date: April 25th, 2024 Genre: Ambient, drone Notes: Noisegaze-influenced guitar droning. Reuploaded back to Bandcamp; please support there. |
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julius demona. - i'm going to hang myself.
Release date: June 2024 Genre: Ambient Notes: Absolutely gorgeous, melancholic lush drones. (Has been since reuploaded to an equally beautiful album.) |
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meido reipu - vbdd is dead rip this n(god bless censorship)gger
Release date: June 1st, 2020 Genre: Ambient Notes: If the name VxBxDxDx rings a bell, you probably know of his as-offensive-as-possible shitcore and noise works, but he also did some pleasant ambient when he wasn't busy distorting hentai or finding pictures of dead kids for his covers or whatever. I knew there was a silver lining somewhere in there, and I guess this is it. |
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🝰 - 内面
Release date: January 28th, 2023 Genre: Ambient Notes: It's unsurprising that this is a side project of frail, given that it hits all the same delicate, fragile, melancholy notes. This time, instead of overcast skies, blurry memories, and deathdream drones, we get digital love letters, internet friends, and rainy days in video game worlds. |
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Sam Watson - wavs
Release date: January 11th, 2020 Genre: Jungle, Drone, Noise, Micromontage, Glitch, Avant-Garde Jazz, Ambient Notes: Just a little bit of everything. I find it amusing that I only have this album saved in flac. |
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Unknown Artist - Untitled (Mountains Tape)
Release date: Unknown Genre: Tape ambient Notes: One track of nice tape ambient, one track of peculiar experimentation. An unnamed, anonymous artifact, presumably of the 2000s blogspot drone scene. Thanks to the anon who found and ripped it for /mu/ to completely ignore around a decade ago. |
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the sushi high-rollers - just a friend, side a & b
Release date: 2018 Genre: Ambient Notes: More cute twee ambient for unrequited school crushes. |
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the sushi high-rollers - their computer
Release date: 2018 Genre: Ambient Notes: Twee ambient goes spooky; the sushi high-rollers cutesy ambient rapidly takes a descent into cursed files and ghosts in your (yes, your) house. "an album about computers, loneliness, and how comfy that loneliness can be." |
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AcePhoenix - Home
Release date: June 28th, 2016 Genre: Ambient, field recordings, free improvisation Notes: I know it's probably not this, but it feels like one last piano session recorded before moving away. AcePhoenix doesn't seem to have much idea what they're doing, but that's ideal for this kind of release. Invokes emotions that don't exist. |
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cassio - kitstchy
Release date: 2018 Genre: Ambient, comfy synth Notes: Quiet lonely pieces from the life of a quiet lonely cat. I want to give my cat a hug now. |
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Music For Cats - Live Long and Pawsper
Release date: 2018 Genre: Ambient, folk, field recordings Notes: Another album to remind you to hug your cat. |
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Jugboy - Addendum-manifesto
Release date: June 21st, 2018 Genre: Sound collage, ambient Notes: The audio equivalent of dead moths in streetlights. |
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Mark Harvey - Even if it Burns Down, the Wreckage and Ash are Still There
Release date: May 23rd, 2019 Genre: Ambient, dark ambient, vaporwave Notes: The titles, cover, and sounds here are endlessly fascinating to me. I want to know why this was made. I like it, don't get me wrong, it just such an unexplained glimpse into an interiority we'll never get a single word of elaboration on. |
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ltmrs - Tear the Sails Down
Release date: March 19th, 2020 Genre: Dark ambient Notes: Something is wrong. Something is very wrong. Your heart sinks in your chest but all you can do is walk onward. Crowd pressing from all sides. There's music playing ahead. |
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the power, to two + - Alternate Soundtrack To: Astral Projection, Meditations on the Process of Cosmic Escape
Release date: August 7th, 2017 Genre: Minimalism Notes: Tiny little MIDI jingles that play when you achieve enlightenment, as leaked in .wav on The Cutting Room Floor forums when someone decompiled samsara's source code. |
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zuno - At the Edge of Eternity
Release date: November 4th, 2020 Genre: Ambient, vaporwave Notes: A four hour guided tour through vaporwave. You can glimpse infinite realms of inner consciousness and gulfs of outer space through wandering in an airport terminal that goes on forever and ever. |
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____________________________ - MyLove4u
Release date: 2020 Genre: Ambient Notes: Winter in audio format. Sleeping forever under the snow. |
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Kaaterskill - An Attempt of Communication
Release date: 2004 Genre: Experimental, drone, dark ambient Notes: "My side project that spawned in my life after events in my life took a turn for the dreadful. Anger and grief fill my music. You will not learn of me." |
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CrowdedAlleys - Dream Vessel
Release date: 2022 Genre: Vaporwave, ambient, dreampunk Notes: Another project from the mysterious bandcamp person who kept on purging and rebranding his page into entirely new one-off projects every week a couple years ago. |
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宮沢雪野 - dunno how 2 make ambient
Release date: Genre: Ambient, reizokore Notes: 20 minutes of sparkly, deep space paulstretch ambient on the A side, 8 seconds of mashcore on the B side. Huh. A Napkin Terrorizer project, if you couldn't guess. |
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Andrea Polli & Joe Gilmore - N.
Release date: 2007 Genre: Drone, Sound Art, Glitch, Minimal, Data Sonification, Lowercase, Field Recordings Notes: Sonification of North Pole weather data from 2003 to 2006 with meterorological modeling by Dr. Patrick Market. [...] A portion of the sound used in N. comes from live atmospherics and global electromagnetic transmissions of lightning from the INSPIRE VLF receiver at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center. [...] The North Pole is a symbol of the fusion of opposites, combining natural beauty and brutality, the last imaginary place on Earth. |
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frail - we'll
Release date: July 10th, 2023 Genre: Ambient Notes: January twilight. |
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frail - loop 2
Release date: 2023 Genre: Ambient Notes: Vague hints of obliterated samples shining through the gaps in a vaguelly dissociative ambient, almost collage piece. Insect wings. |
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frail - everloved
Release date: 2022 Genre: Ambient Notes: Days spent chewing ice and looking at snow outside the window. Weakness overtakes fairy limbs. Silence feels so right. Unloved, everloved. |
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frail - keep loop
Release date: 2023 Genre: Ambient Notes: William Basinski would be proud. |
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frail - feel anew
Release date: May 13th, 2022 Genre: Ambient, field recordings, hexd Notes: Lightly bitcrushed field recordings change real-life voice memo snippets to digital recreations of memories and environments. Crystalline, delicate. |
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teasips - compilation singles
Release date: 2017 Genre: Ambient Notes: Drones for late evening. |