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    • cjcarne said...
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    • 20 Feb 2008, 10:41
    Alvin Lucier - Music on a Long Thin Wire (1980)
    AMM - Before Driving to the Chapel We Took Coffee with Rick and Jennifer Reed (1996)
    Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works Volume II (1994)
    Brian Eno - Ambient 1: Music for Airports (1978)
    Charlemagne Palestine - Strumming Music (1976)
    Eluvium - Talk Amongst the Trees (2005)
    Derek Bailey, Evan Parker & Han Bennnink - The Topography of the Lungs (1970)
    eRgo - F(R)ICTION (2004)
    György Ligeti - György Ligeti Edition 3: Works for Piano (Etudes, Musica Ricercata) (1996)
    Hans Otte - Das Buch der Klänge (Herbert Henck, piano) (1999)
    Harold Budd - Avalon Sutra/As Long as I Can Hold My Breath (2005)
    La Monte Young & Marian Zazeela - The Theatre of Eternal Music - Dream House 78:17 (1974)
    Marsen Jules - Herbstlaub (2005)
    Masayuki Takayanagi & Kaoru Abe - Mass Projection (1970)
    MIMEO and John Tilbury - The Hands of Caravaggio (2002)
    Morton Feldman - Patterns in a Chromatic Field [HatART] (1995)
    Slowdive - Pygmalion (1995)
    Shuttle358 - Chessa (2004)
    Spontaneous Music Ensemble - Biosystems (1977)
    Stars of the Lid - The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid (2001)
    Steve Reich - Different Trains(1989)
    Terry Riley - A Rainbow in Curved Air (1969)
    Traw & Rhodri Davies - Cwymp Y Dŵr Ar Ganol Dydd (2006)

    List: 100 Great Ambient, Avant-Garde & Modern Classical Albums, Count: 23

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  • My Top Artist: 13 Apr 2008 - 20 Apr 2008:

    György Ligeti



    77 scrobbles.

  • Alvin Lucier - Music on a Long Thin Wire (1980)
    AMM - Before Driving to the Chapel We Took Coffee with Rick and Jennifer Reed (1996)
    Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works Volume II (1994)
    Brian Eno - Ambient 1: Music for Airports (1978)
    Charlemagne Palestine - Strumming Music (1976)
    Ellen Fullman - Body Music (1993)
    Eluvium - Talk Amongst the Trees (2005)
    Derek Bailey, Evan Parker & Han Bennnink - The Topography of the Lungs (1970)
    eRgo - F(R)ICTION (2004)
    György Ligeti - György Ligeti Edition 3: Works for Piano (Etudes, Musica Ricercata) (1996)
    Hans Otte - Das Buch der Klänge (Herbert Henck, piano) (1999)
    Harold Budd - Avalon Sutra/As Long as I Can Hold My Breath (2005)
    La Monte Young & Marian Zazeela - The Theatre of Eternal Music - Dream House 78:17 (1974)
    Marsen Jules - Herbstlaub (2005)
    Masayuki Takayanagi & Kaoru Abe - Mass Projection (1970)
    MIMEO and John Tilbury - The Hands of Caravaggio (2002)
    Morton Feldman - Patterns in a Chromatic Field [HatART] (1995)
    Slowdive - Pygmalion (1995)
    Shuttle358 - Chessa (2004)
    Spontaneous Music Ensemble - Biosystems (1977)
    Stars of the Lid - The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid (2001)
    Steve Reich - Different Trains(1989)
    Teiji Ito - Tenno (2007)
    Terry Riley - A Rainbow in Curved Air (1969)
    Traw & Rhodri Davies - Cwymp Y Dŵr Ar Ganol Dydd (2006)

    List: 100 Great Ambient, Avant-Garde & Modern Classical Albums, Count: 25

  • My Top Artist This Week: 27 Apr 2008 - 4 May 2008

    Enigma


    • cjcarne said...
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    • 5 May 2008, 14:33
    My Top Artist This Week (and it's only Monday): 5 - 12 May 2008

    Esther Venrooy
    http://www.myspace.com/esthervenrooy


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    • Cylob said...
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    • 14 May 2008, 15:29
    Pick of the week...

    Loscil - Plume (2006)



    Vancouver based Scott Morgan is a sound director within the video game industry. But that's his daytime job, and his contemporary ambient soundscapes constructed with looping oscillators (a similar function in Csound computer language is compounded to Loscil) don't have much in common with game music. In contrast, Morgan's fourth album Plume, on Chicago's Kranky Records, is a relaxing, atmospheric, and hypnotic trip unfolding layers of sound complimented by ethereal percussion, gentle xylophone taps, and strums of elbow guitar.

    For Morgan, the creation of music starts "with a harmonic root from which sounds [are] processed into a loose structure over which the live players could improvise". Each track within the album grows, transitions, and gradually develops into a piece bestowing a specific state of mind or a flashback to a concrete memory. A quote from Morgan's elaboration on a piece capturing the growth of family, if you will: " 'Charlie' was composed after seeing/hearing my daughter Sadie through ultrasound while she was still in the womb. The track was also partly composed as a womb-like sound experience for her to sleep to after she was born, hence the heart beats..." Recommended if you like his ambient label mates, Stars of the Lid, or other excellent artists in the modern classical genre, like Helios, Deaf Center, and Xela. [ Discogs ]

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    • Cylob said...
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    • 17 May 2008, 14:19

    Today's Shopfront Album...

    Tomasz Stańko Quintet - Music For K



    Chosen by NocnikStargazer.

    Place albums.

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    • Cylob said...
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    • 4 Jun 2008, 12:10

    Today's Shopfront Album...

    Omar A. Rodriguez-Lopez - The Manual Dexterity Soundtrack Vol. 1 (2004)



    Chosen by matetoth.

    Place albums.

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  • Hero of the Day (June 6):

    Brian Eno



    Fielded by Ferris_Bueller.

    • cjcarne said...
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    • 11 Aug 2008, 19:44

    This Week's Hero

    Hans Reichel

    Musician, inventor and typographer



    His website is damn fine too.

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    And remember, you get a free dead cat in each bar of Dead Cat Soap

  • Alvin Lucier - Music on a Long Thin Wire (1980)
    AMM - Before Driving to the Chapel We Took Coffee with Rick and Jennifer Reed (1996)
    Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works Volume II (1994)
    Brian Eno - Ambient 1: Music for Airports (1978)
    Charlemagne Palestine - Strumming Music (1976)
    Ellen Fullman - Body Music (1993)
    Eluvium - Talk Amongst the Trees (2005)
    Derek Bailey, Evan Parker & Han Bennnink - The Topography of the Lungs (1970)
    eRgo - F(R)ICTION (2004)
    György Ligeti - György Ligeti Edition 3: Works for Piano (Etudes, Musica Ricercata) (1996)
    Hans Otte - Das Buch der Klänge (Herbert Henck, piano) (1999)
    Harold Budd - Avalon Sutra/As Long as I Can Hold My Breath (2005)
    La Monte Young & Marian Zazeela - The Theatre of Eternal Music - Dream House 78:17 (1974)
    Marsen Jules - Herbstlaub (2005)
    Masayuki Takayanagi & Kaoru Abe - Mass Projection (1970)
    MIMEO and John Tilbury - The Hands of Caravaggio (2002)
    Morton Feldman - Patterns in a Chromatic Field [HatART] (1995)
    Pauline Oliveros/Stuart Dempster/Panaiotis - Deep Listening (1989)
    Slowdive - Pygmalion (1995)
    Shuttle358 - Chessa (2004)
    Spontaneous Music Ensemble - Biosystems (1977)
    Stars of the Lid - The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid (2001)
    Steve Reich - Different Trains(1989)
    Teiji Ito - Tenno (2007)
    Terry Riley - A Rainbow in Curved Air (1969)
    Traw & Rhodri Davies - Cwymp Y Dŵr Ar Ganol Dydd (2006)

    List: 100 Great Ambient, Avant-Garde & Modern Classical Albums, Count: 26

  • Hero of Feb 9:
    Arvo Pärt



    chosen by matetoth.

  • Alvin Lucier - Music on a Long Thin Wire (1980)
    AMM - Before Driving to the Chapel We Took Coffee with Rick and Jennifer Reed (1996)
    Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works Volume II (1994)
    Bernard Parmegiani - Chants Magnétiques (1974)
    Brian Eno - Ambient 1: Music for Airports (1978)
    Charlemagne Palestine - Strumming Music (1976)
    Ellen Fullman - Body Music (1993)
    Eluvium - Talk Amongst the Trees (2005)
    Derek Bailey, Evan Parker & Han Bennnink - The Topography of the Lungs (1970)
    eRgo - F(R)ICTION (2004)
    György Ligeti - György Ligeti Edition 3: Works for Piano (Etudes, Musica Ricercata) (1996)
    Hans Otte - Das Buch der Klänge (Herbert Henck, piano) (1999)
    Harold Budd - Avalon Sutra/As Long as I Can Hold My Breath (2005)
    La Monte Young & Marian Zazeela - The Theatre of Eternal Music - Dream House 78:17 (1974)
    Lawrence English - Kiri No Oto (2008)
    Marsen Jules - Herbstlaub (2005)
    Masayuki Takayanagi & Kaoru Abe - Mass Projection (1970)
    MIMEO and John Tilbury - The Hands of Caravaggio (2002)
    Morton Feldman - Patterns in a Chromatic Field [HatART] (1995)
    Pauline Oliveros/Stuart Dempster/Panaiotis - Deep Listening (1989)
    Slowdive - Pygmalion (1995)
    Shuttle358 - Chessa (2004)
    Spontaneous Music Ensemble - Biosystems (1977)
    Stars of the Lid - The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid (2001)
    Steve Reich - Different Trains(1989)
    Teiji Ito - Tenno (2007)
    Terry Riley - A Rainbow in Curved Air (1969)
    Traw & Rhodri Davies - Cwymp Y Dŵr Ar Ganol Dydd (2006)

    List: 100 Great Ambient, Avant-Garde & Modern Classical Albums, Count: 28

  • Alvin Lucier - Music on a Long Thin Wire (1980)
    AMM - Before Driving to the Chapel We Took Coffee with Rick and Jennifer Reed (1996)
    Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works Volume II (1994)
    Bernard Parmegiani - Chants Magnétiques (1974)
    Brian Eno - Ambient 1: Music for Airports (1978)
    Charlemagne Palestine - Strumming Music (1976)
    Ellen Fullman - Body Music (1993)
    Eluvium - Talk Amongst the Trees (2005)
    Derek Bailey, Evan Parker & Han Bennnink - The Topography of the Lungs (1970)
    eRgo - F(R)ICTION (2004)
    Gilles Aubry - Berlin Backyards (2008)
    György Ligeti - György Ligeti Edition 3: Works for Piano (Etudes, Musica Ricercata) (1996)
    Hans Otte - Das Buch der Klänge (Herbert Henck, piano) (1999)
    Harold Budd - Avalon Sutra/As Long as I Can Hold My Breath (2005)
    La Monte Young & Marian Zazeela - The Theatre of Eternal Music - Dream House 78:17 (1974)
    Lawrence English - Kiri No Oto (2008)
    Marsen Jules - Herbstlaub (2005)
    Masayuki Takayanagi & Kaoru Abe - Mass Projection (1970)
    MIMEO and John Tilbury - The Hands of Caravaggio (2002)
    Morton Feldman - Patterns in a Chromatic Field [HatART] (1995)
    Pauline Oliveros/Stuart Dempster/Panaiotis - Deep Listening (1989)
    Philip Jeck - Sand (2008)
    Robert Rich & B. Lustmord - Stalker (1995)

    Slowdive - Pygmalion (1995)
    Shuttle358 - Chessa (2004)
    Spontaneous Music Ensemble - Biosystems (1977)
    Stars of the Lid - The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid (2001)
    Steve Reich - Different Trains(1989)
    Teiji Ito - Tenno (2007)
    Terry Riley - A Rainbow in Curved Air (1969)
    Traw & Rhodri Davies - Cwymp Y Dŵr Ar Ganol Dydd (2006)

    List: 100 Great Ambient, Avant-Garde & Modern Classical Albums, Count: 31

  • avant0garde is my favorite genre of music

    *my stepfather for example is an expert level guitarist*.
    Rapists usually have sex often.

  • Alvin Lucier - Music on a Long Thin Wire (1980)
    AMM - Before Driving to the Chapel We Took Coffee with Rick and Jennifer Reed (1996)
    Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works Volume II (1994)
    Bernard Parmegiani - Chants Magnétiques (1974)
    Brian Eno - Discreet Music (1975)
    Brian Eno - Ambient 1: Music for Airports (1978)
    Charlemagne Palestine - Strumming Music (1976)
    Ellen Fullman - Body Music (1993)
    Eluvium - Talk Amongst the Trees (2005)
    Derek Bailey, Evan Parker & Han Bennnink - The Topography of the Lungs (1970)
    eRgo - F(R)ICTION (2004)
    Fred Frith - Guitar Solos (1974)
    Gilles Aubry - Berlin Backyards (2008)
    György Ligeti - György Ligeti Edition 3: Works for Piano (Etudes, Musica Ricercata) (1996)
    Hans Otte - Das Buch der Klänge (Herbert Henck, piano) (1999)
    Harold Budd - Avalon Sutra/As Long as I Can Hold My Breath (2005)
    La Monte Young & Marian Zazeela - The Theatre of Eternal Music - Dream House 78:17 (1974)
    Lawrence English - Kiri No Oto (2008)
    Marsen Jules - Herbstlaub (2005)
    Masayuki Takayanagi & Kaoru Abe - Mass Projection (1970)
    MIMEO and John Tilbury - The Hands of Caravaggio (2002)
    Morton Feldman - Patterns in a Chromatic Field [HatART] (1995)
    Pauline Oliveros/Stuart Dempster/Panaiotis - Deep Listening (1989)
    Philip Jeck - Sand (2008)
    Robert Rich & B. Lustmord - Stalker (1995)
    Slowdive - Pygmalion (1995)
    Shuttle358 - Chessa (2004)
    Spontaneous Music Ensemble - Biosystems (1977)
    Stars of the Lid - The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid (2001)
    Steve Reich - Different Trains(1989)
    Teiji Ito - Tenno (2007)
    Terry Riley - A Rainbow in Curved Air (1969)
    Traw & Rhodri Davies - Cwymp Y Dŵr Ar Ganol Dydd (2006)
    William Basinski - The Disintegration Loops I (2002)

    List: 100 Great Ambient, Avant-Garde & Modern Classical Albums, Count: 34

  • Album of the Week Contest, 2010, week 5, WINNER:

    Karlheinz Stockhausen - Oktophonie (1004)



    3 votes total

    Fielded by wrdlbrmpf

    The Standings Cloud:



    list of winners

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