Looking for music recommendations

June 20, 2010 7:28 PM

I am looking for more music like this.

That's pretty much it. I am looking for music with a kind of ambient, dark, broody, peaceful quality to it. Any recommendations would be appreciated.

posted by 517 to Media & Arts (12 answers total)

Best answer: I'd listen, and look up the tracks, that play on either Drone Zone, or Cryosleep, two online Shoutcast music stations. They specialize in this type of minimal beat, ambient music. Both of them also have track listings, so you can search out the tracks/artists.
posted by zabuni at 7:41 PM on June 20, 2010

Best answer: Check out Richard Bone. MySpace. You Tube.
posted by kimdog at 7:42 PM on June 20, 2010 [1 favorite]

Best answer: John Murphy's scores to Sunshine and 28 Days/Weeks Later
Lustmord
Monolake
Coil presents Black Light District
Emancipator
The Orb (esp. Orbus Terrarum)
Brian Tyler's excellent, excellent score to The Killing Room (it's a string score, however)
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works II
Dead Voices On Air - Piss Frond
Nurse With Wound - the tracks "Simple Headphone Mind" and "She and Me Fall Together in Free Death"
posted by Sticherbeast at 7:43 PM on June 20, 2010

Best answer: sounds like you might dig Oneohtrix Point Never. his newest album, Returnals, is great great great.

there's lots of great artists doing music like this these days. others that come to mind are Caboladies, Emeralds, Stellar Om Source.

keith fullerton whitman (better known for the breakcore-style electronica he records as Hrvatski) has done some great droney ambient albums, like Playthroughs, that sort of foreshadowed the wave of synth-revival drone acts of the past couple years.
posted by tealsocks at 7:48 PM on June 20, 2010

ALSO: Asthmatic Kitty has a neat series of 'library music' releases that might also interest you. worth checking out.
posted by tealsocks at 7:54 PM on June 20, 2010

Best answer: Vangelis' Blade Runner soundtrack

2nding Selected Ambient Works '85-'97 - it's just like the Marathon track only with a beat.

Mick Turner, here's Angel #1 (from Blue Trees, which is great, but if you can track down the 7 Angels EP that's the one to hear. ) Guitar music, but follows that same sway without a beat.
posted by carsonb at 8:20 PM on June 20, 2010

You'd probably like Burial.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MigURCQQA0&a=A7IWrzWmLIA&playnext_from=ML

Definitely dark and broody.
posted by ryanhealy at 9:35 PM on June 20, 2010

Best answer: Sorry, with actual link this time: Burial [YouTube]
posted by ryanhealy at 9:37 PM on June 20, 2010

Best answer: Probably my favorite kind of music...

Stars of the Lid
Eluvium
Celer
Concern
Greg Haines
Jasper TX
Kevin Drumm
Rameses III
Zach Wallace
William Fowler Collins
Grouper (if you don't mind voice)
Svarte Greiner (especially his Man Bird Dress album)

If I'm on the right track, let me know and I'll mention more.
posted by dobbs at 10:39 PM on June 20, 2010

Best answer: The record labels Type Records, and Somnia are good places to start. I think you can listen to the entirety of Somnia's catalogue on their site.
posted by aubilenon at 10:46 PM on June 20, 2010

Best answer: Lots of mid good music in this thread. A few more:

Fires Of Ork
various Pete Namlook collaborations (see also Klaus Schulze, Bill Laswell, etc)
Geir Jenssen (a.k.a. Biosphere)
Sleeparchive
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posted by migurski at 12:18 AM on June 21, 2010

Best answer: Kompakt's yearly Pop Ambient compilations are well worth checking out for interesting ambient tracks. They tend to be slightly more detroity techy in feel than droney washes, but I reckon the overall atmosphere hits the mark for you.
posted by iivix at 2:22 AM on June 21, 2010