Ambient mp3 sources?

May 26, 2004 4:29 PM

Good sources for ambient/experimental mp3s?
posted by davebush to Media & Arts (16 answers total)

Internet Archive: Net Labels

One great ambient release available there is Marsen Jules, "Lazy Sunday Funerals".

Good labels: Autoplate, Thinner, Monotonik, notype, Textone. I'm sure there are more I haven't checked out yet.
posted by lbergstr at 4:41 PM on May 26, 2004

I have some ;). Also, the Audiomulch discography page has some links worth checking out, and there's loads of stuff at Webjay. Theta states has some amazing "mix-tape" style downloads. Finally, check the Drone download project.
posted by Jimbob at 5:40 PM on May 26, 2004

Oh yeah, pointing streamripper at SomaFM's Drone Zone is a good way to catch a sample of tunes.
posted by Jimbob at 5:41 PM on May 26, 2004

monotonik has some ok stuff
posted by juv3nal at 5:46 PM on May 26, 2004

aw crap i just saw ibergstr's post. at least i provided a link.
posted by juv3nal at 5:46 PM on May 26, 2004

Oh maybe I should mention: all the labels I listed have stuff for download at the Internet Archive link.

;)
posted by lbergstr at 5:47 PM on May 26, 2004

I heart lbergstr.
posted by mmcg at 6:22 PM on May 26, 2004

epitonic has a load of good stuff, and the 'similar artists' and 'other suggestions' for each artist is pretty helpful
posted by sinical at 7:15 PM on May 26, 2004

the microsound.org project pages
posted by Dean King at 7:37 PM on May 26, 2004

not for downloading, but for streaming, http://everyone.doesntexist.com/ is pretty fantastic
posted by soplerfo at 7:46 PM on May 26, 2004

You wouldn't think it, but archive.org has some interesting recordings. Lots of public domain blues recordings and live music too.
posted by aladfar at 7:50 PM on May 26, 2004

Duh - didn't realize that "Internet Archive" was the same as archive.org. Sorry for pointing you to the same place twice.
posted by aladfar at 7:51 PM on May 26, 2004

(Cool, thanks y'all!)
posted by carter at 8:05 PM on May 26, 2004

one of my favorite monotonik artists is khonnor, whose first album/EP Spinach Gas Room Spaghetti Straps is absolutely awesome, especially considering the production equipment he (allegedly) uses.

his other "group," i, cactus is also quite good.
posted by LimePi at 2:43 AM on May 27, 2004

there's always the less licit route, of course. soulseek started out focusing on electronic music, and it still has a pretty damn good selection of experimental and ambient stuff. [electronic and also non - there's a lot of good drone metal and ambient metal there, for example.]
posted by ubersturm at 11:00 AM on May 27, 2004

biosphere if you're into arctic soundscape ambient type things
posted by dagny at 11:29 AM on May 27, 2004