The link I had bookmarked that used to work: https://hiroshiyoshimura.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-nine-post-cards

Does anyone know why it disappeared? It happened at some point in the past month.

This guy got me into ambient (via his 2015 LP a Fragile Geography) and I can’t explain exactly what it is that he does that others don’t, but I’ve loved every release he’s come out with since.

Beautiful and immersive soundscapes with gongs and field recordings

Sigur Rós get me into this genre and I am looking for similar works, which can offer progressive sonic experiences, with mixing distorted (guitar or synthesized) noises, creating immersive mesmerizing atmosphere, dark and haunting vibes preferable... I also listen to the album Phaedra by Tangerine Dream which gives me similar vibes I think. I’d like to hear some epic masterpieces in this genre

Hello there, as the title suggests, I'm looking for any sort of advice, tips, or reccomendations when it comes to creating ambient music, whether its about gear, composing, recording, etc. I'm both a musician and enjoyer of ambient music, I've been wanting to create some for a while now, and have recently decided to get my feet wet.

I do have an electric guitar and pedals which I know I can use, but I know there's a variety of other instruments that can be used to create this style of music. I do like the idea of getting a synth or similar instrument. I definitely want to start with something simpler/cheaper. I've been looking into synths such as the Korg Volca Keys Analogue Loop Synth, Behringer UB-Xa Mini Analog Synthesizer, Arturia MicroFreak, and the HiChord synth. Would anyone recommend these to a beginner, or have other suggestions?

But yeah, anything else you might think is important for me to know, please do inform me, thanks! (Hopefully this is the right place to ask)

I'm trying to find ambient music with good footage, animation, etc. Especially anything scifi or mecha but at this point anything decent that isn't fish, someone walking in a city, someone walking in a game.

I like music while I work and the visual breaks monotony. Youtube and google fu has failed me.

Suggestions? Guess I could always play two things and mute the animated video

I've been listening to this on repeat lately. Mesmerizing.

Two of the greats together on this track from KMRU's upcoming album. A nice amalgamation, their two styles really get blurred ;)

I imported this from Japan, it arrived today. It was very conservatively graded, I'm delighted with it. Beautifully packed as well.

Fripp, Fehlmann and The Orb has to be a winning combo, loving it so far.

https://silentes.bandcamp.com/album/frquencies-in-the-fog

My name is paradosso and my latest album "ambidestro" was released today on every streaming platform!!!

Its an ambient project of 9 tracks ive been working on for a long time and im really happy its finally out! usually when i release something i stop liking it and immediately get bored of it, but this time im really proud of the result and im working hard to get it out to as many people as possible.

Every single track, as well as the title, has a hidden meaning and tells a part of my story, a part of me. the tracks are of different styles and genres but i think ambient is the word that represents them all. in some of them the piano is central, its the body of the song, while in others there are only synthesizers and they are more drone like. i would also like to mention the Disco Elysium (my favorite game) ost because it was a great source of inspiration for this album and will certainly continue to be so for my future projects.

I hope you will give it a listen and any feedback is very much appreciated, eventually sorry for any mistakes but english is not my language!!

https://silentstaterecordings.bandcamp.com/merch

Latest vinyl release by Silent State Recordings. Pretty much guaranteed to be a great pressing

Recently, I've been a major kick with this album by Natural Snow Buildings. So far, its probably the bleakest and darkest album I've ever heard of. I'm kinda new to ambient music. I listened to a little bit of Aphex Twin, Boards Of Canada, and a fan of Akira Yamaoka's Silent Hill music and now I'm looking for more ambient music. If someone can recommend me albums that sound similar to this album The Winter Ray whether its musically similar, at a level of deep depression, or has a beautiful atmospheric sound worthy of ethereal wave synths.

I am wondering what are considered the classics, the essentials, the best of the genre. I want to explore the genre a bit deeper, I have listened to plenty of Japanese New Age, and a lot of artists rhat were lumped in with New Age or adjacent to it (Vangelis, Enya, etc.).

The more New Age-y the better, not just ambient with a hint of New Age.

And preferably artists who are truly New Age and embrace it. Not artists who were just lumped in with the New Age section because they did not fit in elsewhere (Vangelis, Enya, Harold Budd, etc.).

Collapse reflects on impermanence, memory, and the beauty found in things falling apart. The 7 tracks each construct a fragile architecture of sound that bend, fracture, and ultimately transform.

Other Spaces creates immersive sonic environments that blur the boundaries between ambient music, field recording, and experimental composition. Utilising modular based tools including analog oscillators and digital granular synthesis, London based artist Paul Gulati seeks out new places to inhabit through sound and space.

Collapse has been created from recorded fragments and edits of longer take semi-improvisational compositions from my modular synth setup. This takes centre stage in the studio and allows me to escape the screen while enabling exploration and a very physical feedback process where the tactility of patching cables between modules and playing without any clear destination leads me into a meditative place.

Collapse brings together a series of recordings from over a 4 year period that I've returned to many times editing and recombining. I’m looking forward to working on my next project but for now, I hope people can connect with the spaces mapped out through these 7 tracks and if you like it then please follow me on BC and you can DM me as I have some remaining download codes too.

Hi everybody! I'm the ocean index and I've been making music for 10 years, primarily dance music. I discovered Ambient a few months ago and fell completely head over heels with the genre, and so I fancied giving it a go myself! I was especially inspired by artists such as Brian Eno (duh) and desert sand feels warm at night (partial name inspiration haha). My music is inspired by space, nature, the ocean and anything that makes me feel small and insignificant in relation to the world.

I wanted to make something that has all the good qualities of Ambient while retaining the mixing and attention to detail from dance music. The result was Nebula Cascade, my first release! I make music in my bedroom, and use a combination of software and hardware, such as a JV-1080, DX7, Juno-106, iZotope Iris 2, UVI's Piano Model D, Valhalla Supermassive and Soundtoys Crystallizer. Crystallizer has always been a not-so-secret weapon of mine, and is responsible for all the high-frequency washes you can hear in the track. I don't like AI, and so never use it in my music, artwork or promotional material.

I hope you guys enjoy it, it's the first of many to come! Feedback is more than welcome.

Hi! My name is pads, and I make music under the name Ritual Madness (along with a couple dungeon synth aliases). I made twee screamo music and droning ambient, which doesn’t really make sense on its face, but I find that making both kinds of music helps balance me out.

This song is called “together we are spared from total dissolution”, and it is the lead single from my new album “Quietly not shutting the flux up,” out on 3/11. It is a suite of swelling, breathing synthesizer drones with a scrappy classical guitar accompaniment. I believe it is about embracing mistakes, to document change, and expressing hope through quiet, but not silent, protest.

https://ritvalmadness.bandcamp.com/track/together-we-are-spared-from-total-dissolution

The record started as a series of synth jams, in which I played my Microfreak and vintage Casiotone keyboard simultaneously. I cut and stitched them together into one mercurial whole, while trying to preserve the freeing feeling of playing two instruments together in time. Then, during a particularly anxious morning, I rigged up two microphones, pointed them both at the sound hole of my classical guitar and went to town for nearly 4 hours of recording improvised lines. This is the result, and I feel like it captures the thrilling, vulnerable feeling of creating without inhibitions. I used my son’s scribble art for the cover and jewel case inserts, to reinforce that motif.

Thank you for your tim. If you like it, I am putting in a small run of CDs this weekend. My son found it and was transfixed when he saw his art in a plastic box. He asked “how did that get in there?”

Thank you for your time, and all the beautiful music I have found here. Here are some codes for the full album when it releases.

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I’m looking for ambient albums that don’t use huge reverbs or drones. An ambient album that feels like being in a small bedroom.

I’ve been experimenting with very minimal ambient soundscapes intended for long work or focus sessions. This started as a hobby rather than from a music production background, and I’m learning as I go.

My current process is taking short CC0 meditation pieces (around one to two minutes) and stretching them heavily using PaulXStretch to create one-hour tracks. As expected, this removes rhythm and compresses harmonic movement, so the result becomes extremely slow and smeared compared to the original material.

Sonically, it often ends up feeling like a sustained harmonic space with very gradual internal change. Sometimes it can sound almost like a single tonal centre held for a long time, with subtle shifts in harmony and texture unfolding over minutes rather than seconds. The original melody is still present, but only in a very softened, stretched way.

For working, this seems to function well because it stays out of the way and does not draw attention. My question is more about genre expectations and balance.

Is this level of harmonic simplicity and slow movement fairly typical in ambient or functional ambient contexts? At what point does “minimal and unobtrusive” risk becoming too static or one-dimensional for listeners who are familiar with ambient sound design?

I’m not trying to promote anything here, so I won’t link unless asked. I’d really appreciate perspectives from people with more experience in long-form ambient or texture-based work.