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Looking for new ambient (dark and otherwise) or drone artists

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kerr

Anyone got any favorites beyond the usual suspects of Eno, Fripp, NWW, Haflers, Lustmord, DVOA, Rapoon, Earth, NON, Liles, Boris, Budd, Lull, etc? To give you an idea of what I'm listening to, my last batch of CD's included:

RLW - Tulpas
Z'ev - Headphone Musics
Soundtrack to Eraserhead
Rapoon - Voices of the Dead
Bill Laswell - Invisible Design

Any suggestions for artists or CD's would be appreciated. Thanks!

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Stars of the Lid...Zomes.... - nobody 10:18:00 09/15/11 (0)
Not dark, but nothing but floating ambient drones. Really nice in my estimation. And the refinement of their decline is a good one, although I've enjoyed all their stuff.

If you don't mind a bit of rhythm to things, there is Zomes: Earth Grid from this year. It's melodic drones set over some basic synthesized beats. Drone pop I've seen this called. Pretty hypnotic stuff.
RE: Looking for new ambient (dark and otherwise) or drone artists - vital ital 07:34:56 11/22/09 (0)
Vladislav Delay
Pole
Kit Clayton

These guys are like the kings of newish "drone" minimal texture music...

Scape records is the place to have a listen on these and other artists.

Also Sahko Records is a really popular label for this sort of music.

v.i.

Million miles from home.
yes, me! - bullethead 11:12:02 10/25/09 (0)
I've well received by fans of Brian Williams (Lustmord) and Mick Harris (Lull), here's a link to my music website which will take you to archive.org, or virb. My self titled blacklab is the drone dark ambient album.

Also check out

Coldspring records in th UK
Coldmeat Industry records in Sweden

Both have web shops, I usually spend $300 every now and then getting random stuff and haven't been let down.

Cheers!
- bullethead / blacklab dark ambient (Open in New Window)
Thanks, guys! - kerr 04:42:53 10/14/09 (5)
Found some great stuff in your lists! The Alva Noto and Yui Onodera seem right up my alley. I'll check the rest out later today. Thanks again!
- Koooweee... Yui... - dave c 03:59:13 10/15/09 (4)
  If you liked the Onodera, you might like the collaboration disc he made titled Yui Onodera And The Beautiful Schizophonic.
  A sample is at the link below.
  - available here (nice people too) (Open in New Window)
  - RE: Koooweee... Yui... - R Browne 22:58:20 10/16/09 (3)
    I just found Yui Onodera's "Entropy" and Yui Onodera And The Beautiful Schizophonic's "Radiance" at an online store called Floor Sugar. They carry experimental music and sound from Asia. Info at link below.
    - Floor Sugar (Open in New Window)
    - I'm getting very bad at replying to people! - dave c 22:43:21 10/18/09 (2)
      Sorry about that.
      The best excuse I have is I am concentrating on gettingt he hosuen ready to be photographed on Wednesday.
      IS that good enough?
      ;-)))
      
      There is quite an amount of fascinating Japanese music appearing, some of it actually very good <;-)>
      The hardest part is getting to hear it...
      - Me too... - RC Daniel 16:05:10 10/23/09 (0)
        
        In Reply to: RE: I'm getting very bad at replying to people! posted by dave c on October 18, 2009 at 22:43:21
        
        But my reason is less virtuous than yours.
        
        I will look to remedying that in the near future.
        
        Cheers
        Raymond
        "As long as we have any intention to be right... we should be wary. So long as words have the slightest ego attachment, they are dishonest."
        Charlotte Joko Beck
      - RE: I'm getting very bad at replying to people! - R Browne 20:02:26 10/19/09 (0)
        
        In Reply to: RE: I'm getting very bad at replying to people! posted by dave c on October 18, 2009 at 22:43:21
        
        No problem. I wasn't really expecting a reply. The Yui Onodera & The Beautiful Schizophrenic disc is really good and I'm just getting into Yui Onodera's Entropy. Thanks for the recommendation.
        
        For those in the US interested in Asian Ambient/Electronic music, Floor Sugar is an excellent source. I placed an order for two CD's late on Friday night and received a quick response that they would be shipped the next morning. They were in my mailbox today (Monday). Good service! Link (again) below.
        Floor Sugar (Open in New Window)
you might like to take one further step and try John Luther Adams - dave c 22:46:50 10/13/09 (0)
RE: Looking for new ambient (dark and otherwise) or drone artists - R Browne 20:38:16 10/13/09 (0)
Don't know any of the recordings you've listed but check out some of my recent interests:
Alva Noto - "Xerrox Vol.1 & 2" - Found on Amazon. Good stuff! Some of it sounds like static with the sound deconstructed and manipulated. Not to every taste (my wife hates it, but that's OK. To please her I put on Al Green), but it works within the context of the music, some of which is quite beautiful. Truly inspired. The more I listen to this, the more I think I may bestow near-genius status on this guy.
Northerner - "1976" - Electro/Acoustic music released by: http://hibernate-recs.com/hb04-northerner/
Chihei Hatakeyama - "The River" - Released by: http://hibernate-recs.com/chihei-hatakeyama/
Chihei Hatakeyama - "Saunter" - Found on Amazon.
Loscil - "First Narrows" - Found on Amazon.
Leyland Kirby - "Sadly, The Future Is No Longer What It Was" - Found on Amazon.
http://boomkat.com/ is a good place to browse ambient and other interesting music. Do an artist/recording search and check out the reviews. Also check out: http://www.fluid-radio.co.uk/ Lots of interesting music, reviews and streaming audio.
The only one recording of the above I've heard in its entirety are the Xerrox pieces. The others I recently ordered based on some sample clips.
Hope this is helpful and let us know if you find any gems.

Edits: 10/13/09 10/13/09
How about something Japanese? - dave c 14:41:57 10/13/09 (0)
Yui Onodera:

Or if you want something "prettier", how about Yasushi Yoshida:

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