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Other Ambient (and related) Music / Re: Steve Roach "Immerse Deeper” concert free Download
« on: November 27, 2013, 07:14:34 AM »
It's fantastic. The rhythmic piece that starts around the 86th min. is an instant all time favorite. Just... awesome.

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Other Ambient (and related) Music / Re: Steve Roach "Immerse Deeper” concert free Download
« on: November 26, 2013, 03:26:08 AM »
I got it just in time yesterday because the podcast is taken down now.

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Now Playing / Re: Currently listening, part 1
« on: November 25, 2013, 08:49:40 AM »
Anton Bruckner - Symphony No. 8

Second time I listened to this 1,5 hour mammoth symphony.

I'll save you all the trouble and post the most awesomely epic part :D

Karajan conducts Bruckner 8 (final movement, from the recapitulation)


From around 1887. Hans Zimmer and the likes -> eat your heart out.

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Other Ambient (and related) Music / Re: Where is Tetsu Inoue?
« on: September 26, 2013, 12:49:20 PM »
This is sad.

Inland is glorious. Great ambient music.

Btw, for the Namlook compilation you'd also expect something from Schulze...

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Now Playing / Re: Currently listening, part 1
« on: September 15, 2013, 03:44:11 PM »
Steve Roach - Mystic Chords & Sacred Spaces - Disc 3: Recent Future

Monumental. And those final tracks... possibly my favorite moment in ambient music. Just when you think the music cannot take you away any further... The Spiral of Time's Fire Burns On.... so surreal, yet strangely comforting.

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Other Ambient (and related) Music / Re: Mark Prendergast lecture at AMBIcon on History of Ambient Music
« on: August 07, 2013, 03:39:07 PM »
Unforgiveable indeed. Who in their right mind would write a book called the Ambient Century without even knowing these artists..... that's like writing a book about 19th century piano music and not mentioning Chopin and Liszt........ Some of the other stuff that is covered can only be (very) remotely associated with ambient music.... I'll avoid anything by him like the plague.

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Now Playing / Re: Currently listening, part 1
« on: June 28, 2013, 04:44:54 AM »
The Blood Box album is fantastic indeed.

NP: Steve Roach - Atmospheric Conditions

One of his best! Especially In the Heart of Distant Horizons, I consider it one of his greatest pieces.

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Now Playing / Re: Currently listening, part 1
« on: April 21, 2013, 01:25:59 PM »
Steve Roach - Soul Tones

As good as ever. Title track is marvelous. The exotic harmonies Steve Roach creates.... I could dwell inside them forever.

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Now Playing / Re: Currently listening, part 1
« on: March 16, 2013, 05:06:59 AM »
Ralph Vaughan Williams - Tallis Fantasia

Amazing piece with massive lush string orchestra, recorded in a cathedral for nice reverb. :)

Vaughan-Williams - Tallis Fantasia (1/2) One of the best performances ever!!

Vaughan Williams - Tallis Fantasia (2/2) One of the best performances ever.

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Now Playing / Re: Currently listening, part 1
« on: January 18, 2013, 03:35:29 AM »
Quote from: phobos on January 14, 2013, 12:13:02 PM
Quote from: drone on on January 14, 2013, 11:11:16 AM


Just purchased last night:

BLOOD BOX-Funeral in an Empty Room.  This is on the Power & Steel sublabel of Loki Foundation, Germany.  This is a SUPERB celestial darkambient release.  Don't let the cliched typical dark ambient title put you off;  highly recommend this one to all!

That is a superb album, and if you can find a copy of it, I would highly recommend his The Iron Dream also.

Yes, they are fantastic albums. There is great depth to the music of Blood Box, sometimes with very subtle, "subliminal" melodies. Just listen to the track "The Celestial Abyss" and notice how the harmonies and textures keep shifting all the time, creating fascinating mood changes.

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Now Playing / Re: Currently listening, part 1
« on: January 01, 2013, 04:38:30 PM »
Steve Roach - Journey of One

Part 1 is where it's at. I think I've said it before but the soft outro begs to be played louder.
It may not seem all that special to some, but to me it's a truly profound ending to an already brilliant piece...

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Now Playing / Re: Currently listening, part 1
« on: December 09, 2012, 06:00:47 AM »
Scriabin - Prelude Op. 16 No. 1

Alexander Scriabin, prelude op.16 nr.1,(1080p), International pianofestival "Pianotune 2011" Hasselt

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Other Ambient (and related) Music / Re: Klaus Schulze La Vie Electronique series
« on: December 08, 2012, 12:30:47 PM »
Quote from: El culto on December 07, 2012, 05:41:10 PM
To be fair, in the 70´s this was rather "new and different" music but in general i never felt ever that his music had a long term value.

My criticism was directed at his post 70s and current music. To me his 70s classics do have long term value. When I listen to Mirage or Moondawn (also a bit of 'X') from time to time, I am still almost as excited as when I heard it for the first time. There's something wonderful and organic about those discs, something he has never managed to capture again. (Some of KS' moments on the Dark Side of the Moog series are very good though.)

If we're going to compare with Steve Roach... well, SR has moved way beyond KS & TD territory with some of his music and I believe he is still moving forward one way or another. So in my opinion... KS & TD 70s classics stand firmly among the best electronic/ambient music of today. But SR has been more consistent in quality and more innovative over a longer period of time.

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Other Ambient (and related) Music / Re: Klaus Schulze La Vie Electronique series
« on: December 07, 2012, 02:00:57 PM »
I once got the Historic Edition, but I quickly ripped it and sold it. Only a few tracks are really worth it, like "Schwanensee I".
Seems to me the philosophy behind those massive releases is to just release anything that was recorded by KS no matter how weak the content.
While I still hold KS in very high esteem for his timeless classics from the 70s and the occasional good album in later decades, I've become more critical towards him recently.
When I take a look at some more recent videos of live performances on youtube, I feel that he is a bit of a one trick pony and his music hasn't evolved at all... doing the same thing over and over again, the endless synth noodling, playing the same chords he has used for decades and randomly improvising a bit with his limited keyboard abilities. Sometimes it has its moments, but after a while it just gets dull.
It's nice for him that he still enjoys what he does and that there are still fans, but I have to say that - just like Tangerine Dream - KS' prime was in the 70s and he never really moved beyond that time.

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Other Ambient (and related) Music / Re: Overrated Ambient
« on: September 08, 2012, 02:09:31 PM »
Boards of Canada
Possibly the most overrated group ever, making 'ambientish' music with some beats. They have absolutely nothing to say. Just my opinion.

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Other Ambient (and related) Music / Re: Ambient music from non-ambient sources
« on: September 08, 2012, 02:02:04 PM »
Erik Satie

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Art and Literature, Movies and TV / Re: Samsara
« on: June 25, 2012, 01:34:37 PM »
Quote from: Bert/SonicImmersion.org on June 21, 2012, 06:27:26 AM
Well, I was told a short while back the dvd should be out by now, as the movie made its debut screening on a US-movie festival at the end of last year..

It has only been screened at a couple of movie festivals. I doubt it will be on dvd any time soon?
First it will appear in a select few theatres across the globe, starting in august/september like the website says.

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Art and Literature, Movies and TV / Re: Samsara
« on: June 20, 2012, 02:01:39 PM »
http://www.hypnos.com/smf/index.php?topic=4300.0

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Now Playing / Re: Currently listening, part 1
« on: April 13, 2012, 04:40:25 PM »
Steve Roach - Journey of One

Part 1 is such a great piece. That soft outro begs to be played louder.
After a dark descend, slowly but surely you arrive at a magical place where time stands still. It's the very core of existence. What a defining moment for Steve Roach. In a few minutes it expresses what all his music is about.

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Now Playing / Re: Currently listening, part 1
« on: March 15, 2012, 04:20:48 PM »
Alexander Scriabin - Le Poeme de l'Extase

Scriabin - The Poem of Ecstasy


Quite simply my favorite piece of music in the last half year.

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