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One suggestion.  I would try to move the echoing pulse drone a little further back in the mix and maybe bring that slower moving "melody" towards the front of the mix a little more.  It might add a more contrast between the back and front of your mix.  Maybe a bit more chorusing to bring warm mids in or maybe a delay pan to break the sound field up a bit.

Forrest

Some of Kit Watkins' releases have been appearing in digital form on CD Baby on the last year or so, including two newer releases--an EP called "Land" and a soundscape album called "Mockingbird Mantras":

http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/kitwatkins11

http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/kitwatkins12

Forrest

Chris, you might also like the Russian Pantheon label.  Some great floating/drone-basedambient there.  I heard about it from Richard Gurtler.  I've enjoyed these:

Furthers - Pineal Dreamer

https://pantheophania.bandcamp.com/album/pineal-dreamer

Fellirium - Mermaids

https://pantheophania.bandcamp.com/album/mermaids

Creation VI - Reminiscence

https://pantheophania.bandcamp.com/album/reminiscence

Creation VI - Myth About Flat World

https://creation6.bandcamp.com/album/myth-about-flat-world

Forrest

Marsen Jules - Shadows in Time
Generative music, released in a standard static form on CD and with multiple unique, one-of-a-kind variants on USB and vinyl. The atmospherics are nice, but the listening gets a bit dull after a while. I wished the sounds evolved a bit more.
https://oktaf.bandcamp.com/album/shadows-in-time

Thanks for the heads-up.  I've liked some of his earlier releases, but I have a feeling I probably wouldn't take to this.  Sounds like a longform piece that should have been a lot shorter.

Klaus Wiese made wonderful music for instance "Towers of the Night part I" that I absolutely love.
There is such a mystery and inner calm within the music. The music is so lively and played with such a sensitivity.

Yes, Ming Noir's a nice one.  My favorites of his are Uranus, Soma and Allah Infinity (Ruh).  He really gets a great organic sound from those processed Tibetan bowls.

Forrest

.Im intrigued how most piece that I have listen to start with  long single note drones out of the left channel and the right comes in a fair bit later. Curious and at first annoying in a way or better put attention demanding.

Julio, I think some of her pieces may have been intended for multi-channel playback or for at least speaker playback.  I prefer headphones, too, for the detail, though I'm probably missing some of the effect of having the sound bounce around in my space.

Another album you might like from an early 70s EM pioneer is David Behrman's On The Other Ocean.  He uses algorithmic software to interact with live musicians (oboe, cello).  Some of it is very beautiful:



Forrest

Recent listens:

Eliane Radigue - L'ile Re-Sonante

Awesome. I thought I was the only one here who listened to her music.
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Hi Castleview,

I had a hard time tracking this album down, but am glad I did.  She manages to say so much with seemingly so little.  My favorite kind of minimalism.

That Shirotsubaki sounds nice.  Reminds me of Hakobune's work.

Forrest

Dreams is a really nice one--probably ranks among Gigi's best.

Recent listens:

Robert Rich - What We Left Behind
Fellirium - Remembrance
Eliane Radigue - L'ile Re-Sonante
Schneider Kacirek - Shadows Documents
Von Zamla - No Make Up!
Creation VI - Myth About Flat World
Erik Wollo - Silent Currents 4

For those who may not be familiar with drone on's parting shot, here it is:

"I don't think of any of this as "now we're even." .And what apology?  Nobody owes me an apology.  Again, can't a guy make a simple joke here?  Without people saying how dare you joke with a respected artist?   What do you mean "You're no saint"?  Now you're hurling insults and turning this personal?  I sense some latent hostility left over from 15 years ago, which you alluded to when you dredged up my old forum moniker "Orion32.". And you did that because I simply stated you hadn't read the posts carefully about the Planetary Unfolding CD topic.  Very sad.  I think you take yourself far too seriously and get pushed out of shape if anyone challenges you in the very slightest degree.  How about I just say you're an arrogant know it all who probably got picked on in school and beat up for being a little wussy smart ass?  You wanna get personal, you got it Forrest.  I've played nice with you here for awhile now and I THOUGHT the past was the past, but I see you haven't changed.  To the others who jumped on me like sharks over my joke, you're no better than Forrest.  Especially you Tomas Weiss.  Look how I defended you and stood in your corner when you and your label were being attacked on this forum.  And then you join the wolf pack and show your true colors.  Actually you are the master here of insulting people and inciting dischord.  Why are you even still on this forum?  Nobody likes you.  While I'm at it, Hypnos is a fucking joke now.  You put out one CD a year that nobody buys.  You spend all your time emailing everyone once a week to sell old CDs for $5 nobody wants.  And you cry you have no time to release new music?  Nobody here wants to say it .  Well I just did.  I hope the moderator has enough balls to leave this post for all to see, but he probably won't because he's a self righteous wussy like Fang.  Please just remove me, ban me the whole nine yards.  Don't waste your energy notifying me either.  They won't be read, only deleted.  So fuck off Forrest and the other assholes, they know who they are.  Hypnos sucks.  Please stop this charade of pretending to be an ambient label.  Good luck with your $5 sales and washed up label. Take me off all your lists and please ban me for life!  I won't fucking miss it one bit!!! 😝😝😂😱😎"

If this isn't a "burn your bridges" message, I don't know what is.  By not calling out drone on on his personal attacks, you become enablers.

Patch #32 came to me much more quickly then past patches......started out by doing some basic self teaching patches of a complex oscillator to learn features and function which then lead to what if I sent this out to that and......well in no time at all the entire system got involved.
Patch 32 https://soundcloud.com/digitalvoices/patch-32?in=digitalvoices/sets/modular-musings

Nice one, Julio.  Very floaty textures.  That patch could easily be the soundbed for a longform piece. 

Forrest