|Date: Mon, 7 Mar 94 10:35:57 PST
|From: Jon Drukman <jdrukman@us.oracle.com>
|>Hmmm. How about the fabulous stuff out of Caroline Records. And what is
|>"the true sense"? Hawke are surely one of the best ambience-influenced bands
|>on the planet.
|sorry, but this stuff is not particularly ambient. it's just slowed
|down mellow dance music.
|>I haven't heard it yet, but what about the "California Dreaming"
|>CD?
|no way, most of it is quite dancy.
I'd have to agree. Most of the music called "ambient house" is
more like house with ambient influences. This isn't to say some
of it isn't great, because I love both of those Caroline Records
"Excursions in Ambience" comps. (The first one a bit more than
the second, despite all the Orb remixes on the 2nd.)
The Heavenly Music Corporation's "In a Garden of Eden" is
closer to ambience-- only one piece has beats at all. Or
the Bill Laswell disks recently discussed here.
[...]
|get "thursday afternoon" by brian eno - now THAT'S ambient.
Ayup. Or what I'm listening to right now: "Ambient 4: On Land".
Is there an ambient mailing list? Or are this list and
the klf/orb list the closest it gets?
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